Author name: amdg

EWTN News reports that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched its annual “Religious Freedom Week,” inviting American Catholics to pray, reflect, and act on a range of intentions including religious discrimination, education, immigration enforcement, Africa, gender ideology, political and anti-religious violence, and Nicaragua. The week begins on June 22, the feast of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, whom the USCCB praises as exemplars of “faithful citizenship” who “submitted to Christ” when “the law of the king came into conflict with the law of Christ.” The USCCB states that “religious freedom allows the Church, and all religious communities, to live out their faith in public and to serve the good of all.” Several dioceses, including Arlington, Kalamazoo, Savannah, Toledo, and the Archdiocese of Miami, have already posted information about the week on their websites. This entire initiative, however, far from being a genuine defense of the Faith, is a textbook example of the post-conciliar apostasy: it reduces the Church’s mission to the pursuit of civil liberties within a secular framework, implicitly endorses the very religious indifferentism that the pre-conciliar Magisterium condemned as heresy, and substitutes the supernatural reign of Christ the King with a naturalistic program of political advocacy dressed in pious language.