National Catholic Register Exalts Liberalism as Providence, Hails Antipope Leo XIV as Gift to America
The National Catholic Register, flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s EWTN empire, publishes a Fourth of July commentary by Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, legal analyst and director of the so-called “Conscience Project,” celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence as a providential habitat for the Catholic faith. The article argues that the Declaration of Independence and the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty — grounded in the “dignity of the human person” — have allowed the Church to “thrive and evangelize,” citing Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae as confirmation. It explicitly rejects the “Americanism” condemned by Leo XIII while simultaneously embracing the liberal order that Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae anathematized, dismisses Integralism and Christian Nationalism as “siren calls” to coercion, and hails the election of “the first American pope,” Robert Prevost (Leo XIV), as “unmistakable spiritual significance.” This commentary is not gratitude but apostasy: it baptizes the Masonic foundations of the American republic, canonizes religious liberty as a divine right, and legitimizes the usurper on the Chair of Peter.
