The “Judeo-Christian” Masquerade: How Ecumenism Replaces the Kingship of Christ
EWTN News reports on the 50th anniversary celebration of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), an “ecumenical think tank” that engages public policy within a “Judeo-Christian moral framework.” The event, featuring New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and EPPC President Ryan Anderson, both Catholics, framed the organization as part of America’s “secret sauce” — a bulwark of “religious conservativism” against secular liberalism. Anderson explicitly grounded the EPPC’s mission in the Declaration of Independence’s assertion that rights come from the “Creator,” and described the think tank’s work as “intentionally ecumenical,” uniting Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic scholars to deploy “Jewish and Christian traditions” to contemporary questions. The article presents this as a commendable defense of moral order in the public square. What it reveals, however, is the complete capitulation of Catholic truth to the very religious indifferentism that the Church has consistently condemned — a surrender dressed up in the language of civic virtue and natural law, but which in practice denies the exclusive kingship of Jesus Christ and the unique salvific mission of His Church.

