John Paul II’s American Apostasy: Reducing the Gospel to Liberal Democracy
George Weigel, writing for the National Catholic Register (June 2, 2026), presents a hagiographic account of the apostate Karol Wojtyła’s vision for America, framing the destroyer of Catholic doctrine as a champion of “evangelical vitality” and the “New Evangelization.” Weigel’s commentary is a masterclass in modernist hagiography, presenting the heretic Wojtyła as a visionary who saw in America a model for the “free and virtuous society.” The article’s core thesis — that Wojtyła hoped America would demonstrate how “freedom and virtue go together” — is not merely a political observation but a theological abomination that reduces the supernatural mission of the Church to the level of secular liberal democracy. What Weigel celebrates as “vitality” was in reality the acceleration of apostasy, the final triumph of the conciliar revolution’s reduction of Catholicism to naturalistic humanism dressed in religious vestments.



