Americanist Idolatry: National Catholic Register Canonizes Freemason Washington as Patron of Religious Liberty
The National Catholic Register, flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s Americanist wing, publishes a hagiographic tribute to George Washington on the occasion of the United States’ semiquincentennial. Penned by staff writer Gigi Duncan, the article marshals a chorus of conciliar academics — Michael Breidenbach, Jerome Foss, Susan Hanssen, “Fr.” Charles Connor — to baptize the Father of the American Masonic Republic as a champion of Catholic liberty. The thesis is as brazen as it is heretical: the Protestant Freemason who presided over the erection of a godless Constitution, which enshrined religious indifferentism as the supreme law of the land, is presented as a vessel of Providence for the Church. This is not history; it is the liturgy of the neo-church, where the Social Kingship of Christ is dethroned to make room for the “civic friendship” of the City of Man.