The Founding Fathers and religious liberty
Bishop Williamson Archives, February 4, 1993
Catholic= Social Kingship Of Christ
Masonic= Religious Liberty
The
enclosed Verbum is hardly controversial, but its predecessor,
headlined "Discovering America's Roots," presented a picture of
the Founding Fathers of the United States which did not gain
everyone's approval. In particular, a long-standing friend of
the Society here in the USA — who has rendered the Society great
service — made a series of reasonable objections which deserve a
reply. Let me attempt the "Catechism of a Patriot"...
Patriot: By
concerning themselves with questions like the founding of the
USA, don't priests risk being diverted or distracted from the saving of
souls?
Reply: If
any man had two heads, he might keep his religion in one and his
politics in the other, but inside any one head at any one time, the
two things necessarily interact on one another. A man cannot be
liberal in politics without more or less contaminating his
Catholic Faith and so endangering his soul.
Patriot: But Archbishop Lefebvre wisely left such worldly matters alone, and kept to the Doctrine of the Faith.
Reply:
Archbishop Lefebvre may not have explicitly questioned the
founding of the American Republic, perhaps because he was never
permanently stationed in the USA, but the ideas of American
churchmen he had to fight hard against at Vatican II, in
particular, religious liberty. Michael Davies' latest book, The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty, shows clearly
the part played by the compatriots of the Founding Fathers in
the fatal establishing of the principle of religious liberty within
the Catholic Church at that Council. Its "Declaration on Religious
Liberty" is Americanism infecting the Universal Church. The
result is that to defend the Faith anywhere in the world today,
a priest must fight the ideas of the Founding Fathers.
Patriot: But
Pope Leo XIII about 100 years ago, with reservations, commended
the USA political system. Why should Society of St Pius X priests be
more demanding more than the Pope?
Reply:
Pope Leo XIII came before Vatican II; Society priests all come
after. The full devastating effect of Americanism (as the
Pope called it) upon Catholicism that he then feared, we now
know. In Leo's time, the American churchmen could pretend that
the Americanism he condemned did not even exist, but by the
time of Vatican II, they were positively proud of having
"converted" the Catholic Church to the American way - see Michael
Davies' book.
Patriot: But the Founding Fathers were decent, God-fearing men.
Reply:
By no means all of them believed Jesus Christ is God, but let
us suppose they were all, as the world goes, honourable men.
That does not change the principles on which they built their
Republic, which are Freemasonic principles, profoundly harmful
to Religion.
Patriot:
But not all the Founding Fathers were Masons, and those that
were, were Masons-only in name, not in wickedness like the
French Masons who caused the blood-drenched French Revolution.
Reply: Firstly,
the Catholic Popes have never distinguished a benevolent
Anglo-Saxon Masonry from a malevolent Masonry of the countries of Latin
origin. They have always condemned Masonry without distinction,
as a whole, and many times. Secondly, Benjamin Franklin, an
American Mason, was a close friend and colleague of the French
Masons when they were preparing the French Revolution. Thirdly,
however many or few American Revolutionaries were Masons, the
founding principle of their new Republic — religious liberty —
is a key Masonic principle.
One cannot build a truly Catholic (Christian) society upon principles which gives false sects and religions "a civil right" to be purported publicly. The Catholic religion is the only TRUE religion and therefore it has the only civil right to be taught in any country's Constitution. America & Vatican II teaches Masonic heresy in this case...
Patriot:
But the Founding Fathers' idea of liberty was the Catholic
idea of liberty, only they left out the authority of the
Catholic Church. How can you blame Protestants for that.?
Reply: Firstly, their subjective innocence or ignorance God alone can ultimately judge. Here we are questioning their objective achievement.
Secondly the opposition between true liberty, centred on God,
and Masonic liberty, centred on man, is radical. 'The
difference is not "only" the omission of the Catholic Church
(quite an omission!) but two wholly different concepts of God,
man, life and law, as Leo XIII makes clear in his Encyclical
"Libertas, "freely quoted in Michael Davies' book.
Patriot: Well,
the religious liberty established in the First Amendment has
given a marvellous freedom for the Catholic Church to thrive in the USA,
ever since the founding of the Republic.
Reply:
Freedom, yes, as Leo XIII acknowledges, but a marvellous
freedom, no. The problem, in a few words, is that when men
found a republic (as they do today all over the world) not just
on the practice but on a principle of
religious freedom, they are obviously putting the interests of
their republic above the interests of any one religion,
otherwise that religion would have primacy in their republic,
as today Islam has primacy in Mohammedan republics. Now men are social
as well as individual animals. Hence in a republic of religious
liberty, a man may be a pious Catholic individually, but all the social
institutions of his inter-religious State are preaching to him
that his Catholicism is of secondary importance. At this point
he may try to split his politics from his religion, but that is
no more possible than to split man from God. So one of two things must
happen: either his liberal politics contaminate his
Catholic religion, which is how the American bishops at Vatican
II ended up “converting” the Catholic Church to the American
way, and which is why USA freedom is after all not so good for
the Faith: or by the light of his one true Faith he
condemns his country’s religious liberty and sets out seriously
to convert his fellow countrymen.
Patriot:
But given the mixed religions of the inhabitants of the
thirteen Colonies, how could the Founding Fathers have founded
their republic on any other principle than religious liberty?
Impossible!
Reply: No
intelligent engineer builds a bridge on sand, but if, for whatever
reason, he is forced to do so, at least he does not glorify his
bridge. On the contrary, he puts up a notice: “DANGER: YOU
CROSS THIS BRIDGE AT YOUR PERIL.” No intelligent Catholic
glorifies a republic built on religious liberty, even if it is
his own country. Otherwise politics are going to become his
real religion, ie., what he first believes in for the welfare
of mankind.
Patriot: But the Founding Fathers had no intention of excluding God, or of making liberty into their religion.
Reply:
The way to hell is paved with good intentions." You cannot,
however good your intentions, lay down certain principles and
not expect their consequences. You cannot establish religious
liberty in politics and not expect to undermine all religion
wherever those politics apply, at which point religious liberty
becomes your real religion.
Patriot:
Well, the Founding Fathers may have wanted no State Church,
but they did want a country based on Christian principles. The
country was Christian, and they assumed it would remain so.
Reply:
In that case their right hand did not know what their left
hand was doing, which is typical of decent liberals: their
decency is at war with their liberalism and their liberalism
with their decency. Poor pro-lifers! Many of them seem still to
believe in democracy, petitions, letters
to editors, etc., etc., but in fact President Clinton's
sweeping away the Reagan-Bush roadblocks to abortion within two
days of becoming President was not in defiance of, but in
radical compliance with, democracy, petitions, etc., etc. Where
religious liberty takes social precedence over the Catholic
Faith or any faith, then implicitly my country's way takes precedence
over any law of God, then my countrymen's votes entitle the
President that they elect to do as he wishes, and any minority
that still objects to abortion, for instance, should graciously
admit defeat and stop raising the issue, because the people
have spoken. And if such a minority insists, the State must be
turned loose on it!
Patriot: But the Founding Fathers would be aghast at the present-day development of their Republic.
Reply:
No doubt the large majority of them, but that merely shows
that, like the Council Fathers of Vatican II who voted for the
documents that would serve to destroy the Church, they did not
know what they were doing. Liberals are blinded by their
illusions. When it comes to building bridges, or republics, no
amount of good intentions will make up for ignorance of the
laws of engineering.
Patriot:
But the situation is no worse in the USA than in many European
countries, so the problem is not the Founding Fathers of the
USA
Reply:
It is most true that the situation is in significant ways
worse in Europe than in the USA The problem everywhere is
liberalism, or the shaking off of God's truth and God's law.
So, true, the problem in the United States is not the Founding
Fathers as founding fathers, a task to which they brought many
good qualities, but the Founding Fathers as liberals. In establishing religious liberty, they laid the cornerstone of their Republic in liberalism.
Patriot: But what else could they do?
Reply:
You may appeal to historical circumstances, but if these
forced the engineers to build on sand, sand is still sand.
Patriot: Are you claiming all Americans are Americanists?
Reply:
By no means. Michael Davies’ book (available at $14
fromTheAngelus Press, 2918 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64109)
is dedicated to the American churchman, Msgr. J.C. Fenton,
editor of the American Ecclesiastical Review from 1944
to 1963, "whose clear, consistent and courageous defence of
Papal Teaching on Church and State must once again be vindicated
as the authentic Catholic position."
Patriot:
Then the only reason why President Clinton has prevailed over
the Catholics is because time ran out for the Catholics before
they could convert the Republic.
Reply:
No. The reason is because too many American Catholics aligned
themselves with the Masonic principles of the Republic instead
of condemning them, which is why their bishops "converted"
Vatican II. God bless American pro-lifers — the movement is
stronger in the USA than in any other country - but let them
throw the best of their talents and energies into purely
supernatural action because it is only by the purity of their
Catholic Faith, not by any human means, that they can prevail.
Patriot: Do you love America?
Reply: Whoever loves Americans will tell them the truth. Whoever would flatter them with pleasing lies, scorns them.
Patriot: I still think Society priests would do better to leave all such questions alone.
Reply:
Any Catholic priest must ask St Paul's question: "Do I now
persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet
pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ" (Gal.
1,10). May God bless the America needing and waiting to be
converted to the fullness of the Catholic Faith!
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http://tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-heresy-of-americanism-vatican-ii.html
http://tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2015/08/heresy-of-americanism-separation-of.html
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