Vatican Bank Capitulation Embodies Post-Conciliar Naturalism
The Vatican News portal (November 13, 2025) reports that the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) reinstated Silvia Carlucci and Domenico Fabiani, a married couple fired in October 2024 for violating the bank’s prohibition on employing spouses. The Association of Lay Employees of the Vatican (ADLV) hailed this negotiated settlement – reached after the couple filed a wrongful termination lawsuit – as a “victory for common sense,” claiming the IOR’s rule “would clearly be unconstitutional in Italy.” The union further criticized the Vatican’s lack of “social safety nets,” framing the case as a labor rights issue requiring alignment with secular norms.
Subordination of Ecclesiastical Governance to Secular Labor Ideology
The ADLV’s celebration exposes the conciliar sect’s surrender to naturalistic humanism. By declaring the IOR’s legitimate internal regulation invalid because it conflicts with Italian secular law, the union elevates civil authority above the Church’s right to self-governance – a direct violation of Quas Primas (1925): “Rulers of states… must fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” Pius XI’s encyclical continues: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
The IOR’s initial dismissal correctly prioritized moral and financial integrity by prohibiting familial employment – a universal banking principle rooted in natural law (avoiding conflicts of interest). Its reversal under legal threat demonstrates the conciliar institution’s spiritual bankruptcy. As the Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error #39). The ADLV’s demand for Italian-style labor protections in the Vatican rejects the Church’s divine constitution, reducing her to a NGO governed by secular employment tribunals.
Theological Abdication in Favor of Emotionalism and Materialism
ADLV’s rhetoric – praising “common sense” and “protect[ing] a family” – employs sentimental manipulation to conceal doctrinal betrayal. Not once does the article mention whether the couple’s marriage conformed to Canon 1124 (1917 Code) regarding previous marriages or sacramental validity. This omission reflects the conciliar sect’s systematic silence on supernatural realities. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the modernist error that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
The union’s complaint about lacking “social safety nets” epitomizes the materialist inversion of the Church’s mission. As Quas Primas teaches: “The Kingdom of our Savior… is primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters.” The true Church administers institutions to facilitate souls’ salvation, not to imitate socialist welfare states. By framing the couple’s financial struggles (mortgage, child support) as justification for violating employment rules, the ADLV promotes practical relativism – precisely what Pius XII warned against in his condemnation of situation ethics.
Systemic Apostasy From Catholic Social Order
This incident manifests the conciliar sect’s fundamental rupture with pre-1958 Magisterium. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 152) prohibited spouses from holding juridically subordinate positions to avoid scandals. The Vatican Bank’s original policy followed this centuries-old principle of prudentia administrativa. The reversal signifies full assimilation into the world – the very “secularism of our times” that Pius XI identified in Quas Primas as “the plague that poisons human society.”
Moreover, the article’s focus on the couple as “Romeo and Juliet of the Vatican” romanticizes defiance of ecclesiastical authority. True Catholic teaching holds that employment in Church institutions is a privilege, not a right, contingent upon adherence to her laws. As Leo XIII declared in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888): “Liberty… is the power which… chooses between good and evil.” The IOR’s capitulation illustrates how the conciliar sect has become “salt that has lost its savor” (Matthew 5:13), unable to uphold even basic administrative discipline.
Conclusion: Eclipse of the Supernatural in Vatican Corporatism
This case epitomizes the conciliar sect’s transformation into a bureaucratic entity. By submitting to labor litigation and secular legal paradigms, the IOR operates as a worldly bank – not an instrument of Christ the King. The absence of any reference to the couple’s sacramental status, spiritual obligations, or the common good of the Church exposes the naturalistic cancer denounced in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernists… make all the world to be the product of the religious sense.” Until the Vatican structures return to professing Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat without compromise, such scandals will proliferate as fruits of their apostasy.
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Vatican bank reinstates couple fired for violating prohibition on married employees (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.11.2025