Rotting Foundations: “Archdiocese” of Chicago’s Decades-Long Shelter of Predators Confirms Conciliar Apostasy
Catholic News Agency (November 25, 2025) reports lawsuits alleging the Chicago “archdiocese” permitted Fathers Daniel Holihan and John Curran – both listed on its credibly accused roster – to remain in active ministry despite 1960s-era warnings about their predation. Attorney Mike Grieco condemns the “structure” enabling their decades-long abuse at Quigley Preparatory Seminary and St. Christina Catholic School through reassignments rather than accountability. The Illinois attorney general’s office previously identified Holihan as “one of the more notorious abusers in archdiocesan history.”
Systemic Collapse of Ecclesiastical Discipline
This scandal manifests the ecclesia supplicans (“church begging”) reality of the conciliar sect – a pseudo-ecclesiastical body where canonical crimes flourish under manufactured mercy. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 2359 §2) mandated excommunication for clerics committing sodomy with minors, ordering their reduction to lay status. Yet post-Conciliar “archdioceses” institutionalized predator-protection through:
“a pattern of relocating clergy with known problems rather than addressing the underlying misconduct”
This operational depravity flows from Dignitatis Humanae‘s rupture with Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ’s social kingship, demanding civil societies recognize “the rights of the Catholic Church [as] the one dispenser of salvation.” The conciliar sect’s inversion of this principle – elevating bureaucratic self-preservation above divine justice – fulfills Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Error 63).
Theological Atrophy Behind Administrative Crimes
Modernist rot permeates the “archdiocese’s” silence on:
- Sacramental Validity: No mention of whether these predators invalidly administered sacraments while in mortal sin – a grave concern per St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Suppl. Q38 A1) regarding unworthy ministers.
- Eschatological Reality: Zero reference to eternal judgment for both perpetrators and complicit hierarchs, abandoning Pius XII’s warning in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) that shepherds enabling wolves “will render account to the Prince of Pastors.”
- Canonical Subversion: The 1983 “Code” (Canon 1395 §2) weakened penalties to mere dismissal “if the case warrants” – a discretionary loophole enabling predator transfers.
Linguistic Betrayal of Catholic Substance
The article’s secularized vocabulary – “transparency,” “accountability,” “harm’s way” – exposes the conciliar sect’s reduction to NGO-status. Contrast this with Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906):
“The Church is a society…far superior to every other society [with] the right…to judge of the competence of its own ministers.”
By framing ecclesial crimes through therapeutic rather than theological lenses, the report confirms the Lamentabili (1907) condemnation of those reducing religion to “man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
Symptomatic of Conciliar Ecclesiology
This scandal erupts from:
- Collegiality’s dismantling of monarchical episcopacy (Vatican II’s Christus Dominus), enabling bureaucratic buck-passing.
- The Novus Ordo‘s desacralization of priesthood, reducing alter Christus to “facilitator” – a view condemned in Pius XI’s Ad Catholici Sacerdotii (1935).
- Post-Conciliar abandonment of ex officio investigations mandated by 1917 CIC (Canon 1933) for clergy crimes.
Omission as Confession
Silence screams where the report avoids:
- Sacrilegious Sacraments: Whether victims received invalid absolutions or Communions from predator-priests – violating Trent’s Session XIV on penance.
- Complicit Prelates: Naming “archdiocesan officials” who enabled abuse would expose the conciliar sect’s episcopate as “enemies within” (Pius X, Pascendi).
- Rite of Degradation: No reference to traditional defrocking ceremonies stripping guilty clerics of sacramental powers – a rite abolished post-Vatican II.
Antichurch’s Fruits Meet Canonical Roots
St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice declares: “manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction.” When conciliar “bishops” institutionalize child-endangerment while mouthing Bergoglian “mercy,” they confirm their vacancy of office. Let Chicago’s filth remind true Catholics: only extra concilium nulla salus (“outside the [true] council there is no salvation”) – flee the conciliar sect’s sinking barque.
Source:
Archdiocese of Chicago kept ‘known serial predators’ in ministry for years, lawsuits say (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 25.11.2025