Buffalo Conciliar Sect’s “Parish Rights” Charade Exposes Deeper Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 4, 2025) reports that Michael Fisher, conciliar bishop of Buffalo, has reversed his ban on parishioners meeting to oppose church closures after discussions with the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy. Fisher now claims to recognize canon 212 §3’s provision that the faithful “can legitimately vindicate and defend the rights which they possess in the Church.” This theatrical concession masks the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of Catholic infrastructure while feigning respect for canonical processes.
The Illusion of “Rights” in a Church of Man
Fisher’s reference to canonical rights rings hollow when measured against Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, which declares: “Kings and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (n.32). The conciliar sect operates precisely as Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: treating the Church as a human organization subject to bureaucratic processes rather than the Mystical Body of Christ. When Fisher claims parishioners may oppose closures while simultaneously forbidding use of parish funds and communications channels, he implements the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili – reducing the Church to democratic debate rather than divine institution.
The conciliar bishop’s demand for “pastoral unity” amidst destruction echoes the naturalism Pius X decried: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to views irreconcilable with modern progress” (Lamentabili, prop.63). True shepherds would defend churches as sacred space, not negotiate their closure like corporate assets.
Vatican Collaboration as Apostatic Complicity
That Fisher consulted Lazzaro You Heung-sik – a “cardinal” of the Bergoglian antipapacy – reveals the conciliar sect’s apostatic unity. The Code of Canon Law invoked (can.212) applies only to the true Church, not the occupied Vatican structures. As Pius XII taught, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or member of the Church” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The “Dicastery for the Clergy” thus lacks jurisdiction, making Fisher’s concession not pastoral care but damage control.
This bureaucratic theater ignores the supernatural reality: When Fisher’s “Road to Renewal” sells churches to pay abuse settlements, it confirms the conciliar sect’s nature as “synagogue of Satan” (Pius IX, Syllabus). True pastors would protect sacred spaces from profanation, not liquidate them to fund punishments for clerical crimes – itself a violation of Quas Primas‘s teaching that civil authority must submit to Christ’s reign.
The “Road to Renewal” as Modernist Blueprint
Fisher’s merger plan follows the conciliar playbook of replacing supernatural faith with managerial efficiency. Pius XI warned that when Christ is dethroned, “the entire human society had to be shaken because it lacked stable foundation” (Quas Primas, n.18). The 36% parish reduction rate in Buffalo parallels the “abomination of desolation” (Mt 24:15) occurring wherever the conciliar sect operates.
“Even if one of the faithful chooses to exercise his/her right to recourse, this choice should always be seen as a disagreement about a particular decision, not a rejection of Church authority or the Road to Renewal more broadly.”
This Orwellian directive forbids questioning the modernist agenda itself, precisely fulfilling Pius X’s condemnation: “The Church is an enemy of progress” (Lamentabili, prop.57). The “faithful” are permitted procedural objections provided they genuflect to the revolution.
Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Legal Farce
The New York Supreme Court’s intervention in abuse fund payments (July 2025) exposes the conciliar sect’s earthly nature. When civil courts arbitrate ecclesiastical finances, it fulfills Pius IX’s condemnation: “The Church ought to be separated from the State” (Syllabus, prop.55). The $150 million settlement – funded by selling Our Lord’s sanctuaries – constitutes sacrilege, violating the Council of Trent’s teaching on churches as “houses of prayer and sacred worship” (Session XXII).
Meanwhile, Save Our Buffalo Churches’ gratitude for Fisher’s “wisdom” reveals the trap of conciliar thinking: They mistake bureaucratic concessions for victory, failing to recognize that “a heretic bishop cannot depose or remove anyone” (Pope Celestine I, Epist. XIV). True Catholics would reject both Fisher’s closures and his faux permissions as acts of an illegitimate sect.
The Path of Fidelity
This spectacle demands remembrance of Pius XI’s warning: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed” (Quas Primas, n.18). The solution isn’t negotiating church closures but restoring Christ’s social reign – impossible under conciliar occupiers who’ve implemented the very religious indifferentism condemned in Quas Primas (n.21).
Let Buffalo’s faithful abandon these counterfeit structures and seek true priests offering the Immemorial Mass. As the Syllabus reminds us: “The Roman Pontiff can never reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (prop.80). Neither can true Catholics reconcile with those selling Christ’s inheritance to fund their apostasy.
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Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 04.12.2025