Vatican’s Buffalo Parish Reversals Expose Conciliar Sect’s Spiritual Bankruptcy
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 9, 2025) reports that the “Dicastery for Clergy” under antipope Leo XIV reversed parish closures in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, ordered by “bishop” Michael Fisher under the “Road to Renewal” plan. The group “Save Our Buffalo Churches” claims three parish closures were revoked by the Vatican since November, with a fourth merger invalidated due to a “procedural error.” The report admits parish assets are being seized to fund the diocese’s bankruptcy settlement for abuse victims, while noting New York courts permitted these confiscations despite parishioner lawsuits. This bureaucratic theater reveals the conciliar sect’s subordination of sacred spaces to financial and legal calculations.
Sacred Space Reduced to Bankruptcy Commodity
The admission that parish “asset appropriation” serves bankruptcy settlements lays bare the conciliar sect’s inversion of priorities. Contrast this with Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI declared: “Kings and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ,” emphasizing that temporal authorities must recognize the Church’s spiritual sovereignty. Instead, the Buffalo diocese operates as a corporate entity liquidating ecclesiastical property to pay abuse liabilities – a violation of Canon 1499 §1 of the 1917 Code, which forbids alienating church property without just cause and proper authority.
The very concept of using parishes – consecrated spaces for the Opus Dei (Work of God) – as financial instruments mocks the teaching of Pius XII in Mediator Dei (1947): “The Church is a society… whose divinely appointed purpose is to lead men to eternal salvation.” By prioritizing bankruptcy settlements over spiritual welfare, the conciliar hierarchy demonstrates its adherence to naturalism rather than Catholic ecclesiology.
Vatican Bureaucracy Usurps Episcopal Authority
The “Dicastery for Clergy’s” interference exposes the conciliar sect’s centralized tyranny. Pius VI condemned such bureaucratic overreach in Super Soliditate (1786), affirming that “bishops receive their jurisdiction immediately from the Apostolic See,” not through dicasteries. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 335 §1) explicitly reserves parish suppression to diocesan bishops after consultation with the cathedral chapter – not Roman bureaucrats.
By revoking Fisher’s decrees, the Vatican apparatus proves itself a modernist parallel magisterium. As St. Robert Bellarmine warned in De Romano Pontifice (II.30): “Neither the Pope nor the Church can change the substance of the sacraments or ecclesiastical discipline to the detriment of the faithful.” The arbitrary closure and reopening of parishes based on “procedural errors” reveals administrative chaos antithetical to the Church’s perennial stability.
Courtroom Catholicism: The Final Apostasy
The report’s focus on New York Supreme Court rulings confirms the conciliar sect’s surrender to secular power. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). Yet here we witness the “Diocese of Buffalo” submitting to state courts over property disputes – precisely the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas as “the plague of our age.”
When the court cited “prohibition against court involvement in… hierarchical church” governance while permitting asset seizures, it exposed the conciliar sect’s hypocrisy. True Catholic parishes exist ad maiorem Dei gloriam (for the greater glory of God), not as legal entities subject to bankruptcy courts. The 1917 Code (Canon 1524) strictly prohibited ecclesiastical persons from pleading in civil courts without papal permission – a discipline abandoned by these counterfeit shepherds.
Silence on the Real Crisis: Apostasy and Desacralization
Nowhere does the article address why parishes emptied – the conciliar sect’s destruction of faith through liturgical abuse and doctrinal corruption. Contrast the reported “sharply declining parish attendance” with Pius XII’s warning in Mystici Corporis (1943): “For unless a person perseveres in charity, he does not remain in the bosom of the Church.” The Novus Ordo service – a manufactured rite lacking sacrificial theology – accelerated this exodus, fulfilling St. Pius X’s prophecy in Pascendi that modernism would become “the synthesis of all heresies.”
The “Road to Renewal” plan typifies the conciliar playbook: close traditional parishes, sell assets, and consolidate communities into worship centers devoid of Catholic identity. As Archbishop Lefebvre warned in 1976: “This new Church is a schismatic Church because it breaks with the Catholic Church of all time.” That “Save Our Buffalo Churches” celebrates Vatican reversals demonstrates their blindness to the larger apostasy – preserving buildings while accepting the sect that desecrates them.
Conclusion: Ecclesial Bankruptcy Beyond Finance
The Buffalo saga epitomizes the conciliar sect’s spiritual destitution. Having abandoned the Depositum Fidei (Deposit of Faith), it reduces the Church to real estate transactions and legal settlements. Pius XI’s condemnation in Mortalium Animos (1928) applies perfectly: “This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies.” True Catholics must reject this counterfeit church entirely, returning to the unchanging faith preserved by bishops maintaining apostolic succession outside the Vatican II structure. As Our Lord warned: “By their fruits you shall know them” (Matthew 7:20). The rotting fruit of Buffalo’s parish wars confirms we behold not the Church of Christ, but an administrative corpse dressed in ecclesiastical vestments.
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Vatican reverses several parish closures in Diocese of Buffalo, advocates say (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.12.2025