The Catholic News Agency portal (December 16, 2025) reports on Michigan’s fifth government-led investigation into clerical abuse within the Diocese of Grand Rapids, documenting allegations against 51 priests dating from 1950 to the present. While 37 accused clerics are deceased, none remain in active ministry. “Bishop” David Walkowiak offered generic apologies while attempting to dismiss some allegations as “consensual adult relationships,” with Attorney General Dana Nessel emphasizing victim validation. This bureaucratic damage-control exercise typifies the conciliar sect’s complete failure to address its own corruption.
Naturalistic Framing Conceals Theological Apostasy
The report’s exclusive focus on legal and psychological dimensions (“zero-tolerance protocols,” “victim-survivors”) deliberately obscures the theological root of the crisis: the systematic dismantling of sacramental and disciplinary integrity following Vatican II. As Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas, once “Jesus Christ and His most holy law [are] removed from customs… human society [is] shaken to its foundations.” The conciliar sect’s obsession with sociological management (Walkowiak’s “safeguards”) replaces the Church’s divine mandate to “pluck out the scandal” through canonical penalties (Matthew 18:7-9).
Walkowiak’s distinction between criminal abuse and “immoral” adult relationships reveals the sect’s dogmatic relativism. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 2359 §2) mandated laicization for any cleric engaging in concubinage, recognizing such acts as delicta contra sextum requiring immediate excision. The conciliar sect’s bureaucratic classifications (“potential criminal violations”) reduce sin to legal infraction, denying the ex opere operato damage done to souls through sacrilegious acts by ordained ministers.
Structural Heresy Produces Moral Collapse
This epidemic of predation didn’t emerge in a vacuum but flows directly from the conciliar revolution’s rejection of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and the social kingship of Christ. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemned the notion that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Proposition 63) – precisely the situation created when Paul VI’s Novus Ordo replaced propitiatory sacrifice with communal meal symbolism. As Archbishop Lefebvre warned before his own compromise: “Destroy the Mass, destroy the priesthood.”
The report’s chronological evasion (“majority before 2002”) ignores how post-conciliar “reforms” accelerated decay:
- Abandonment of clerical dress (Pius XII’s Vestis clericalis mandated in 1952)
- Suppression of minor orders creating immature seminarians (Paul VI’s Ministeria Quaedam)
- Psychologized formation replacing ascetic discipline (Contra Pius X’s Pascendi §45)
Counterfeit Mercy Versus True Justice
Nessel’s victim-centered rhetoric (“deserve to be heard”) employs therapeutic language to mask the state’s complicity. These investigations never address the homosexual networks documented in the McCarrick Report, nor demand restoration of the Inquisition’s procedural rigor (Canon 1556-1598). Contrast this with Pius V’s Cum Primum (1566), ordering bishops to imprison abusive clerics in monasteries for life.
Walkowiak’s performative contrition lacks the only authentic response: public exomologesis (Tertullian, De Paenitentia IX) and restitution. Where are the calls for Forty Hours’ reparations? The mandated parochus processions with the Blessed Sacrament to expiate communal sin? Instead, the diocese promotes psychological counseling – a modernist reduction of metanoia to self-help.
Conclusion: Ecclesial Bankruptcy Demands Flight
These 51 accused priests represent not isolated failures but the rotten fruit of a counterfeit church. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, heretics lose jurisdiction (De Romano Pontifice II.30), rendering conciliar “bishops” incapable of valid governance. True Catholics must:
- Recognize the conciliar sect as a paramasonic entity (Pius IX’s Etsi Multa)
- Seek valid sacraments from priests ordained in Apostolic succession
- Publicly renounce communion with antipope Leo XIV’s regime
Only by returning to the Lex Orandi of the Traditional Mass and Lex Credendi of pre-1958 magisterium can the Church’s wounds heal. Let Walkowiak’s empty apologies serve as final proof: The conciliar experiment has culminated in total moral and theological bankruptcy.
Source:
Michigan’s fifth diocesan abuse report details dozens of allegations against priests (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 16.12.2025