Catholic News Agency reports on December 18, 2025 that the Dublin Archdiocese attempted to calm financial concerns through statements from its head of operations Ide Finnegan, while admitting catastrophic declines in priestly ordinations (none in 2024) and Mass attendance. The archdiocese’s 2024 financial statements reveal a 200,000 euro decrease in Sunday collections compared to 2023, with actuarial predictions indicating 70% fewer priests within 20 years. Rather than addressing these spiritual crises through supernatural means, the conciliar sect’s administrators tout their hiring of fundraising consultants CCS Consulting and reference a “Building Hope” strategic plan focused on “management, ministry, the role of laypersons, and finance.”
Financial Calculations Masking Spiritual Apostasy
The report’s exclusive focus on monetary metrics while ignoring the state of grace (status gratiae) of souls exposes the neo-church’s materialist foundations. Nowhere does the archdiocese mention the collapse of sacramental life – the true index of ecclesiastical health. The 996,000 nominal Catholics recorded in Dublin’s 2022 census remain unevangelized, with no reference to Confession statistics or Eucharistic devotion. This silence confirms Pius X’s warning in Lamentabili that Modernists reduce religion to “man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
“The diocese is investing in new staff rather than planning staff reductions,” Finnegan stated.
This admission proves the conciliar sect’s inversion of priorities. While Christ commanded “pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers” (Matthew 9:38), Dublin’s solution involves hiring lay administrators rather than begging God for priestly vocations. The 53 “parish partnerships” represent not organic Catholic life but bureaucratic consolidation – a betrayal of Pius XI’s teaching that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas, 18).
Naturalistic Management in Place of Supernatural Mission
The archdiocese’s reliance on CCS Consulting – a secular fundraising firm – demonstrates its embrace of naturalistic solutions condemned by Pius IX: “Human reason… suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 3). The “Building Hope” strategy’s focus on “the role of laypersons” continues Vatican II’s revolution against the hierarchical constitution of Christ’s Church, substituting divine institution with democratic governance.
Four grave omissions expose the spiritual void:
- No mention of Eucharistic adoration or processions to implore divine mercy
- No call for fasting or penance to combat the vocation crisis
- No reference to Mary’s intercession despite Ireland’s historic consecration to her
- No distinction between valid sacraments and neo-church rituals
This silence constitutes what St. Pius X called “the gravest accusation” – the abandonment of supernatural perspective. The report discusses declining revenues but ignores the primary cause: decades of modernist catechesis producing Catholics ignorant of the Mass’s propitiatory nature. As laypeople lose faith in the Real Presence, donations decrease – a direct correlation suppressed in Finnegan’s analysis.
Actuarial Predictions Confirm Conciliar Apostasy’s Fruits
The projected 70% priest reduction within 20 years fulfills Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli’s 1931 prophecy: “The day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted… when the Church will be deserted by many.” The two ordinations since 2020 stand in stark contrast to Ireland’s pre-conciliar vitality, when St. Oliver Plunkett reported 1,000 martyr-confessors during Cromwell’s persecution. By abandoning Thomistic formation and promoting liturgical abuse, the conciliar sect has destroyed the seedbed of vocations.
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas provides the only solution Dublin’s administrators refuse to implement: “When once men recognize… that Christ has authority over all of us, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (19). Instead, the archdiocese’s “healthy reserves” serve as monuments to apostasy – funds accumulated while closing churches and betraying the Faith.
The report’s final deception lies in citing 2022 census data showing 996,000 Catholics. These numbers reflect cultural affiliation, not actual practice. True Catholic life – measured by Sunday Missa Cantata attendance, Confession lines, and children prepared for First Communion – has been systematically eradicated through the conciliar sect’s 60-year occupation. Until Ireland’s bishops abjure Vatican II and return to integral Catholic Tradition, their financial reports merely chronicle a sinking ship’s rearranged deck chairs.
Source:
Dublin Archdiocese dispels doubts, concerns about its financial position (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 18.12.2025