Spain’s Abuse Compensation Deal: Modernist Betrayal of Divine Justice

“The Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE), the Spanish Conference of Religious Orders (CONFER), and the government have agreed on a channel for compensating victims of abuse within the Catholic Church, in which the Ombudsman’s Office will collaborate.” Catholic News Agency reports this scandalous subjugation of ecclesiastical authority to secular power, demonstrating how deeply the conciliar sect has embraced naturalism. The January 8 agreement – signed by Archbishop Luis Argüello, “minister” Félix Bolaños, and Fr. Jesús Díaz Sariego – epitomizes the neo-church’s apostasy from Christ’s Kingship over temporal affairs.

Sacrilegious Subjugation of Ecclesiastical Authority

The agreement’s very premise constitutes apostasy, violating the divine constitution of Christ’s Church. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemned the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Yet here, the Spanish bishops surrender their God-given judicial authority to a secular ombudsman – an act Pius XI denounced as “the apostasy of society from Christ” (Quas Primas, 1925). The Ombudsman’s involvement defies Canon 1556 of the 1917 Code, which reserves judgment of clerical crimes to ecclesiastical courts alone.

By establishing a “mixed Church-state system” where secular officials evaluate abuse cases, these modernist collaborators commit two mortal sins against Catholic order:

  1. They deny Christ’s exclusive jurisdiction over His ministers (Extra Ecclesiam nulla jurisdictio)
  2. They elevate civil authorities above bishops in spiritual matters – precisely the error condemned in Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei (1794)

Theological Bankruptcy of “PRIVA Plan”

Argüello’s boast about “retroactive tax exemption for compensation payments” exposes the plan’s materialist reductionism. True reparation for sacrilege requires penance and sacramental restoration, not financial transactions. The Catechism of St. Pius X teaches that sins against the Sixth Commandment demand:

“1. Restitution of the injured party’s honor; 2. Removal of scandal; 3. Prayer and fasting to atone for the sin.”

Nowhere does Christ authorize His Church to outsource justice to tax accountants. This monetary focus echoes Luther’s heresy that sin can be quantified in coin – a notion Trent anathematized (Session XXI, Can 12). The €1.8 million compensation fund becomes blood money when divorced from sacramental confession and spiritual reparation.

Vatican Complicity in Apostasy

That Argüello consulted “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin – a Bergoglian apparatchik – confirms this agreement’s diabolical disorientation. The conciliar sect’s approval proves its anti-Catholic nature, as no true Successor of Peter would endorse state intrusion into forum internum matters. Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) thundered: “The Church is essentially an unequal society… comprising two categories of persons: the pastors and the flock.” By letting victims bypass ecclesiastical courts through governmental channels, these false shepherds destroy hierarchical order.

Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Justice

The article’s bureaucratic language – “administrative processing window,” “compensation proposal,” “unanimous agreement” – deliberately avoids terms like sin, repentance, and eternal punishment. This omission reveals the modernist denial of transcendent justice, reducing clerical crimes to mere civil torts. Compare this to St. Pius V’s Cum Primum (1566), which mandated:

“Let bishops immediately punish unchaste clerics with deposition and degradation, that the Church might be purified from such filth.”

True Catholic justice requires:

  1. Public canonical trial for accused clerics
  2. Defrocking and lifelong penance for the guilty
  3. Spiritual reparation through Masses and prayers

The PRIVA Plan’s financial settlements without spiritual demands constitute sacrilege. As Leo XIII warned: “When religion is separated from public life, morality deteriorates” (Immortale Dei, 1885).

Silence on Primary Scandal: Invalid Sacraments

Most damning is the article’s complete omission of the real scandal: that post-conciliar “clergy” likely lack valid orders. The 1968 Pontificalis Romani invalidated Holy Orders through illicit form and matter. Hence:

  • These “bishops” possess no jurisdiction
  • Their “absolution” of abusers is invalid
  • Victims remain spiritually unaided

This explains why the agreement focuses solely on money – the conciliar sect cannot offer true sacramental healing because it has no sacraments. The silence on this ontological catastrophe proves the neo-church’s apostasy from Catholic soteriology.

Conclusion: Justice Without Christ is Persecution

By signing this pact with secularists, Spain’s conciliar hierarchy fulfills Pius X’s prophecy: “Modernists substitute for faith a sentiment which religion springs from man and not from God” (Pascendi, 12). Their “reparation” scheme mocks divine justice while empowering Christ’s enemies. Let faithful Catholics remember: True reparation comes only through the Immaculate Heart’s triumph – which requires rejecting these modernist compromises and returning to integral Catholic Tradition.

Source:
Spain, Catholic Church sign agreement to compensate victims of sexual abuse   (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.01.2026