Archdiocese of Chicago Harbors Child Predator Amid Systemic Apostasy
EWTN News reports (January 27, 2026) that the Archdiocese of Chicago employed Brett Smith (legal name Brett Zagorac) – a man with documented child molestation convictions spanning two decades – as a tutor and substitute teacher in multiple archdiocesan schools since 2024. Despite Smith’s 2005 Indiana child molestation charge, 2016 Chicago Tribune-reported convictions for battery against minors in Schererville (2002) and DuPage County (2005), and 2009 guilty plea for molesting a 5-year-old tutoring victim, the archdiocesan bureaucracy allowed him access to children through what it admits were inadequate background checks. One family has filed a police complaint regarding Smith’s conduct during home tutoring sessions. This institutional failure demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of its divine mandate to protect the innocent.
Institutionalized Sacrilege Against the Least of Christ’s Members
The archdiocese’s email to families admits Smith’s presence was “alarming” while simultaneously claiming ignorance of allegations during his employment – a contradiction exposing the moral bankruptcy of post-conciliar structures. This follows the pattern documented in the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) which condemns the notion that “the Church has not the power of using force” (Error #24) against predators. The conciliar sect’s obsession with bureaucratic processes (“passed state background and fingerprint checks”) over spiritual discernment violates the Church’s divine constitution. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) explicitly condemns the modernist error that “ecclesiastical law… does not apply to authors engaged in scientific criticism” (Proposition 1) – here perversely extended to excuse criminal negligence in vetting personnel.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Vigilance
The archdiocese’s reliance on secular background checks demonstrates the conciliar revolution’s naturalistic worldview condemned by Pope St. Pius X: “The principles of the Modernists… are based on agnosticism and immanence” (Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907). True shepherds would have cross-referenced Smith’s multiple aliases (B.J. Zagor, B.J. Welhelm) with canonical records, implemented parish-level warnings, and barred any educator with even a single credible abuse allegation – as mandated by the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 2359 §2). Instead, the archdiocese prioritized legal compliance over spiritual protection, exemplifying the conciliar sect’s inversion of Christ’s warning: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin…” (Matthew 18:6).
He reportedly “pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery for inappropriately touching a 5-year-old child who he was tutoring in Portage in 2009.”
The reduction of child molestation to “inappropriate touching” in official statements continues the conciliar sect’s pattern of minimizing grave sin. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s condemnation of moral laxity: “Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority… to shield the morals of youth from corruption” (Divini Illius Magistri, 1929). The archdiocese’s failure to warn parents about Smith’s history constitutes formal cooperation with evil through omission.
Structural Apostasy Demands Complete Separation
This scandal flows inevitably from the conciliar sect’s rejection of Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) which established Christ’s Kingship over all societies. When churchmen reduce their role to social workers managing bureaucratic processes (“state background checks”), they become “enemies within” foreseen by Pope St. Pius X. The archdiocese’s email proves they’ve adopted the condemned modernist principle that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Lamentabili, Proposition 63).
True Catholics must recognize that sacraments administered by conciliar clergy – regardless of validity – risk sacrilege when received from hands that enable child predators. As Pope Leo XIII warned: “When the State lays hands on the sacred rights of the Church, it is the duty of the Church to reject them with dignity” (Encyclical Immortale Dei, 1885). Only a complete restoration of pre-conciliar discipline under validly ordained bishops can end this cycle of apostasy.
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Chicago Archdiocese: Man with multiple child sex abuse allegations taught in schools for over a year (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.01.2026