Chicago School Closures Reveal Bankruptcy of Conciliar Sect
EWTN News reports on January 27, 2026, that six schools under the jurisdiction of the Chicago “archdiocese” will close due to “low enrollment and ongoing deficits.” Superintendent Greg Richmond declared them “no longer sustainable” despite fundraising efforts. Affected institutions include St. Stanislaus Kostka Academy (founded 151 years ago) and St. Francis Borgia, whose community raised only $7,000—2% of the $400,000 demanded by “archdiocesan” authorities. “Father” Anthony Bus, CR, lamented the closure of St. Stanislaus Kostka while “Father” Antonio Musa, OFM, blamed Illinois’ withdrawal of state scholarships for St. Jerome School’s $450,000 deficit. The article frames these closures as tragic losses of “faith-centered environments.”
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith in Education Crisis
The article reduces Catholic education’s purpose to creating “healthy and holy refuge[s]” while ignoring the theological collapse inherent in conciliar institutions. Nowhere does it address whether these schools taught the Baltimore Catechism, preserved the Traditional Latin Mass, or guarded against modernist curricula. Instead, financial sustainability becomes the ultimate criterion—a complete inversion of Christ’s command to “seek first the kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33). Pius XI’s encyclical Divini Illius Magistri condemns this very error:
“…the so-called ‘neutral’ or ‘lay’ school […] is contrary to the fundamental rights of the family and denies the supernatural order.”
By obsessing over deficits and enrollment numbers, the “archdiocese” operates as a bankrupt corporation rather than a steward of souls. The $500,000 deficit at St. Stanislaus Kostka exposes the conciliar sect’s spiritual destitution—unable to inspire sacrificial generosity because it long ago abandoned the lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief) through liturgical desecration.
State Dependence: Conciliar Sect’s Betrayal of Catholic Sovereignty
Musa’s complaint about losing “government scholarship funds” confirms the conciliar church’s enslavement to secular powers. This violates Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, which condemns the proposition that:
“The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
True Catholic education, as defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas, acknowledges Christ’s kingship over all nations and institutions. When schools depend on Caesar’s coins—whether through Illinois scholarships or GoFundMe panhandling—they implicitly deny the social reign of Christ the King. The $7,000 raised by St. Francis Borgia families proves the conciliar sect’s faithful lack conviction, having been catechized by “clergy” who themselves reject extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church).
Sentimentalism Masks Apostasy in Sacramental Wasteland
Bus’s melodramatic “My heart breaks” and Musa’s invitation to serve as “altar servers, lectors, ushers” reveal the conciliar sect’s empty ritualism. The article never questions whether these “parishes” offer valid sacraments—given that post-1968 ordinations follow the invalid Pontificalis Romani rite. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis infallibly requires specific sacramental forms, yet the “archdiocese” perpetuates sacramental doubt by employing “priests” ordained with defective rites. When Bus boasts of parish doors open “24/7,” he omits the spiritual darkness within: invalid Masses, communion in the hand, and women usurping liturgical roles condemned by Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae.
Omission of Divine Judgment as Theological Cowardice
The article’s secular framing ignores the supernatural reality behind the closures: divine chastisement for a counterfeit church. Leo XIII warned in Humanum Genus that Masonic-aligned forces would destroy Catholic education:
“They plan the destruction of the Christian education of youth by establishing schools which are alien to the Church.”
Conciliar schools—with their ecumenical textbooks, felt-banner “liturgies,” and silence on hell—qualify as such alien institutions. Their collapse fulfills God’s justice, as the Apostle Paul writes: “If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him” (1 Corinthians 3:17). That EWTN News laments this as mere financial misfortune proves its complicity in the conciliar revolution’s great apostasy.
Conclusion: Catastrophic Fruit of Vatican II’s Rupture
These closures epitomize the conciliar sect’s institutional implosion—a direct consequence of rejecting the syllabus of modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X. When “schools” prioritize diversity over doctrine, environmentalism over eternal salvation, and fundraising over fasting, they become dead branches awaiting the divine axe. As Our Lord warned: “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up” (Matthew 15:13). Only a return to integral Catholic tradition—free from Vatican II’s “hermeneutic of rupture“—can restore education ordered to humanity’s true end: the glory of God.
Source:
‘My heart breaks:’ Chicago communities mourn after archdiocese announces 6 school closures (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.01.2026