Vatican Encounter Reduces Church’s Mission to Therapy Session
The [X] portal reports on a February 2, 2026 meeting between Irish clerical abuse victim David Ryan and antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). Ryan, abused in the 1970s at Blackrock College, described the 40-minute conversation as empathetic, claiming the antipope “felt my pain” and promised further email correspondence. Deirdre Kenny of “One In Four” also attended, praising the encounter as “very human.” The article frames the event as progress for abuse victims, omitting any reference to sacramental repentance, divine justice, or the Church’s duty to uphold eternal truths.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The article celebrates antipope Leo XIV’s “sincerity, his empathy” while obscuring the Church’s divine mandate to administer both mercy and justice. Nowhere does Ryan or the portal mention sacramental Confession, the necessity of reparation for sacrilege, or the eternal consequences of sin—omissions revealing the conciliar sect’s embrace of secular psychology over Catholic soteriology. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) condemns this inversion: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” By reducing the Church’s role to therapeutic listening, the Vatican usurpers deny Christ’s kingship over nations and souls.
Ryan’s admission—“I am not very religious”—exposes the dialogue’s futility. The Church has always taught that grace, not emotional validation, heals wounds of sin. St. Augustine’s maxim, “Peace is only found in the truth” (De Vera Religione), underscores the apostasy here: Instead of calling Ryan to conversion and offering the Sacrament of Penance, the antipope perpetuates a naturalistic fiction that “being listened to” suffices for healing.
False Clericalism and the Illegitimacy of “Paternal” Gestures
The article’s portrayal of antipope Leo XIV as a compassionate father figure ignores his heretical status. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice (Book II, Chapter 30) is uncompromising: “A manifest heretic is ipso facto deposed from papal authority.” Since the antipope upholds Vatican II’s heresies (religious liberty, collegiality), his “pastoral” gestures lack sacramental validity. The meeting, therefore, is not an act of ecclesiastical governance but a theatrical manipulation exploiting victims to legitimize apostasy.
Moreover, the conciliar sect’s abuse crisis stems directly from its doctrinal corruption. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the notion that “the Church is unable to effectively defend ethics” (Proposition 63)—precisely what occurs when modernist clerics discard Thomistic moral theology for Freudian counseling. True shepherds, like St. Pius X, would have demanded Ryan’s abuser face canonical trial and public penance, not staged photo-ops.
The Naturalism of “Survivor-Centered” Narratives
Kenny’s praise for the “very human … very down-to-earth” encounter epitomizes the conciliar revolt against the supernatural. The Church exists to lead souls to salvation, not to function as a support group. Pope Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) anathematized the idea that “Revelation cannot be something other than the consciousness man acquires of his relationship with God” (Proposition 21). Ryan’s claim to speak with God “in my own funny, little way” mirrors this subjectivist heresy, yet the antipope withheld correction—confirming his apostasy.
Worse, the article’s focus on Ryan’s psychological journey (“it took me 40 years to realize what happened was not my fault”) obscures the gravity of sacrilege. Canon 2314 of the 1917 Code mandated excommunication for clerics committing solicitation in confession—a penalty nullified by Vatican II’s false mercy. By avoiding discussion of the abuser’s eternal fate or Ryan’s need for sanctifying grace, the meeting reduced the horror of sacrilege to a therapy topic.
Symptomatic of Systemic Apostasy
This spectacle continues Bergoglio’s “synodal” destruction. The conciliar sect elevates victim narratives not to restore justice but to dismantle priestly identity. True Catholic discipline—seen in Pius V’s Horrendum Illud Scelus (1568)—demanded execution for clerical abusers. Modernist Rome, however, subverts divine law with bureaucratic “listening.” As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Modernists substitute for the divine command to repent a vague self-affirmation.”
The article’s silence on Ryan’s spiritual state—does he receive valid sacraments? Does he reject the conciliar sect’s false Mass?—proves its complicity in apostasy. No mention is made of reparation to the Sacred Heart, the intercession of saints like St. Peter Damian (patron against abuse), or the necessity of removing antipope Leo XIV. Instead, victims are weaponized to normalize a church of feel-good apostasy.
Source:
Clerical sexual abuse victim shares story with Pope Leo XIV: ‘I didn’t hold back’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.02.2026