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The Naturalistic Facade of Conciliar Disorder

The cited article from The Pillar reports on the allegations against Chaldean Catholic Bishop Emanuel Shaleta of San Diego, detailing a Vatican-ordered investigation into substantial embezzlement and sexual misconduct, including visits to a brothel. While the report itself is framed in naturalistic, journalistic terms, the scandal it reveals is not merely a case of individual clerical failing but a profound symptom of the systemic apostasy and doctrinal, disciplinary, and spiritual bankruptcy of the post-conciliar “Church.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith—the unchanging faith of the Church before the revolution of Vatican II—this case illustrates the inevitable fruits of a hierarchy that has abandoned the supernatural ends of the Church, the rigorous discipline of the sacramental system, and the absolute primacy of God’s law over human convenience.

1. The Omission of the Supernatural: A Hallmark of the Conciliar Mindset

The article, like all conciliar communications, operates on a purely natural and juridical plane. It discusses banking records, private investigators, resignations, and canonical procedures. It is utterly silent on the **state of the bishop’s soul**, the **sacramental status** of his actions, and the **offense against Almighty God** constituted by the alleged sins of theft and fornication. This silence is not neutrality; it is the very essence of Modernism, which reduces religion to ethics and community, expunging the supernatural from public discourse.

The pre-conciliar Magisterium condemned this naturalism. Pope Pius IX, in the *Syllabus of Errors*, anathematized the proposition that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56) and that “the science of philosophical things and morals and also civil laws may and ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority” (Error 57). The article’s entire frame—treating the bishop’s conduct as a managerial and PR problem for a “church” institution—embodies these condemned errors. There is no mention of excommunication *latae sententiae* for theft (Canon 2347, 1917 Code) or for the external sin of fornication (*Canon 2359*). The supernatural reality of sin, which ruptures one’s communion with God and the Church, is absent, replaced by the secular concepts of “misconduct” and “allegations.”

2. The Collapse of Ecclesiastical Discipline and the “Mercy” of the Usurpers

The report notes that Shaleta submitted his resignation, but it “has not yet been accepted by the Vatican.” This bureaucratic limbo is characteristic of the conciliar sect’s governance, which prioritizes human relationships, political maneuvering, and the avoidance of scandal over the rigorous application of divine law. Cardinal Sako’s reported efforts to retain Shaleta in leadership, allegedly because of financial dependencies and personal friendship, demonstrate a **carnal and naturalistic prioritization of human interests over the spiritual good of souls and the honor of God**.

Contrast this with the immutable discipline of the Church. St. Paul’s directive is clear: “If anyone is named a brother and is a fornicator or avaricious or a server of idols, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a rapacious, with such a one not even to take food” (1 Cor. 5:11). The canonical penalties for clerics guilty of such crimes were severe and immediate. The 1917 Code of Canon Law prescribed deposition from the clerical state for clerics guilty of theft (*Canon 2347*) and infamy of law for fornication (*Canon 2359*). The current “investigation” process, with its indefinite timelines and political backroom deals, is a travesty of justice and a denial of the Church’s duty to be “a perfect society” (*Quas Primas*, Pius XI) with the right and duty to punish scandalous members.

3. The “Patriarch’s” Defense: Modernist Relativism in Action

Cardinal Louis Sako’s reported dismissal of the financial allegations as reflecting “American attitudes of ‘puritanism’” and his treatment of sexual misconduct allegations as a “discrediting” tactic are the precise language of the *Syllabus*’s condemned errors. Error 64 states: “The violation of any solemn oath, as well as any wicked and flagitious action repugnant to the eternal law, is not only not blamable but is altogether lawful and worthy of the highest praise when done through love of country.” Here, the “love” is for a friend and for institutional stability. Sako’s stance implicitly relativizes the absolute moral law, subordinating it to cultural bias and personal loyalty. This is the logical outcome of the conciliar emphasis on “dialogue,” “inculturation,” and “pastoral flexibility,” which are mere euphemisms for the abandonment of absolute moral norms.

4. The Symptom of Brothel Visits: The Rejection of Purity and the Body as Temple

The allegation that a bishop—a consecrated person, a temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Cor. 6:19)—would frequent an establishment known for human trafficking and prostitution represents the ultimate degradation. This is not merely personal sin; it is a public sacrilege and a scandal of monumental proportions. The pre-conciliar Church taught that the body, especially of a cleric, is to be a “living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God” (Rom. 12:1). The very idea of a bishop engaging in such acts is so abhorrent it would have been unthinkable in a Catholic society governed by the laws of God and the Church.

The article’s clinical description of the brothel as a place “where trafficked women and girls are forced to work in the sex trade” highlights the gravity. A Catholic bishop, whose office is to be a father and pastor, would be participating, even indirectly, in the mortal sin of scandal and the mortal sin of fornication, which the Catechism (pre-conciliar) defined as a “carnal copulation with a person of the opposite sex,” and which the *Summa Theologiae* (II-II, Q. 154) classifies as a mortal sin against the sixth commandment. The silence of the conciliar structures on such fundamental matters of purity is deafening.

5. The Financial Scandal: The Idolatry of Mammon and the Theft from the Poor

The alleged embezzlement of over $400,000 from parish funds—including money from a “financial assistance account for the poor”—is a direct violation of the eighth commandment and a sacrilegious theft from the destitute. The pre-conciliar moral theology was unequivocal: theft is a mortal sin, and theft from the poor is an aggravated form. Canon 2351 §1 (1917) listed theft among the crimes incurring a *crimen*.

More fundamentally, this scandal exposes the **idolatry of Mammon** that pervades the conciliar sect. The parish is treated as a corporate entity with a social hall generating $33,990 monthly. The bishop’s alleged scheme—taking cash and “reimbursing” with charity checks—suggests a mentality where parish funds are a personal discretionary pool, not sacred resources belonging to the poor and the Church. This is the natural outcome of a “Church” that has embraced the secular model of financial management and “stewardship” over the traditional Catholic concept of *usus pauper* (the use of goods for the poor) and the absolute inviolability of the *patrimony of the poor* (*Patrimonium Pauperum*).

6. The Palm Reading and Divination: Apostasy into Paganism

The report notes that Shaleta claimed to have learned palm reading as a seminarian and purportedly read a pilgrim’s future. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (paragraph 2110) condemns divination, including palm reading, as “contrary to the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.” Pope Francis is quoted as calling it an “idolatry of our times.” This is not a minor superstition; it is a direct invocation of demonic powers, a repudiation of Catholic faith in God’s exclusive knowledge of the future, and a plunge into the occult practices condemned by the *Syllabus* (Error 7: “The prophecies and miracles set forth and recorded in the Sacred Scriptures are the fiction of poets…”). That a bishop would engage in this demonstrates a complete loss of Catholic sense and a surrender to pagan superstition.

7. The Systemic Failure: No True Authority to Correct

The entire situation is mired in confusion. The Vatican ordered an investigation, but the Patriarch Sako, himself a cardinal of the conciliar hierarchy, opposes the bishop’s removal. This is a **schism within the schism**, a paralysis of authority. Why? Because the entire conciliar structure is based on human alliances, national churches, and political compromise, not on the immutable authority of the Petrine office exercised in defense of the faith.

The true Catholic doctrine, as defined by St. Robert Bellarmine and Pope Paul IV’s bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*, holds that a manifest heretic or a cleric guilty of such public, flagrant crimes *ipso facto* loses all ecclesiastical office. There is no need for a lengthy “investigation” by a “Dicastery.” The facts, as reported, if true, would have demanded immediate, automatic deposition. The fact that this does not happen proves that the current structures occupying the Vatican are not the Catholic Church. They are a *paramasonic structure* (*paramasonicische Struktur*) as described in the *Syllabus*’s warnings about Masonic sects (see the final section of the *Syllabus*).

8. The Ultimate Omission: Christ the King and the Social Reign

The most glaring omission in the entire affair is any reference to the Social Reign of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that removes God from public life. He wrote: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The scandal of a bishop living in open concubinage, stealing from the poor, and consorting with brothels is the direct result of this removal. If Christ truly reigned in the hearts of rulers and bishops, such abominations would be unthinkable and would be punished with the full severity of canon law.

The conciliar “Church,” by embracing religious liberty, ecumenism, and the separation of Church and State (condemned in *Quas Primas* and the *Syllabus*), has created a vacuum where naturalism, financial corruption, and sexual depravity reign supreme. This case is not an anomaly; it is the logical outcome of a system that has exchanged the “sweet yoke of Christ” for the yoke of human respect, financial convenience, and carnal liberty.

Conclusion: A Call to Repudiation and Return

The scandal of Bishop Shaleta, and the chaotic, compromised response of the Chaldean Patriarch and the Vatican dicasteries, is a microcosm of the entire post-conciliar abomination. It exposes a “church” that:
* **Speaks the language of psychology and finance, not of sin and grace.**
* **Prioritizes human relationships and institutional stability over the honor of God and the salvation of souls.**
* **Has lost all Catholic sense of the sacredness of the clerical state and the horror of public scandal.**
* **Operates on the naturalistic principles condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus*.**
* **Is incapable of true discipline because its authority is human, not divine.**

The only coherent Catholic response is to **repudiate utterly the conciliar sect and all its officials**, from “Pope” Leo XIV down to the last complicit bishop. One must flee to the true Church, which subsists in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are served by bishops and priests who adhere to the *lex orandi, lex credendi* of the pre-1958 Church. The feast of Christ the King, which Pius XI instituted as a remedy against secularism, must be a call to arms: to reject the naturalistic, apostate counterfeit and to labor for the restoration of the *Social Reign of Christ the King* over all individuals, families, and nations—a reign that tolerates no thief, no fornicator, no diviner, no embezzler of the poor’s funds in its sanctuaries.

**TAGS:** Chaldean Catholic Church, Emanuel Shaleta, Louis Sako, embezzlement, sexual misconduct, conciliar apostasy, naturalism, Pius XI Quas Primas, Syllabus of Errors, Bellarmine, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Social Reign of Christ the King, sedevacantism, paramasonic structure**

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Source:
San Diego Chaldean bishop accused of embezzlement, brothel visits, amid Vatican investigation   (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 19.02.2026