NCR Online portal reports on a meeting between the antipope Leo XIV and victims of sexual abuse at the Apostolic Nunciature in Madrid on June 8, 2026, during his apostolic journey to Spain. The report centers on a recently signed agreement between the left-wing Spanish government and the conciliar structures in Spain to compensate victims of clerical sexual abuse, including time-barred cases and those where the perpetrator is deceased. The arrangement, hailed as “historic” and “unprecedented,” allows victims to seek compensation through an administrative mechanism overseen by the state, with the Church committing financial contributions. The article quotes victims and activists praising the agreement as a step toward reparation, while demanding further transparency, public apologies, sanctions against abusers, and access to archives. The figure of 200,000 minors abused since 1940 is cited from a 2023 Spanish Ombudsman report. The article exposes not a genuine reckoning with sin, but the conciliar sect’s strategy of outsourcing justice to secular authorities while evading supernatural accountability.
Antichurch’s Abuse Compensation Scheme Masks Institutional Apostasy
Subordination of the Church to Secular Power: A Violation of Catholic Ecclesiology
The agreement described in the NCR Online article places the final decision on compensation in the hands of the Spanish state: “At the end of this consultation process, the state will make the final decision.” This is not merely a pragmatic arrangement; it is a formal abdication of the Church’s proper jurisdiction over her own internal matters. The Church, as a perfect society (*societas perfecta*), possesses all that is necessary for her own governance and the fulfillment of her supernatural end. As Pope Leo XIII taught in *Immortale Dei*, the Church is “a society chartered as of right, perfect in its nature and in its title, possessing in herself and by herself, through the will and loving kindness of her Founder, all needful provision for her maintenance and action.” The post-conciliar conciliar sect, having long since abandoned this doctrine, now openly submits its internal disciplinary and judicial functions to the dictates of a left-wing secular government. This is the logical fruit of the false principles of religious liberty and the autonomy of temporal affairs condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (nos. 15, 19, 20, 55). The “church” that signs this agreement is not the Church of Christ, but a human organization that has accepted its role as a subordinate entity under the supervision of the state.
Naturalistic Remedy for a Supernatural Evil
The entire framework of the agreement treats sexual abuse by clerics as a purely temporal injury requiring financial compensation and administrative redress. The article quotes victim Ciro Molina: “We focus a lot on compensation or financial reparation, but I believe this goes far beyond that; it will allow many victims to feel believed for the first time in their lives.” Fernando García Salmones demands that “abusers must go to prison” and “education should no longer be the responsibility of the church.” Nowhere in the article is there any mention of the supernatural dimension of the crime: the sacrilege against the sacred character of Holy Orders, the profanation of souls committed by one who acts in persona Christi, the obligation of public penance and expiation, or the necessity of the Church’s primary role as the dispenser of the sacraments of confession and penance for the reconciliation of sinners. The conciliar sect’s silence on these matters is deafening. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The agreement is a purely naturalistic, humanistic response to a crime that is, at its root, a sacrilege against God. It treats the Church as a corporation liable for the torts of its employees, not as the Mystical Body of Christ whose sanctity has been wounded by the sins of her ministers.
The Antipope’s Theater of Mercy
The article opens by noting that “Pope Leo XIV meets with abuse victims at the Apostolic Nunciature in Madrid.” This is pure theater. The antipope, a manifest heretic and apostate according to the principles articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine (who taught that “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head”), has no authority to represent Christ or the Church. His meeting with victims is a public relations exercise designed to legitimize the conciliar sect’s claim to moral authority. The article quotes victim Juan Cuatrecasas: “It is thanks to pressure from the Vatican and the Spanish government that this agreement was reached.” The “Vatican” referred to is the headquarters of the conciliar sect, not the true Church. The true Church, in communion with the unchanging Magisterium, would demand not financial compensation alone, but the public confession of sins, the imposition of canonical penalties, the suspension and degradation of clerics guilty of solicitation in confession or other sacrilegious acts, and the prayer of reparation to God. The antipope’s gesture is a counterfeit of true mercy, which must always be ordered to the salvation of souls and the vindication of God’s honor.
Selective Transparency and the Concealment of Modernist Apostasy
The article notes that critics demand “access to documents and archives that are not publicly accessible.” This demand for transparency is selective. What the conciliar sect will never open are the archives documenting the systematic infiltration of Modernism into the Church’s seminaries and religious orders since the early twentieth century. The crisis of sexual abuse is not an isolated phenomenon; it is the fruit of the doctrinal corruption condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The Modernist errors—denial of the supernatural, the evolution of dogmas, the reduction of faith to religious sentiment—have produced a clergy that no longer believes in the reality of sin, hell, or the sacrificial priesthood. As Lamentabili condemned the proposition that “the organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community, like the human community, is subject to continuous evolution” (no. 53), so the conciliar sect has restructured itself along democratic and secular lines, abandoning the hierarchical constitution willed by Christ. The sexual abuse crisis is a symptom of this deeper apostasy. The agreement with the Spanish government does nothing to address the root cause: the loss of the Catholic faith among the clergy.
The Role of Freemasonry and Revolutionary Forces
The article describes the Spanish government as “left-wing” and notes that the agreement was signed with the Ministry of Justice, the Ombudsman, and the conciliar structures. The involvement of secular, progressive state institutions in the Church’s internal affairs is not accidental. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, warned that “masonic associations are anathematized… not only in Europe but also in America and wherever they may be in the whole world.” The revolutionary forces that seek the destruction of the Church have always used scandals and crises to subordinate the Church to state control. The agreement described in the article is a textbook example of this strategy: the secular state positions itself as the arbiter of justice within the Church, while the conciliar sect, having lost its supernatural identity, is only too willing to comply. The False Fatima Apparitions file notes that the Fatima message was used to “divert attention from modernism” and “serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” Similarly, the abuse crisis is being used to legitimize the conciliar sect’s submission to secular authority and to distract from the far greater crisis of doctrinal apostasy.
The True Church’s Response: Justice Rooted in Supernatural Principles
The true Church, faithful to her divine constitution, would respond to the crime of clerical sexual abuse not with financial compensation administered by the state, but with the full rigor of canon law, the public profession of faith, and the sacramental reconciliation of penitents. The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 2354, prescribed that a cleric guilty of a crime against the sixth commandment with a minor under sixteen is to be suspended, deprived of any office and benefice, and in more serious cases, deposed. The true Church would also demand public reparation to God through prayer, fasting, and the offering of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the expiation of these sacrileges. The conciliar sect, having reduced the Mass to a “table of assembly” and abandoned the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice, is incapable of providing this remedy. The agreement with the Spanish government is a confession of the conciliar sect’s impotence: it cannot govern itself, it cannot sanctify its members, and it cannot make reparation to God. It can only pay money and outsource justice to the state.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect
The NCR Online article presents the agreement as a “first step toward reparation.” In reality, it is a step toward the final subjugation of the conciliar sect to the secular state and the exposure of its complete theological and spiritual bankruptcy. The antipope’s meeting with victims, the financial compensation, the state oversight—all of these are naturalistic remedies that ignore the supernatural dimension of the crisis. The true Church, guided by the unchanging Magisterium, would demand the conversion of sinners, the vindication of God’s honor, and the restoration of holy discipline. The conciliar sect offers only money and bureaucracy. As Pope Pius IX declared, “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Syllabus, no. 24)—but she does have the power and the duty to govern herself according to the constitution given her by Christ. The conciliar sect has abandoned this power and this duty. The agreement with the Spanish government is not a sign of progress; it is a sign of apostasy.
Source:
Spain's historic church sex abuse compensation marks first step toward reparation (ncronline.org)
Date: 28.06.2026