The EWTN News portal reports on the financial statement of Peter’s Pence for the year 2025, boasting a collection of 57.6 million euros (65.8 million dollars) to fund the “pope’s charitable works and the needs of the universal Church.” The deficit of 2.2 million euros is blamed on currency fluctuations. The United States provided the largest share (26.1%). The funds are directed toward the “Holy Father’s apostolic mission” (41.2 million euros) and humanitarian projects in 74 countries. This financial report constitutes the annual accounting of the conciliar sect’s occupation of the Vatican, documenting the faithful’s material cooperation with a manifest heretic who has forfeited the papacy ipso facto.
The Financial Machinery of the Usurpation
The cited article functions as a prospectus for the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, presenting the plunder of the faithful’s alms as a meritorious act of charity. The 54.5 million euros in donations—extracted largely through parish collections, direct transfers, and legacies—are funneled into two primary sinks: the “activities of the Holy See in the service of the Holy Father’s apostolic mission” (41.2 million euros) and “projects providing direct assistance” (13.3 million euros).
Of the total donations, 41.2 million euros ($47.1 million) were used to support the activities of the Holy See in the service of the Holy Fatherʼs apostolic mission, and 13.3 million euros ($15.2 million) went to projects providing direct assistance to people in need in 74 countries.
This distinction is a sleight of hand. The “apostolic mission” of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is the demolition of the Catholic Faith via the Second Vatican Council’s errors: false ecumenism, religious liberty, collegiality, and the New Mass. Every euro sent to the “Holy See” finances the salaries of “bishops” and “priests” who propagate the synthesis of all heresies (Modernism), the maintenance of the Novus Ordo apparatus, and the diplomatic corps that legitimizes the civitas terrena against the Civitas Dei. The “humanitarian aid” is the corporal works of mercy severed from the spiritual, reduced to NGO-style philanthropy—a hallmark of the Church of the New Advent which Pius XI condemned when he warned that “when God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, 1925).
Linguistic Complicity: Sanitizing the Antichurch
The rhetoric of the EWTN report—echoing the ACI Prensa source—is saturated with the bureaucratic newspeak of the neo-church. Terms like “Holy Father,” “Holy See,” “apostolic mission,” and “universal Church” are deployed without qualification, functioning as verba empty of veritas. They create a simulacrum of legitimacy for a regime that has publicly defected from the Catholic Faith.
The article notes U.S. Catholics contributed 26.1% of the total. This statistic exposes the culpable ignorance or willful blindness of the American faithful, seduced by the “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect (EWTN, ACI Prensa) into funding their own spiritual ruin. The language of “currency exchange rate fluctuations” to explain the deficit is a deliberate trivialization: the true deficit is supernatural, a bankruptcy of grace resulting from the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
Theological Impossibility: Funding a Non-Pope
The central theological crime documented here is the material support of a manifest heretic who cannot hold the papacy. The “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), like his predecessors since John XXIII, adheres to the Modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). He professes the “evolution of dogmas” (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man”), denies the Church’s exclusive right to teach truth (Prop. 21), and embraces the “democratization” of the Church condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 77, 79, 80).
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. (Syllabus, Prop. 80 – Condemned)
St. Robert Bellarmine, the Doctor of the Church on the Roman Pontiff, teaches with absolute clarity: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church… by which things he may be judged and punished by the Church.” (De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). This is not a private opinion; it is the consensus Patrum. Bellarmine adds: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.”
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code—binding perennial ecclesiastical law—stipulates: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Fr. McDevitt confirms: “Joining, or enrolling in, a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” Public defection occurs through formal heresy. The “popes” of the conciliar sect, by promulgating Dignitatis Humanae, Unitatis Redintegratio, and the New Mass, have publicly defected. They are ipso facto deprived of jurisdiction before any declaratory sentence (Wernz & Vidal, Ius Canonicum).
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) seals the argument: “If… any Cardinal… or even the Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The Bull requires no declaration, only the fact of defection.
Therefore, the “Holy Father” referenced 4 times in the article is a usurper. The “Holy See” is a vacant See (Sedes Vacans) occupied by a paramasonic structure. The “apostolic mission” is a mission of apostasy. To donate to Peter’s Pence is to violate Canon 1325 §2 (1917 Code): “Those who give aid to heretics… are suspected of heresy.” It is to build the Tower of Babel instead of the City of God.
Symptomatic of the Great Apostasy: The Diversion of the Kingship of Christ
The article’s focus on “evangelization, humanitarian aid, and strengthening of local churches” reveals the naturalistic reductionism of the conciliar sect. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King (Quas Primas, 1925) precisely to combat the “plague… of secularism… so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power… “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” (Quas Primas, 31)
Peter’s Pence historically funded the temporal sovereignty of the Vicar of Christ—the Patrimony of Peter—ensuring the Church’s freedom from civil powers (Syllabus, Props. 19, 20, 24, 75, 76). Today, it funds a “pope” who capitulates to the world, signing accords with communist regimes (China), praising false religions (Abu Dhabi, Assisi), and submitting the Church to the Novus Ordo Saeculorum. The 252 projects in 74 countries are not the expansion of the Regnum Christi but the metastasis of the counter-church.
The “False Fatima” file correctly identifies the diversion from apostasy: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church since the beginning of the 20th century.” The EWTN report performs this diversion perfectly. It highlights aid to Ukraine, scholarships for African seminarians (formed in Modernist error), and “ecclesial communities” (likely the Neo-Catechumenal Way or Focolare—ecclesial movements that are Trojan horses of Modernism). It omits entirely the Social Reign of Christ the King, the Mass of the Ages, the condemnation of error, and the salvation of souls.
The Masonic Operation and the “Two Lucies” of the Neo-Church
The financial opacity and the ritualistic cycles (the file on False Fatima notes the symbolism of 1717, 1917, 2017) find a parallel in the managed narrative of the conciliar “popes.” Just as the “Two Lucies” theory served to confuse the Fatima narrative, the rotation of “popes” (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, Leo XIV) serves to normalize the rupture. Each “pope” ratifies the predecessor’s heresies. The “canonizations” of the architects of the Council (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II) are the canonization of the Revolution itself.
The EWTN portal, founded by the “Mother Angelica” (a figure of the charismatic movement, itself a conduit for Modernist subjectivism), acts as the controlled opposition. It offers the “Traditional Latin Mass” as a palliative (the Indult/FSSPX strategy: “give us the old Mass, that is enough for us”—Abp. Lefebvre) while demanding recognition of the usurpers. This article is the annual collection plate for the Great Harlot (Apoc. 17:1-5), dressed in the purple and scarlet of the Cardinalate, drunk with the blood of the martyrs of Tradition.
Conclusion: The 65.8 million dollars collected is the price of thirty pieces of silver paid by the faithful—deceived by “conservative” media—to the betrayer of the Keys. Non possumus. No Catholic may contribute one cent to Peter’s Pence while the See of Peter is occupied by a manifest heretic. “You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men” (1 Cor. 7:23). The true Peter’s Pence is the oblation of a contrite heart offered at the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary by valid priests holding the Traditionem custodes of the true Faith, awaiting the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ and a true Successor of Peter.
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Peter’s Pence collected more than $65.8 million for the pope’s mission in 2025 (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.07.2026