The National Catholic Register portal reports that the Archdiocese of Chicago, under the usurper “Cardinal” Blase Cupich, has withdrawn “Father” Michael Pfleger from ministry pending investigation of an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor allegedly occurring over thirty years ago. Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina since 1981, is a notorious social justice activist who has invited the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to speak, washed the feet of representatives of the “LGBTQ+ community,” and publicly condemned the civil administration as “unlawful, racist, and wicked.” He denies the accusation as an “absolute lie” and claims persecution for his activism. The “Cardinal” speaks of “independent review boards,” “reporting to law enforcement,” and “paramount concern for welfare of children” — the standard bureaucratic theater of the conciliar sect. This sordid spectacle lays bare the total moral and theological bankruptcy of the post-conciliar structure: a pseudo-clergy steeped in naturalism, religious indifferentism, and liturgical profanation, policed by a pseudo-episcopate that has no canonical authority and no supernatural faith.
The Neo-Church’s Theatrical “Justice”: A Bureaucratic Farce
The cited article relates that “Cardinal Cupich noted that Father Pfleger ‘strongly denied the allegation’… ‘We do not presume the truth or falsity of an allegation until the process is complete and our Independent Review Board has made a recommendation that I accept.'” This language — “Independent Review Board,” “recommendation,” “process” — is the vocabulary of corporate compliance, not canonical justice. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by public defection from the Catholic faith. The “Cardinal” himself, by his manifest adherence to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), has lost all jurisdiction ipso facto, as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “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” (De Romano Pontifice). A non-Christian cannot govern the Church. Therefore, Cupich’s “investigation” is a nullity, a play acted by laymen in clerical costume.
The article states Pfleger “had previously been cleared by the archdiocese of accusations of sexual abuse by three men in 2021 and one man in 2022.” This revolving door of accusation and exoneration reveals the systemic corruption of the conciliar sect’s “safe environment” apparatus, designed not to protect souls but to manage public relations and shield the institution from civil liability. True canonical procedure requires a competent tribunal, not a “review board” of lay experts. Nulla poena sine lege canonica (no penalty without canonical law). The sect’s “law” is the 1983 Code, a modernist fabrication that contradicts the divine constitution of the Church.
Pfleger: The Quintessential Modernist Agitator Masquerading as a Priest
The article describes Pfleger’s “colorful history… leading fierce activism against drugs and guns along with outreach to prostitutes and drug dealers.” This is the social gospel condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu: the reduction of the priesthood to temporal philanthropy. Proposition 59 of Lamentabili condemns the error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” Pfleger embodies this error: his “ministry” is political activism, not the cura animarum.
The article quotes Pfleger: “Just this past week I received numerous hate calls due to an action I took last Sunday washing the feet and apologizing to representatives of Indigenous people, Hispanics, African Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, Iranians, Venezuelans, women, and young African American males for the persecution they have suffered in America.” Here is the abomination: the Mandatum, the liturgical re-enactment of Christ’s humility toward His Apostles, perverted into a political ritual of apology to the “LGBTQ+ community” and other identity groups. This is not the humility of Christ; it is the pride of the world. Quas Primas teaches that “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently.” Pfleger offers not truth but capitulation to the spirit of the age.
The Perversion of the Mandatum: Liturgical Profanation in Service of the LGBTQ+ Agenda
The foot-washing ceremony, restored by Pius XII in 1955 for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, signifies the priestly ministry and the command of fraternal charity among the faithful. Pfleger transforms it into a liturgical endorsement of unrepentant sin. The “LGBTQ+ community” defines itself by acts contrary to natural law and divine revelation (Genesis 19; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10). To “apologize” to them in a liturgical act is to declare that the Church was wrong to condemn sodomy — a heresy against the constant teaching of the Magisterium. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition: “The civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Error 79). Pfleger’s rite is the liturgical manifestation of this condemned indifferentism.
Moreover, his invitation to Louis Farrakhan, leader of the heretical and anti-Christian Nation of Islam, to speak at St. Sabina (denounced even by Cupich in 2019) constitutes formal cooperation in religious indifferentism, condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Catholic Church… cannot take part in… assemblies of non-Catholics… based on the false opinion that all religions are more or less good and praiseworthy.” Pfleger is not a priest of Christ; he is a priest of the “Church of the New Advent,” the ecclesia novae adventus that worships man.
Cupich’s “Independent Review Board”: Canonical Nullity and Naturalistic Procedure
The article states: “Only by conducting a thorough and impartial review can we ensure fairness to all concerned… The Archdiocese of Chicago takes all allegations of sexual misconduct seriously.” This is the language of the secular state, not the Church. The Church’s concern is not “fairness” in the secular sense but the salvation of souls and the integrity of the priesthood. Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law). The “review board” is a creature of the 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” a document of the USCCB — a conference of “bishops” with no canonical authority, erected by the antipope Paul VI in 1966. Quas Primas declares: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The conciliar sect has surrendered to the secular state, adopting its procedures, its language, its morality.
Pfleger himself exposes the farce: “The presumption of innocence does not exist for priests… The archdiocese’s current policy… is wrong and unfair to the accused priest.” He is correct: the sect’s policy is unjust, but not because it lacks “presumption of innocence” — it is unjust because it is null and void, proceeding from a pseudo-episcopate that has defected from the faith. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Pope Paul IV, 1559) declares that any prelate who “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” Cupich, by his public profession of Vatican II heresies, holds no office. His “investigation” is a private act of a layman.
The Abuse Crisis: Inevitable Fruit of the Conciliar Apostasy
The article treats the abuse allegation as an isolated administrative problem. It is not. It is the necessary fruit of the destruction of the priesthood by the conciliar revolution. The 1969 Novus Ordo Missae abolished the propitiatory sacrifice, replacing it with a “memorial meal.” The 1972 abolition of minor orders and subdiaconate, the 1973 permission for lay “Eucharistic ministers,” the 1983 Code’s redefinition of the priesthood as “presbyteral ministry” — all severed the priest from his ontological identity as alter Christus, victim and priest. When the Mass is no longer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the priest becomes a social worker. When celibacy is presented as a mere “discipline” rather than a canonical and spiritual necessity rooted in the priest’s espousal to the Church, chastity collapses.
The Syllabus of Errors condemns: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God” (Error 56). The conciliar sect, by embracing religious liberty and the secular state, has severed morality from divine law. The abuse crisis is the result. Pfleger’s “social justice” activism is the flip side of the same coin: both the abuser and the activist deny the Kingship of Christ. Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken.”
Silence on the Supernatural: The Grave Omission That Condemns Them
Read the article again. There is not a single mention of sin, grace, repentance, the sacraments, the state of grace, the Four Last Things, or the glory of God. The “Cardinal” speaks of “welfare of children,” “reporting to law enforcement,” “compassion and respect.” Pfleger speaks of “hate calls,” “social justice,” “persecution,” “apologizing.” This is the language of the City of Man, not the City of God. Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the modernist error: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Proposition 26). The conciliar sect has reduced the Faith to social activism. Its “clergy” are functionaries of a humanitarian NGO.
The article notes Pfleger “criticized the archdiocese’s current policy, calling it ‘wrong and unfair to the accused priest.'” He appeals to natural justice, not canonical justice. He says: “I have been under constant attack by the present administration, which I have vocally condemned as unlawful, racist, and wicked. For this I will not apologize.” He judges the civil authority by the standards of the world, not by the Kingship of Christ. Quas Primas teaches: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… 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.'” Pfleger and Cupich are two sides of the same counterfeit coin: both serve the rex mundi, not Christus Rex.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect Devours Its Own Children
The Pfleger-Cupich spectacle is the theatrum mundi of the conciliar sect: a pseudo-cardinal investigating a pseudo-priest for crimes that are the inevitable fruit of their shared apostasy. The “independent review board” will issue its “recommendation”; the “Cardinal” will accept it; the secular media will report it; the faithful will be scandalized; and the sect will continue its march toward the abyss. No true Catholic should be surprised. The Church of Christ is not in the chancery of Chicago, nor in the Vatican occupied by the usurpers since 1958. She subsists in those who hold the integral Faith, the traditional Mass, the unchanging doctrine, and who recognize that the gates of hell shall not prevail against Her — but they have prevailed against the counterfeit church. Sede vacante: the See is vacant. The true hierarchy, though invisible to the world, governs by jurisdiction supplied by the Church herself in necessity (epikeia). Let the dead bury their dead. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Chicago Archdiocese Investigates Sex Abuse Accusation Against Activist Priest (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.07.2026