The Pillar portal reports that the United States Department of Justice has moved to revoke the citizenship of a Capuchin novus ordo presbyter, Mr. Urbano Vazquez Ortega, convicted of the sexual abuse of two minor girls and an adult woman in the confessional, crimes committed while he functioned as an assistant at the so-called Shrine of the Sacred Heart in the Washington archdiocesan structure. The portal details the timeline: abuse in 2015–2016, conviction in 2019, a separate 2021 conviction for abusing a penitent in 2017, naturalization granted in 2017 *after* the predation of children had already occurred, and the DOJ’s current allegation that he procured citizenship through “willful misrepresentations and concealment of their crimes.” An immigration attorney, Mr. Paul Hunker, is quoted minimizing the phenomenon, calling foreign “priests” “critically important for our country” and dismissing the crimes as inevitable human frailty: “Unfortunately, people sin and err, and being a priest or religious doesn’t protect you from that.” The article closes with the lawyer’s self-congratulation about representing “good, holy, hardworking, priests and religious.” This sordid tableau is not an aberration; it is the *modus operandi* of the conciliar sect, a paramasonic structure whose counterfeit priesthood produces nothing but sacrilege, scandal, and the ruin of souls.
The Counterfeit Priesthood: No Sacrament, No Grace, Only Crime
The very premise of the report—that a “Capuchin priest” could be “convicted of sexually abusing minors”—presumes a valid priesthood where none exists. The novus ordo rite of ordination promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968, stripped of the essential form and intention for the sacerdotium, renders all subsequent “ordinations” null and void. *Sacerdos alter Christus*; but where the *character indelebilis* is not conferred, there is no *alter Christus*, only a layman simulating the sacred mysteries. Mr. Vazquez Ortega, therefore, never possessed the power to confect the Eucharist, much less to absolve sins in the tribunal of penance. His “confession” of the adult victim in 2017 was a diabolical mockery of the sacrament, a *simulacrum* that added the horror of sacrilege to the filth of lust. The Council of Trent anathematizes anyone who says the sacraments of the New Law do not contain the grace they signify (*Sess. VII, can. 6*); the conciliar sect’s empty rites contain no grace, and its “clerics” are but wolves in borrowed vestments.
Canon 188.4 and the Automatic Vacancy of Office
Even granting, *arguendo*, valid orders, the theology of the Church before 1958 dictates that a cleric who publicly defects from the faith loses his office *ipso facto*, without any declaration. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation, recognized by the law itself, if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Fr. McDevitt clarifies that “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 or apostasy. Every “priest” of the conciliar sect, by adhering to the heresies of Vatican II—religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass—has publicly defected from the Catholic faith. Mr. Vazquez Ortega, as a member of the Capuchin order within the neo-church, is a public heretic *ipso facto* deprived of any ecclesiastical office he might have held. His “faculties were removed by the Archdiocese of Washington in 2018” is a theatrical gesture by a counterfeit authority; the vacancy occurred the moment he embraced the conciliar revolution. 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.” The same principle applies to every grade of the hierarchy.
Pope Paul IV’s Bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*: The Heretic’s Elevation Is Null
The Bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio* (1559) declares that if any Cardinal or even the Roman Pontiff “prior to his promotion or his assumption to the cardinalate or the papacy, has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be **null, void, and of no effect**.” The Bull “does not require a declaration that a person is a heretic, but merely states that they ‘have defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy.’” The 1917 Code references this Bull nineteen times in its marginal notes, confirming its perennial legal force. Applied to the conciliar sect: every “bishop,” “priest,” “cardinal,” and “pope” elevated after 1958, having defected from the faith by embracing Modernism, holds a null and void title. Mr. Vazquez Ortega’s “ordination,” his “faculties,” his “assignment” to the Shrine—all are *nulla, vacua, et inanita*. The DOJ’s denaturalization proceeding is a civil shadow of the canonical reality: the man was never a priest, never a religious, never a citizen of the Church Militant.
The Lawyer’s Naturalism: “Critically Important” for Caesar, Useless for Christ
Mr. Hunker’s rhetoric is a textbook specimen of the naturalism condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors* (1864). Proposition 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” Proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” Mr. Hunker evaluates “priests” solely by their utility to the civil order: “They’re actually critically important for our country.” Not a word about the *salus animarum*, the glory of God, the propagation of the *Regnum Christi*. The *Quas Primas* of Pius XI (1925) thunders: “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.” Mr. Hunker’s “country” is the Masonic republic; his “priests” are functionaries of a secularist state. He admits “people sin and err” as if mortal sin were a statistical inevitability, a “nature of reality,” rather than a voluntary offense against the Divine Majesty that cries to heaven for vengeance. This is the language of the *Civitas Terrena*, not the *Civitas Dei*. “Good, holy, hardworking” are Pelagian adjectives, severed from sanctifying grace, the state of grace, the *indwelling of the Trinity*. Outside the true Church, there is no holiness, only the “whited sepulchres” of Pharisaic externals.
Statistical Complicity: The “24%” Figure as Indictment of the Neo-Church
The portal cites a Catholic University of America statistic: “24% of priests serving in the United States are foreign born.” This dependence on imported “vocations” is the demographic signature of a dying sect. The true Church, persecuted and small, does not measure her vitality by headcounts of hirelings. The analysis of “clerical fraud cases from 1963 to 2020” showing “about 1 in 5 fraudulent priests are immigrants” merely confirms that the conciliar clergy—native or foreign—are rotten to the core. The cases enumerated: a Polish “priest” in South Dakota (wire fraud, money laundering, 2020), an Indian “priest” in Iowa (theft, scam investment, 2025), a Capuchin “friar” in New York (wire fraud, fake medical clinics, false royal lineage, 2025). These are not anomalies; they are the *fruits* of a tree that has lost the sap of grace. *Arbor mala non potest fructus bonos facere* (Mt 7:18). The novus ordo “seminary” formation, stripped of Thomistic philosophy, Gregorian chant, Roman discipline, and the *spiritus mortificationis*, produces men formed in the world, by the world, for the world.
The Silence on the Four Last Things: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article—neither in the portal’s reporting nor in the lawyer’s apologetics—is there a whisper of *Judicium Particulare*, *Infernum*, *Peccatum Mortale*, *Sacrilegium*, *Reparatio*. The abuse of a nine-year-old girl and a thirteen-year-old girl is treated as a “crime” relevant to immigration law, not as a sin that damns the soul to eternal fire unless repented with a perfect contrition and sacramental confession (impossible in the sect). The abuse *in confessione* is a *crimen pessimum* reserved to the Holy See in the true Church (1917 CIC, can. 2368 §1), a sin that *ipso facto* incurs excommunication *latae sententiae*. The portal’s silence is the silence of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). It is the silence of those who have “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (*Quas Primas*). The DOJ seeks denaturalization; God seeks the sinner’s conversion or his just condemnation. The civil power can strip citizenship; the Divine Judge strips the soul of the wedding garment. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (*Quas Primas*, citing hymn *Crudelis Herodes*). But the conciliar sect has given away the Kingdom of Heaven for earthly relevance, for “immigration status,” for the praise of men like Mr. Hunker.
The Capuchin Order: From St. Francis to the FBI
The Capuchin reform, born of the *Caput Mortuum* of the Observants, was a revival of primitive Franciscan austerity, penance, and preaching of the Cross. Today, its novus ordo branches are indistinguishable from the world: fundraising scams, sexual predation, fake medical clinics, false nobility claims. The New York “friar” who “pretended to run fake medical clinics in Beirut, pretending to be a doctor, and falsely claiming direct lineage to two European royal families” is the perfect metaphor for the entire conciliar sect: a counterfeit doctor of souls, a fake royal lineage from the King of Kings, a clinic that heals nothing. St. Francis would have cast them out with the words: “I have done what is mine to do; may Christ teach you what is yours.” The *Regula Bullata* commands the friars to “avoid all pride, vainglory, envy, avarice, care and anxiety of this world.” The sect’s “Capuchins” wallow in all of them.
Denaturalization: Caesar’s Late Justice, God’s Eternal Judgment
The DOJ’s move to revoke citizenship is the *minimum* of natural justice. Mr. Hunker notes the high bar: “The government has to prove by clear evidence that he was not eligible for naturalization or he committed fraud in his application.” The fraud is proven: he naturalized in 2017 *after* abusing children in 2015–2016, and lied on the form asking if he had “committed, assisted in committing, or attempted to commit a crime or offense for which they have not been arrested.” But the deeper fraud is his entire existence as a “priest.” He defrauded the faithful of the Mass, the sacraments, the truth. He defrauded the Church of her rights. He defrauded God of the honor due to His name. The denaturalization will likely lead to deportation after his sentence. *Et tunc?* Then the Particular Judgment. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb 10:31). No immigration attorney, no “bishop,” no “pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) can appeal that sentence. The *Syllabus* condemns the error that “the civil law prevails” over the ecclesiastical (Prop. 42). In the end, the *Lex Divina* prevails over the *Lex Humana*.
The Pillar as Organ of the Conciliar Sect: Managing the Narrative
The Pillar portal, a mouthpiece of the neo-church, frames the story as a legal curiosity: “raises questions about whether other priests convicted of crimes could lose their legal status.” It quotes the lawyer who profits from representing “priests and religious” to assure readers that “it would be a mistake to think of foreign priests serving in the United States as more likely than others to commit crimes.” This is damage control, not journalism. It is the *modus operandi* of the *Synagoga Satanae* described by Pius IX: “deceiving many with astute frauds, finally has arrived at the point where it comes forth impetuously from its hiding places and triumphs as a powerful master.” The portal’s job is to normalize the criminality, to present the hirelings as “critically important,” to distract from the theological reality: the conciliar sect *is* the crime, a continuous crime against the First Commandment, against the *Regnum Christi*, against the souls for whom Christ died.
No Salvation Outside the True Church: The Only Remedy
The integral Catholic faith knows one remedy for this chaos: *Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus*. The true Church subsists in the bishops and priests who have preserved the *Traditio* intact—the Mass of Pius V, the doctrine of Trent, the canon law of 1917, the magisterium of the popes before 1958. The conciliar sect, its “priests,” its “bishops,” its “pope,” its universities, its portals, its immigration lawyers—all are *foris*. The faithful must *fugere* these structures as from a plague. “Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues” (Apoc 18:4). The denaturalization of Mr. Vazquez Ortega is a sign of the times: the City of Man is beginning to vomit out the corruption it embraced when it rejected the Kingship of Christ. But the City of God has already judged. *Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.* The rest is noise.
Source:
DOJ files to revoke citizenship of Capuchin priest convicted of abusing minors (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 23.07.2026