The NCR/CNA/EWTN portal reports that the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) published its annual report on July 31, 2026, boasting a $3 billion increase in net worth for 2025, driven by gold revaluation, real estate appreciation, and financial securities, while allocating a mere $26.1 million to the Roman Curia. This obscene accumulation of temporal wealth by the structures occupying the Vatican stands as irrefutable proof that the conciliar sect has abandoned the Cross for the ledger, serving Mammon under the guise of “preserving patrimony.”
The Synagogue of Satan Counts Its Silver While Souls Perish
The cited article relates with bureaucratic glee that the “Vatican’s financial investments and assets rose to a net worth of approximately $3 billion (2.686 billion euros) in 2025,” with a profit increase of “$102 million (89 million euros) compared with 2024.” The language is that of a hedge fund, not the Bride of Christ. Archbishop Giordano Piccinotti — the “president” of APSA in the conciliar hierarchy — declares: “APSA’s purpose is not to generate an annual profit, but rather to preserve and strengthen the patrimony entrusted to it.” This is the modus operandi of the paramasonic structure usurping the Holy See: pecunia non olet (money does not stink), even when amassed through speculative finance, London real estate scandals, and gold hoarding.
The growth in assets was mainly driven by the revaluation of physical gold in the portfolio, which contributed $46.9 million (40.8 million euros), as well as by the increase in the value of real estate by $45.1 million (39.2 million euros) and the appreciation of financial securities by $18.8 million (16.3 million euros).
Gold. Real estate. Financial securities. This is the “treasure” of the conciliar sect: thesaurus in terra (treasure on earth), where rust and moth consume, and thieves break through and steal (Matt. 6:19). The true Church, as Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, possesses a Kingdom “not of this world,” whose King “completely refrained from exercising” authority over temporal things, leaving them “to their owners.” The conciliar antipopes, by contrast, have built a civitas terrena of portfolio diversification and property management in London, Paris, Geneva, and Lausanne — 1,200 properties abroad — while the Faith is demolished in those very nations.
The London Scandal: A Microcosm of Conciliar Corruption
The article casually mentions the “controversial real estate deal involving the Sloane Avenue building in London, which led to one of the Vatican’s biggest financial scandals in recent years.” Cardinal Angelo Becciu, former “prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints,” was sentenced to five years and six months, only to have the conviction overturned for “relative nullity” due to “violations of the right to defense,” with an appeal resuming September 30. This farce of a trial within the neo-church’s own tribunals reveals the rot: quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (who will guard the guards themselves?).
The motu proprio of 2020 issued by the antipope Francis (Bergoglio) to “strengthen transparency and control of Vatican investments” is a Pharisaical whitewashing. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 57): “The science of philosophical things and morals and also civil laws may and ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority.” The conciliar sect has inverted this: it has submerged ecclesiastical authority in civil law, financial regulation, and corporate governance. The “divestment of the Luxembourg fund U.K. Opportunities (Sloane & Cadogan)” is not repentance; it is damage control for a paramasonic operation that has long used the Vatican Bank (IOR) and APSA as laundering mechanisms for globalist finance.
Evangelical Poverty Crucified by the “Church of the New Advent”
The allocation of $26.1 million (22.7 million euros) to cover the financial needs of the Roman Curia — a pittance compared to the billions managed — exposes the crux of the apostasy. The true Church, as the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) affirms against proposition 55, teaches that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” is an error; the Church has innate and legitimate right to temporal goods for her divine mission, not for patrimony preservation as a sovereign wealth fund. The conciliar sect has no divine mission; it has only a corporate portfolio.
Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” — but the conciliar sect takes earthly things to build its own kingdom. The “profit” of $102 million is celebrated; the “negative accounting result of $4.3 million” in financial management is excused by “new Holy See accounting standards.” Lex non scripta (unwritten law) of the neo-church: salus pecuniae suprema lex (the salvation of money is the supreme law).
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Preserving Patrimony”
Piccinotti’s statement — “APSA’s purpose is not to generate an annual profit, but rather to preserve and strengthen the patrimony entrusted to it” — is a heretical redefinition of the Church’s temporal goods. The Church’s patrimony is the depositum fidei (deposit of faith), the souls redeemed by the Precious Blood, the Sacrosanctum Sacrificium (Most Holy Sacrifice). To speak of “patrimony” as real estate, gold bars, and equity stakes in Société Sopridex, Grolux Investments, Profima S.A. is idolatry of the creature over the Creator (Rom. 1:25).
The Syllabus (prop. 26) condemns: “The Church has no innate and legitimate right of acquiring and possessing property.” The conciliar sect, by its actions, proves it believes the opposite: it possesses property as its primary reality. The Quas Primas encyclical establishes the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” — yet the Vatican’s own financial report is the quintessence of laicism: the Church acting as a secular corporation, judged by balance sheets, not by the Salus animarum (salvation of souls).
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Revolution’s Inevitable Fruit
This financial report is not an anomaly; it is the necessary fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes anthropocentrism. When the Church “dialogues” with the world, she adopts the world’s metrics. When she renounces the Social Reign of Christ the King (condemned by the Syllabus, prop. 77-80), she becomes a ONG (NGO) with a billion-dollar endowment. The “revaluation of physical gold” — the barbarous relic of fallen man’s economy — as a driver of “net worth” is a theological metaphor: the conciliar sect worships the vitulus aureus (golden calf) while the true Mass is suppressed, the Faith corrupted, and the faithful scattered.
The article’s tone — “Speaking to Vatican Media… he stated… According to the 2025 report… APSA also manages… APSA also made profits…” — is the language of the City of Man, not the City of God. No mention of grace, sin, judgment, eternity. Silentium de rebus divinis (silence on divine things) is the loudest condemnation.
Sedevacantist Verdict: The Structures Occupying the Vatican Are Not the Church
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this “Vatican” is a usurpation. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (by that very fact). The line of antipopes from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Prevost) has constructed a counter-church whose “patrimony” is the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) standing in the holy place. The $3 billion windfall is not the Church’s wealth; it is the proceeds of the Great Apostasy, the thirty pieces of silver for betraying the Kingship of Christ.
No canonical mission, no supernatural faith, no true sacraments — only a financial report worthy of the World Economic Forum. The true Church is paupercula et contemptibilis (poor and despised) in the eyes of the world, rich in grace, awaiting the return of her King. The conciliar sect counts its billions; the elect count the cost of discipleship. Quo vadis? (Where are you going?) — to the particular judgment, where gold and real estate avail nothing.
Source:
Vatican Increases Net Worth by $3 Billion in 2025 (ncregister.com)
Date: 31.07.2026