The EWTN News portal (August 7, 2026) reports the arrest of one Kenneth Goedeke, a “deacon” of the “Archdiocese of Baltimore,” by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office on charges of soliciting a minor. The “archdiocese” subsequently “removed Goedeke’s faculties” and “suspended him from ministry and employment.” The individual was “ordained” in 2023 and had passed a “thorough employment screening.” This sordid affair lays bare the total bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s counterfeit priesthood and its bureaucratic simulacra of governance.
The Invalidity of the “Ordination” and the Nullity of the “Deaconate”
The article states Goedeke was “ordained as a deacon in 2023.” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this statement describes a null and void ceremony. The “ordination” took place within the Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI (1968), which altered the essential form and matter of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, excising the explicit intention to confer the power of offering the Propitiatory Sacrifice and the Real Presence. As Pope Pius XII defined in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), the form must signify the specific sacramental effect—ut sit sacrificium. The Paul VI rite, by its very structure and the heretical intent of its architects (Bugnini et al.), fails to signify the Catholic priesthood. Consequently, no valid Orders have been conferred in the conciliar sect since 1968. Goedeke is a layman in canonical reality, invested with a sacrilegious fiction of a diaconate, a wolf in a stolen habit. The “faculties” removed by the “archdiocese” are as null as the “ordination” that conferred them; one cannot suspend what does not exist. Ex nihilo nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes).
Bureaucratic Screening vs. Supernatural Vocation: The Naturalistic Illusion
The “Archdiocese of Baltimore” boasts that Goedeke passed a “thorough employment screening including background checks and a fingerprint criminal history check.” Here lies the naturalistic soul of the neo-church. The true Church, guided by the Holy Ghost, relies on vocatio divina (divine calling), rigorous seminary formation in Scholastic theology and Thomistic philosophy, the examination of conscience, and the Sacrament of Penance to safeguard the sanctuary. The conciliar sect substitutes these supernatural means with secular police methods—fingerprints, databases, “background checks”—as if grace could be verified by the FBI. This is the triumph of Pelagianism applied to ecclesiology: man saves himself by procedure. The failure of the “screening” to detect a predator (or the failure of the “formation” to produce a Christian) proves that the conciliar structure possesses neither the charism of discernment nor the assistance of the Holy Ghost. It is a human NGO managing human resources, not the Mater et Magistra tending souls. Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilat qui custodit eam (Unless the Lord keep the city, he watches in vain who keeps it – Ps 126:1).
The “Archdiocese” as Administrative Fiction: Jurisdiction Without Authority
The “Archdiocese of Baltimore” acts as a corporate entity managing liability, not a particular Church exercising potestas sacra. The statement that charges were “not related to anyone at the parishes or schools where Goedeke served” is the language of risk management and legal defense, not pastoral solicitude for the salus animarum (salvation of souls). There is no mention of scandal given to the faithful, no call for public reparation, no invocation of the Canons of the Council of Trent on the dignity of the clergy, no reference to the eternal damnation awaiting unrepentant sodomites (1 Cor 6:9-10). The “suspension” is an administrative HR action (“removed from ministry and employment”), devoid of canonical censure (latae sententiae excommunication for the crime of solicitation in confession, though invalid here, reflects the gravity the true Church attaches). The “Archdiocese” has no jurisdiction; it derives its “authority” from the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), who sits in the See of Peter as an antipope, having publicly adhered to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality). A heretic cannot be Pope (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Paul IV); therefore, the entire hierarchy descending from him possesses no mission, no jurisdiction, no authority. They are intrusi (intruders).
EWTN and the Propaganda of the Neo-Church
The report originates from EWTN News, the flagship media apparatus of the conciliar establishment. Daniel Payne, a “senior editor,” frames the event as a procedural success: the “archdiocese” acted “swiftly,” the Sheriff is “thankful.” This is damage control disguised as journalism. EWTN exists to normalize the Novus Ordo sect, to present its bureaucratic machinery as the Church, and to obscure the theological void at its center. By reporting the “suspension” as a canonical act, EWTN reinforces the lie that the conciliar hierarchy possesses legitimate authority. It feeds the faithful the opium of institutional continuity while the supernatural organism has long since died. The related articles listed (“Priest arrested… in Mexico City,” “Alabama vicar general on leave”) reveal a systemic pandemic of clerical corruption which EWTN treats as isolated “crime” stories, never as the theological consequence of a false church.
The Symptomatic Rot: Homosexuality and the Loss of the Sacred
The crime—soliciting a 15-year-old boy—is the ripe fruit of the conciliar revolution. The Novus Ordo “seminary” system, stripped of Thomistic anthropology, the Roman Catechism, the Traditional Latin Mass (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary), and the Breviary, has become a haven for active homosexuals. The “ordination” of 2023 implies Goedeke passed through the “formation” program of the “Archdiocese” post-Traditionis Custodes, in an environment of liturgical anarchy and doctrinal relativism. The “deacon” is not a levita serving the Mysteries; he is a functionary of the “table of assembly” (1 Cor 10:21). The Sheriff, a secular arm, did the work the “Church” failed to do: “intervening before a child was harmed.” The State punishes the crime; the “neo-church” manages the “employee.” This inversion—Caesar protecting the innocent from the “clergy”—is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The silence on penance, conversion, Hell, and the Kingship of Christ in the official statements confirms the total apostasy of the conciliar sect. It is not the Church; it is its parody, a paramasonic structure destined for destruction. Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (Whom God wishes to destroy, He first deprives of reason).
Source:
Baltimore Archdiocese suspends deacon from ministry after arrest over solicitation of a minor (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 07.08.2026