The National Catholic Register (EWTN News) reports that the conciliar structure occupying the Archdiocese of Quebec has agreed to a $31.5 million settlement in a class action lawsuit initiated in 2020, ratified by a secular court on August 12, 2026. The agreement includes a “letter of apology” to alleged victims and was welcomed by the structure’s leaders, including Auxiliary “Bishop” Jean Tailleur, who offered “sincere apologies on behalf of the Catholic Church of Quebec.” The article notes that “Cardinal” Gerald Lacroix and “Cardinal” Marc Ouellet were previously accused of abuse but were “cleared by the Vatican” after investigations found “no elements to initiate a trial.” This transaction, hailed as a step toward “peace and healing,” is in reality the latest manifestation of the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to the secular order and its abandonment of the supernatural mission of the Church.
The Conciliar Sect Is Not the Catholic Church
It must be stated with absolute clarity: the “Archdiocese of Quebec” referenced in this report is not a portion of the Catholic Church. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by John XXIII in 1958, the structures occupying ecclesiastical buildings have constituted a paramasonic counter-church, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel and confirmed by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). The men named “Cardinal Lacroix” and “Cardinal Ouellet” are not Princes of the Church; they are functionaries of a neo-church erected in opposition to Christ the King. Their “clearing” by the “Vatican” — itself the headquarters of the antipopes from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — carries zero canonical or moral weight. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and membership in the Church (De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). The conciliar “popes” and their appointees, by their public adherence to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass), have severed themselves from the Mystical Body. Their administrative acts are null, void, and of no effect, as Pope Paul IV declared in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio.
A Secular Transaction, Not Ecclesiastical Justice
The settlement is a purely civil legal contract, negotiated by the law firm Dufresne Wee and ratified by Quebec Superior Court Judge Danye Daigle. It involves zero canonical process, zero reference to the salvation of souls, and zero invocation of Divine Law. The “letter of apology” is a bureaucratic document, not an act of poenitentia (penance) imposed by legitimate ecclesiastical authority for the remission of temporal punishment due to sin. The conciliar structure’s press release speaks of helping members “continue on their path to peace and healing” — the language of therapeutic deism, not Catholic theology. True peace is found only in the Pax Christi in Regno Christi (Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ), as Pius XI solemnly taught in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” This settlement is the fruit of that destruction: a synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) paying Caesar’s coin to Caesar’s courts to buy temporal quiet.
The Language of Apostasy: “Healing” Without Grace
Auxiliary “Bishop” Tailleur’s statement — “Faced with the suffering you are carrying, there is little that my words can relieve or heal” — is a blasphemous denial of the sacerdotal character. A true bishop, acting in persona Christi, possesses the power of the keys: Quorum remiseritis peccata, remittuntur eis (John 20:23). His words, backed by sacramental absolution, do heal the soul. Tailleur’s impotence is the inevitable consequence of the invalidity of the new ordinal (Paul VI’s 1968 rite) and the heretical intention of the conciliar “bishops” who reject the Council of Trent’s definition of the priesthood as a propitiatory sacrifice. The article’s repeated use of “healing,” “peace,” “path,” and “apology” — never “sin,” “penance,” “hell,” “salvation,” “sacraments,” or “Christ the King” — exposes the anthropocentric, naturalistic religion of the neo-church. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI: “the secularism of our times… its errors and wicked endeavors” (Quas Primas).
The Abuse Crisis: Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
The article treats the abuse allegations as isolated failures of individuals. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the catastrophic moral collapse of the post-1958 clergy is the necessary consequence of the conciliar revolution. By destroying the lex orandi (the Traditional Latin Mass), the lex credendi (the deposit of faith), and the lex vivendi (clerical discipline, cassock, breviary, fasting), the neo-church removed the supernatural safeguards of priestly vocation. The “Cardinals” Lacroix and Ouellet are products of a system that ordains men formed in Modernist seminaries, steeped in the hermeneutic of rupture, deprived of the sacerdotium of the true Mass. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu, Modernism is the synthesis of all heresies; its practical fruit is the corruption of morals. The “Vatican” investigations that “cleared” these cardinals are the fox guarding the henhouse — an internal cover-up by a structure whose very existence depends on protecting its own legitimacy.
Canon 188.4 and the Vacancy of Office
The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, states that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “bishops” and “cardinals” have publicly defected by professing the errors of Vatican II (e.g., Dignitatis Humanae, Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate). They hold no office in the Church. Therefore, the “Archdiocese of Quebec” has no canonical standing to be sued, to settle, or to apologize. The $31.5 million is stolen goods — the patrimony of the faithful of Quebec, accumulated over centuries for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, now squandered by usurpers to placate the secular state. This is the spoliation foretold by the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864), Error 26: “The Church has no innate and legitimate right of acquiring and possessing property” — a proposition the neo-church lives out by surrendering Church assets to civil power.
The Masonic Strategy: Financial Bleeding as Demoralization
The pattern is clear and global: from Ireland to the United States, from Germany to Canada, the conciliar structures are being systematically bankrupted through civil litigation. This is not accidental; it is the Masonic “psychological operation” described in the analysis of false Fatima: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The financial bleeding serves a dual purpose: it enriches the enemies of the Church (lawyers, courts, secular media) and demoralizes the faithful, driving them further from the true Faith. The settlement is a tribute paid to the Prince of this World (John 12:31) by his own servants. The “apology” is the kiss of Judas — a betrayal of the Kingship of Christ for thirty pieces of silver (multiplied a millionfold).
No Supernatural Remedy Offered
The most damning omission in the entire report is the total absence of any supernatural remedy. No call for the Traditional Latin Mass, no promotion of the Rosary, no urging of frequent Confession to validly ordained priests, no consecration to the Sacred Heart (which Pius XI linked to the Feast of Christ the King in Quas Primas), no warning of the Four Last Things. The “path to peace and healing” offered by the neo-church is a paved road to hell. As Pius XI declared: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The conciliar sect offers another name — “dialogue,” “inclusion,” “safeguarding,” “trauma-informed care” — a counterfeit gospel (Gal. 1:6-9).
Conclusion: The Judgment of God Cannot Be Settled Out of Court
This $31.5 million settlement is a solemn farce. It resolves nothing before the Divine Tribunal. The true victims are not only those abused by conciliar clerics, but the millions of souls in Quebec and beyond who have been deprived of the true Mass, the true Sacraments, and the true Faith by the Great Apostasy. The “Cardinals,” the “Bishops,” the “Vatican,” the civil courts, and the media are all complicit in the greatest spiritual crime in history: the eclipse of the Church (2 Thess. 2:3-4). The only solution is not a larger settlement or a better “apology,” but the restoration of the Catholic Church — the restitutio omnium in Christo — through adherence to the unchanging Tradition, the valid Sacraments, and the true Pope (whoever God shall provide). Until then, every such “settlement” is merely the clanking of chains in the prison of the Church of the New Advent. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18) — but not because the gates of hell will not prevail against the neo-church; they already have. They will not prevail against the Ecclesia Militans that keeps the Faith whole and entire.
Source:
Quebec Archdiocese Will Pay Out More Than $30 Million in Major Abuse Settlement (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.08.2026