EWTN News portal reports that “Monsignor” Roger Landry, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA and a fixture of the conciliar media apparatus, has been restricted from public ministry by the Diocese of Fall River over alleged violations of “priestly codes of conduct” involving adults. The “bishop” of Fall River, Edgar Moreira da Cunha, determined “sufficient evidence exists” to impose the restriction, while Landry protests his innocence, citing “no allegations of sexual activity whatsoever” and invoking the “presumption of innocence” under “canon law.” The conciliar propaganda outlet EWTN, through its CEO Michael Warsaw, expresses “heartbreak” and demands “fairness” and “pastoral care” for all parties. This bureaucratic spectacle, replete with corporate compliance language and devoid of any supernatural vocabulary, lays bare the neo-church’s total substitution of divine law for secular administrative procedure.
The Farce of Jurisdiction in a Vacant See
The entire proceeding presupposes a legitimate ecclesiastical hierarchy where none exists. Since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant, and the men claiming papal authority — from John XXIII to the current usurper Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) — are manifest heretics who have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction by their public defection from the Catholic faith. 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). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Consequently, the “Diocese of Fall River” is not a true particular Church but a territorial administrative unit of a schismatic sect. Its “bishop” holds no canonical mission, and its “codes of conduct” are merely the internal regulations of a private association, devoid of binding force on consciences.
Secular Legalism Replaces Divine Law
The linguistic register of the statements is telling: “codes of conduct,” “compliance,” “investigation,” “protocols,” “presumption of innocence,” “fairness,” “timely process.” This is the vocabulary of the corporate state, not the lex ecclesiae. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “the civil law prevails” in cases of conflicting laws (Error 42) and that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39). Yet the neo-church eagerly adopts the state’s legal framework. The “presumption of innocence” is a principle of secular criminal procedure, alien to canonical equity which recognizes that manifestus haereticus is already judged by his own deed (haereticus excommunicatus est ipso facto). Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code — still binding where valid hierarchy exists — declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “clergy,” by their adherence to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), have publicly defected. Their “investigations” are therefore a theater of the absurd: men without office judging violations of regulations they have no authority to promulgate.
Theological Vacuity: No Sin, Only “Boundary Violations”
Nowhere in the statements — not from the “diocese,” not from Landry, not from EWTN — is there mention of peccatum, scandalum, salus animarum, or iudicium divinum. The allegations concern “prudence” and “pastoral boundaries,” psychologized categories that reduce the priestly office to a therapeutic profession. This is the rotten fruit of the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The neo-church has no dogmas, only “policies.” It has no sacraments, only “services.” It has no shepherds, only “managers.” As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” — not in the kingdom of compliance officers. The “Pontifical Mission Societies USA” is an NGO distributing humanitarian aid under a Catholic veneer; its “national director” is a functionary, not a missionary of the Regnum Christi.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution
This case is paradigmatic of the conciliar sect’s method: manage scandal through bureaucracy, protect the institution at all costs, and simulate due process to appease the secular gaze. The “Missionary of Mercy” title bestowed by antipope Francis, the “Monsignor” title from the same source, the chaplaincy at Columbia University under “Cardinal” Dolan — these are badges of the neo-church’s integration into the Masonic world order. The False Fatima file identifies the strategy: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” Today, the narrative is “transparency” and “accountability” — Masonic slogans. EWTN’s complicity is total: it builds up “personalities” like Landry as “faithful priests” for decades, then feigns shock when the rot surfaces. The network’s “established internal protocols” mirror the diocesan ones: both are novus ordo constructs designed to process dissent without ever addressing the root apostasy.
The Only Canonical Reality: Sede Vacante
The only canonical process that matters is the one the conciliar sect refuses to acknowledge: the automatic loss of office for manifest heresy. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that if a “Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy,” his promotion is “null, void, and of no effect.” The 1917 Code references this Bull nineteen times. The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates that the Nestorian precedent confirms: “he who has departed from the faith… cannot depose or remove anyone.” Thus, the “restriction” of Landry by Moreira da Cunha is a null act by a non-bishop against a non-priest in a non-diocese. The faithful are not bound to obey; they are bound to flee. Qui non est cum Christo, contra Christum est (Mt 12:30). The neo-church is the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place. Let those who have eyes, see.
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Monsignor Roger Landry restricted from ministry amid allegations of code-of-conduct violations (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.09.2026