The National Catholic Register reports that the Archdiocese of Chicago, a juridical arm of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, has agreed to pay $5.5 million to nine alleged victims of clerical abuse, a settlement hailed by plaintiff attorney Jeff Anderson as a “tipping point and a turning point” for “reckoning” and “accountability.” The article details a pattern of multi-million dollar payouts stretching back years, involving the notorious predator Daniel McCormack, and even a countersuit by the archdiocese alleging a “racketeering enterprise” of fraudulent claims. This transactional approach to grave moral evil—reducing the rape of souls to a ledger entry negotiated by secular lawyers—exposes the neo-church for what it is: a paramasonic corporation managing liability, not a divine society administering justice.
The Conciliar Sect Has No Jurisdiction to Judge or Govern
The very premise of the article—that the “Archdiocese of Chicago” possesses legitimate authority to settle claims, discipline clergy, or represent the Catholic Church—is a juridical fiction condemned by immutable doctrine. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by the Modernist antipopes beginning with John XXIII, the episcopal offices in the conciliar structures have been canonically vacant. 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 men functioning as “bishops” and “priests” in Chicago are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of a neo-church that has ipso facto defected from the Catholic faith. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar hierarchy’s public adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II—religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality—constitutes precisely such a defection. They possess no jurisdiction, no authority to bind or loose, and no standing before God or canon law to “settle” anything.
Secular Courts Replace Canonical Tribunals: The Triumph of Laicism
The article reveals the total subversion of the Church’s rights foretold by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “The civil law prevails” over ecclesiastical law (Error 42); “The civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” (Error 44). Here, the “archdiocese” does not exercise its own canonical jurisdiction to try and punish delinquent clerics—because it has none. Instead, it submits to the secular courts, paying tribute to the State in the form of settlements negotiated by plaintiff’s attorneys. This is the laicism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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.” The “tipping point” Anderson celebrates is not a return to justice but the final consolidation of the State’s supremacy over the neo-church, which grovels before the civil magistrate it once claimed to judge.
The Language of the World: “Reckoning” Without Repentance
Attorney Anderson’s rhetoric—”reckoning,” “accountability,” “courage of every survivor,” “change”—is pure secular humanism, devoid of the supernatural vocabulary of sin, penance, and conversion. There is no mention of the salvation of souls, the horror of sacrilege, the necessity of sacramental confession, or the eternal judgment awaiting both predator and enabler. This silence is the gravest accusation. The conciliar sect has adopted the world’s categories because it has lost the Faith. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist error that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25) and that “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 settlements are pragmatic risk management, not acts of justice rooted in divine law. The “change” sought is institutional reform, not the conversio morum demanded by the Gospel.
The McCormack Case: Symptom of a Priesthood Destroyed by the New Rite
The article notes that multiple settlements involve Daniel McCormack, a “priest” of the new rite who pleaded guilty to abusing children. This is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution that demolished the priesthood. The Novus Ordo “ordination” rite, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968, defects in form and intention for the sacrament of Holy Orders, as demonstrated by theologians of the true Church. Men “ordained” in this rite receive no sacramental character, no priestly powers, and no grace of state. They are laymen simulating the Mass, hearing invalid confessions, and—freed from the awe of the true priesthood—plunging into every vice. McCormack is not an anomaly; he is the logical consequence of a “church” that replaced the Sacerdos alter Christus with a “presider” at a community meal. The “racketeering” countersuit against fake victims only underscores the chaos: a counterfeit church, staffed by counterfeit priests, judged by counterfeit courts, paying counterfeit justice with real money stolen from the faithful.
No Supernatural Remedy: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
Where is the call to prayer, fasting, and the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in reparation for these crimes crying to heaven? Where is the warning that those who receive “Communion” in the post-conciliar structures—where the Mass has been reduced to a table of assembly and the rubrics violate the theology of the propitiatory Sacrifice—commit idolatry? The article is a document from the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). It reports on the financial management of a Satanic parody of the Church, founded on the Masonic principles of 1789, condemned by every pre-1958 Pontiff. The $5.5 million is the price of Judas, paid to silence the witnesses of a diabolical infiltration that began long before McCormack. True justice will not be found in a Chicago courtroom, but at the tribunal of Christ the King, cujus regni non erit finis, before Whom every “bishop,” “priest,” and lawyer of the neo-church will answer for the souls they have murdered.
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Chicago Archdiocese to Pay $5.5 Million to 9 Abuse Victims (ncregister.com)
Date: 12.09.2026