The National Catholic Register (CNA) reports that the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has issued a motu proprio repealing the salary reductions imposed by his predecessor, the apostate Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”), upon the “cardinals” and senior officials of the Roman Curia. Bergoglio had mandated a 10% cut for “cardinals” (stipends of roughly €5,000/month) and 8% for other officials in 2021 under the pretext of a €60 million deficit caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Prevost now declares these cuts may be “set aside, in the certainty that the Institutions of the Holy See and of the Vatican City State will continue, through different means, their commitment to ensuring economic sustainability.” This sordid transaction of ecclesiastical offices for thirty pieces of silver confirms the conciliar sect as a purely temporal corporation, devoid of supernatural mission and enslaved to Mammon.
The Farce of “Austerity” in the Synagogue of Satan
The cited article reveals the true theology of the “Church of the New Advent”: money. The 2021 cuts were framed by Bergoglio as necessary for an “economically sustainable future.” Prevost’s reversal argues that “different means” will ensure sustainability. Nowhere is the salus animarum (the salvation of souls) invoked. Nowhere is the Cross preached. The “cardinals” of the neo-church — men who have publicly assented to the heresies of Vatican II, religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the New Mass — are revealed as hirelings (mercenarii) who flee when the wolf of financial deficit approaches, and return when the trough is refilled. As Our Lord warns: “The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep” (John 10:13).
The “stipend” of €5,000 monthly for a “cardinal” — a prince of the Church turned functionary of a paramasonic structure — is a scandal crying to heaven. In the true Church, a Cardinal is a Senator of the Roman Pontiff, bound to defend the Faith usque ad effusionem sanguinis (even to the shedding of blood). In the conciliar sect, the cardinalate is a pensioned sinecure for Modernist bureaucrats. The “austerity” was a public relations stunt; the restoration is a payoff to secure loyalty for the new usurper. This is simony elevated to systemic policy.
Linguistic Deception: “Motu Proprio” and “Economic Sustainability” as Idols
The article’s language betrays the naturalistic ontology of the sect. The term “motu proprio” — a legislative act proper to a true Roman Pontiff — is usurped by Prevost to legitimize his administrative fiat. The phrase “economic sustainability” functions as the summum bonum of the neo-church, replacing the gloria Dei and the salus animarum. The “Vatican City State” is treated as a sovereign entity akin to any secular NGO, balancing budgets rather than saving souls.
The report notes the cuts applied differentially: 10% for “cardinals,” 8% for senior officials, 3% for clergy and religious. This graded hierarchy of privilege mirrors the corporate world, not the hierarchia ecclesiastica established by Christ. St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 52) the Modernist error that “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries on earth” but rather a mutable society. The conciliar sect proves this error daily: it mutates into a financial trust. The “Vatican” described in the article is not the Cathedra Petri but a “State” among states, subject to the very laicism Pius XI anathematized in Quas Primas: “The State… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs… The civil law prevails” (Syllabus, Errors 41, 42). Here, the “State” (Vatican City) dictates the “religious affairs” (clerical stipends) according to the bottom line.
Theological Bankruptcy: Clerical Privilege vs. the Cross of Christ
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the entire edifice of the “Roman Curia” post-1958 is ipso facto vacant and devoid of jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file), “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Bergoglio, Prevost, and their “cardinals” are manifest heretics: they profess religious liberty (condemned by Pius IX, Quanta Cura, Syllabus Error 77), false ecumenism (condemned by Pius XI, Mortalium Animos), and the New Mass (a Protestantized rite invalid in form and intention). They have ipso facto lost all office (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code: “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith”).
Therefore, their “stipends” are not ecclesiastical emoluments but stolen goods. The “pay cut” was a disciplinary measure within a false church; its repeal is an administrative adjustment within a criminal enterprise. The article’s silence on the invalidity of the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration (Paul VI, 1968) — which renders these “cardinals” and “bishops” laymen — is the gravest omission. They are not “clergy” receiving a “stipend”; they are impostors drawing a salary for simulating the priesthood. As Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (cited in Sedevacantism file): “…if any… Cardinal… prior to his promotion… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The “cardinals” of the neo-church were elevated after their defection (Vatican II); their elevation is null. They have no title to the red hat, nor to the €5,000.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Church as a Temporal Corporation
This episode is a perfect exemplum of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) standing in the holy place. The “Vatican” operates on the principle condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The conciliar sect has *become* a State — the “Vatican City State” — and manages its “human resources” like any multinational. The “COVID-era pay cuts” were a response to a temporal crisis (pandemic, deficit) using temporal means (salary reduction). The “repeal” is a response to temporal pressure (curial discontent) using temporal means (restoration of funds).
“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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” (Pius XI, Quas Primas)
The neo-church *is* that shaken society. Its “authority” derives from the 1929 Lateran Treaty (Masonic Italy) and the 1962-65 Conciliar Revolution, not from Christ. Its “cardinals” are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of a “paramasonic structure” (as the False Fatima file correctly identifies the post-conciliar hierarchy). The “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima — cited by the sect as credential — is exposed in the provided file as a “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion” within a “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima'” spanning 1717, 1917, 2017. The “canonization” of the Fatima seers in 2017 by Bergoglio seals the pact. Prevost’s financial maneuvering is merely the administrative tail of this diabolical dog.
The Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The CNA article — and the motu proprio it reports — contains zero reference to God, the Souls in Purgatory, the Conversion of Sinners, the Immaculate Heart, the Kingship of Christ, or the Last Judgment. This silence is the crimen laesae majestatis Divinae. The true Church, as Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, exists “to teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness”. Her laws are canones for salvation. The neo-church’s laws are statutes for solvency.
“Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power… ‘When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.'” (Pius XI, Quas Primas)
The “cardinals” of the neo-church refuse this veneration. They serve the “King of Kings” only when the stipend is €5,768; they accept a 10% cut when the deficit looms; they cheer the restoration when the new “pope” signals the gravy train resumes. This is the opus Diaboli in its purest form: the reduction of the Priesthood of Christ to a civil service grade.
Conclusion: No Legitimacy, No Obedience, No Communion
The faithful Catholic — adhering to the integral faith prior to 1958 — sees in this news not a “papal decision” but a gangster’s payoff. Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) is a usurper on the Chair of Peter, elected by “cardinals” who are not cardinals, in a conclave governed by an apostate constitution (Universi Dominici Gregis, John Paul II). His motu proprio has zero canonical force. The “Vatican” is occupied territory. The “Curial officials” are employees of a false religion.
The duty of the hour is not to analyze the “fiscal policy” of the antichurch, but to flee the abomination (Matt. 24:16), cleave to the True Mass and True Doctrine preserved by valid bishops and priests outside the visible structures of the neo-church, and pray for the Social Reign of Christ the King which alone can restore order. “His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end to peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David… to establish it and gird it with justice and righteousness from henceforth and forever” (Isa. 9:6-7, cited in Quas Primas). The €5,000 stipend buys no share in that Kingdom.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV Repeals COVID-Era Pay Cuts to Vatican Cardinals (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.09.2026