Louisville Neo-Church Priest Resigns Amid Sex Abuse Cover-Up: Conciliar Bureaucracy Protects Its Own
The EWTN News portal reports that a “priest” of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Father David Sanchez, has resigned as “pastor” of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish after a civil lawsuit alleged he dismissed a janitor’s report of being raped and sodomized by her supervisor, former facilities manager Cesar Barahona. The “archbishop,” Shelton Fabre, accepted the resignation, placed Sanchez on “administrative leave,” yet declared he “remains a priest in good standing,” appointing a temporary administrator and delaying a new appointment until July 2027. The lawsuit details a harrowing timeline: the victim, Gladis Garcia Gomez, hired in April 2025, reported the assaults to Sanchez in June 2025; he allegedly called Barahona a “close friend,” disbelieved her, and warned her to stay silent. She went to the “archdiocese’s human resources department” in October 2025, which merely directed her to file a police report. The “archdiocese” refuses comment on “pending litigation.” This sordid affair is not an aberration; it is the logical and necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution, a paramasonic structure where bureaucratic self-preservation has supplanted the salus animarum (the salvation of souls), and where the potestas ordinis and potestas iurisdictionis (power of orders and power of jurisdiction) have been extinguished by the novus ordo rites and the heretical theology of Vatican II.
The Juridical Fiction of a “Resignation” Accepted by a Usurper
The entire juridical theater — “Archbishop Fabre accepted Sanchez’s resignation,” “placed on administrative leave,” “remains a priest in good standing” — is a grotesque pantomime of canonical legality. Shelton Fabre is not a Catholic bishop; he is a functionary of the conciliar sect, consecrated in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968 by men who themselves lacked the intentio faciendum quod facit Ecclesia (intention to do what the Church does). As Pope Pius XII taught in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), the matter and form of episcopal consecration must signify the potestas ordinis — the power to offer the True Sacrifice and govern the Church of God. The Paul VI rite, stripped of the essential traditio instrumentorum and the explicit invocation of the Holy Ghost for the episcopatus, fails ex defectu formae. Therefore, Fabre possesses no jurisdiction whatsoever. His “acceptance” of a resignation is as canonically efficacious as a Masonic lodge master accepting a dues payment. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code — ipso facto vacancy for public defection from the faith — applies to the entire conciliar hierarchy, who by their adherence to the heresies of Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Unitatis Redintegratio, Gaudium et Spes) have automatically severed themselves from the Mystical Body. St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30) teaches: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he is deprived ipso facto of all jurisdiction.” The same principle applies to every “bishop” and “priest” of the neo-church.
The “Priest” as Hireling: Invalid Orders and the Destruction of the Sacerdotium
Father David Sanchez, ordained in the post-1968 rite, is not a priest of Jesus Christ. The Novus Ordo rite of ordination, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968, altered the essential form — removing the explicit conferral of the power to offer the Hostiam propitiatoriam (propitiatory Victim) and to remit sins — substituting a vague “presbyteral ministry” of “presiding over the assembly.” Ex opere operato, the sacrament is null. The Council of Trent, Session XXIII, Canon 1, anathematizes anyone who says “there is not in the New Testament a visible and external priesthood… or that there is not the power of consecrating and offering the true Body and Blood of the Lord.” The conciliar “priesthood” is a Protestantized ministry, a ministerium verbi stripped of sacerdotium. Sanchez, therefore, acts not in persona Christi Capitis, but as a lay functionary in clerical garb, an employee of a civil corporation masquerading as the Church. His “dismissal” of the victim’s report is the action of a hireling (mercenarius) who “cares not for the sheep” (John 10:13), protecting his “friend” and his institutional position — precisely because he has no supernatural grace of orders to strengthen him for the cura animarum.
Bureaucratic “Human Resources” vs. Divine Law: The Naturalist Inversion
The article’s language exposes the total naturalization of the neo-church. The victim is directed to the “archdiocese’s human resources department” — not to a canonical tribunal, not to the Promoter of Justice, not to the Vicar General exercising potestas iudiciaria. The language is purely corporate: “policies,” “investigation,” “administrative leave,” “pending litigation.” The attorney, John Spalding, laments: “Justice for victims requires more than policies. It requires truth, accountability, and the courage to protect people rather than institutions.” This is secular humanism masquerading as moral theology. True justice — iustitia — is the constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi (constant and perpetual will to render to each his due), rooted in the lex aeterna (eternal law) of God. The neo-church has no concept of sin as offense against God, only of “harm” and “liability.” The Syllabus of Errors (Pope Pius IX, 1864), Proposition 55, condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” Here, the “Church” has become the State — a civil corporation subject to civil courts, insurers, and HR protocols. The Crimen Sollicitationis (1922/1962), which imposed the secretum pontificium and mandated canonical prosecution of clerical sexual crimes, has been abolished by the conciliar “canon law” of 1983, replaced by normae that prioritize “pastoral care” and “scandal avoidance” over vindicta iustitiae (vindication of justice).
The Fruit of the “New Springtime”: Sodom in the Sanctuary
The details — “regularly forced her into the boiler and maintenance room, where he would rape and sodomize her” — are the direct consequence of the conciliar demolition of Catholic morality. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that sins crying to heaven for vengeance include peccatum Sodomiticum (the sin of Sodom). The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) of St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish… but through gradual development… became… a broad and liberal Protestantism” (Prop. 65). The “theology of the body” of the antipope John Paul II, the Amoris Laetitia “discernment” of Bergoglio, the Fiducia Supplicans blessing of sodomitical unions by the current antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — all have legitimized the inversion of nature. The “facilities manager” Barahona is not a “bad apple”; he is the logical product of a “church” that has abolished the distinction between nature and grace, between order and disorder. The “priest” Sanchez, protecting his “close friend,” mirrors the episcopal omertà that has defined the conciliar sect for sixty years: protect the institution at all costs. But the institution they protect is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News, is not a Catholic media outlet. Founded by the “nun” Mother Angelica (never canonized, died 2016), it has served for decades as the mouthpiece of the “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect — the controlled opposition that legitimizes the usurpers in Rome by endlessly discussing their “policies,” “appointments,” and “synods” as if they possessed authority. The article’s neutral, journalistic tone — “Archbishop Shelton Fabre accepted Sanchez’s resignation… remains a priest in good standing” — normalizes the fiction. It reports on the “archdiocese” as a legitimate ecclesiastical entity. It quotes the “archdiocese spokesperson” declining comment on “pending litigation” without noting that a true bishop would be canonically obliged to initiate a penal process (Canon 1717, 1917 Code) against a cleric accused of crimen pessimum, not wait for a civil lawsuit. EWTN’s “senior editor,” Amira Abuzeid, with her “special interest in bioethics, technology, theology, and religion in public life,” epitomizes the lay expertocracy that has replaced the Magisterium. This is laicism — the very plague Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas (1925): “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
The Only Remedy: Return to the Catacombs of Tradition
No “reform,” no “policy,” no “independent review board,” no “lawsuit” can cleanse the Augean stables of the conciliar sect. It is intrinsically corrupt because its root is heresy. The Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV (1559) declares that any prelate who “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The entire hierarchy since 1958 — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, Leo XIV — are manifest heretics by their public profession of Vatican II errors. They have no office, no jurisdiction, no orders. The “Archdiocese of Louisville” is a civil corporation occupying stolen property. The true Church of Christ — una, sancta, catholica, apostolica — subsists in the remnant of bishops and priests who retain the true sacraments, the true Mass, the true faith, and the true jurisdiction (however supplied by ecclesia supplet in necessity), rejecting the novus ordo, the conciliar “saints,” the false ecumenism, and the Masonic infiltration documented from the Alta Vendita to the Fatima operation. The faithful must flee the neo-church as they would flee a plague house. “Go out from her, my people, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues” (Apoc. 18:4). The resignation of Sanchez changes nothing. The potestas clavium (power of the keys) remains with the true successors of the Apostles, hidden in the catacombs, offering the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the salus animarum, while the hirelings of the conciliar sect count their settlements and polish their “policies.”
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Pastor resigns after employee sues, saying he dismissed her report of sexual assault (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.09.2026