The EWTN News portal reports that on September 29, 2026, a certain Monsignor Anthony Ekpo, assessor for general affairs of the Secretariat of State and president of the so-called Financial Security Committee, addressed a conference at Rome’s Luiss University commemorating fifteen years since the antipope Benedict XVI introduced anti-money-laundering legislation in 2010. Ekpo acknowledged “significant progress” under the subsequent antipopes Francis and Leo XIV, who approved a new statute for the Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (ASIF) in June, while warning of future risks from “increasingly complex financial technologies, instantaneous cross-border transactions, activities involving virtual assets, artificial intelligence, and new forms of financial crime.” This obsession with secular regulatory compliance by the usurping hierarchy in Rome constitutes the definitive proof that the conciliar sect has definitively abdicated the regnum Christi to serve Mammon under the guise of “financial integrity.”
The Usurping Hierarchy Has No Jurisdiction: Ipso Facto Vacancy of the See
The very premise of the article—that a “Vatican official” speaks with authority on behalf of the “Holy See”—is a juridical and theological fiction. According to the unchanging doctrine of the Church, codified in Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation recognized by the law itself, if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” As Fr. McDevitt and Ayrinhac confirm, this defection requires no formal affiliation with a non-Catholic sect; public heresy suffices. Since John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) inaugurated the conciliar revolution, every claimant to the papal throne has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality—condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and the encyclicals of St. Pius X and Pius XI. Therefore, the “Secretariat of State,” the “ASIF,” and the “Financial Security Committee” are organs of a private paramasonic corporation occupying Vatican City, devoid of any ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
St. Robert Bellarmine, the Doctor of the Church on the Roman Pontiff, teaches with absolute clarity: “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… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… because he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). Bellarmine further clarifies that this loss of office occurs ipso facto, without need for any declaratory sentence: “Heretics are already outside the Church before excommunication and deprived of all jurisdiction. They have indeed been condemned by their own judgment, as the Apostle teaches (Titus 3:10-11).” The “reforms” lauded by Ekpo are thus the administrative acts of laymen—Robert Prevost (Leo XIV), Jorge Bergoglio (Francis), Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)—who, by manifest heresy, severed themselves from the Mystical Body and cannot bind the faithful in conscience or law.
The Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio Anathema: Nullity of All Acts
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559), incorporated into the 1917 Code by explicit reference nineteen times, declares that if any Cardinal or Roman Pontiff “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The Bull requires no declaration; the defection itself voids the elevation. The “anti-money-laundering legislation” of 2010, the “new ASIF statute” of 2026, and every financial act of the conciliar sect are therefore nulla, irrita, et invalida—null, void, and invalid. They possess the same canonical weight as the bylaws of a Masonic lodge. The 23 million euros seized by Italian authorities in 2010 were not “Vatican funds” but the assets of a criminal association masquerading as the Church, returned only to facilitate the continuation of the Great Apostasy.
Quas Primas: The Kingship of Christ vs. The Tyranny of Mammon
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague of secularism, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” He thundered: “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.” The conciliar sect’s frenzied pursuit of “financial integrity” according to the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the IMF, and the EU—masters of the Masonic world order—is the practical realization of this denial. They have enthroned Mammon as their sovereign.
Pius XI teaches that “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will.” The “virtual assets,” “artificial intelligence,” and “cross-border transactions” which Ekpo fears are not neutral technical challenges; they are the sinews of the Antichrist’s global control grid (Apoc. 13:16-17). By seeking to “comply” with the regulators of the New World Order, the usurpers fulfill the prophecy of the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55)—a condemned proposition now enshrined as the guiding principle of the neo-church’s “autonomy” within the secular financial system. They have rendered to Caesar what belongs to God: the governance of the temporal order for the salvation of souls.
Lamentabili Sane Exitu: The Modernist Root of Financial Naturalism
The rhetoric of Ekpo—”culture of financial integrity,” “patient work of legislators,” “regulatory and supervisory authorities”—is pure naturalism, the rotten fruit of the Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The decree condemns the proposition: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57) and “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Prop. 58). The neo-church has embraced this evolutionism: dogma “evolves” into “dialogue,” the Mass “evolves” into a Protestant supper, and the Church’s mission “evolves” into NGO-style financial transparency.
The article’s silence on the supernatural is deafening. Not a word on the Missae for the dead, the propagation of the faith, the rights of the Church propria et innata (Syllabus, Error 19), or the salvation of souls. The “Financial Security Committee” has replaced the Holy Office; “compliance officers” have replaced the Inquisitors. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15): a bureaucratic apparatus dedicated to the preservation of the sect’s bank accounts, utterly indifferent to the salus animarum.
The Masonic Blueprint: 200-Year Cycles of Subversion
The context of the “False Fatima Apparitions” file reveals the diabolical architecture behind this timeline. The founding of Modern Freemasonry (1717), the Fatima operation (1917), and the “canonization” of the seers by the antipope Francis (2017) mark ritualistic 200-year cycles. The 2010 “anti-money-laundering” legislation—enacted precisely when the Masonic financial empire tightened its grip via Basel III and FATF—was not a defense of the Church’s patrimony but the formal submission of the occupied Vatican to the international banking cartel. The “progress” celebrated by Ekpo is the successful integration of the paramasonic structure into the Beast’s financial system. The “new forms of financial crime” he fears are merely the rivals of the Masonic monopoly; the “artificial intelligence” is the algorithmic eye of the Antichrist.
Pseudo-Traditionalist Complicity: The Indult Trap
It must be noted that the “traditionalist” groups recognizing these usurpers—whether the Lefebvrians (FSSPX) or the Indultists (FSSP, ICKSP)—are complicit in this financial apostasy. By recognizing the “pope” who appoints Ekpo and approves the ASIF statute, they recognize the authority of a manifest heretic to administer the Church’s goods. They function as the controlled opposition, legitimizing the usurpation while staging the Mass of the Ages in the very structures built on the novus ordo foundation of religious liberty. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, “a heretic… cannot be the head of the Church… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” To attend their chapels is to communicate in the sins of the usurpers (2 John 1:11).
Conclusion: The True Church Possesses No Earthly Treasury
The true Catholic Church, reduced to the remanens (the remnant) adhering to the integral Faith and the valid Sacraments under true bishops and priests (ordained before 1968), possesses no central bank, no ASIF, no “Financial Security Committee.” Her treasury is the Thesaurus Ecclesiae: the Precious Blood of Christ, the merits of the Saints, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. She renders to God the things that are God’s. The conciliar sect’s frantic accounting is the counting of the thirty pieces of silver. “You cannot serve God and Mammon” (Matt. 6:24). The “Vatican finances” are the finances of the Antichurch; their “reform” is the consolidation of the kingdom of darkness. Vivat Christus Rex!
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Vatican official says Vatican finances need more scrutiny despite progress (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 30.09.2026