Australian “Bishop” Saunders Convicted: The Rotten Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution Laid Bare
The Pillar portal reports that Christopher Saunders, the former “bishop” of the Diocese of Broome in Australia, has been convicted by a Western Australia district court on 13 counts of sexual abuse crimes, including against a canonical minor. The verdict followed a three-week trial where “Bishop” Michael Morrissey of Geraldton testified for the prosecution regarding Saunders’ use of alcohol in “pastoral” interactions with young Aboriginal men. Saunders, who resigned in 2021 citing “ill health” after allegations of misappropriating Church funds for gifts to vulnerable young men, ignored Vatican orders to reside outside the diocese and continued exercising influence over diocesan charities. The “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” had the case since 2023 under the norms of Vos estis lux mundi, yet the Australian “bishops’ conference” initially claimed no victims under 18 were identified — a claim obliterated by the conviction. The new “bishop” of Broome, Timothy Norton, offered banalities about “grieving, listening, and walking together.” This conviction is not an aberration but the inevitable, putrid fruit of a counterfeit church that has abandoned the Kingship of Christ for the slavery of sin.