The EWTN News portal reports that a wealthy investor, Peter Löw, is offering 500 euros for every child baptized in the Starnberg conciliar parish near Munich, an initiative dubbed “Starnberger Schutzengelchen.” The pseudo-diocese of Augsburg issued a tepid statement calling the scheme a “likeable expression of charity” while expressing an “uneasy feeling” about the proximity of financial incentive and sacramental reception. The local conciliar “priest,” Mr. Andreas Jall, defends the bribe as pastoral assistance for families in a high-cost area. This sordid transaction lays bare the neo-church’s total capitulation to mammon: the conciliar sect openly trades the sacrament of regeneration for cash, confirming its status as a synagogue of Satan where grace is merchandised and the Kingship of Christ is mocked.
The Simoniacal Essence of the Conciliar Transaction
The reported facts constitute a textbook definition of simony — the deliberate buying or selling of spiritual things for temporal price — condemned by the Apostle Peter (Acts 8:20: “Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money”) and anathematized by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXI, De Ref., c. 9: “If anyone shall say that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church… can be condemned or omitted without sin… let him be anathema”). The investor Löw explicitly frames the 500 euros as an “incentive to bring children into the life of the parish” — a direct admission that the money is the causa movens for the reception of the sacrament. The conciliar “priest” Jall corroborates this: families were “holding back from baptizing their children because of the cost of the celebration” and the cash “nudged parents toward baptism.” This is not charity; it is the procurement of a simulated sacramental act by financial inducement.
The Augsburg pseudo-diocese’s response — “a likeable expression of charity” coupled with a vague “uneasy feeling” — is the bureaucratic language of the novus ordo apparatus, which has no doctrinal vocabulary left to name the sin. It cannot condemn simony because its entire financial architecture, the Kirchensteuer (church tax), is itself a state-enforced simoniacal system: Germans “formally quit the Church to escape its state-collected tax,” as the article admits. The conciliar sect sells “membership” for tax revenue; Löw sells “baptisms” for cash. The difference is one of scale, not substance.
Linguistic Degradation: The Vocabulary of Merchants
The rhetoric employed by the agents of the neo-church reveals a thoroughly naturalistic, commercial mentality. Löw calls the scheme “Starnberger Schutzengelchen” — a branding exercise, reducing the Guardian Angels to a marketing logo. He speaks of “assessing at the end of the year whether the initiative had been worthwhile” — the language of return on investment, not supernatural grace. The conciliar “priest” Jall adopts the jargon of social work: “We want to help families in this high-priced area”; “the aim clearly was not to ‘buy’ believers but to help Catholic families.” The scare quotes around “buy” are a tacit admission of the reality. The pseudo-diocesan spokesman speaks of “financial considerations… moving too close together” with the sacrament — a cowardly euphemism for the heresy of simony. Nowhere is heard the language of fides, gratia, salus animarum. The very concept of “the cost of a baptism celebration” as an obstacle exposes the conciliar “faithful” as practical atheists: they want the social ritual without the supernatural obligation, and the conciliar “clergy” facilitate this by accepting a bribe to waive the (non-existent) fee.
Theological Bankruptcy: No Faith, No Sacrament, No Church
The Augsburg spokesman inadvertently speaks a truth his structure denies: “Baptism presupposes a conscious decision of faith and is far more than a simple blessing; if no faith is thereby awakened or strengthened, the purpose of even a ‘surely well-intentioned initiative’ is called into question.” This echoes the Council of Trent (Sess. VII, Can. 8: “If anyone shall say that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto salvation… let him be anathema”) and St. Pius X (Catechism, Q. 261: “Baptism is necessary for salvation… and cannot be received without faith”). But the conciliar sect has no faith to awaken. Its “baptisms” are administered by men ordained in the invalid Paul VI rite (1968), using a vernacular formula that often omits the essential form (“Ego te baptizo in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti”) or the intentio faciendi quod facit Ecclesia. As Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei (1947): “The Church has no power over the substance of the sacraments… to change what Christ the Lord has instituted.” The neo-church’s “baptisms” are, at best, doubtful; at worst, null. To pay for a doubtful sacrament is to compound simony with sacrilege.
Furthermore, the article notes that “Catholic parents are already obliged to have their children baptized as soon as possible” — citing the 1917 Code (Canon 770) and the 1983 conciliar code (Canon 867). But the conciliar “obligation” is void because the conciliar “Church” lacks jurisdiction. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic… ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church”). The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) are not popes but antipopes; their “bishops” and “priests” possess no mission, no jurisdiction, no power to bind or loose. The Augsburg structure is a paramasonic structure occupying ecclesiastical buildings, not the Church of Christ.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution: The Kingdom of Man Replaces the Kingdom of Christ
This sordid episode is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar apostasy inaugurated by the false council Vatican II (1962-1965). The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemned the proposition: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). The German Kirchensteuer system is precisely this: the Masonic state defines the “Church’s” revenue, and the conciliar hierarchy obeys. When the state tax dries up because the faithful apostatize, the conciliar “bishops” turn to private investors like Löw to fund their “pastoral” operations. The investor becomes the de facto patron, the “priest” his employee. This is the regnum hominis foretold by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “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 “baptism for cash” scheme is the Quas Primas prophecy fulfilled: the Kingship of Christ is denied, so the kingship of money reigns.
The Lamentabili sane exitu decree (St. Pius X, 1907) condemned the Modernist error: “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 conciliar sect lives this error: “baptism” is reduced to a “practical function” — a social onboarding ritual for families, a membership drive for a dying institution, a photo-op for a wealthy donor. The “uneasy feeling” of the pseudo-diocese is the death rattle of a conscience seared by sixty years of Modernism. They cannot call it simony because they have redefined the sacraments as “celebrations of the community” (Vatican II, Sacrosanctum Concilium, 7), and communities can be subsidized.
The False Saints and False Prophets of the Neo-Church
The article originates from EWTN News, the media arm of the conciliar sect’s “conservative” wing — the same apparatus that promotes the “canonizations” of the antipope John Paul II (a heretic who kissed the Koran, prayed with pagans at Assisi, and denied the necessity of the Church for salvation) and the pseudo-mystic Faustyna Kowalska (whose Diary was on the Index under Pius XII, condemned for its Millenarianism and private revelation run amok). This portal, like the “diocese” it reports on, is part of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). Its “unease” is theater for the dwindling donor base. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, exists only where the integral faith of Trent and the valid sacraments of the Apostolic Rite are preserved by bishops consecrated in the true rite (pre-1968) and priests ordained with the intentio faciendi quod facit Ecclesia. There, baptism is gratis data (freely given), ex opere operato, for the remission of sins and regeneration in Christ the King — not for 500 euros.
Conclusion: The Price of Apostasy
The Starnberg transaction is a microcosm of the conciliar sect’s existence: a counterfeit church selling counterfeit grace for real money, blessed by counterfeit clergy, reported by counterfeit media. As St. Cyprian wrote (De Unitate Ecclesiae, 6): “He who has not the Church for his mother cannot have God for his Father.” The families accepting Löw’s bribe for a conciliar “baptism” receive not adoption as sons of God, but enrollment in the Masonic counter-church. The “priest” Jall, the “bishop” of Augsburg, the investor Löw, and the EWTN reporters are all cooperators in simonia haeretica pravitas. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The only remedy is the total rejection of the neo-church, adherence to the true Mass of the Ages, and submission to the Social Kingship of Christ the King — cujus regni non erit finis (Luke 1:33).
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Cash for baptisms: German diocese questions Catholic millionaire’s $550 offer (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.08.2026