The EWTN News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” has appointed eight new members to the so-called “Council for the Economy,” a body erected by his predecessor, the apostate Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”), in 2014. The appointments read like a roll call of the neo-church’s most notorious modernists, ecumenists, and servants of high finance: “Cardinals” Grzegorz Ryś, Ladislav Nemet, Jean-Paul Vesco, and Roberto Repole; alongside lay operatives including a Liechtenstein princess turned investment banker, the chairman of AXA insurance, a UBS executive, and a veteran of the “Dicastery for Communication.” The antipope also reconfirmed the leadership of “Cardinal” Reinhard Marx — the architect of the German “Synodal Way” and a manifest heretic — as president. This reconstitution of the Vatican’s financial politburo exposes the neo-church for what it is: a societas pecuniae (society of money) masquerading as the Bride of Christ, wholly subservient to the City of Man and its Masonic overlords.
The Usurper’s Bureaucracy: Praedicate Evangelium as the Constitution of Apostasy
The article cites the “constitution of the Roman Curia, Praedicate Evangelium” as the governing law for this council. This document, promulgated by Bergoglio in 2022, is the Magna Charta of the conciliar revolution — a juridical codification of the heresy of collegiality, the demolition of the papal monarchy, and the subordination of the Church’s supernatural mission to the “social doctrine of the Church” interpreted through the lens of “best practices recognized internationally in the field of public administration.” As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The neo-church’s “Council for the Economy” is the precise inversion of this principle: a secular corporate board, staffed by financiers and modernist prelates, managing the patrimony of the Holy See according to the standards of the City of Man. The very phrase “ethical and efficient” administrative management, stripped of the salus animarum as the supreme law, reveals the naturalistic reductionism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) and by St. Pius X in Pascendi as the essence of Modernism.
Reinhard Marx: The Manifest Heretic Presiding Over the Treasury
The reconfirmation of “Cardinal” Reinhard Marx as president of the council is the signum contradictionis of this entire farce. Marx is a manifest heretic who has publicly denied the indissolubility of marriage, endorsed the blessing of sodomitical unions, and spearheaded the German “Synodal Way” — a formal rebellion against divine law and Catholic doctrine. According to the unchanging teaching of the Church, codified in Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code and affirmed by Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, a cleric who “publicly defects from the Catholic faith” loses his office ipso facto, without any declaration. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is 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.” If a “pope” loses his office for manifest heresy, a fortiori a “cardinal” loses his. Marx is not a cardinal; he is a layman in purple robes, a wolf in the sheepfold, and his presidency of this council renders its every act canonically null and morally criminal. The neo-church’s retention of him proves that the “Council for the Economy” is not a Church institution but a synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) managing the thirty pieces of silver.
The New Appointees: A Conclave of Modernists and Financiers
“Cardinal” Grzegorz Ryś (Kraków): A protégé of the Bergoglian machine, Ryś is a champion of the “synodal” dissolution of hierarchy, an advocate for “inclusivity” that tramples the Depositum Fidei. His appointment signals the total colonization of the Polish Church — once a bastion of Tradition — by the neo-church’s agenda.
“Cardinal” Ladislav Nemet, SVD (Belgrade): A Divine Word missionary turned ecumenist, Nemet embodies the post-conciliar betrayal of the missio ad gentes. The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18); Nemet’s career is a living enactment of this heresy.
“Cardinal” Jean-Paul Vesco, OP (Algiers): A Dominican who has made dialogue with Islam the substitute for the conversion of Muslims to the one true Faith. He represents the Nostra Aetate betrayal of the Kingship of Christ over all nations, which Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat. “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians,” wrote Pius XI; Vesco acts as if Christ has no rights over the Muslim world.
“Cardinal” Roberto Repole (Turin): A theologian of the “synodal” school, Repole is the intellectual architect of a “Church” that listens to the world instead of preaching the Gospel. His elevation confirms that the neo-church rewards those who dissolve dogma into “dialogue.”
The Lay Operatives: Princesses, Insurance Magnates, and Bankers
The four lay appointees lay bare the vera causa of the neo-church’s economy: high finance and Masonic networking.
H.S.H. Gisela Bergmann, “Princess of Liechtenstein,” 36, CEO of the Princely Family’s financial holding, with a resume spanning investment banking in London, Canada, Singapore, and Switzerland. A princess of a Masonic micro-state (Liechtenstein’s ruling house is deeply enmeshed in European oligarchic networks) placed in charge of the “Holy See’s” finances. This is not the obolus Sancti Petri; this is the pecunia Mammonae.
Denis Duverne, Chairman of AXA, the French insurance behemoth. AXA is a pillar of the globalist financial system, heavily invested in the “green economy” and “sustainable finance” agendas of the UN and WEF. Duverne’s appointment is the quid pro quo for the neo-church’s alignment with the Agenda 2030.
Elena Principato-Wettstein, UBS executive. UBS, the Swiss banking giant, is the epitome of the opaque, offshore financial system condemned by the Church’s social teaching when it serves usury and speculation. Her presence confirms the Vatican Bank (IOR) continues its decades-long function as a laundry for global capital.
Paolo Nusiner, a career bureaucrat of the Italian “Catholic” establishment: Avvenire (the CEI newspaper), Catholic University of Milan, “Dicastery for Communication,” and the Gemelli Hospital. He is the apparatchik par excellence, the man who ensures the neo-church’s narrative control and institutional survival.
The Reconfirmed: A College of Apostates
The reconfirmed members read like a rogues’ gallery of the Bergoglian revolution:
“Cardinal” Odilo Scherer (São Paulo): The face of the Brazilian Church’s capitulation to liberation theology and gender ideology.
“Cardinal” Gérald Lacroix (Québec): The overseer of the Canadian Church’s surrender to the LGBT agenda and the residential schools narrative, presiding over a diocese that has sold off churches to pay “reparations.”
“Cardinal” Joseph Tobin (Newark): A Redemptorist who has publicly supported “LGBT ministry” and the reception of “Communion” by pro-abortion politicians. A manifest heretic confirmed in office.
Leslie Jane Ferrar, trustee of the Westminster Archdiocese: A laywoman placed in a position of canonical authority over clerics, violating the very nature of the hierarchical priesthood.
Alberto Minali, CEO of REVO Insurance: Another insurance technocrat.
“Father” Brian Ferme, canon lawyer and secretary: The juridical fig leaf for the whole operation, a “canonist” of the new law — i.e., a lawyer of iniquity.
The Theological Bankruptcy: Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the Kingship of Christ
The article’s closing quote from Praedicate Evangelium — that the council acts “in the light of the social doctrine of the Church, following the best practices recognized internationally in the field of public administration” — is the formal heresy of the neo-church condensed into a sentence. The “social doctrine of the Church” is not a set of “best practices” derived from the City of Man; it is the application of the Kingship of Christ to temporal society. Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… for it will remind them of the final judgment, in which Christ, whom not only was cast out of the state, but was also forgotten and ignored through contempt, will very severely avenge these insults.” The “Council for the Economy” does the opposite: it invites the money-changers into the Temple, crowns them with mitres (or princess tiaras), and asks them to manage the Church’s goods according to the standards of the Prince of this World.
The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The neo-church’s Council for the Economy is the voluntary surrender of the Church’s temporal goods to the de facto control of the Masonic financial system — a surrender far worse than any exsequatur imposed by a Catholic monarch.
The Fatima Connection: The Masonic Operation Continues
The appointment of a “Princess of Liechtenstein” — a principality founded in 1719, two years after the founding of modern Freemasonry in 1717, and whose ruling house is intermarried with the Habsburgs and the European Black Nobility — to a Vatican financial body in 2026, echoes the Masonic Operation “Fatima” documented in the theological objections: “Symbolism of dates: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (apparitions), 2017 (canonization) – ritualistic 200-year cycles.” The year 2026 marks the 309th anniversary of 1717; the numerology of the Masonic calendar continues to govern the neo-church’s personnel decisions. The “Miracle of the Sun” was a “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion”; the “Miracle of the Vatican Finances” is a mass financial manipulation and autosuggestion, convincing the faithful that the Church’s patrimony is safe in the hands of AXA and UBS executives.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing Where It Ought Not
This “Council for the Economy” is not a dicastery of the Catholic Church. It is a board of directors of the Conciliar Sect, a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, staffed by manifest heretics, Masonic financiers, and careerist bureaucrats. Its “president,” Reinhard Marx, is a heretic who has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction. Its “pope,” Robert Prevost, is an antipope, a usurper of the See of Peter, elected by a college of “cardinals” the vast majority of whom are themselves heretics and thus canonically incapable of electing a pope. The funds they manage — the obolus Sancti Petri, the patrimony of the Holy See, the offerings of the faithful — are being administered by the enemies of Christ the King for the benefit of the City of Man.
The true Church of Christ, Ecclesia Militans, endures in the catacombs, in the hands of bishops and priests who retain valid orders and the integral Faith, who refuse the Novus Ordo liturgy, the conciliar doctrine, and the false hierarchy. They alone possess the potestas iurisdictionis by divine right, for “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (Bellarmine). The “Council for the Economy” is a den of thieves (Matt. 21:13) erected in the place of the Holy of Holies. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? — Christ the King, whom they have dethroned, will return to judge them. Veniat Regnum Tuum.
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Pope Leo XIV appoints new members to Vatican’s Council for the Economy (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.08.2026