The Vatican News portal reports on an address by “Msgr.” Anthony Ekpo, Assessor for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State and President of the so-called Financial Security Committee, delivered at Rome’s Luiss University on September 29, 2026. The occasion was a self-congratulatory symposium marking fifteen years since “Pope” Benedict XVI promulgated Law No. 127, establishing the Vatican City State’s first comprehensive anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing framework. Ekpo’s discourse centers on “financial integrity,” “transparency,” “institutional trust,” and the imperative to adapt to “increasingly complex financial technologies, instantaneous cross-border transactions, activities involving virtual assets, artificial intelligence.” The antipope Leo XIV is cited approving a new Statute for the Financial Intelligence and Supervisory Authority (ASIF) via a Chirograph of June 25, 2026, reiterating that “transparency, integrity and accountability in economic and financial activities are indispensable elements of good administration and service to the common good.” The entire exercise is a masterclass in naturalistic bureaucratization: the counterfeit church, having abandoned the salus animarum, now devotes its highest energies to satisfying the Moneyval evaluators and the global financial technocracy. This is not the Church of Christ administering the mysteries of salvation; it is a sovereign wealth fund masquerading as a religion, rendering unto Caesar what belongs to God, and calling it “service to the common good.”
The Total Substitution of the Supernatural by the Secular
“The purpose of financial integrity is to safeguard trust in institutions… financial resources remain what they should always be—means placed at the service of the legitimate purposes of institutions and individuals and, ultimately, the common good.”
Here lies the crux of the apostasy. The “Msgr.” Ekpo, speaking with the authority of the “Secretariat of State,” defines the telos of the Vatican’s existence as “safeguarding trust in institutions” and ensuring financial resources serve “the common good” — a phrase stripped of all supernatural content, reduced to a Masonic humanitarianism. Not a word of the Kingdom of Christ, not a syllable of the regnum Christi, not a whisper of the salvation of souls. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, 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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The Vatican News article is the documentary proof of this removal. The “Holy See” of the neo-church has become a res publica like any other, subject to the “international system based on shared responsibility and mutual accountability” — that is, the Masonic world order. The “common good” invoked is the common good of the City of Man, not the bonum commune of the City of God, which is the glory of the Most Holy Trinity and the eternal salvation of the elect.
The Cult of Moneyval: The New Magisterium of the Counterfeit Church
“Pope Francis clearly understood ‘when, upon receiving the evaluators of the anti-money laundering system in 2020 (Moneyval), he recalled a principle expressed in Evangelii gaudium: ‘money must serve, not rule.'”
Observe the hierarchy of authority: the antipope Bergoglio receives the evaluators of Moneyval — the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures of the Council of Europe — as if they were a legitimate ecclesiastical tribunal. The judgment of Moneyval has replaced the judgment of God. The “principle” cited is from Evangelii gaudium, a document of the false magisterium, not from Holy Scripture or the Tradition. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “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). Today, the “Holy See” voluntarily submits to the “indirect negative power” of the global financial regulators, seeking their “compliance” rating as a badge of honor. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: the worship of Mammon clothed in the language of “transparency.” The “Chirograph” of the antipope Leo XIV (June 25, 2026) canonizes this submission: “transparency, integrity and accountability… are indispensable elements of good administration.” Indispensable for what? For the salus animarum? No — for “the Holy See’s and the Vatican City State’s economic and financial system.” The end has become the means; the Church has become an NGO with a sovereign territory.
The Technocratic Gnosticism: Artificial Intelligence as Savior
“The next 15 years will bring risks that would have been difficult to imagine in 2010: increasingly complex financial technologies, instantaneous cross-border transactions, activities involving virtual assets, artificial intelligence and new forms of financial crime.”
Ekpo’s eschatology is technological. The “risks” are not the loss of faith, the spread of heresy, the persecution of the remnant, the silence of the true Mass — no, the risks are “virtual assets” and “artificial intelligence.” The solution? “Strong laws, but also, above all, strong institutions, effective cooperation, professional judgment, technological expertise and a culture of responsibility.” This is the Pelagianism of the technocrat: salvation by regulation, justification by algorithm. St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the Modernist proposition: “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Prop. 64). Here, the “reform” is the total replacement of Christian doctrine by financial compliance. The “culture of responsibility” is the new ascesis; the “professional judgment” is the new prudence; “technological expertise” is the new scientia sanctorum. The Holy Ghost is replaced by the blockchain; the sensus fidei by the risk-assessment model.
The Historical Imposture: Benedict XVI as Architect of the Worldly Kingdom
“On December 30, 2010, Law No. 127 of the Vatican City State was promulgated, establishing the first comprehensive legal framework… On the same day, Pope Benedict XVI extended its application to the relevant institutions of the Holy See and decided to participate in an international system based on shared responsibility and mutual accountability.”
The article canonizes Ratzinger as the founder of this financial regime. This is the same “Benedict XVI” who, as “Cardinal” Ratzinger, presided over the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith while the post-conciliar church dismantled the Index, silenced the prophets of Tradition, and implemented the Novus Ordo — the very “table of assembly” that the Syllabus of Pius IX would condemn as a “pest” of “clerico-liberal societies” (Error IV). His 2010 law was not a defense of the Church’s freedom — libertas Ecclesiae — but a surrender to the lex civilis. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, states that an office becomes vacant by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The promulgation of a law subordinating the “Holy See” to the “international system” of financial surveillance is a public act of defection from the Church’s divine constitution, which knows no superior but Christ the King. As Pius XI taught: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas). The “international system” of Moneyval is a usurpation of that authority.
The Silence of the Sacraments: The Gravest Accusation
Read the article again. Search for “Mass,” “Eucharist,” “Confession,” “Grace,” “Sin,” “Hell,” “Heaven,” “Soul,” “Salvation,” “Christ the King,” “Immaculate Heart,” “Rosary,” “Sacrifice.” They are entirely absent. The “President of the Financial Security Committee” speaks of “donations and funding for charitable purposes,” “resources entrusted to its institutions,” “expectation of integrity and trust.” The “charitable purposes” are the corporal works of mercy severed from the spiritual works and from the supernatural motive. This is the “natural religion” condemned by the Syllabus: “There was no lack of states that thought they could do without God and that their religion was impiety and contempt for God” (Error 55 context). The Vatican City State has become such a state. Its “liturgy” is the compliance audit; its “sacraments” are the licensing procedures; its “canonization” is the Moneyval mutual evaluation report. The “Msgr.” Ekpo is not a shepherd of souls; he is a compliance officer for a sovereign tax haven seeking OECD approval.
The Masonic Continuity: From 1917 to 2026
The False Fatima Apparitions file documents the Masonic signature of 200-year cycles: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (Fatima), 2017 (canonization). The article’s date — September 29, 2026 — and its subject — the fifteenth anniversary of the 2010 law — fit the pattern of the “disinformation strategy” Stage 3: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “Financial Security Committee,” the “ASIF,” the “Moneyval dialogue” — these are the instruments of the “ecumenical reinterpretation” of the Church as a player in the global financial system. The antipope Leo XIV’s Chirograph of June 25, 2026, “reaffirmed the Holy See’s commitment — pursued ‘with continuity and determination’ — to the progressive strengthening of its legal and institutional framework.” Continuity with what? With the Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV? With the Quas Primas of Pius XI? No — continuity with the Masonic project of reducing the Church to a department of the world state. The “proliferation of weapons of mass destruction” mentioned in the new Statute is the language of the United Nations, not the language of the Regnum Christi. The Church’s weapon is the Cross; her “proliferation” is the preaching of the Gospel to every creature.
The Invalidity of the Entire Structure
The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes the theological principle: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” (Bellarmine). The line of claimants from John XXIII to Leo XIV are manifest heretics — they profess religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass, the new Code, the new rites — all condemned by the perennial Magisterium. Therefore, the “Vatican City State” is not the Patrimony of Peter; it is the territory occupied by the abomination of desolation. Its laws (Law No. 127, the ASIF Statute) have no canonical force; they are the ordinances of a usurping power. The “Msgr.” Ekpo holds no office in the Church; he is a functionary of the neo-church. The “Secretariat of State” is a dicastery of the counterfeit religion. The “Holy See” in this article is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) administering the finances of the Antichrist’s precursor.
Conclusion: The Kingdom of Christ vs. The Kingdom of Compliance
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The article from Vatican News is the clinical picture of that plague in its terminal stage: the “Holy See” has become the model secular state, boasting of its “transparency,” “accountability,” “technological expertise,” and “international cooperation.” It has gained the whole world — the Moneyval “compliant” rating, the OECD white list, the praise of Luiss University — and lost its soul. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, persists in the catacombs, in the chapels where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is offered by valid priests, where the Credo is recited without the filioque novelties, where the Kingship of Christ is proclaimed in toto: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The neo-church’s “financial integrity” is the integrity of Judas counting the thirty pieces of silver. Quo vadis? — not to the Cross, but to the blockchain.
Source:
Holy See: Culture of responsibility to counter new forms of financial crime (vaticannews.va)
Date: 29.09.2026