The National Catholic Register portal reports that on September 29, 2026, a Nigerian official of the Secretariat of State, Monsignor Anthony Ekpo, addressed a conference at Rome’s Luiss University commemorating fifteen years since the antipope Benedict XVI introduced anti-money-laundering legislation in 2010. Ekpo, identified as assessor for general affairs and president of the “Financial Security Committee,” warned that “increasingly complex financial technologies, instantaneous cross-border transactions, activities involving virtual assets, artificial intelligence, and new forms of financial crime” necessitate further scrutiny. He praised a “culture of financial integrity” developed through the “patient work of legislators, regulatory and supervisory authorities, financial intelligence experts, law enforcement agencies, judges, and institutions” under the antipopes Francis and Leo XIV, who allegedly approved a new statute for the Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (ASIF) in June. This obsession with fiscal probity within the structures occupying the Vatican, while the supernatural mission of the Church is abandoned, manifests the absolute triumph of Mammon over the Kingship of Christ in the conciliar sect.
The Conciliar Sect’s Idolatry of Mammon
The cited article reveals the veritable religion of the post-conciliar hierarchy: not the salus animarum, the salvation of souls, but the salus pecuniae, the safety of money. Monsignor Ekpo’s discourse is entirely confined to the natural order — “financial technologies,” “virtual assets,” “artificial intelligence,” “cross-border transactions.” There is not a whisper of the regnum Christi, the Kingdom of Christ, which Pius XI teaches “encompasses all men” and demands that “rulers of states… not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” (Quas Primas). The conciliar sect has reduced the Ecclesia, the Society founded by the God-Man for the governance of souls unto eternal life, to a non-governmental organization requiring compliance officers and anti-money-laundering statutes. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI: “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category; then it was subordinated to secular power” (Quas Primas). The “Financial Security Committee” is the sanhedrin of this new idol.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Financial Regulation
The article frames the Vatican’s history since 2010 as a narrative of “progress” in “financial reform.” This is the hermeneutic of the world, not of the Church. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “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, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights” (Error 19). He condemned the idea that “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20). Yet here, the conciliar sect boasts of submitting to Italian seizure of funds in 2010 and constructing a supervisory authority (ASIF) modeled on secular financial intelligence units. It has accepted the premise that the Church is a “juridical person” subject to the lex civilis in temporalities, thereby denying her potestas indirecta in temporalibus — her God-given right to judge temporal matters insofar as they relate to spiritual ends. The “progress” Ekpo celebrates is the progress of the civitas terrena swallowing the civitas Dei.
The Illegitimacy of the “Popes” Cited as Authority
The article invokes a lineage of legitimacy: “Pope Benedict XVI introduced anti-money-laundering legislation… progress made by Popes Francis and Leo XIV.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a catalog of usurpation. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism: “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.” The antipopes of the conciliar sect — from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — have publicly professed the heresies of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis: religious liberty, false ecumenism, the evolution of dogma, the separation of Church and State. By the principle ipso facto (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio), they lost all jurisdiction the moment they manifested heresy. They cannot “approve statutes” or “introduce legislation” for the Church; they can only legislate for their own paramasonic structure. Ekpo’s reference to them as “Popes” is a participation in the great lie, the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
What the article omits is its loudest condemnation. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments, the conversion of sinners, the condemnation of error, the rights of Christ the King over nations, the Social Kingship of the Sacred Heart. The conference at Luiss University — a secular institution — is the fitting venue for this naturalistic parody. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili, condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57) — but the conciliar sect has inverted this: it has become the servant of natural science (financial technology, AI) and the enemy of theological science (dogma, morality, eschatology). The “culture of financial integrity” replaces the cultura sanctitatis. The “Financial Security Committee” replaces the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. This is the kenosis of the Church into the world, the realization of the Masonic program denounced by Leo XIII and Pius XI: “to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it, and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth” (Pius IX, allocution quoted in Syllabus context).
The Syllabus Realized: Subjection to Secular Power
The very structure described — ASIF, “supervisory and financial information authority,” “financial intelligence experts,” “law enforcement agencies,” “judges” — mirrors the errors condemned in Section VI of the Syllabus: “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42); “The civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” (Error 44); “The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Error 45). The conciliar sect has voluntarily erected a mirror of the secular state within the Vatican walls, complete with its own “anti-money-laundering” regime, effectively admitting that the Church’s temporal administration is subject to the standards of the civitas terrena. This is the non serviam of the hierarchy: they refuse to rule in nomine Christi, preferring to manage in nomine Mammonae. Pius XI warned: “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” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The conciliar sect’s financial “reforms” are the cement poured over those destroyed foundations.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Financial Garb
The article is not a report on Church governance; it is a bulletin from the synagoga Satanae that has occupied the Vatican. Monsignor Ekpo’s call for “greater scrutiny” of finances is the cry of the hireling who flees when he sees the wolf coming (John 10:12), except the wolf here is insolventia and the hireling builds higher fences of compliance rather than opening the Gate of the Sheepfold (John 10:7). The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where bishops with valid orders and priests of the true Mass guard the depositum fidei and the regnum Christi. The structures in Rome, with their “Financial Security Committees” and “ASIF statutes” approved by antipopes, are the anti-Church foretold by the Fathers. Non praevalebunt (Matt 16:18) — but not because of financial audits. They will not prevail because the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against the Church built on Peter’s confession, not against the counterfeit built on Basel III compliance. Let the faithful flee the tables of the money-changers in the Temple (John 2:15) and cleave to the Cross of Christ the King.
Source:
Vatican Official Says Vatican Finances Need More Scrutiny Despite Progress (ncregister.com)
Date: 30.09.2026