The EWTN News portal reports on a June 2025 decision by the Tribunal of the Roman Rota — the highest appellate court of the Vatican’s counterfeit juridical system — which condemned a religious congregation in the United States for publishing a list of a former member deemed “credibly accused” of sexual abuse without a canonical trial. The Rota invoked the 1983 Code of Canon Law and the 1992 Catechism to defend the natural right to reputation, declaring that “reparation for evil deeds cannot be had by doing evil to others.” This decision, hailed by some as a defense of due process, is in reality a calculated juridical theater performed within the novus ordo’s apostate structure. It serves only to legitimize the conciliar sect’s pseudo-legal order while the true Church, governed by the immutable canons of 1917 and the perennial Magisterium, remains eclipsed by the abominatio desolationis occupying the Vatican.
The Facade of Juridical Rectitude in a Counterfeit Court
The cited article presents the Roman Rota’s decision as a victory for justice: a “powerful institution” rebuked for destroying a man’s good name without conviction. Yet the very tribunal rendering this judgment derives its authority from the 1983 Code, a legislative act of the antipope John Paul II (Wojtyła), who himself was a manifest heretic and apostate. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he may be judged and punished by the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” Therefore, the Roman Rota, as an organ of the usurping hierarchy beginning with John XXIII, possesses no legitimate jurisdiction ab initio. Its decisions are nulla, vacua, et irrita — null, void, and of no effect — just as the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV declares regarding the acts of a heretic elevated to the papacy.
The article notes the Rota quoted canon 220 of the 1983 Code and Catechism paragraph 2477. These are not sources of Catholic law but instruments of the nova lex fabricated by the conciliar revolution. The true Code of 1917, Canon 188 §4, states that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “bishops” and “priests” who staff this tribunal have publicly defected by adhering to the heresies of Vatican II — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality — condemned by the Syllabus of Errors and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. Their “court” is a ludibrium, a mockery of justice, however superficially correct its rhetoric may appear.
Linguistic Deception: The Vocabulary of Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Morality
The decision’s language reveals its naturalistic foundation. It speaks of “the good name of all persons,” “protection of law,” “extortionists,” “unjustifiable harm,” and “reputation… founded upon the natural law itself.” There is no mention of scandalum in the theological sense, no reference to the salus animarum as the supreme law (Canon 1752, 1917 Code), no invocation of the rights of Christ the King over His Church. The Rota cites the Catechism’s “eighth precept of the Decalogue” but strips it of its supernatural context: the duty to avoid detraction and calumny flows from charity toward the neighbor in Deo, not from a secular “right to privacy.”
Pius XI in Quas Primas condemns precisely this secularization of justice: “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 Rota’s decision derives authority from the “conciliar sect’s” positive law, not from God. It treats the Church as a societas perfecta of purely human juridical order, ignoring that the true Church’s juridical power is sacra potestas, participation in Christ’s own legislative, judicial, and executive authority (Quas Primas: “Christ Jesus is given to men as Redeemer… but at the same time He is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience”).
The article’s description of the Rota as “roughly the equivalent of the Church’s Supreme Court” is a lie. The true Church’s supreme tribunal is the Roman Pontiff himself, judex ordinarius omnium, whose judgments are irreformable. The Rota is a creation of the novus ordo’s bureaucratic machinery, staffed by men who have lost all jurisdiction by heresy.
Theological Bankruptcy: Due Process Without the Faith
The decision’s core argument — that publishing accusations without trial violates natural justice — is logically sound but theologically vacuous. The conciliar sect’s “clerics” are not true priests; their “religious orders” are not true institutes of consecrated life; their “canonical processes” are simulations. The man “Mr. X” was “dispensed from religious vows” by the “Holy See” in 2002 — an act of the antipope John Paul II, which is ipso facto null. He “married” and worked a “secular career” — likely in a civil ceremony invalid before God, since the conciliar sect has no power to dispense from vows or to witness marriages.
The Rota’s concern for the “deceased” clerics on such lists — “Past injustice towards little ones cannot be repaired by committing injustice towards adults, the elderly, the deceased” — is hypocritical. The conciliar sect has canonized false “saints” (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, Maximilian Kolbe, Faustina Kowalska) by an invalid process, declaring them in heaven while they may be in hell. It has beatified the Ulman family including an unbaptized fetus. It venerates the false apparitions of Fatima — exposed in the “False Fatima Apparitions” file as a “Masonic ‘psychological operation’ against the Church” with “ritualistic 200-year cycles” (1717, 1917, 2017). The Rota defends the reputation of men within a system that has destroyed the very concept of sanctity and truth.
Moreover, the decision ignores the crimen pessimum of the conciliar sect: the abolition of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, replaced by the Novus Ordo Missae, a Protestantized “table of assembly” that violates the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice defined at Trent. The “priests” accused of abuse are mostly presbyters of this invalid rite, ordained in the 1968 rite of Paul VI which is doubtful in form and intention. Their “abuse” is a symptom of the loss of the priesthood itself. The Rota does not address this; it treats the matter as a human resources dispute.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution: Legalism as a Substitute for Sanctity
This decision is a symptom of the conciliar church’s obsession with procedural legitimacy to mask its substantive apostasy. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns: “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 conciliar sect has subjected itself to the civil order — witness its “charters for the protection of children,” its cooperation with secular police, its adoption of corporate governance models. The Rota’s ruling is an attempt to mimic secular courts’ due process standards, not to apply canones poenales for the salvation of souls.
The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates that the true Church’s law provides for the ipso facto loss of office for heresy (Canon 188 §4, 1917 Code; Bellarmine; Pope Celestine I on Nestorius). The conciliar sect ignores this, retaining “bishops” and “popes” who deny defined dogmas. The Rota’s defense of a “credibly accused” layman (dispensed from vows) while the “pope” Leo XIV (Prevost) and his predecessors are manifest heretics is pharisaism: straining out a gnat while swallowing a camel.
The article mentions the Rota “fosters unity of jurisprudence.” This unity is the unity of error. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X) condemns the Modernist proposition: “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community… is subject to continuous evolution” (Prop. 53). The 1983 Code and the Rota’s jurisprudence are the fruit of this evolutionism. The true Church’s jurisprudence is immutable, rooted in the ius divinum and the ius canonicum codified in 1917, interpreted by the Fathers and the pre-1958 Magisterium.
The True Remedy: Return to the Catholic Church of Tradition
The only solution to the scandal of abuse and the scandal of false accusation is the restoration of the true Church: valid bishops with apostolic succession untainted by the 1968 rite, valid priests offering the True Mass, the 1917 Code in force, the Magisterium of Pius XII and his predecessors as the rule of faith. The conciliar sect’s courts, its “canon law,” its “catechism,” its “saints,” its “apparitions” — all are fabrica diaboli. The Rota’s decision, however reasonable it sounds to natural reason, is a plausibilis error, a plausible error that keeps souls bound to the secta conciliaris.
As Pius XI proclaimed in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ.” The conciliar sect’s “justice” brings no peace, for it is not the justice of Christ the King. It is the justice of the princeps huius mundi, disguised in ecclesiastical vestments. The faithful must reject this entire structure — its “popes,” its “bishops,” its “tribunals,” its “canonizations” — and cleave to the remnant that preserves the integral Faith, the true Sacrifice, and the true Law. Non praevalebunt — but not because the gates of hell will not prevail against the conciliar sect; they have prevailed against its human institution. The Church of Christ endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where the true lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi remains inviolate.
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Vatican’s highest appeals court criticizes publishing lists of ‘credibly accused’ clerics (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 09.11.2026