Vatican’s Financial Turmoil Exposes Deepening Apostasy
Vatican News reports that the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has suppressed the “Commission for Donations to the Holy See” established by his predecessor Bergoglio (Francis) in February 2025. This abrupt reversal after less than ten months exposes the administrative chaos and financial desperation of the conciliar sect. The decree orders liquidation of assets and establishes new working groups under the discredited “Council for the Economy” – confirming that the Vatican institution has become a purely human organization obsessed with temporal survival rather than supernatural mission.
The Secularization of Ecclesial Governance
The chirograph states: “The issue of donations and fundraising for the Holy See represents an important aspect of the bond of unity and charity between the particular Churches and the Apostolic See”. This bureaucratized language replaces theological substance with administrative relativism. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… Princes and rulers of the State must obey Christ”. True Catholic unity flows from submission to Christ the King, not financial transactions between “particular Churches” and the Roman bureaucracy.
The suppression reveals three doctrinal betrayals:
1. The reduction of the Petrine ministry to fundraising (contrary to Matthew 10:8: “Freely you have received, freely give”)
2. The implicit admission that Bergoglio’s structures lack divine guidance (requiring constant “reshaping”)
3. The transfer of assets to “the Holy See” – a legal entity now divorced from the true Church’s divine constitution
Canonical and Theological Bankruptcy
The chirograph relies on Bergoglio’s constitution Praedicate Evangelium – a modernist document violating the Church’s divine constitution by subordinating doctrine to bureaucratic “competence”. As Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Error 24). Yet here, the conciliar sect’s “President of the Administration of the Patrimony” liquidates ecclesiastical property by decree – an act requiring dominium altum (supreme ownership) that belongs only to the true Roman Pontiff.
Note the symptomatic silence about:
- The spiritual purpose of donations (traditionally tied to Mass intentions and suffrages for the dead)
- The moral obligation to avoid simony (Canon 727 §2 of 1917 Code)
- The divine mandate that Church goods serve worship and salvation, not bureaucratic maintenance
Continuity of Modernist Subversion
This financial restructuring continues the conciliar revolution denounced by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The Christian community introduced the necessity of baptism… as a necessary rite” (Error 42). Just as modernists reduced sacraments to evolving human symbols, they now reduce Church governance to corporate asset management. The working group tasked with “redefining fundraising” will inevitably promote:
– Naturalistic “stewardship” programs replacing sacrificial almsgiving
– “Transparency” narratives undermining the Church’s supernatural privileges
– Further entanglement with globalist financial systems (violating Pius IX’s condemnation of secret societies)
As the 1917 Code of Canon Law affirms (Canon 1499 §1): “Ecclesiastical property is destined principally for divine worship, secondarily for the decent support of the clergy, and thirdly for works of the apostolate and of charity”. The conciliar sect inverts this hierarchy, making financial administration its raison d’être.
Restoration Through Rejection
Catholics must recognize:
- No structure accepting Vatican II can validly administer Church property (Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis forbids innovation during sede vacante)
- Bergoglio’s “commission” and Leo XIV’s suppression both lack jurisdiction (Pope Paul IV’s Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio invalidates elections of manifest heretics)
- True support for the Church requires complete separation from conciliar structures (Galatians 1:8: “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!”)
The financial turmoil confirms St. Paul’s warning: “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil” (1 Timothy 6:10). Until the Vatican institution repents of modernism and restores the integral Catholic Faith, its administrative shuffling remains what Pope Pius XI called in Quas Primas “the rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ” – a rebellion now consuming its own structures.
Source:
Pope Leo suppresses Commission for Donations to the Holy See (vaticannews.va)
Date: 04.12.2025