Catholic News Agency reports that the “Archdiocese of New York” will pay $300 million to claimants alleging clergy abuse, funded through property sales (including its former Manhattan headquarters) and budget cuts. This “global settlement” negotiated via mediator Judge Daniel Buckley—who facilitated the Los Angeles archdiocese’s $880 million payout in 2024—avoids litigation while Cardinal Timothy Dolan simultaneously sues insurer Chubb for refusing coverage. The article frames this as a benevolent effort toward “healing and closure.”
Financial Paganism Replaces Sacramental Repentance
The settlement epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the supernatural to transactional naturalism. True reparation for sin requires: contrition (sorrow for offending God), confession (to a valid priest), and satisfaction (penance restoring divine justice). Nowhere does Dolan demand public excommunication of abusers, nor does he call claimants to seek absolution—only checks. Pius XI condemned such materialism in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been cast out of public life… human society will be at last sundered and storm-tossed” (§18). The $300 million payout, extracted from sold Church properties, constitutes theft from the patrimony of the faithful—a crime against Canon Law (1917 CIC 2349 §2).
“We are also working to finalize the sale of significant real estate assets,”
This confirms the apostate hierarchy’s liquidation of Christ’s inheritance to fund its own corruption. The Gothic Revival chancery, sold to developers for $100 million, embodied Catholic permanence; its auction symbolizes the neo-church’s surrender to modernity’s cult of utility. Quas Primas warned: “Rulers of nations… must render public testimony to Christ by professing His Kingship” (§32). Instead, Dolan treats sacred architecture as commercial inventory.
Omission of the Central Scandal: Sacramental Nullity
The article never questions whether abusive “clergy” possessed valid orders or celebrated true Sacraments—the sine qua non of ecclesial legitimacy. Post-1968 ordinations follow Paul VI’s invalid rite (Sacramentum Ordinis), rendering most conciliar “priests” laymen. Thus, many “abusers” were never priests at all, making their crimes secular assaults, not clerical sins. The silence on this reveals the sect’s fear: admitting its sacramental bankruptcy would collapse its entire edifice. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili condemned the modernist error that “the Church… is subject to continuous evolution” (Proposition 53).
Mediation Over Justice: Masonic Tactics in Ecclesial Guise
Judge Buckley’s mediation—bypassing courts to “promote healing”—mirrors Freemasonry’s preference for opaque settlements over public accountability. The Syllabus of Errors anathematizes the claim that “ecclesiastical courts… ought to be abolished” (Proposition 31). True justice requires canonical trials exposing perpetrators, not private payouts masking systemic rot. Dolan’s lawsuit against Chubb compounds the scandal: Syllabus Proposition 24 forbids the Church from pleading before secular tribunals when “ecclesiastical rights” are at stake. Yet the “archdiocese” drags its insurer to court like any profane corporation.
Theological Atrophy in Language
The term “victim-survivors”—a therapeutic neologism—replaces penitent or aggrieved faithful, reducing spiritual injury to psychological trauma. Dolan’s call to pray for “those who have experienced the horror of abuse” ignores the horror of sacrilege when invalid “clergy” desecrate their simulacrum of the Mass. Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (§13) identifies such linguistic shifts as Masonic strategy: “They… pervert the very meanings of words… to cheat the multitudes.”
Root Cause: Rejection of Christ the King
This settlement distracts from the conciliar sect’s foundational apostasy: replacing Christ’s Social Reign with secular humanism. Quas Primas declares: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§32). Instead, Dolan apes corporate CEOs, selling assets to silence critics. The $300 million—like Los Angeles’ $880 million—is blood money paid by a sect that long ago abandoned the Depositum Fidei. As Pius IX taught in the Syllabus (Proposition 39): “The State… is the source of all rights”—a heresy now institutionalized by the neo-church.
Conclusion: The “archdiocese”’s payout is not restitution but hush money, masking its ontological void. Until the conciliar sect dissolves and true bishops restore the Mass and Sacraments, no amount of cash can heal wounds inflicted by its counterfeit priesthood.
Source:
New York archdiocese announces $300 million settlement for victims of clergy abuse (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.12.2025