The Pillar portal (July 9, 2026) publishes an interview with Thomas Paprocki, the “bishop” of Springfield, Illinois, and chairman of the USCCB’s “canonical affairs committee,” concerning the recent revision of the *Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People* at the June 2026 “plenary assembly” in Orlando. The article details bureaucratic tinkering—glossaries, “electronic letters of suitability,” “presumption of innocence” for accused clerics, and the deliberate exclusion of “vulnerable adults” from the Charter’s scope—all orchestrated by the “bishops’ conference” of the conciliar sect. The cited interview exposes the utter bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s bureaucratic machinery: a vacuous exercise in canonical proceduralism by men devoid of jurisdiction, administering a “safeguarding” bureaucracy for a non-existent clergy while the See of Peter remains vacant and the true Church languishes in the catacombs.
The Juridical Nullity of the USCCB and Its “Bishops”: Sede Vacante and the Vacuum of Jurisdiction
The entire spectacle documented by The Pillar—the “vote,” the “revision working group,” the “consultation with the National Review Board,” the “bishop chairman” Paprocki pontificating on “canonical affairs”—rests upon a theological and juridical nullity: the non-existence of the officeholders themselves. Since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been canonically vacant (*Sedes Vacans*). The claimants to the papacy since Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) are manifest heretics who, by the very fact of their public heresy (*ipso facto*), severed themselves from the Mystical Body of Christ and lost all jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in *De Romano Pontifice* (Lib. 2, Cap. 30): “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and a member of the body of the Church.” This is not a mere theological opinion; it is the *sententia communis* of the Doctors of the Church, confirmed by the Bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio* of Pope Paul IV (1559), which declares that any promotion or elevation of a heretic to the papacy—even with unanimous consent of cardinals—is “null, void, and of no effect” (*nulla, irrita et invalida*).
Consequently, the men calling themselves “bishops” in the USCCB—ordained and consecrated in the invalid Paul VI rite (1968) by “bishops” themselves lacking jurisdiction and valid orders—possess no jurisdiction whatsoever (nulla iurisdictio). They are not successors of the Apostles; they are functionaries of a para-Masonic structure occupying the Vatican—the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by Daniel (9:27) and Our Lord (Mt 24:15) standing in the holy place. The “USCCB” is a civil corporation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) with no more ecclesiastical authority than the Rotary Club. Its “Charter,” its “Essential Norms,” its “Committee on Canonical Affairs,” and its “National Review Board” are canonical nullities (*irritum et irritum*). Paprocki’s title “chairman of the canonical affairs committee” is a grotesque oxymoron: one cannot have “canonical affairs” without canonical mission (*missio canonica*), and one cannot have canonical mission without a valid Ordinary, and there is no valid Ordinary without a valid Pope. Ex nihilo nihil fit.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Crisis: Bureaucracy vs. Salus Animarum
The interview reveals the modus operandi of the conciliar sect: the total substitution of the supernatural order with naturalistic bureaucracy. Paprocki speaks of “glossaries,” “electronic letters of suitability,” “mandatory reporters,” “presumption of innocence,” “administrative leave,” and “liability.” Not once does the interview mention the Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law). Not once is the word peccatum (sin) uttered, nor sodomia (sodomy), nor sacrilegium, nor iustitia Dei (justice of God). The crisis of the clergy is treated as a human resources management issue, a matter of “safeguarding policies,” “compliance,” and “risk management.”
This is the rotten fruit of the heresy of laicism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… 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 USCCB “Charter” is a document of the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” which Pius XI condemned as the “plague that poisons human society.” It treats the Church as a secular corporation liable to civil lawsuits, rather than the *Regnum Christi* (Kingdom of Christ) whose laws are divine, whose sanctions are eternal, and whose Head is Christ the King. The “Statement of Episcopal Commitment” cited by Paprocki—”we will apply the requirements of the Charter also to ourselves”—is a Masonic oath of loyalty to the NGO, not a profession of Catholic faith. It binds to a “Charter” drafted by lawyers, not to the *Corpus Iuris Canonici* (1917 Code) which binds the true Church.
The Sodomite Cancer and the Charter’s Conspiracy of Silence
The most damning omission in the interview—and in the Charter itself—is the deliberate excision of the word sodomy. Paprocki admits the “McCarrick saga” introduced the “question of vulnerable adults—specifically with seminarians.” This is a euphemism for the endemic, systemic practice of the peccatum nefandum (the unspeakable sin) among the conciliar clergy. The “Charter revision work group” explicitly “decided not to do that”—i.e., not to expand the Charter to cover abuse of adults—claiming it would “complicate this or dilute the focus here on minors being abused by clergy.”
This is a diabolical sleight of hand. The abuse of minors by clergy is overwhelmingly homosexual in nature (pederasty). The “vulnerable adults” (seminarians, novices, young priests) are the *fruits* of the same sodomite network that preys on adolescents. By artificially bifurcating “minors” and “adults,” the conciliar sect creates a bureaucratic firewall to protect the sodomite clerical caste. Paprocki admits his own diocese has a “Special Panel on Clergy Misconduct” for adults—separate from the “Review Board” for minors. This bifurcation *is* the cover-up. It ensures that the predatory homosexuality rampant in the “seminaries” of the conciliar sect (which are not Catholic seminaries but factories for the Novus Ordo “presbyterate”) remains quarantined in a separate, opaque process with no “zero tolerance” policy.
St. Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church, in his *Liber Gomorrhianus* (Book of Gomorrah), addressed to Pope St. Leo IX, thundered against this very evil: “Who does not know that the cancer of sodomitical impurity has spread so widely among the clergy that it threatens to destroy the very priesthood?” He demanded canonical severity: deposition, degradation, expulsion. The “Charter” offers “glossaries” and “electronic letters of suitability.” The contrast is the measure of the abyss between the Catholic Church and the conciliar sect.
The Farce of “Due Process” for Invalid Clergy
Paprocki boasts of the Charter’s reinforcement of the “presumption of innocence” for accused priests. He complains that “credibly accused” priests have “never been found guilty in either a canonical or a civil process” yet their names are published. He cites “dicasteries of the Holy See” (the Roman Curia of the antipopes) saying “a priest enjoys a presumption of innocence and his name should not be put on a list, unless there’s some finding of guilt.”
This is juridical theater of the absurd. There are no valid priests in the conciliar sect to have “rights” violated. The “priests” ordained in the Paul VI rite (1968) lack the *intentio faciendi quod facit Ecclesia* (intention to do what the Church does) regarding the Sacrifice and the Priesthood, as the rite itself was fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini to destroy the sacerdotal character. Even if the rite were valid, the “bishops” conferring it lack jurisdiction and valid orders themselves (consecrated in the Paul VI rite of 1968). Nemo dat quod non habet (no one gives what he does not have). A “priest” of the conciliar sect is a layman in vestments, simulating the Mass (*Missae simulatae*), invalidly “absolving” in the Novus Ordo “rite of reconciliation.” He has no canonical rights because he holds no canonical office. The “presumption of innocence” protects a juridical fiction. The “Essential Norms” referenced by Paprocki—which require “Vatican approval to change”—are the particular law of a schismatic sect, approved by an antipope, binding no Catholic conscience. Lex injusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law).
The Masonic Architecture of the “Charter”: Vos Estis Lux Mundi and the Antipope’s Auto-Cephaly
Paprocki points to the Charter’s footnote referencing *Vos estis lux mundi* (2023) by “Pope Francis” (Bergoglio) and the 2016 motu proprio *Come una madre amorevole* (“As a Loving Mother”) for the removal of “bishops.” This exposes the circular, auto-cephalous nature of the conciliar sect. An antipope (Bergoglio) issues a “motu proprio” to investigate “bishops” he himself appointed, who share his heresies. The “Apostolic Nuncio”—a diplomat of the Vatican State, not a papal legate with jurisdiction from a true Pope—is the designated recipient of complaints.
This is the imperium in imperio condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864), Error 39: “The State… is the origin and source of all rights… the civil law prevails.” Here, the “Vatican State” (the civil entity) is the source of the “canonical” procedure. The “Charter” defers to *Vos estis* for episcopal accountability. But *Vos estis* was promulgated by a manifest heretic (Bergoglio) who denied the divinity of Christ, promoted Pachamama idolatry, blessed sodomite unions (*Fiducia Supplicans*), and taught that all religions are willed by God. By the Bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*, his “laws” are “null, void, and of no effect.” The “bishops” investigated under *Vos estis* are his creatures; the investigator is his appointee. It is a mafia family investigating its own capos.
The “Electronic Letters of Suitability”: Bureaucracy for Simulated Sacraments
Paprocki’s enthusiasm for “electronic letters of suitability”—modeled on the Illinois Attorney Registration database—perfectly encapsulates the naturalistic reductionism of the sect. He wants a “common platform” to check if a “priest” is “in good standing.” But “good standing” in the conciliar sect means: validly ordained in the Novus Ordo rite (invalid), incardinated in a diocese of the sect (no jurisdiction), not currently “laicized” by the antipope. It is a database of simulators.
Paprocki, a civil lawyer (“I’m an attorney myself”), sees no liability issue. He compares it to checking a lawyer’s bar status. This is the naturalismus condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Error 3: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood…”). The “letter of suitability” (*litterae dimissoriae* / *testimoniales*) in the true Church (1917 Code, Can. 903) certifies that a priest is validly ordained, free from censures, and has the *faculties* of a valid Ordinary to celebrate the *Sacrificium Propitiatorium* (Propitiatory Sacrifice) and absolve validly. In the sect, it certifies compliance with HR policies. The “game-changer” for “priests” is merely administrative efficiency for the simulation of the mysteries.
The Fatima Distraction and the Masonic Operation
While the article does not mention Fatima, the entire apparatus of the conciliar sect—including its “safeguarding” bureaucracy—functions as the Masonic Operation “Fatima” described in the theological objections provided: a “psychological operation against the Church” designed to divert attention from the apostasia (apostasy) within. The “Miracle of the Sun” (1917) was a “mass optical manipulation… mass panic and autosuggestion.” The “Consecration of Russia” demanded by the false apparition was a “hyper-act of worship” undermining the *Social Kingship of Christ* taught by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Fatima narrative replaces the *Regnum Christi* (Kingdom of Christ) with a Marian geopolitical maneuver, serving the Masonic goal of “Christian-Islamic syncretism” (the name “Fatima”). The USCCB “Charter” is a component of this operation: a massive, bureaucratic distraction—a “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation”—designed to manage the symptoms of the apostasy (clerical crimes) while entrenching the cause (the false church).
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as Synagoga Satanae
The interview is a symptom of the mysterium iniquitatis (mystery of iniquity) described by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:7). The “bishops” meet in “Orlando” (a secular resort city) for a “plenary assembly” (a corporate board meeting). They vote on “revisions” (amendments to corporate bylaws). They consult “victims’ advocacy groups” (NGOs). They worry about “liability” and “attorneys.” They discuss “electronic letters” (IT infrastructure). The “Chairman of Canonical Affairs” is a civil lawyer. The “National Review Board” is “mostly laypeople.”
Where is the Sanctissimum Sacrificium? Where is the Breviarium Romanum? Where is the Catechismus Romanus? Where is the condemnation of Modernismus (Pius X, Pascendi)? Where is the defense of Castitas Sacerdotalis? Where is the Excommunicatio vitando for the heretics occupying the Vatican?
They are absent. The conciliar sect is a synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan, Apoc 2:9; 3:9)—an assembly that says they are Jews (Catholics) and are not, but lie. It has the *species* of the Church (buildings, vestments, titles in scare quotes) but lacks the *forma* (the Holy Ghost, jurisdiction, truth, the True Mass). The “Charter” is a bandage on a corpse.
Conclusion: Sede Vacante and the Remnant
The revision of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” by the USCCB is a canonical nullity, a moral farce, and a spiritual deception. It is the activity of a Masonic counter-church administering its own decay. The true Catholic Church, the *Ecclesia Militans*, persists in the catacombs—in the chapels and homes where validly ordained priests (ordained *ante* 1968 in the Roman Rite, or by valid bishops of the Thuc/LeFebvre lines *sine crimine*) offer the *Immolatio Incruenta Calvariae* (Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary), keep the *Fides Catholica Integra*, and await the *Parousia* or the miraculous restoration of the Papacy.
No “Charter,” no “Essential Norms,” no *Vos Estis*, no “electronic letters,” no “National Review Board,” and no “Bishop Paprocki” can bind a Catholic conscience. Quod ab initio non valet, in tractu temporis non convalescit (What is void from the beginning does not become valid with time). The See is vacant. The hierarchy is extinct. The sacraments of the sect are invalid. Return to the Tradition. Tradidi quod etiam accepi (I delivered what I also received — 1 Cor 11:23).
Source:
Paprocki: Charter revision included ‘opportunity for input’ (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 09.07.2026