The Pillar portal (July 16, 2026) reports that Ontario provincial police are investigating the theft of over $630,000 from St. John Parish in the so-called “Archdiocese of Kingston,” perpetrated by the “pastor,” “Fr.” David Collins, O.F.M. Conv., over a period stretching back to 2019. The lay “Archbishop” Michael Mulhall admitted “significant financial irregularities” involving 1,196 “irregular cheques” drawn from the “General account” and the “Mass account.” The “Franciscan” has been returned to his community in Toronto while a “Fr.” Tim Shea supplies the “sacraments.” This sordid theft is not an anomaly but the inevitable temporal fruit of the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect, where invalid clergy plunder a Protestantized assembly for alms given to a simulated sacrifice.
The Fiction of Jurisdiction and Orders: Ubi Non Est Petrus, Non Est Ecclesia
The article speaks of an “Archdiocese of Kingston” headed by “Archbishop Michael Mulhall” and a “pastor” “Fr. David Collins, O.F.M. Conv.” From the perspective of the integral Catholic faith, these titles are fictions. Since the death of Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant (Sedes Vacans). The line of claimants—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)—are manifest heretics who have automatically lost all jurisdiction ipso facto by their public adhesion to the Modernist heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, religious freedom). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “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 Church” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). Consequently, “Archbishop” Mulhall, appointed by antipopes, possesses no jurisdiction; he is a layman in episcopal vestments. “Fr.” Collins, ordained in the invalid Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI (1968)—a rite stripped of the essential form and intention for the sacerdotal priesthood—possesses no orders. He is a layman in a Franciscan habit. The “parish” is not a canonical parish but a Protestantized assembly hall. The theft of $630,000 is thus not merely “financial misconduct” but the logical act of a layman stealing from a lay corporation masquerading as the Church.
The “Mass Account“: Simony and Sacrilege Masked as Accounting
The Pillar report specifies that “3 cheques were issued from the Mass account.” This detail exposes the satanic core of the conciliar sect. The “Mass” celebrated by “Fr.” Collins is the Novus Ordo Missae, the “New Mass” fabricated by the Freemason Annibale Bugnini under Paul VI. It is not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a Protestantized memorial meal, a cena celebrated versus populum by an invalidly ordained minister. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who deny the propitiatory nature of the Mass (Session XXII, Can. 1: “If anyone says that in the Mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God… let him be anathema”). Alms given for “Masses” in this sect constitute simony (buying/selling spiritual things that are not valid) and the funds stolen from the “Mass account” represent the wages of sacrilege. The “expert” Robert Warren, an accounting professor, suggests “internal controls” and “several people involved in financial transactions” as the remedy. This is the naturalistic solution of the Civitas Terrena: bureaucratic checks on a spiritual void. Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi—the law of praying establishes the law of believing and living. When the lex orandi is destroyed (the True Mass abolished), the lex vivendi collapses into theft and corruption. No “internal control” can sanctify a den of thieves masquerading as a church.
The Franciscan Modernist: Corruptio Optimi Pessima
The thief is a member of the “Order of Friars Minor Conventual” (O.F.M. Conv.). The Franciscan orders were among the first to capitulate to the Modernist revolution. The Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium abandoned the strict observance of the Rule of St. Francis for the “Conventual” mitigation centuries ago, but post-1968 they became avant-garde agents of the conciliar revolution—ecumenism, religious liberty, and the New Mass. St. Francis embraced Lady Poverty; his modernist sons embrace Lady Larceny. The article notes the “Franciscan community in Toronto” received the thief back. This is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect: protect the institution, shuffle the predators. The Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV teaches that a heretic elevated to office receives “null, void, and of no effect” promotion. A Modernist “Franciscan” invalidly “ordained” in a Masonic rite is the perfect instrument of divine chastisement upon a people who have rejected the Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas, Pius XI: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”). The theft is the temporal punishment for the spiritual apostasy.
The Naturalistic “Solution”: Lex Injusta Non Est Lex
Robert Warren, the “expert in theft and fraud in ecclesiastical contexts,” advocates for “internal controls” and “several people involved in financial transactions.” This is the technocratic mindset of the City of Man. He treats the Church as a non-profit NGO requiring better accounting software. He ignores the Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code (cited in the provided context): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The true “internal control” is the Catholic Faith and the True Priesthood. A valid priest, offering the True Mass, bound by the seal of confession and the duty of pastoral charity, fearing God’s judgment (Timor Domini initium sapientiae), is the only true safeguard against embezzlement. The conciliar sect has abolished the priesthood, the Mass, and the Faith; it reaps the whirlwind of its own making. The proliferation of such thefts in “parishes in Florida, Missouri, New York, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Iowa” (as the article notes) is not a failure of accounting protocols but the manifest sign of Ichabod—the glory has departed.
Systemic Rot: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This incident is not an isolated “scandal”; it is the modus vivendi of the secta conciliaris. The “Archdiocese of Kingston” is a branch of the “paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.” The “Archbishop” Mulhall, the “Franciscan” Collins, the “priest” Shea—all are functionaries in a structure that has no jurisdiction, no orders, no Mass, no Faith. The $630,000 stolen from the “General account” and “Mass account” is money given by deceived faithful who believe they support the Church. In reality, they fund a Masonic counter-church. The theft is the logical consequence of Dignitatis Humanae (religious liberty) and Gaudium et Spes (worldliness): when the Church ceases to be the Regnum Christi and becomes a “partner in dialogue” with the world, its ministers become merchants. Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum habitare fratres in unum—behold how good it is for brethren to dwell in unity—has become ecce quam lucrum: behold how profitable. The only remedy is not “police investigation” or “internal controls,” but the recognition of the Sedes Vacans, the rejection of the Novus Ordo sect, and the return to the Traditio of the True Mass and true bishops. Non praevalebunt—the gates of hell shall not prevail against the True Church, but they have prevailed against this counterfeit structure, as the empty bank accounts and empty tabernacles testify.
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Ontario police investigating $600,000 in missing parish funds (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 16.07.2026