The Business of God: How the Conciliar Sect Reduces the Church to a Corporation
EWTN News portal reports the death of Charles Zech, a Villanova University economics professor who founded the Center for Church Management — a program that received the personal endorsement of the antipope Leo XIV in 2025. Zech, who taught at Villanova from 1974 to 2018, authored a dozen books on what he called “Church management” and argued that “the old model of operating a Catholic parish won’t work in the 21st century,” advocating instead for the application of secular business administration to the structures of the conciliar sect. His center offered a master of science in Church management, webinars, and programs in “professional financial management” and “human resource management.” The article celebrates Zech as a family man and a scholar whose “world-renowned” contributions shaped the American Church. That the dying conciliar structure would entrust its governance to an economics professor rather than to a theologian, a canonist, or a saint reveals everything about the spiritual bankruptcy of post-conciliarism: the Mystical Body of Christ has been reduced to a nonprofit corporation in need of restructuring.




