Massachusetts Report Lays Bare Diabolical Fruit of Conciliar Priesthood
EWTN News portal reports that Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell published a report on September 30, 2026, documenting that more than 270 Catholic clerics abused nearly 1,000 children over the course of a century in the Dioceses of Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester. The investigation, spanning 300,000 pages and over 100 interviews, attributes the epidemic to a culture of reverence and indulgence toward priests mid-century, enabling predators easy access to victims. The three dioceses allegedly failed to document allegations, used coded language to conceal crimes, and transferred offenders rather than reporting them to law enforcement. Both the Worcester diocese and Fall River bishop Edgar M. da Cunha issued apologies, citing updated screening procedures and a new culture of protection. This secular indictment of the conciliar hierarchy is not a call to reform but the inevitable exposure of a counterfeit priesthood severed from the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the supernatural grace that alone preserves chastity.