The above left picture is Msgr. Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue, a former Augustinian who was born and raised in Peru.  Msgr. Coronado taught me Canon Law at St. John Vianney seminary in Denver, CO.  I still communicate with him frequently. The top right is Ana María Quispe Díaz, a woman whom Coronado canonically represented in his home country of Peru after she accused a different priest of abusing her when she was a minor.

Msgr. Gene Gomulka, another canceled priest with whom I communicate in real life, writes the following about the two people in the above pictures:

The three Peruvian abuse victims who accused Pope Leo of covering up their abuse were represented by Msgr. Ricardo Coronado, who also defended other victims who claimed that various Peruvian bishops, members of the Episcopal Conference of Peru, covered up abuse reported in their dioceses. Interestingly, in response to Coronado’s defense of Peruvian abuse victims, it was reported, “Prevost led that investigation into Coronado-Arrascue’s alleged offense during the future pope’s tenure as head of the Peruvian bishops’ commission.” In other words, Prevost, whom Coronado accused of covering up abuse along with other bishops, was also the one who spearheaded efforts to dispose of Coronado. Although Coronado was supposedly defrocked on the grounds of sexual misconduct, a lack of evidence supporting the allegations and failure to follow due process could lead one to believe that his defense of abuse victims, and accusations of cover-ups by the Pope and other Peruvian bishops, were the real reasons for his laicization…

One reason to suspect a cover-up and an abuse of ecclesiastical power is the fact that Pope Leo recently laicized Father Eleuterio “Lute” Vásquez González, who was accused of abusing victims defended by Coronado, including Ana María Quispe Díaz. Appearing on August 28, 2025, in downtown Chicago alongside advocates from SNAP, Díaz said, “I have been quiet since the pope was elected, but I am not planning on being quiet forever.” Feeling revictimized by Leo and betrayed like many victims whose abuse is covered up by Church officials, Díaz asked, “How much more damage can he do now that he is the pope?” According to InfoVaticana, Díaz and her two sisters, who accused Leo when he was their bishop of never opening an investigation into their abuse, reported that Leo recently laicized their abuser, Father Vásquez, in order to avoid a full canonical trial.

I’ve known about all this since May, but I was shamed by countless Catholics for exposing it on X. The only question I now have following all this is:  Why isn’t this making mainstream Catholic news outlets? I fear that the answer is that the Catholic Church has been transformed from within to become an ape of the church.  If you think this sounds crazy, recall that Former-Exorcist of Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth (close friend of Pope John Paul II) once stated: “One day Padre Pio said to me very sorrowfully: ‘You know, Gabriele? It is Satan who has been introduced into the bosom of the Church and within a very short time will come to rule a false church.’”

Clearly, a “false-church” would have to run like a cult via its internal fear-mongering and external public relations.

A site called Very Well Mind lists several signs of belonging to a cult:

  1. Absolute authoritarianism without accountability.
  2. Zero tolerance for criticism or questions.
  3. Lack of financial disclosure regarding the budget.
  4. Wrong for leaving:  A belief that former followers are always wrong for leaving and there is never a legitimate reason for anyone else to leave.
  5. Abuse of members.

An AI search listed another five:
6. Isolation—Members are cut off from friends, family, and their previous support systems, and may be punished for leaving.
7. Excessive loyalty—There is an absolute, unwavering devotion to the leader or group, where skepticism is seen as disloyalty.
8. Demeaning outside life—The cult’s ideology devalues or dishonors the family unit and the outside world.
9. Love bombing—New members are initially showered with excessive attention and affection, which may be withdrawn if they question the group.
10. Ostracization for dissent—Individuals who express doubt or disagree with the group’s beliefs are ostracized or punished.

Check times ten. Clearly we are seeing all ten of these from the Vatican from 2013 onwards, and most chanceries in the US, both of which continue shilling for open-borders and trafficking of children from foreign countries.  If you are more loyal to man than God, you are in a cult.

Of course, none of these things disprove the validity of the hierarchy, but if the “check engine” light has been on for decades and if the engine hasn’t run “on Catholic” since at least 2013, maybe God is giving you more than enough clues to know what is really happening here.  Please—instead of trying to categorize me as a disobedient cult member—ask yourself if any of this is looking remotely Catholic.

Anyway, what is the solution? As I always write: Just keep the ancient Catholic faith and the ancient Catholic sacraments. But please—under no circumstances—should you ever again defend the cover-ups mentioned in the first half of this article anymore—either in Chicago or Peru or in the Vatican. Expose these tremendous evils every chance you can. That’s how you can even begin returning Catholics from an ape-of-the-church to the real-Church founded by Christ.