The Pillar’s Silent Apostasy: How ‘Conservative’ Catholic Media Upholds the Conciliar Revolution

The Pillar promotes a podcast episode from February 17, 2026, featuring commentary by JD Flynn. The article functions as a promotional notice for a paid subscription service, offering audio recordings of news from a self-described Catholic perspective. There is no substantive content beyond logistical details and a list of recent episodes. However, the very existence and framing of The Pillar as a “Catholic” news outlet, operating within the structures of the post-conciliar church and using the title “Pope” for the current occupant of the Vatican, reveals a profound and damning complicity with the Modernist revolution. The article’s silence on the sede vacante and its implicit recognition of the antipopes constitute a rejection of integral Catholic faith. The Pillar does not merely report news; it normalizes the conciliar sect and thereby participates in the apostasy foretold by St. Pius X.

Normalization of the Antipapacy: The Core Error

The article refers to “Pope Leo X…” in its show notes, using the title without quotation marks or any qualification. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a direct denial of Catholic doctrine on the papacy. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught, a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope ipso facto: “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The current occupant of the Vatican, Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”), and his predecessors since John XXIII, have promulgated the doctrines of Vatican II, which constitute manifest heresy against the immutable faith. They have embraced religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and collegiality, all condemned by pre-1958 magisterium. Therefore, they are not popes but antipopes. By using the title “Pope” without reservation, The Pillar implicitly denies the doctrine of automatic loss of office and teaches that a manifest heretic can be the Vicar of Christ—a position Bellarmine calls “certainly false.” This is not a minor oversight; it is the foundational error that makes all subsequent “Catholic” commentary null and void.

The Conciliar Sect’s “Conservative” Facade

The Pillar presents itself as a conservative voice within the post-conciliar church. This positioning is precisely the Modernist strategy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect seeks to preserve a veneer of Tradition while accepting the revolutionary principles of Vatican II. This is the synthesis of all heresies: it preserves the language of Catholicism while emptying it of its supernatural content. The article’s very existence as a “Catholic” news source that does not declare the sede vacante demonstrates its adherence to the error of “evolution of dogma” (condemned in Lamentabili, propositions 54, 58). It treats the Church as a human institution that can change its doctrines over time, rather than the immutable Mystical Body of Christ, whose truths are forever fixed. The “news” it reports is therefore news from the perspective of a schismatic body, not the one true Church.

Silence on Christ the King: The Omission That Betrays Apostasy

Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas establishes the feast of Christ the King as a direct remedy against the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” The Pope writes: “when God and Jesus Christ—as we lamented—were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The encyclical demands that “rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The Pillar, in its promotion of “news” from the conciliar structures, remains utterly silent on this absolute duty of Catholic states and the public reign of Christ. It does not condemn the secularist states that reject Christ’s kingship; it does not call for the consecration of nations to the Sacred Heart; it does not denounce the error of religious liberty, which Pius XI explicitly links to the removal of Christ from public life. This silence is not neutrality; it is complicity. By operating within the framework of modern secular democracies and engaging with the “pope” who embraces religious liberty, The Pillar implicitly rejects the social kingship of Christ. It reduces the Church to a private religious society, exactly the error condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State…”).

The Naturalistic Humanism of Conciliar “News”

The very format of The Pillar—a news podcast discussing current events through a “Catholic” lens—embodies the naturalistic, immanentist mentality of the post-conciliar church. It treats the world as an autonomous sphere, analyzing political and social events without the uncompromising lens of Catholic dogma. There is no mention of the final judgment, the state of grace, the necessity of membership in the true Church for salvation, or the absolute primacy of the supernatural. This is the “reduction of the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanism” condemned by Pius X. The Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 57) states: “The science of philosophical things and morals and also civil laws may and ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority.” The Pillar’s approach assumes exactly this separation: it reports “news” as if the world operates on its own principles, with Catholic commentary as a mere addendum. In reality, all events must be judged by the yardstick of Christ’s kingship and the salvation of souls. The article’s silence on this supernatural framework is a damning admission of its naturalism.

Complicity in the Great Apostasy

St. Pius X, in his encyclical E Supremi, warned of “the conspiracy of iniquity” and “the enemies of the Church” who “have changed the whole meaning of the Gospel.” The current crisis is not merely a disciplinary problem but a wholesale apostasy from the faith. The “Pope” and the hierarchy publicly teach errors condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus and Pius X’s Lamentabili. The Pillar, by acknowledging these men as legitimate authorities and offering “Catholic” analysis from within their schismatic structure, becomes a tool of this apostasy. It provides a “conservative” outlet that keeps Catholics trapped in the conciliar sect, reassuring them that everything is fundamentally okay if they just attend the “Traditional Mass” (which, even when valid, is celebrated in communion with antipopes). This is the most insidious form of Modernism: it looks Catholic, sounds Catholic, but denies the necessity of the true, hierarchical Church and the absolute duty to reject false shepherds. As Bellarmine argued, a manifest heretic cannot be a member of the Church, let alone its head. To treat him as such is to commit formal schism.

Conclusion: A Call to Rejection and Return

The promotional article for The Pillar is a symptom of the profound apostasy of our age. It represents the “conservative” face of the conciliar revolution, which seeks to make Catholicism compatible with the modern world. Its silence on the sede vacante, its use of the title “Pope” for a manifest heretic, its naturalistic approach to news, and its omission of Christ’s social kingship expose it as a component of the “abomination of desolation.” The only Catholic response is total rejection. Catholics must withdraw from all conciliar structures, including media like The Pillar, and adhere solely to the unchanging faith as it existed before the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. There is no “conservative” reform of the conciliar sect; it is a modernist abomination that must be abandoned entirely. Return to the true Church, which has no communion with antipopes or their supporters.

Source:
The Tuesday Pillar Post – February 17, 2026 (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 18.02.2026