The Pillar portal reports on four items from the post-conciliar sect’s chaotic landscape: the Society of Saint Pius the Tenth (SSPX) rejecting a “theological dialogue” offer from the “Vatican” while continuing to recognize its antipopes; the German bishops’ conference endorsing the statutes of a synodal conference, advancing the national church heresy; a Chaldean Catholic bishop in San Diego submitting his resignation after a “Vatican”-ordered investigation, exposing internal corruption; and a pro-abortion professor being appointed to direct an academic institute, representing open apostasy. This roundup is not news but a litany of the conciliar sect’s systematic repudiation of the Catholic Faith, where every event demonstrates the logical fruit of the revolution initiated at Vatican II. The common thread is the total abandonment of the supernatural for the naturalistic, the replacement of God’s law with humanistic relativism, and the enthronement of apostasy as the new normal.
The SSPX: Schism Within the Schism
The Pillar notes the SSPX’s rejection of “theological dialogue” with the “Vatican.” While this refusal to engage with modernists appears traditionalist, it is a deceitful half-measure that perpetuates the greatest schism. The SSPX continues to recognize the authority of the antipopes, from John XXIII through the current usurper “Pope” Leo XIV, thereby acknowledging the legitimacy of the conciliar sect’s leadership. This is a direct violation of the theological principle that a manifestus heretic (manifest heretic) automatically loses all ecclesiastical office. As St. Robert Bellarmine definitively taught in *De Romano Pontifice*: “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 SSPX’s position, which treats the post-1958 occupants of the Vatican as legitimate popes while rejecting their teachings, is a practical contradiction. It acknowledges a non-Christian as the Vicar of Christ, which is impossible. Theirs is a schism *within* the larger schism of the neo-church, a compromise that acknowledges the abomination of desolation while trying to preserve a semblance of tradition. Their famous slogan, “give us the old Mass, that is enough for us,” reduces the Catholic Faith to a mere liturgical preference, ignoring the absolute necessity of a valid hierarchical structure and the profession of the integral Faith, which they compromise by recognizing heretical antipopes.
German Bishops: The National Church Heresy Institutionalized
The endorsement of synodal conference statutes by the German bishops’ conference is a decisive step toward the establishment of a national church, a heresy solemnly condemned by Pope Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors*. Error #37 states: “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established.” The German “synodal way” is precisely this—a national church synod operating in open defiance of Roman authority, even that of the conciliar “popes.” While the *Syllabus* condemned this error in the 19th century, the German bishops are now implementing it with the quiet approval of “Pope” Francis and his successor. This demonstrates that the conciliar sect’s structure is inherently Protestant and Gallican, prioritizing national conferences over the universal jurisdiction of the papacy (a jurisdiction that, in the true Church, is exercised by a valid pope, not a modernist antipope). The language of “synodality” and “collegiality” is a smokescreen for the dismantling of the centralized, divinely instituted hierarchical structure of the Church, replacing it with a democratic, bureaucratic model akin to a political party. This is the fulfillment of the *Syllabus*’s warning: the state (or in this case, the national church) seeks to be “exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church” (Error #54) and to “define what are the rights of the Church” (Error #19).
Vatican Investigations: The Corruption of the Conciliar Sect
The resignation of a Chaldean Catholic bishop after a “Vatican”-ordered investigation reveals the deep moral and administrative rot within the conciliar structures. However, from the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the investigation itself is illegitimate. The so-called “Vatican” is not the Holy See but the headquarters of the paramasonic structure occupying the Church. Its investigations are not acts of canonical justice but internal power struggles within a sect. The true Church, as defined by the Council of Trent and the 1917 Code of Canon Law, possesses an innate right to freedom and independence from secular authority—a principle Pius XI reaffirmed in *Quas Primas*: “the Church… demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The conciliar sect, having surrendered to secular powers and ideologies (as seen in its endorsement of religious liberty at Vatican II and its subsequent pandering to globalist agendas), has no legitimate authority to investigate anyone. Its canonical processes are null and void because they emanate from a body that has defected from the Catholic Faith. The resignation is not a triumph of justice but a symptom of a body politic riddled with the same sins of careerism, compromise, and naturalism that characterize the entire post-conciliar epoch.
Open Apostasy: The Pro-Abortion Professor
The appointment of a pro-abortion professor to an academic directorship is not merely a scandal; it is the public, doctrinal, and moral apostasy of the conciliar sect made manifest. This act directly contradicts the most fundamental tenets of the natural law and the teaching of the Church. The *Syllabus of Errors* condemned the notion that “all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure” (Error #58). The pro-abortion stance is the ultimate expression of this error: it places the selfish gratification of the individual above the inviolable right to life of the innocent, a right derived not from human law but from God’s eternal law. Pius IX’s *Syllabus* also condemned the separation of Church and state (Error #55) and the idea that the state can be indifferent to religion (Error #77). The conciliar sect, by allowing and even promoting such appointments, demonstrates that it has fully embraced the secular, humanistic principle that the state and its institutions (including Catholic ones under its control) need not be guided by Catholic doctrine. This is the logical outcome of the “hermeneutic of continuity” and the “evolution of doctrine” promoted by Modernists—if doctrine evolves, then the absolute prohibition of abortion can be “discerned” away. The appointment is a concrete, public act of worship of the “cult of man” condemned by Pius XI in *Quadragesimo Anno* and Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici gregis*. It proves that the conciliar sect is not a Christian body but an apostate one, serving the spirit of the world.
The Theological Bankruptcy: Omission of the Supernatural
A linguistic and symptomatic analysis of The Pillar’s reporting reveals the deepest pathology: the complete omission of the supernatural order. The news items are presented in the neutral, bureaucratic tone of secular journalism, discussing “dialogue,” “statutes,” “investigations,” and “appointments” as if they were administrative matters of a non-governmental organization. There is no mention of sin, grace, the state of souls, the horror of abortion as a mortal sin crying to Heaven for vengeance, the nullity of acts performed by heretics and apostates, or the final judgment. This silence is the gravest accusation. The pre-conciliar Magisterium, from the *Syllabus* to *Lamentabili sane exitu*, constantly warned against the “naturalism” that reduces religion to ethics and ethics to social utility. Pius X’s condemnation of Modernism noted its characteristic “rejection of the supernatural” and its attempt to explain religion “as a purely natural product.” The Pillar’s roundup, by treating the conciliar sect’s activities as mere ecclesiastical politics, perfectly embodies this naturalistic, modernist mentality. It assumes the legitimacy of the structures and discusses their internal dynamics without questioning their fundamental apostasy. This is the “hermeneutic of continuity” in practice: treating the revolutionary as if it were the normal development of tradition.
Conclusion: The Only Response is Integral Catholic Resistance
Every item in this roundup is a symptom of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place. The SSPX’s compromised position, the German bishops’ national church project, the Vatican’s corrupt investigations, and the open promotion of abortion in Catholic institutions are not aberrations but the logical result of the conciliar revolution’s foundational errors: religious liberty, collegiality, ecumenism, and the adaptation of the Church to the modern world. The unchanging Catholic Faith, as defined before the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, demands the total rejection of this sect and all its works. The true Catholic, adhering to the doctrine of Bellarmine and the decrees of the Council of Trent, must recognize that the men occupying the Vatican since John XXIII are not popes but antipopes, and that the structures they govern are not the Church but the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9). The only legitimate response is not “dialogue” or “reform from within” but absolute, uncompromising resistance, the preservation of the traditional Faith and sacraments in the catacombs, and the prayer for the restoration of a true pope who will reign according to the immutable laws of God. As Pius XI proclaimed in *Quas Primas*, the only hope for society is that “all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him.” The conciliar sect has rejected that reign; therefore, it has no part in the Kingdom of Christ.
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News Roundup— Week of February 26 (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 26.02.2026