The Pillar portal reports on a series of events from June 2, 2026, including a historical anecdote about Fort Michilimackinac, a rescript from antipope Leo XIV altering canon law regarding the dismissal of monastic superiors, the dissolution of a UK community of those pretending to be traditional Catholics (the Transalpine Franciscans), financial crimes in the Archdiocese of Kansas City, the impending illicit episcopal consecrations by the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), the decline of clergy in Belarus, and the appointment of Montse Alvarado as prefect of the Vatican communications dicastery. The cited article relates these disparate items with a tone of bureaucratic casualness, treating the structural and doctrinal implosion of the conciliar sect as mere administrative routine. The fundamental bankruptcy of this approach lies in its complete omission of the supernatural perspective, evaluating the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican as a legitimate authority while ignoring the absolute primacy of unchanging Catholic doctrine.
The Naturalistic Reduction of History and the Omnipresent Silence on Sin
The article opens with a lengthy recounting of the 1763 Native American uprising at Fort Michilimackinac, detailing the military deception used to capture the British garrison. The narrative is steeped in naturalism, focusing entirely on strategy, tribal politics, and temporal outcomes. What is entirely absent from this historical excursion—characteristic of the modernist mentality—is any mention of the supernatural end of man, the true Faith, or the providential ordering of history. The preaching of the Lenni Lenape prophet Neolin is noted as a “religious revival” calling for the rejection of alcohol and polygamy, but it is evaluated solely on its temporal, sociological impact. This naturalistic reductionism, which treats religion as a purely anthropological phenomenon, is the very essence of the Modernism condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis. True history is the history of salvation, governed by the reign of Christ the King. As Pope Pius XI taught in the encyclical Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” To narrate historical events while ignoring the sovereignty of Christ over nations is to implicitly adopt the secularism and laicism that the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX anathematizes (Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”).
The Absurdity of Conciliar “Canon Law” and the Texas Carmel
The article transitions to reporting on a rescript from “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) that alters the process for dismissing a major superior of a sui iuris monastery. The Pillar dismisses concerns about this rescript as the product of “fabulists and the kind of website that traffic in scandal-unmoored-from-reality,” framing the change as merely closing a “lacuna” in the law to handle superiors who “break bad.”
This bureaucratic defense exposes the theological vacuum at the heart of the conciliar sect and its apologists. The 1983 Code of Canon Law is not an authentic legislative expression of the Catholic Church; it is the legal framework of a paramasonic structure designed to institutionalize the revolution of Vatican II. It exists to facilitate the democratization of the Church and the destruction of the hierarchical constitution defined by the Magisterium. To speak of “loopholes” in this neo-church legislation is to grant it a legitimacy it does not possess. The true Church is governed by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which reflects the immutable Catholic doctrine. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code decrees that “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: … Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The antipopes and their collaborators, having publicly defected from the Catholic faith by espousing ecumenism, religious liberty, and the evolution of dogmas, possess no jurisdiction whatsoever. As St. Robert Bellarmine asserts in De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The current usurper on Peter’s throne is an antipope, and his rescripts are null, void, and of no effect.
Furthermore, the article traces this legal change to the case of the “wayward Carmelite nuns of Texas,” treating the dissolution of a contemplative monastery as a mere administrative lesson. The silence regarding the spiritual catastrophe is deafening. Where is the concern for the state of grace of the nuns? For the validity of their vows in a structure that has gutted the liturgy and the sacraments? The conciliar sect’s assault on contemplative life—mandating “updating” and dismantling cloisters—is a direct continuation of the modernist war against the supernatural. The nuns are reduced to juridical subjects to be managed by “bishops” who are, in reality, mere functionaries of the abomination of desolation.
The Dissolution of the Transalpine Franciscans: The Fruits of Recognizing Usurpers
The Pillar notes the dissolution of the Transalpine Franciscans, a community of those pretending to be traditional Catholics in the UK. The article suggests that while “much of that has suggested that the community’s dissolution was rooted in its liturgical praxis,” there may be “more to the story.”
Regardless of the immediate natural cause, the spiritual root is their inherent contradiction. Communities of those pretending to be traditional Catholics attempt to maintain the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary while acknowledging the legitimacy of the modernist antipopes who destroyed it. This is an ontological impossibility. One cannot serve Christ the King and the conciliar sect simultaneously. As Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The pseudo-traditionalists apply this liberal separation to the Church herself, attempting to separate the traditional liturgy from the Roman Pontiff who governs it. By remaining within the juridical structure of the neo-church, these communities inevitably succumb to its corrupting influence, discipline collapses, and they are either suppressed or absorbed into the post-conciliarism they nominally resist. Their dissolution is the inevitable fruit of the hermeneutic of continuity—a heresy that posits a continuity between the immutable Catholic Faith and the conciliar revolution.
The SSPX Consecrations: A Schism Within a Schism
The article discusses the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and its plan to consecrate four “bishops” without papal permission, noting that the Vatican has warned this constitutes an “act of schism.” Ed Condon analyzes the “possible ripple effects.”
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the situation is clear. The SSPX operates within a paradigm of contradiction. They recognize the antipopes as legitimate Roman Pontiffs, yet they refuse to submit to them in matters of liturgy and discipline. However, as St. Robert Bellarmine and the theologians of the Church teach, a manifest heretic is automatically deprived of all jurisdiction ipso facto without any declaratory sentence. The men occupying the Vatican since 1958 are manifest heretics, having embraced the errors of Modernism condemned by Lamentabili sane exitu and Pascendi. Therefore, they are not popes, and one cannot schism from antipopes.
The SSPX’s impending consecrations are illicit not because they defy a legitimate pontiff, but because they are performed by bishops who themselves operate under the shadow of the conciliar revolution. Archbishop Lefebvre, ordained by the Freemason Cardinal Liénart, operated under the fatal delusion that “give us the old Mass, that is enough for us.” The Mass is not a commodity to be preserved in isolation; it is the supreme act of the Church, inseparable from the integral Faith and a legitimate Roman Pontiff. By seeking to perpetuate a structure that acknowledges the conciliar antipopes as legitimate while resisting them practically, the SSPX is creating a schism within a schism. They are building a lifeboat on a ship that is already sinking into the abyss of apostasy, while pretending the captain is legitimate but merely confused. True Catholics do not negotiate with usurpers; they profess the Faith in its entirety and await the restoration of the Chair of Peter.
Clerical Criminality and the Failure of the Neo-Church
The Pillar casually reports on a “priest” in Kansas City who allegedly stole over $100,000, amid a separate criminal investigation into unspecified acts against an adult. The article focuses on the legal mechanics and the “close-lipped” nature of the court documents.
This naturalistic focus obscures the supernatural horror. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the ascetical and dogmatic rigor of the Church, has produced a clergy devoid of the grace of state. The Novus Ordo rite of ordination—revised by the Freemason Annibale Bugnini and promulgated by the antipope Paul VI—is of highly questionable validity, stripped of the unambiguous form that confers the sacrificial priesthood. When men who are at best laymen, or at worst sacrilegious simulators of holy orders, are placed in charge of parishes, the result is not merely financial malfeasance but the spiritual ruin of souls. The article’s silence on the state of grace, the objective sacrilege of simulating the priesthood, and the loss of faith that precedes such crimes, is a symptom of the naturalism that pervades the conciliar mentality. As Pope Pius X warned in Pascendi, the modernist clergy are “to be considered the most pernicious of all the enemies of the Church.”
The Decline of Clergy in Belarus: The Harvest of Apostasy
The report on the diminishing number of priests in Belarus is presented as a logistical problem: “making the provision of pastoral care increasingly challenging.”
This is the inevitable consequence of the conciliar revolution. The Church before 1958 had no shortage of vocations because she offered the truth, the true Mass, and the rigor of the cross. The neo-church offers dialogue, religious liberty, and the cult of man. As Pope Pius XI explained in Quas Primas, peace and order are only possible when individuals and states submit to the reign of Christ the King. By abandoning the Social Kingship of Christ in favor of ecumenism and religious indifferentism—condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 18: “Protestism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion…”)—the conciliar sect has stripped the priesthood of its sacrificial dignity. Why would a man sacrifice his life to be a facilitator of a humanist assembly? The vocations crisis in Belarus is not a logistical challenge; it is if not ‘just’ the death rattles of a false religion, then idolatry.
The Appointment of Montse Alvarado: Managing the Abomination
Finally, the article celebrates the appointment of Montse Alvarado as prefect of the Vatican’s dicastery for communications by antipope Leo XIV. The Pillar praises her qualifications and discusses the political maneuvering behind the job.
This appointment is merely a reshuffling of bureaucrats within the paramasonic structure. The Vatican communications apparatus exists to propagandize the conciliar revolution, to mask the apostasy of the antipopes, and to promote the agenda of the New Advent. Whether the prefect is qualified in the eyes of the secular media is spiritually irrelevant. The entire structure is dedicated to the suppression of the truth and the promotion of the errors of Modernism. It is a mouthpiece for the very apostasy that has devastated the Church since 1958. To praise its functionaries is to collaborate in the silencing of the immutable Faith.
Conclusion: The Inescapable Duty of Integral Faith
The Pillar’s reporting is a masterclass in the modernist technique of reducing the supernatural to the natural, the doctrinal to the administrative, and the catastrophic to the logistical. It treats the conciliar sect as the Catholic Church, thereby obscuring the reality that the Faith has not changed, but the structures occupying the Vatican have defected from it. The solution is not a better rescript, a tighter canonical loophole, or a more qualified communications prefect. The solution is the unconditional rejection of the conciliar revolution and a return to the integral Catholic Faith, recognizing that peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ (Pius XI, encyclical Quas Primas), and that any structure which denies His Social Kingship is if not ‘just’ a human association, then an instrument of the enemy of souls.
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Michilimackinac, Montse, and throwin bones (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 02.06.2026