The Pillar portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has issued a motu proprio titled Confirma Fratres Tuos, rolling back key administrative structures established by his predecessor, the antipope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio), in the 2023 apostolic constitution In Ecclesiarum Communione. The reform restores the “Cardinal Vicar” (Baldassare Reina) as the principal governing authority of the Diocese of Rome, diminishes the role of the “Vicegerent” (Bishop Renato Tarantelli Baccari), strips the “Episcopal Council” of its decision-making power—eliminating its designation as the “primary body of synodality”—and streamlines appointment procedures. The article details internal power struggles, financial mismanagement of diocesan properties, and the reinstatement of the historic center pastoral sector abolished by Francis. This bureaucratic reshuffling within the counterfeit hierarchy occupying the Vatican confirms that the conciliar sect is a purely human, juridical construct devoid of supernatural mission, obsessed with synodality and administrative control while the rights of Christ the King are trampled.
The Usurper’s Pen: Legislative Acts of a Non-Existent Authority
The very premise of the reported event is a theological absurdity. Robert Prevost, a manifest heretic who publicly adheres to the Vatican II apostasy—religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the novus ordo—possesses no jurisdiction whatsoever in the Catholic Church. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). The motu proprio Confirma Fratres Tuos is not an exercise of papal authority; it is the internal memo of a layman heading a paramasonic structure. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code—binding perennial ecclesiastical law—states that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” Prevost’s public profession of conciliar errors constitutes this defection. His “legislation” binds no Catholic conscience.
Synodality: The Heretical Heart of the Conciliar Reform
The article highlights that Francis’ constitution defined the “Episcopal Council” as the “primary body of synodality” and the principal forum for pastoral decisions. Leo XIV’s reform eliminates this designation, reducing the council to a “strictly consultative body.” This oscillation between “synodal” governance and monarchical centralization reveals the ontological instability of the conciliar church.
Synodality, as defined by the conciliar magisterium, is a heresy against the monarchical constitution of the Church instituted by Christ. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will” and that His Kingdom is “primarily spiritual” but encompasses all human society. The Church is not a democracy; it is a monarchy. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition that “the Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). By analogy, the conciliar “synodality” subjects the divine constitution of the Church to the “civil power” of a collective episcopal bureaucracy. It is the collegiality heresy of Vatican II (Lumen Gentium 22) operationalized. Leo XIV’s rollback is not a return to Tradition; it is a pragmatic adjustment of a modernist mechanism, retaining the novus ordo “Mass” and the heretical “canons” of 1983.
The Cardinal Vicar: A Vicar of a Vacant See
The restoration of the “Cardinal Vicar” (Baldassare Reina) as the “high and effective direction of the vicariate” is a farce. A vicar represents a principal. If the See of Peter is vacant (Sede Vacante), there is no principal to represent. The office of Cardinal Vicar of Rome exists to exercise the Pope’s ordinary vicarious power in the diocese. As Wernz and Vidal explain regarding Bellarmine’s teaching: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” Therefore, Reina holds a delegated authority from a non-existent source. His “governance” is the administration of a territorial corporation, the “Diocese of Rome” of the conciliar sect, not the pastoral care of the Ecclesia Catholica in the Eternal City.
Bureaucracy Over Salvation: The Naturalistic Reduction of the Episcopate
The article reads like a corporate restructuring memo. It focuses on “governing structures,” “administrative duties,” “appointment of office directors,” “financial difficulties,” “rental fees,” “market price rates,” and the “episcopal revolving door.” There is zero mention of the salvation of souls, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments, the conversion of sinners, or the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Pius XI in Quas Primas condemns the “plague… of secularism… so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The conciliar sect’s management of the Diocese of Rome is the epitome of this plague. The “Vicegerent” Tarantelli Baccari is described as a “civil lawyer” with “experience in administrative matters,” a “commissioner of canonical foundations,” “data protection officer.” This is the profile of a CEO, not a bishop. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the modernist error that “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57) and that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). The conciliar hierarchy acts exactly as if the Church were a human “movement” requiring efficient management, not the Regnum Christi requiring holy shepherds.
Financial Corruption: The Fruit of Apostasy
The report details allegations of leasing diocesan properties (Cloisters of Bramante) at fractions of market value to private entities and connected businessmen (Dario Di Domenico). This is the inevitable fruit of a hierarchy that has abandoned the munus regendi for the munus lucrativum. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Church has no innate and legitimate right of acquiring and possessing property” (Error 26) and that “The sacred ministers… are to be absolutely excluded from every charge and dominion over temporal affairs” (Error 27). The conciliar sect, while claiming temporal rights, administers them with the corruption typical of secular oligarchs, because they have no supernatural grace of state. They are “hirelings… whose own the sheep are not” (John 10:12).
The “Historic Center” Farce: Liturgical Archaeology vs. Living Faith
The abolition and reinstatement of the “historic center pastoral sector” is presented as a major pastoral event. One priest of the conciliar sect lamented: “It is paradoxical that the Synod on Synodality should open just at this time. I wonder where the synodality is in this situation.” This complaint exposes the total incoherence of the conciliar religion. They treat the historic center—where the blood of martyrs sanctified the soil—as a “touristic part” requiring “administrative” oversight. The true Diocese of Rome is not a zoning map for “auxiliary bishops” (many of whom, like Tarantelli Baccari, are “recent vocations with meteoric rise” ordained by the Freemason Liénart or his successors, rendering their orders doubtful at best). The true Diocese of Rome exists wherever the Tridentine Mass is offered and the integral Faith is professed—in the catacombs of the remnant, not the chancery of the usurper.
Tarantelli Baccari: The Ephemeral Architect of a False Reform
The article identifies Bishop Renato Tarantelli Baccari as the “architect of In Ecclesiarum Communione” and the “major loser.” His career trajectory—civil lawyer, ordained at 40, bishop at 46, “minimum time required by canon law”—is the portrait of a careerist functionary of the anti-church. His “reform” centralized power in a “synodal” bureaucracy; Leo XIV’s “reform” recentralizes it in a “monarchical” bureaucracy. Both are acts of the same anti-papal system. As Pope Celestine I taught regarding Nestorius: “he could not remove anyone by sentence who himself had already shown that he must be removed.” Tarantelli Baccari, by constructing a constitution rooted in the heresy of synodality, manifested his separation from the Catholic Church. His demotion is not justice; it is the internal purge of a revolutionary faction by another.
The Silence of the Prophets: No Voice for Christ the King
Nowhere in the article—nor in the documents of the conciliar sect—is there a call for the public recognition of Christ’s Kingship over Rome, Italy, and the nations. Pius XI commanded: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” The conciliar “Cardinal Vicar” and “Pope” Leo XIV are the primary rulers refusing this veneration, substituting the Reign of Christ with the reign of synodality and administrative efficiency. The motu proprio Confirma Fratres Tuos—”Confirm Thy Brethren”—is a blasphemous parody of Luke 22:32. The true confirmation of the brethren comes from the See of Peter professing the integral Faith, not from a usurper issuing bureaucratic decrees for a counterfeit diocese.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
This “news” is the chronicle of a parasitic structure occupying the visible patrimony of the Church. The rolling back of Francis’ “synodal” reforms by Leo XIV’s “monarchical” reforms changes nothing of the substance: both are exercises of null authority by manifest heretics. The faithful Catholic sees in this not a “reform of the reform,” but the continued agony of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3). The Diocese of Rome remains sede vacante. The true Vicar of Christ reigns from the Cross, not from the Lateran Palace occupied by the conciliar sect. “The Lord shall reign for ever: your God, O Sion, unto generation and generation” (Ps 145:10). The bureaucratic shuffling of the antichurch is dust in the wind before the Majestas Dei.
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Leo winds back Francis-era reforms to Diocese of Rome (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 01.07.2026