The Pillar, a flagship outlet of the conciliar establishment, publishes a “Tuesday Pillar Post” by JD Flynn that juxtaposes a psychologized, sentimentalized account of St. Christina the Astonishing with a litany of updates from the Vatican of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The piece covers the ongoing governance of the paramasonic structure occupying Rome — including the appointment of a woman to head a dicastery, a synodal meeting on the heretical *Amoris Laetitia*, the farcical “excommunication” of the Society of St. Pius X, and the systemic corruption of “Catholic” institutions like Notre Dame. The article exemplifies the neo-church’s strategy: wrapping the putrefaction of the post-conciliar revolution in gauzy hagiography and bureaucratic newspeak to distract the faithful from the total collapse of the supernatural order.
The Psychologization of Sanctity: Reducing the Supernatural to Mental Illness
Flynn’s treatment of St. Christina Mirabilis is a masterclass in the modernist method condemned by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*. He presents the saint’s levitation, her vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, and her extreme mortifications not as miraculous operations of grace, but as symptoms of epilepsy and mental illness.
She was mentally unwell, that’s obvious. And I think God worked through that — not by healing her, but by letting her life become a witness to faith, hope, and charity, even in ways that were disturbing, or distressing, and sometimes astonishing.
This is the heresy of immanentism (Proposition 22 of *Lamentabili*: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort”). Flynn reduces the sanctitas of a canonized saint to a psychological coping mechanism, implying that the miraculous is merely the sublimation of pathology. He writes: “Somehow, in the mystery of grace and Providence, I don’t think the questions about her sanity and her holiness are properly ‘either-or’ propositions.” This is a diabolical equivocation. The Church has always taught that sanctity is a participation in the Divine Life, gratia sanans and gratia elevans, not a divine instrumentalization of psychosis. By suggesting Christ is present “in people doing strange things — things even which cause pain, or frustration, or something close to despair,” Flynn substitutes the Crux for the cross of neurosis, denying the virtus heroica required for canonization. This is the cult of man denounced by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*: the replacement of the regnum Christi with the kingdom of human sentiment.
The Antipope’s “Governance”: Women, Synodality, and the Dismantling of Hierarchy
The article casually reports that “Pope Leo last week appointed, for the second time, a woman — Sister Alessandra Smerilli, FMA, in this case — as the head of a Vatican dicastery.” This single act encapsulates the apostasy of the conciliar sect. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 129 §1) and the immutable divine constitution of the Church (*Christus Dominus*, *Lumen Gentium* of the true Magisterium) reserve the power of governance (*potestas iurisdictionis*) to sacred ministers — bishops and priests. A woman cannot receive Holy Orders; therefore, she cannot exercise jurisdiction. The appointment of a “pro-prefect” cardinal alongside her only underscores the chaos: the neo-church creates novel offices to circumvent divine law, pretending that “governance” is a bureaucratic function separable from the sacrament of Order.
This is the fulfillment of the errors condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* (Proposition 27): “The sacred ministers of the Church and the Roman pontiff are to be absolutely excluded from every charge and dominion over temporal affairs” — here inverted: the laity (and women) are placed over spiritual affairs. The “dicastery” structure itself is a modernist invention, replacing the Roman Congregations established by Sixtus V (*Immensa Aeterni Dei*, 1588) with a corporate, managerial model. Flynn notes this “raises some questions about when a Vatican department needs to be led by someone ordained, and when that isn’t required.” The question is settled by divine law: semper. The fact that it is debated proves the sect has lost the sensus fidei.
Amoris Laetitia: The Codification of Adultery as Synodal Agenda
The convocation of bishops’ conference presidents and Eastern Church heads to discuss *Amoris Laetitia* is a synodal farce. *Amoris Laetitia* (2016), authored by the antipope Francis (Bergoglio), contains proposition 303 (footnote 351) which allows the divorced and “remarried” to receive the Most Holy Eucharist while living in objective adultery — a direct contradiction of the Council of Trent (Sess. XIII, Can. 11; Sess. XIV, Can. 4) and the encyclical *Casti Connubii* (Pius XI). The “meeting” is not a Council; it is a conventicle of the synagoga Satanae to manufacture consent for heresy. The *Syllabus* (Prop. 36) condemns: “The definition of a national council does not admit of any subsequent discussion, and the civil authority can assume this principle as the basis of its acts.” Here, the “civil authority” is the antipope, using a pseudo-synodal process to override the immutable moral law. The involvement of “several families sharing their experiences” reduces divine revelation to narrative theology — the modernist error that truth evolves from lived experience (cf. *Lamentabili*, Prop. 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement…”).
The SSPX “Excommunications”: Schism Within the Schism
Flynn writes: “And you’ve been reading a lot lately about the excommunications of the Society of St. Pius X. The story has gotten a lot of ink — and deservedly so, it represents a true schism in the body of Christ, and a major flex on Pope Leo’s part to address it.” This is a grotesque inversion. The SSPX, founded by Abp. Lefebvre (ordained by the Freemason Liénart, consecrated by the modernist Cardinal Lercaro), has always recognized the claimants to the papacy since 1958 as legitimate popes. By doing so, they adhere to the Great Apostasy. Their “excommunication” by the antipope Leo XIV is a theatrical distraction — a fight between two factions of the same neo-church. As the *Defense of Sedevacantism* file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses the papacy *ipso facto* (St. Robert Bellarmine, *De Romano Pontifice* 2.30; Wernz-Vidal, *Ius Canonicum* 2.396). The SSPX refuses this conclusion, preferring a “recognize and resist” theology that makes the Church a schizophrenic body with a heretical head. Flynn’s “major flex” is the antipope disciplining a rebel limb of his own false church. The true schism occurred in 1958/1965; the SSPX is merely a controlled opposition keeping “traditionalists” inside the paramasonic structure.
Notre Dame: The Sewer of “Catholic” Education
The report on the University of Notre Dame — “facing a reckoning… over allegations and reports of sexual abuse and misconduct, both historic and current” — reveals the fruit of the Land O’Lakes Statement (1967), which declared Catholic universities “autonomous” from the hierarchy. The “spiritualized abuse” by Fr. Thomas King, CSC, and Fr. David Porterfield, CSC, and the current allegations against a female dorm rector, Elizabeth Greenop, demonstrate that the conciliar “renewal” of religious life has produced a harvest of corruption. The “Congregation of Holy Cross” is a post-conciliar shell; its “rectors” in co-ed dorms are occasions of sin institutionalized. Flynn admits: “the situation at Notre Dame — both historic and current — points to a reality of sexual misconduct in the Church which has not yet been fully addressed… the sexual abuse of adults in ecclesial contexts, often wrapped up in spiritualized or vulnerable conversations.” This is the fruit of the false theology of the “people of God” (*Lumen Gentium* 9-17), which abolished the distinction between clergy and laity, opening the sanctuary to wolves. The “vulnerable conversation” is the confessional abused; the remedy is not “policy” but the restoration of the potestas ordinis and potestas iurisdictionis in valid priests, the expulsion of the modernist hierarchy, and the return to the Cura Animarum as defined by Trent.
The Safeguarding Farce: Naturalism Replacing Penance
The “Catholic Standards Safeguarding Agency” report on England and Wales — “a survivor-centered approach to safeguarding policy is ‘exceptional rather than assured'” — reveals the total secularization of ecclesial discipline. The neo-church has adopted the language of the UN, the WHO, and the Masonic “rights of man” (condemned by Pius IX in *Quanta Cura* and the *Syllabus*, Props. 15, 55, 77-79). There is no mention of peccatum, poenitentia, iustitia, or the potestas clavium. The “strategic council” and “plan” are bureaucratic palliatives. The true remedy for clerical abuse is the Canonical penalty of deposition (Canon 188 §4, 1917 Code: “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith” — heresy being the root of the abuse crisis) and the restoration of the Tribunals of the Inquisition for the defense of the Faith. The “victim-centered approach” is Protestant jurisprudence; the Catholic approach is God-centered: “To God what is God’s” (Matt. 22:21, cited in *Syllabus* conclusion).
Cardinal Nzapalainga: The Purge of the “Periphery”
The “private audience” of Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga with the antipope, followed by the appointment of a coadjutor and the reduction of his oversight, signals the centralization of the paramasonic structure. The “ecclesial fiscal management crisis” is the pretext; the reality is the enforcement of the Agenda 2030 / Fratelli Tutti globalist program. The “periphery” cardinals, once useful for the “Church of the poor” optics, are now disposable. This mirrors the Masonic strategy outlined in the *False Fatima* file: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The antipope Leo XIV (Prevost) continues the revolution: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (*Syllabus*, Prop. 80 — condemned).
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The Pillar’s “Tuesday Post” is a microcosm of the ecclesia maligna. It mixes a desacralized hagiography (psychologizing the saint) with the administrative trivia of a usurping hierarchy (women “prefects,” synods on adultery, bureaucratic “safeguarding,” theatrical excommunications of controlled opposition, and the rot of “Catholic” academia). Not one word mentions the Missa Tridentina, the Social Kingship of Christ (*Quas Primas*), the Syllabus of Errors, the necessity of the Catholic Confessional State, or the sedevacantist truth that the See of Peter has been vacant since 1958. The silence about the supernatural — about gratia, peccatum, iudicium, infernum — is the gravest accusation. As Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (*Quas Primas*). The Pillar, the antipope Leo XIV, and the entire conciliar edifice are the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). Quis ut Deus?
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Astonishing Christina, fireworks, and the news (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 07.07.2026