The Pillar portal, a flagship outlet of the “recognize-and-resist” pseudo-traditionalist wing of the conciliar sect, publishes a podcast episode featuring its editors JD Flynn and Edgar Beltrán discussing “rumors in Rome” regarding the canonical trial of the disgraced conciliar Jesuit Marko Rupnik. The episode functions as a classic exercise in damage control for the sect occupying the Vatican, framing the systemic protection of a serial predator and heretical artist as mere “rumors” and procedural “rumors” within a legitimate canonical process. This is not journalism; it is the managed opposition of the neo-church performing its assigned role of gatekeeping the faithful within the Novus Ordo structure.
The Neo-Church’s Damage Control Apparatus: The Pillar as Gatekeeper
The cited article describes a podcast where Mr. Flynn is joined by Mr. Beltrán, the outlet’s Rome correspondent, “to talk about rumors in Rome this week related to the canonical trial of disgraced former Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik.” The language itself betrays the operation. They speak of “rumors” regarding a “canonical trial” conducted under the “1983 Code of Canon Law” by the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” under the authority of the usurper “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost). This terminology legitimizes the pseudo-legal framework of the secta conciliaris. As Pope Pius IV teaches in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, a heretic elevated to the papacy receives a promotion that is “null, void, and of no effect.” Consequently, the “Dicastery,” the “Code,” and the “trial” possess zero canonical validity ipso facto. The Pillar, by treating this theater as substantive news, functions as the Pravda of the Novus Ordo, manufacturing consent for the antipope’s jurisdiction.
Rupnik: The Icon of the Conciliar Church’s Sacramental Perversion
Marko Rupnik is not an anomaly; he is the logical fruit of the Novus Ordo priesthood. His “art”—a grotesque, neo-gnostic, often homoerotic visual theology—adorns the very sanctuaries where the Novus Ordo Missae is celebrated, perfectly expressing the lex orandi, lex credendi of the neo-church: a religion of man, by man, for man. The article refers to him as a “disgraced former Jesuit.” He was a presbyter of the Society of Jesus, an order long since corrupted by Modernism (condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis) and effectively dissolved as a Catholicly auto-demolished post-Vatican II. His “expulsion” by the Jesuit General Arturo Sosa—a man who denies the existence of the devil and promotes the pachamama cult—is not an act of justice but a sacrificial offering to preserve the brand. The “canonical trial” mentioned by The Pillar is a farce conducted under the 1983 pseudo-code, which itself abolished the Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code—the very canon that vacates office ipso facto for public defection from the faith. Without that canon, the conciliar structure cannot even theoretically judge a heretic, for it is constituted by heretics.
The Antipope’s Protection Racket: From Francis to Leo XIV
The podcast discusses “rumors” surrounding the trial under “Leo XIV.” Let us be precise: Robert Prevost, as “Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops” under Bergoglio, was a key architect of the episcopal appointments that cemented the Modernist hierarchy. His “election” continues the unbroken line of usurpers beginning with Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII). The Syllabus Errorum of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Every “pope” since 1958 has done precisely this. Therefore, per Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice, Lib. 2, Cap. 30), a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head,” being “cut off from the body of the Church without excommunication” (Titus 3:10-11). A non-pope cannot convene a valid canonical trial. The “Rupnik trial” is a theatrum designed to convince the faithful remnant trapped in the structures that “justice is being done,” thereby preventing them from drawing the only logical conclusion: the See is vacant, the hierarchy is illegitimate, the sacraments are doubtful or null.
Theological Bankruptcy: The “Conservative” Complicity in Sacrilege
The Pillar presents itself as a bastion of “orthodoxy” within the conciliar church. This is the error of the recognize-and-resist position, condemned implicitly by the very principles of Cum ex Apostolatus Officio and the Syllabus. By recognizing the usurper as “Pope,” Flynn and Beltrán are forced to recognize his “bishops,” his “priests,” his “canon law,” and his “trials.” They become complicit in the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). They discuss “rumors” of a trial while the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary has been replaced by a Protestantized “memorial meal” in the very chapels decorated by Rupnik’s demonic icons. St. Pius X teaches in Pascendi that Modernism is the “synthesis of all heresies.” Rupnik’s art is its iconography; the Novus Ordo is its liturgy; the “Synodal Church” is its ecclesiology. The Pillar’s podcast is the soundtrack.
Symptomatic Level: The Rotten Fruit of a False Priesthood
The Rupnik scandal—decades of abuse, spiritual incest, sacramental profanation (absolving accomplices), protected by bishops and the “Holy See”—is the inevitable harvest of the novus ordo sacerdotii. Paul VI’s 1968 rite of ordination, stripped of the essential form “ut offerat sacrificium” (to offer sacrifice) and the traditive instrumentation, produces presbyters of a protestantized ministry, not priests of the Ordo Melchisedech. As Leo XIII defined in Apostolicae Curae, form and matter must signify the grace conferred. The conciliar rite signifies a “president of the assembly.” Rupnik acted as a “president of the assembly” with absolute power over his spiritual daughters. The “canonical trial” discussed by The Pillar is a secular HR hearing dressed in canonical vestments. It cannot restore the priesthood, it cannot restore the Faith, it cannot restore the Church. Only the rejection of the usurpers, the return to the 1917 Code, the Tridentine Mass, and the Thesis of Cassiciacum (or the recognition of the material vacancy of the See) can begin the restoration. The Pillar exists to prevent precisely that realization.
Pax Christi in Regno Christi non in secta conciliari. Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas), not in the neo-church that shelters Rupnik and legitimizes his trial.
Source:
Ep. 271: Rupnik rumors (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 24.07.2026