Conciliar Sect Stages Naturalistic Pilgrimage to Apocryphal Site in Pakistan While True Faith Perishes
EWTN News portal reports that approximately 500 adherents of the conciliar sect in Pakistan, organized by the “parish” of St. Francis Xavier in Gujranwala, undertook a pilgrimage to the archaeological site of Sirkap in Taxila on July 4, 2026, to commemorate the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle. The event, presided over by “Father” Yousaf Yaqoob and endorsed by “Archbishop” Joseph Arshad of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, centered on a stone throne attributed to the Apostle by local Muslim archaeology officials and the apocryphal *Acts of Thomas*. Pilgrims collected twigs and stones as “souvenirs and blessings,” endured 99°F heat without shade or water, and visited the Taxila Museum and the “Taxila Cross”—a relic discovered in 1935 and handed to the Anglican bishop of Lahore. This spectacle of naturalistic piety, devoid of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the supernatural life of grace, epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Catholic mission to cultural tourism and interreligious dialogue.

