The Pillar, a digital outlet operating within the conciliar sect’s media apparatus, publishes its “Tuesday Pillar Post” for August 4, 2026, authored by its editor-in-chief JD Flynn. The dispatch blends a pious reflection on St. John Vianney with a survey of current events: wildfires in Spokane, the Vatican-China agreement’s latest episcopal appointments, anti-conversion laws in India, the National Eucharistic Congress, the SSPX consecrations crisis, a new Fundamental Law for Vatican City State, and a historical excursus on Bishop Claude Dubuis of Galveston. The subtext is a thoroughgoing acceptance of the post-conciliar hierarchy as the Catholic Church, treating the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as a legitimate sovereign pontiff and the neo-church’s bureaucratic maneuvers as ecclesiastical governance. This is not Catholic journalism; it is the chronicling of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), presented with the gauzy sentimentality that masks the apostasy.
The Antipope as Protagonist: Legitimizing the Usurpation
The article’s most damning feature is its casual, unquestioning reference to “Pope Leo” — “Pope Leo has had more than a year in office,” “the pontiff has had time to gauge the internal workings,” “Pope Leo XIV issued a new Fundamental Law.” Robert Prevost is not the Pope. He is a manifest heretic, a product of the conciliar revolution, elevated by a college of cardinals that has itself defected from the Faith. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a Pope who is 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). The Defense of Sedevacantism file confirms: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” By treating Prevost as “the pontiff,” The Pillar participates in the great deception, propping up the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
The report on the Vatican-China agreement is particularly egregious.
This means the pontiff has had time to gauge the internal workings of the Holy See’s deal with the Chinese Communist Party. With that under his belt, what could be the scope of the pope’s ambitions for improving the Church’s lot in China?
Here is the conciliar sect in its essence: negotiating with a communist regime, the “synagogue of Satan” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors context), for “episcopal appointments” that are nothing but state-sanctioned functionaries of the Patriotic Association. Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” Instead, the neo-church kowtows to Caesar, rendering unto Caesar what belongs to God. The Syllabus of Errors condemns: “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The Vatican-China deal is the embodiment of this condemned error.
The SSPX: Schism Within the Schism
The article notes:
Last month’s illicit SSPX consecrations and subsequent excommunications raised expectations that Pope Leo might soon act to expand the celebration of the TLM in communities that are in union with Rome.
This reveals the pseudo-traditionalist trap. The SSPX, founded by Abp. Lefebvre — “continuously acknowledged the validity of the usurpers in the Vatican; his words: ‘give us the old Mass, that is enough for us'” — operates as a pressure valve for the neo-church. Their “illicit consecrations” are not acts of fidelity to Tradition but of a schism within a schism, recognizing the antipope’s jurisdiction while resisting his liturgical whims. The Pillar’s hope for “expansion of the TLM in communities that are in union with Rome” exposes the indultist mentality: the Traditional Latin Mass as a privilege granted by the usurper, not the immutable right of the Church. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states an office becomes vacant ipso facto if a cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “bishops” and “popes” have defected; their “permissions” are null.
National Eucharistic Congress: The Cult of Man
The podcast with Bp. Andrew Cozzens on the National Eucharistic Congress —
“It’s happened to me a couple times in my life where you get caught up in something the Holy Spirit is doing,” Bishop Cozzens told me.
— typifies the pentecostalized, experiential religion of the neo-church. Where is the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary? Where is the propitiatory nature of the Mass? The “Congress” is a spectacle, a table of assembly masquerading as worship. Pius XI in Quas Primas warns: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Congress derives its authority from men, from “consensus,” from “experience” — not from the lex orandi, lex credendi of the immutable Roman Rite. The article’s silence on the invalidity of the Novus Ordo Missae, the sacrilegious Communion in the hand, the destruction of the sanctuary — this silence is the gravest accusation.
Amazing Parish: Corporate Managerialism as “Pastoral Care”
Flynn’s presence at the “Leadership Summit of Amazing Parish, which is a non-profit that gives coaching to parish pastors” reveals the protestantized, corporate model of the neo-church.
They didn’t pay me to say that or anything, I just know a bunch of Pillar reader pastors who use their services and are happy with them.
“Coaching,” “services,” “happy customers” — this is the language of the marketplace, not the cura animarum. The Syllabus condemns: “The best theory of civil society requires that popular schools… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference, and should be fully subjected to the civil and political power” (Error 47). Amazing Parish applies this to the parish itself: the pastor as middle-manager, the faithful as clients. St. John Vianney, whom Flynn sentimentally invokes, wept for souls in the confessional for 16 hours a day; he did not attend “leadership summits.”
Bishop Dubuis: History Weaponized for Legitimacy
The lengthy historical excursus on Bp. Claude Dubuis serves a subtle apologetic purpose: to normalize the current episcopal structure by appealing to a heroic past. Dubuis was a true missionary bishop, consecrated in 1862, suffering for the Faith. But the article uses him to imply continuity: see, bishops have always had struggles, the Church endures. This ignores the ontological rupture of 1958. Dubuis operated under the true Pope Pius IX and Leo XIII; the current “bishops” of Galveston-Houston operate under an antipope. The comparison with Bp. James Duggan of Chicago —
Pius IX sent him to a sanatorium in Missouri… Pius IX was disinclined to remove him either.
— is twisted to suggest that “protracted episcopal absence” is a normal canonical phenomenon, thereby excusing the universal absence of true bishops today. But Pius IX was a true Pope; he could not remove a valid bishop for insanity without due process. Today, the See of Peter is vacant (Sedes Vacans), and the “bishops” are either invalidly consecrated (new rite) or schismatic (recognizing the usurper). The Defense of Sedevacantism file cites Pope Celestine I on Nestorius: “he could not remove anyone by sentence who himself had already shown that he must be removed.” The conciliar “bishops” have shown themselves to be modernists; they have removed themselves.
India and the “Religious Freedom” Trap
The report on the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act 2026 quotes the Archdiocese of Bombay:
creates scope for undue scrutiny or surveillance of prayer meetings, schools, hospitals and social-service centres run by minority institutions.
The neo-church invokes “religious freedom” — a Masonic, liberal principle condemned by the Syllabus: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77). The Archdiocese of Bombay does not demand the Social Kingship of Christ over India; it demands “minority rights” within a secular framework. Pius XI: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The article’s framing — “persecution often comes in the context of claims that Christians are rabid or coercive proselytizers” — adopts the enemy’s language, conceding that evangelization is “proselytism.” This is the fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and the false ecumenism of Vatican II.
Wildfires and the Naturalistic Gaze
The Spokane wildfire report:
The Pillar spoke with Bishop Thomas Daly about the fires, and about the challenges of a pastoral response.
“Challenges of a pastoral response” — code for social work, distribution of supplies, “accompaniment.” No mention of penance, processions, the Rogation Days, the invocation of God’s mercy. St. John Vianney would have seen the fires as a chastisement, calling his flock to the confessional. The neo-church sees “disaster management.” The Syllabus condemns: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40) — the neo-church inverts this, proving its “relevance” by mimicking the Red Cross.
The Fundamental Law: Legislation for a Masonic City-State
Pope Leo XIV issued a new Fundamental Law of Vatican City State last week, replacing a previous version adopted in 2023.
A “Fundamental Law” for a city-state that has been the headquarters of the Masonic operation against the Church since 1958. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the usurpation of the Papal States by the Italian Masonic kingdom; today, the Vatican City State is a sovereign entity recognized by the nations, but its “pope” is a heretic. The “Fundamental Law” governs a civil structure; it has no ecclesiastical authority. The article treats it as “news,” further cementing the naturalistic worldview where the Church is a juridical person among nations, not the Mystical Body of Christ.
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of Apostasy
The article’s language is telling: “pontiff,” “episcopal appointments,” “pastoral response,” “leadership summit,” “coaching,” “services,” “stakeholders” (implied). Absent: Vicarius Christi, Successor of Peter, Holy Sacrifice, state of grace, mortal sin, hell, judgment, Tradition, Magisterium, anathema. This is the newspeak of the neo-church, stripped of the supernatural. Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the Modernist error: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The Pillar’s “practical” journalism — wildfires, laws, summits, history — functions exactly thus: dogma is irrelevant; only “pastoral effectiveness” matters.
Conclusion: A Chronicle of the Abomination
The Pillar’s post is a masterpiece of conciliar normalization. It wraps the poison of the usurpation in the honey of St. John Vianney’s sanctity, the romance of frontier Catholicism, the urgency of current events. But “you shall know them by their fruits” (Matt. 7:16). The fruit is the acceptance of the antipope, the legitimization of the Vatican-China deal, the promotion of the SSPX as “traditional,” the reduction of the Eucharist to a “Congress,” the transformation of the priesthood into a “coached” profession. This is not the Catholic Church. This is the Church of the New Advent, the paramasonic structure, the abomination of desolation. True Catholics — those who keep the integral Catholic faith of the pre-1958 Magisterium — reject this entire edifice. We await the restoration of the Papacy and the episcopate, the return of the Most Holy Sacrifice to the altars, the Social Kingship of Christ proclaimed over nations. Until then, we recognize no “Pope Leo,” no “Bishop Daly,” no “Archdiocese of Bombay” in communion with the usurper. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18).
Source:
The Curé, the news, and a French bishop in Texas (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 04.08.2026