The Pillar, a digital organ of the conciliar sect, publishes its “Tuesday Pillar Post” for August 11, 2026, authored by JD Flynn. The piece stitches together a hagiographic sketch of Fr. Maurice Tornay — a missionary priest martyred in Tibet in 1949 and “beatified” by the apostate John Paul II in 1993 — with a digest of current ecclesial scandals: Masonic infiltration in Italy, the manufactured migration crisis at Ceuta, racial intrigue in Angola, a “surfing apostolate” in Germany, and the inevitable clerical pederasty case in Baltimore. It concludes with a frivolous meditation on “popes going mufti,” equating the antipope Leo XIV with the usurpers John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI, while dragging the venerable Pius IX and Pius XII into the mud of anecdotal disguise. The article epitomizes the spiritus mundi masquerading as Catholicism: it substitutes supernatural mission for naturalistic reportage, replaces the Social Reign of Christ the King with humanitarian sentimentality, and treats the occupation of the Holy See by manifest heretics as a legitimate continuity.
The Beatification of a Martyr by an Antipope is Null and Void
The article opens with Fr. Maurice Tornay, an Augustinian canon regular martyred by Tibetan Buddhist monks on August 11, 1949. His martyrdom in odium fidei is not in question; the Church has always honored those who shed their blood for Christ. But the article declares: “He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993.” This single sentence exposes the entire fraud. John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) was a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adherence to the false religions of the world (Assisi 1986), his promulgation of the heretical Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), and his implementation of the apostate Code of Canon Law (1983), had ipso facto lost the papacy long before 1993. 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 “beatification” by a non-pope is a nullity, a theatrical gesture of the conciliar sect to manufacture saints for its new religion. The true Church, Ecclesia militans, recognizes martyrs through the infallible judgment of a true Roman Pontiff — not through the stage-managed ceremonies of a usurper who kissed the Koran and prayed with pagans.
The article’s description of Fr. Tornay’s death — “His last words, people say, were simple: ‘Don’t shoot. Let’s talk instead.'” — reduces martyrdom to a human interest story. Where is the fortitudo of the martyr confessing Christ before his executioners? Where is the imitatio Christi? The conciliar narrative sanitizes the Cross, presenting a “dialogue” martyrdom suitable for the religion of man.
Freemasonry: The Conciliar Sect’s Silent Partner
The “news” section reports that Italian Masonic lodges announced the membership of two deceased men, prompting “diocesan bishops” to cancel funeral Masses. “The Church in Italy has been taking pains in recent years to make clear that it remains a very serious canonical crime — and a moral issue for the matter — for Catholics to join Masonic lodges.” This is risus sardonicus. The 1917 Code (Canon 2335) inflicted ipso facto excommunication on those joining Masonic sects. The 1983 “code” of the antipope John Paul II deliberately omitted this penalty, effectively decriminalizing Masonry. The “bishops” cited are mere functionaries of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. As Pope Pius IX declared in Etsi Multa (1873): “The Masonic sect… is the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ.” The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar sect’s “pains” are a charade; its very foundation is the reconciliation with the Masonic principles of religious liberty, separation of Church and State, and the secular state — all solemnly condemned by the immutable Magisterium.
The Manufactured Migration Crisis: Weaponizing Charity Against Christendom
The article describes the July 30, 2026, mass border crossing from Morocco to Ceuta: “An estimated 80,000 people flooded across the border… overwhelming the city of just under 83,000 inhabitants.” The “president of the bishops’ conference” calls it an “invasion,” while others “focused on the humanitarian response.” This dialectic — “invasion” vs. “humanitarianism” — is the false alternative of Modernism. The true Catholic principle, articulated by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), is that “the State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The duty of the State is to protect the common good of its Catholic citizens, not to serve as a conduit for the demographic replacement of Christendom. The “Archbishop of Tangier” (a conciliar appointee) offers “insight” into the “broader situation surrounding migration.” No mention of the conversion of the Mohammedans, no mention of the Kingship of Christ over nations, no mention of the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith. Only bureaucratic “humanitarian response.” This is the laicism Pius XI condemned: “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.”
Angola: Racial Politics Supplant the Hierarchy of Order
The controversy in Angola over a leaked letter requesting a “white bishop” reveals the conciliar sect’s obsession with race and power. “It has prompted fierce debate about the state of the Church, the role of missionaries, and the Church’s response to the nation’s government.” The Church’s response to any government must be: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matt. 22:21) — but God demands the public profession of the Catholic Faith by the State. The Syllabus condemns: “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (Error 37). The conciliar “nunciature” and “bishops’ conference” are instruments of the Masonic New World Order, not the Ecclesia Catholica. The “fierce debate” is a distraction from the apostasy of the Angolan hierarchy, which accepts religious liberty and the secular state.
Germany: The “Surfing Apostolate” — Liturgical Buffoonery as Evangelization
“You might not think about a surfing apostolate. But actually, German Catholics have those, too.” This is the aggiornamento in its full putrefaction. The German “synodal path” — officially endorsed by the antipope Francis and tolerated by Leo XIV — seeks to bless sodomy, ordain women, and abolish celibacy. A “surfing apostolate” is the perfect metaphor: riding the waves of the world, mundus vult decipi. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the proposition: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Error 59). The “surfing apostolate” is the practical application of this condemned Modernism: the Gospel reduced to a lifestyle brand.
Baltimore: The Fruit of the New “Priesthood” and the “Gay” Subculture
The article reports a deacon charged with soliciting a minor via “location-based hookup technology.” Flynn admits: “We’ve warned that there is evidence they’ve been used in many corners of the Church, including the Vatican.” This is the inevitable fruit of the invalid “sacraments” of the new rite (Paul VI’s 1968 Pontificale Romanum), the infiltration of seminaries by sodomites (documented by the Instruction on the Careful Selection and Training of Candidates for the States of Perfection and Sacred Orders, 1961, ignored by the conciliar hierarchy), and the abolition of the Censura Librorum and moral theology. The “deacon” was “teacher-of-the-year in a Catholic high school” — the conciliar school system, stripped of the Catechism of Trent and the Baltimore Catechism, produces predators. Flynn’s lament — “I’m not sure what the answer is… no policy or formation or screening is or will be enough” — is the counsel of despair. The answer is the restoration of the True Mass, the True Priesthood, the True Episcopate, and the Canon 188.4 (1917 Code): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “clergy” have defected en masse; they hold no office.
Adult Baptisms in Germany: Statistical Noise Masking Apostasy
“The number of adult baptisms in Germany rose significantly last year, even while infant baptisms are declining, and overall baptism numbers continue to decline.” Flynn offers three “lenses,” all naturalistic. Not one considers: are these “baptisms” valid? The conciliar rite of baptism (1969) often omits the exorcisms, the renunciation of Satan, the anointing with the Oil of Catechumens, and uses doubtful matter/form. Conditio sine qua non of valid baptism is the intention to do what the Church does — but the conciliar “minister” intends to initiate into the “People of God” of Vatican II, a heretical ecclesiology. As St. Pius X taught: “The Church cannot, in any way, pass judgment on opinions concerning human abilities” is a condemned Modernist proposition (Lamentabili, Error 5). The “rise” is a statistical artifact of a dying sect.
“Going Mufti”: Blasphemous Equivalence of True Popes and Usurpers
The final section is a masterpiece of conciliar subversion. Flynn recounts the Trump catering-container escape, then segues: “But Trump’s covert adventure got me thinking about the propensity of modern popes to sneak out of St. Peter’s from time to time — Pope Francis and John XXIII dressed in black clerics… Pope St. John Paul II sneaking past his guard detail to get in some skiing; Pius XII reportedly visiting Jewish ghettoes in the habit of a religious; Pius IX fleeing the Vatican in disguise amid Italian unification riots.”
This is the argumentum ad aequalitatem of the Antichrist. Pius IX (1846–1878) fled the Roman Revolution of 1848, a Masonic uprising — he was the Vicar of Christ defending the Potestas Temporalis against the synagoga Satanae. Pius XII (1939–1958), if he visited the Roman ghetto, did so as the Father of the faithful to protect Jews from Nazi persecution — an act of caritas Christi. To equate these Vicars of Christ with the apostates John XXIII (convocator of the Robber Council), Paul VI (destroyer of the Mass), John Paul II (apostle of religious indifferentism), Benedict XVI (hermeneutic of rupture), Francis (destroyer of the Faith), and Leo XIV (the latest usurper) is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost who guides the true Church. The “penchant for a retvrn to the most storied of pontifical traditions” attributed to Leo XIV is the simulacrum of Tradition: the Latin Mass as aesthetic accessory, the tiara as costume, while the Syllabus, Quas Primas, Pascendi, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio are trampled.
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on the Supernatural Order
The entire article — 2,500 words — contains zero references to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the State of Grace, the Four Last Things, the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, the Rosary, or the Conversion of the Nations. It is pure naturalism. It treats the “Church” as an NGO managing migration, abuse scandals, personnel disputes, and demographic statistics. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The “Pillar” is a pillar of salt, looking back at Sodom.
Quas Primas declares: “If rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The Pillar, the “bishops,” the “pope” Leo XIV — all refuse this duty. They have ipso facto defected. The See is vacant. The Church endures in the catacombs, in the true Mass, in the bishops and priests who hold the Traditio without admixture. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Fr. Maurice, the news, and going mufti (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 11.08.2026