The Conciliar Sect’s Archaeological Piety: Sanitizing the Ruins of San Cosimato While the Neo-Church Erases the Supernatural
The National Catholic Register portal (August 11, 2026) publishes a travelogue by Ishmael Adibuah detailing the historical remnants of the first Poor Clare monastery in Rome, San Cosimato, now subsumed within the Regina Margherita hospital. The article catalogues the Benedictine origins, the Gregorian transfer to the Poor Clares in 1234, the Sixtine reconstruction, and the eventual suppression by the Italian Masonic state in 1875, concluding with a description of the surviving frescoes and cloisters. **This piece functions as a pious obituary for a dead tradition, carefully avoiding the theological reality that the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican has completed the destruction begun by the Italian revolution, replacing the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with a “First Eucharistic Prayer” of their own fabrication, and the cloistered pursuit of sanctitas with a humanitarian NGO mentality.**
The Language of the Museum: Reducing the Mystical Body to Cultural Heritage
The article’s vocabulary betrays a thoroughly naturalistic worldview. It speaks of “heritage,” “legacy,” “remnants,” “artwork,” and “Franciscan spirituality” as aesthetic categories. Nowhere does it mention the sine qua non of the Poor Clare vocation: the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in reparation for the sins of the world, the victima status of the cloistered nun united to the Hostia immaculata. The author notes the fresco of St. Clare holding the monstrance—referencing the miracle of 1240 when she repelled the Saracens by exposing the Corpus Domini—yet treats it as mere iconography. **This is the hermeneutic of the museum curator, not the Catholic theologian. The conciliar sect has no use for the Real Presence as objective metaphysical reality; it prefers the “Eucharistic Prayer” as a communal narrative.** The article explicitly cites the “First Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass”—the Novus Ordo’s Canon I, a fabricated composite stripped of the Supplices te rogamus and the explicit invocation of the Holy Ghost upon the oblata—as the locus of the saints’ commemoration. This is not a slip; it is the flag of the false liturgy planted on the ruins of the true.
The “800th Anniversary” Charade: Celebrating the Saint While Betraying His Order
The article casually mentions that “the 800th anniversary of death is being celebrated in 2026” for St. Francis. **This celebration is orchestrated by the “pope” Francis (Jorge Bergoglio), a manifest heretic who has publicly denied the dogma of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, promoted the idolatrous Pachamama cult, and declared the death penalty “inadmissible” contrary to the perennial teaching of the Church (cf. Catechism of the Council of Trent; Evangelium Vitae of the usurper John Paul II, itself a deviation).** To celebrate the Poverello while implementing a “Franciscanism” devoid of poverty, chastity, and obedience—witness the “Franciscans” of the neo-church who own property, engage in political activism, and celebrate the Protestantized “Mass”—is the height of Pharisaical hypocrisy. Quas primas teaches that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1925). The conciliar sect celebrates the saint’s anniversary precisely to obscure the fact that they have dethroned the King.
The Silence on the Suppression: The Masonic State and the Conciliar Complicity
The article recounts the 1875 suppression by the Italian state—”an Italian law that allowed the state to seize buildings from religious orders”—with clinical detachment. It even quotes the researcher Joan Lloyd calling the state’s replacement of the monastery with a hospital “commendable.” **This is the voice of the ralliement, the fatal compromise of the Sillon condemned by St. Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910). The Italian Masonic state, the “synagogue of Satan” denounced by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”), did not merely seize a building; it attempted to sever the Church’s contemplative lung. The conciliar sect, far from resisting, has ratified this theft. The “Regina Margherita hospital” stands as a monument to the Civitas Dei replaced by the Civitas Hominis. The article’s silence on the Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code—”Publicly defects from the Catholic faith”—which applies a fortiori to the usurpers in the Vatican who have defected from the Faith, is deafening. The true Poor Clares, if any remain in the catacombs, do not give interviews to EWTN.**
EWTN and the Neo-Church Media Apparatus
The byline reveals the author as “interning as a staff writer in the EWTN News Vatican Bureau.” **EWTN is the propaganda arm of the conciliar sect, founded by the “nun” Mother Angelica (Rita Rizzo), a devotee of the false Fatima apparitions (condemned as a Masonic psychological operation in the theological dossier provided) and the Charismatic Renewal, a Protestantized pentecostalism infiltrated into the structures.** The “Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas” (Angelicum) cited in his credentials is a citadel of Modernism, where the nouvelle théologie of Rahner, Congar, and de Lubac—condemned implicitly by Humani Generis (1950)—is the curriculum. This article is not journalism; it is agitprop for the “Church of the New Advent,” designed to reassure the conservative wing of the neo-church that “tradition” is safely preserved in frescoes and cloisters, while the lex orandi has been shattered.
The Theological Vacuum: No Mention of the Crisis of the Papacy
The article references Pope Gregory IX (who canonized St. Francis and approved the Poor Clares) and Pope Sixtus IV (who rebuilt the monastery). It treats the papacy as a continuous, unbroken institution of legitimate authority. **It utterly ignores the cataclysmic fact that since 28 October 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant (Sedes Vacans).** St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). The line of usurpers—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost)—are not popes but antipopes, having publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate). The “Franciscan order” today exists only in the Societas Sancti Pii X (itself compromised by its recognition of the usurpers) and in the true Resistance. The article’s portrayal of a living, thriving “Franciscan family” is a lie. The monastery of San Cosimato died in 1875; its ghost is now paraded by the very sect that finished the job liturgically and doctrinally.
The “First Eucharistic Prayer”: The Smoking Gun of the New Religion
The phrase “First Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass” appears as a throwaway line. **It is the doctrinal signature of the Antichurch.** The true Roman Canon, immutable since St. Gregory the Great, was suppressed by the “pope” Paul VI (Montini) in 1969. The Novus Ordo “Eucharistic Prayers” are Protestant memorial services, authored by the Freemason Bugnini and his cabal, explicitly designed to remove the propitiatory sacrifice and the Real Presence as defined by Trent (Sess. XXII, Can. 1-2). To cite the “First Eucharistic Prayer” as the context for commemorating Sts. Cosmas and Damian is to admit that the conciliar sect worships a different god—a god of their own making, a “supreme being” of the Masonic lodges. Lex orandi, lex credendi. The article proves that the “Register” and EWTN belong to a false religion.
Conclusion: The Cloister as a Tombstone
The article ends with the cloister “preserving the memory of a time where Poor Clare nuns spent centuries offering hospitality and engaging in contemplative prayer.” **Memory is all that remains for the conciliar sect.** They have no Tradition (the living transmission of the Depositum Fidei), only “heritage” (curated artifacts). The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, does not reside in the Regina Margherita hospital, nor in the Vatican gardens, nor in the studios of EWTN. She resides where the Mass of All Time is offered by validly ordained priests (pre-1968 rite) under bishops consecrated in the true rite, holding the integral Faith without admixture of Modernism. San Cosimato is a relic of a dead world—a world the conciliar sect helped kill. Requiescant in pace is the only honest prayer for this article; Deus vult for the Restoration.
Source:
The Forgotten History of the First Poor Clare Community in Rome (ncregister.com)
Date: 11.08.2026