The Pillar Podcast episode 273, dated August 14, 2026, reports on the conviction of Australian “Bishop” Christopher Saunders for sexual abuse and the preliminary hearing of English “Bishop” David Oakley on similar charges, while questioning why Antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has not removed Oakley from his post. The podcast, a mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, frames these crimes as mere “troubling stories” requiring administrative remedies. This spectacle exposes the total dissolution of ecclesiastical authority in the neo-church, where manifest heretics masquerading as successors of the Apostles commit crimes crying to heaven, and the usurper on the Chair of Peter lacks both the power and the will to act, because he himself is a manifest heretic severed from the Body of Christ.
The Conciliar “Episcopate”: A Synagogue of Satan Masquerading as Shepherds
The cited podcast speaks of “Bishop Christopher Saunders” and “Bishop David Oakley” as if these men held the episcopal character and jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a diabolical imposture. The men occupying the sees of Broome and Northampton are not Catholic bishops. They are functionaries of the conciliar sect, ordained and consecrated in the invalid Novus Ordo rites of Paul VI, within a structure that has officially embraced the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the New Mass. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope… nor can he be a bishop” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30), because non potest esse caput qui non est membrum (he cannot be head who is not a member). A man who professes the false religion of the Second Vatican Council — declaring that the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church rather than is the Catholic Church, that salvation exists outside the Church, that false religions are “means of salvation” — has publicly defected from the Catholic faith. By Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code, “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” No “preliminary hearing,” no “removal by the pope” is required. The office is ipso facto vacant. The podcast’s discussion of whether “Pope Leo” will “remove” Oakley is a theatrical farce played out within a juridical fiction.
The Antipope’s Impotence: The Logical Consequence of Heresy
The hosts ask “why Pope Leo hasn’t removed Oakley from his position.” The question presupposes that Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) is the Roman Pontiff. He is not. He is a manifest heretic, a willing executor of the Modernist revolution, a concelebrant of the Protestantized “Mass,” a promoter of the Abu Dhabi Declaration and the Fiducia Supplicans abomination. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) declares infallibly that if any Cardinal or Roman Pontiff “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The 1917 Code references this Bull nineteen times. Prevost’s “election” was null ab initio. He possesses zero jurisdiction. He cannot “remove” a “bishop” because he cannot appoint one. The entire conciliar hierarchy is a cadenza di nullità (chain of nullities). The podcast’s anxiety over the “pope’s” inaction is the anxiety of slaves watching a phantom master refuse to crack a whip he does not possess.
Linguistic Sanitization: Bureaucracy Replaces Theology of Sin
Listen to the language: “troubling stories,” “convicted of sexual abuse,” “preliminary hearing,” “position.” Not a whisper of “sin,” “scandal,” “sacrilege,” “eternal damnation,” “cry to heaven for vengeance.” This is the lingua novissima of the Conciliar Church — therapeutic, legalistic, horizontal. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40). The conciliar sect has inverted this: it has made its teaching hostile to the well-being of souls by suppressing the vocabulary of salvation. The podcast treats the rape of souls and bodies by “clerics” as an HR crisis. Where is the Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) reminder that “Christ’s reign encompasses all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”? Where is the warning that these “bishops” — if they were true bishops — would answer at the Particular Judgment for the talents buried, the sheep devoured? The silence is the loudest heresy: practical atheism.
Theological Bankruptcy: The Conciliar “Church” as the Abomination of Desolation
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X, 1907) condemns the Modernist proposition: “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change… Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Props. 53, 54). The conciliar sect is this condemned proposition incarnate. Its “hierarchy” evolves: today a “bishop” is a manager of “safeguarding policies,” tomorrow a “synodal facilitator.” Its “sacraments” evolve: the “Mass” becomes a “communal meal,” “Confession” becomes “reconciliation service,” “Holy Orders” becomes a “ministry of leadership.” The crimes of Saunders and Oakley are not accidents; they are the necessary fruit of a priesthood stripped of its character indelebilis (because the Novus Ordo rite of ordination lacks the form and intention for the sacerdotium), of a episcopate stripped of jurisdiction (because the consecrators were heretics), of a “Church” stripped of the Holy Ghost. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi: Modernism is the “synthesis of all heresies.” The conciliar sect is the institutionalization of that synthesis. Its “bishops” are hirelings (John 10:12) who flee when the wolf comes — or, as here, are the wolves.
The Symptomatic Level: The Great Apostasy Made Visible
The podcast is a symptom. It is “Great Catholic Conversation” — a conversation among the ruins. The hosts, Flynn and Condon, are laymen (or “priests” of the new rite) discussing the “troubling stories” of their “Church” with the detachment of journalists covering a corporate scandal. They do not call for public penance, rogation processions, reparation to the Sacred Heart. They do not quote Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken.” They do not quote the Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) — condemned! — yet the conciliar sect demands this separation via Dignitatis Humanae. They do not declare that the “conversion of Russia” promised by the false Fatima apparition (a Masonic psychological operation, as documented) has been replaced by the “conversion of the hierarchy” — which will never come, because the hierarchy is the revolution.
No Remedy Within the Neo-Church
The podcast’s implicit hope — that “Pope Leo” might “do the right thing” and “remove” Oakley — is the hope of the catacombs for the Coliseum. There is no canonical remedy within a structure that has no canon, no authority, no faith. The only remedy is the return to the immutable Tradition: the Mass of Trent, the Catechism of St. Pius X, the theology of St. Thomas, the Syllabus, Pascendi, Quas Primas, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, the 1917 Code. The true Church subsists (in the proper sense: est) in the bishops and priests who have never accepted the conciliar errors, who retain valid orders (pre-1968 rites), valid jurisdiction (supplied by the Church for the salvation of souls in necessity), and the integral Catholic faith. The “troubling stories” will multiply until the parousia or the Interregnum ends. Ecclesia non erit nisi in fide integra. (The Church exists only in the integral faith.)
Source:
Ep. 273: Two very troubling stories (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 14.08.2026