The Pillar portal (August 14, 2026) reports on the impending beatification of Fulton Sheen by the antipope Leo XIV, a live podcast event at a brewery, the conviction of “Bishop” Christopher Saunders for sexual abuse of minors, charges against “Bishop” David Oakley for rape, a corruption probe into Catholic school executive Dallas McInerney, the joint “cause” of a married couple, the trial of Armenian schismatic leader Karekin II, and the rise of “millennial lay leaders” under the “Leonine pontificate.” The article epitomizes the conciliar sect’s delusion: it treats sacramental farces as divine acts, criminal clerics as mere administrative problems, and the democratization of the Church as a sign of vitality, all while ignoring the vacuum of the papacy since 1958.
The Beatification Farce: Simulating Sanctity Under Usurped Authority
The portal announces the beatification of Fulton Sheen — scheduled for September 24 in St. Louis — as a cause for celebration. This “beatification” is a nullity, performed by an antipope who has no authority to bind the Church. As Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: a heretic elevated to the papacy has a promotion that is “null, void, and of no effect” (Defense of Sedevacantism). John XXIII inaugurated the line of usurpers; Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) continues it. Sheen himself, whatever his personal piety, operated entirely within the neo-church framework, never denouncing the conciliar revolution. To “beatify” him is to canonize the very spirit of Vatican II. The venue — a brewery pub for a “live podcast” preceding the ceremony — underscores the profanation: Calix Domini non est calix daemoniis (the chalice of the Lord is not the chalice of demons; 1 Cor 10:21). The Pillar’s Ed Condon boasts of “combining work with personal piety” at a “brew pub,” reducing the honor due to the saints to a social networking event. This is the cultus hominis condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, 1925).
Episcopal Criminality: The Rotten Fruit of a False Hierarchy
The article details the conviction of “Bishop” Christopher Saunders (Broome, Australia) for 13 counts of sexual abuse, including against a canonical minor. It notes the “Vos estis” investigation, the resignation for “health reasons,” and the bishops’ conference’s false claim that no minors were involved. This is not an aberration; it is the logical consequence of a hierarchy that has lost its divine mandate. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that a manifest heretic “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, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism). The same principle applies to bishops: by adhering to the conciliar sect’s heresies — religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality — they have ipso facto lost jurisdiction. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith” (Defense of Sedevacantism). Saunders’ “resignation for health reasons” is a diabolical mockery of Canon Law, enabled by a Roman See occupied by an antipope who cannot judge because he himself is outside the Church. The Pillar’s outrage is performative: it accepts the very structures that produce such monsters. Qui non est cum Christo, contra Christum est (he who is not with Christ is against Christ; Mt 12:30).
The “Vos Estis” Charade: Canon Law in Service of the Lie
The article references the Vos estis lux mundi motu proprio as if it were a legitimate canonical instrument. It is not. Promulgated by the antipope Bergoglio in 2019, it has no binding force. The 1917 Code — the last authentic legislation — remains the law of the Church. The neo-church’s “investigations” are theatrical distractions, designed to manage scandal while preserving the illusion of accountability. The Saunders case proves it: the “Vos estis” report was leaked to police, yet the bishops’ conference lied about its contents. This is the synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan; Apoc 2:9) operating under the guise of the Church. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Today, the civil power (police, courts) does the judging because the neo-church has no spiritual authority left. The true Church, as Pius XI teaches, “demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority” (Quas Primas). The conciliar sect has surrendered that independence entirely.
False Ecumenism and the Armenian Schismatic on Trial
The portal reports on Catholicos Karekin II, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church (a schismatic body since the 5th century), facing obstruction charges. The article notes “the Vatican has complicated feelings about it.” This is the fruit of false ecumenism: treating schismatics as “sister churches” and their leaders as legitimate prelates. 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” — but this subjection is through the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, not through dialogue with heretics and schismatics. The Syllabus condemns: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion… in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18). The same applies to Eastern schismatics. The neo-church’s “complicated feelings” reveal its indifference to the social reign of Christ the King. Karekin II is not a “Catholicos” in any Catholic sense; he is a schismatic bishop with no jurisdiction. The antipope’s “dicastery for Christian unity” exists only to legitimize the pan-heresy of religious indifferentism condemned by Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 16, 17, 18).
The “Millennial Lay Leaders”: Democratizing the Abomination
The article celebrates “a cadre of fiercely qualified lay leaders, the best known of them women, all on the younger side” under the “Leonine pontificate.” Tim Glemkowski is quoted: “Millennial doesn’t mean young adult in Church speak anymore.” This is the laicization of the Church condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — here applied internally: the hierarchy separated from its divine constitution). The Church is a societas perfecta with a hierarchical constitution ex institutione Christi (by Christ’s institution). Laymen have no governing authority. Pius XI in Quas Primas insists: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate” — how much more must the Church’s own government reflect Christ’s Kingship, not democratic fads. The Pillar’s enthusiasm for “lay leadership” is Modernist evolutionism: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Lamentabili, prop. 58). The “Leonine pontificate” (Leo XIV) accelerates this revolution, appointing women to curial dicasteries, simulating a “synodal church” that is the abomination of desolation (Mt 24:15) in the holy place.
The Alvira “Cause”: Simulating Sanctity for the Neo-Church
The portal highlights the “Servants of God Tomás and Paquita Alvira,” a married couple on the path to joint canonization. Post-conciliar “canonizations” are invalid. The process has been corrupted by the abolition of the promotor fidei (devil’s advocate), the reduction of miracles to medical anomalies, and the approval of causes by heretical popes. Pius XII warned against the novus ordo of canonizations; the current process is a factory for simulacra sanctorum. The article’s focus on “canonical technicalities of a joint cause” reveals the bureaucratic, legalistic mindset of the neo-church: sanctity reduced to paperwork. True sanctity flows from the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the sensus fidei of the faithful attached to Tradition, not from the decrees of an antipope. The Syllabus condemns: “Roman pontiffs and ecumenical councils have wandered outside the limits of their powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have even erred in defining matters of faith and morals” (Error 23) — a fortiori, a false pope errs in “canonizing.”
The Pillar’s Complicity: A “Community” Built on the Lie
Condon writes: “The Pillar exists because it is a community of people who love the Church and love the truth, and because of that, we are free to love each other, even when we disagree.” This is the language of Freemasonry, not Catholicism. The Church is not a “community” of shared opinions but the Mystical Body of Christ, united in una fides, unum baptisma (Eph 4:5). “Loving each other even when we disagree” on doctrine is indifferentism. Pius IX condemns: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). The Pillar operates entirely within the conciliar sect, recognizes the antipope as “pope,” promotes the New Mass, and treats the neo-church’s administrative acts as binding. Its “investigative journalism” on abuse is a limited hangout: it exposes symptoms while defending the disease. The portal’s sponsorship by the “Catholic Education Fund” and the University of Mary (a neo-church institution) confirms its institutional captivity.
Theological Verdict: The Neo-Church Is the Great Apostasy
Every story in this Pillar Post — the fake beatification, the predator “bishops,” the corrupt school executive, the schismatic “Catholicos,” the “lay leaders,” the simulated canonization — is a tile in the mosaic of the abomination of desolation. St. Paul prophesied: “There shall come a time when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers according to their own lusts” (2 Tim 4:3). The conciliar sect is that time. The See of Peter has been vacant since 1958 (death of Pius XII). The men claiming the papacy since John XXIII are manifest heretics who have ipso facto lost office (Defense of Sedevacantism; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The true Church persists in the remanens — bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the integral Faith, rejecting the conciliar errors. Quas Primas remains the charter: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas). The Pillar’s “brew pub” gatherings, its “pilgrimages” to invalid rites, its outrage at crimes committed by the very hierarchy it sustains — all are vanitas vanitatum. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). The neo-church is not the Church. Its “bishops” are not bishops. Its “saints” are not saints. Its “pope” is an antipope. Sede vacante — the See is vacant. Convert to the true Church while time remains.
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Date: 14.08.2026