The Pillar portal reports on the impending voyage of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to the microstate of San Marino and the Italian city of Rimini, framing the event as a pastoral visit steeped in historical curiosity and diplomatic cordiality. The article details the schedule—meetings with the “Captains Regent,” a “holy hour” at the Basilica, veneration of relics, and attendance at the “Rimini Meeting” organized by the Modernist movement Communion and Liberation—while recounting the republic’s legendary founding by Saint Marinus and its survival through centuries of Italian turbulence, culminating in a paean to republican liberty exemplified by Abraham Lincoln’s honorary citizenship. This reportage constitutes a brazen exercise in normalizing the paramasonic occupation of the Holy See and the reduction of the Church’s mission to a mere cultural accompaniment to secular republicanism.
The Usurper’s Itinerary: A Choreography of Legitimacy for the Abomination of Desolation
The cited article functions as a press release for the conciliar sect, meticulously detailing the movements of the manifest heretic Robert Prevost as if he were the Vicar of Christ. It notes he will “meet with the country’s authorities, including the Captains Regent” and “impart his apostolic blessing.” There is no “apostolic blessing” from a manifest heretic who has publicly defected from the Catholic Faith. As Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, the promotion or elevation of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect” (nulla, irrita et invalida). St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that 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.” The article’s treatment of Prevost’s “blessing” as efficacious is a diabolical simulation of sacred authority, a ludibrium (mockery) of the Keys of Peter.
The schedule reveals the purely naturalistic, horizontalist orientation of the neo-church: a “holy hour” (a devotion stripped of its propitiatory character in the Novus Ordo context), greeting “Catholics” (adherents of the conciliar sect), visiting Augustinian nuns (likely infected with post-conciliar religious life), and the centerpiece—the “Rimini Meeting.” This gathering, organized by Communion and Liberation (CL), is described as “one of the biggest encounters of political, religious, cultural, and artistic personalities in Italy.” It is a marketplace of ideas, a forum of the world, where the “religious” dimension is leveled to the “cultural” and “political,” perfectly embodying the condemned error of Americanism and Liberal Catholicism—the attempt to reconcile the Church with “progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus of Errors, Prop. 80). The fact that the only previous “pope” to attend was the apostate Wojtyła (John Paul II) in 1982, and that Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) attended as a “cardinal” in 1990, brands this event indelibly with the mark of the conciliar revolution.
San Marino: A Masonic Republic Masquerading as Catholic Tradition
The article’s historical narrative serves to whitewash the fundamentally anti-Catholic, revolutionary nature of the San Marino state. It recounts the legend of Saint Marinus, a deacon fleeing Diocletian’s persecution, founding a community on Monte Titano, and receiving the mountain as a gift. His alleged dying words—“Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine” (“I leave you free from both men”)—are interpreted by the Sanmarinese as freedom from “the Empire and later the pope, through the papal states.” This is the essence of the Masonic motto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité projected backwards into the 4th century: a declaration of independence from the Social Kingship of Christ and the temporal authority of the Vicar of Christ.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered against precisely this spirit: “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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The article celebrates the 1234 establishment of “Captains Regent” (co-presidents) rotating every six months—a purely republican, democratic mechanism derived from the sovereignty of the people, not God. It boasts of the 1600 Statutes as “the oldest written constitution still in force in the world,” a monument to lex humana supplanting lex divina.
The portal highlights the 1631 recognition of sovereignty by Pope Urban VIII. This historical fact is weaponized to suggest harmony between the Papacy and the Republic. In reality, the temporal power of the Papacy was the necessary bulwark of the Church’s freedom (Syllabus, Prop. 76). The loss of the Papal States in 1870, facilitated by the Masonic unification of Italy (Garibaldi, whom San Marino sheltered), was the death knell of that bulwark. The article notes San Marino gave refuge to Garibaldi and 100,000 Italians during WWII. Sheltering the architect of the Prisoner of the Vatican and the destroyer of the Papal States is not “hospitality”; it is complicity in the revolution against God’s order.
The Lincoln Cult: Apotheosis of the Secular State
The article’s conclusion is its most damning theological revelation. It identifies Abraham Lincoln—a Freemason, the executor of a bloody war of centralization against the principle of subsidiarity, and a Deist who denied the Divinity of Christ—as the “most prominent Sanmarinese citizen.” It quotes Lincoln’s letter praising San Marino’s “Government founded on Republican principles” as “secure and enduring.” The presence of Lincoln’s bust in the Palazzo Pubblico is the perfect icon of the conciliar sect’s religion: the worship of Man, the State, and Liberty divorced from Truth.
Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the proposition: “The civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Prop. 79). Lincoln’s “Republican principles” are the political expression of indifferentism—the idea that the State is neutral toward God, deriving its just powers from the “consent of the governed” rather than the mandate of Heaven. The article’s uncritical reproduction of this Lincolnian hagiography exposes the Pillar—and the conciliar hierarchy it serves—as propagandists for the Civitas Diaboli masquerading as the Civitas Dei.
Ecclesiastical Organization: The Dismemberment of the Diocese
The article casually reveals the chaotic ecclesiastical administration: “San Marino doesn’t have its own diocese, but it’s part of the Diocese of Montefeltro-San Marino… one of the few dioceses in the world with territory in two different countries.” It notes the parishes were divided between Montefeltro and Rimini until a “territorial reorganization in 1977.” This administrative fluidity, this treating of diocesan boundaries as mere civil engineering projects subject to the whims of the “bishops” of the neo-church, is a direct fruit of the Vatican II decree Christus Dominus and the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which subject the Church’s constitution to the civil order. The 1917 Code (Canon 188.4) and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio establish that jurisdiction is tied to the Faith. The “Bishop” Domenico Beneventi (installed 2024) holds his office from the usurper Prevost; his jurisdiction is ipso facto null. The 19 priests serving 12 parishes for 35,000 people (85% “Catholic”) are ministers of a false sect, offering the invalid Novus Ordo “mass”—a “table of assembly” (per Bugnini’s design) that denies the Propitiatory Sacrifice. The article’s mention that San Marino is “one of the two majority-Catholic countries in the world without its own cathedral, alongside Andorra” is a statistical curiosity masking a canonical vacuum.
Linguistic Deception: The Vocabulary of the Neo-Church
The article’s language is a masterclass in Modernist obfuscation.
- “Pope Leo”: Used 10+ times without qualification. This legitimizes the usurpation. The FRAMEWORK demands “antipope” or “Leo XIV” in quotes.
- “Saint John Paul II,” “Benedict XVI”: Canonizations by antipopes are null. These men were public heretics (Assisi 1986, Dominus Iesus relativism, etc.). Calling them “Saint” or “Pope” is idolatry.
- “Communion and Liberation”: Described neutrally as organizers of a “meeting.” CL is a cultus of the “charismatic” type, condemned by Pius XII in Sacramentum Ordinis and the Holy Office instructions on false mysticism, promoting a “spirituality of the encounter” that replaces the sacramentum with the eventus.
- “Holy Hour,” “Veneration of Relics,” “Mass”: These terms are used equivocally. In the neo-church, a “Holy Hour” is often a para-liturgical song service; “Mass” is the Invalid Novus Ordo; “Veneration” often borders on idolatry when directed toward saints canonized by antipopes (though Marinus is ancient, the context is corrupted).
- “Pastoral visit”: A term emptied of juridical meaning. A true pastoral visit (Can. 341-348, 1917 Code) is an act of episcopal jurisdiction to correct, govern, and sanctify. A visit by a layman (Prevost, invalidly “ordained” in the 1968 rite, consecrated in the 1968 rite) to a schismatic structure is a political photo-op.
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on the Kingship of Christ
The most damning aspect is the total silence on the Social Kingship of Christ the King. The visit occurs in August (the article is dated Aug 20, 2026). The Feast of Christ the King (instituted by Pius XI in Quas Primas for the last Sunday of October) is the antidote to the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism.” The article discusses “political, religious, cultural personalities,” “republican principles,” “independence,” “sovereignty,” “asylum,” “football players,” “motorcycle champions,” “Olympic medalists”—the City of Man in its purest form. There is zero mention of:
- The conversion of the Sanmarinese state to the Catholic Faith as the only* true religion (Syllabus, Prop. 21).
- The duty of the “Captains Regent” to govern in nomine Domini, acknowledging Christ’s rights over legislation, education, marriage, and public morals.
- The condemnation of Freemasonry (San Marino’s history is intertwined with Masonic Italy; Lincoln is a Masonic icon).
- The necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass (Tridentine) as the lex orandi of the lex credendi.
Pius XI wrote: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… 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 article mentions “Augustinian nuns” but ignores the likely reality that they are “post-conciliar” religious—dispensed from habit, enclosure, and the Divine Office, engaged in “social ministry” rather than ora et labora for the salvation of souls.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Sect as the “False Prophet”
This visit is a symptom of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The conciliar sect, having abandoned the integral faith for “dialogue,” “religious liberty,” and “human rights,” now functions as the chaplain to the Masonic world order.
- False Ecumenism/Interreligious Dialogue: The “Rimini Meeting” is a prototype of the Assisi abominations—gathering “personalities” of all creeds and none under the banner of “culture.”
- Political Messianism: The focus on Lincoln, Garibaldi, republican “liberty,” and the “enduring” state reveals the sect’s true gospel: temporal peace and prosperity through democratic governance. This is the “church of the New Advent,” the “whore of Babylon” riding the beast of globalist politics (Apoc 17).
- Legitimization of Invalid Hierarchies: By treating the “Bishop” Beneventi and the “Captains Regent” as legitimate counterparts, the usurper Prevost reinforces the illusion that the post-1958 structures possess jurisdiction. They do not. Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia—but Peter is not in the Vatican; he is in exile with the remnant faithful holding to the 1958 threshold.
- Profanation of History: The article rewrites the history of San Marino as a “Catholic” success story. It was a republican anomaly tolerated by the Papal States only due to weakness or diplomatic necessity, a precursor to the Civitas Dei being replaced by the Civitas Hominis.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs, Reject the Spectacle
The Pillar’s article is not journalism; it is liturgical propaganda for the Antichurch. It invites the faithful to admire the pomp of the usurper, the antiquity of a Masonic republic, and the glamour of a Modernist “meeting.” True Catholics must flee this spectacle. They must recognize that the “pope” heading to San Marino is a wolf in white, the “bishops” are hirelings, the “Mass” is a profanation, and the “relics” are venerated in a context of heresy. The only true “San Marino” is the Sancta Maria, the Ark of Salvation outside of which there is no remission of sins. The remedy is not a “visit” but a reconquest: the restoration of the Catholic Priesthood, the Traditional Mass, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the denunciation of the conciliar sect as the synagoga Satanae. Non praevalebunt—but not through the Rimini Meeting.
Source:
Why is the pope heading to San Marino? (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 20.08.2026