The National Catholic Register reports that Archbishop Antoine Hérouard of Dijon presided over the funeral Mass of Senator François Patriat, a publicly avowed Freemason and architect of France’s euthanasia and abortion legislation, on August 25, 2026. This scandal occurs mere weeks after the Diocese of Rome and the Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo denied ecclesiastical funerals to two Italian Freemasons, citing Canon 1184 and the 1983 CDF declaration. The Archdiocese of Dijon has offered no explanation. President Macron, champion of the “end of life” law and constitutional abortion, delivered a eulogy inside the church. This episode is not an anomaly but the logical fruit of a counterfeit church that has replaced the social reign of Christ the King with the civil religion of Masonic humanism.
The Fact of Apostasy: Public Sin, Public Scandal, Public Impunity
The article admits François Patriat was “a self-avowed Freemason” since at least 2018, a “supporter of France’s new ‘end of life’ law legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide”, and a political ally of Macron who “enshrined abortion as a constitutional right in March 2024.” Freemasonry has been condemned by the Church since Pope Clement XII’s 1738 bull In Eminenti as “irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church” (CDF Declaration, 1983). Canon 1184 §1, 3° of the 1917 Code — still binding in principle — denies ecclesiastical burial to “manifest sinners” whose funeral would cause scandalum to the faithful, absent signs of repentance. The 1983 CDF declaration, signed by Ratzinger, reiterates that Catholics in Masonic associations “are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.”
Yet Hérouard, a “bishop” of the conciliar sect, offered the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for this enemy of Christ. No public renunciation of Masonry, no retraction of support for infanticide and euthanasia, no sign of conversion was reported. The article speculates “circumstances unknown to the public, such as a renunciation of Freemasonry or a reconciliation with the Church before death, were known to the archdiocese.” This is the language of the novus ordo bureaucrat: secret reconciliation replaces public profession of faith; private conscience overrides objective canonical status. The very hypothesis of a deathbed conversion kept secret from the faithful is a fraud against the communio sanctorum and a violation of the Church’s duty to edify by public example.
Linguistic Engineering: Sanitizing the Language of Damnation
The article’s rhetoric is a masterclass in modernist equivocation. It speaks of “questions raised about the deceased’s decades-long, publicly known membership” — as if the fact were disputed. It calls Patriat a “political ally” and “supporter” of euthanasia, not a perpetrator of legislative murder. The CDF’s 1983 declaration is cited not as binding doctrine but as a “reaffirmed… negative judgment” — a mere opinion. “Canon law does not oblige a bishop to investigate the deceased’s private conscience” — a half-truth weaponized to negate the obligation to judge public scandal. The phrase “manifest sinners” is placed in quotation marks, distancing the reporter from the Church’s own terminology.
Most tellingly, the article frames the Italian denials as “canceled” funerals, implying an arbitrary act of power, while the French funeral is described as “celebrated” — a positive act of mercy. This inversion of language mirrors the inversion of morality: the refusal to profane the sacred rites is treated as the scandal; the profanation is treated as pastoral care. Malum quaedam bonum (evil disguised as good) — the defining modus operandi of the conciliar revolution.
Theological Bankruptcy: The Death of the Social Kingship of Christ
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), 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” and that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical condemns “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations” and led to “states that thought they could do without God and that their religion was impiety and contempt for God.”
Patriat and Macron are the living embodiment of this laicism. The French Republic, born of Masonic revolution, has constitutionally enshrined the right to kill the innocent (abortion) and the right to kill the sick (euthanasia). By offering the Holy Sacrifice for the architect of these laws, Hérouard does not “accompany” a sinner; he ratifies the Masonic conquest of France. He declares, in liturgical action, that the City of Man has no need of the City of God; that the Kingship of Christ is a private devotion, not a public law.
The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). The funeral of a Masonic senator in a Catholic church, presided by a “bishop,” with the Masonic head of state eulogizing, is the liturgical realization of these condemned errors. It is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The Symptom: A False Hierarchy Serving the Prince of This World
The contrast with the Italian “bishops” is instructive. Reina and Suetta denied funerals citing Canon 1184 and the CDF declaration. Hérouard ignores them. Why? Because the conciliar sect has no unity of faith, only a unity of administrative obedience to the usurper in Rome. When the “pope” (Leo XIV, Robert Prevost) and his curia signal that dialogue and inclusion trump doctrine, the local “bishops” improvise. The Italian “bishops” performed a theatrical orthodoxy to placate traditionalist critics; the French “bishop” performed theatrical mercy to serve the Macron regime. Both serve the same master: the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). Here, the “Church listening” — the Macron regime, the Masonic lodges, the secular media — dictates the “pastoral practice.” The “Church teaching” (Canon 1184, In Eminenti, CDF 1983) is discarded.
The “Two Lucias” theory applied to the hierarchy: there is no true bishop in the conciliar sect, only functionaries of the Masonic operation. Hérouard, ordained in the novus ordo rite (1974), consecrated by the novus ordo rite (2014), possesses no jurisdiction from Christ. He is a minister of the neo-church, dispensing the sacraments of the neo-church to the faithful of the neo-church. The Mass he offered was not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a table of assembly celebrating the cult of man.
The Masonic Signature: Dates, Laws, and the “Last Crusade”
The article notes Le Figaro described the euthanasia law as “the last crusade of the Freemasons.” The symbolism is deliberate. The French Revolution (1789), the 1905 Law of Separation, the 1975 Veil Law (abortion), the 2024 Constitutional Abortion, the 2026 Euthanasia Law — each step advances the Masonic program: destruam (I will destroy). The “bishop” of Dijon, by burying the Masonic senator, sets the ecclesiastical seal on this crusade.
The False Fatima Apparitions document details the “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima'” with its “ritualistic 200-year cycles” (1717, 1917, 2017). The year 2026 marks the tricentennial of the 1726 — not a Masonic date, but the acceleration of the Stage 3 described: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The funeral of a Mason in a cathedral is the ecumenical reinterpretation par excellence: the syncretism of the Cross and the Square and Compass.
Canonical Nullity and the Duty of the Faithful
The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes that “a Pope who is 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” (Bellarmine). The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV are manifest heretics (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, new Mass). Therefore, the entire conciliar hierarchy lacks jurisdiction ab origine. Canon 188.4 (1917 Code): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “bishops” of the neo-church have publicly defected by adhering to Vatican II’s heresies. Their acts — ordinations, consecrations, funerals — are null, void, and of no effect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio).
The faithful are not obliged to obey, nor to recognize, nor to remain silent. They are obliged to denounce. The Catholics demanding clarification from the Archdiocese of Dijon perform a work of mercy — but they address a structure that has no authority to answer. The only answer is: “Exite, exite, egredimini inde” (Isa. 52:11) — come out of her, my people.
Conclusion: The Kingship of Christ or the Tyranny of the Lodge
Pius XI warned: “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” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). France shakes today under the tyranny of the Lodge. The “funeral” in Semur-en-Auxois was not a prayer for a soul; it was a Te Deum for the victory of the Revolution.
Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church — the Ecclesia militans clinging to Tradition, the Mass of All Time, the Social Kingship of Christ. The conciliar sect, its “bishops,” its “sacraments,” its “funerals for Masons” — these are the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), permitted by God to test the elect. Let the faithful flee the abomination of desolation and cleave to the Rock of Peter which remains in the sede vacante fidelity.
Source:
French Archbishop Buries a Prominent Freemason, Weeks After Italy Denied the Same Rite (ncregister.com)
Date: 27.08.2026