The Pillar portal reports on a canonical crisis in the Spanish diocese of Barbastro-Monzón, where “bishop” Ángel Pérez Pueyo, SOD, has threatened resignation for a second time in a dispute with Opus Dei over control of the Torreciudad Marian shrine. Alleged private letters from the late antipope Francis — leaked to the Spanish newspaper El País — purport to show his “absolute involvement” in appointing “archbishop” Alejandro Arellano as apostolic commissioner to mediate the conflict. The “bishop” demands the return of the image of Our Lady of Torreciudad from the new shrine to the medieval chapel, rejecting legal agreements from the 1960s granting Opus Dei perpetual rights. The conciliar sect’s current usurper, “pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), now faces a dilemma: enforce the commissioner’s decision favoring Opus Dei and risk appearing to repudiate Francis, or capitulate to a rebellious “bishop” and expose the vacuum of authority. This sordid spectacle of leaked correspondence, jurisdictional chaos, and clerical brinkmanship lays bare the theological bankruptcy of the post-conciliar structure.
The Conciliar Sect Has No Authority: Sede Vacante Confirmed by Its Own Chaos
The very notion of a “dispute” between a “diocesan bishop” and a “personal prelature” over a shrine — mediated by an “apostolic commissioner” appointed by a claimant to the papacy — presupposes a functioning hierarchical Church. It does not exist. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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” (De Romano Pontifice). The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the evolution of dogma, religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the democratization of the Church. By Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “bishops” of the conciliar sect, having defected from the integral faith at Vatican II and in its aftermath, hold no jurisdiction ipso facto. The Torreciudad farce is not a canonical dispute; it is a territorial squabble between two factions of a paramasonic structure occupying ecclesiastical buildings.
Opus Dei: A Modernist Instrument of the Novus Ordo Establishment
The article treats Opus Dei as a legitimate canonical entity with “legal agreements” from 1962 and 1966. This is a chimera. Opus Dei was erected as a “personal prelature” by the apostate antipope John Paul II in 1982 — an act devoid of canonical force because “his promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void, and of no effect” (Pope Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Its founder, Josemaría Escrivá, was “canonized” by the same antipope in 2002, a ceremony constituting idolatry in the strict sense: the public veneration of a man not raised to the altars by a true Pope. The “agreements” cited by Opus Dei are contracts between two parties lacking legitimate authority — a “diocese” led by a “bishop” without jurisdiction, and a “prelature” erected by an antipope. Lex injusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law). The shrine itself, described as a “semi-public oratory,” is a simulacrum of Catholic worship where the Novus Ordo “Mass” — a Protestantized assembly service invalid in form and intention — is offered. No grace flows from sacraments administered by ministers ordained in the post-1968 invalid rites, regardless of the “agreements” they brandish.
The Masonic Signature: Leaked Letters and the Fatima Paradigm
The leak of private papal letters to a secular newspaper (El País) is not a journalistic scoop; it is a Masonic tactic. The False Fatima Apparitions file documents the modus operandi: “Stage 1 (1917-1940): Implantation of the message and ‘negative credentialing’ through skepticism from authorities. Stage 2 (1940-1958): Globalization of the cult and control of the narrative through Lucia’s isolation. Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The same pattern appears here: private correspondence weaponized to manipulate public perception, pressure a “bishop,” and stage a narrative of “Francis vs. Opus Dei” that obscures the reality — both are arms of the same revolutionary machine. The “bishop” Pérez Pueyo, a Salesian of Don Bosco (an order thoroughly modernized), threatens resignation like a labor union negotiator, not a successor of the Apostles. The “pope” Francis allegedly writes of “mafia-like schemes” — the language of a secular politician, not the Vicar of Christ. This is theatrum mundi, not regnum Christi.
Quas Primas Violated: The Social Reign of Christ the King Abolished
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declared: “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 Torreciudad dispute epitomizes this destruction. The “bishop” demands “monetary compensation” and “control over the shrine” — temporal goods — while ignoring the munus of sanctifying souls. The “commissioner” Arellano acts as a bureaucrat, not a shepherd. The secular press arbitrates ecclesiastical affairs. The faithful are reduced to spectators of a juridical soap opera. “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… 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.” But there are no true pastors in the conciliar sect, only functionaries of a “Church of the New Advent” that has “equated the Christian religion with other false religions and shamelessly placed it in the same category” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, prop. 77-79). The shrine dispute is a property fight over a building where the Kingship of Christ is not proclaimed but obscured by the Novus Ordo liturgy and the ecumenical orientation of Opus Dei.
The Syllabus Fulfilled: Every Error Condemned by Pius IX Is Institutionalized
The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (prop. 55); “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (prop. 77); “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (prop. 80). The conciliar sect has made these errors its constitution. The Torreciudad “negotiations” began in 2020 to “reclassify” the shrine as a “diocesan shrine” — a concession to the secular model of religious sites as public cultural assets. The “bishop” demands a “historic baptismal font from the diocesan cathedral” as a trophy, revealing a liturgical archaeology devoid of supernatural faith. The “pope” Francis allegedly suggests moving the “bishop” to another see to “free him of all ‘mafia-like schemes'” — treating the episcopate as a civil service post. This is the liberalism condemned by Pius IX, the Modernism condemned by St. Pius X as “the synthesis of all errors” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, intro), now fully operational in the Vatican’s “dicasteries” and “commissioners.”
The “Bishop” as Hireling: Non Est Pastor
Pérez Pueyo’s behavior — threatening resignation, leaking (or permitting the leak of) private papal letters, pivoting from financial demands to the image’s relocation to a baptismal font — reveals a man devoid of the character episcopalis. St. Paul warns: “Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood” (Acts 20:28). A true bishop cannot resign from his office; he can only be deposed for heresy or crime. The very concept of episcopal “resignation” is a modernist novelty introduced by Paul VI (1965) and exercised by Benedict XVI (2013) — both manifest heretics. Pérez Pueyo’s threat is theatrical: he “rejected that possibility repeatedly” of transfer, yet threatens resignation if the image is not moved. This is simulatio, not fortitudo. The conciliar “sister” Lucía Caram, OP, condemns the leak as “an indiscretion and… a betrayal of Francis’ trust” — yet she, an Argentinian religious in Spain, close to the antipope, epitomizes the feminized, politicized, media-savvy clergy of the Novus Ordo. Her order, the Dominicans, has been a vanguard of Modernism since the 1960s. Her intervention confirms the sect’s internal rot.
The Antipope Leo XIV: Caught in the Masonic Trap
The article notes that “pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) “has quietly rolled back some of Francis’ measures… in a way that carefully avoids the impression of a public repudiation of his predecessor.” Now the leaked letters force his hand. If he upholds the commissioner’s decision, he repudiates Francis. If he yields to the “bishop,” he destroys the commissioner’s authority. This is the checkmate of the Masonic operation: “The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism” (False Fatima file) — and the name “Leo XIV” continues the syncretic, modernist line. There is no “rolling back” of Vatican II; there is only the management of its collapse. The true Church, Ecclesia Catholica, subsists in the remnant of bishops and priests maintaining the Traditio — the Mass of St. Pius V, the unchanging doctrine, the Sede Vacante position. The Torreciudad spectacle is a sign of the times: “The abomination of desolation… standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15). The faithful must flee to the mountains of Tradition, reject the conciliar sect’s sacraments and jurisdiction as invalid, and pray for the restoration of the true hierarchy. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
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Where is the Torreciudad shrine dispute headed? (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 09.09.2026