The Pillar’s “Choices”: Conciliar Media Peddles Subscriptionism While Souls Perish
The Pillar Catholic portal (October 9, 2026) publishes a podcast episode description titled “Bonus: Choices” featuring its editors JD Flynn and Ed Condon. The text consists entirely of subscription management instructions, playback controls, and a list of recent episodes—devoid of any supernatural content, doctrinal exposition, or call to conversion. **This vacuous administrative notice epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church’s divine mission to a content-platform business model.**
The Conciliar Sect’s Media Apparatus: Merchandising the Faith
The cited text reveals the true nature of “The Pillar” as a commercial enterprise masquerading as Catholic media. The opening lines—“Playback speed×Share postShare post at current timeShare from 0:000:00/Preview32Bonus: Choices”—read like a streaming service interface, not an apostolate. The prominent demand “Are you a paying subscriber?” followed by login instructions and technical support email (kolivera@pillarcatholic.com) exposes the mercenary motive: filthy lucre (1 Tim 3:3) disguised as ministry.
Pius XI warned in Quas Primas that “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”. Here, the “authority” of Flynn and Condon derives entirely from subscriber metrics and payment processing. Their “Great Catholic Conversation” is a product sold to consumers, not the depositum fidei handed down to believers.
Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of Apostasy
The text’s language is strikingly secular. Terms like “paid subscribers,” “Substack account,” “producer,” “RSS Feed,” “episode”—not a single word of salus animarum, regnum Christi, sacrificium laudis. The episode titles listed (“A man without a country,” “Backrooms, robots, and the nothingburger?”, “The bear in the room,” “The Steubenville question”) suggest worldly chatter, not the doctrina Catholica.
St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the Modernist error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (prop. 59). The Pillar’s format—weekly conversational podcasts chasing topical “questions”—embodies this condemned evolutionism. Truth becomes content; doctrine becomes discussion.
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence as Condemnation
The gravest heresy is what the text omits. No mention of:
– The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
– The Social Kingship of Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas)
– The necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
– The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemning “the civil liberty of every form of worship” (prop. 77)
– The papal duty to confirmare fratres suos in the integral faith
This silence is not accidental. It is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect: replace the supernatural with the natural, the eternal with the temporal, the Cross with the marketplace. As Pius IX taught in the Syllabus, “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” is a condemned error (prop. 40)—yet The Pillar’s very business model presupposes compatibility with the world, seeking subscribers rather than converts.
Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of Vatican II’s “Opening to the World”
This podcast enterprise is the direct fruit of Gaudium et spes‘s fatal embrace of the world. The “choices” referenced in the title—“Many choices are being made”—echo the conciliar religion of liberty of conscience condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari vos) and Pius IX (Quanta cura). In the true Church, there is no “choice” regarding divine revelation: Credo quia absurdum—we believe because God has spoken, not because we select from a menu of episodes.
The listed episodes reveal the sect’s preoccupations: “visiting the imprisoned” (corporal works detached from spiritual conversion), “Steubenville question” (institutional scandal management), “backrooms and robots” (worldly technophilia). Nowhere the unum necessarium (Luke 10:42).
The False Clergy of the Conciliar Sect
Flynn and Condon operate as laymen within the paramasonic structure, yet they usurp the teaching office. Pius XII in Mystici Corporis affirmed that “Christ did not appoint as rulers of the Church those who are not endowed with the priesthood”. These men—unordained, unmissioned by any valid prelate—presume to offer “Great Catholic Conversation” while the true hierarchy has been eclipsed since 1958. Their platform is a ludibrium of the munus docendi.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file) declares that “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith”. The conciliar “clergy” who enable platforms like The Pillar have defected by embracing religious liberty, ecumenism, and the new mass. Their media outlets are not Catholic organs but instruments of the abomination of desolation (Matt 24:15).
Conclusion: Reject the Counterfeit; Return to the King
The Pillar’s “Bonus: Choices” is a microcosm of the conciliar apostasy: a paywalled podcast substituting for the gratis grace of the Gospel. “You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men” (1 Cor 7:23)—yet this portal demands payment for access to “Catholic conversation.”
True Catholics recognize that the Kingdom of Christ is not a subscription service. As Pius XI proclaimed: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas). The only “choice” that matters is the one Joshua offered: “Choose you this day whom you will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Josh 24:15). The Pillar serves Mammon; the faithful serve Christ the King.
Source:
Bonus: Choices (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 09.10.2026