The Pillar, a flagship outlet of the conciliar sect, publishes its “Tuesday Pillar Post” for October 20, 2026, authored by JD Flynn. The piece blends hagiographical sentimentality for St. Paul of the Cross with a digest of ecclesiastical bureaucratic maneuvering: the “Amoris laetitia summit” under the gaze of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the criminal trial of “Bishop” Andrzej Jez in Poland, the synodal assembly in apostate Ireland, the expulsion of a laicized Jesuit in Bolivia, a parish construction project in Utah framed in the language of urban planning, Swiss “guidelines” for artificial intelligence, and the disciplining of the FSSP-type “celebrity” exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger by “Archbishop” Golka of Denver, alongside “Bishop” Beckman of Knoxville’s suppression of the St. Michael Prayer. The article is a masterclass in ecclesiastical naturalism: it treats the Church as a human institution managing crises, personnel, and public relations, utterly devoid of the supernatural sensus, the regnum Christi, and the reality of ipsa facto loss of office for manifest heresy.
The Usurper’s “Summit” and the Institutionalization of Adultery
The article opens its news section with the “papally-convened Amoris laetitia summit”, noting it was “overshadowed by news of Pope Leo’s lung cancer diagnosis.” Here the conciliar sect’s two defining pathologies converge: the false papacy and the legitimization of sacrilege. Amoris laetitia is the magna carta of Modernist adultery, permitting the divorced and “remarried” to approach the Holy Eucharist in objective mortal sin. A “summit” to discuss its implementation is not a pastoral gathering but a concilium iniquitatis (council of iniquity), ratifying the abomination of desolation in the sanctuary. The “Pope Leo” referenced is Robert Prevost, the latest in the line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). Prevost, by upholding the heresies of Vatican II and the magisterium of Bergoglio, is ipso facto severed from the Church. No “summit” convened by a non-pope possesses any authority; it is a meeting of a paramasonic structure managing its own dissolution.
Synodality: The Democratization of Apostasy
The report on Ireland’s “national synodal assembly” is particularly damning. Delegates “voted Saturday to prioritize catechesis, healing, and youth ministry.” Voting on the Faith is the essence of the conciliar error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”) and by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples”). The Church is not a parliament; Ecclesia non est parliamentum. The Irish “synod” is a theater of the absurd in a land where the Faith has been all but extinguished by the very conciliar reforms these assemblies enshrine. The article’s approval — “In a country with spiraling levels of Catholic practice, that makes sense to me” — reveals the author’s pragmatic naturalism: success is measured by sociological metrics, not by the salus animarum.
The St. Michael Prayer: Stripping the Armor of God
The most theologically revealing item concerns “Bishop” Mark Beckman of Knoxville ordering parishes to “move away from additional prayers recited together immediately before, during, and immediately after Mass,” specifically the St. Michael Prayer, instituted by Leo XIII in 1886 after his vision of the demonic assault on the Church. The author admits the prayer was implemented in 2018 by the previous “Bishop” Stika “in hope of seeking the Lord’s intervention into the sexual abuse crisis.” Its removal signals the conciliar sect’s surrender to the Prince of this World. St. Michael the Archangel is the Princeps militiae caelestis (Prince of the heavenly host); his prayer is a sacramental of spiritual warfare. To suppress it is to declare that the crisis is not spiritual but managerial — a matter of “safeguarding policies” and civil compliance. This aligns perfectly with the Syllabus Error 56: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction… it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God.” The “bishop” acts as a functionary of the secular state, stripping the faithful of their armor (Eph 6:11) to appease a worldview that denies the demonic.
Fr. Ripperger and the “Celebrity” Trap of the Indult
The treatment of Fr. Chad Ripperger exposes the theological bankruptcy of the “recognize-and-resist” position (FSSPX, FSSP, etc.). The author describes him as a “figure of internet notoriety — either famous and infamous, depending on which twitter.com accounts you read.” “Archbishop” Golka imposes a “year of silence” — a censura without canonical process, typical of the lawless conciliar hierarchy. Ripperger “readily agreed,” demonstrating the servile obedience to false authority that characterizes the indult/traditionalist ghetto. They accept the invalid Novus Ordo “bishops” as legitimate ordinaries, and thus submit to their unjust penalties. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, Canon 188.4 (1917 Code) declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” Golka, by his communion with the antipope and the conciliar sect, has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction. Ripperger’s obedience to him is not humility but schism from the true Church by adherence to a usurper. The author’s “balanced” take — “neither of those takes are right… Golka… likes to proceed with careful thought, deliberation, and prayer” — is the voice of the laxist who sees only personalities, not the status quaestionis: the vacancy of the See and the invalidity of the new rites.
Parish as “Mixed-Use Development”: The Kingdom of Man Replaces the Kingdom of Christ
The Utah parish project is described in the language of commercial real estate: “mixed-use developments,” “walkable,” “magnetic spaces… draw people in based on normal human desire, and then awaken the desire for higher and higher, deeper and deeper things.” This is pure naturalism. Quas Primas teaches: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The parish is not a “magnetic space” for “human desire”; it is the domus Dei, the House of God, where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is offered for the propitiation of sins. The architect’s vision — “awaken desire… within sight of the object of that desire” — is phenomenological manipulation, not evangelization. It echoes the Syllabus Error 48: “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith… and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things.” The “basilica-style church” in a commercial development is a monument to the civitas terrena, not the Civitas Dei.
Artificial Intelligence and the “Guidelines” of the World
The Swiss “bishops'” AI guidelines — produced using AI itself — are the blind leading the blind. The article notes they are “significantly more robust than those offered by dioceses in the United States.” Robustness in error is no virtue. The conciliar hierarchy has no competence to “guide” the faithful on AI because it has abandoned the Depositum Fidei which alone orders technology to the finis ultimus. Lamentabili (Prop. 57) condemns: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences.” The Modernist “Church” embraces the world’s progress; the true Church judges it by the Regula Fidei. The Swiss “bishops” (validly ordained? unlikely post-1968) speak as ethicists of the saeculum, not as successores Apostolorum.
The Abuse Crisis: Justice Without Truth, Law Without Grace
The cases of “Bishop” Jez in Poland and the laicized Jesuit in Bolivia are framed entirely in civil legal terms: “legal obligation to report,” “prosecutors,” “criminal case,” “institutional complicity.” There is zero mention of the spiritual root: the crimen nefandum of clerical homosexuality, the loss of the sacerdotium through invalid ordination rites (Paul VI’s 1968 rite), the divine chastisement for the New Mass and the heresies of Vatican II. The “survivors” call the expulsion a “symbolic gesture.” Indeed, the entire conciliar structure is a symbolic gesture — a simulacrum of the Church. True justice would require a Canonical Process under a true Pope, not a secular trial of a “bishop” who holds no jurisdiction. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Pope Paul IV) declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” Jez, Beckman, Golka, Stika — all are ipso facto deprived of office. Their “trials” and “disciplines” are theatrics of a vacant stage.
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of the Novus Ordo Secularist
The author’s tone is conversational, therapeutic, and immanentist. “Vocational crisis,” “guilt,” “nagging sense,” “dismal weeks,” “perfect metaphor,” “silent Ignatian retreat” (Ignatian exercises in the conciliar sect are often corrupted by Modernist anthropology). He speaks of “the Lord” speaking to him in prayer — private revelation as normative discernment, a Protestantized subjectivism. The news items are “stories,” “conversations,” “paradigms.” The Latin is absent; the Sacrifice is absent; Grace is absent; Hell is absent. This is the lingua novae ecclesiae: a dialect of religious sentimentalism masking the apostasia.
Conclusion: The Abomination Makes Desolate
This article is a symptom of the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). It presents a “Church” that holds summits for heresy, synods for voting on doctrine, builds parishes as real estate ventures, suppresses the prayer to the Archangel, disciplines priests who play-act tradition while obeying usurpers, and seeks “guidelines” from algorithms. There is no Catholic Church in this text. There is only the Church of the New Advent, the neo-church, the paramasonic structure occupying the visible patrimony. The faithful must withdraw all recognition, obedience, and financial support from this counterfeit hierarchy. Non est alia via (There is no other way). The regnum Christi subsists only in those who hold the integral Catholic faith, the Traditional Latin Mass (the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V), and the Sedevacantist position — the sole theological coherence in a world of ecclesiastical ruins. “You are Christ the King of glory!” (Quas Primas) — not the CEO of a “mixed-use development.”
Source:
The Cross, the liturgy, and the game (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 20.10.2026