The Pillar portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has appointed the Jesuit Giacomo Costa and the Salesian Elena Massimi as undersecretaries of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, replacing Archbishop Luis Marín de San Martín and Nathalie Becquart. The article frames these appointments as a signal that the “Synod on Synodality” — the flagship engine of the conciliar revolution — will not only survive but deepen its grip on the neo-church’s governance, despite Leo’s occasional “conservative” rhetorical gestures. The personnel chosen are architects of the *Amoris laetitia* paradigm and the synodal machinery, confirming that the “Leonine” pontificate is merely the consolidation phase of the Modernist coup d’état.
The Synodal Structure: A Masonic Parliament Supplanting the Divine Monarchy
The very existence of a permanent “General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops” is a canonical monstrosity unknown to the Church prior to the Second Vatican Council. It is the institutional embodiment of the heresy of *collegiality*, which subverts the monarchical constitution of the Church established by Christ: *Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam* (Mt 16:18). Pope Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, teaches that Christ’s Kingdom is **not a democracy** but a monarchy where “all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him” (Mt 28:18), and that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself… full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The Synod Secretariat, by contrast, functions as a bureaucratic politburo, processing “listening sessions” and “syntheses” — a parody of the *sensus fidei* transformed into a tool for manufacturing consent for doctrinal corruption.
The cited article admits that “synodality was one of the many issues left open during Francis’ pontificate… struggling to define what synodality was.” This ambiguity is not a bug but a feature of Modernism, condemned 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, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applicable to different times and places.”* The “Synod on Synodality” is the operationalization of this condemned proposition: a permanent revolution masquerading as a “process.”
Personnel as Policy: The Jesuit Sociologist and the “Liturgical” Feminist
The appointment of **Fr. Giacomo Costa SJ** — a sociologist steeped in “political and moral sociology in Paris” — exposes the naturalistic foundation of the neo-church. He is not a theologian defending the deposit of faith but a social engineer managing the “transition.” His record is a compendium of Modernist errors:
On homosexuality: He declared the term “intrinsically disordered” — the precise language of the Catechism of the Council of Trent and the constant teaching of the Church — to be an “obstacle” preventing access to “Christian anthropology,” demanding an “alternative vocabulary.” This is a direct assault on Veritas splendor and the natural law, echoing the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 56): “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction.”
On the “Amazon Rite” and married clergy: He speculated favorably on an “Amazon Rite” including married priests, treating the discipline of celibacy — a canonical law of the Latin Church rooted in apostolic tradition — as a negotiable variable for “inculturation.”
On the “exiled”: In a staggering moral equivalence, he listed “Catholics identifying as gay” alongside “those who want to celebrate Mass with the pre-conciliar rite” as equally “exiled within the Church.” This equates the victims of the liturgical persecution (*Traditionis custodes*) with those demanding the Church bless sodomy. It is the dialectic of the Antichurch: the only “unity” permitted is unity in apostasy.
The appointment of **Sr. Elena Massimi FMA** confirms the feminist trajectory. A “professor of liturgy” and member of “Study Group 11: The Liturgy in a Synodal Perspective,” she co-authored a book with the notorious modernist liturgist Andrea Grillo attacking the “ministerial machinery” that reserves Holy Orders to men. She advocates for the historical legitimacy of “female deacons” as ordained ministers — a proposition explicitly condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1976, *Inter Insigniores*) and rooted in the impossibility of the *sacramental sign* representing Christ the Bridegroom. Her praise of *Traditionis custodes* as a “safe path” reveals the true face of the “liturgical reform”: not a return to tradition, but the enforcement of the Novus Ordo as the liturgical expression of the new ecclesiology.
The “Conservative” Mirage: Restrained Rhetoric, Radical Appointments
The article correctly identifies the modus operandi: “making restrained public comments on synodality and criticizing excesses, while promoting personnel who seem more open to overtly far-reaching positions.” This is the classic strategy of the “hermeneutic of continuity” — a rhetorical veneer to placate the remnant while the revolutionary cadres advance. St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the *Defense of Sedevacantism*, teaches that a manifest heretic loses his office *ipso facto*: *”A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.”* The “pope” who appoints architects of doctrinal dissolution to govern the “synodal process” manifests his heresy by his fruits. The *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio* of Pope Paul IV declares that if a Roman Pontiff “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.”
The “Synod Secretariat” has effectively become the *de facto* supreme tribunal of the neo-church, superseding the CDF (now DDF), as admitted by the article: “the secretariat took a growingly significant role… most of the organizational work… had been taken over by the Secretariat of the Synod.” This is the realization of the Masonic plan described in the *False Fatima* analysis: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “Synod on Synodality” is the vehicle for the final ecumenical reinterpretation — the dissolution of the Catholic Church into a pan-religious NGO.
Linguistic Engineering: The Vocabulary of the Void
The article’s language — “synodal establishment,” “methodological role,” “post-synodal committees,” “business-as-usual” — reveals the corporate, bureaucratic nature of the entity occupying the Vatican. It speaks of “mission” (Costa: “the mission, that is, how the Church today can proclaim…”) but omits *salus animarum*, the Cross, the Kingship of Christ, the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart. Pius XI in *Quas Primas* warned: *”When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”* The neo-church has removed Christ the King from its governance, replacing Him with the “Holy Spirit” invoked as a vague immanent force to bless the latest ideological fashion. The “Synod” is not a parliament, Costa claims, yet it functions exactly as one: negotiating, bargaining, compromising on divorce/remarriage (Amoris laetitia), homosexuality, women’s “ordination,” and the liturgy.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Abomination of Desolation Consolidates
These appointments are not administrative trivia. They are the **canonical ratification of the Great Apostasy**. The “Secretariat of the Synod” is the *synagoga Satanae* (Apoc 2:9) institutionalized. It replaces the *Magisterium* with a “process,” *Truth* with “consensus,” *Hierarchy* with “facilitation,” *Priesthood* with “ministry,” *Sacrifice* with “assembly.”
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the immutable Tradition (pre-1958), sees in this the fulfillment of 2 Thess 2:3-4: the “man of sin” sitting in the temple of God, showing himself as God. The “pope” Leo XIV, by empowering the synodal machine, confirms he is not the Vicar of Christ but the vicar of the Revolution. There is no “reform of the reform,” no “correction” coming from within the structures of the conciliar sect. As the *Syllabus of Errors* (Prop. 80) condemns: *”The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”* This is precisely what the “Leonine” appointments enact.
The only path is *extra hanc Ecclesiam nulla salus* — outside the Church (the true Church of the Catacombs, the faithful bishops and priests preserving the Mass of All Time and the integral Faith) there is no salvation. The neo-church, its synods, its “popes,” its “undersecretaries,” and its “synodal processes” are the **abomination of desolation standing in the holy place** (Mt 24:15). Let him who reads understand.
Source:
New appointments hint at Leo’s vision for Secretariat of the Synod (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 03.11.2026