The Pillar, a digital mouthpiece of the conciliar sect masquerading as independent journalism, publishes its “Friday Pillar Post” for August 7, 2026, authored by its editor Ed Condon. The piece opens with a banal, therapeutic meditation on Psalm 128 and the author’s personal anxiety during a two-week vacation, before pivoting to a curated digest of scandals and betrayals that define the Bergoglian antipapacy: a “cardinal” credibly accused of sexual predation in the confessional, an Australian “bishop” testifying against his brother “bishop” in a criminal court, the opaque finances of the Vatican’s asset management arm, a public spat among Spanish “bishops” over migration rhetoric, and—the true lede buried at the end—the latest installation of state-approved “bishops” in Communist China under the secretive, treasonous “Vatican-China deal.” The article’s thesis, unwittingly confessed in its final paragraph, is that the conciliar sect’s leadership is so consumed by institutional survival and geopolitical maneuvering that it has abandoned the salus animarum entirely.