Conciliar Journalist Enters Invalid Seminary: The ‘Trenches’ Myth and the Erasure of Christ’s Kingship
Jack Figge, a young journalist for the conciliar publication The Pillar, publishes a farewell essay announcing his departure for the propaedeutic year of a conciliar seminary. The piece recounts his trajectory from a desire for “Catholic internet stardom” to an appreciation for “people in the trenches” — “bishop” Andrew Cozzens, Tim Glemkowski, Jason Shanks, the “Airstream Sisters” (Daughters of Divine Love), “priest” Robert Fath, and layman Eddie Cotter — who allegedly evangelize through physical presence, soup kitchens, and Eucharistic processions. Figge contrasts these “trench” workers with “Catholic influencers” like Fr. Mike Schmitz, framing the distinction as a discovery of the “physical, tangible Church.” The article is saturated with the vocabulary of the conciliar revolution: “encounter,” “accompaniment,” “Eucharistic Revival,” “synodality” (implied), and a purely horizontal, sociological vision of the Church’s mission.