False Unity Through Shared Meals: The Napa Institute’s Recipe for Apostasy
Tim Busch, founder of the Napa Institute and a prominent layman within the conciliar sect, reports on his “salon dinners” designed to bridge the “divide” between “conservative” and “progressive” Catholics. The National Catholic Register publishes this commentary (July 20, 2026) as a model for ecclesial unity. Busch describes gatherings of 12–14 participants — “priests, religious sisters, scholars, journalists, lay leaders and even a cardinal” — who begin with the Novus Ordo service and the Rosary, share a meal, exchange favorite Scripture verses, and deliberately avoid “structured debates or attempts to persuade.” The thesis is clear: friendship precedes truth; dialogue replaces conversion; the “image of God” in the heretic is discovered not through the light of Faith but through shared pasta and sentiment. This is not Catholicism; it is the dialogue of salvation condemned by Pius XI, the indifferentism anathematized by Pius IX, and the practical realization of the Masonic dream: a Church reduced to a fraternal dining club.