The Pillar Catholic portal (August 3, 2026) promotes a podcast episode featuring JD Flynn in conversation with “Bishop” Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, celebrating the second anniversary of the so-called National Eucharistic Congress. The episode is sponsored by St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, which is marketing a conference on the “soon-to-be Blessed” Archbishop Fulton Sheen. This publicity stunt for a manufactured “revival” exposes the conciliar sect’s reliance on emotionalism and institutional branding to mask the absence of the True Sacrifice and the True Faith.
The “National Eucharistic Congress”: A Circus of Idolatry
The very concept of a “National Eucharistic Congress” organized by the structures occupying the Vatican is a theological absurdity and a practical idolatry. The conciliar sect parades a wafer consecrated — if at all — within the Novus Ordo Missae, a rite fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini and promulgated by the antipope Paul VI, which deliberately excised the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice, the Real Presence as defined by the Council of Trent, and the priesthood ordered to that Sacrifice. As Pope Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei, the liturgy is the primary and indispensable source of the true Christian spirit; a corrupted liturgy produces a corrupted faith. The “Eucharist” of the new rite is not the Corpus Domini but the fruit of a Protestantized memorial service. To carry this in procession, to adore it in a manufactured “revival” context, is not worship of the Incarnate Word but the veneration of a symbol of the sect’s own apostasy. The Syllabus of Errors
of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “the Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Here, the sect acts as a mere NGO, staging a civic festival for a “god” of its own making.
The False Shepherd: “Bishop” Cozzens and the Vacancy of Jurisdiction
Andrew Cozzens presents himself as a “bishop” of the Catholic Church. He is nothing of the sort. He is a functionary of the conciliar sect, ordained in the invalid Paul VI rite of episcopal consecration (1968), which removed the essential form specifying the sacramental power to offer the True Sacrifice and to govern the Church of God. He holds no jurisdiction, no mission, no authority. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, citing St. Robert Bellarmine and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (“by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… just as he ceases to be a Christian”). The “bishops” of the sect publicly profess the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy, and the new ecclesiology of Lumen Gentium. They are haeretici manifesti. Cozzens’ participation in this podcast is not pastoral care; it is corporate marketing for a bankrupt institution. His “diocese” of Crookston is a mission field for the True Faith, abandoned to wolves.
The Rhetoric of “Revival”: Linguistic Engineering for Apostasy
The language of the podcast title — “Stoking the flames of revival” — is revealing. It borrows the vocabulary of Protestant tent meetings and modern marketing campaigns. The Catholic Church does not speak of “revivals”; she speaks of conversio, of the Social Reign of Christ the King, of the restoration of all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo, the motto of St. Pius X). Pius XI in Quas Primas (provided in context) declares: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The “revival” Cozzens peddles is a revival of laicism, of the “secularism of our times” which Pius XI identifies as “the plague that poisons human society.” It is a revival of the cult of man condemned by the Syllabus and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The careful, bureaucratic tone of the podcast description — “planning and impact,” “hosting a conference,” “join in-person or virtually” — betrays the corporate, worldly mindset of the paramasonic structure. There is no mention of sin, of hell, of the necessity of the True Mass, of the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith. Only “impact” and “engagement.”
The Fulton Sheen Spectacle: Exploiting a Pre-Conciliar Giant
The sponsorship by St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry for a conference on the “soon-to-be Blessed” Archbishop Fulton Sheen is a calculated act of theft. Sheen died in 1979, a man of the old rite, a defender of the Kingship of Christ, a critic of the very errors the conciliar sect now embodies. His “beatification” by the antipope Francis (and now the anticipation of further honors under “Leo XIV”) is canonically null. As the Facts and Myths section of the framework states: “John Paul II – a heretic and apostate.” An antipope cannot canonize. The sect drags Sheen’s corpse behind its chariot to lend a veneer of orthodoxy to its Modernist circus. Sheen warned against the “Anti-Church” which “will mimic the Church… it will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of divine content.” The sect fulfills his prophecy by canonizing him within that very Anti-Church.
Systemic Symptom: The Neo-Church as a Substitute for the Kingdom
This podcast episode is a microcosm of the conciliar revolution. It replaces the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with a “Congress.” It replaces the Episcopate with a managerial class of “bishops.” It replaces Evangelization (baptizing nations) with “dialogue” and “revival” metrics. It replaces the Magisterium with podcasts and sponsored content. The Lamentabili Sane Exitu decree of St. Pius X condemns the Modernist proposition: “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries on earth, as He believed in the imminent coming of the heavenly kingdom” (Prop. 52). The sect acts exactly as if the Church were a temporary human project to be rebranded every generation. The “National Eucharistic Congress” is the Golden Calf of the neo-church: a visible, tangible, manageable substitute for the invisible, supernatural, demanding Kingship of Christ.
Conclusion: No Communion with Darkness
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the immutable Tradition prior to 1958, sees in this podcast not a “Great Catholic Conversation” but the chatter of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9; 3:9) occupying the visible structures. There is no “revival” in the conciliar sect, only the putrefaction of the Mystical Body’s visible members who have cut themselves off from the Head. The only “flame” to be stoked is the fire of charity that burns in the True Mass, offered by valid priests in the catacombs of the Resistance, for the conversion of the usurpers and the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Non praevalebunt (Mt 16:18).
Source:
Stoking the flames of revival, with Bishop Cozzens (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 03.08.2026