The Pillar portal (August 18, 2026) publishes a “Pillar Post” by JD Flynn, a potpourri of neo-church news ranging from the Scala Sancta and a British politician’s “conversion” via the OCIA, to the demand for excommunication of a pro-abortion governor, the appointment of a Freemason to a “Pontifical” committee, humanitarian concern for the West Bank, the persecution of a conciliar “bishop” in Nicaragua, and a “papal” letter on liturgical rubrics for the Novus Ordo. The article epitomizes the naturalistic, bureaucratic, and Masonic character of the conciliar sect, treating the supernatural as sentiment, the canonical as a game of “pastoral discernment,” and the infiltration of the enemies of Christ as a mere curiosity.
The Relativization of Relics and the Subjectivist Piety of the New Religion
The article opens with the Scala Sancta, the Holy Stairs brought to Rome by St. Helena. Flynn writes: “Do the stairs come from Jerusalem? Did Christ the Lord climb them to endure his trial before Pilate? We don’t know. It’s certainly possible. And it’s enough for me… to remember the centuries of pilgrims taking those stairs as a kind of sacramental, a place which calls to mind that Christ was really a man…” This is the quintessence of Modernist immanentism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 13, 14, 36): the reduction of historical reality to a “symbolic” value, where the object of faith becomes the religious experience of the community rather than the objective truth of the Redemption. The stairs are not a “connection to generations of pilgrims”; they are a witness to the Historical Fact of the Passion. To say “it’s enough for me” places the autonomous subject as the judge of tradition, a Protestant principle. The citation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Helena — a work of fiction — as a spiritual guide for the feast day further manifests the literary, sentimental substitution for the sensus fidei and the Martyrology. The true Catholic does not “suspect that Helen intercedes”; he knows the Communion of Saints is a dogma, not a poetic fancy.
The Farce of “OCIA” Conversions: Naturalism Masquerading as Supernatural Faith
The report on Lord David Frost — a British politician and Brexit negotiator — entering the “Church” through the “ordinary OCIA program at his local parish, with no special treatment” is presented as edifying. It is, in fact, a scandal. The Ordo Initiationis Christianae Adultorum (OCIA), the post-conciliar replacement for the rigorous catechumenate and abjuration of errors, is a mechanism for manufacturing “Catholics” without the professio fidei Tridentinae, without explicit rejection of Masonry (ubiquitous in British politics), and without conditional baptism administered sub conditione given the doubtful validity of Anglican orders (denied by Apostolicae Curae, Leo XIII). Frost states he is “maybe only halfway down the road of being formed to live and think and act like a Catholic.” This is the language of permanent formation, of evolution, of the homo viator divorced from the status viatoris defined by the Council of Trent (Sess. VI, Can. 16). A true conversion requires an instantaneous death to the old man and a supernatural infusion of faith, not a bureaucratic “road.” The “scintillating conversation on the consequences of Christianity” with Ed Condon reveals the naturalistic horizon: Christianity reduced to social consequences, not the unica via salutis (Acts 4:12).
Canonical Theater: The 1983 Code as a Shield for Public Scandal
The analysis of CatholicVote’s demand for the excommunication of Governor Maura Healey exposes the impotence of the conciliar “canon law.” Flynn dismisses the “accomplice” argument because “the canons governing that are required to be interpreted ‘strictly'” and suggests Canon 1368 (“grave harm to public morals”) as an alternative, only to note “I’m not aware of any case in which a Catholic politician has been sanctioned with that norm… setting the precedent might open a floodgate.” Here the “law” is explicitly subordinated to political expediency and fear of consequences. The 1983 Code, a product of the conciliar revolution, replaces the immutable divine law (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code: “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith… office becomes vacant by the mere fact”) with a penal system requiring a “competent bishop” to “initiate proceedings.” But where is the competent bishop? As demonstrated in Defense of Sedevacantism, a manifest heretic loses jurisdiction ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Wernz-Vidal). The “bishops” of the neo-church, appointed by usurpers (John XXIII through Leo XIV), are either heretics themselves or lack canonical mission. They cannot bind or loose. The admission that the portal initially published the capital of Massachusetts as Springfield — “probably the dumbest mistake we’ve made as journalists” — is a fitting metaphor for the intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of the entire enterprise: they cannot even get the natural facts right, yet presume to judge the supernatural order.
The Masonic Infiltration Confirmed: A Freemason at the Heart of the “Pontifical” Committee
The most damning item is treated with journalistic detachment: “Longo is a Freemason… member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite… high-level initiation rite features a skull wearing a papal tiara.” The appointment of Umberto Longo to the “Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences” by Antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15). The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns the “sects, whether they be called masonic or bear another name” as the “synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ” (Allocution Quibus quantisque, 1849; Multiplices inter, 1851). Leo XIII in Humanum Genus (1884) declared Masonry the “kingdom of Satan”. The 1917 Code (Canon 2335) inflicted ipso facto excommunication on those who join Masonic sects. The “skull wearing a papal tiara” in the Scottish Rite ritual is a direct, blasphemous mockery of the Papacy. That a “pope” appoints a known member of this sect to a “Pontifical” committee proves the sede vacante: no true Vicar of Christ would do this; a manifest heretic and apostate *does* this. The article asks: “you’ve gotta ask whether the Church actually cares anymore what its law and history says about Freemasonry.” The answer is: the Church (the Bride of Christ) cares infinitely; the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican is the Masonic counter-church prophesied by Leo XIII and Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis).
Humanitarianism Substituting for the Kingship of Christ: The West Bank Narrative
Antipope Leo XIV and “Cardinal” Pizzaballa draw attention to the “plight of civilians in the West Bank” and the “Christians in the West Bank village of Taybeh.” The analysis is purely humanitarian, geopolitical, horizontal. There is zero mention of the Social Kingship of Christ taught by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The “Latin Patriarch” of Jerusalem is a functionary of the neo-church engaged in false ecumenism with Jews and Muslims, ignoring the duty to preach Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the conversion of all nations to the Catholic Faith. The “plight” of Christians is used as a pretext for political diplomacy, not as a call for the Consecratio Mundi to the Sacred Heart (as Pius XI commanded in Quas Primas and Annum Sacrum). This is the “laicism” and “secularism” Pius XI condemned as the “plague that poisons human society.”
The Liturgical Revolution Entrenched: “Desiderio Desideravi” and the Rubrics of the Novus Ordo
Finally, the “pope” urges “fidelity to liturgical rubrics… through proper education and reverent worship, Catholics will be formed both for the liturgy and by the liturgy” in a letter to “Cardinal” Roche regarding the 2022 apostolic letter Desiderio Desideravi. This is the ultimate blasphemy: demanding fidelity to the rubrics of the fabricated Bugnini service, the Novus Ordo Missae, which Paul VI himself admitted was a “new rite” manufactured by experts to please Protestants. The “Dicastery for Divine Worship” under Roche (architect of Traditionis Custodes) seeks “shared, concrete and practical proposals for the liturgical formation of laity and clerics.” This is the lex orandi of the New Advent: formation by a liturgy that expresses a false lex credendi (ecumenism, anthropocentrism, denial of the Propitiatory Sacrifice). The True Mass is the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary (Council of Trent, Sess. XXII), codified immutably by St. Pius V in Quo Primum. To speak of “rubrics” in the context of the Novus Ordo is to polish the brass on the altar of the Golden Calf. The “conference at Mount Angel Abbey” is a synodal farce, a conventiculum of the neo-church perfecting its apostasy.
Conclusion: The Structure is the Crime
Every item in this “Pillar Post” — the sentimental relic-tourism, the bureaucratic conversion, the canonical impotence against infanticide, the Masonic appointment, the humanitarian substitution for the Kingship of Christ, the enforcement of the Protestantized liturgy — forms a cohesive mosaic. It is the portrait of the Church of the New Advent, the paramasonic structure foretold by the prophets of Tradition. It has no jurisdiction, no sacraments (validly administered in the new rites), no Magisterium, no Head. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). Robert Prevost (Leo XIV) and his predecessors since 1958 are manifest heretics (Modernists), therefore ipso facto non-popes. The “bishops” are hirelings. The “canon law” is waste paper. The faithful must recede from this abomination of desolation, cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Mass of All Time, and the true bishops and priests who preserve the integral Catholic faith without compromise. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18).
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Helen's stairs, the news, and back-to-school (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 18.08.2026