The Pillar Podcast, a mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, reports on its Episode 275 that the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has requested the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes to cover the mosaics of the notorious Jesuit Marko Rupnik, while a Chaldean “bishop” Emanuel Shaleta rejects a plea deal in a civil court, and the hosts engage in geopolitical theater regarding Russian “misinformation.” This spectacle of bureaucratic damage control and secular legalism exposes the utter bankruptcy of the neo-church: it substitutes canonical justice for public relations stunts, replaces the rights of God with the language of “misinformation,” and demonstrates that the conciliar hierarchy is incapable of judging its own criminals because it shares their modernist spirit.
The Usurper’s Theatrical Gesture: Covering Mosaics Instead of Condemning Heresy
The report that the antipope Leo XIV “asks the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes to cover its Rupnik mosaics” is the quintessence of the conciliar sect’s modus operandi: gesture over substance, optics over ontology. Rupnik, a Jesuit “priest” of the neo-church, has been credibly accused of grave sexual and spiritual abuses against religious women, facilitated by the very structures of the Society of Jesus which has been a vanguard of Modernism since the 1960s. The response of the “Holy See” under the usurpers has been a masterclass in simul justus et peccator (simultaneously just and sinner) — not the Lutheran heresy, but the conciliar reality: a simulacrum of justice masking institutional complicity.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s Kingship is not metaphorical but real, demanding public veneration and obedience from states and individuals alike: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The conciliar sect, having dethroned Christ the King in favor of the “cult of man” (Paul VI, closing of Vatican II), cannot exercise true authority. Its “pope” does not command the removal of sacrilegious art — he asks a sanctuary to cover it. This is not the voice of the Vicar of Christ; it is the whimper of a functionary managing a brand crisis. The mosaics themselves, products of a theology that reduces the Incarnation to vague “encounter” and “accompaniment,” are the visible fruit of the nouvelle théologie condemned by Pius XII in Humani Generis. Covering them changes nothing; the heresy that produced them reigns supreme in the neo-church’s seminaries and chanceries.
The Chaldean “Bishop” and the Secular Court: Canonical Nullity Masquerading as Justice
The podcast notes that “Chaldean Bishop Emanuel Shaleta rejects a plea deal.” In the integral Catholic faith, a bishop is a successor of the Apostles, constituted by the Pope to govern a portion of the flock in the name of Christ. His authority is spiritual, his judgment ecclesiastical. That a “bishop” of the conciliar sect — even one of an Eastern rite supposedly preserving tradition — finds himself enmeshed in a civil plea deal is a scandal crying to heaven. It is the direct fruit of the Vatican II decree Christus Dominus and the 1983 Code, which subjected the Church to the civil order, contradicting the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) which condemns the proposition: “The civil law prevails” over ecclesiastical law (Error 42).
St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism, teaches that a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” The Chaldean “bishop” Shaleta, by recognizing the usurper Leo XIV as pope, by participating in the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism, and by submitting to secular jurisdiction in a matter of ecclesiastical discipline, manifests his separation from the Catholic Church. His “rejection of a plea deal” is not heroic resistance; it is a layman’s legal maneuver in a court that has no competence over sacred things. Quod ab initio non valet, in tractu temporis non convalescit (what is void from the beginning does not become valid with time). The conciliar sect has no bishops, only administrators of a human institution.
Russia, “Misinformation,” and the Conciliar Sect’s Surrender to the Secular Order
The podcast’s third segment — “Ed unpacks Russia’s misinformation campaign this week against the Holy See” and a game of “Russia ‘Greater or Lesser?'” — reveals the total naturalization of the neo-church’s worldview. The conciliar sect does not speak of error, heresy, schism, or divine chastisement. It speaks the language of the CIA, the EU, and the Atlanticist establishment: “misinformation,” “campaign,” “geopolitics.” This is the inevitable result of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes: the Church reduced to an NGO commenting on the “international rules-based order.”
Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar sect has done exactly this. Its “pope” does not condemn Russia’s errors (which are real: schism, caesaropapism, state atheism’s legacy) with the thunder of Divini Redemptoris (Pius XI) or the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart demanded by the true popes. Instead, his spokesmen play parlor games on podcasts sponsored by a university offering an “MBA/MA in Philosophy dual degree” — the perfect symbol of the synthesis of Mammon and Modernism.
The False Fatima Apparitions document correctly identifies the Fatima narrative as a tool to “divert attention from modernist apostasy within the Church.” The conciliar sect’s obsession with Russia as a geopolitical adversary, while ignoring the spiritual Russia of the schismatic Orthodox patriarch Kirill blessing the war, and while the “pope” pursues “ecumenical dialogue” with that same schismatic hierarchy, is the height of hypocrisy. The true danger, as St. Pius X warned in Pascendi and Lamentabili Sane Exitu, is the “enemy within” — the Modernists who have occupied the Vatican since 1958.
The Rupnik Case: Symptom of the Conciliar Sect’s Sacramental and Moral Collapse
Marko Rupnik is not an anomaly; he is the logical consequence of the conciliar revolution. A Jesuit “priest” formed in the post-conciliar chaos, ordained in the invalid Paul VI rite (1968), immersed in the “theology of the body” of the heretic John Paul II, producing art that is the visual equivalent of the Novus Ordo Missae: anthropocentric, horizontal, stripped of the sacrum. His abuses — spiritual, psychological, sexual — were enabled by a structure that abolished the distinction between the priesthood and the laity, that replaced the sacerdos with the “presider,” that made the confessional a “reconciliation room” for “sharing.”
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the Modernist proposition: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Prop. 41). Rupnik’s “ministry” was precisely this: a therapy of “encounter” devoid of the ex opere operato reality of grace. The fact that the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” under the usurpers initially dismissed the case, then “expelled” Rupnik from the Jesuits only to have him “incardinated” in a Slovenian diocese, proves that the conciliar sect protects its own. The mosaics at Lourdes, at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington, at the Vatican itself — these are the insignia of the neo-church’s true liturgy: the worship of man.
The Podcast as Propaganda: Manufacturing Consent for the Abomination of Desolation
The Pillar Podcast, hosted by JD Flynn and Ed Condon, functions as controlled opposition within the conciliar sect. It adopts a tone of “investigative journalism” and “orthodox concern” to lend credibility to the usurpers’ narrative. By discussing Rupnik, Shaleta, and Russia in the same breath as a sponsored segment for a “Newman Guide–recommended program,” it frames the crisis as a management problem solvable by better policies, more transparency, and “competent” leadership. This is the hermeneutic of continuity applied to administration: the revolution must be managed, not reversed.
The silence of the podcast on the supernatural order is deafening. No mention of the Indefectibility of the Church, the Four Marks, the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The “Catholic conversation” it advertises is a conversation about the Church, not by the Church. It is the conversation of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) — those who say they are Jews (Catholics) and are not, but do lie.
Conclusion: The Only Remedy Is the Restoration of the Catholic Church
The events described — the usurper’s request to cover mosaics, a “bishop” in civil court, a podcast analyzing geopolitics — are not discrete news items. They are the symptoms of a single disease: the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3) and the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15) identified by the Fathers as the loss of the Holy Sacrifice and the usurpation of the papal throne.
The sedevacantist position, grounded in the teaching of Bellarmine, the Canons of the 1917 Code (Canon 188.4), and the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV, is the only coherent Catholic response. A manifest heretic cannot be Pope. The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV has publicly professed the errors of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, evolution of dogma. They have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction. The conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church; it is its counterfeit.
The faithful must withdraw entirely from the structures of the neo-church — its “Masses,” its “sacraments,” its “bishops,” its media. They must adhere to the Tradition preserved by validly ordained priests and bishops who reject the conciliar errors, who celebrate the Mass of All Time (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary), and who profess the integral Faith without compromise. Non praevalebunt (they shall not prevail) — but only those who remain in the Ark of Tradition, outside of which there is no salvation, will weather the storm.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Ep. 275: Rupnik, the Russians, and a rejected plea deal (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 28.08.2026