The Pillar, a digital outlet operating within the conciliar sect’s media apparatus, publishes a promotional notice for its paid-subscriber podcast “Bonus: Cooperstown,” featuring its editors JD Flynn and Ed Condon. The notice lists recent episodes covering the Rupnik scandal, ecumenical overtures to schismatic Russians, secular political commentary with a British lord, and dismissive characterizations of traditional Catholics as “Middle-aged Men Yell at the Cloud.” This content reveals the complete substitution of the Church’s supernatural mission for a secularized, subscription-based media enterprise.
The Conciliar Sect’s Media Apparatus: Merchandising the Faith
The very structure of this offering—a “paid subscriber” podcast hosted on Substack—exposes the mercantile spirit that animates the post-conciliar establishment. Simonia (simony), the buying and selling of spiritual things, finds a modern avatar in the monetization of “Catholic conversation.” Our Lord drove the money-changers from the Temple (John 2:15-16); the conciliar sect invites them to subscribe for “Great Catholic Conversation, each week.” The notice’s technical instructions—”Check the top right corner… ensure you are logged into your Substack account”—reveal a preoccupation with digital access control utterly foreign to the depositum fidei (deposit of faith). Where is the gratis (free) proclamation of the Gospel? Gratis accepistis, gratis date (Freely you have received, freely give — Matthew 10:8). This is not apostolate; it is a content business.
Rupnik, the Russians, and the Ecumenism of Scandal
The episode “Rupnik, the Russians, and a rejected plea deal” encapsulates the conciliar sect’s twin pathologies: clerical impunity for heinous crimes and false ecumenism with schismatics. Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit “artist” credibly accused of grave sexual and spiritual abuses against religious women, was excommunicated and then rapidly “reconciled” by the sect’s hierarchy without public penance—a mockery of divine justice. The reference to “the Russians” signals the ongoing ecumenical delusion: treating the schismatic Orthodox as a “sister Church” rather than souls in need of conversion to the one, true Church (Unam Sanctam, Boniface VIII). Pope Pius XI condemned this error in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ.” The “rejected plea deal” suggests canonical maneuvering to protect an abuser—crimen pessimum (a most heinous crime)—while the faithful are fed podcast episodes.
“Middle-aged Men Yell at the Cloud”: The Language of Contempt for Tradition
The episode title “Middle-aged Men Yell at the Cloud” is a reductio ad ridiculum (reduction to ridicule) directed at Catholics who adhere to the immutable Tradition, the Traditional Latin Mass, and the pre-1958 Magisterium. This ageist, dismissive rhetoric mimics secular progressive discourse, not the caritas (charity) of Christ. It reveals the demonic hatred the conciliar sect harbors for the lex orandi, lex credendi (law of praying, law of believing) that sustained the Church for two millennia. St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) identified the Modernist tactic: “They make use of a certain obscurity of language… to make their doctrines more palatable.” Here, the obscurity is replaced by sneering mockery. The “cloud” they reference is the cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1)—the saints, popes, and councils of Tradition whom these Modernists despise.
The Consequences of Christianity… According to Lord Frost
An episode titled “The consequences of Christianity, with Lord Frost” features a secular British politician (David Frost, a Brexit negotiator) discoursing on Christianity’s societal utility. This is naturalism par excellence: reducing the Regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ) to a topic for political punditry. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declared: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Inviting a lay politician to discuss “consequences” inverts the order: the State must submit to Christ the King, not evaluate His “utility.” The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and “The Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55). This episode embodies both errors.
Absence of the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in this promotional material—nor, by extension, in the podcast episodes it advertises—is there mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, sanctifying grace, the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell), or the Social Kingship of Christ. The topics are scandal management (Rupnik), ecumenical politics (Russians), secular sociology (Lord Frost), and ridicule of the faithful remnant. This total silence on the supernatural order is the signum contradictionis (sign of contradiction) proving the conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church but a paramasonic structure dedicated to the cult of man. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The Pillar contributes to the expansion of a counterfeit kingdom.
The False Clergy of the Neo-Church
JD Flynn and Ed Condon operate as “Catholic journalists” within a structure that recognizes the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the line of antipopes from John XXIII. They possess no canonical mission from the true Church. Their “conversations” are the loquacitas vana (vain loquacity) condemned by St. Paul (1 Timothy 1:6). The Pillar’s revenue model—paid subscriptions—creates a financial interest in maintaining the illusion of legitimacy for the conciliar hierarchy. They are hirelings (mercenarii, John 10:12-13) who flee when the wolf of truth approaches, because their livelihood depends on the sect’s survival.
Conclusion: A Digital Potemkin Village
The Pillar Podcast is a digital Potemkin village: a facade of Catholic vocabulary concealing a hollowed-out naturalism. It offers “conversation” instead of doctrina (doctrine), “episodes” instead of sacraments, and “subscriptions” instead of salvation. The faithful remnant must reject this counterfeit media entirely, recognizing it as an instrument of the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15) occupying the Vatican. Non praevalebunt (They shall not prevail — Matthew 16:18). The true Church endures in the catacombs of Tradition, celebrating the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ.
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Bonus: Cooperstown (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 28.08.2026