The Pillar portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” is widely expected to name new “cardinals” in the coming weeks, with the podcast hosts JD Flynn and Ed Condon speculating on the most likely and least likely picks for the neo-church’s electoral college. This maneuver confirms the purely political and administrative nature of the conciliar sect’s hierarchy, devoid of any supernatural mission.
The Farce of a “Consistory” in the Abomination of Desolation
The cited article reduces the supreme act of ecclesiastical governance—the creation of princes of the Church—to a parlor game of political handicapping. Flynn and Condon “debate Pope Leo’s most likely and least likely picks” with the same gravity one might apply to a fantasy sports draft. This trivialization lays bare the total evaporation of the sacramental and juridical reality of the cardinalate. In the true Church, a consistory is a solemn act of the Roman Pontiff, exercising the plenitude of his apostolic authority to strengthen the Senate of the Church for the defense of the faith and the government of the universal Church. In the conciliar sect, it is a tool for consolidating modernist control, ensuring the next conclave—itself a simulated farce—produces another usurper committed to the “synodal” revolution.
The very language of “picks” and “likely candidates” betrays a naturalistic ecclesiology where the Church is a human institution managed by bureaucratic appointment rather than a divine society governed by Christ the King through His Vicar. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, Christ’s kingdom is “not of this world” yet encompasses all nations; the neo-church’s cardinalate, by contrast, serves only the kingdom of man, “equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category” (Pius XI, Quas Primas), precisely as condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 77).
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of the “Synodal” Bureaucracy
The podcast’s tone—casual, speculative, peppered with “Little League chat”—is not incidental; it is the audible signature of the “Church of the New Advent”. The hosts speak of “Pope Leo’s picks” as if the usurper possesses the authority to bind and loose. They omit entirely any reference to the ipse facto loss of office for manifest heresy, the theological prerequisite for any legitimate papal act. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he may be judged and punished by the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). Since the line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality—condemned by Quanta Cura, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, and Mortalium Animos—every “appointment” issued from the Vatican is null, void, and of no effect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Paul IV).
The phrase “widely expected to name” reveals the creaturely dependence of the neo-hierarchy on media narratives and worldly consensus. The true Pope rules ex sese, non ex consensu Ecclesiae; the antipope rules by the leave of the “pillars” of the new establishment—journalists, NGOs, and the “synodal” assembly. This is the democratization of the Church condemned by Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples…”).
Theological Nullity: No Authority, No Jurisdiction, No Cardinalate
Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code, binding on the true Church, declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto “if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “cardinals” created by an antipope receive no jurisdiction, no title, no electorate. They are laymen adorned in scarlet, participants in a Masonic parody of the Roman Senate. The “Sistine Chapel” backdrop mentioned in the article credit (“Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. Credit: Vatican Media”) serves as a stage set for the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15).
The article’s sponsorship by the “University of Mary… which leads the nation in the number of graduate programs recommended by The Newman Guide” is a telling detail. The “Newman Guide” is a product of the indult/neo-conservative apparatus, designed to channel traditional sentiment into the safe harbor of recognition of the usurpers. It is the academic wing of the FSSPX/Indult strategy: “give us the old Mass, that is enough for us.” This is the schism within the schism, the controlled opposition that legitimizes the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Consistory as Act of War Against Christ the King
Every “consistory” of the conciliar sect is a declaration of war against the Social Kingship of Christ. By creating “cardinals” who will vote for a “pope” committed to the Dignitatis Humanae heresy—that the state has no duty to profess the Catholic faith—the usurper fortifies the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The “picks” will be men who have embraced the “hermeneutic of continuity,” the “theology of the people,” the “synodal path”—in short, the synthesis of all heresies: Modernism (St. Pius X, Pascendi).
The silence of the article on the Faith, the Mass, the Sacraments, the Four Last Things is the loudest condemnation. There is no mention of the Propitiatory Sacrifice, the Immaculate Conception, the Papal Infallibility, the necessity of the Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus). The “Pillar” podcast is a product of the “Church listening” which “cooperates… with the Church teaching… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, Prop. 6). It is the voice of the synodality that replaces the Magisterium.
Conclusion: The True Church Endures in the Catacombs
While the neo-church stages its media events and speculates on scarlet hats, the true Church—Ecclesia Militans—endures in the valid bishops and priests who retain the unbroken apostolic succession and the unadulterated Mass of Trent, rejecting the new rites of ordination and consecration (Paul VI, 1968) as doubtful and practically invalid. The “cardinals” of Leo XIV are instruments of the Great Apostasy foretold in 2 Thess. 2:3. The faithful must flee the “picks,” the “podcasts,” the “guides,” and the entire paramasonic structure, adhering to the Tradition that alone transmits the Depositum Fidei. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18).
Source:
Ep. 276: Pope Leo’s picks (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 04.09.2026