The National Catholic Register portal publishes a “Sunday Guide” by Msgr. Charles Pope, a dean and pastor in the Archdiocese of Washington under the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), commenting on the readings for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. The article presents a procedural reading of Matthew 18:15-20 on fraternal correction, treating the institutional structures of the conciliar sect as the “Church” Christ founded, while remaining utterly silent on the fact that these structures have been the primary engine of the Great Apostasy since 1958. This omission is not accidental; it is the hallmark of a pseudo-clergy that has substituted the lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief) with the lex bureaucratiae, rendering the divine mandate to bind and loose a mere exercise in ecclesiastical administration.
The Usurped Tribunal: Matthew 18 Applied to the Synagogue of Satan
The cited article quotes Our Lord: “If he refuses to listen even to the Church … there is excommunication.” Msgr. Pope then explains this step as a pastor speaking “to warn about such things as fornication, cohabitation, abortion, drug use, anger issues and disrespect for parents.” This reduction of the potestas iurisdictionis (power of jurisdiction) to therapeutic counseling exposes the naturalistic rot at the core of the conciliar sect. The “Church” of Matthew 18:17 is the Ecclesia Catholica, the pillar and ground of truth (1 Tim 3:15), possessing the potestas clavium (power of the keys) to bind and loose on earth what is bound and loosed in heaven (Matt 16:19; 18:18).
The structure Msgr. Pope serves — the “Archdiocese of Washington” under the “Priest Council,” “College of Consultors,” and “Priest Personnel Board” — is a paramasonic structure erected upon the ruins of the true hierarchy. As Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 37): “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established.” The conciliar sect has established precisely this: a national church withdrawn from the authority of the true Roman Pontiff (the last being Pius XII), separated from the immutable Faith, and erected into a false “church of the New Advent.” When this false church “excommunicates,” it exercises no divine authority; it merely enforces conformity to the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Correction” Without the Faith
Msgr. Pope writes: “The point of this correction is to win a brother or sister back to the Lord.” This sentence, superficially pious, conceals a fatal equivocation. Which “Lord”? The Lord of the Novus Ordo who “reconciles” without conversion, who receives “Communion” in the hand from lay ministers at a “table of assembly,” who teaches religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) contrary to the Syllabus (Props. 15, 55, 77-79) and Quanta Cura? The Lord of the Assisi syncretism? The Lord whose “Vicar” kisses the Koran and worships Pachamama?
St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, 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.” The “clergy” of the conciliar sect, from the antipope down to Msgr. Pope, are manifest heretics by their adherence to the Second Vatican Council and its anti-syllabus. They have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Therefore, their “correction” is not the correctio filialis of a father, but the raving of a wolf in sheep’s clothing (Matt 7:15).
The article’s “process” — private correction, witnesses, “tell the Church” — presupposes a visible, juridical hierarchy united in the True Faith. That hierarchy does not exist in the Vatican II sect. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates via Pope Celestine I and Nestorius: “He who has departed from the faith with such preaching cannot depose or remove anyone.” The conciliar “bishops” and “priests” departed from the Faith at the Council (1962-1965) or at their “ordination” in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968. They possess no power to bind, loose, or correct. Their “excommunications” are null, void, and of no effect — or worse, they are acts of usurpation against the true faithful who resist the apostasy.
Silence on the “Wicked” in High Places: The Ezekiel Mandate Betrayed
The first reading cites Ezekiel 33:7-9 (misreferenced as 3:17 in the article): “If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning … that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will hold you responsible.” Msgr. Pope applies this to “fornication, cohabitation, abortion, drug use, anger issues and disrespect for parents.” He completely omits the “wicked” who sit in the seats of Moses: the “bishops” who impose the Novus Ordo, the “priests” who deny the Propitiatory Sacrifice, the “popes” who teach heresy ex cathedra (e.g., religious liberty, collegiality, false ecumenism).
This silence is the gravest accusation. The true watchman cries out against the antichrists in the sanctuary (1 John 2:18). St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57) and “Truth changes with man” (Prop. 58). The conciliar sect embodies these condemned errors. Msgr. Pope’s “correction” targets the symptoms (sins of the laity) while protecting the disease (the Modernist hierarchy). This is not caritas; it is complicity in the murder of souls.
The “Excommunication” of the Conciliar Sect: Medicine or Poison?
The article states: “What is the purpose of excommunication? To protect the community from the influence of serious sinners and to be a medicine to urge the wayward Christian unto saving repentance.” This definition, while formally correct per Canon 2257-2269 (1917 Code), is perverted in application. The conciliar sect “excommunicates” traditional Catholics who refuse the Novus Ordo (e.g., Abp. Lefebvre in 1988, though he himself recognized the usurpers), while it canonizes heretics (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, John Henry Newman) and beatifies apostates.
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (cited in Defense of Sedevacantism) declares: “…if at any time it shall appear that any Bishop… or even the Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The true “excommunication” today is the automatic separation (ipso facto) of the Modernist hierarchy from the Body of Christ. The faithful are bound by divine law to avoid them (Titus 3:10-11; 2 John 10-11). Msgr. Pope’s “medicine” is the poison of communicatio in sacris with heretics, forbidden by Canon 1258 (1917 Code) and the perennial discipline of the Church.
Linguistic Deception: “Obligation,” “Community,” “Pastor”
The article uses language as a weapon of obfuscation. “Obligation to correct” — true, but the subject of this obligation is the true faithful, correcting the false hierarchy. “Community” — the conciliar “parish” is not the Communio Sanctorum but a naturalistic association united by sentiment, not the unity of Faith, Sacraments, and Government (Satis Cognitum, Leo XIII). “Pastor” — Msgr. Pope is a hireling (John 10:12-13), not a shepherd, for he feeds the flock not with the “food of solid doctrine” (Heb 5:14) but with the “wine of the wrath of her fornication” (Apoc 17:2) — the novelties of Vatican II.
The phrase “Jesus would never do such a thing” (referring to excommunication) reveals the idolatrous anthropomorphism of the conciliar religion: a “Jesus” stripped of Justice, Kingship, and the gladius Spiritus (Eph 6:17). Pius XI in Quas Primas (provided in context) proclaims: “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created… His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The conciliar sect refuses this Kingship; its “correction” is a rebellion against the King.
Systemic Apostasy: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This article is not an isolated error; it is the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution. The “Sunday Guide” format itself — a bureaucratic product of the “Archdiocese of Washington” website, featuring a “Monsignor” named in 2005 by the antipope Benedict XVI, conducting “Bible studies in the U.S. Congress and the White House” — epitomizes the laicization and politicization of the Church condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
Msgr. Pope’s “correction” is a simulacrum. It corrects the laity for violating natural law (fornication, abortion) while the hierarchy violates divine law (First Commandment, Infallibility, Indefectibility). It is the pharisaic straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel (Matt 23:24). The true correctio today is the sedevacantist profession: “Non possumus” — we cannot recognize the usurpers, we cannot attend their “Mass,” we cannot obey their “pastors.” This is the only correction that “wins back the brother” to the Lord Jesus Christ, King of Kings (Apoc 19:16), rather than to the counterfeit church of the Antichrist.
Conclusion: The Blind Leading the Blind into the Pit
The article concludes: “Jesus teaches us to correct one another. It is a serious obligation.” Indeed. Let the correction begin with Msgr. Pope and his “Archdiocese”: You are not the Church. Your “pope” is an antipope. Your “Mass” is a profanation. Your “sacraments” are invalid. Your “teaching” is heresy. Repent, abjure the Second Vatican Council, return to the Tradition of the Fathers, or perish eternally. This is the verbum Dei (Heb 4:12) which the true watchman speaks. The conciliar “guide” leads only to the geenna ignis (Matt 23:33).
Source:
Jesus Offers Clear Advice on Christian Correction (ncregister.com)
Date: 05.09.2026