The Pillar Catholic portal publishes a podcast episode for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time of the Novus Ordo lectionary, Year A, featuring hosts JD Flynn and Kate Olivera with guest Dr. Scott Powell, sponsored by the Benedict XVI Institute’s “Reverent Liturgy Project.” The discussion centers on readings from Sirach, Romans, and Matthew’s parable of the unforgiving servant, framed through the lens of the “poison of the croucher.” This offering epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of divine revelation to therapeutic moralism, stripping the Sacred Text of its dogmatic force to serve the neo-church’s anthropocentric agenda.
The Novus Ordo Lectionary: A Manufactured Rupture with Tradition
The very premise of the episode — “Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” — exposes the revolutionary character of the post-conciliar liturgical reform. The traditional Roman Rite knows no “Ordinary Time,” no three-year cycle, no Year A, B, or C. The Ordo Missae of St. Pius V, codified by the Council of Trent, presents a one-year cycle of propers that unfolds the mysteries of salvation in perfect harmony with the sanctoral cycle. The Novus Ordo lectionary, fabricated by the Consilium under Bugnini’s direction, fragments the organic unity of the liturgical year, excising “difficult” passages and rearranging Scripture to suit a pedagogical, anthropocentric schema. As Pius XII warned in Mediator Dei (1947), the liturgy is not a “field for experimentation.” The Pillar podcast, by uncritically adopting this artificial construct, participates in the lex orandi, lex credendi corruption that has emptied the neo-church’s worship of its sacrificial and propitiatory essence.
“Benedict XVI Institute”: Modernism Masquerading as Tradition
The sponsorship by the “Benedict XVI Institute’s Reverent Liturgy Project” is a masterstroke of controlled opposition. Joseph Ratzinger, as “Benedict XVI,” was the architect of the “hermeneutic of continuity” — the sophistical device that legitimizes the rupture of Vatican II by claiming it is merely “development.” His 2007 Summorum Pontificum did not restore the traditional Mass as the exclusive lex orandi but created a “two forms” fiction, implying the Novus Ordo is a valid, albeit inferior, expression of the Roman Rite. The Institute’s “roadmap” for priests to “adopt classically Catholic worship practices” within the conciliar structures is a palliative, not a cure. It encourages aesthetic traditionalism — chant, ad orientem, Latin — while demanding submission to the “pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the entire post-1958 magisterium. This is the opus operatum of the neo-church: co-opting the forms of Tradition to legitimize the substance of apostasy. As St. Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), Modernists “make use of a double language… they speak one way in their writings, another in their sermons.”
Exegetical Naturalism: The “Croucher” Psychologized
The title “The poison of ‘the croucher’” alludes to Genesis 4:7 — “sin lieth at the door” (Douay-Rheims). In the hands of the Pillar team, this profound dogmatic reality — the objective power of original sin, the devil’s dominion over fallen man, the necessity of grace for liberation — is almost certainly reduced to a psychological or moralistic “struggle with resentment.” The readings selected (Sirach on forgiveness, Romans on living for the Lord, Matthew 18 on the unforgiving servant) are treated not as the verbum Dei demanding fides divina and sacramental confession, but as “practical wisdom” for “healthy relationships.” Dr. Scott Powell, a product of the neo-church’s “theological” faculties, likely employs the historical-critical method condemned by Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943) when it departs from the literal sense and the analogy of faith. The Holy Office’s Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the proposition that “the Church cannot, even by dogmatic definitions, determine the proper sense of Holy Scripture” (prop. 4). The Pillar podcast, by presenting Scripture study as a conversational “reflection” among lay hosts and a “doctor,” usurps the Magisterium’s exclusive role as magister veritatis. There is no mention of the sensus literalis as determined by the Fathers, no reference to the Catena Aurea, no submission to the Council of Trent’s decree on Scripture interpretation. It is lectio divina without regula fidei — Protestant private judgment in Catholic vestments.
The Laicization of Sacred Exegesis: A Protestant Virus
The format itself — two lay journalists (Flynn, Olivera) interviewing an academic (Powell) — manifests the conciliar sect’s democratization of the sacred. The 1917 Code, Canon 1322, reserved the public interpretation of Scripture to the Church’s authorized teachers. The podcast medium, with its “subscribe,” “share,” “comments,” “restacks,” transforms the Word of God into content for consumption. The hosts’ banter (“Already read the readings? Skip ahead to 6:45”) trivializes the divine oracle. This is the ecclesia domestica perverted into ecclesia digitalis, where the faithful are not subjects of a teaching Church but consumers of religious product. The “Pillar” brand — founded by JD Flynn, a canon lawyer in the neo-church’s service — operates entirely within the juridical framework of the 1983 Code, which itself derives from Vatican II’s ecclesiology of communion. It has no mission missio canonica from a legitimate Ordinary, for no such Ordinaries exist in the post-1958 hierarchy. As Pius VI declared in Auctorem Fidei (1794), the proposition that “the Church’s power is not from God but from the people” is heretical. The Pillar podcast exercises a usurped teaching office.
Forgiveness Without Justice: The Antinomian Gospel of the Neo-Church
The Gospel reading, Matthew 18:21-35, presents the parable of the unforgiving servant — a text that inseparably binds mercy to justice. The king forgives the debt ex misericordia, but condemns the servant who refuses to forgive his fellow servant ex iustitia. The neo-church’s “mercy” discourse, however, systematically severs mercy from truth, from the objective moral order, from the necessity of conversion and penance. The Pillar discussion likely echoes “pope” Francis’s Misericordiae Vultus — a “mercy” that tolerates adultery (Amoris Laetitia), blesses sodomy (Fiducia Supplicans), and dialogues with false religions. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches (ST II-II, q. 30, a. 4) that misericordia sine iustitia mater est dissolutionis — mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution. The podcast’s therapeutic framing of forgiveness — “how to forgive,” “the poison of the croucher” as inner bitterness — replaces the sacramentum poenitentiae with self-help psychology. There is no call to the confessional, no mention of the potestas clavium, no warning that “whose sins you shall retain, they are retained” (John 20:23). This is the evangelium absque cruce — a gospel without the Cross, the hallmark of the Antichrist’s religion.
Silence on the Supernatural End: The Grave Omission
Nowhere in the episode description — nor, by necessary implication, in the content — is there reference to the finis ultimus: the beatific vision, the reality of hell, the particular judgment, the necessity of the state of grace, the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The readings are stripped of their eschatological dimension. Sirach 28:6-7 — “Remember thy last things, and thou shalt never sin… Remember the fear of God, and be not angry with thy neighbour” — is a summons to the novissima (death, judgment, heaven, hell). The Pillar team’s “reflections” almost certainly bypass this terrifying reality for the comfortable language of “healing” and “community.” This silence is the crimen laesae maiestatis against the First Commandment. As Leo XIII taught in Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus (1900), “the world has heard enough of the ‘rights of man’; let it hear something of the rights of God.” The Pillar podcast renders unto man what belongs to God.
Conclusion: A Podcast for the Synagogue of Satan
The “Sunday School” podcast is not a Catholic apostolate but a tentacle of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. It feeds the faithful of the conciliar sect a diet of sentimental moralism, historical-critical poison, and liturgical novelty, all wrapped in the language of “reverence” and “tradition.” The true Catholic, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus of St. Vincent of Lérins, rejects this entire enterprise. He knows that the Mass is the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, not a “liturgy project”; that Scripture is the Church’s book, interpreted by the Church’s Fathers and Magisterium, not a podcast topic; that forgiveness flows from the Confessional, not from “reflections.” The Pillar portal, its hosts, its guest, its sponsor — all are anathema sit, for they preach alium evangelium (Gal 1:8) in the guise of fidelity. Ecce, venit hora, et nunc est, quando veri adoratores adorabunt Patrem in spiritu et veritate (John 4:23) — and that hour is found only at the altars where the true Mass is offered by valid priests in communion with the true episcopate, outside the structures of the abomination of desolation.
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The poison of 'the croucher' (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 08.09.2026