The Pillar portal (pillarcatholic.com), in a “Pillar Post” dated September 15, 2026, authored by its editor JD Flynn, presents a typical litany of conciliar sect administrative minutiae, ecumenical betrayals, financial maneuvering, sociological naturalism, and technological idolatry. This litany of naturalistic reportage, ecumenical indifference, and technological idolatry, utterly devoid of the supernatural, confirms the “Pillar” as a mere organ of the conciliar sect’s apostasy.
The Facade of “News” in a Vacant See: Reporting on the Abomination of Desolation
Flynn opens with breezy familiarity: “The Pillar matters in the life of the Church.” Which Church? The conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, whose “pope” is the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adherence to the Modernist synthesis condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu, has ipso facto severed himself from the Body of Christ. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Flynn reports on the “investigation” of “Cardinal” Cristóbal López Romero in Morocco, the appointment of a coadjutor in the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church, and the restriction of “Msgr.” Roger Landry in Fall River. He treats these as legitimate canonical acts. They are not. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The entire hierarchy of the neo-church, from the usurper on the throne down to the local “ordinary,” has defected. Their “investigations,” “coadjutors,” and “restrictions” are the bureaucratic theater of a paramasonic structure, devoid of jurisdiction, nulla et irrita (null and void). Flynn’s anxiety over “transparency” — “will the Church disclose what it found, or will it allow him to resign… for ‘health reasons’?” — reveals the naturalistic mindset: the concern is institutional reputation, not the salvation of souls or the horror of sacrilege in the confessional.
Ecumenism and Indifferentism: The Burnham Betrayal of Christ’s Kingship
Flynn notes British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, a “Catholic,” seeking to end the ban on Catholics and Jews advising the monarch on Anglican appointments. This is the condemned error of Indifferentism (Syllabus, Props. 15, 16, 17, 18) and the usurpation of Christ’s Kingship over societies (Quas Primas). Pius XI declared: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Burnham’s maneuver — transferring duties to a cabinet minister to accommodate his “faith” — is the practical application of the Modernist heresy that the State is the source of all rights (Syllabus, Prop. 39) and that the Church must be separated from the State (Prop. 55). Flynn reports this as “news,” not as the scandal of a baptized man facilitating the abomination of desolation in the public square. The silence on Quas Primas is deafening; the “Kingdom of Christ” is reduced to a talking point for “moral theologians” engaging “technologists.”
The “Canonical” Farce: Disciplinary Codes Replacing Divine Law
The Fall River “diocese” restricts Landry for “violations of the Codes of Conduct for Priests.” Not for heresy, not for sacrilege, not for violation of the lex orandi, lex credendi — but for violating a bureaucratic “Code of Conduct.” This is the fruit of the conciliar revolution: Divine Law (the Ten Commandments, the Precepts of the Church, the Canon of the Mass) is supplanted by human resources policies. Landry’s defense — “allegations do not involve sexual misconduct… not been suitably informed about what canonical crimes he may have committed” — highlights the Kafkaesque nature of the neo-church’s “justice.” Where is the Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV? Where is the automatic loss of office for the Modernist heresy that permeates the “Diocese of Fall River”? The “Codes of Conduct” are the lex humana of the civitas terrena masquerading as the Bride of Christ.
Mammon in the Vatican: Leo XIV’s Worldly Management of a Bankrupt Institution
Flynn analyzes the rollback of the 10% pay cut for “cardinals” and curial officials: “in the grand scheme of things, when your balance sheet isn’t great, sometimes a marginal expense is worth the morale and good will it will buy you.” Here is the conciliar sect laid bare: a corporation managing human resources. No mention of the munus of the papacy, the cura animarum, the regnum Christi. Only “morale,” “good will,” “balance sheet.” Pius XI in Quas Primas warned: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Vatican’s finances are the finances of a counter-church; its “pay cuts” and “rollbacks” are the internal politics of a Masonic operation (as documented in the False Fatima Apparitions analysis: “Stage 3: Takeover of the narrative by modernists”). Flynn’s “read of things” is the read of a worldly journalist, not a Catholic analyst.
Sociology as Salvation: The Naturalistic Reduction of the Domestic Church
Flynn cites sociologist Ryan Burge (“Graphs About Religion”) and “Brendan Hodge” on large families and church attendance. “33% of families with four or more kids went to church at least weekly, while among families with any number of children, 29% went to church that often.” This is the scientism condemned by the Syllabus (Prop. 4: “All the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason”) and Lamentabili (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man”). The supernatural virtue of Religion, the sacramentum matrimonii, the duty of procreatio et educatio — all dissolved into statistical correlation. “Is the association of large families with religiosity a myth?” asks Flynn. The question itself is blasphemous. The large Catholic family is a domestic church (LG 11, but rooted in Trent and Pius XI’s Casti Connubii), a nursery for heaven, not a data point for a sociologist. Flynn’s “pretty damn interesting” finding is the wisdom of the flesh (Rom 8:6) masquerading as Catholic commentary.
The AI Idol: Technological Gnosticism and the Absence of a Christocentric Answer
The longest section is devoted to AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem. Flynn gushes: “AI is spinning vortices ahead of where anyone expected it to be right now.” He recounts the “Hot Robot Summer™,” the “prisoner’s dilemma” with China, the “extinction prognostication.” Then comes the devastating admission: “Do we have some compelling Christocentric answer to disincarnate intelligence, and how to engage with it? The answer, I think, is no.” This is the theological bankruptcy of the entire conciliar project. Lamentabili Prop. 64: “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine…” Prop. 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity…” Flynn admits the neo-church has no Christocentric answer. It has only “bromides” and a document called “Magnifica humanitas” (likely a fabrication of the antipope Leo XIV) which Flynn hopes “catalyzed” the AI developers’ “fear of God.” Fear of God comes from the timor Domini, the beginning of wisdom (Ps 110:10), not from a Modernist encyclical on “humanity.” The Church’s duty is not to “engage technologists” but to condemn the Tower of Babel rising in silicon, to preach Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, and to warn that homo faber without homo adorans builds his own hell.
The Journalist’s Own Confession: Spiritual Sloth and the Death of Prophetic Witness
Flynn concludes with a personal vignette: on a plane, separated from family, book overhead, seatmate watching a movie. “I might have prayed the rosary. But I instead let my mind turn to a critical thought which occupies me every year around this time.” Non possumus. A “Catholic journalist” claiming the “Pillar matters in the life of the Church” admits he chose not to pray the Rosary — the weapon given by Our Lady to St. Dominic against the Albigensian heresy, the very heresy of dualism that prefigures Modernism’s separation of matter and grace. He chose “critical thought” over oratio. This is the acedia of the Modernist: tristitia de bono spirituali (sadness over spiritual good). St. Pius X in Pascendi describes the Modernist as one who “puts his trust in himself… and makes himself the measure of all things.” Flynn’s article is a monument to that self-referentiality. It reports on the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15) — the antipope, the false hierarchy, the ecumenical betrayal, the AI idol — and sees only “news,” “math,” “morale,” and “data.” The salt has lost its savor (Matt 5:13). The “Pillar” is not a pillar of the Church (1 Tim 3:15); it is a reed shaken by the wind of the world (Matt 11:7).
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Live show, big math, and lost at sea (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 15.09.2026