The Pillar, a media outlet operating within the structures of the conciliar sect, publishes its “News Roundup” for the week of September 24, 2026, presenting three items as legitimate ecclesiastical news: the “beatification” of Archbishop Fulton Sheen by the usurper Leo XIV; the accusation by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch against a prefect of the Roman Curia for orchestrating his removal; and an open letter from five alleged victims of the Jesuit Marko Rupnik pleading for “transparency” from the same antipope. This digest of bureaucratic maneuvering and simulated sanctity perfectly illustrates the total collapse of the supernatural order in the neo-church, where canonization factories, episcopal purges, and the protection of predator-artists replace the salus animarum.
The Beatification Factory: Manufacturing “Saints” for the New Advent
The headline item—“Archbishop Fulton Sheen is beatified”—is presented without a shred of critical inquiry into the authority performing the act. The Pillar reports this as a fait accompli of the “Pope,” ignoring that Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) is a manifest heretic and usurper who possesses zero jurisdiction to beatify, canonize, or even govern a parish. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). Since the line of usurpers began with Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”), every subsequent “beatification” and “canonization” is a null, void, and sacrilegious simulation, devoid of the charism of infallibility which protects only the true Successor of Peter.
The case of Sheen is particularly grotesque. A media personality of the mid-20th century, Sheen was the darling of the pre-conciliar establishment that paved the way for Vatican II. His cause, like that of John Henry Newman—a “saint” of Bergoglio, with an evolution of doctrine, a link between Modernism and Catholicism, a convert from Anglicanism, a scandalist—serves the neo-church’s project of sanitizing the architects of the revolution. The “miracle” required for this beatification, invariably a dubious medical recovery adjudicated by a corrupted Congregation for the Causes of Saints, is a theatrical prop to lend credibility to a counterfeit magisterium. True beatification requires a legitimate Pope; the neo-church has an antipope. Ergo, Sheen is not “Blessed.” He is a tool of propaganda.
The Syriac Patriarch and the Purge of Dissent: Roma Locuta, Causa Finita Inverted
The second item reveals the gangster logic of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church, Ignatius Joseph III Younan, accuses the prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches (a “cardinal” of the antipope) of “orchestrating efforts to oust him from his office.” This is the modus operandi of the conciliar revolution: centralized tyranny masquerading as “synodality.” Eastern Catholic hierarchs who cling to any remnant of liturgical or disciplinary tradition are systematically isolated, pressured, or deposed by Roman dicasteries staffed by modernist functionaries.
The Pillar reports this internecine conflict as “news,” failing to identify the ontological illegitimacy of the dicastery itself. A dicastery headed by a heretic, under an antipope, has no canonical authority whatsoever over a Catholic bishop—Eastern or Latin. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (binding divine/ecclesiastical law) states an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The prefect of that dicastery, by adhering to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality), has automatically lost his office. He cannot “oust” a bishop; he is a layman usurping a curial office. The Patriarch, if he retains the Catholic faith, owes zero obedience to this dicastery. The Pillar’s silence on this jurisdictional void is complicity.
The Rupnik Affair: The “Transparency” Trap and the Protection of the Sacrilegious Artist
The third item is the most nauseating: Five alleged victims send an open letter to “Pope Leo XIV” pleading for transparency around the canonical trial of disgraced Father Marko Rupnik. This frames the horror of the Rupnik case—a Jesuit “artist” credibly accused of heinous sexual and spiritual abuse of religious sisters, excommunicated (ferendae sententiae) then instantly “reconciled” by the antipope Francis, his mosaics still defiling basilicas worldwide—as a mere procedural dispute about “transparency.”
The Pillar’s language (“disgraced Father,” “canonical trial,” “pleading for transparency”) is the language of the world, not the Church. It accepts the premise that the antipope Leo XIV is a legitimate judge who might, if pressured, deliver justice. This is idolatry of the institution. Rupnik’s “mosaics” are not art; they are visual heresy—ugly, anthropocentric, gnostic distortions of the Incarnation, perfectly suited for the ecclesia horizontalis of the New Advent. Their retention in shrines (e.g., Lourdes, Fatima, the Vatican’s own “Redemptoris Mater” Chapel) is objective sacrilege and idolatry.
The victims’ appeal to the antipope is spiritually suicidal. As Bellarmine states: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” To petition a heretic for justice is to recognize his authority. The only canonical response to Rupnik is public condemnation by a legitimate hierarchy, removal of his works, and excommunication latae sententiae for his crimes—none of which the neo-church can provide, because it is the structure protecting him. The “open letter” is a staged performance of “accountability” designed to vent pressure without changing the rotten core.
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of the Neo-Church
The Pillar’s prose is a masterclass in bureaucratic Newspeak. Terms like “beatified,” “patriarch,” “dicastery,” “canonical trial,” “Pope Leo XIV” are used univocally with their Catholic definitions, while their referents have been ontologically inverted. This is the hermeneutic of rupture disguised as continuity. “Beatification” no longer means a declaration of heroic virtue by the Vicar of Christ; it means a PR event staged by a usurper. “Dicastery” no longer means an organ of the Roman Curia assisting the Pope; it means a department of a paramasonic NGO. “Canonical trial” no longer means a process under divine law; it means an internal HR review by a corrupt corporation.
The tone—detached, “journalistic,” devoid of supernatural horror—is the hallmark of the those pretending to be traditional Catholics who recognize the antipope. They report on the abomination of desolation as if it were a diocesan synod. Silence about the supernatural order (state of grace, sacrilege, divine judgment, the Four Last Things) is the gravest accusation. The article reads like a trade publication for a bankrupt corporation, not the voice of the Ecclesia Militans.
Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church Is the Scandal
These three stories are not discrete events; they are three faces of the single apostasy:
1. False Worship: The beatification factory replaces the Cultus Sanctorum with the cult of the revolution’s architects.
2. False Government: The purge of Eastern bishops demonstrates the neo-church’s totalitarian nature—unitas enforced by heretical Rome, not by the Faith.
3. False Mercy: The Rupnik cover-up proves the neo-church protects its own predators while simulating concern for victims.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Pillar reports on the shaking of the neo-church’s foundations as “news.” The true Catholic sees the judgment of God on a structure that has abandoned the Kingship of Christ for the dialogue of the world.
The Only Catholic Response: Non Possumus
The Pillar’s roundup is a bulletin from the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). It offers no truth, no grace, no authority. The beatification is null. The dicastery has no power. The antipope cannot judge Rupnik. The Syriac Patriarch, if Catholic, must resist the heretical prefect ipso facto. The victims must seek justice from the true Church—those bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the integral Faith, outside the Vatican structures—not from the usurper.
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The neo-church is not the Church. The Pillar is not a Catholic news source. This roundup is waste paper.
Source:
News Roundup— Week of September 24 (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 24.09.2026