The Pillar, a digital organ of the conciliar sect, publishes its “Friday Pillar Post” for September 25, 2026, authored by Ed Condon. The dispatch chronicles a pilgrimage to St. Louis for the beatification of Fulton Sheen — a media figure of the mid-twentieth century now elevated to the altars by the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The article gleefully reports crowds nearing 50,000, a live podcast show featuring a “bishop — an actual successor of the apostles,” and the “vitality” of the Church in America. Interspersed are news briefs: the Syriac Catholic Patriarch accuses “Cardinal” Claudio Gugerotti of fomenting rebellion among Eastern patriarchs; a priest is murdered in Poland by a Ukrainian assailant; the antipope travels to France to address UNESCO and visit Lourdes; the U.S. State Department deplores a drone strike on a Catholic Relief Services convoy in Ethiopia; and Scotland’s “bishops” propose restructuring their eight dioceses into seven models of administrative managed decline. The piece concludes with a plug for a subscription hardcover edition of Sheen’s autobiography, Treasure in Clay. This reportage is not a chronicle of Catholic life but a staged Potemkin village of piety, concealing the total collapse of the supernatural order under the paramasonic occupation of the Vatican.
The Beatification as Bread and Circuses: Manufacturing Consent for the Antichurch
The centerpiece of Condon’s narrative is the beatification of Fulton Sheen. He describes it as “a moment of genuine vitality for the Church in America, not… a sepia-tinted nostalgia show.” This is the language of marketing, not theology. A true beatification requires a legitimate Roman Pontiff exercising the charism of infallibility in a matter of faith and morals, declaring that a servant of God practiced heroic virtue and enjoys the beatific vision. Since the death of Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant; the line of claimants — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV — are manifest heretics who have publicly defected from the Catholic faith, ipso facto losing all jurisdiction (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Pope Paul IV). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). Therefore, the “beatification” of Sheen is a nullity, a theatrical decree issued by a layman usurping the Chair of Peter. The crowds — whether 40,000 or 50,000 — are not witnesses to a miracle of grace but participants in a ludibrium, a spectacle designed to legitimize the neo-church’s counterfeit hierarchy.
Condon’s admission — “I wondered if the Church in America’s patron saint of the small screen would be able to draw people out of their homes… I needn’t have been” — reveals the entirely naturalistic calculus of the neo-church. The criterion of success is attendance, media buzz, “community,” and “vocation stories.” Supernatural faith, the state of grace, the sensus fidei of the true faithful — these are absent from the calculus. Sheen himself, whatever his personal piety, was a man of his time: a media celebrity who accommodated the nascent Modernism of the 1950s, praised the United Nations, and never publicly resisted the liturgical and doctrinal revolution that erupted after 1958. His “autobiography” is now commodified by “My Catholic Library” as a “Catholic classic” in a “stunning hardcover edition” — merchandise for a false church.
The “Cardinal” and the Patriarch: Intrigue in the Synagogue of Satan
The report on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan accusing “Cardinal” Gugerotti of trying to “get several patriarchs dismissed” is presented as “possibly the most candid interview I’ve ever seen from a Churchman of this rank.” There are no “Churchmen of rank” in the conciliar sect. The Syriac Catholic Church, like all Eastern “Catholic” churches in communion with the Vatican since 1958, has been absorbed into the neo-church structure. Its patriarchs are appointees of the usurpers, bound by the false ecumenism of Unitatis Redintegratio and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (1990), which subordinates Eastern tradition to the novel “primacy” of the “pope” as defined by Vatican I but distorted by Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium. The squabble between Gugerotti (prefect of the “Dicastery for Eastern Churches”) and Younan is a dispute between functionaries of the same paramasonic apparatus. Gugerotti implements the centralizing, synodal agenda of the “Francis” and “Leo XIV” regime; Younan resists as a guardian of his own bureaucratic fief. Neither defends the integral Catholic faith; both operate within the heretical framework of religious liberty and false ecumenism condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus of Errors, props. 15, 16, 17, 18, 55, 77, 78, 79, 80) and St. Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis).
Blood in the Sanctuary: The Fruit of “Dialogue” and “Solidarity”
The knife attack at the Benedictine abbey in Jarosław, Poland, leaving a priest dead and four wounded, perpetrated by a “31-year-old Ukrainian man,” elicits from “Archbishop” Adam Szal the standard modernist platitude: “May these events not give rise to hatred or animosity… an opportunity for reflection, for solidarity, and for praying together.” This is the voice of the hireling, not the shepherd. Where is the call for the conversion of the infidel? Where is the denunciation of the anti-Christian forces — whether Islamic, Masonic, or secular — that make such martyrdoms inevitable? The true Church, as Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, knows that “the Kingdom of Christ encompasses all men… not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians” and that rulers “must fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The neo-church’s “archbishop” surrenders the regnum Christi to the regnum Satanae, replacing the lex credendi with the lex dialogandi. The victim, a priest of the neo-church (likely ordained in the invalid Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI), dies in a structure that has abandoned the propitiatory Sacrifice for a “table of assembly.” His blood cries out not for “solidarity” but for the Social Kingship of Christ which alone can order civil society to the common good.
The Antipope’s Pilgrimage: UNESCO and Lourdes as Stages for the Abomination
“Pope Leo XIV is in France today, kicking off his fifth international trip since his papacy began,” addressing UNESCO and visiting Lourdes. Robert Prevost, a manifest heretic who upholds the Dignitatis Humanae heresy, the false ecumenism of Assisi, the liturgical revolution, and the Amoris Laetitia adultery-permission, has no more right to address UNESCO than any other private individual. His presence at Lourdes — a true apparition, unlike the Masonic fabrication of Fatima — is a profanation. The neo-church uses Lourdes as a backdrop for its “pope” to perform the theater of piety while the Sanctuary itself has been desacralized by the “pastoral” innovations of the conciliar era. The address to UNESCO, that Masonic forge of “world citizenship” and “education for global citizenship,” signifies the neo-church’s full integration into the Novus Ordo Seclorum. As Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The antipope does not come to UNESCO to convert it to the Kingship of Christ; he comes to legitimize the Masonic project.
Catholic Relief Services: The NGO of the Neo-Church
The U.S. State Department “deplores a drone strike on a truck… carrying humanitarian aid supported by Catholic Relief Services.” CRS is not a Catholic agency; it is a government-funded NGO operating under the brand of the conciliar sect. It distributes “food assistance” while collaborating with the architects of the culture of death (USAID, UNFPA, Gates Foundation), implementing “gender mainstreaming” and “reproductive health” programs under the guise of “integral human development.” The drone strike in Tigray — a conflict zone where the TPLF and Ethiopian federal government clash — is a geopolitical event. The neo-church’s only response is to demand a “probe” from the secular power. “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” — this is Error 41 of the Syllabus, embraced by the neo-church. The true Church, as Quas Primas insists, “demands for itself by a right belonging to it… full freedom and independence from secular authority.” CRS is the embodiment of the Church enslaved to Caesar.
Scotland’s “Bishops”: Managing the Ruins
Scotland’s “bishops” present “seven options” for restructuring eight dioceses, admitting the consultation was launched “following a request from the Vatican.” This is the administrative liquidation of the neo-church in Scotland. The “bishops” write: “This is not simply a question of boundaries, administrative adjustments or the sharing of resources more effectively. Primarily it is about how we can better proclaim the Gospel…” They do not proclaim the Gospel; they administer the dissolution of the visible structures. The “Gospel” they proclaim is the social gospel of the Agenda 2030. The true Church in Scotland — the remnant faithful to the Mass of All Time, the Sede Vacante position, the Social Kingship of Christ — operates in the catacombs, ignored by these functionaries of the “Church of the New Advent.” The reduction of dioceses is the demographic and spiritual fruit of sixty years of Novus Ordo, religious liberty, and the loss of the sensus Catholicus.
The Linguistic Decay: “Community,” “Vitality,” “Accompaniment”
Condon’s prose is saturated with the vocabulary of the neo-church: “community,” “vitality,” “pilgrimage group,” “live show,” “jingle competition,” “trivia round,” “Providence” (reduced to material success), “serving the Church in the way we intend.” Not a word of sanctifying grace, Sacrifice, sin, judgment, hell, the Blessed Virgin (except as “Marian shrine”), the Kingship of Christ. The “bishop” who emerges from the crowd to beat a podcaster in trivia is the perfect symbol: a “successor of the apostles” reduced to a game-show contestant. This is the kenosis of the hierarchy, the democratization of the sacred, the triumph of the laos over the kleros. St. Pius X condemned this spirit in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 52, 53, 54, 55): “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries on earth… The organic structure of the Church is subject to change… Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness.” The Pillar’s “live shows” are the liturgy of this evolved consciousness.
Conclusion: The Smoke of Satan in the Sanctuary of Lies
The article is a mosaic of the neo-church’s bankruptcy: a fake beatification by a fake pope; a fake cardinal intriguing against fake patriarchs; a fake archbishop preaching pacifism over the body of a priest; a fake pope courting UNESCO; a fake Catholic NGO begging the State Department for justice; fake bishops managing the closure of fake dioceses. All of it is simulacrum, a monstrum of piety without the sacrum. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, persists not in the crowds at St. Louis but in the hidden chapels where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is offered by validly ordained priests, where the Syllabus is believed, where Quas Primas is the political program, where Cum ex Apostolatus Officio is the canonical bulwark against the usurpers. “You are Christ the King of glory!” sang the crowds at the 1925 Jubilee. Today, the neo-church sings: “You are the King of podcasts, of live shows, of hardcover editions, of UNESCO addresses.” Non est hic Deus. God is not here.
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One night in St. Louis, one thing well, and two thumbs up (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 25.09.2026