The Pillar portal, a propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, publishes a podcast episode featuring the “bishop” Albert Wack, CSC, of the Pensacola–Tallahassee diocese, discussing prison ministry and a proposed “personal ordinariate” for such work. The conversation, hosted by the modernist journalists JD Flynn and Ed Condon, revolves entirely around managerial strategies, “catalysts for conversion,” and corporate sponsorship by “Anchor Consulting” — a perfect distillation of the neo-church’s reduction of the supernatural mission of the Church to a naturalistic social-work enterprise, utterly devoid of the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the sacraments, and the reality of eternal judgment.
The Conciliar Sect’s Counterfeit Charity: Naturalism in Clerical Garb
The cited article relates a dialogue that never once mentions the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the sacrament of Penance, Extreme Unction, or the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma. Instead, we hear of “common catalysts for conversion for the incarcerated” and “making disciples” — a phrase lifted from Protestant sectarianism. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “the Kingdom of Christ encompasses all men… not only to 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.” The conciliar sect’s “prison ministry” acknowledges no such authority. It functions as a chaplaincy to the secular state, comforting prisoners in their temporal distress while remaining silent on their eternal peril. This is not charity; it is philanthropy — the “natural religion, a natural inner impulse” condemned by Pius XI as the final stage of laicism.
The “Bishop” Wack: A Functionary of the Neo-Church
Albert Wack, a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC), bears the title “bishop” only by the grace of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), in the line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII. His “ordination” post-1968 falls under the dubious validity of the Pauline rite, and his jurisdiction is nil, as he holds office in the “structures occupying the Vatican” — the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord. The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “the Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Wack operates entirely within the civil framework of the American penal system, a “chaplain” to Caesar, not an ambassador of Christ the King. His very presence legitimizes the state’s usurpation of the Church’s rights over souls.
Reduction of Supernatural Redemption to Secular Rehabilitation
The podcast speaks of “conversion” in a psychological, behavioral sense — “common catalysts for conversion” — not the theological conversio wrought by grace through the sacraments. The Council of Trent defines justification as “a translation from that state in which man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace and of the adoption of the sons of God through the second Adam, Jesus Christ” (Sess. VI, Chap. 4). The conciliar sect’s ministry offers no such translation. It offers “accompaniment,” “listening,” and “community” — the “cult of man” denounced by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis as the essence of Modernism. Where is the warning that “he who believes not shall be condemned” (Mark 16:16)? Where is the urgency of “Convertimini, quoniam appropinquavit regnum caelorum” (Matt. 4:17)? Nowhere. The “gospel” preached in these prisons is a therapeutic deism, a ersatz salvation that leaves the prisoner in the state of nature, or worse, in mortal sin, confirmed in his errors by the silence of the “minister.”
The “Personal Ordinariate” Chimera: Bureaucracy Replacing Hierarchy
The hosts and their guest “weigh the idea for a personal ordinariate for prison ministry.” This is ecclesiastical engineering worthy of a Masonic lodge, not the Church founded by Christ. Canon law (1917 Code) knows no such innovation; it knows only the divina constitutio of the hierarchy: Pope, bishops, priests. The Syllabus condemns the error that “there is nothing to prevent the decree of a general council, or the act of all peoples, from transferring the supreme pontificate from the bishop and city of Rome to another bishop and another city” (Error 35) — a fortiori, nothing permits the invention of novel “ordinariates” to bypass the diocesan structure. This proposal reveals the conciliar sect’s gnomonic obsession with structure: having lost the sacra potestas, it manufactures potestas civilis — committees, ordinariates, consultancies — to simulate governance. “Anchor Consulting,” the sponsor, boasts of helping leaders “move from managing decline to making disciples.” Managing decline is the honest motto of the neo-church; “making disciples” is the bait.
Silence on the Kingship of Christ and the Necessity of the True Church
The gravest accusation is the total silence on the Social Kingship of Christ. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The podcast is a masterclass in that very laicism. It treats the prison as a sociological entity, the prisoner as a “client,” and the “minister” as a service provider. It does not proclaim “Jesus Christ is King” to the powers that be; it negotiates access with the warden. It does not demand the libertas Ecclesiae condemned as violated by Pius IX in his allocutions to Prussia; it accepts the state’s permission slips. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that “a manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The “bishops” of the conciliar sect, by their adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), are manifest heretics; their “ministries” are acts of a false church, nulla et irrita.
The “Making Disciples” Slogan: Protestantized Ecclesiology
The sponsor’s tagline — “making disciples” — exposes the Protestantized ecclesiology of the conciliar sect. The Church does not “make disciples” by marketing techniques; she generates children of God “not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:13) through the lavacrum regenerationis (Titus 3:5). The Lamentabili Sane Exitu of St. Pius X condemns the proposition that “the Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). The podcast is the Church listening — listening to the “incarcerated,” to “catalysts,” to consultants — with zero reference to the Church teaching of the immutable Magisterium. It is the democratization of revelation, the sensus fidelium elevated above the sensus Ecclesiae.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: The Abomination in the Holy Place
This podcast episode is not an aberration; it is the standard operating procedure of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Every element — the “bishop” of a false rite, the journalists of a false media, the consultant of a false apostolate, the “ordinariate” of a false canon law — testifies to the opus diabolicum of the Conciliar Revolution. The Syllabus warns that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80) is an error. The conciliar sect has done exactly that. Its “prison ministry” is the corporal work of mercy stripped of its supernatural soul, rendered a opus operatum of social work, idolatry of the creature masquerading as love of neighbor. True charity, as St. Thomas teaches, caritas est amicitia quaedam hominis ad Deum — friendship of man for God. The conciliar sect offers friendship with the world, “adulterers… enemies of God” (James 4:4).
Let no faithful soul be deceived: the “prison ministry” of the conciliar sect is a pathway to hell paved with good intentions, a diabolical parody of the Church’s mission to bind and loose, to remit and retain sins, to prepare souls for the particular judgment. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (Matt. 12:30).
Source:
Visiting the imprisoned, with Bishop Wack (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 28.09.2026