The “Pillar Catholic” portal — a digital organ of the conciliar sect — publishes a podcast episode titled “Wicked tenants and stinky grapes” for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in the fabricated “Ordinary Time, Year A” of the Novus Ordo lectionary. The hosts, laywoman Kate Olivera and “JD Flynn” alongside a certain “Dr. Scott Powell,” dissect the Protestantized readings of the Novus Ordo Missae as if they constituted the living voice of the Church. This spectacle of laymen usurping the magisterial office, commenting on a manufactured liturgical calendar, exposes the complete dissolution of Catholic worship into a bible-study club for the laity.
Usurpation of the Teaching Office by the Laity
The very format of this “Sunday School” podcast — laymen and a laywoman “looking ahead to the readings” — constitutes a practical denial of the divine constitution of the Church. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ the King “received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created” and that His Kingdom “consists of a threefold authority… legislative, judicial, and executive.” The authority to interpret Scripture and apply it to the faithful belongs exclusively to the Ecclesia Docens — the teaching Church, the hierarchy — not to a “Catholic podcast about the weekly Mass readings” hosted by journalists. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “the obligation by which Catholic teachers and authors are strictly bound is confined to those things only which are proposed to universal belief as dogmas of faith by the infallible judgment of the Church” (Error 22), yet here we see lay journalists assuming the role of doctrinal guides for the faithful, a de facto democratization of the magisterium.
The Fabricated Liturgical Year: “Ordinary Time, Year A”
The designation “Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” is a badge of the liturgical revolution. The traditional Roman Rite knows no “Ordinary Time” — a term coined by the Consilium of Bugnini to replace the Sundays after Pentecost — nor a three-year lectionary cycle that fragments the organic unity of the Church’s lex orandi. Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the Modernist proposition that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The Novus Ordo lectionary, with its “Year A, B, C” rotation, embodies this error: it treats the Word of God as a curriculum to be cycled through rather than the immutable deposit of faith to be guarded. The podcast’s casual acceptance of this novelty — “Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” — manifests the hermeneutic of rupture that has replaced the lex credendi with a bureaucratic schedule.
Reduction of the Prophetic Word to “Bible Study”
The episode description reduces the terrifying prophecy of Isaiah 5 — the song of the vineyard yielding “wild grapes” (stinky grapes in their vulgar parlance) — to a “prophesy about the Babylonian exile.” It treats the Gospel parable of the wicked tenants (Matthew 21:33-43) as a “harsh parable to the chief priests and scribes in Jerusalem,” a historical curiosity rather than a living judgment on the vineyard of the Lord today. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the Modernist error that “the Gospels do not prove the Divinity of Jesus Christ, but it is a dogma which Christian consciousness has derived from the concept of the Messiah” (Prop. 27) and that “the Resurrection of the Savior is not properly a historical fact, but belongs to the purely supernatural order” (Prop. 36). By treating Sacred Scripture as material for a weekly “discussion” — “Already read the readings? Skip ahead to 6:10” — the podcast enacts the Protestant sola Scriptura divorced from the living Magisterium and the Sacrifice of the Mass. The Word becomes a podcast topic; the Vineyard becomes a metaphor for “parish renewal” via “ClearPathBook.com.”
Commercialization of the Kingdom: “Clear Path to Discipleship”
The episode is “brought to you by Anchor Consulting. Offering the Clear Path to Discipleship, a flexible framework for making and maturing disciples.” Here the Kingdom of Christ is reduced to a marketable product, a “flexible framework” sold by consultants. Pius XI declares: “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Quas Primas, citing the hymn Crudelis Herodes). But the neo-church inverts this: it uses the Kingdom of Heaven as a branding opportunity for earthly consulting services. The Syllabus condemns the error that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41); here, the marketplace governs the apostolate. The “Great Commission” (Matthew 28:18-20), which Pius XI cites as Christ’s royal decree — “all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him” — is outsourced to a “flexible framework” peddled on a commercial website. This is simony of the spirit: the gratuity of grace replaced by a “call to book a call.”
Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
Nowhere in the description — nor, by extension, in the podcast’s premise — is there a whisper of the Social Kingship of Christ over nations, laws, and public life. 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 “Pillar Catholic” podcast, like the entire conciliar sect, has capitulated to laicism. It speaks of “parish renewal” and “discipleship” — private, interior, therapeutic categories — while the Kingship of Christ over legislation, education, and the social order is abandoned. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The neo-church has internalized this separation; its podcasts are “spiritual content” for private consumption, posing no threat to the secular order.
The “Pillar” as a Prop of the Abomination
The name “Pillar Catholic” — evoking 1 Timothy 3:15, “the pillar and ground of the truth” — is a blasphemous irony. The true Pillar of Truth is the Catholic Church, una, sancta, catholica, apostolica, subsisting in the bishops and faithful who preserve the integral faith and valid sacraments outside the Vatican usurpation. This digital platform is a pillar of the counter-church, a “paramasonic structure” (to use the apt terminology) that occupies the visible patrimony while propagating the “synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis). Its podcast is not a ministry of the Word but a symptom of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15): lay journalists, a manufactured lectionary, commercial sponsors, and a total silence on the rights of Christ the King.
Conclusion: A Podcast for the Vineyard of Wild Grapes
The “wicked tenants” of the Gospel parable “beat one, killed another, and stoned another” (Matthew 21:35) — the prophets sent to demand the fruit of the vineyard. The “Pillar Catholic” podcast, and the entire conciliar apparatus it represents, has beaten the prophets of Tradition, killed the traditional Mass, and stoned the Social Kingship of Christ. It now serves the “stinky grapes” of Modernism — a “flexible framework for discipleship” sponsored by consultants — to a laity starved of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the integral Catholic faith. As Isaiah warns: “I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted… I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it” (Isaiah 5:5-6). The drought of grace in the neo-church is not a mystery; it is the divine judgment on a vineyard that has rejected the Cornerstone (Matthew 21:42). Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat.
Source:
Wicked tenants and stinky grapes (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 29.09.2026