The Pillar portal (September 29, 2026) publishes a gushing chronicle of antipope Leo XIV’s recent junket to France, framing a calculated public relations exercise as a “pilgrimage of dignity” while casually reporting on the ongoing canonical chaos, financial corruption, and patriarchal coups plaguing the neo-church’s Eastern rites. The article’s thesis—that the antichurch’s mission is reduced to therapeutic embrace and bureaucratic management—exposes the total evacuation of the supernatural order from the conciliar sect’s praxis.
The Theater of “Human Dignity”: A Counterfeit Charity Devoid of Supernatural End
Reduction of the Redemption to Naturalistic Humanitarianism
The cited article relates with palpable enthusiasm how Leo XIV “comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable” in France, “telling the world that life means more than avoiding suffering, and that euthanasia is not compassion.” This is the heresy of humanitarianism elevated to the supreme magisterium. The antipope preaches a gospel of natural dignity, carefully stripped of the supernatural dignity conferred solely by Baptism and the state of sanctifying grace. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ”; it is not found in the sentimental embrace of the suffering, however photogenic, but in the submission of individuals and nations to the Kingship of Christ and His holy Law. The article notes the antipope “came to both tell and show the people of France that they are more than the secular materialism of their culture… says they are.” This is a capitulation to the very secularism condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”), for it adopts the language of “human rights” and “dignity” proper to the Masonic Declaration of the Rights of Man, rather than the language of the Rights of God and the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Idolatry of the Image: The “Pieta” Photo-Op
The author waxes poetic over a photograph of Leo XIV embracing a disabled child, Marie-Garance Noel, claiming it “unfolds as a Pieta, the pontiff embracing a suffering Christ in the sufferings of Marie-Garance.” This is blasphemous visual theology. It substitutes the Verbum Crucis—the Cross of Our Lord as the sole source of redemptive value for suffering—with a pagan immanence that identifies the suffering creature as Christ. This is the theologia gloriae of the Modernist, who finds God in man’s experience rather than in the Divine Revelation. The article admits the photo “may well become the most famous photo of the Leonine papacy.” Of course: the neo-church is an image-cult, a paramasonic structure built on media management, not on the Sacrificium Laudis of the True Mass. The author’s personal connection—adopted children with disabilities—reveals the subjectivist, experiential basis of this neo-piety: “We could imagine what their parents felt…” Feeling replaces Faith; empathy replaces Charity (which is caritas, love of God for His own sake, extending to neighbor *in God*).
Selective Embrace: The “Adults with Profound Disabilities” as Propaganda
The author contrasts the “natural sympathy” for children with the discomfort provoked by disabled adults, praising the antipope for lingering with the latter. This is utilitarian ethics masquerading as Christian witness. The critique of the “soft expectation that some of them will do the ‘decent thing,’ pay a visit to the doctor, and spare us the inconvenience of their existence” targets euthanasia, yet the proposed antidote is merely presence and fraternal dialogue. Where is the Extreme Unction? Where is the proclamation of the Cross as the only meaning of suffering? Where is the warning that eternal damnation awaits those who promote or procure euthanasia? The silence on the Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell) is the gravest accusation against this “pilgrimage.” It confirms the Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemnation of Modernism: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25 condemned), replaced here by a therapeutic deism.
The Neo-Church’s Internal Rot: Canonical Tyranny and Eastern Schism
The Buela/IVE Farce: “Moral Certainty” vs. Canonical Justice
The article reports the Vatican’s “clarification” that Fr. Buela, founder of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), was found guilty with “moral certainty” of abuse, despite dying before proceedings concluded. The neo-church’s tribunals operate on modernist juridical positivism, not the immutable principles of justice. The IVE’s resistance—claiming guilt not “legally established”—mirrors the sedevacantist argument regarding the antipopes: a manifest heretic (or abuser) loses office ipso facto (Canon 188.4, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*), without need for a “declaratory sentence.” Yet the neo-church uses process as a weapon of control. The threat of “suppression” for non-compliance reveals the totalitarian nature of the conciliar sect: religious institutes exist only at the pleasure of the usurper, not by divine right. The promotion of Buela’s “writings and hagiography” by his followers is the fruit of the cult of personality endemic to the post-conciliar “new movements,” replacing the Imitatio Christi with the imitatio fundatoris.
Leo’s “Law” and the Coup Against the Syriac Patriarch
The report on the Syriac Catholic Church is devastating for the neo-church’s ecclesiology. Leo XIV promulgated a law allowing synods to depose patriarchs “if the patriarch’s leadership has become detrimental to ecclesial communion.” A prominent Eastern hierarch calls this “authorized coups.” This destroys the sui iuris nature of Eastern Churches, reducing them to departments of the Roman Curia—a fulfillment of the Syllabus Error 37 (“National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff… can be established”) inverted: the neo-church *centralizes* tyranny under a false obedience, while the true Church respects the ius proprium of rites. Patriarch Younan’s appeal to the antipope personally, and the prefect Cardinal Gugerotti’s pressure, reveal a system of raw power, not canonical order. The “personality conflict” cited by Younan is the inevitable fruit of a church governed by men, not by God. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a true Pope judges ex officio for the faith; a usurper manipulates law for control.
The Trivialization of the Sacred: Bishop Wack, “Rudy,” and the Beatification of Sheen
Clerical Buffoonery as “Ministry”
The article’s pivot to Bishop William Wack discussing his role in the movie “Rudy” and a “prison ministry ordinariate” is a portrait of the clerical proletariat of the neo-church. A “bishop” boasting of a Hollywood cameo while proposing novel juridical structures (“ordinariate”) for prison ministry exemplifies the “democratization of the Church” condemned by St. Pius X. The Lamentabili condemnation applies: “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” (Props. 53, 54 condemned). Wack’s “ordinariate” is a bureaucratic novelty substituting for the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis rooted in Tradition.
Fulton Sheen: The Neo-Church’s Safe “Traditionalist” Icon
The beatification of Fulton Sheen by the antipope is instrumentalized by The Pillar to model a “masculinity which is confident without being domineering” and “cor ad cor” communication via technology. This is a sanitized, neutered Sheen. The real Sheen, for all his preaching gifts, was a man of the transition, fully embedded in the pre-conciliar structure yet utilizing the media apparatus that would become the tool of the revolution. The article quotes Benedict XVI on technology: “does it allow us to foster more authentically human connections… or does it create impediments?” This is the personalist phenomenology of the nouvelle théologie, evaluating truth by its “human connection” rather than its conformity to Veritas. The beatification itself is null and void, performed by a manifest heretic (Leo XIV) who lacks the potestas iurisdictionis (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice* 2:30; Canon 188.4). The neo-church canonizes its own architects: Sheen, the “media priest,” prepares the way for the “media papacy” of Leo XIV.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This Pillar dispatch is a perfect specimen of the Church of the New Advent. It presents a seamless garment of error:
- Naturalism: “Human dignity” replaces Imago Dei restored by Grace.
- Sentimentalism: Emotional encounters (photos, hand-holding) replace the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the Salus Animarum.
- Juridical Positivism: Laws promulgated by a usurper (Leo XIV) override immemorial canonical tradition and the rights of Eastern patriarchs.
- Modernist Immanence: Technology, media, and “human connection” become the criteria of evangelization (Sheen, Benedict XVI).
- Silence on the Supernatural: Not one mention of the Holy Mass, the Sacraments, the State of Grace, the Conversion of France, the Social Kingship of Christ, or the Final Judgment.
The “eldest daughter of the Church” (France) is indeed “rocky soil”—but not because it is secular; because it has been apostatized by the very hierarchy that now sends its antipope to perform theatrical works of mercy while the Mass of the Ages remains suppressed and the Faith demolished. The Pillar, as an organ of the conciliar sect, performs its function well: it narrates the auto-demolition of the visible structures as a “pilgrimage of hope.” Non praevalebunt—but not against the gates of hell; the gates of hell are this spectacle.
TAGS: Antichurch, Leo XIV, JD Flynn, The Pillar, France, Humanitarianism, Social Kingship of Christ, Modernism, Sedevacantism, Syriac Catholic Church, Fulton Sheen
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Pilgrimage of dignity, the news, and head-to-head combat (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 29.09.2026