The Pillar, a propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, reports on the activities of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) in France, the Archdiocese of Palermo’s sacrilegial conflation of First Communion and Confirmation, and the Baltimore archdiocese’s vaunted “ordination” numbers—all presented as signs of vitality. This roundup exposes not renewal but the systematic dismantling of Catholic sacramental theology and the replacement of the Church’s divine constitution with a naturalistic, masonic parody.
The Antipope’s Masonic Pilgrimage to the Eldest Daughter of the Church
The article leads with the notice that “Pope Leo XIV visits France.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is not a pastoral visit but a triumphal procession of the Man of Sin (2 Thess 2:3) through a nation once the Filia Primogenita Ecclesiae, now a stronghold of laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. The antipope’s presence in France—where the 1905 Law of Separation codified the laïcité that Pius IX’s Syllabus anathematized (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”)—signifies not the social reign of Christ the King but the consolidation of the Masonic Republic’s control over the conciliar sect. The visit is a theatrum of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15), legitimizing the very secular power that Quas Primas declares must “publicly honor Christ and obey Him” or face “severe vengeance” at the Final Judgment.
Sacramental Anarchy in Palermo: The Death of Catechetical Order
The Archdiocese of Palermo “affirms its decision to combine First Communion and Confirmation, despite protest from local business owners.” Note the telling detail: opposition comes from business owners, not from any theological objection by the “clergy.” This reveals the total naturalization of the sacraments. The Sacrament of Confirmation, which perfects the grace of Baptism and imprints an indelible character for spiritual combat (character belli), is reduced to a logistical convenience, administered simul with First Communion to children who have not reached the age of discretion required for the sacrament of Christian maturity.
St. Pius X in Quam Singulari (1910) mandated the age of reason (about seven) for First Communion, but Confirmation traditionally followed at the age of discretion (about twelve), when the baptized can profess the faith publicly and defend it. The conciliar “Code” of 1983 (Canon 891) already capitulated to episcopal conferences to set the age, dissolving the universal discipline. Now Palermo completes the revolution: the sacraments become administrative checkboxes, stripped of their sacramental causality and hierarchical order. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that Confirmation “confers a special grace… to confess the name of Christ boldly”; administering it to seven-year-olds makes a mockery of the soldier of Christ ideal. The protest of businessmen—concerned presumably with party revenues—while the “bishops” remain silent, is the index of a church that has ceased to be mater et magistra and become a service provider for consumerist rituals.
Baltimore’s “Ordination” Statistics: Quantity as Mask for Invalidity
The Archdiocese of Baltimore boasts “the highest number of priests in a single year in more than a half century.” This is the most diabolical deception of all. Since Paul VI’s 1968 Pontificale Romanum mutilated the form of priestly ordination—replacing the essential form “Confer the priestly power…” with the vague “Send forth your Spirit…”—and the 1969 Novus Ordo Missae destroyed the propitiatory sacrifice, no valid priesthood has been conferred in the conciliar rite. Archbishop Lefebvre himself, though compromised by his recognition of the usurpers, declared: “The new rite of ordination is doubtful; the new Mass is a Protestant supper”. The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes that a manifest heretic cannot be Pope (Bellarmine: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore a manifest heretic cannot be Pope”). Since the line of usurpers from John XXIII are manifest heretics (professing religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality), they possess no jurisdiction to ordain. Canon 188.4 (1917 Code): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith”. The “ordinands” of Baltimore receive an empty ceremony, not the character indelebilis of the priesthood. Their “ordination” is a simulacrum, a sacrilegious theater that multiplies ministers of the table while the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is extinguished.
Peoria’s “First-Ever” Innovation: The Novelty That Condemns Itself
The Diocese of Peoria “will soon establish the first-ever pa[storal initiative].” The truncation is providential: any “first-ever” in the conciliar sect is by definition a novelty condemned by the Syllabus and Pascendi. St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the Modernist proposition: “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 very concept of a “first-ever” pastoral structure admits that the conciliar sect has no continuity with the Church of Christ, which “does not change” (Heb 13:8). Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s Kingdom “shall have no end” (Dan 7:14) and that the Church “cannot depend on anyone’s will” but on divine institution. A “first-ever” diocesan program is the signature of the Church of the New Advent: permanent revolution masquerading as pastoral care.
The Pillar as Organ of the Synagoga Satanae
The Pillar’s format—“Paid episode… Subscribe to listen… Audio recordings… so you can listen on the go”—reveals its commercial, not supernatural, nature. It is a mercatura (merchandise) of the conciliar sect, peddling ecclesiastical gossip as “news” while the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3) is obliterated. The Syllabus (Error 79) condemned the idea that “civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people”; The Pillar operates precisely within this liberty of the press granted by the Masonic state, never challenging the antipope’s heresies, never denouncing the invalid sacraments, never proclaiming Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Its “roundup” is a curated distraction, directing the faithful’s attention to statistics, visits, and programs—the opus operatum of the City of Man—while the City of God lies in ruins.
Conclusion: The Smoke of Satan in the Sanctuary
This “news roundup” is a litany of abominations: an antipope feted by a Masonic republic; sacraments disordered for worldly convenience; “ordinations” that confer nothing but a lay ministry; innovations that trumpet their novelty as virtue. Quas Primas promised that “if all the faithful understood that they must fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King… they will strive diligently to reconcile stray and unenlightened souls with the Lord”. The Pillar and the structures it serves do the opposite: they reconcile souls to the world, the flesh, and the devil. “The kingdom of Christ… encompasses all men… most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Pius XI, citing Leo XIII). The conciliar sect, by its fruits, denies this Kingship in every fiber of its being. It is not the Church; it is the abomination of desolation. Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat (He who has ears to hear, let him hear).
Source:
News Roundup— Week of October 1 (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 01.10.2026