The Pillar portal (October 13, 2026) reports on the lung surgery of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the travels of its editors to a “canon law” conference in St. Louis, the appointment of “Archbishop” Vittorio Viola as “archpriest” of St. Peter’s Basilica, a curious anecdote regarding the “Blessed” Fulton Sheen, the ongoing “synodal” farce in Rome, and — most scandalously — a fawning interview with the notorious Jesuit apostate “Fr.” James Martin, S.J., defended by the editor JD Flynn as a exercise in “conversational” journalism. This dispatch from the heart of the conciliar sect reveals not a living Church, but a decaying paramasonic structure obsessed with institutional survival, media relevance, and the normalization of sodomy under the guise of “pastoral accompaniment.”
The Cult of the Usurper: Prayer as Complicity in the Great Apostasy
The article opens with a banal exhortation: “If you’re not doing so already, pray for the pope.” This is not a plea for the conversion of a manifest heretic, but a demand for recognition of his putative authority. The “pope” in question, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), is a public adherent of the conciliar errors — religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality — and a promoter of the LGBT agenda through his silence and appointments. To pray for him in his official capacity is to pray for the consolidation of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) in the Holy Place. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that a manifest heretic ipso facto loses the papacy (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30); the faithful are bound to withdraw, not to offer spiritual support to his usurpation. The Pillar’s request is the prayer of the worldling: “The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16), but only when offered in union with the true Head, not the antichrist occupying the Vatican.
Canon Law in the Service of the Neo-Church: A Juridical Fiction
The editors boast of attending a “national canon law conference” where “canonical formation is the basis of our journalism.” This is a confession of intellectual servitude to the 1983 Code, a legislative act of the antipope John Paul II, which enshrines the heresies of Dignitatis Humanae and Lumen Gentium into positive law. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code — still binding in principle — declares that an office becomes vacant ex ipso facto by public defection from the faith. The entire post-conciliar hierarchy, having publicly defected at Vatican II, holds no jurisdiction. Their “canon law” is lex injusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law). The Pillar’s “canonical formation” equips them only to navigate the labyrinth of a schismatic structure, not to serve the salus animarum (salvation of souls). Their self-congratulation — “expertise and competence for the salvation of souls far from the headlines” — is a delusion; one cannot save souls while recognizing the destroyers of the Faith as legitimate pastors.
The Viola Appointment: Musical Chairs on the Titanic
The transfer of “Archbishop” Vittorio Viola from the “Dicastery for Divine Worship” to the “archpriesthood” of St. Peter’s Basilica is treated as high-stakes “Vatican politics.” In reality, it is a rearrangement of deck chairs on a sinking ship. Viola, a Franciscan of the Immaculate, was complicit in the suppression of his own order’s traditional charism under the modernist “Pope” Francis. His appointment signals the continued imposition of the Bugninian Novus Ordo liturgy — a cena protestantica (Protestant supper) — at the very heart of the occupied Vatican. The “speculation” of “Vatican watchers” is the chatter of courtiers in an anti-court. No valid jurisdiction, no valid appointment, no valid “archpriest.” Only a usurper’s pawn.
Fulton Sheen: The Post-Conciliar “Saint” as Mascot
The anecdote of the “Patronal Medal” in the “Blessed Fulton Sheen museum” in Peoria is emblematic of the conciliar sect’s hagiography. Sheen (d. 1979), for all his rhetorical gifts, never condemned Vatican II, accepted the Novus Ordo, and died in communion with the modernist hierarchy. His “beatification” by the antipope Francis is invalid ab origine. The medal error — “That’s not quite true, it turns out” — mirrors the sect’s entire relationship with truth: a mixture of sentimentality and fabrication. The Pillar treats this as “excellent reporting”; the true Church sees a distraction from the unum necessarium (one thing necessary).
The Synodal Farce: Institutionalizing Apostasy
The “synodal non-synod in the style of synodality” continues its work of dissolving the divine constitution of the Church. The discussion of “marriage ministry” and the “ten-year anniversary of Amoris Laetitia” — the document that opened the door to “Communion” for public adulterers — proves the synod’s purpose: to legitimize the peccatum contra naturam and the dissolution of the indissoluble bond. The “committee charged with summarizing the meeting” replaces the sensus fidei with bureaucratic synthesis. This is not the Church docens (teaching); it is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) legislating its own rebellion.
Platforming the Heresiarch: James Martin and the “Conversational” Trap
The centerpiece of the article is the defense of the interview with “Fr.” James Martin, S.J., the chief propagandist for the normalization of homosexuality in the neo-church. Flynn admits “critical feedback — mostly from people who haven’t actually listened to the show” — a classic straw man. The objection is not to ignorance of the content, but to the act of platforming a man who publicly denies the Catechism of the Council of Trent on sodomy, who promotes the “LGBT” ideology as compatible with Catholicism, and who enjoys the favor of the usurpers. Flynn’s justification — “it’s boring to have conversations with people you’re in lockstep agreement with” — is the rhetoric of the talk-show host, not the Catholic journalist. The duty of the faithful is non communicare in operibus infructuosis tenebrarum (have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, Eph. 5:11), not to “unpack views” with a wolf in Jesuit garb.
Martin is a “regular fixture in the NY Times and with the former late night host Stephen Colbert” — precisely because he serves the world’s agenda. The Pillar’s interview does not “explicate his views”; it legitimizes his person. Flynn trusts listeners to “form their own conclusions” — the Protestant principle of private judgment applied to doctrine. But doctrine is not a matter of opinion; it is depositum fidei (deposit of faith) to be guarded, not debated. By treating Martin as a legitimate “ecclesial figure,” The Pillar confirms its place within the conciliar sect: a conservative wing of the revolution, managing dissent to preserve the structure.
The Spiritual Bankruptcy of “Conservative” Conciliarism
The article’s tone — breezy, self-aware, slightly defensive — reveals the mens saecularis (worldly mind) of the neo-church apologist. There is no mention of the Missa Tridentina, the Syllabus of Errors, Quas Primas, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, or the Cum ex Apostolatus Officio. No mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic State, the condemnation of religious liberty, or the invalidity of the new sacraments. The “Church” they describe — “universal and local reality… in the parish, and at the dinner table, and yes, even in the diocesan chancery” — is a sociological entity, the ecclesia horizontalis of the modernists, devoid of the potestas iurisdictionis (power of jurisdiction) and the sacramentum ordinis (sacrament of order) in its true form.
The Pillar is not a Catholic organ; it is a business model (“paid subscribers,” “upgrade your subscription”) serving the conciliar establishment. Its “journalism” is the opium of the people for those who wish to feel orthodox while obeying antichrists. The surgery of the usurper, the canon law conference, the Viola appointment, the Sheen trivia, the synod, the Martin interview — all are symptoms of a single disease: the loss of the sensus catholicus and the substitution of the City of God with the City of Man.
“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” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1925). The Pillar builds on sand. The true Church remains in the catacombs, adhering to the traditio of the Fathers, the Trentine Mass, and the Sede Vacante, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ.
Source:
Pray for the pope, St. Louis spirits, and Fr. Martin (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 13.10.2026