The Pillar, a propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, reports the death of “Fr.” Patricio Sánchez Molinari, a “priest” of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil, struck down by a falling crucifix during the Novus Ordo service on October 17, 2026. The “cardinal” of Guayaquil, Luis Gerardo Cabrera, responds not with a call to penance or an examination of conscience regarding the sacrilegious state of the neo-church, but with a bureaucratic lament over “deferred maintenance,” “administrative procedures,” and “artistic heritage.” He explicitly denies the tragedy could be a divine punishment, asserting the false doctrine that faith is not “life insurance.” This incident is not a mere accident; it is a terrifying sign of God’s wrath against the abomination of desolation masquerading as the Catholic Church in Ecuador.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Sanctuary to a Museum Piece
The language employed by the “cardinal” and the civil engineer Miguel Banda reveals the total naturalization of the sacred. Cabrera speaks of “artistic and cultural heritage,” “structural and architectural problems,” and “technical studies.” Banda speaks of “anchoring points,” “cracks,” and “restoration work.” Nowhere is the church referred to as the Domus Dei, the House of God, where the Most Holy Sacrifice of Calvary is offered. Nowhere is the crucifix acknowledged as the Signum Salvatoris, the standard of the King of Kings before which every knee must bow.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority… it cannot depend on anyone’s will.” Yet here, the “Archdiocese of Guayaquil” depends entirely on the “city government,” the “National Institute of Cultural Heritage” (INPC), and “public and private institutions” to preserve its buildings. The “cardinal” begs Caesar for the coins to repair the Father’s House. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI as “the plague that poisons human society,” the denial of Christ’s Kingship over the temporal order. The church building has been reduced to a monument of “cultural heritage,” subject to the whims of secular bureaucrats and the decay of matter, because the supernatural life that once sustained it — the True Mass, the true priesthood, the true Faith — has been expelled.
The “Cardinal’s” Blasphemy Against Divine Providence
The most grievous utterance comes from the “cardinal” himself: “His death was not a punishment for any sin, nor was it a matter of mere chance… For Christians, faith in God is neither health or life insurance nor a good-luck charm.” This is a formal denial of Divine Justice and Providence, straight from the Modernist playbook. It echoes the condemned proposition of the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864): “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction… Authority is nothing else but numbers and the sum total of material forces.” (Errors 56, 60).
Holy Scripture and the immutable Tradition teach the contrary. “Whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth; and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth” (Heb 12:6). The fall of the crucifix — the very image of the God-Man crucified — upon the head of the “priest” offering the invalid Novus Ordo “mass” is a manifest sign (signum manifestum). It recalls the judgment upon the Philistines when the Ark of the Covenant was captured, or the death of Uzzah who touched the Ark with profane hands (2 Sam 6:6-7). The “cardinal” dares to say it is “not a punishment for any sin.” What sin? The sin of simulating the Holy Sacrifice with a rite fabricated by Freemasons (Bugnini) and imposed by antipopes. The sin of apostasy from the integral Faith. The sin of leading souls to hell under the guise of pastoral care.
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 “clergy” of the conciliar sect are manifest heretics, outside the Church, devoid of jurisdiction and the character of Orders (if ordained in the new rite). Their “masses” are not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a profanation, a sacrilegium. When the “priest” elevates a bread that is not the Body of Christ, under a crucifix that has become a mere decorative object in a “cultural heritage” site, the heavens are offended. The falling crucifix is the Vindex Divinus, the Divine Avenger, striking the usurper.
The “Accident” Narrative: Concealing the Theological Reality
The article frames the event through the lens of secular causality: “Ecuadorian police have classified the priest’s death as an accident,” “structural problems,” “humidity, seismic activity,” “cracks at the crucifix’s anchoring points.” This is the methodus naturalistica condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “The belief that God is the true Author of Holy Scripture is excessive naivety… An exegete who wishes to fruitfully engage in biblical studies should especially reject any preconceived opinion about the supernatural origin of Holy Scripture, which he should interpret just like other purely human documents” (Props 9, 12). The same rationalism is applied to history and providence. God is excluded from the causality of events. The “cardinal” reinforces this: “faith in God is neither health or life insurance.” This is Deism, the God of the philosophers who winds the clock and walks away, not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who “killeth and maketh alive, bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up” (1 Sam 2:6).
The omission is deafening. No mention of the state of the “priest’s” soul. No mention of the Last Rites (Extreme Unction) — likely denied or simulated by the new rite. No call for Requiem Masses for the repose of his soul (the only efficacious suffrage). Only “police investigation,” “examination by experts,” and “technical specialist.” The supernatural order has been abolished in the discourse of the neo-church.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: The “Church” as NGO
This episode is the perfect metaphor for the Church of the New Advent. It is a rotting edifice, physically and spiritually. The “cardinal” admits: “We do not have anyone specifically responsible for our artistic heritage.” The “heritage” is artistic, not sacred. The “cathedral” is undergoing “structural, acoustic, electrical, and painting-related aspects” — a construction site, not a sanctuary. The “priests” are functionaries (“parish priests are generally responsible for arranging maintenance”), not Alter Christus. The “faithful” are “churchgoers” who “rushed the priest to the hospital,” not the Church Militant kneeling in horror at a sacrilege.
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19); “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20); “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Error 24). The Guayaquil “archdiocese” lives these errors. It is a department of the Ecuadorian state, begging for permits and funding from the INPC and the mayor’s office. It has no rights because it is not the Church. It is a paramasonic structure occupying the buildings of the Church, tolerated by the state as a cultural artifact.
The Crucifix as Witness Against the Novus Ordo
The crucifix fell during the “Mass”. It detached from all three attachment points simultaneously, according to the engineer. This is physically improbable without supernatural intervention. It fell upon the head of the “celebrant.” The head — the seat of the intellect, the tonsure (absent in the new rite), the anointing of the priesthood (invalid in the new rite). The crucifix, the Sign of Contradiction (Luke 2:34), judged the simulation.
Pius XII, in Mediator Dei (1947), warned: “The liturgy is not a mere spectacle… It is the exercise of the priestly office of Jesus Christ.” The Novus Ordo is a spectacle, a “table of assembly” (as the instructions rightly call it). The crucifix on the wall behind the “altar” (a table) is often a “resurrected Christ” or a minimalist symbol, stripped of the Corpus in many neo-churches, or if present, treated as decor. Here, it became the instrument of justice. “He shall rule from sea to sea: and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Ps 71:8), sings the Royal Psalmist in Quas Primas. Christ the King rules even through the fall of His image upon the false priest.
Conclusion: The Wages of the Conciliar Revolution
The death of Sánchez Molinari is a chastisement (flagellum Dei) upon the conciliar sect in Ecuador. The “cardinal’s” reaction — bureaucratic buck-passing, denial of divine punishment, appeal to secular powers for “heritage” funds — confirms the total apostasy of the hierarchy. They are “blind guides of the blind” (Matt 15:14). They have removed Christ the King from the laws, the states, the liturgy, and the conscience. As Pius XI warned in Ubi Arcano (1922) and Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken.”
The shaking has reached the very walls of their temples. The crucifix falls. The “priest” dies. The “cardinal” calls for “public and private institutions.” The neo-church crumbles, ipse facto, because it has no foundation but the sand of Modernism. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). The true Church of Christ, the Ecclesia Militans, endures in the catacombs, in the chapels where the True Mass is offered by valid priests holding the integral Faith, untouched by the conciliar contagion. There, the crucifix does not fall; it reigns. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Priest’s death raises concerns about church maintenance in Ecuador (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 26.10.2026