The Pillar portal reports on the postponed trial of Armenian “Catholicos” Karekin II and five “bishops” for obstruction of justice before an Armenian civil court, stemming from a dispute with the government of Nikol Pashinyan over the reinstatement of a deposed “bishop.” The article treats the schismatic Monophysite hierarchy as a legitimate ecclesiastical authority and the secular tribunal as a competent judge of canonical discipline, embodying the conciliar sect’s indifferentism and Erastian surrender to the state. This report exposes the conciliar sect’s total abandonment of the Church’s divine immunity and its complicity in the subjection of false religions to the secular sword.
The Monophysite Sect Masquerades as the Church of Christ
The cited article speaks of the “Armenian Apostolic Church,” its “Patriarch” Karekin II, its “Catholicos,” its “Archbishops” and “Bishops,” using honorifics reserved for the true hierarchy of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. This is a doctrinal fraud. The Armenian body has persisted in schism and heresy since the Council of Chalcedon (451), rejecting the dogma of the two natures in the one Person of Christ (Dyophysitism) in favor of the Monophysite error (Miaphysitism). As Pope Pius IX teaches in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 21), “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” is an error; the converse is the truth: the Catholic Church alone is the true religion. By styling these schismatics “Patriarch” and “Bishops” without qualification, The Pillar—an organ of the conciliar sect—commits the sin of indifferentism, condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos) and Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus Props. 15-18). It implies that the sect which denies the integrity of Christ’s human nature possesses a valid hierarchy and jurisdiction. It does not. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Erastianism Triumphant: The State as Judge of “Canonical” Discipline
The core of the reported conflict is a civil court ordering a religious superior to reinstate a deposed cleric, and prosecuting him for “obstruction of justice” when he refuses. This is the quintessence of Erastianism—the heresy that the civil power holds supremacy over the ecclesiastical. The Syllabus of Errors condemns proposition 20: “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government”; proposition 31: “The ecclesiastical forum or tribunal for the temporal causes… ought by all means to be abolished”; proposition 44: “The civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government.” Here, the Armenian state acts as the supreme canonical court, judging the internal governance of a religious body. That the “bishops” face two years in prison for exercising what they claim is spiritual authority demonstrates the ipso facto subversion of Libertas Ecclesiae. Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “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.” The conciliar sect’s media outlet reports this violation of divine right as mere “news,” devoid of any theological condemnation of the state’s usurpation.
The Conciliar Sect’s Complicity in the Profanation of Ecclesiastical Language
Five other Armenian bishops are standing trial alongside Karekin II — Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisyan, Archbishop Haykazun Najaryan, Bishop Vahan Hovhannesyan, Bishop Edgar Hakobyan, and Bishop Artur Hakobyan. If found guilty, the bishops could face two years in prison.
The article employs the vocabulary of the sacred hierarchy—”Archbishop,” “Bishop,” “laicized,” “excommunicated”—applying them to men who possess no jurisdiction in the Church of Christ. In the hands of the conciliar press, these terms are stripped of their ontological reality and reduced to sociological labels. “Laicization” and “excommunication” are canonical penalties requiring valid jurisdiction; a schismatic “Catholicos” cannot validly laicize or excommunicate, nor can a civil court adjudicate the validity of such acts. The Pillar’s uncritical repetition of this juridical theater normalizes the concept that the Church’s discipline is subject to state review. This is the direct fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes, which surrendered the Church’s immunity to the secular order. The “bishops” of the conciliar sect, having accepted the “religious liberty” of the state to define the Church’s boundaries, cannot protest when the Armenian state does precisely that to the Monophysites.
Symptomatic Silence: The Absence of the Supernatural
Nowhere in the article—nor, we may presume, in the defense of the accused—is there mention of the salus animarum, the rights of God, the Kingship of Christ, or the final judgment. The conflict is framed purely in legalistic, naturalistic terms: “obstruction of justice,” “business trip,” “court hearing,” “travel ban.” This is the language of the City of Man, not the City of God. St. Augustine teaches that two loves build two cities; the conciliar sect, by its silence on the supernatural, reveals it builds only the former. The “defense attorney” cries procedural foul; no one cries Non possumus to the state’s intrusion into the sanctuary. Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Armenian state tries “bishops” for “obstruction of justice” because it recognizes no higher justice than its own positive law. The conciliar media, by reporting this as a procedural delay, ratifies this godless order.
The “Pillar” as Organ of the Anti-Church
The source, The Pillar (pillarcatholic.com), presents itself as “Catholic” journalism. Its treatment of this affair proves it is an organ of the conciliar sect, the “Church of the New Advent” occupying the Vatican structures. True Catholic journalism would headline: “Armenian Civil Court Usurps Ecclesiastical Authority; Schismatic Hierarchy Subjected to Secular Power; Conciliar Media Legitimizes Monophysite Prelates.” Instead, we get a police blotter for schismatics. This is the modus operandi of the paramasonic structure: empty the titles of the Church of their divine content, fill them with naturalistic bureaucracy, and present the surrender as “dialogue” or “news.” The faithful remnant, adhering to the immutable Tradition of the Fathers and the Magisterium before 1958, recognizes in this report not a tragedy for the Church, but a revelation of the void at the heart of the conciliar establishment. Quo vadis, Domine? Not to the Pillar, nor to the Armenian “Catholicos,” nor to the court of Yerevan, but to the Cross of the true King, Christ the Lord, whose Kingdom non est de hoc mundo (John 18:36).
Source:
Armenian patriarch’s trial postponed after prosecutors no-show hearing (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 09.11.2026