The Pillar portal (November 13, 2026) publishes its weekly “Friday Pillar Post” by Ed Condon, a melange of naturalistic war remembrance, conciliar travelogue, and institutional damage control. It reports on the antipope Leo XIV’s South American tour, the Hong Kong diocese’s rebuke of its coverage regarding Cardinal Chow’s sinicization rhetoric, the installation of a late-vocation modernist as Archbishop of Barcelona, the German “synodal” dismantling of parishes in Speyer, the Roman Rota’s contradictory rulings on “credibly accused” lists, and the Swiss canton of Ticino’s interference in the vacant see of Lugano. The article’s thesis is clear: the conciliar sect’s bureaucracy manages its self-inflicted collapse while its “conservative” media apologists provide a thin veneer of journalistic credibility to the unfolding apostasy.
The Naturalistic Cult of the Fallen: Remembrance Day Without Christ the King
Condon opens with a meditation on Remembrance Day (11/11), invoking family military service and the “heroism” of World War II as the “great example of a moral conflict with the sharpest possible lines between good and evil.” He contrasts this with World War I, “a war no one wanted,” describing it as “the product of a series of diplomatic and logistical inevitabilities, all conceived and put in place to prevent war in the first place.” Nowhere does he mention the Social Kingship of Christ the King, instituted precisely by Pius XI in 1925 (Quas Primas) as the sole remedy for the “plague” of secularism/laicism that caused the Great War. Pius XI taught: “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… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (Quas Primas, 31). Condon’s reflection is pure naturalism: “No one has to will the worst to happen, catastrophe can run smoothly on rails if we let it. Lest we forget.” This is the motto of the faithless worldling, not the Catholic. The omission of the supernatural order — the rights of Christ the King over nations, the necessity of the Church’s freedom (libertas Ecclesiae), the final judgment — renders his “remembrance” a pagan rite. Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12). To forget this is to forget everything.
The Usurper’s Tour: Legitimizing the Antipope’s “Rapturous Welcome”
The portal reports the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) touring Argentina and Peru, describing it as a “raucously successful swing” and a “feel-good story of the day” where the usurper receives a “rapturous welcome while boldly and unambiguously proclaiming the Gospel.” This is the language of the paramasonic structure’s public relations, not Catholic journalism. Since John XXIII, the See of Peter has been occupied by manifest heretics who, by the very fact of their public adhesion to Modernism (condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu and Pascendi Dominici gregis), have lost all jurisdiction ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188 §4, 1917 Code; Pope Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). To report on the “pope’s” travels as if he were the Vicar of Christ is to participate in the great delusion (operationem erroris, 2 Thess 2:11). The visit to Francis’ homeland Argentina to “reframe some of his predecessor’s most well-known ideas” signifies only the consolidation of the Bergoglian revolution. Quas Primas warned: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom” (31). The conciliar “orders” and “pastors” are the destroyers of that Kingdom.
Sinicization: The Hong Kong Diocese’s Capitulation to Caesar
The Hong Kong diocese (under the usurper’s appointment) attacks The Pillar for reporting Cardinal Chow’s speech at the Urbaniana University on the “centenary of the consecration of the first Chinese-born Catholic bishops.” The diocese claims Chow “had not defended sinicization as a form of inculturation but presented the two concepts as distinct.” This is the classic conciliar equivocation: distinguishing in order to surrender. Sinicization is the Chinese Communist Party’s demand that religion submit to state ideology — the very error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus: “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20); “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41); “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The “provisional agreement” between the Vatican and Beijing (renewed under Francis and now Leo XIV) is a concordat with the devil, handing over the Chinese faithful to the Patriotic Association. Chow’s “distinction” is a diplomatic fig leaf. The Pillar’s “reporting” on this farce as a legitimate ecclesial debate legitimizes the betrayal. Non possumus — we cannot serve two masters (Matt 6:24).
The Late-Vocation Modernist: Barcelona’s New “Archbishop”
The portal profiles Octavi Vilà Mayo, a layman until 43, ordained a priest at 53 (2015, after Francis’ election), now installed as “Archbishop of Barcelona.” This is the fruit of the conciliar “vocations crisis” manufactured by the destruction of seminaries, the novus ordo, and the loss of the priestly character. Pius XI in Quas Primas extolled the Church’s “brave and invincible Missionaries, with their sweat and blood” who gained regions for the faith. Today, the conciliar sect promotes functionaries formed in the hermeneutic of rupture. The rapid rise signals not sanctity but institutional reliability in the new religion. Canon 188 §4 applies to the ordaining “bishops” themselves: public defection from the faith voids the act. A “priest” ordained in the new rite by a “bishop” consecrated in the new rite (Paul VI’s 1968 rite, invalid per Sacramentum Ordinis theology) possesses no sacramental character. The “archbishop” is a layman in vestments.
Synodal Dismantling: The German “Church” Eats Its Own Parishes
In Speyer, administrator Fr. Magin seeks to reduce 70 parishes to nine, citing “canon law” (c. 428) and “efforts to create a more ‘synodal Church’.” The nuncio Van Megen (usurper’s envoy) orders a suspension until a new “bishop” takes office. This is the auto-demolition of the territorial Church, prophesied by Paul VI but engineered by the Modernists. The Syllabus condemned: “The civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” (Error 44); “The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Error 45). Here, the “synodal” structure — a Masonic parody of collegiality — replaces divine law with bureaucratic efficiency. Magin’s “disappointment” reveals the revolutionary impulse: destroy the parish, destroy the Mass, destroy the faith. The Pillar reports this as administrative news, not as the apocalyptic sign it is.
The Roman Rota’s Pharisaical Justice: “Credibly Accused” Lists and the Death of Canonical Equity
The Roman Rota upholds a defamation complaint against a religious order for including a former member on a “credibly accused” list. The Dicasteries for Legislative Texts and Doctrine of the Faith have “branded as unjust” these lists, yet “dioceses and religious orders have continued the practice.” This exposes the lawlessness of the conciliar sect: its “dicasteries” issue contradictory decrees, its “tribunals” adjudicate simulacra of justice, and its “bishops” ignore both. The Syllabus condemned: “Roman pontiffs and ecumenical councils have wandered outside the limits of their powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have even erred in defining matters of faith and morals” (Error 23) — today, the usurpers err in the very administration of justice. Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia — but Peter is not in the Vatican. The “credibly accused” lists are a tool of the lavender mafia and the civil state to purge faithful priests; the Rota’s occasional correction is a pressure valve, not justice. No canonical penalty attaches to the “bishops” who publish these calumnies, because they hold no jurisdiction.
Swiss Caesarism: The Canton of Ticino Demands Its “Bishop”
Authorities in the Swiss canton of Ticino “have voiced hopes that Pope Leo XIV will end the Diocese of Lugano’s four-year wait for a new bishop.” The civil power openly dictates ecclesiastical appointments, the very error Pius IX anathematized: “Lay authority possesses of itself the right of presenting bishops… and is not bound to obey the Roman pontiff in those things which relate to the institution of bishoprics” (Error 51). The vacancy since 2022 (Bishop Lazzeri resigned at 59 citing “inner fatigue“) is a sign of the conciliar clergy’s spiritual exhaustion. The Swiss state treats the diocese as a civic department. Quas Primas declared: “Rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate” (31). Ticino’s “hope” is the voice of Antichrist.
The Pillar’s “Tightrope”: Controlled Opposition as Conciliar Glue
Condon’s “Tightrope” column admits the Hong Kong op-ed was a “thinly coded public message which needs to be heard, understood, and amplified,” yet he refuses to draw the conclusion: the conciliar hierarchy is an anti-Church serving the world. He writes: “I am more than comfortable that our coverage accurately reported what the cardinal said… I also think we fairly conveyed the general tone.” This is the pose of the “conservative” collaborator: critiquing the symptoms while defending the disease. The Pillar exists to keep “conservative” Catholics inside the paramasonic structure, paying subscriptions, believing the “pope” is the pope, the “bishops” are bishops, the “Mass” is the Mass. It is the opium of the remnant. Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Error 57) — today, the conciliar sect is the enemy of the immutable Faith. The Pillar’s “journalism” is the hermeneutic of continuity applied to the revolution: a lie.
Conclusion: No King But Caesar
The article’s final advertisement — “You shouldn’t have to pick between getting things done and living a full Catholic life” — summarizes the conciliar religion: Catholicism reduced to time-management, the Kingship of Christ reduced to a planner. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King “so that the people, free from daily occupations, may beautifully testify with joyful hearts that they are obedient and subject to Christ” (Quas Primas). The Pillar offers a Catholic calendar for the City of Man. Regnavit a ligno Deus — God has reigned from the wood of the Cross. The conciliar sect, its usurpers, its “cardinals,” its “bishops,” its “journalists,” have chosen Barabbas. Let the faithful separate: Exite de medio eorum et separate (2 Cor 6:17). The True Church endures in the catacombs, keeping the Mass of the Ages, the Faith of the Fathers, the Kingship of Christ.
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Lest we forget, the tightrope, and making it work (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 13.11.2026