“Cardinal” Pierre’s Birthday Festivities Expose Conciliar Sect’s Naturalism
The Vatican News portal (January 31, 2026) reports on celebrations at the “Apostolic Nunciature” in Washington marking the 80th birthday of “Cardinal” Christophe Pierre. The gathering featured “Archbishop” Edgar Peña Parra reading a telegram from antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) praising Pierre’s alleged “service to the Gospel and the Holy See.” USCCB president “Archbishop” Paul Coakley offered thanks for the nuncio’s mission, while honors were given to nunciature staff.
Illegitimate Authority Under Canon 188.4
The celebration constitutes formal cooperation with apostasy through recognition of conciliar sect officials as legitimate prelates. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code explicitly states: “Any office becomes vacant ipso facto if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice clarifies that manifest heretics “immediately lose all jurisdiction” (mox omnem jurisdictionem amittunt), making Pierre’s diplomatic “missions” canonically nonexistent. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error #80) – precisely the Vatican II agenda Pierre has advanced for decades.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
“A friendly and fraternal gathering”
This description reveals the conciliar sect’s reduction of ecclesial life to horizontal humanism. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas establishing Christ the King’s feast precisely to combat those who “ostentatiously withdraw the kingdom of Christ from the earth.” The celebration’s focus on birthdays, telegrams, and staff honors exemplifies the anthropocentric shift condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis as modernist immanentism. No mention of Memento Mori, the Four Last Things, or the cardinal’s impending Particular Judgment – shocking omissions revealing the sect’s abandonment of Catholic eschatology.
Counterfeit Hierarchy Mocks Apostolic Succession
The presence of “Substitute” Peña Parra – whose invalid episcopal consecration follows Paul VI’s illicit 1968 rites – compounds the sacrilege. Lamentabili Sane #50 condemned the modernist lie that “the elders fulfilling supervisory functions… were appointed by the Apostles as priests or bishops” but lacked apostolic authority. True nunciatures ceased with the vacancy of the Apostolic See, making Pierre’s Washington residence merely a government lobbying office. Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis forbade any jurisdictional acts during sede vacante, rendering all “honors” bestowed at the event canonically void.
Symptomatic Silence on Doctrinal Apostasy
Neither the antipope’s telegram nor Coakley’s address mentions Pierre’s key role in advancing:
- Communion for adulterers (Amoris Laetitia)
- Pachamama idolatry (2019 Amazon Synod)
- Globalist “synodal path” dismantling Church governance
This calculated omission confirms the conciliar sect’s systematic betrayal of Catholic missions. As Pius IX warned in the Syllabus, the true Church “cannot contribute effectively to civil progress” when states deny Christ’s reign (Error #40). The banquet’s luxury amidst global persecution of faithful Catholics illustrates Christ’s warning: “Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation” (Luke 6:24).
Conclusion: Kingship of Christ Versus Conciliar Apostasy
This counterfeit spectacle demonstrates how the conciliar sect substitutes naturæ cultum (worship of nature) for Regnum Christi. As true Catholics keep Dies Irae before their eyes during birthdays, the sect’s “fraternal gathering” embodies the “feasting with loud singing” of the doomed Babylon (Isaiah 22:13). Let all faithful recall Pius XI’s injunction: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas). This apostate gathering serves only to accelerate divine judgment upon those who “exchange the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man” (Romans 1:23).
Source:
Pope sends 80th birthday wishes to Cardinal Christophe Pierre (vaticannews.va)
Date: 31.01.2026