Pillar Catholic portal (May 26, 2026) reports on a podcast episode titled “The name of God and staying in the furnace,” featuring JD Flynn, Kate Olivera, and Dr. Scott Powell discussing the readings for Trinity Sunday. The episode, sponsored by the Benedict XVI Institute’s Reverent Liturgy Project, covers Exodus 34, Daniel 3, 2 Corinthians 13, and John 3. The sponsors claim to offer “practical wisdom” to priests adopting “classically Catholic worship practices.” This is a textbook example of the conciliar sect’s strategy: using orthodox-sounding language to mask fundamental apostasy, promoting a “reverent liturgy” that remains rooted in the modernist Novus Ordo, and ignoring the true crisis of faith.
The Illusion of “Classically Catholic” Worship in a Modernist Framework
The podcast’s sponsor, the Benedict XVI Institute’s Reverent Liturgy Project, claims to guide priests toward “classically Catholic worship practices.” This is a deceptive marketing strategy. The Novus Ordo Missae, even when celebrated with classical music and Latin, remains a Protestant-influenced, man-centered assembly designed by the Masonic “reformer” Annibale Bugnini. As the False Fatima Apparitions document states, the post-conciliar structures are a “paramasonic structure” and an “abomination of desolation.” True Catholic worship is exclusively the Traditional Latin Mass — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvy — codified by St. Pius V after the Council of Trent and protected from all innovation. Any “reverence” grafted onto the Novus Ordo is like putting lipstick on a pig; it cannot transform a flawed rite into the Holy Sacrifice. The Council of Trent anathematized anyone who said the Mass should be celebrated in the vernacular (Session XXI, Canon 9) or that the rites of the Church could be despised or altered by anyone other than the Apostolic See (Session XXII, Canon 7).
Selective Scripture: Ignoring the Fullness of Divine Revelation
The podcast discusses Exodus 34:4-9, where God proclaims His Name to Moses: “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.” While this passage is beautiful, the podcast’s framing within the conciar lectionary is suspect. The modernist obsession with God’s mercy, detached from His justice, truth, and the necessity of repentance, is a hallmark of the “mercy without truth” heresy promoted by the antipopes. The same God who is “merciful and gracious” also declares, “He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and the fourth generation” (Exodus 34:7). This balance is systematically erased in conciliar preaching, which presents a sentimental, non-threatening deity — a god made in the image of modern man, not the God Who Is (Exodus 3:14). Pius XI, in Quas Primas, reminded us that Christ’s reign is over minds, wills, and hearts, demanding obedience, not comfortable affirmation.
The Furnace and the Failure to Name the True Persecution
The title, “staying in the furnace,” references Daniel 3 — the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace. This is rich with irony. The true “furnace” today is the persecution of faithful Catholics by the conciar sect itself. The structures occupying the Vatican have, since 1958, systematically persecuted those who adhere to the Traditional Latin Mass and unchanging doctrine — suppressing the Liber Brevior, issuing Traditionis Custodes, silencing traditional priests, and dismantling religious orders. Yet Flynn, Olivera, and Powell, as employees of the conciliar sect, cannot name this persecution. They remain silent about the true enemies of the Faith: the modernist “bishops” and “priests” who occupy the Vatican and its dioceses. St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, warned that the Modernists are the “synthesis of all errors” and that their method is to undermine the faith from within while appearing to defend it. This podcast is a perfect illustration of that strategy.
John 3:16 in a Vacuum: No Call to Conversion, No Condemnation of Heresy
The Gospel reading, John 3:16-18, is perhaps the most quoted and most distorted verse in modernist preaching. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” The conciar interpretation consistently strips this of its context: belief in Christ means accepting His entire teaching, His Church, His sacraments, and His moral law. It does not mean a vague, sentimental “love” that excludes repentance, confession, and conversion. The same Christ who said “God so loved the world” also said, “Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3), and “He who does not gather with Me scatters” (Matthew 12:30). The Syllabus of Errors condemns the idea that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). Yet the conciar sect, through its false ecumenism and religious indifferentism, acts as if all religions lead to salvation. This podcast, by failing to draw these hard lines, participates in the modernist dissolution of the faith.
The “Benedict XVI Institute”: A Monument to the Hermeneutic of Continuity
The sponsor’s name is telling. Benedict XVI — Joseph Ratzinger — was one of the chief architects of the conciliar revolution, a theologian whose “hermeneutic of continuity” is a modernist fraud designed to prevent faithful Catholics from recognizing the radical break with tradition that occurred after 1958. The Defense of Sedevacantism document cites St. Robert Bellarmine: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head.” Ratzinger/Benedict was a manifest heretic who denied the divinity of Christ, promoted religious liberty, and embraced the very errors condemned in Lamentabili and Pascendi. To name an institute after him is to canonize apostasy. The “Reverent Liturgy Project” is thus a project to make the irreverent Novus Ordo appear acceptable — a cosmetic operation on a corpse.
Conclusion: The Podcast as a Symptom of Systemic Apostasy
This podcast episode is not merely an innocent Bible study. It is a product of the conciar sect, promoted by its media (The Pillar), sponsored by an institute named after a heretic, and featuring speakers who operate entirely within the structures of the post-conciliar apostasy. It uses Scripture selectively, promotes a false sense of “reverence” for a Protestantized rite, and remains silent about the true furnace: the persecution of faithful Catholics by the modernist hierarchy. It is, in the language of the False Fatima document, part of the “disinformation strategy” — Stage 3 — where the narrative is controlled, the Third Secret is concealed, and the faithful are led into religious relativism. Catholics must reject these siren calls, return to the immutable Tradition, seek out true priests offering the Most Holy Sacrifice, and prepare for the true furnace — not with the false comfort of the conciar sect, but with the armor of faith, the sacraments, and the unchanging teaching of the Church before the abomination of 1958.
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The name of God and staying in the furnace (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 26.05.2026