The Pillar portal’s daily newsletter, “Starting Seven,” dated June 17, 2026, offers a routine bulletin of news from the heart of the conciliar sect. It presents a curated selection of events, appointments, and diplomatic niceties, all framed within the normalized reality of the post-conciliar institution. A superficial reading might see mere administrative updates; however, a critical analysis from the perspective of integral Catholic faith reveals a systematic omission of the supernatural, a deep entanglement with worldly politics, and the continued consolidation of a structure fundamentally opposed to the Social Kingship of Christ. This bulletin is not a report on the Catholic Church, but on the bureaucratic apparatus of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
The “Pope” as Diplomatic Figurehead: The Erasure of Spiritual Authority
The newsletter opens with the activities of the usurper in Peter’s chair, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). His reflection on a trip to Spain, his welcome of a U.S.-Iran peace deal, and his “considering making another appeal” to the Society of St. Pius X are presented as standard papal activities. This framing is a profound deception. The true mission of the Roman Pontiff is to teach, govern, and sanctify the faithful for the salvation of souls, to publicly uphold and defend the immutable truths of the Faith, and to be the Vicar of Christ, not a mere international diplomat or a manager of a global NGO.
The welcome of a geopolitical peace deal, devoid of any mention of the peace of Christ which is only possible through submission to His Kingdom, reduces the papacy to a secular commentator. As Pope Pius XI unequivocally stated in Quas Primas, “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The conciliar sect has abandoned this prophetic role. Furthermore, the mention of an “appeal” to the SSPX—a group that, while erring in its recognition of the usurpers, at least defends the Traditional Mass and doctrine—is a classic modernist tactic: offering dialogue without the requirement of a return to truth, thereby relativizing the duty of the Church to condemn error and schism. It is an appeal rooted in the false ecumenism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos.
The Cult of the “Post-Conciliar Saint”: Canonizing Modernist Apostasy
The death of Cardinal Camillo Ruini and the announcement of his funeral at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica is a significant symptom of the conciliar sect’s sanctification of its own revolution. Ruini was a chief architect and consolidator of the post-conciliar disorder in Italy, a protégé of the modernist “master of ceremonies” Annibale Bugnini, and a key figure in implementing the conciliar liturgical reform. His life’s work was the dismantling of Catholic Italy and its subjugation to the dictates of the Church of the New Advent.
To honor such a man with a funeral at the Altar of the Chair—a place reserved for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary—is a blasphemous act. It signifies the sect’s veneration of those who successfully executed the modernist coup. This is the creation of a conciliar hagiography, where fidelity is measured not by adherence to Tradition, but by service to the revolution. It is a direct fulfillment of the warning in the False Fatima Apparitions document regarding the “takeover of the narrative by modernists.”
Naturalistic Charity and the Omission of the Supernatural
Several items highlight naturalistic works detached from their supernatural end. The sending of altar breads to Cuba due to production shortages is a logistical footnote. While providing for the valid celebration of the Most Holy Sacrifice is a grave duty, the context here is purely materialist, ignoring the profound crisis of faith on the island and the need for true evangelization, not just sacramental logistics.
Similarly, the report on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors meeting in Rome focuses on a bureaucratic response to a grave evil. While the abuse of the innocent is a horrific crime deserving of severe punishment, the conciliar sect’s approach is purely horizontal and juridical. It systematically omits the root cause: the collapse of priestly formation, the infiltration of homosexuality (a vice the Church has always condemned as intrinsece malum), and the modernist dissolution of the theology of sin and sanctity. The solution proposed is more committees and procedures, not a return to the asceticism, sound doctrine, and sacred liturgy that for centuries protected the sanctity of the priesthood and the faithful.
The World as the Church’s Primary Arena
The bulletin is saturated with worldly concerns: economic boosts from papal visits, political elections in Colombia, tourism protests in Albania, and UN statements on arms spending. This reveals the conciliar sect’s complete absorption into the world. Its primary horizon is no longer the City of God, but the City of Man. The Church is presented as a global NGO concerned with socio-economic development, political stability, and international dialogue.
This is the direct fruit of the modernist error condemned in the Syllabus of Errors, which rejects the idea that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The conciliar sect has not only reconciled itself but has become the chief agent of this progress and liberalism within the structures of the Church. The dialogue with the Orthodox at Pannonhalma, mentioned in the bulletin, is another fruit of the false ecumenism that places a higher value on false unity than on the proclamation of the one true Faith necessary for salvation.
The Liturgical and Doctrinal Vacuum
The entire bulletin is a testament to the liturgical and doctrinal vacuum at the heart of the conciliar sect. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead. There is no call to conversion, no warning about the reality of hell, no exhortation to prayer and penance. The “saint of the day” is a mere calendar entry, stripped of its power to inspire imitation of Christ.
The upcoming ordinations listed are, in the vast majority of cases, celebrations of the Novus Ordo Missae, a rite that, by its own admission, was crafted to be ecumenical and which obscures the Catholic doctrine of the priesthood and the sacrificial nature of the Mass. To participate in and promote these rites is to participate in a system that, as the Defense of Sedevacantism document argues, has led its leaders into manifest heresy and thus deprived them of true jurisdiction. The “priests” ordained are functionaries of a naturalistic cult, not alteri Christi configured to offer the Holy Sacrifice.
Conclusion: The Routine of Ruin
The Pillar’s “Starting Seven” is not an anomaly; it is the perfect daily chronicle of the conciliar sect. It is a document that breathes the spirit of the Lamentabili and Pascendi of our time. It presents the administrative, diplomatic, and naturalistic activities of a paramasonic structure as the life of the Church, while the true Church—the Church of the Unbloody Sacrifice, of the Social Kingship of Christ, of the salvation of souls—is omitted, persecuted, and driven into the catacombs.
This bulletin is a call to discernment. It demonstrates that the institution headquartered in Vatican City is not the Catholic Church but its counterfeit, a “synagogue of Satan” (Rev. 2:9) that has taken over the buildings and the bureaucracy. The response of every true Catholic must be a complete rejection of this system, a clinging to the integral Tradition of the Faith, and a prayer for the restoration of the true Papacy and the true Mass. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation). The conciliar sect, in its daily operations as revealed here, has placed itself outside the bounds of the true Church by its systematic apostasy and rebellion against the Kingship of Jesus Christ.
Source:
Starting Seven: June 17, 2026 (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 17.06.2026