The Pillar portal reports on June 30, 2026, that the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has executed one of the most extensive curial shakeups of his usurpation, appointing the Salesian sister Alessandra Smerilli as prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, flanked by the “Cardinal” Fabio Baggio as pro-prefect, alongside a cascade of further appointments in the Dicasteries for Communications, Service of Charity, and Legislative Texts. This reorganization constitutes the definitive institutionalization of the neo-church’s apostasy: the substitution of the divine hierarchy with a Masonic bureaucratic parity, the enthronement of eco-paganism as governing theology, and the final demolition of the Church’s legislative immunity.
The Usurpation of Sacred Hierarchy: Women as “Prefects” of Dicasteries
The appointment of a woman — Sister Alessandra Smerilli — as prefect of a Roman dicastery is not merely a “canonical novelty”; it is a sacrilegious violation of the divine constitution of the Church (divina constitutio Ecclesiae). Christ Our Lord chose only men as Apostles, the first bishops and priests, establishing an infallible and immutable law that the power of orders and the power of jurisdiction (which flows from orders in the sacred hierarchy) belong exclusively to the male sex. Pope St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), condemned the Modernist proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57) and that “truth changes with man” (Prop. 58), yet the conciliar sect now enacts precisely this evolution: truth changes with the times, and the priesthood is opened to women de facto through the backdoor of “governance.”
The cited article admits the anomaly with cynical understatement: “Smerilli’s appointment as prefect of a dicastery is likely to prove relatively uncontroversial from a canonical standpoint, because the dicastery doesn’t exercise governance relative to the power of sacred orders or related to the sacraments.” This is the language of the novus ordo jurist, severing jurisdiction from the sacrament of Order — a heresy condemned by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXIII, can. 7). The immediate appointment of a “Cardinal” pro-prefect (Baggio) to “assist” her is the tacit admission that a woman cannot exercise true episcopal jurisdiction. It is a diabolical parody: the woman holds the title, the man holds the power, and the faithful are scandalized into accepting the inversion of nature and grace.
This follows the 2025 precedent of Sr. Simona Brambilla at the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life — a dicastery that does exercise “spiritual and sacramental powers of governance.” The pattern is clear: the democratization of the Church, the heresy of egalitarianism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas where he teaches that “peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” — a kingdom structured hierarchically, not by modernist quotas.
The “Dicastery for Integral Human Development”: A Masonic NGO Replacing the Kingship of Christ
The very name — Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development — betrays the naturalistic essence of the conciliar sect. It is not a Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, nor for the Clergy, nor for Divine Worship. It is a secular NGO baptized with holy water, dedicated to the Masonic trinity: ecology, migration, sustainable development.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered against the “plague that poisons human society… the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” He declared: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… 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.” But the neo-church has abolished the Kingdom. The “Borgo Laudato si'” — directed by the new pro-prefect “Cardinal” Baggio — is the physical monument to this apostasy: the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, once a symbol of the Church’s temporal independence and spiritual authority, transformed into a center for “ecology, integral formation, sustainable agriculture, and care for creation.”
This is the religion of the Antichrist foretold by the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 80): “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” “Cardinal” Baggio, a Scalabrian missionary formed in the crucible of South American liberation theology, is the perfect functionary for this Masonic operation. His “perpetual vows” and “ordination” in the novus ordo rite (invalid in form and intention) render him a layman in the eyes of God, yet he governs a dicastery overseeing Caritas Internationalis and the International Catholic Migration Commission — organizations long since infiltrated by Masonic and UN population-control agendas.
The False Fatima Apparitions document exposes this strategy: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “integral human development” dicastery is the institutionalization of the Masonic “psychological operation” diverting the Church’s mission from the salvation of souls to the sanctification of the world — the very definition of the heresy of Americanism and Modernism condemned by Leo XIII and St. Pius X.
The “Laudato Si'” Cardinal: Eco-Paganism as Governing Principle
The elevation of Baggio — director of the “Borgo Laudato si'” — to the cardinalate and now to pro-prefect signals that the encyclical Laudato Si’ is the de facto constitution of the neo-church. This document, a tissue of pantheistic errors (Prop. 1 of Syllabus: “God is identical with the nature of things”), Malthusian population control, and globalist governance, replaces the Social Kingship of Christ with the stewardship of “Mother Earth.”
The article notes Baggio’s career: minor seminary at 11, missionary in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Philippines, professor at Urbaniana. This is the curriculum of the New World Order “cleric”: globalist mobility, inculturation, academic legitimization of the revolution. His appointment alongside a woman prefect is the liturgical enactment of the Masonic androgyny — the Baphometic union of male and female in a single governance structure, mocking the Bridegroom (Christ) and the Bride (Church).
Communications and Charity: Secularized Bureaucracy Supplanting Supernatural Mission
The transfer of Msgr. Lucio Adrián Ruiz from the Dicastery for Communications to the Dicastery for the Service of Charity (Papal Almoner) — now elevated to a dicastery by the antipope Francis — reveals the total secularization of the “apostolate.” Communications is headed by a laywoman, Montserrat Alvarado. The Almoner’s office, historically a priestly ministry of spiritual and material mercy exercised by the Pope’s own hand, is now a medicalized NGO headed by a “medical doctor” (Dr. Massimo Ralli, PhD in neurophysiology) running the “Mother of Mercy outpatient clinic.”
Where is the salus animarum? Where is the Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus? The Syllabus (Prop. 44) condemns the error that “The civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government… it has the right to make enactments regarding the administration of the divine sacraments.” The neo-church has internalized this error: it has become the civil authority, administering “charity” as social work, “communications” as public relations, “development” as sustainable economics. The supernatural has been evaporated.
Legislative Texts: The Final Dismantling of Canonical Order
The appointment of Msgr. Marco Mellino as secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, replacing the long-serving Abp. Juan Ignacio Arrieta (Opus Dei), marks the completion of the legislative revolution. Mellino, secretary of the “Council of Cardinals” (C7/C9) and the “Interdicasterial Commission for the Revision of the General Regulations of the Roman Curia” (published Nov 2025), is the architect of the new “canon law” of the conciliar sect.
The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes the theological principle: “A Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “General Regulations of the Roman Curia” (2025) are the positive law of a heretical sect, having no more binding force on a Catholic than the statutes of the Rotary Club. They replace the immutable divine law and the 1917 Code (the last legitimate universal legislation) with a synodal, collegial, bureaucratic charter designed to facilitate the parliamentarization of the Church — the very error condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus Prop. 36: “The definition of a national council does not admit of any subsequent discussion, and the civil authority can assume this principle as the basis of its acts” — here the “synod” replaces the council, the “C9” replaces the Pope).
The dismissal of Arrieta — a “canonist” of the novus ordo but a symbol of the ancien régime of the 1983 Code — signifies that even the facade of legal continuity has been dropped. The “Council of Cardinals” (C7/C9) itself, a permanent synodal body usurping the monarchical primacy of Peter, has been “effectively dismantled” only to be replaced by a dicastery structure fully subservient to the antipope’s personal will — the tyranny of the majority masked as synodality.
Symptomatic Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Consolidates Its Power
This curial shakeup is not administrative; it is theological. It proclaims:
- The Priesthood is obsolete — replaced by functional “governance” open to women and laymen.
- The Kingship of Christ is abolished — replaced by “Integral Human Development” (Masonic humanitarianism).
- The Supernatural Order is denied — replaced by ecology, medicine, migration management, and communications strategy.
- Canon Law is void — replaced by the “General Regulations” of a synodal bureaucracy.
St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism): “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV manifests the Great Apostasy foretold in 2 Thess 2:3. The “Church” occupying the Vatican is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9), the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
True Catholics — those adhering to the integral Faith of the 1917 Code, the Tridentine Mass, and the Social Kingship of Christ — recognize these appointments for what they are: the consolidation of the counter-church. We do not “dialogue” with it; we do not “recognize and resist” it; we anathematize it (Gal 1:8) and cleave to the remnant preserving the depositum fidei entire. Non praevalebunt — but not because the gates of hell will not prevail against this structure; they have already prevailed against it. They will not prevail against the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church which subsists in the catacombs of Tradition, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ the King.
Source:
Leo makes curia staff changes (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 30.06.2026