The Pillar portal reports that the Vatican has confirmed the excommunication of all six bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, that Nicaraguan police have detained a bishop emeritus, and that the Archdiocese of San Francisco proposes a $395 million settlement to abuse victims. This triad of news exposes the conciliar sect’s schizophrenic nature: it crushes the controlled opposition it created while bankrupting itself through the inevitable fruits of its apostasy.
The Nullity of Antipapal Censures Against Schismatic Puppets
The announcement that the “Vatican confirms the excommunication of all six bishops of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X” reveals the theatrical nature of the conciliar sect’s internal discipline. The SSPX, founded by Archbishop Lefebvre—who “continuously acknowledged the validity of the usurpers in the Vatican” and whose ordinations remain dubious due to his consecrator Liénart’s Masonic ties—has never been a bastion of integral Tradition. It is a “schism within a schism of the neo-church”, a pressure valve designed to absorb dissent without threatening the Modernist establishment.
The concept of “excommunication” issued by an antipope is ipso facto null. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality—condemned by the Syllabus of Errors and Quas Primas. Therefore, the current usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) possesses nulla auctoritas (no authority). His “excommunication” is a juridical nullity, ab initio void, akin to a layman anathematizing a cardinal.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, still binding on the true Church, states that an office becomes vacant ipso facto “if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that the promotion of a heretic “shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The conciliar “bishops” of the SSPX, by recognizing the manifest heretics occupying the Vatican as legitimate popes, have themselves defected from the Catholic faith regarding the papacy and the Church’s indefectibility. They are not martyrs of Tradition but accomplices in the great apostasy.
Nicaragua: The Secular Arm Strikes the Conciliar Hierarchy
The detention of a “bishop emeritus” by Nicaraguan police illustrates the fulfillment of Pius XI’s prophecy in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar sect, having surrendered the Kingship of Christ to secular powers through the heresy of religious liberty (condemned in Quanta Cura and the Syllabus, Error 77), now reaps the whirlwind. The State, no longer recognizing its subordination to Christ the King, treats “bishops” as mere functionaries to be arrested at will.
The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The conciliar sect embraced these errors at Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Gaudium et Spes). Having declared the State autonomous from God, it cannot complain when the State asserts its autonomy over the sect’s personnel. Qui seminat ventum, metet turbinem (Who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind).
San Francisco: The Financial Collapse of the Neo-Church
The proposed $395 million settlement by the Archdiocese of San Francisco to “victim survivors of abuse” is not merely a financial transaction; it is the material manifestation of the spiritual bankruptcy wrought by the conciliar revolution. The abuse crisis is the direct fruit of the destruction of the priesthood wrought by the New Mass, the relaxation of discipline, the infiltration of seminaries by homosexuals and Modernists, and the loss of the supernatural sense of the Sacerdotium.
St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition that “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Prop. 63). The conciliar sect, by “reconciling” with modern progress, abandoned evangelical ethics. The result is a clergy that no longer believes in the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the reality of sin, or the Final Judgment. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” Without Christ the King, there is no harmony, only the concupiscentia carnis, concupiscentia oculorum, et superbia vitae (concupiscence of the flesh, concupiscence of the eyes, and pride of life) rampant in the sanctuary.
The Linguistic Camouflage of Apostasy
The Pillar’s language—”traditionalist Society,” “bishop emeritus,” “victim survivors,” “settlement”—is the bureaucratic Newspeak of the abomination of desolation. The term “traditionalist” is a Modernist construct designed to marginalize the integral Faith as a mere “tradition” among others, rather than the Traditio Apostolica (Apostolic Tradition). The title “bishop emeritus” is an invention of the 1983 Code, unknown to the immemorial discipline of the Church, signifying a functionary retired from a corporate office rather than a successor of the Apostles bound to his see until death.
“Victim survivors” replaces the theological category of scandalum (scandal) and peccatum (sin) with therapeutic victimhood. “Settlement” replaces restitutio (restitution) and poenitentia (penance) with legalistic damage control. This vocabulary betrays a purely naturalistic, horizontal worldview. The conciliar sect speaks the language of the City of Man because it has abandoned the City of God.
Systemic Apostasy: The Conciliar Sect as Synagoga Satanae
These three news items are not isolated incidents but the systemic manifestation of the mysterium iniquitatis (mystery of iniquity) described by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:7). The “excommunication” of the SSPX bishops demonstrates the sect’s intolerance for even controlled dissent. The Nicaraguan detention demonstrates the sect’s impotence before the secular powers it emancipated from God. The San Francisco settlement demonstrates the sect’s moral and financial ruin.
The Syllabus of Errors identifies the source: “It is from them that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength… these wicked groups think that they have already become masters of the world.” The Masonic infiltration, long warned against by Pius IX, Leo XIII, and St. Pius X, has reached its terminus. The “Vatican” confirming excommunications is a Masonic tribunal judging its own dialectical thesis (Modernism) and antithesis (pseudo-Traditionalism) to synthesize the final antichurch.
True Catholics, adhering to the Sedes Vacans reality, recognize that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). This freedom exists only where the true Mass is offered by valid priests holding the true Faith, in communion with bishops consecrated in the true rite before 1968, recognizing no “pope” after Pius XII.
The conciliar sect’s convulsions—excommunicating its puppets, suffering state persecution, paying blood money—are the death throes of the novus ordo system. Non praevalebunt (They shall not prevail). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, which remains in catacumbis (in the catacombs), celebrating the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ the King.
Source:
News Roundup— Week of July 2 (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 02.07.2026