The Pillar, a prominent organ of the self-styled “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect, publishes its weekly newsletter celebrating the return of its editor from injury while breathlessly chronicling the latest act in the long-running kabuki theater between the Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX) and the Vatican. The article frames the illicit episcopal consecrations by the FSSPX and the subsequent “excommunication” decree from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith as a canonical drama of high stakes, all while promoting a Fourth of July subscription sale and a pilgrimage to the beatification of the modernist Fulton Sheen. This reportage exposes the fatal delusion of those who recognize the usurpers in Rome as legitimate authorities while pretending to defend Tradition.
The Theatrics of Schism Within a Schism
The article’s centerpiece is the “events around the illicit consecration of four bishops by the Society of St. Pius X” and the Vatican’s “inevitable and unavoidable penalty of excommunication.” From the perspective of the integral Faith, this is a dispute between two factions of the same apostate structure. The FSSPX, founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre — a prelate ordained by the Freemason Cardinal Liénart and who consistently acknowledged the validity of the conciliar “popes” — has never possessed the juridic mission required for episcopal consecrations (Canon 1015, 1917 Code). Their act is not a defense of the Faith but a canonical irregularity within the conciliar sect. Conversely, the “Vatican” issuing “excommunications” is a paramasonic structure exercising jurisdiction it does not possess, having long since forfeited any claim to authority through the public heresy of its “popes” since John XXIII. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head” (De Romano Pontifice). The “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” is a department of a false church; its decrees are null, void, and of no effect.
Linguistic Camouflage: “Pope Leo,” “Dicastery,” “Canonical Provisions”
The language of the article is a masterclass in the hermeneutic of continuity that masks the rupture. The author speaks of “Pope Leo” (Robert Prevost), “the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith,” “canonical provisions,” and “faculty to validly hear confessions.” These terms legitimize the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican. There is no “Pope Leo”; there is only the latest usurper in a line beginning with Angelo Roncalli. The “Dicastery” is a novelty of the 1983 Code, a product of the conciliar revolution that abolished the Holy Office. The “faculties” discussed are fictions derived from a false hierarchy. The article’s tone — “the DDF has given local bishops a lot to work with… they should be off to a flying start” — reveals a bureaucratic mentality utterly detached from the supernatural crisis. It is the language of homo economicus applied to the Mystical Body, a naturalistic reduction of the Church to a juridical NGO.
The SSPX Statement: A Condemnation of Themselves
The article quotes the FSSPX response during the consecration rite:
“From Vatican Council II up to the present day, the authorities in the Church have been animated by a spirit that is contrary to that of the faith and have been acting against holy tradition. They will no longer endure sound doctrine.”
This statement, while materially true regarding the conciliar authorities, is formally schizophrenic. The FSSPX denounces the consequences of Vatican II while recognizing its authors as legitimate popes. They claim the “authorities in the Church” have acted against Tradition, yet they submit to those same authorities’ claim to the papacy. This is the theological absurdity of “recognize and resist” — a position condemned implicitly by the very principles of Catholic ecclesiology. A body cannot be animated by a spirit contrary to the Faith and remain the Church. “If the salt loses its savor, wherewith shall it be salted?” (Matt. 5:13). The FSSPX, by recognizing the usurpers, makes itself complicit in the great apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3).
The “Nuance” Trap: Separating Sheep from Goats?
The author praises the Vatican’s “protocol for how to receive priests and lay people leaving the SSPX” which “draws some very clear and important distinctions between clergy and laity… and between different sections of the faithful.” This is the pastoral strategy of the Antichrist: manage the dissent, compartmentalize the faithful, offer a “safe harbor” within the neo-church. The article admits “the ability of the Vatican to respond comprehensively and clearly, and with nuance to the whole reality of the whole reality of the SSPX would be key to what happens next.” This “nuance” is the modus operandi of Modernism: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, prop. 58). The “protocol” is not a restoration of order but a mechanism to absorb the residual traditionalist energy into the Church of the New Advent, neutralizing the threat of a true return to the integral Faith.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in this lengthy newsletter — covering “schism,” “excommunication,” “canonical issues,” “Vatican appointments,” “finances,” and a “border wall” — is there a single mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary), the state of grace, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ the King. The article treats the Church as a political institution, the sacraments as juridical commodities (“faculties to hear confessions”), and the crisis as a management challenge. This silence is the signature of the Antichurch. As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken.” The Pillar, like the FSSPX and the Vatican it critiques, operates entirely within the natural order, ignoring the supernatural reality that the Church exists ad majorem Dei gloriam and for the salvation of souls.
Fulton Sheen: The Modernist Icon
The article concludes with a promotion for a pilgrimage to the “beatification of Ven. Fulton Sheen.” Sheen, the darling of the conciliar establishment, was a pioneer of the cult of man and media-driven religion, a precursor to the “new evangelization” that empties the Cross of its power. His “beatification” by the usurper Bergoglio (or now Prevost) is a canonization of the spirit of Vatican II. The Pillar’s enthusiasm for this event — “turning work into spiritual edification” — reveals its true allegiance: not to the Immutable Tradition, but to the celebrity culture of the neo-church. The offer of a discount code “Sheen500” is the final, grotesque touch: merchandising a false saint.
The Fourth of July: Caesar Before Christ
The editor’s “immemorial custom to offer a holiday sale” for “Happy 4th of July” — “while we may be Catholics first, JD and I are still Americans” — inverts the divine order. “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matt. 22:21) does not place them on equal footing. The Social Kingship of Christ demands that the State submit to the Church (Quas Primas: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ”). To celebrate the Masonic founding of a secular republic (1776) as a “Catholic” duty is Americanism, condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae. The Pillar is an “American business” first, a Catholic voice never.
Financializing the Faith: Peter’s Pence and the “Mirage”
The section on Vatican finances — “Peter’s Pence… drop in both revenue and expenses… slashing the contribution to the curial operating budget by 20 million euros” — is analyzed with the acuity of a Wall Street analyst, not a theologian. The author worries about a “fiscal mirage” while ignoring the theological bankruptcy of a “Holy See” that funds the destruction of the Faith. The money of the faithful, extorted under the pretense of supporting the “pope,” finances the paramasonic structure that promotes abortion, contraception, false ecumenism, and religious liberty. The “concern” for the balance sheet is pharisaism: straining at a gnat while swallowing the camel of apostasy.
Nicaragua and the Border Wall: Political Theater
The reports on “Nicaraguan dictatorship detained and released a retired bishop” and the “U.S. government’s attempt to build a section of border wall on a popular New Mexico pilgrimage site” are pure political reportage. The “diocesan official” calls the wall “a political monument to a policy he said is opposed to Catholic teaching” — the standard Modernist invocation of a nebulous “Catholic teaching” stripped of dogmatic content (condemnation of illegal immigration? No. Condemnation of socialism? No. Only the social gospel of the neo-church). The “federal agent” cites “human trafficking.” Both sides argue within the secular framework. The Church’s true mission — “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them… teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20) — is entirely absent.
Conclusion: The Pillar as a Pillar of the Great Apostasy
This article is not a defense of the Faith. It is a chronicle of the conciliar sect’s internal management, written by and for those who have made their peace with the revolution. It validates the false hierarchy, legitimizes the FSSPX’s contradictory position, ignores the supernatural crisis, promotes a modernist “blessed,” and subordinates the Kingship of Christ to American civic religion. It is the voice of those who “have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof” (2 Tim. 3:5). The only true response to the “schism if you believe it” is to recognize that the See of Peter is vacant, the conciliar “popes” are manifest heretics who have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Canon 188.4), and the structures in Rome are the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord. “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Apoc. 18:4).
Source:
Being back, a schism if you believe it, and World Cup fever (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 03.07.2026