The Pillar, a digital publication operating within the structures of the conciliar sect, published on July 10, 2026, a “Friday Pillar Post” by Ed Condon that epitomizes the naturalistic, bureaucratic, and utterly secularized mindset of the neo-church. The piece mingles trivial domestic anecdotes—BBQ mishaps, fireworks displays, and cinematic nostalgia—with a digest of ecclesiastical gossip concerning the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), schismatic traditionalist groups, Nicaraguan political persecutions, cardinalatial scandals, novel canonization causes, episcopal murders, university investigations, and the financial machinations of the German church tax system. It concludes with a defense of Cardinal Robert McElroy’s dismissal of an exorcist for “ill-judged remarks on UFOs,” praising the cardinal’s supposed adherence to a “private” ministry of exorcism. The article is a masterclass in the hermeneutic of discontinuity masquerading as fidelity: it treats the counterfeit hierarchy of the Vatican II sect as the legitimate Church, reduces the supernatural order to administrative procedure, and substitutes sentiment for sanctity. This is not Catholic journalism; it is the house organ of the abomination of desolation, documenting the auto-demolition of the Faith with the cheerful detachment of a parish bulletin.
The Naturalistic Piety of the Neo-Church: BBQ, Baseball, and the Fourth of July
The author opens with a prolonged confession of worldly indulgence: a “4th of July hangover,” “Barry Bonds-sized dosage of steroids,” “Chicago brats and sausage,” “homemade giardiniera,” and a fireworks display synchronized to Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful” while seated in a baseball outfield. He explicitly likens the experience to the film The Sandlot and admits to becoming “misty-eyed.” This is the summum bonum of the conciliar “laity”: Americanism baptized as gratitude to Providence. Nowhere does the author mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Divine Office, the Rosary, or any act of supernatural worship. The “Glorious Fourth” has replaced the Glorious Mysteries; the national flag has displaced the Vexillum Regis; the “outfield” has supplanted the sanctuary. Pius XI condemned this precise error in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The author’s “profound gratitude” is directed toward a Masonic republic founded on Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité—the very principles anathematized by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Errors 55, 77, 79, 80). The “Providence” he thanks is not the Triune God of Catholic theology but the vague deity of civil religion. This is idolatry of the nation-state, the religion of the Cité de l’Homme.
The USCCB: A Masonic Parliament Masquerading as an Episcopate
The article reports that the “U.S. bishops’ conference met in Orlando” and “voted to pass a revision to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.” The USCCB is a canonical fiction, a national “bishops’ conference” unknown to the 1917 Code and explicitly condemned by the very nature of the episcopacy as a college subject only to the Roman Pontiff. Here, however, it functions as a legislative assembly, “voting” on “safeguarding documents” like a secular parliament. The “Charter” itself is a product of the 2002 Dallas crisis—a purely disciplinary, civil-law-inspired mechanism that treats the priesthood as a profession subject to HR protocols rather than a sacramental character indelibly configured to Christ. The article notes “victims’ advocacy groups gave it mixed reviews” and that bishops “decided not to expand the Charter’s scope, but to instead address related issues in a spate of documents to be released in coming years.” Bureaucracy replaces holiness; “documents” replace doctrine; “consultation” replaces authority. The quoted “prelate,” Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, is identified as “chairman of the USCCB’s canonical affairs committee”—a title that would be nonsensical in the true Church, where a bishop’s canonical authority derives from his divine mission, not appointment to a conference committee. The entire edifice is a parody of the Church’s constitution, a synod of Satan administering the ruins.
Schismatics Judging Schismatics: The SSPX and the Transalpine Redemptorists
The article describes the “schismatic slate of bishops created by the SSPX earlier this month” and anticipates “a second act of illicit consecration” by the “Transalpine Redemptorists,” labeled “a kind of SSPX splinter faction — initially having broken away to rejoin communion with the Church under Benedict XVI but now well out beyond even the Lefebvrists for schism.” This is the pot calling the kettle black. The Pillar, an organ of the conciliar sect, denounces the SSPX and its offshoots as “schismatic” while recognizing as legitimate the very usurpers who have occupied the Vatican since 1958. The SSPX, for all its errors (acceptance of the false popes, questionable ordinations by the Freemason Liénart, the Lefebvrian compromise of “give us the old Mass”), at least retains the Forma Missae of Trent. The Transalpine Redemptorists, having “rejoined communion” under the antipope Benedict XVI, demonstrate the fatal flaw of the “recognize-and-resist” position: one cannot be in communion with a heretic and remain Catholic. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). The article’s framing assumes the validity of the Novus Ordo hierarchy and the “canonical” status of the SSPX’s episcopal consecrations—both false premises. The true Church does not “create bishops” by illicit consecration; the true Church does not have “splinter factions.” The true Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, subsisting in those who hold the integral Faith and valid sacraments outside the structures of the neo-church.
Nicaragua: Political Persecution Exploited for Neo-Church Propaganda
The article cites the detention of “Bishop Abelardo Mata” by the Nicaraguan regime, noting that “it was the public act of praying for this intention that got the bishop detained in the first place.” The author urges readers to “pray for the bishop, and for the persecuted Church in Nicaragua.” While persecution of Catholics by Marxist regimes is a grave evil, the article exploits it to legitimize the conciliar hierarchy. The “bishop” in question is a member of the Vatican II sect, likely a promoter of the novus ordo, religious liberty, and ecumenism—errors condemned by the Syllabus and Quas Primas. The article’s silence on the spiritual state of the Nicaraguan “Church”—its embrace of liberation theology, base communities, and political activism—is deafening. True persecution is suffered for the Catholic Faith, not for the “human rights” agenda of the neo-church. As Pius XI taught: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Nicaraguan regime persecutes a counterfeit church that has already surrendered the Kingship of Christ to the state. The article’s call to prayer is devoid of any supernatural dimension—no mention of the Mass, the Rosary, or reparation to the Sacred Heart. It is humanitarian sentimentality, not Catholic intercession.
Cardinal López Romero: The Rot at the Top of the Neo-Church
The article reports that “Spanish Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, SDB, Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco… will temporarily step back from public ministry, amid a Vatican investigation into allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior toward at least five women.” It notes the cardinal’s cousin, a priest, “appeared to confirm the veracity of the allegations” and said the cardinal “is privately prepared to lose his rank as a consequence.” The author calls this “a pretty unusual sequence of events, as these things go.” Unusual? It is the norm in the conciliar sect. From Paul VI’s homosexual entourage to John Paul II’s protection of Maciel, from Benedict XVI’s “gay lobby” admission to Francis’s (Bergoglio’s) promotion of perverts like McCarrick, Zanchetta, and Grassi, the neo-church is a synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9). The “Vatican investigation” is a farce: the judge is a heretic, the accused is a heretic, and the “canon law” they invoke is the 1983 Code—a modernist fabrication that cannot bind. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Paul IV) declares that a heretic elevated to the cardinalate or papacy is ipso facto deprived of office: “his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” López Romero, as a “cardinal” of the antipope, holds no jurisdiction. His “rank” is a theatrical costume. The article’s casual tone—”pretty unusual”—reveals the total absence of the sensus Catholicus. In the true Church, such a scandal would be met with horror, penance, and the recognition that the gates of hell have prevailed against the visible structures in Rome, not against the Church Herself.
Sigrid Undset: Canonization as Cultural Commodity
The article announces that “Norway’s Bishop Fredrik Hansen announced Wednesday that he is taking the first steps toward opening the cause for canonization of Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset.” It notes she would become “Norway’s second female saint after Sunniva and the second Nobel Prize laureate to be canonized after Mother Teresa of Calcutta.” This is the neo-church’s “sanctity”: literary awards, national prestige, and ecumenical appeal. Undset, a convert from Lutheranism, may have had personal piety, but the “cause for canonization” in the conciliar sect is a bureaucratic process stripped of the heroic virtue requirement, the devil’s advocate, and the infallible papal definition. The “canonizations” of the antipopes (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, etc.) are null and void—they lack the charism of infallibility because the claimants lack the papacy. Mother Teresa’s “canonization” by Bergoglio is a farce; her “sainthood” is a media construct. To propose Undset as a “second Nobel laureate saint” reduces the Communion of Saints to a Hall of Fame. The article treats this as news; a Catholic treats it as a sacrilege against the Sanctorum Communio.
Mozambique: Episcopal Murder in the Service of the Neo-Church
The article reports the killing of “Bishop Osório Citora Afonso” in his secured compound, noting speculation has shifted from “armed criminals” to “an assassination plot from within the diocesan curia.” This is the fruit of the conciliar “Church”: clerical careerism, financial corruption, and internecine violence. The “apostolic administrator” condemns “media speculation”—protecting the institution, not the soul. The article treats the murder as a crime story, not a spiritual catastrophe. A true bishop dies in odium fidei or in the defense of his flock; a conciliar “bishop” dies in a dispute over temporal goods. The silence on the state of grace of the victim, the Last Rites, the Requiem Mass—this is the hallmark of the neo-church: the supernatural is erased.
Seton Hall: The McCarrick Scandal Whitewashed by Lawyers
The article details an “independent report” commissioned by “Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark” clearing “Msgr. Joseph Reilly,” president of Seton Hall University, regarding 2012 seminarian harassment allegations. The report, by law firm Ropes & Gray, found Reilly “acted promptly and substantively” but “failed to follow the university’s Policy Against Sexual Harassment by not informing the Seton Hall Title IX Coordinator… because he was not aware that he was obligated to do so.” Title IX. Civil law. HR policies. Law firms. This is the “justice” of the neo-church: secular legalism replacing canonical justice. The McCarrick scandal—a decades-long network of homosexual predation at the highest levels of the conciliar hierarchy—is “investigated” by the very men who covered it up (Tobin, a Bergoglio appointee). The result: exoneration on a technicality. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The entire conciliar hierarchy has defected; their “investigations” are null. The article’s reliance on “independent reports” and “law firms” is the language of the City of Man, not the City of God.
The German Church Tax Miracle: Mammon as the True God of the Neo-Church
The article reveals that “Germany’s 27 dioceses received a year-on-year increase in church tax revenue in 2025, despite losing more than 300,000 registered Catholics in the same year.” The figure: 6.751 billion euros ($7.72 billion). German commentators call it the “church tax miracle” (Kirchensteuerwunder). This is the abomination of desolation quantified. The Kirchensteuer is a state-enforced tax on baptized Catholics, collected by the secular government and remitted to the dioceses. It is simony institutionalized: the sale of “membership” in the neo-church for financial survival. The “miracle” is that revenue rises while the faithful flee—because the tax is tied to income, not faith. The German “bishops” are functionaries of a state-funded NGO; they have zero incentive to preach the Gospel, every incentive to appease the world. Pius XI condemned this in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The German neo-church honors the state, obeys the tax code, and serves Mammon. The article reports this as a curiosity; a Catholic sees the whore of Babylon riding the beast (Apoc. 17).
Cardinal McElroy and the Exorcist: The Privatization of Spiritual Warfare
The article’s final section defends Cardinal Robert McElroy’s dismissal of Msgr. Stephen Rossetti as exorcist for the Archdiocese of Washington. Rossetti had speculated on YouTube that “probably many, if not most, UFO sightings are in fact demons.” McElroy objected not to the UFO claim per se but to “the entire nature of the ministry of exorcism”: “I think the traditional role of an exorcist is a very private one… It’s a sacred one… It shouldn’t go beyond that for people who are doing exorcism.” The author agrees: “I don’t always agree with Cardinal McElroy. But when I do, I really agree with him.”
This is the theological bankruptcy of the neo-church laid bare.
- McElroy is not a cardinal. He is a layman appointed by the antipope Francis (Bergoglio) and retained by the antipope Leo XIV (Prevost). He has no jurisdiction, no sacramental authority, no mission from Christ. His “dismissal” of an exorcist is a theatrical gesture.
- The “exorcism” of the neo-church is invalid. The Rite of Exorcism was gutted in 1999, stripped of the imperative formula (“Exorcizo te…”), the breathing (insufflatio), the sign of the cross over the possessed, the use of relics, and the invocation of the saints. It is a psychodrama, not a sacramental. Rossetti, even if validly ordained (doubtful under the 1968 rite), operates within a false rite.
- “Private” exorcism? The Church’s exorcism is public, liturgical, and ecclesiastical. It is the imperium of Christ the King over Satan, exercised by the Church’s ministers. To privatize it is to deny the Social Kingship of Christ and the visibility of the Church’s power. As Pius XI teaches: “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will.” The devil is not a private problem; he is the Prince of this World (John 12:31), defeated publicly by the Cross and the Church’s ministry.
- UFOs and demons. Rossetti’s speculation is theologically crude but touches a truth: the demonic manifests in phenomena that deceive modern man. The neo-church’s response—silence, ridicule, bureaucratic suppression—is the response of those who do not believe in the devil. Paul VI (Montini) famously said the “smoke of Satan” had entered the Church; the neo-church now denies the fire.
- The author’s endorsement. “When I do [agree with McElroy], I really agree with him.” This is the voice of the laity of the neo-church: docile to the hierarchy of the Antichrist, contemptuous of the supernatural, enamored of “private” religion that disturbs no one.
Conclusion: The Pillar as a Pillar of the Anti-Church
The article is a seamless garment of apostasy. It moves from Americanist patriotism to bureaucratic ecclesiology, from schism-hunting to scandal-management, from cultural canonization to financial simony, from episcopal murder to legalistic whitewash, and finally to the privatization of spiritual warfare. Not one sentence breathes the spiritus Catholici. No mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Immemorial Mass, the Rosary, the Reign of Christ the King, the Four Last Things, the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation, the sedevacancy, the invalidity of the Novus Ordo, the heresy of the conciliar popes. The Pillar is a potemkin village of Catholicism: the facade remains, the interior is hollowed out. It serves the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican by normalizing its personnel, its procedures, its “news,” and its worldview. “You shall know them by their fruits” (Matt. 7:16). The fruit is death. The only remedy is extra ecclesiam nulla salus: flee the neo-church, cleave to the true bishops and priests who maintain the Tradition without compromise, and await the Restoration when Christ the King will “put all His enemies under His feet” (1 Cor. 15:25). Viva Cristo Rey!
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Being free, private wars, and loony politics (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 10.07.2026