The Pillar portal (July 17, 2026) publishes its weekly digest of conciliar church news, a curated catalogue of the neo-church’s ongoing apostasy: Philippine bishops condemn the Naju shrine while the neo-church’s foundational false apparition at Fatima remains enshrined; the Lefebvrian sect (SSPX) files a canonical appeal to the very antipope whose legitimacy they recognize, exposing their schism-within-schism; the Roman antipope’s vicar organizes a naturalistic collection for Venezuelan earthquake victims, substituting *caritas* for the Social Kingship of Christ the King (*Quas Primas*); the Swiss Masonic state abolishes clerical exemptions from military service, implementing the *Syllabus*’s condemned errors on Church-State relations; the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) vacations at Castel Gandolfo while his curial reshuffle looms; the Novus Ordo seminary system psychologizes the priesthood into a mental-health profession; a Franciscan “priest” steals $630,000 from a parish; and Hindu nationalists attack nuns in India while the neo-church pursues “dialogue.” This digest exposes the total bankruptcy of the post-conciliar sect masquerading as the Catholic Church.
The Pillar: Propaganda Organ of the Conciliar Sect
The cited article is a product of The Pillar, a media outlet entirely subservient to the structures occupying the Vatican since the usurpation of 1958. Its “Friday Pillar Post” by Ed Condon functions as a weekly whitewash, presenting the administrative machinations of the neo-church as legitimate ecclesiastical news. The tone is breezy, bureaucratic, and utterly devoid of the sensus Catholicus; it treats the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as a legitimate sovereign, the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” as a canonical authority, and the SSPX as a canonical entity within the Church. This normalization of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (cf. Matt. 24:15) is the primary fraud. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus Errorum (Prop. 35): “There is nothing to prevent the decree of a general council, or the act of all peoples, from transferring the supreme pontificate from the bishop and city of Rome to another bishop and another city” — a proposition the neo-church has effectively realized by installing a false pope in Rome.
The Naju Condemnation: Selective Condemnation of False Mysticism
The Philippine “Bishops’ Conference” (a canonical fiction of the 1983 Code, unknown to the 1917 Code and the immemorial tradition of provincial councils) warns against the Shrine of Our Lady of Naju in South Korea. “Archbishop” Gilbert Garcera cites the negative judgment of the Gwangju archdiocese “in communion with the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.”
The statement appears to be the first instance of a national bishops’ conference publicly issuing its own formal guidance on the Naju site, telling Catholics not to organize, promote, or participate in pilgrimages there.
This selective condemnation exposes the neo-church’s hypocrisy. While Naju is suppressed, the foundational false apparition of the neo-church — Fatima — remains the cornerstone of its false piety. As documented in the theological dossier on False Fatima Apparitions, the Fatima message is “theologically contradictory to Catholic doctrine,” “a tool to divert attention from modernism,” and “a potential Masonic ‘psychological operation’ against the Church.” The “Miracle of the Sun” is dismissed as “mass optical manipulation (natural phenomenon) and mass panic and autosuggestion.” The neo-church condemns Naju not because it defends the Dei Filius canon on private revelation (Dei Filius, DS 3013), but because Naju threatens the controlled narrative of the Fatima operation, particularly its ecumenical utility for the “conversion of Russia” without conversion to the Catholic Faith — a point the dossier identifies as “opening the way to religious relativism” and legitimizing “dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” The Philippine bishops, puppets of the antipope, silence a rival apparition to protect the Masonic cornerstone of the neo-church’s false spirituality.
The SSPX Appeal: Schismatics Appealing to the Antipope
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) — the Lefebvrian sect — announces an appeal against the July 2, 2026 decree declaring six of its “bishops” excommunicated. They file a “preliminary recourse” to the very “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” headed by the antipope’s prefect, invoking canons 1734 et seq. of the 1983 Code (a code promulgated by the antipope John Paul II, devoid of canonical force in the true Church).
The society stated that “in response to the decree issued on 2 July 2026 by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, [the society] submitted on 11 July a preliminary recourse to the same Dicastery, in accordance with canons 1734 and following of the Code of Canon Law.”
This is the quintessential contradiction of the pseudo-traditionalist position. As the Defense of Sedevacantism dossier demonstrates from the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice), “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head.” Bellarmine teaches that a manifest heretic loses jurisdiction ipso facto, “not after warnings or declaration, because heretics are already outside the Church before excommunication and deprived of all jurisdiction.” Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio confirms that the promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect.” Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.”
By appealing to the “Dicastery” of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the SSPX explicitly recognizes his jurisdiction and primacy. They are not “traditionalists” resisting error; they are schismatics within the schism, canonically bound to the antipope by their own appeal. As Bellarmine states: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The SSPX’s appeal is a canonical admission that they recognize the usurper as the true Pope, rendering their “resistance” a theatrical farce. They are, as the dossier on pseudo-traditionalists states, “a schism within a schism of the neo-church.”
Naturalistic “Charity”: The Neo-Church Substitutes Humanitarianism for the Kingship of Christ
“Cardinal” Baldassare Reina, vicar of the antipope for the Diocese of Rome, announces a national collection for Venezuelan earthquake victims. The language is pure naturalistic humanitarianism: “gesture of communion and charity,” “solidarity with their brothers and sisters,” “tangibly demonstrate.” Not a word of the Social Kingship of Christ, not a call for the conversion of Venezuela to the Catholic Faith, not a mention of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary as the source of all grace.
Cardinal Baldassare Reina, vicar of the Diocese of Rome, has announced that the pope’s diocese will join an Italian bishops’ conference initiative to hold a national collection for Venezuelan earthquake victims… “wishes to join in this gesture of communion and charity, so that Christian communities may tangibly demonstrate their solidarity with their brothers and sisters who have seen their homes destroyed, lost their loved ones, and are forced to live in conditions of extreme precariousness.”
Pius XI in Quas Primas condemns this exact substitution: “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 encyclical teaches that “the State is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the State is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” True charity flows from the Unbloody Sacrifice and aims at the salus animarum. The neo-church’s “charity” is the caritas of the Masonic “Religion of Humanity” condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Prop. 55: “The injustice of an act when successful inflicts no injury on the sanctity of right” — pragmatic humanitarianism replacing divine right). The collection at the “Novus Ordo service” (a Protestantized meal) is alms given outside the supernatural order, meriting nothing for eternity.
Swiss Persecution: The Masonic State Usurps God’s Rights
Switzerland abolishes military exemptions for clergy. The Federal Council declares: “the ministry of clergy members is no longer essential in modern society.” This is the explicit implementation of the Syllabus Errorum condemned propositions: Prop. 32 (“The personal immunity by which clerics are exonerated from military conscription… may be abolished without violation either of natural right or equity”), Prop. 39 (“The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”), and Prop. 55 (“The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”).
The country’s Federal Council defended the change on the grounds that the ministry of clergy members is no longer essential in modern society. Yep, that’s what they said.
The neo-church’s “bishops” in Switzerland will doubtless comply, perhaps issuing a tepid statement on “religious freedom” (condemned by Pius IX, Syllabus Prop. 77-79). They have no supernatural authority to resist, having accepted the false principle of religious liberty at Vatican II (*Dignitatis Humanae*). The true Church, as Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from civil authority.” The Swiss “clergy” (Novus Ordo presbyters, invalidly ordained under the 1968 Pontificale Romanum of Paul VI) are now subject to the Masonic state, a just chastisement for their apostasy.
Curial Musical Chairs: The Antipope Reshuffles His Usurped Court
Speculation swirls that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) may replace “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin as Secretary of State.
According to several of these sources, Pope Leo has privately expressed some reservations about Parolin’s effectiveness as the epicenter of curial organization, a dynamic that may have led the pope to start considering replacing him.
This is the theater of the absurd. The “Secretariat of State” of the neo-church is a department of the Masonic occupation government. Whether Parolin or his successor sits in the chair, the See of Peter remains vacant (*Sede Vacante*) since 1958. As Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, any promotion of a heretic is “null, void, and of no effect.” The “diplomatic sources” cited by The Pillar are merely courtiers of the Antichrist’s vicar, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic of the conciliar sect.
Psychologizing the Priesthood: The Destruction of the Sacerdotal Character
A report from the “University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life” (a hotbed of Modernism since the 1967 Land O’Lakes Declaration) laments “mental health challenges facing seminarians” and a “startling disconnect… over the sexual maturity of new students.” It proposes “psychological resources” and “clinical professionals” to evaluate “worthiness for ordination.”
The report… found a deficiency in the use and implementation of psychological resources in seminary formation and wants to see greater collaboration between seminary formators and psychological staff… flagged a “startling disconnect” between formations and clinical professionals over the sexual maturity of new students.
This is the final triumph of Modernist anthropology over the sacerdotium. The Council of Trent (Sess. XXIII, Can. 2) defines the priesthood as a sacrament imprinting an indelible character. The Novus Ordo “formation” replaces Thomistic philosophy, Gregorian chant, Latin, dogmatic theology, and ascetical theology with psychology, “human formation,” and “sexual maturity” assessments by secular “clinical professionals.” The result is a presbyterate of effeminate functionaries, incapable of offering the Unbloody Sacrifice (which they do not have), prone to the very scandals the report inadvertently reveals. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi, the Modernist reduces the supernatural to the psychological.
Parish Theft: The Fruits of the Invalid Novus Ordo Presbyterate
“Father” David Collins, O.F.M. Conv., a “priest” of the Novus Ordo (invalidly ordained, lacking the intention to do what the Church does in the traditional rite of orders), steals $630,000 from St. John Parish in Kingston, Ontario.
“A review of all parish accounts extending back to 2019 has determined that over $630,000.00 has been taken from the parish accounts through the issuing of irregular cheques,” said the letter… “At this time, it is unclear where all of the funds were distributed. The police are now investigating.”
This is the inevitable fruit of a “priesthood” severed from the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Divine Office. The 1968 Pontificale Romanum of Paul VI invalidated the sacrament of Order by defect of form and intention. These “presbyters” are mere functionaries of a NGO, handling donations as NGO funds. The “Archbishop” Michael Mulhall’s “removal from ministry” is an administrative HR action, not a canonical penalty (Canon 1382, 1917 Code: suspensio a divinis). The faithful are fleeced by wolves in sheep’s clothing, placed there by the neo-church hierarchy.
Persecution in India: The Church Militant vs. The Church of Dialogue
Hindu nationalists (RSS/VHP affiliates) attack Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in West Bengal, demanding demolition of a chapel and cemetery. The “All India Catholic Union” (a lay NGO) condemns the violence.
The All India Catholic Union said that on July 12 a group of 60 people entered a house of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Barasat, West Bengal, and demanded that they immediately demolish a memorial chapel and cemetery or face violence.
The neo-church’s response? “Dialogue” and “condemnation.” It cannot invoke the Social Kingship of Christ (*Quas Primas*) because it denied it at Vatican II (*Dignitatis Humanae*, *Gaudium et Spes*). It cannot call for the conversion of the Hindus because it teaches they are saved in their false religion (*Lumen Gentium* 16). The true Church, as Pius XI teaches, “encompasses all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The martyrs of the true Church (not the neo-church’s “saints” like the Ulmans or Kolbe) would refuse to demolish the chapel and die for the Rights of Christ the King. The neo-church nuns will likely dialogue.
The Antipope’s Vacation: *Sede Vacante* in Fact and in Spirit
The article closes with Ed Condon’s chatty description of the antipope’s “three-week vacation” at Castel Gandolfo. “The daily rounds of audiences are halted, as are the endless and punishing public appearances… I think we can forget exactly how emotionally draining it can be to be constantly under a microscope, or camera lens, and Leo is.”
Leo departed Rome last week for Castel Gandolfo, where he remains in papal semi-purdah for a three week vacation… The daily rounds of audiences are halted, as are the endless and punishing public appearances.
While the antipope vacations in the papal palace (usurped property of the Holy See), the true Church suffers the *passio Ecclesiae*. The See of Peter is vacant (*Sede Vacante*). The structures in the Vatican are the abominatio desolationis. The “papal semi-purdah” is a fitting metaphor: the antipope is separated from the true Church, from the true Mass, from the true Faith. As St. Bellarmine teaches, “a manifest heretic… ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is a private individual, a heretic, an usurper. His vacation is the vacation of the Antichrist’s vicar.
Conclusion: Come Out of Her, My People
The Pillar’s weekly digest is a snapshot of the Church of the New Advent in its terminal apostasy: false mysticism (Fatima/Naju), pseudo-traditionalist schism (SSPX), naturalistic humanitarianism, submission to the Masonic state, psychologized clergy, financial corruption, impotence before persecution, and a usurper on vacation. Every item confirms the sedevacantist thesis: the See is vacant, the hierarchy has defected, the sacraments are profaned. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The only remedy is adherence to the immutable Tradition, the true Mass of Pius V, the bishops and priests preserving valid Orders and Jurisdiction outside the neo-church structures, awaiting the restoration of the Papacy by God’s providence. “You are Christ the King of glory!” (Pius XI, Quas Primas) — not the antipope Leo XIV, not the SSPX, not the Neo-Church.
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Going nowhere, papal holidays, and merchants in the temple (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 17.07.2026