Lay Activism Masquerading as Piety: Conciliar Laity Beg Antipope to Preserve Church as Museum
The conciliar propaganda outlet National Catholic Register (CNA/EWTN) reports that a lay activist group styling itself H.O.P.E. (Holy Family Organization to Preserve and Endure) in Auburn, New York, is petitioning the Roman Curia of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to prevent the sale of the historic Holy Family Church to secular developers. The “Diocese of Rochester,” a civil corporation of the conciliar sect led by the putative “bishop” Salvatore Matano, shuttered the 1861 edifice in June 2024 citing structural defects. The lay group, formed a month later, now scrambles to collect financial pledges — not donations, but pledges — to satisfy a Vatican demand for “proof of viability” by August 2026. Their stated goal is not the restoration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass or the cure of souls, but the preservation of the edifice for “rosary groups,” “sacred music concerts,” “sacred art displays,” and “architecture tours,” all under the banner of honoring the conciliar “venerable” Fulton Sheen and the conciliar “martyr” Bishop Patrick Byrne. This grotesque spectacle of laity begging a usurper to secularize a consecrated sanctuary into a cultural museum exposes the utter ecclesiological bankruptcy of the conciliar sect and the total triumph of the laicism condemned by Pope Pius XI.