Sociologists Counsel Antipope Leo XIV on Managing Latin Mass as Demographic Retention Tool
The Pillar Catholic portal (June 30, 2026) publishes a piece by sociologists Stephen Bullivant (a British modernist) and Stephen Cranney (an American Mormon) speculating on the liturgical policy of the usurper Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV) regarding the ancient Roman rite. Based on fieldwork among “TLM-goers” in the United States and a private audience with the antipope in March 2026, the authors propose a “decentralized” easing of Traditionis custodes restrictions—not a repeal, but a bureaucratic “decriminalization” designed to retain young families and defuse the “Streisand Effect” of the Francis crackdown. The article treats the conciliar hierarchy as legitimate, the Novus Ordo as valid Catholic worship, and the Mass of Ages as a mere “liturgical preference” to be managed by sociological metrics, exposing the thoroughly naturalistic, paramasonic operative logic of the neo-church.