Pillar Catholic podcast, in an episode titled “Firstborn sons and unexpected promises,” prepares the faithful for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, featuring a discussion on Elisha’s promise and…
Catholic bishops across the United Kingdom have expressed support for child safety online but have notably declined to fully endorse a government proposal to ban social media for youth under 16, citing a need for more legislative detail. The article from EWTN News (June 23, 2026) reports that while the bishops affirm the importance of protecting children, their statements are carefully calibrated to avoid direct confrontation with secular authorities, reflecting a broader pattern of modernist prelates prioritizing dialogue and “shared responsibility” over the Church’s traditional role as the ultimate guardian of moral and spiritual formation.
VaticanNews portal reports on Cardinal George Koovakad’s address at the Angelicum, where he promoted “interreligious dialogue” and “human fraternity” as a path to peace, invoking Pope Leo XIV and the spirit of Assisi. This is yet another manifestation of the conciliar revolution’s apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami and the Ohio bishops, speaking through the Catholic Conference of Ohio, have issued statements calling for the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the United States, framing the issue as a matter of “moral and social failure” and urging legislative action to provide a “reprieve” for over 350,000 individuals. The cited article from the National Catholic Register (June 23, 2026) reports on this coordinated effort, which treats a complex political and social issue through the lens of bureaucratic compassion while remaining entirely silent on the supernatural destiny of souls and the true mission of the Church. This intervention is a textbook example of the conciliar sect’s reduction of Catholic social teaching to a naturalistic, political activism that supplants the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments.
VaticanNews portal reports on June 23, 2026, about the expansion of “Rachel’s Vineyard” retreats in Russia and Kazakhstan, describing collaborative efforts between laity and “clergy” to address post-abortion trauma through psychological counseling, group therapy, and spiritual exercises. The article presents abortion as a cultural wound requiring healing through emotional processing, prayer vigils, and community support, while celebrating declining abortion statistics as evidence of progress. What the article systematically conceals is that no amount of psychological comfort or communal grieving can substitute for the sacramental order established by Christ — that the true remedy for the sin of abortion lies not in therapeutic retreats but in the Sacrament of Penance, the propitiatory sacrifice of the Most Holy Mass, and the uncompromising preaching of mortal sin, eternal damnation, and the absolute necessity of conversion.
VaticanNews portal reports on the upcoming “Extraordinary Consistory” (June 26-27, 2026) convened by “Pope” Leo XIV. The agenda—focusing on “peace,” “synodality,” and the “implementation of the Synod”—is a continuation of the post-conciliar revolution, utilizing bureaucratic buzzwords to mask the systematic dismantling of Catholic dogma and the enthronement of naturalistic humanism. The meeting is a spectacle of a “Church” that no longer seeks to convert the world to Christ the King, but rather to harmonize itself with the world’s political and social fashions.
EWTN News reports that Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, has approved a “Chaplaincy of Our Lady of Victory” to serve Catholics attached to the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), effective July 1, 2026. This chaplaincy, administered by two priests from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), formalizes an existing arrangement and aims to provide access to traditional sacraments while operating under strict diocesan oversight. The article frames this as a positive step for those attached to the older liturgy, even noting Pope Leo XIV’s recent call for “generous inclusion” of such groups, albeit “in respect for the directions desired by the Second Vatican Council.”
This seemingly benign act of “pastoral care” is, upon closer inspection, a calculated maneuver by the conciliar sect to consolidate its control over those still clinging to Catholic liturgical tradition, further entangling them within the web of a modernist ecclesiastical structure that has systematically dismantled the faith. It is a classic tactic of the abomination of desolation: offering a simulacrum of tradition while demanding submission to a revolutionary authority.
EWTN News portal reports on Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami and the Ohio bishops calling for the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the United States. The article highlights their appeals to “human consequences,” economic utility, and “moral and social failure,” while simultaneously affirming the state’s right to regulate immigration. This advocacy, framed in the language of secular humanitarianism and pragmatic economics, completely omits the supernatural mission of the Church, the primacy of the common good defined by Catholic moral law, and the duty of the state to uphold the social reign of Christ the King, revealing the conciliar sect’s capitulation to modernist naturalism and its abandonment of integral Catholic social teaching.
EWTN News reports that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched its annual “Religious Freedom Week,” inviting American Catholics to pray, reflect, and act on a range of intentions including religious discrimination, education, immigration enforcement, Africa, gender ideology, political and anti-religious violence, and Nicaragua. The week begins on June 22, the feast of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, whom the USCCB praises as exemplars of “faithful citizenship” who “submitted to Christ” when “the law of the king came into conflict with the law of Christ.” The USCCB states that “religious freedom allows the Church, and all religious communities, to live out their faith in public and to serve the good of all.” Several dioceses, including Arlington, Kalamazoo, Savannah, Toledo, and the Archdiocese of Miami, have already posted information about the week on their websites. This entire initiative, however, far from being a genuine defense of the Faith, is a textbook example of the post-conciliar apostasy: it reduces the Church’s mission to the pursuit of civil liberties within a secular framework, implicitly endorses the very religious indifferentism that the pre-conciliar Magisterium condemned as heresy, and substitutes the supernatural reign of Christ the King with a naturalistic program of political advocacy dressed in pious language.
The Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists has withdrawn its disciplinary order against Catholic counselor Frank Canepa, who faced nearly $90,000 in fines for refusing to affirm a client’s same-sex relationship. The board cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in *Chiles v. Salazar*, which held that states cannot silence counselors’ personal or professional viewpoints during talk therapy. The case reveals the inherent conflict between the natural law and the anti-Christian legal order now dominating the United States.
