Hildebrand and the Doctrinal Warfare Trap
The Pope Hildebrand story we’ve been running may be the perfect illustration to convince Catholics that the same media tactics used in politics have long been employed inside an infiltrated Catholic crisis—specifically to steer people away from the legal question involving Leo.
Or we can continue to trust Taylor Marshall.
On April 10, 2026, a report began circulating that a group of priests were preparing what they called an “imperfect council” to resolve the present crisis in the Catholic Church.
“We are working in our own small way, with our limited manpower, to bring about an Imperfect General Council that will publicly recognise the present Catholic disaster that has no way out but through,” said Father Michael Mary, head of the Congregation of the Transalpine Redemptorists, in an interview with ThePress.co.nz on 10 April.
The group was expelled from the Christchurch Diocese in New Zealand in July 2024 following allegations, primarily concerning unauthorised exorcism practices. The priests denied any wrongdoing. In October 2025, the community repudiated “false shepherds” and recent papal documents without explicitly declaring the papal office vacant.
Their proposed “council” would consist of bishops acting without papal authority, though no names have been given: “There are Catholics all over the world left in ‘Catholic bunkers’ who know what is going on. It is a matter of reaching out to them.”
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To justify the idea, Father Michael Mary invokes the Western Schism, when there were ultimately three “popes.” That crisis was resolved within Church structures at the Council of Constance (1414-1418). Through resignations and depositions, the council ended the competing claims and elected another pope, Pope Martin V, restoring unity.
“There was no way out except to gather a council that represented the worldwide Catholic Church and take measures. This is where we situate ourselves,” Father Michael Mary claimed, said, adding: “We are already gathering voices worldwide.”
The proposal, at least to a less discerning eye, seemed straightforward, perhaps even a nod to those Catholic rebels out there looking to do something about the crisis instead of just illustrating the problem over and over again. Such is the nature of the managed creation of online tribes, particularly one dubbed an “approved conspiracy theory.”
According to the report, if the Apostolic See were in fact vacant—or even doubtfully occupied—then bishops, acting without papal authority, could assemble, determine the status of the See, and, if necessary, elect a pope. It offers structure in a time of disorder, a sense of action in a moment of paralysis, and, perhaps most importantly, the feeling that something actually can be done so we bloggers can return to simpler business.
But the more discerning the eye grows, the less this appears to be a solution, and the more it begins to resemble a signal.
Not merely a fringe proposal up there with the very best of conspiracy theories.
A signal.
Those who have been watching politics, Church developments, and how the media frames narratives online—watching not just the claims or the headlines but the patterns—have been noticing something that does not belong to theology alone; it certainly does not belong to the realm of saving souls.
They are noticing behavior. They are noticing timing. They are noticing how certain ideas are elevated as acceptable, how others are redirected, and how still others are openly repressed before they ever reach the level of serious consideration—even when they might be the sanest of the bunch.
In short, this call for an imperfect council seems to be eliminating even the concept of a “Pope Hildebrand” before he was even allowed the audacity of being a conspiracy theory in the first place. I mean, who really even knows about “Pope Hildebrand”?
That fact—that move on the chessboard—is usually an absolute tell that something is rotten in Denmark. Like a narcissist making a move to either hide or redirect before a follow-up has even taken place about their most recent indiscretion, it smells of manipulation and mind warfare—a crisis perhaps getting a little too out of hand and in need of curation by those in power.
A little too out of hand, or, getting ahead of the story before it even emerges.
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From Triangulation to Binary
Much of this coming series of articles—specifically this release today, is general and not specific to the April report, but I beg you to read it in full and return in the coming days for the application. I believe at least the bulk of this will make sense once you start connecting it to your own respective experiences.
For years now, the Catholic world has been conditioned to think in binaries. One must either accept the present structure entirely or reject it entirely. One must either recognize and submit, or deny and separate. One must either remain within the visible structure or step outside of it.
This is where a Taylor Marshall and most if not all other Catholic podcasters out there can be so dangerous.
It is also why the SSPX is so appealing to many a Catholic—it provides the rebel a cause, a capacity to both submit in obedience and rebel against whatever it pleases. Take note how the SSPX is alternatively pitted against the conciliar Church, the FSSP, and the sedevacantists. The SSPX is the common denominator in many a controlled pairing, many a binary, thus making the appeal even greater.
These binaries feel organic, don’t they? They feel like the only ones out there because your favorite podcaster is aligning with your thoughts and life obligations, but we don’t realize that is the case because they’re the only ones we see. They feel as though they cover the full range of possible responses, but they actually don’t.
They are, in fact, the first layer of the trap.
What is presented as a conflict between two opposing sides is often something else entirely: a controlled dialectic, a Hegelian structure in which thesis and antithesis are allowed to clash in the public space, not in order to arrive at truth, but in order to eventually produce a synthesis—a middle ground—which remains within acceptable boundaries, seems reasonable for both sides, but ultimately is still not the truth. It is still in line with enemy advances. The conflict itself simply becomes the containment mechanism.
It is the false dialectic this space has theorized is the crux of the “errors of Russia” Our Lady warned about at Fatima.
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Think Communism and Zionism, the strings of both being played by the same hand.
Moreover, in the most diabolical of tactics, that Hegelian structure has another layer to it. It doesn’t just start as a binary, the false one, where my work has stopped prior to today.
It is triangular first, and only then paired down to the false dialectic—and this is something new we are introducing to our readers today. Frankly, it is fascinating, if also terrifying.
-The Triangulation Beneath
Fr Mitch Pacqua talks about this Saul Alinskian tactic in the admittedly Modernist film A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. I believe the three groups he illustrated were Mexicans, Blacks, and Italians in Chicago, but it is the general movement I am concerned about here.
Three positions are introduced. Three camps emerge. And then, almost imperceptibly, two of them begin to align—whether consciously or not—against the third. The field narrows. The lines harden. And what began as a threefold distinction with the potential for nuance and organic behavior collapses into a binary, now reinforced by social pressure and collective instinct. An enemy is created by aligning two factions against a third, thereby forcing the entire field into a simplified and controllable opposition.
In the film, if I’m not mistaken, propagandic forces moved Mexicans and blacks together against the Italians, but it could have been any arrangement. It is the physics of the trap that matters more than who is on either side.
There is a most obvious, apocalyptic example roaming out there in the geopolitical world as we speak, and has for a long time.
This is not accidental.
It is propaganda.
It is a tactic of war.
They do this with music categories to destroy a culture too. Maybe that’s a topic for another day.
They do it everywhere.
Triangulation is absolutely a part of the tell of the ancient enemy. Perhaps you can even recognize the pattern in your family dynamics. It has been refined and deployed through psychological conditioning, ideological manipulation, and metaphysical corruption far beyond the boundaries of our little podcast debates on Rumble, the ones where we think they’re giving us the real truth because they’ll say it when YouTube won’t.
It is laughable once you see it.
It’s all a part of the ruse.
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Layered inside this Hegelian structure—a part of the triangulation ruse—is something even more subtle.
Not every “alternative” or even “tinfoil hat” view is suppressed. In fact, many are encouraged—that is part of the narrative warfare on our minds. Certain lines of thought are permitted to circulate, to gain traction, and even to feel as though they are revealing something hidden or forbidden. These ideas are just transgressive enough to feel dangerous, but not so disruptive as to threaten the underlying framework of the true Luciferian powers that be.
They form what might be called the official conspiracy theory or theories.
It is a space in which the curious and self-proclaimed truth-tellers can explore, question, and even rebel—without ever leaving the city walls of the empire.
None of this should sound foreign to anyone familiar with the teleology of modern military and intelligence. The United States government itself has spent decades studying what it openly calls information war, psychological operations, perception management, and doctrinal warfare. General Michael Flynn is one embodiment. Consider that Operation Mockingbird and MK Ultra aren’t even conspiracy theories anymore.
The point is not merely to censor information, but to shape the environment in which information is received—to create emotional pathways, controlled oppositions, and curated forms of dissent that guide populations toward predetermined conclusions while preserving the illusion of independent discovery.
Israeli and British intelligence are of course linked to the US in this regard as well. You’ll also see the idea of the Five Eyes.
That is what makes the modern algorithm on social media so powerful. It does not merely suppress knowledge. Suppression alone creates false martyrs—as we’ve learned with many modern political figures. Instead, it floods the bloodstream with substitutes, decoys, limited hangouts, and acceptable forms of rebellion.
One narrative is attacked so that it may appear courageous. Or, one conspiracy theory is mocked so that the one doing the mocking may appear heady enough to embrace while we dare to step out. And all the while, the city walls remain unscathed because people’s emotions and time are exhausted before the most dangerous questions ever emerge.
This is where many truth-seekers find themselves. They begin to question the obvious legacy media narrative and maybe the “Republican” or “Democrat” view. They encounter resistance among friends and family for either position. So they push further. And then, just as they are thinking of tucking tail and going with one of the two approved legacy media sides, they are offered an alternative path—one that feels like discovery. It feels like they’re one of merely a few that have stumbled upon the truth.
Think on the “discovery” (media-navigated) of Republican vs RINO several years back.
Ultimately, all this does is lead them into another one of the eight lanes carved out and controlled on the highway.
They are not silenced.
They are redirected.
It is not out of the realm of possibility that this is what is happening with this new binary being created by the April 10 report and the claim of Hildebrand.
US DOCTRINAL WARFARE PROGRAM:
Fr John C Murray, Vatican II, and the US Doctrinal Warfare Program
Final Words
Crucial understanding for Catholics and non- alike: Not every opposition movement is organic. Not every “dangerous” theory is actually dangerous to the regime, and not every controlled demolition looks like censorship anymore. Think Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, or anyone “fired” from their positions. It gives the impression of martyrdom, doesn’t it? It makes us think they are on our side, especially when so much of what they say is in line with other fringe thoughts we’ve been entertaining with no voice to express them.
It is why I preach message over messenger. Sure, a great deal can be culled from these talking heads—but only to the extent that they line up with the truth of Christ and whatever is left of His Church.
So much looks like permission, yes.
So much looks like discovery, yes.
So much looks like the exhilarating feeling that one has finally escaped the cave.
Yes.
That is what makes doctrinal warfare so effective in this digital age. The goal of the enemy is no longer merely to silence dissent, but to curate it, steer it, contain it within predetermined boundaries, and ultimately— exhaust people through it. The modern citizen, including the modern Catholic, is allowed to rebel right up to the point where rebellion might actually threaten the architecture of power itself.
I’ve talked to someone who estimates that 90 percent if not more of Catholic influencers are controlled.
Precise estimation or not—once that pattern is understood—entirely new questions can finally begin to emerge, questions not merely about politics, media, or culture, but about the Church herself. And that applies whether you’re Catholic or not, whether we want to believe that or not.
That is where the story becomes considerably more mind shattering, and something we will unpack as we continue in the coming days.
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FURTHER READING
Paul IV’s Teaching on When the Pope Is Not the Pope
