The Death of a Pope, and the Death of a Book.

A Certain Book has Just Expired

Reclaiming the Catholic Church… from the Past

When The self-published book Reclaiming the Catholic Church was released in 2020, the kurgan framed it as a theological nuke: an unanswerable, bulletproof exposé proving once and for all that Pope Francis was a fraud, the hierarchy was corrupt, and only sedevacantists could be real Catholics.

But as of this week, there’s one tiny problem:

Pope Francis is dead.

And with him, so is the central premise of Kurgan’s entire book.

We’re now left with a text that’s not just polemical — it’s obsolete. The book hinges on a very specific historical snapshot: “Francis is the problem, and we must resist him now.” Well, time marched on. The problem is gone. And resistance to a corpse is hardly heroic.

It’s like writing a fire evacuation manual… for a building that already burned down.


What Happens When Your Theology Ages Like Milk?

Books survive if they’re grounded in truth, or timeless principle.
Kurgan’s book is grounded in neither. It’s tied to:

  • A single pope (now dead),

  • A crisis moment (already passed),

  • A tone of urgency (now deflated).

And worst of all? He never followed it up.
No second book. No theological deepening. No refinement. Just three and a half years of angry blog posts.

That’s not teaching. That’s shouting.

So where does this leave his magnum opus?
Filed under: “Doomsday Manual, Rev. 2020. No longer applicable.”


The Kurgan’s Worst Nightmare: Relevance

Francis is gone. A new conclave will begin. The Church, whether he likes it or not, moves forward. The Kurgan’s book does not. It’s frozen in a panic from half a decade ago.

If he continues pushing Reclaiming the Catholic Church as a definitive Catholic text, he’ll have to explain why its central villain no longer exists.
If he revises it, he’ll have to study again, something he hasn’t done in years.
And if he lets it fade… well, that’s just another sedevacantist screed rotting in Amazon’s basement.

Maybe now he can finally start reclaiming something else:

His credibility.

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