This is another relatively brief commentary on what President Donald John Trump calls a “military excursion” against Iran in conjunction with the Zionist State of Israel.

A republished reflection about Pope Saint Gregory the Great, whose feast is celebrated today, Thursday, March 12, 2026, on which is commemorated the Mass of Thursday in the Third Week of Lent, was published about twenty-five minutes ago or so. Please scroll below.

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Today, the twenty-third day of Lent, is the chronological halfway mark of our Lenten journey into the desert. There are forty days of fasting in Lent plus the six Sundays (the first four Sundays of Lent, Passion Sunday, and Palm Sunday) that add up to forty-six days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.

Let us continue to pray to Our Lady through her Most Holy Rosary to grant us perseverance in our Lenten resolutions as Holy Week will be upon us in but sixteen days with the praying of First Vespers for Palm Sunday on Saturday evening, March 28, 2026!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.

Saints Cosmas and Damian, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on Pope Saint Gregory the Great, whose feast is celebrated today, Thursday, March 12, 2025 (which is also Thursday in the Fouth Week of  Lent), that draws principally upon Pope Saint Pius X's Iucunda Sane, March 12, 1904.

A new commentary will be published almost immediately hereafter.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.

The title of this commentary is self-explanatory.

The next original article should appear on Friday, March 13, as I intend most of today working on a book project.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a brief commentary that focuses on how the lie of “religious liberty” gives such free rein to the adversary that a Superior Court judge in Indiana has ruled that the killing of innocent babies is an exercise of “religious freedom.”

I will have a related commentary on Wednesday (I am just too tired from the writing of this article) before returning to Donald John Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s preemptive war of choice, which has now taken the life of an eighth American service member who should never have been put in harm’s way in behalf of the “Greater Israel” Project.”

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Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Frances of Rome, pray for us.

This article in honor of Saint John of God, whose feast is commemorated today, Sunday, March 8, 2026, the Third Sunday of Lent, was written ninteen years ago now. A lot of hard work went into its completion. I believe it to be one a piece that will give great consolation to those who have not as of yet read it.

Saint John of God was little understood during his life. It was the case that even his longtime spiritual director, Blessed John of Avila, who knew him fairly well, did not understand his decisions. Saint John of God suffered from all manner of slanders and even beatings in his life. He suffered slanders even up to the point of his own death. It was enough for him to be understood by God. It should be enough for us as well, especially during this time of apostasy and betrayal when so many of us are misunderstood and castigated by relatives and friends and acquaintances as being "outside of the Church" for our refusal to make any concessions to conciliarism or its false shepherds. We should be grateful that we are as misunderstood and hated and calumniated as was Saint John of God!

The appendix contains reflections on the Third Sunday of Lent.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John of God, pray for us.

Believe it or not, a few readers have written to me to say that the government United States of America is exempt from the Just War Theory and from most other aspects of the moral law because it is not a Catholic nation and is so “exceptional” that God blesses whatever its leaders believe is best for the national security.

This is a revised and expanded, although still entirely inadequate, commentary on the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Saturday, March 7, 2026, with a Commemoration of Saturday of the Second Week of Lent.

The next original article should be published within fifeen minutes of this posting.

Today is also the First Saturday of the month of March, the month of our Good Saint Joseph.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., pray for us.

Time has run out on me insofar as completing the next original article. I will resume work on it later today.

For the moment, though, I offer readers Dom Prosper Gueranger's panegyric on behalf of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, whose feast feast we celebrate today with a Commemoration of Friday in the Second Week of Lent and of the Holy Shroud of Our Lord Jesus Christ in some places.

Today, Friday, March 6, 2026, would have been the one hundred fifth birthday of my late mother, Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey, who was born on March 6, 1921, as Maxine Coomer to an unwed mother, Ruth Coomer, at a foundling hospital in Kanas City, Missouri. (She was adopted by a vaudevillian performer who claimed to be a Sioux Indian Chieftain--see Guest Column: Chief Red Fox, by George Farias--some months later along with her twin brother, Max Coomer, who was renamed Louis Red Fox in honor of "The Chief's" brother, Louis Humes, and later died in infancy. My mother herself was renamed as Norma Florence Red Fox in honor of my adoptive grandather's only sister, Norma Irene Humes.

Please pray for the soul of my late mother, who died of stomach and esophageal cancer on March 18, 1982, in Corpus Christi, Texas.  Someone at "Find a Grave" found her obituary from Long Island's Newsday newspaper and included in the information from The Corpus Christi Caller. The photograph was taken by me around 1979 or 1980 in Harlingen, Texas, and has appeared on this site, from which some enterprising person copied it: Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey (1921-1982) - Find a Grave Memorial.

Our  Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Perpetua and Felicity, pray for us.

This was sent to me yesterday, and I thought that I would share it with the readers of this site. The next original article should appear late today or around this time tomorrow. Thank you.

This is a brief follow-up to Monday’s commentary.

Pray for the peace of the Prince of Peace to overflow into the hearts of men by means of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Casimir, pray for us.

Pope Saint Lucius I, pray for us.