This is a revised and enlarged version of my reflection on the life of Saint Rose of Lima, a member of the Third Order of Penance of the Order of Preachers of Saint Dominic de Guzman.

Among many other works in her devout life of prayer and austere penances, Saint Rose, who lived among a cluster of saints in Lima, Peru, exhorted the people of Lima to gather in their churches and pray their Rosaries to turn back a pending invasion of their city by a fleet of those virulent anti-Catholics, the Dutch Calvinists. Those hideous people with their diabolical beliefs that have nothing at all to do with Christianity turned back as a result of the Rosaries that were prayed to repel them in their designs to invade Lima and to sack Catholic churches and to desecrated the Most Blessed Sacrament images of the Mother of God.

May we pray to Saint Rose of Lima so that we will remain faithful to the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary as the powerful weapon, after Holy Mass itself, to turn back the enemies of Christ the King in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

A commentary about the perverse work of the morally and doctrinally corrupt Rembert George Weakland will be published within two hours or so. (Scroll down for recent articles.)

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.

Saints Felix and Adauctus, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Commemoration of Saint Sabina. I am republishing a reflection on this feast that was substantially enlarged and revised four years ago with a few new revisions.  

Part two of Jorge Mario Bergoglio Would Have Urged Catholics to "Dialogue" with Diocletian, although I will have a commentary about the late Rembert George Weakland, O.S.B., published no later than Wednesday, August 31, 2022, the Feast of Saint Raymond of Nonnatus. 

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Sabina, pray for us.

Living down to his antipapal expectations, Jorge Mario Bergoglio continues to be mostly deaf, dumb, and blind as his own “bishops,” priests/presbyters, consecrated religious and ordinary Catholics attached to the conciliar structures are attacked, imprisoned, tortured. and killed by Communists in such places as Nicaragua and Red China. Don’t think for a moment that Joseph Robinette Biden and his weaponized, politicized agents of leftist law enforcement agencies are not paying attention to the “pope’s” indifference” when “conservatives” are attacked by those he sees as agents of “social justice” and of efforts to “save the planet.” Jorge would love nothing more than to see his “conservative” “bishops” in the United States of America get roughed up as they continue to defy his own “love-in” with Biden and Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi.

This commentary contrasts Bergoglio’s indifference with the courage action taken by many of our true popes, most especially Pope Pius XI, in the face of attacks upon Catholics and the Holy Faith itself. Part two will follow in a few days.

A brief reflection on Saint Augustine of Hippo, whose feast is commemorated tomorrow, August 28, 2022, the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, can be found at: Saint Augustine of Hippo Provides Hope for Us All.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Calasanctius, pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, Thursday, August 25, 2022, is the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France, that great exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Saint Louis was taught by his holy mother, Blessed Blanche of Castile, to prefer death rather to commit a deliberate Mortal Sin. He heard two Masses a day and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, whose patron saint he remains to this day.

Saint Louis strove to rule according to the Mind of Christ the King as He had deposited It exclusively in the Catholic Church, recognizing that he, Louis IX, would have to answer to Christ the King at the moment of his own Particular Judgment for how he ruled his subjects. His letter to his son Philip is a succinct summary of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It is a model for how everyone in public life should conduct himself in order to please Christ the King as the devoted client of Our Lady, she who is our Immaculate Queen.

Finally, I can report to you that the next original article for this site is being written but that its completion is being slowed by reburnished 2014 Lenovo notebook computer whose keys are sticking and/or not functioning. The keyboard was replaced sixteen months ago. The unit itself, though, needs more than a new keyboard.

Thus, I renew my request for non-tax-deductible financial gifts for this expense as well as to pay a $250 copay for a medical procedure that I am in need of undergoing on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, the Feast of Saint Rose of Lima. Thank you in advance for whatever it is you can donate now.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

oday is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to which the month of August is devoted, that heart that was pierced with Seven Swords of Sorrow during the Life of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed out of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These twin hearts of matchless love suffered as one and they beat as one while on earth and they have beat as one in Heaven since Our Lady was Assumed into Heaven body and soul after her death.

Our Lady's Immaculate Heart was unstained by Original Sin or Actual Sins. The Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, therefore, was capable of a purity of love of God and of her fellow men that is almost indescribable. Our Lady's Most Pure, Most Holy Heart despises the sins that caused her Divine Son to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death but at the same time is full of a perfect and completely pure maternal compassion for erring sinners such as you and me.

Our Lord, showing us His infinite compassion for us erring sinners, has sent us His Most Blessed Mother to provide us with her maternal assistance to get home to Heaven as members of His true Church founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We have been given the Rosary, the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel, the Miraculous Medal, and the Green Scapular through her loving hands, through which flow the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

Her apparition to Juan Diego and the miraculous image of herself she left on his tilma helped to convert millions of Indians to the true Faith in the Americas.

Our Lady ratified Pope Pius IX's solemn proclamation of her Immaculate Conception by proclaiming herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous to be the Immaculate Conception on March 25, 1858. And Our Lady's appearance in the Cova da Iria from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917, gave us Heaven's Peace Plan, one that runs through her Immaculate Heart.

We must endeavor at all times to fulfill, as far as we are able in this time of apostasy and betrayal, Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own lives, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit and by living penitentially as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Immaculate Heart.

The era of apostasy and betrayal will end when the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is made manifest. We can play our roles, small though they may be, in helping to bring about this triumph.

Remember also that non-tax-deductible gifts are always needed and would be highly appreciated at this time. Thank you.

The next original commentary on this site should be posted by the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Wednessday, August 24, 2022.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now, and at the hour of our death.

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has made it possible for revolutionaries such as Jean-Claude Hollerich and many others to manifest their patent disbelief in the nature of God and His Divine Revelation to such an extent that Hollerich, for one says, has been so bold as to say that his false religious sect must listen to the “voice of the people” about the ontological impossibility of changing the Catholic Church’s condemnation of perverse sins against nature.

The “voice of the people”?

The Catholic Church is the voice of God on earth in all that pertains to Faith and Morals. It is not up to Holy Mother Church to listen to “the people.” It is up to the “people” to obey God as He has revealed Himself to them through the true Church.

Quite a difference.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Eudes, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of Feast of Saint Hyacinth, O.P., the great Apostle of the Northland and one of the first members of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman. (Today is also the third day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Octave Day of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.)

Saint Hyacinth's great zeal for souls and his desire to convert pagans out of their diabolical superstitions into the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. Saint Hyacinth, who had such a great and abiding love for Our Lady, who favored him with apparitions, stands in quite a contrast with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Both of these heretics have praised the very false religions that Saint Hyacinth—and every other Catholic missionary—sought to eradicate from the face of the earth by seeking the unconditional conversion of their adherents to the false religion. The difference between Saint Hyacinth's fidelity and apostasy of the conciliar "popes" stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see. See for yourself. As considerable time was spent adding links, including a complete library of articles that have appeared about Bergoglio on this site in the fifty-three months, four days, to the preface of this revised article in order to provide readers with a useful and handy resource for those who are new to this site and want to review past articles on Jorge Mario Bergoglio, it has been impossible to add more recent examples of the endless reaffirmations that the Argentine Apostate has given to those who adhere to false religions, including Talmudism, from which he derives much of his "intellectual" and "spiritual" sustenance. In other words, "Pope Francis" is a stooge and servant of Antichrist.  

Here is a list of some recent commentaries in the event that you have missed them: Big Chief Apostate Bergoglio Outdoes Himself in Canada, Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part eighteen, As Forgettable Naturalists Fight Each Other Over Forgettable Things, and The Rosary IS Our Weapon, and We Must Pray It to Fight Evil, Especially That Within Our Own Lives.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, O.P., pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us.

Three commentaries are being published today, Feast of Saint Joachim, the Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, starting with the reflection linked herein.

The second commentary, As Forgettable Naturalists Fight With Each Other Over Forgettable Things, is my long analysis of all that has transpired within the past week since agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation raided former President Donald John Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence/resort after a pro-Clinton Federal magistrate, Bruce Reinhart, issued a search warrant upon the application of an affidavit by the Ministry of Two Sets of “Justice.”

While it may turn out to be the case that the former president, who has a penchant of serving as his own worst enemy and is notoriously careless when it comes to record keeping, did indeed have documents that should have been turned over to the National Archives in compliance with the Presidential Records Act of 1978, the manner in which the all-out raid was conducted suggests very clearly that its real purpose was to secure information—any information—that might, at least in the minds of the same Justice Department lawyers that had worked hard to prove the Russian Collusion hoax, incriminate him in the sad series of events that took place on January 6, 2021, that were examined in Put Not Your Trust in Princes: In the Children of Men in Who There is No Salvation and True Last Year, True This Year, True Forever: Put Not Your Trust in Princes, in the Children of Men in Whom There is No Salvation, 2022 Edition. The former president crossed Don Giuseppe Biden’s third rail when he made an issue of First Grifter Hunter Biden’s making a profit for the “Big Guy” by making complex business deals with Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian oligarchs about matters in which he had no experience, and Biden, who is a pure demagogue, wants revenge. It would be very tragic if the former president gave his enemies the ammunition they need to take him down and to use the reaction to the Mar-a-Lago raid as a veritable Reichstag moment to suppress dissent even more than has been the case heretofore.

In any event, though, these bread-and-circuses pale into insignificance in comparison with the attack upon Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary that appeared in The Atlantic. The figures of naturalism in the world today are, as Pope Leo XIII once called them, “forgettable” men, most of whom are destined to hell because of their unrepentant lives of self-seeking, scurrility, and perdition. This third commentary is about that attack.

It is much more important—neigh well, vital for our salvation—to come to the defense of Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary when it is attacked, and it is to this end the final part of my analysis of the Mar-a-Lago raid, which, of course, discusses root causes and reminds readers that governmental systems that no make no room for Christ the King and His true Church must degenerate into rank totalitarianism over time, has been extracted and published as a stand-alone commentary for those who want to “cut to the chase,” so to speak. We need to defend Our Lady and her Most Holy Rosary rather than worry about the forgettable men who keep on attacking each other while most men prefer to wallow in the muck and mire of sin than to live in the light of Christ the King as He has revealed Himself exclusively to us through His Catholic Church.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Anne, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Three commentaries are being published today, the Feast of Saint Joachim, the Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, starting with On the Feast of Saint Joachim.

This second commentary is my long analysis of all that has transpired within the past week since agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation raided former President Donald John Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence/resort after a pro-Clinton Federal magistrate, Bruce Reinhart, issued a search warrant upon the application of an affidavit by the Ministry of Two Sets of “Justice.”

While it may turn out to be the case that the former president, who has a penchant of serving as his own worst enemy and is notoriously careless when it comes to record keeping, did indeed have documents that should have been turned over to the National Archives in compliance with the Presidential Records Act of 1978, the manner in which the all-out raid was conducted suggests very clearly that its real purpose was to secure information—any information—that might, at least in the minds of the same Justice Department lawyers that had worked hard to prove the Russian Collusion hoax, incriminate him in the sad series of events that took place on January 6, 2021, that were examined in Put Not Your Trust in Princes: In the Children of Men in Who There is No Salvation and True Last Year, True This Year, True Forever: Put Not Your Trust in Princes, in the Children of Men in Whom There is No Salvation, 2022 Edition. The former president crossed Don Giuseppe Biden’s third rail when he made an issue of First Grifter Hunter Biden’s making a profit for the “Big Guy” by making complex business deals with Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian oligarchs about matters in which he had no experience, and Biden, who is a pure demagogue, wants revenge. It would be very tragic if the former president gave his enemies the ammunition they need to take him down and to use the reaction to the Mar-a-Lago raid as a veritable Reichstag moment to suppress dissent even more than has been the case heretofore.

In any event, though, these bread-and-circuses pale into insignificance in comparison with the attack upon Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary that appeared in The Atlantic. The figures of naturalism in the world today are, as Pope Leo XIII once called them, “forgettable” men, most of whom are destined to hell because of their unrepentant lives of self-seeking, scurrility, and perdition.

It is much more important—neigh well, vital for our salvation—to come to the defense of Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary when it is attacked, and it is to this end that the final part (The Rosary IS Our Weapon, and We Must Pray It to Fight Evil, Especially That Within Our Own Lives) of this analysis of the Mar-a-Lago raid, which, of course, discusses root causes and reminds readers that governmental systems that no make no room for Christ the King and His true Church must degenerate into rank totalitarianism over time, has been extracted and published as a stand-alone commentary for those who want to “cut to the chase,” so to speak. We need to defend Our Lady and her Most Holy Rosary rather than worry about the forgettable men who keep on attacking each other while most men prefer to wallow in the muck and mire of sin than to live in the light of Christ the King as He has revealed Himself exclusively to us through His Catholic Church.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Anne, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Mediatrix of All Graces, knew the contempt that would be visited upon His Divine Grandson, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sent himself into voluntary exile after he was denounced by a priest of the Old Dispensation for not producing a child after twenty years of marriage to his wife, our good Saint Anne.

It was during his exile that Saint Joachim was visited by an angel, who reminded him of the fact that Abraham's wife, Sarah, did not conceive a child until she was ninety years old, telling him that his wife, Saint Anne, would conceive a daughter named Mary, who would be the Mother of God. Saint Joachim and Saint Anne brought their daughter to the Temple when she was three years old, giving their long-awaited child back to the good God Who had given them to her so that she could be the Mother of their own Saviour, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This should teach us to do everything possible to foster vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life among our children, so that we can give them back to God so as to yield a spiritual bounty of souls in His service, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.