EVENING UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2021: WELL, I AM BACK AT MY COMPUTER TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN UPDATE.

Part two of this two-part series discusses the "apology" that Jorge Mario Bergoglio delivered to Hieronymos II in Athens, Greece, on Saturday, December 4, 2021, the Feast of Saint Peter Chrysologus and the Commemorations of Saint Barbara and of the First Sunday of Advent.

I will now "disappear" for about a week to complete the massive work of organizing and writing "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part 15." There is much that is not making the news in the United States of America, including the fact that over 400,000 Austrians have protested their country's draconian lockdown and vaccine mandate as well as the fact that well-conditioned athletes are dropping dead in Europe and here in the United States of America after getting "the jab," which is continuing to injure and kill thousands of people, a fact that no one can ignore as it is sinful to permit poisons to be injected into one's body, which is the temple of God the Holy Ghost.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is part one of a two-part series dealing the with the recent activities of the apostate known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. 

This first part focuses on the lightness with which "Pope Francis" considers sins of impurity and with his clever endorsement/non-endorsement of "New Ways Ministry," proving once again that Wrong Ways Jorge is infallible wrong about almost everything.

A republished reflection on Saint Lucy can be found by scrolling below. The last original article prior to this one, The Supreme Masters of Sophistry: Unable to Admit the Fifth Commandment Exists (Combined Parts One and Two), dealt with the the oral arguments before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al.

By the way, there remains a very significant and rather urgent need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

The saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Lucy, resisted all efforts made by the civil authorities to induce her to worship the idols when a suitor, who was angered by her rejection of him after she had given away her riches to the poor, betrayed her as Christian to the pagan officials of the Roman Empire in Syracuse, Sicily, at the beginning of the Fourth Century A.D., in the year 304 A.D.

Saint Lucy could have saved her life if only she worshiped the idols. Unlike the conciliar "pontiffs," men who have esteemed the symbols of various and sundry false religions, with their own consecrated hands, Saint Lucy refused to do so and was immovable when taken to a house of sin. She refused even to look upon the vice that was before her.

May this immovable foe of religious liberty help us to see more clearly with the eyes of our immortal souls that the Catholic Church cannot be in the least responsible for the abominations and blasphemies and sacrileges and defections from the Faith perpetrated by the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

May Saint Lucy, a model of purity and gentleness and grace and courage, help us to see so clearly that we flee to the catacombs where the Faith is protected without any concessions to conciliarism.

A blessed Feast of Saint Lucy to all who are named after this great witness to the Faith, especially my dear wife, who took Saint Lucy as her patron at Baptism, and our dear daughter, Lucy Mary Therese Norma, who has, of course, a special devotion to the virgin and martyr from Syracuse, Sicily.

I ask your prayers also for the repose of the soul of the late Father Salvatore V. Franco, who died on this day nineeteen years ago now. Father Franco, who suffered from serious heart problems but died of a form of leukemia that he only found out he had weeks before he died, was good enough to offer us refuge in his kitchen in Westbury, Long Island, New York, in April of 2002 until November of 2002 as he offered the Immemorial Mass of Tradition for us each weekday.

Although I had long before abandoned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination on Sundays as I moved in "indult" circles, we made the decision to abandon all putative "offerings" of this abominable travesty during the week when Father Franco took ill and before he died. Father Franco, who was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in June of 1953, had a heart attack in 1963 at the age of thirty-seven, an act of God's Divine Mercy that kept him from being immersed in parish life as the conciliar revolution proceeded apace. Father Franco kept active, however, offering Mass and helping souls. We will be forever grateful to him for providing us with the refuge that he did in the months after Lucy's birth. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. We will always miss you, Father Salvatore V. Franco!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lucy, pray for us.

This posting places parts one and two of my protracted analysis of the oral arguments before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. in one place. 

As noted three months ago, Catholics must look beyond the headlines as words matter, and one can never expect lasting good to come from arguments that prescind from false premises and even boast of "exceptions" to the binding precepts of the Fifth Commandment as a matter of principle.

Two reflections on Our Lady of Guadalupe, May We Be As Simple and Trusting and Forty Hundred NINETY Years Later: The Americas STILL Belong to Our Lady, have been republished. Please scroll below.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, pray for us.

Two articles on Our Lady of Guadalupe are being republished today, Gaudete Sunday. Each has been slightly revised and, of course. In addition to this article, there is also "We Must Be Made As Simple and Trusting" that was published in four parts back in 2010.

A fuller description of today’s feast is found in the introduction to “We Must Be Made as Simple and Trusting” below. A Spanish language translation of this commentary that was prepared by Mr. Juan Carlos Areneta seven years ago can be read at: Las Américas Pertenecen a Nuestra Señora.

Finally, please pray for my younger brother (and only sibling), who turns sixty-eight years of age today. Our late mother died on March 18, 1982, and our father died on September 5 1992. The years have certainly passed quickly.

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is not on the universal calendar of the Catholic Church nor is it a mandated feast in the United States of America except in the Archdioceses of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe as well as in the Dioceses of Monterery, Tuscson, and El Paso. We can nevertheless commemorate it withi joy on this Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday of Advent.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

Our Blessed Mother gave us two great miracles on this day four hundred ninety years ago this very day.

Acceding to the demand of Apostolic Administrator [later Archbishop] Fray Juan de Zumarraga, O.F.M., the Mother of God saw to it that Castilian roses grew atop Tepeyac Hill so that her little "Juanito," Juan Diego, a fifty-five year-old widower to whom she had first appeared on December 9, 1531, could provide proof that it was she who had made the request of Fray de Zumarraga to build a shrine in her honor on the hill where she appeared. 

The administrator's guards, who had treated Juan Diego with such cruelty and even racism, spied those roses and tried to grab them out of Juan's tilma as he waited to see Fray de Zumarraga. The roses, quite miraculously, disappeared every time the guards sought to snatch them away from Juan Diego. Those Castilian roses were presented by Juan Diego to Fray Juan de Zumarraga, who knelt before the Indian convert to the Faith as he gazed upon the miraculous image that Juanito did not know was there: the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who was clearly expecting the Baby Jesus. 

Remember, this was Advent in the year 1531, just forty-nine years after Christopher Columbus first set foot on the Island of San Salvador to implant the Cross of the Divine Redeemer in this hemisphere for the first time since Saint Brendan the Navigator had done so in the First Millennium.

Our Lady's miraculous image showing her expecting the Baby Jesus is quite symbolic of the expectant desire she had then—and has now—for the conversion of the peoples of the Americas to the true Faith, that each person and each nation be born anew as they submit themselves to Christ the King through His Catholic Church. Over nine million indigenous people converted to the true Faith within a short time following her apparition to Juan Diego on this day four hundred ninety years ago, almost person for person the number of people lost to the Faith as a result of the Protestant Revolt in Europe. It was almost as though God was saying to those who left, “Fine. I will have My Mother get new souls to populate Holy Mother Church and hence Heaven itself.”

The Americas were indeed converted to Catholicism, which is why the devil had to attack the Faith in Latin America with such ferocity by means of the Masonic revolutionaries who were supported in both philosophical and monetary terms by the lodges in the nascent Untied States of America. Great crimes were committed against Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Most Blessed Mother as a result. These crimes continue to this day, which is, of course, one of the reasons that Saint Michael the Archangel appeared with Our Lady as she spoke to Juan Diego. Our Lady has crushed the head of the serpent with her heel and Saint Michael the Archangel is our helper to crush him in our own lives and in the Americas where he reigns, albeit temporarily, in civil government and in popular culture.

May we rely upon the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Empress and Patroness of the Americas, to help us to be courageous enough to plant seeds for the conversion of the Americas, including the United States of America, to the Social Reign of Christ the King as It must be exercised by the Catholic Church.

Perhaps an extra Rosary today on this glorious feast day will help us to be more faithful and more courageous in our promotion of the Social Reign of Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen. Viva Cristo Rey!

Finally, as I am now into the seventh day of a cold and flu that has laid us all pretty low, I  have been unable to do much on my long delayed next original article. It is my hope to complete that article today before writing one or more thereafter

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe!

A blessed [Commemorated] Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe to you all on Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday of Advent.

Well, another fifty pages or so later, here is the concluding part of my two-part analysis of the oral arguments before the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer, et al. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Attention is now turned to Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s nefarious words and deeds of the past week or so before returning to the work of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part fifteen.”

By the way, non-tax-deductible financial gifts would be quite welcome at this time and in these weeks before Christmas. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Damasus I, pray for us.

I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION." Those words, uttered by the Mother of God herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes, France, on March 25, 1858, was a Heavenly ratification of the solemn, infallible proclamation of the doctrine of her Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854, in the Bull Ineffabilis Deus.

"I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION."

Our Lady was conceived in the womb of her holy mother, Good Saint Anne, without any stain of Original or Actual Sin in anticipation of the merits that would be won by her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the wood of the Holy Cross. She, the Singular Vessel of Devotion, had the perfect integrity of Adam and Eve before their Fall from Grace in the Garden of Eden.

It is important, therefore, to get the doctrine of Original Sin right in order to understand the great miracle worked by God in the soul of the fairest flower of our race, Our Lady, from the very first moment of her Immaculate Conception. To get anything about the doctrine of Original Sin wrong leads to the efforts on the part of Modernists to deconstruct the doctrinal definitions of Original Sin and of the Immaculate Conception.

Alas, the Catholic Church, our Holy Mother on earth, our Mater and Magister, is as spotless as the Immaculate Blessed Virgin Mary. Holy Mother Church does not deconstruct infallible dogmatic definitions. Holy Mother Church cannot do so, which is why we need to pray to Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces and our Immaculate Queen, to help us to make no concessions to the counterfeit church of conciliarism that has promulgated an abominable "liturgy" and whose officials feel feel to "reinterpret" dogmatic truths according to Modernist propositions that have been condemned by the authority of our spotless Mother on earth, Holy Mother Church.

Mindful of the effects of our own sins on our immortal souls and of our need to make reparation for them to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, may we make the Secret prayer for today's Holy Mass our own:

"Receive the saving Victim we offer to Thee, O Lord, on the solemn feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: and grant that, as we confess that by Thy prevenient grace she was kept free from every stain of sin; so, by her intercession, we may be delivered from all our offenses. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God."

A blessed Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all! 

I am working on part two of the current two-part series, but it appears as though it will not appear online until Saturday, December 11, 2021. Thank you. Here is a link to part one in the event that you have not seen it: The Supreme Masters of Sophistry: Unable to Admit the Fifth Commandment Exists, part one. I will get to Senor Jorge's trip to Athens over the weekend.

As I can only concentrate on one project at a time, I have had to delay any further work on part fifteen of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” until at least the end of this week as I have the last four days concentrating on part one of my analysis of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States of America on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, et al.

Although the concluding part of this current segment of a two-part analysis might be familiar to those who have good memories, everything prior to the conclusion is an original composition that, admittedly, makes points that I made on this site repeatedly but have been stated anew again. (I ask readers to keep in mind that constitutional law was a field of study for my doctorate in political science.)

Part one of this two-part analysis deals with the questioning of Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart, who was representing his state’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, by the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Part two will analyze the questioning of attorney Julie Rikelman, who represented Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and of the Solicitor General of the United States of America, Elizabeth Prelogar.

Work on part two of this analysis will begin later today, and it is my expectation to have it completed for posting no later than Thursday, December 9, 2021, within the Octave of the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Finally, I was unaware that Jorge Mario Bergoglio had traveled to Athens until I received a notification on my stupid cellular phone than a priest of the heretical and schismatic Greek Orthodox church called Bergoglio a heretic. Right label, of course, but for the wrong reasons, something that I will explain in a brief commentary after I post part two of this analysis later in the week.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, pray for us.

Although I am about to post an original article, I am also offering the readers of this site a brief and revised reflection on two saints who opposed heresy, Saint Nicholas of Myra and Saint Ambrose of Milan. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, pray for us.

Saint Ambrose of Milan, pray for us.