April 5, 2023: Although I am very much mindful that this is Holy Week, this republished commentary from last 2021 is very apropos for this week of weeks in which Our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, wrought our salvation for us during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday as it deals with Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s repeated disparagement of Our Lady as the Co-Redemptrix of the human race.

Indeed, this commentary is very appropriate for Holy Week as it includes the following passage from Father Francis X. Weninger’s First Sermon for Good Friday speaks to the point of doctrine Bergoglio called “foolishness” on December 12, 2019, very directly:

As it seemed good to the Lord to place a helpmate by the side of the earthly Adam, so we behold at the side of Jesus, the heavenly Adam, Mary, the Eve of the New Law; that, as by the fall of the first Adam and Eve the whole human race was plunged into an abyss of woe, so through the second — Jesus and Mary — rescued man was led to hope for heaven.

It is true that, in the abstract, it was the merits of Christ alone which effected our redemption, yet, that its fruits might be imparted to man individually, Jesus was pleased to place by his side a mother — Mary — for the consolation and assistance of the human race.

Therefore, God filled her heart with the most fervent affection for us, who have been born in sin, ensnared by numberless temptations, walking in the path to heaven, it may be, but in constant danger of going astray, and persecuted by the enemies of our salvation who rejoice when we make but one false step, hoping thereby that we will become their prey forever. Mary's heart is filled with the most unspeakable compassion for us; and no mother, of her own natural inclination, so fondly loves a child, so tenderly cares for its welfare, so untiringly watches over it in every danger, as does Mary in regard to the children of men; especially if they have had the happiness of receiving baptism as members of the Holy Catholic Church. "Come ye all to me, and be filled with my fruits." Thus does Holy Church cry out to those who zealously walk under her protection and patronage in the way of perfection, the path which leads to the joys of heaven. (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Liturgical Year: Three Sermons for Every Feast, published originally by C. J. H. Lowen, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1882, pp. 279-287.)

This commentary is divided into the following parts:

1. An Overview of Bergoglio’s Blasphemy
2. The Theology of Redemptive Suffering is Excluded by Denying Our Lady as the Co-Redemptrix
3. The Meaning of Our Lady as Co-Redemptrix
4. Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. On the Infallibility of Papal Teaching
5. Summary
6. An Act of Reparation
7. Appendix: Father Francis Weninger’s First Sermon for Good Friday

The material from Father Francis X. Weninger's book on papal infallibility is absolutely priceless. Consider this one excerpt:

In compliance with an ordinance from the Pope, the holy Doctor forbade the troublesome Jovinians the Episcopal city of Milan.

In a funeral oration on his brother Satyrus, he [Saint Ambrose] eulogized the zeal of the deceased in the cause of the Roman Church, and alluded, with undisguised satisfaction, to his custom of inquiring from all, whom he chanced to meet, whether they were in communion with the See of Peter. If Satyrus discovered that they had failed in this respect, he rebuked them, because he considered that thereby they had cut themselves loose from the communion of the whole Church.

In his forty-seventh sermon, the Saint advanced the principle: “Where Peter is, there is the Church.” “Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia.” If this axiom is once admitted, it is plain that Peter and his successors, when acting as vicars of Christ, can never err in doctrinal decisions. If they could, the Church herself would be in error. But this supposition destroys the very idea of the church. Therefore, according to St. Ambrose, Peter and his successors can never lapse into error. (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., On The Apostolical and Infallible Authority of the Pope When Teaching the Faithful, and On His Relation to a General Council, Third Edition. New York: Sadlier and Company, 1890; Cincinnati, Ohio: John P. Walsh, 1890.)

Truth is simple, which is why I rue the fact that it took me until 2006 to see it but am nevertheless grateful for the fact that I was led to the truth, which demands our adherence no matter what criticism will come our way and remembering, as always, that seeing it makes us not one whit better than anyone else nor does it guarantee us final perseverance in a state of Sanctifying Grace. We must always cling to Our Lady as we rreat all others as we would treat her Divine Son in the very flesh.

Republished articles will be posted each day of the Paschal Triduum, which starts this evening with the Office of Tenebrae. 

Although I had hope to complete a commentary about the apostasy of the German "bishops," who, unlike "Archbishop" Salvatore Cordileone's having his legs cut out from under him by Jorge Mario Bergoglio within days of his, Cordileone's, having banned Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi from what purports to be Holy Communion in the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination, do not suffer any "papal" rebuke for their continued obsession with the benediction of perversity, there is just not enough time to do so prior to the Paschal Triduum. It is my expectation that such a commentary might be ready by Easter Monday or Easter Tuesday of next week. 

Also, those who have not been on this site for a while might be interested in the fact that I published Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twenty-two three days ago, and my reflection on the life and work of Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P., whose feast is downgraded to a commemoration because it falls this year on Wednesday of Holy Week (Spy Wednesday), can be found at: Unlike Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Saint Vincent Ferrer Held the Cross Aloft in the Presence of Jews and Mohammedans. 

Finally, a new "Donations" page will be posted within about fifteen hours. There is a need to raise $2500 at this time, something that I will explain when I post the donations page, which was taken down some time ago now but will be resuscitated because of the pressing needs of the moment. Thank you.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Vincent Ferrer, pray for us.

Although Holy Week began with First Vespers for Palm Sunday last evening, Saturday, April 1, 2023, I have, in addition to republishing my annual reflection on the events of our salvation from Eden to Palm Sunday that I might get around to enhancing one year, completed the text of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twenty-two,” for your consideration and review.

Obviously, there is no need for anyone to take time away from their preparations for the Paschal Triduum, which begins with Tenebrae on Wednesday in Holy Week, April 5, 2023. However, the article will be here after Easter for those would like to read it.

As has been the case with past articles in this series, my goal in part twenty-two is to provide those who access this website with an aggregate of information culled from a variety of sources and bridging that factual information with the efforts of this septuagenarian Catholic to provide a supernatural perspective that those who presented the unadulterated truth about the virus and the “vaccines” do not possess and thus cannot offer their own readers.

It is my goal to complete my commentary about the putsch by the conciliar “bishops” in the Federal Republic of Germany to proceed along the “synodal path” to reform the irreformable and to change the unchangeable by Spy Wednesday, April 5, 2023. The commentary will be published on Easter Monday if I cannot complete it before the Paschal Triduum.

A blessed Palm Sunday and Holy Week to you all.

Our Mother of Sorrows, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Paola [whose feast is suppressed this year], pray for us.

Today is Palm Sunday.

We have now entered into the most solemn week of the year as we withdraw more and more from the world and its false allurements to unite ourselves as never before with the events of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s Passion and Death prior to experiencing the glory of His Resurrection following the Mass on Holy Saturday, April  8, 2023, and on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, thus beginning a marvelous celebration of the Octave of Easter and the Easter season.

We need Our Lady’s help to keep and to intensify our Lenten penances this week. May our reliance upon the Most Sorrowful Mysteries of her Holy Rosary aid us in understanding what our sins did to her Divine Son and to her and how grateful we must be for being the unmerited beneficiaries of the Mercy won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross and for being given from that Cross so great and wonderful and perfect a mother as she, Our Blessed Mother, is to us by Our Divine Redeemer Himself.

"From Eden to Palm Sunday" is a substantial revision of a reflection that I wrote for the printed pages of Christ or Chaos in 1997. Given the vastness of the subject, this reflection is pitifully, woefully inadequate. The revised article is really a condensed version of what was gone into in greater detail in the Living in the Shadow of the Cross lecture program. About half of the lecture program dealt with material condensed in the current article. Obviously, Holy Week is not a time to watch this lecture program! However, it is there for those who are interested at some point during the months that follow.

To greet Christ the King this Palm Sunday and every day of our lives, we must not let anything get in the way of letting Him treat us according to the tender mercies of His Most Sacred Heart, remembering that nothing anyone does to us, says about us or causes us to suffer is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused Him to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His fearful Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross and that caused those Swords of Sorrow to be pierced through and through the Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother.

Our fervor during this week of weeks must be genuine, and we must beg Our Lady, especially by meditating upon the Sorrowful Mysteries of her Most Holy Rosary, to help us persist in this fervor moment by moment, day by day, week in and week out, month after month, year after year until the time when we meet Christ the King, Our Crucified and Risen Saviour, at the moment of our Particular Judgment.

Part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" will be published in an about an hour.  I once again ask readers to make a non-tax-deductible financial gift if at all possible.

A blessed Palm Sunday and a blessed Holy Week to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This contains a few reflections for your consideration on the Way of the Cross that might be useful for this great week of weeks, Holy Week. These reflections were written many a moon ago and have been revised slightly over the past three decades. 

My annual Holy Week reflection will be posted tomorrow, Palm Sunday, as will part twenty-two of the coronavirus series upon which work continued until just a few moments ago. 

A blessed Palm Sunday tomorrow and Holy Week to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This is a brief commentary about the tragic nassacre that took place in Nasbville, Tennessee, two days ago.

Work continues on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The great saint whose feast we celebrate today, Thursday, March 27, 2025, Saint John Damascene, fought the iconoclasts in his day, and while many, although far from all, of our Catholic churches are now in the hands of the conciliar iconoclasts, we can festoon our homes with images of Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph and other saints as we use these images to remind us that we are united to the saints represented in these images by means of the Communion of Saints that we hope to share Heaven with them for all eternity in the glory of the Beatific Vision. 

Today, course, is our daughter Lucy’s twenty-third birthday and the seventeenth anniversary of her First Holy Communion.

Please do pray for Lucy Mary Therese Norma Droleskey on her birthday today. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Damascene, pray for us.

This is my annual Passiontide reflection. 

Work on part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" is proceeding more slowly than I would like, partly because of a fully penitential flare-up of the rheumatoid arthritis in my right hand (and I am right handed). It appears as though Wednesday of Passion Week, March 29, 2023, is the most realistic date on which the commentary will be published. 

A blessed Passiontide to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

This is a brief follow-up to We Have No "Rooting" Interest in the Russo-Ukraine War Other Than for a Just Peace that also discusses the similarities between the American involvemen in Ukraine presently and the flawed neoconservative delusions that ignite the Iraq War twenty years ago. 

Part twenty-two of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" should be published no later than the Feast of Saint John Damascene, Monday, March 27, 2023, and a commenatary on the current implosion taking place within the counterfeit church of conciliarism should follow by the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lent, Friday, March 31, 2023. 

As I noted about a week ago now, I will not be offering any further commentary about New York County Alvin Bragg's politically motivated campaign to indict former President Donald John Trump on truly baseless ground until after Easter, but for the moment I want to remind the very few remaining readers of this website that Donald John Trump has been, is now, and will ever be his own worst enemy (see the details in Trump won't change, and that shows he can't win.

A blessed Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.