At the Mercy of the Merciless Totalitarians, May 12, 2026

As has been noted on this site so many hundreds upon hundreds of times before, the modern civil state is based upon a welter of Judeo-Masonic, naturalistic, anti-Incarnational, religiously indifferent and Pelagian principles that can do nothing but divide people in various ceaselessly warring camps within the framework of “freedom” and “democracy.”

However, there is no true freedom absent a public veneration of the fount of our true freedom from sin and eternal death, the Holy Cross of Our Divine Redeemer, Christ the King, and “democracy” will degenerate into a chaotic, nihilistic mobocracy that must be replaced in due course by a disguised or undisguised totalitarianism if it is not based upon principles of Catholic truth and led by virtuous men who govern for the honor and glory God and to advance the eternal and temporal good of their subjects.

Most people have no understanding of these truths as they are caught up in the endless agitation inspired by the adversary to keep them distracted on the “trees” without seeing the “forest” of errors that ignore man’s fallen human nature and need for Sanctifying Grace to live holily and choose wisely in accord with the dictates of Divine Revelation and the Natural Law.

Dom Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, the great Dominican foe of Modernism and the Twentieth Century’s greatest exponent of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, explained the flaws inherent in democracies that lead to their decay and dissolution over time:

Democracy is an imperfect regime, as a regime in ratione regiminis, as a result of the lack of unity and continuity in the direction of interior and exterior affairs. Also this regime should only be for the perfect already capable of directing themselves—those virtuous and competent enough to pronounce as is fitting upon the very complicated problems on which the life of a great people depends. But it is always true to say as Saint Thomas noted that these virtuous and competent men are extremely rare; and democracy, supposing such perfection among subjects, cannot give it to them. From this point of view, democracy is a bit in politics what quietism is in spirituality; it supposes man has arrived, at the age or the state of perfection, even though he still may be a child. In treating him as a perfect person, democracy does not give him what is required to become one.

Since true virtue united to true competence is a rare thing among men, since the majority among them are incapable of governing and they have a need of being led, the regime which is the best for them is the one which can make up for their imperfection. This regimen perfectum in ratione regiminis, by reason of unity, continuity, and efficacy of direction towards a single end which is difficult to achieve is monarchy. Above all a tempered monarchy which is always attentive to the different forms of national activity. It is better than democracy or than the feudal regime. Monarchy assures the interior and exterior peace of a great nation, and permits her to long endure. (Dom Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, “On Royal Government: translated by Andrew Strain, On Royal Government)

Perhaps the events unfolding before our very eyes will be used by Our Lord, Christ the King, to bring about the coming of the Great French Monarch who will unite men around the standard of the Holy Faith and who will do battle with Antichrist before he is killed, thus preparing the way for the final battle between Our Lord Himself and the great deceiver. However, it is my own personal belief that there will have to be many more chastisements have to take place before we the great French monarch comes forward. The current circumstances, however, do show us very clearly that the anti-Incarnational civil state of Modernity is capable only of producing disorder and of being led by people who are utterly unable to see the events of the world in light of First and Last Things, that applies just as equally to the denizens of the false opposite of the naturalist “right” and “left.”

Most career Republicans, for example, care only about maintaining their own power and perquisites and are, for the most part, utterly indifferent about the fact that their opposite numbers in the Democratic Party are committed to an agenda of statism and totalitarianism or that Soviet-style efforts were employed to accuse candidate, president, former president, and candidate Donald John Trump of crimes he did not commit and to subject him to endless legal indictments brought at the state, local, and Federal levels with the step-by-step involvement of senior officials in the White House during the years of Joseph Robinette Autopen Biden, Jr.’s., nominal presidency, including Biden himself when he wasn’t napping or eating ice cream at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware.

On a more basic level, though, Democrats, upset with the fact that Donald John Trump won the presidency in 2016 and then again in 2024 after they had circumvented state laws regulating vote counting in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and used mail-in-voting as a means to stuff  ballot boxes even after election day had come and gone in 2020, are doing everything they can to disenfranchise Republican voters in states under their control, including a gerrymandering apportionment of Congressional seats allotted to states that would eliminated all but a handful of Republican districts.

This is what was about to happen in the Commonwealth of Virginia after the Governor Abigail Spanberger, a pro-baby-killing and pro-sodomite zealot, got the state’s legislation to pass approve a state constitutional amendment that would have effectively eliminate all but one “safe” Republican House seat to be submitted for popular referendum, which resulted narrow voter approval a few weeks ago.

There was only one little problem with this scheme: it violated the provisions of the Virginia State Constitution that requires a constitutional amendment to be passed by two successive state legislative sessions with an intervening election taking place between those sessions:

After the Virginia Supreme Court rejected the results of the recent Democratic effort to effectively wipe out Republican representation in the state, Democratic pundits and activists have latched onto a proposal by Michigan State law professor Quinn Yeargain to gut the court by forcing the retirement of the current justices, appointing liberal activists, and then reversing the opinion. It is extremely telling that some are pushing the raw muscle play to retake power in Washington, particularly in light of the calls to pack the United States Supreme Court once the party is back in control.

Professor Yeargain declared on Substack that there is "a simple – and lawful – solution: Send the entire court into early retirement." Under this plan, Virginia Democrats would adopt an absurdly low age for retirement in a gut-and-pack scheme: Yeargain suggested that they could set "the mandatory retirement of justices and judges after they reach a prescribed age, beyond which they shall not serve, regardless of the term to which elected or appointed."

The current retirement age is 73.

Yeargain dismisses that number as "arbitrary" and says that the Democrats need only to "Make it 54 for Supreme Court justices – the age of the youngest justice, Stephen McCullough, who joined the majority opinion – and make it take effect immediately."

The fact that such an abusive plan is described as "simple" captured the logic of an age of rage. I recently wrote a column in which I warned that "the reversal of fortunes for the party could lead to an even more dangerous agenda" with Democrats pushing for packing the Supreme Court.

In the unlikely chance that this could pass the General Assembly (I am assuming that there remain some things that certain Democratic members just will not do), it would be difficult to engineer before the midterm elections, given the likely challenges. However, it is the inclination of some to try such measures that is chilling.

I noted that Virginia showed how "an independent court can unravel the best-laid plans." Various politicians and professors have advocated radical changes to the political system to ensure the party retains power indefinitely. They acknowledge, however, that the court could likely declare these moves as unconstitutional unless they first take control through a packing scheme.

The new proposal for the gut-and-pack scheme is even more cynical and brutal. Ironically, the Virginia Supreme Court declared the redistricting effort by the Democrats as not only unconstitutional but "wholly unprecedented in Virginia’s history."

It characterized the state’s position as "a story of the tail wagging the dog that has no tail."

The response of Yeargain and Democratic activists is now to suggest just shooting the dog and adopting a type of politically modified puppy bred to serve.

Such radical proposals are being rationalized with open disinformation. Pundits regularly fail to mention that the Democrats previously gerrymandered states such as Illinois, Massachusetts and New York while claiming the right to win by any means necessary.

Others just deny reality. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., lashed out at the Virginia Supreme Court and demanded to know why they waited so long to rule on whether there were fundamental flaws in the Democratic plan.

Kaine either never read the opinion or sought to mislead voters. The opinion has an entire section on the timing, noting that it was the Democrats and the commonwealth that demanded that the court wait to rule on the merits until after the election. After "successfully" seeking that delay, they are now accusing the court of something untoward in doing what they demanded.

Notably, the gut-and-pack scheme sets aside any pretense of principle. The Democrats would simply adopt a ridiculously low retirement age for the sole purpose of populating the court with reliable and robotic justices. The fact that an academic and various pundits would expressly float such an idea is another chilling reminder of the growing radicalization on the left.

" has These are the "new Jacobins" discussed in my book "Rage and the Republic," figures echoing the radical concepts or means used in France before what became known as "The Terror." "By any meansbecome a rallying cry on the left.

Law professors Ryan Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale have called for the nation to "reclaim America from constitutionalism." Last December, they published a column titled "It’s Time to Accept that the U.S. Supreme Court is Illegitimate and Must be Replaced."

Democratic strategists know that the public will not approve of such measures.

Democratic strategist James Carville stated matter-of-factly, "They’re going to recommend that the number of Supreme Court justices go from nine to 13. That’s going to happen, people." He added recently, "Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it."

What is striking about the Virginia proposal is that it is being pushed so openly and unapologetically. Democrats realize that they have alienated half of Virginia already. Republicans and independents are not likely to forget that every major Democrat in their state, including Gov. Abigail Spanberger, sought to erase their very political existence. It is not partisan, it is personal.

In destroying bridges to cross-over voters in the purple state, what is left is raw political brutality. You must dump-and-pump in seeking radical measures to grab power. In the process, no court or institution is sacred in the cause of social and political change.

It is all part of the Nike School of Constitutional Law: Just do it. (Virginia Democrats seek to oust Supreme Court justices over redistricting.)

Professor Turley does not understand that totalitarianism is ultimately and truly only end result of a “democracy” untethered to the Social Reign of Christ the King and then filled with officials who believe that in order to “save” “democracy” they have to make it impossible for opposition voters to have any real say in governance and/or to use rank Machiavellianism to send opposition office-holder to jail and to castigate their supporters as the “enemies of freedom.”

More and more people may not be coming to our situation through the supernatural eyes of the Holy Faith but some are realizing that happened six years ago during the coronascam plandemic was about social control, not public health, something that I have pointed out consistency since I began my “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” series on March 25, 2020, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Anthony Fauci, the retired director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, did everything in his considerable power even in 2020 when Donald JohnTrump was in the last year of his first term to suppress all forensic documentation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology being the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus leak as well as to suppress early intervention treatments in favor of the death-dealing cookie-cutter one size fits all later intervention protocols that were responsible for the deaths of so many hundreds of thousands of people during the height of the plandemic in 2020. Fauci, who would have lost his license to practice medicine in a world government by Catholic truth, that he turned into a veritable license to kill innocent human beings during the plandemic, also intimidated anyone and everyone in his National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease agency who dared to refuse vaccine mandates and/or with the disinformation that flowed from Fauci and his subordinate stooges:

As the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America was wont to say, make no mistake about it, the “vaccines” developed under Operation Warp Speed were designed to be instruments of depopulation as part of the transhumanist “Global Reset.”

The number of “sudden deaths, “unexpected deaths,” deaths following “short illnesses” and like descriptions, especially among adolescents and young adults, is unprecedented, and the evidence continues to mount concerning the damage that the mRNA jabs do the hearts of those young people here in the United States and elsewhere around the world.

We were forced to endure lockdowns, to wear facemasks when in public places, and to engage in “social distancing.”

The lockdowns resulted in the closing of many small businesses, the estrangement of family members, neighbors, and coworkers from each other about the mask and social distancing mandates, the closing of churches and schools, Stasi-like surveillance of ordinary citizens in most of the “blue” states while elected more than a handful of elected officials (Gavin Newsom, Jay Robert Pritcher, Gretchen Whitmer, et al., flaunted their own draconian subjugation of ordinary citizens, some of whom were fined for “infractions” while the bigwigs lived as their desired, and the suppression of trucker protests in Canada once the vaccine “mandates” began to be imposed in early-2021.

The vaccine “mandates” themselves further estranged family members from each, caused many people, including members of the United States military, local and state police forces, and health care workers who knew about the dangers of jabs, who refused to surrender themselves to the poisonous jabs to lose their jobs, denied the unvaccinated entrance to restaurants, theaters, stores, sporting arenas, and other public places. The harm caused by these “vaccines” has been documented in scores of commentaries on this site alone.

Everything that happened in the scamdemic was based upon the Chinese Communist Party model of totalitarian social control, which appealed very much to the likes of the sociopath named Anthony Fauci, who boasted of supporting the Chinese method of containing the coronavirus, saying  in two interviews in June of 2021 that he could not imagine the Chinese government doing anything to kill or harm their own people (Anthony Fauci, Blind Chicom Asset, Can't Imagine the Chicoms Wanting to Harm Their Own People) while calling the Wuhan lab leak theory “far out.”

Despite his sworn testimony to the contrary before the House and Senate of the United States of America on multiple occasions, did indeed fund gain-of-function research on the novel coronavirus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Red China, at a time that administration of Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro had banned such funding and who orchestrated a gigantic conspiracy to cover-up the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then to coerce health-care providers into following his cookie-cutter, one-size fits all protocols for the treatment of the SARS-CoV-2 virus while seeking to suppress scholarly papers questioning the utility of lockdowns and social distancing.

These are facts, facts that are bolstered by the evidence of actual scientists, not ideologues such as Anthony Fauci, who continue to warn those who have the intellectual honesty to consider facts in a spirit of rationality that the “vaccines” are gene therapy treatments that are injuring people now and will continue to do in the future as they shed spike proteins to infect the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike (see Dr. Peter McCullough—The Inexplicable Suppression of Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Other COVID-19 Treatments, par one and Dr. Peter McCullough on Omicron Realities and VAERS Reports on Vaccine Injuries and Deaths, part two) while protecting no one against a disease that can certainly make people who get it very sick and cause death in those who do not get proper treatment or are elderly and/or have preexisting co-morbidities. One of those attesting to the facts about these “vaccines” is Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA gene therapy treatments (Dr. Malone on Madness Of Mass Formation Psychosis and Dr. Robert Malone says he can’t support Trump while ex-president stands by COVID-19 jabs. Also see: Revised and Expanded: Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twenty, and Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part twenty-one.)\

Well, chickens are coming home to roost even though those chickens will probably get off in court scot-free from sympathetic juries, one of Anthony Fauci’s chief aides has been indicted by a Federal grand jury for his role in the covid cover-up, including circumventing requests made for documents under the Freedom of Information Act:

The Department of Justice has indicted a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci for allegedly destroying and concealing records from investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Morens, 78, has been charged with one count of conspiracy against the United States; two counts of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; and two counts of concealment, removal, or mutilation of records.

The conspiracy also included an alleged “kickback” scheme where Morens took or was promised gifts — including wine bottles and meals at Michelin-starred restaurants — to conduct “official acts favorable” to a federal grantee.

The ex-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) official faces up to 51 years in federal prison if convicted of all charges.

The indictment, unsealed Monday in Maryland federal court, also notes two unnamed co-conspirators who “concealed, removed, destroyed and caused the concealment, and removal of federal records to evade FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and FRA [Federal Records Act].”

Information in the indictment indicates the co-conspirators are Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of Manhattan-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Gerald Keusch, an associate director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory Institute and National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantee.

Former House COVID Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup told The Post Tuesday that “additional indictments may follow.”

“The repercussions of these actions have caused significant damage to the public health system, and recovery may take considerable time due to the involvement of numerous individuals within various agencies,” he said. “The ongoing pursuit of justice is essential for the well-being of the American people.”

Dr. Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, added that “the evidence against the three is compelling.”

“Unless one or more flips and provides evidence against Fauci and others in exchange for immunity, all three should be, and likely will be, convicted,” said Ebright, who noted Keusch approved the first EcoHealth grant awarded to the now-infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2002.

Fauci, who left government service in December 2022, is also referred to as “Senior NIAID Official 1” in multiple communications cited in the indictment — but not named as a co-conspirator.

Morens, who is currently on conditional release, must “avoid all contact” with the co-conspirators, who between April 2020 and June 2023 sought with him to reinstate millions of dollars in federal grants for EcoHealth and burnish its public image, according to the 29-page indictment.

Those included grants totaling $4 million and $7.5 million awarded to the nonprofit in 2014 and 2020, respectively, some of which eventually funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at WIV.

“There are things I can’t say except Tony is aware and I have learned that there are ongoing efforts within NIH to steer this through with minimal damage to you, Peter, and colleagues, and to NIH and NIAID,” Morens wrote to Daszak and Keusch in an April 26, 2020, email from a private account.

Daszak then provided “illegal gratuities” — two bottles of “The Prisoner Red Napa Valley Wine” — to Morens’ home in Maryland in June 2020, the indictment revealed in previously unreported emails.

“This is the first of what I hope will be a continued series of expressions [sic] of gratitude for your advice, support, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans in my battle against your boss’s boss, his boss, and the ultimate boss on the hill,” Daszak wrote in a message accompanying the June 25 gift.

“Now I am actually going to have to do something to deserve it. Let me think,” Morens responded in a Gmail message the same day, before suggesting he could publish “scientific commentary” that “outlines the importance” of EcoHealth’s work.

On June 26, Daszak wrote back: “Consider this my phase II gift. Phase III might actually involve a meal – the Michelin-starred are opening in Paris, DC, and New York will do eventually!”

The NIAID director and then-NIH head Dr. Francis Collins had, in February 2020 “prompted” the notorious “Proximal Origins” paper that sought to downplay concerns about COVID leaking out of a Chinese lab, instead claiming that the outbreak was consistent with a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2.

But the scientific commentary to which Morens was referring appears to be a July 2020 paper published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that also advocates for a natural spillover theory of the virus and “significantly increased funding for basic and applied research addressing disease emergence.”

Emails published by Wenstrup’s subcommittee — and cited in the indictment — showed Morens asking Daszak directly “do I get a kickback?” about the $7.5 million grant he secured for EcoHealth.

Daszak responded in the August 2020 email exchange, “of course there’s a kick-back,” before musing: “I hope it doesn’t culminate in 5 years in Federal jail.”

Morens frequently conducted government business from his Gmail account — and a “secret back channel” with his boss — while asking the NIH’s FOIA liaison for tips on how to evade records requests, according to communications first exposed by The Post in May 2024.

“[T]here is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail [sic], or hand it to him at work or at his house,” Morens wrote in one April 21, 2021, email. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”

Two months prior, Morens said in a Feb. 24 email: “[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d [sic] but before the search starts.”

Morens also told Keusch in a May 13, 2021, email that he “connected” a colleague with Fauci on “our ‘secret’ back channel.”

On Sept. 9, 2021, Morens wrote that he would “always communicate on Gmail [sic] because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly” and “delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”

Prosecutors say those actions obfuscated the American public’s access to information sought in “hundreds” of FOIA requests, including from US Right To Know, Science magazine, and the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Many sought information about a now-infamous grant to EcoHealth Alliance, overseen by Morens and beginning in 2014, that funneled US taxpayer dollars to bat coronavirus research in Wuhan, China, where the COVID pandemic emerged in late 2019.

EcoHealth ultimately gave more than $1.4 million to WIV to conduct “genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized (also known as chimeric) coronavirus strains,” according to a June 2023 Government Accountability Office report.

The project — suspended during the pandemic and briefly reinstated in 2023 — included risky gain-of-function experiments on the viruses that made them 10,000 times more infectious, violating the NIH grant’s terms.

NIH principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak finally confirmed the experiments occurred in sworn congressional testimony on May 16, 2024 — after more than four years of denials — but denied they were the cause of the pandemic.

But another EcoHealth proposal that was never funded, known as Project DEFUSE, has been flagged by scientists and lawmakers for containing a “blueprint” for creating the virus that causes COVID-19.

While speaking on a biosecurity panel in October 2024, Ex-CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield noted that even unfunded projects and proposals can be tested under other research grants that got funding.

Emails in the indictment showed that Tabak internally criticized EcoHealth’s “reporting compliance,” as Morens and Daszak sought to tamp down tough questions about the nonprofit’s failure to submit information on time for the bat coronavirus grant in Wuhan.

EcoHealth and Daszak were later barred from receiving federal funds for five years in January 2025 — before Trump returned to the White House. It’s unclear if the nonprofit is still operating, and its website has been taken down.

“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

“As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”

“Not only did Morens allegedly engage in the illegal obfuscation of his communications, but he received kickbacks for doing so,” added FBI Director Kash Patel in a statement.

Both the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General conducted the investigation leading to the indictment, following a criminal referral from Wenstrup.

Most emails cited in the indictment were first unearthed by his subcommittee investigation — and “provided substantial evidence that prompted the push for criminal charges,” Wenstrup said.

“Furthermore, it is notable that the Inspector General has reportedly uncovered additional information that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) withheld from the investigative team,” he added.

“The legal violations committed by David Morens, along with those attributed to other co-conspirators, are clearly outlined in the committee’s report,” Wenstrup noted. “The repercussions of these actions have caused significant damage to the public health system, and recovery may take considerable time due to the involvement of numerous individuals within various agencies.”

“I’m proud that the Select Subcommittee’s work led to this step toward accountability and transparency,” added Mitch Benzine, former Staff Director for the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and currently an attorney in Eversheds Sutherland’s congressional investigations practice.

“This is an example of how congressional investigations can spur activity by law enforcement.”

mEcoHealth couldn’t be reached for comment. (Anthony Fauci adviser David Morens indicted by Department of Justice. Also see A COVID Autopsy, Part 1: 'The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say'. A COVID Autopsy, Part 2: ‘Should coronavirus lock down protesters waive their medical care? Some medical ethicists think so’. The covid autopsies are good, but I will point out to this website’s readers that all this was covered contemporaneously as it happened in my “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” series, the links to which and to related commenataries can be found right here: part one, part two,  part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven,  part twelve, part fourteen—I guess I lost track of the number as there is no “part thirteen,” part fifteen, part sixteen, part seventeen, part eighteen,  part nineteen, part twenty, part twenty-one, part twenty-two, part twenty-four—lost track of the count again!, Sin: More Deadly Than Any Virus's False "Antidotes", God is Omnipotent. The Transhumanists Who Mock Him Will Find That Out Soon Enough, Deady "Cures" for Non-Deadly Diseases, Continued Global Assaults on Life, Death, and Truth, Governed by Remorseless Sociopaths Intent on Death and Destruction, Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue Goes Mumbling and Stumbling Into the Distance, Governments Work Overtime to Sicken and Kill Us to Advance Transhumanism, Empty “Confessions” From Genocidal Miscreants, Life, Death, and Truth: Still Under Constant Attack by Medicine and Law, Anthony Fauci Faces a Divine Reckoning At Which No Claim of a Faulty Memory Will Be Entertained, At the "Mercy" of the Merciless, part one, At the "Mercy" of the Merciless, part two, At the "Mercy" of the Merciless, part three, Ever New Laws and New Ways to Kill Innocent Human Beings, part one, Ever New Laws and New Ways to Kill Innocent Human Beings, part two, and Ever New Laws and New Ways to Kill Innocent Human Beings, part three. There are a few articles that I may have missed. However, these are most of the ones about the scamdemic and the jabs that I have written in the past seventy-four months. There are several volumes of books represented by those articles, but I would need the help of a volunteer to put them together, which is something I do not have the time to do.)

Once again, even though I doubt that the slippery eel named Anthony Fauci, who some conservative talk show hosts called a “national hero” (I have in mind here a certain Catholic apostate whose abandonment of the Holy Faith was commented upon in Lame Excuses Never Die) in 2020, will ever face genuine justice in this passing, mortal vale of tears, the unrepentant sociopath is being investigated by the United States Department of Justice even though he received a pardon from Autopen Biden on January 20, 2025:

 Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday survived a five-year legal deadline to face criminal charges for allegedly lying to Congress about funding risky research in Wuhan, China — but he isn’t out of the woods, The Post has learned.

Fauci testified to a Senate committee on May 11, 2021, that he did not fund “gain of function” research that genetically altered coronaviruses in the same city where the COVID-19 pandemic started — as he tried to tamp down the now-dominant “lab leak” theory. Evidence later proved he did.

The country’s former top infectious disease official still could face other potential charges for lesser-known contested testimony, or for alleged conduct stretching closer to the present day, such as for conspiracy, insiders said, even though his best-known alleged crime went uncharged.

Those potential cases aren’t necessarily as clean-cut for public consumption as the lab-funding denial, but could still give the controversial doctor a day in court. Moreover, a federal prosecution would put to the legal test former President Joe Biden’s pardon of the once-famed doc that was signed by autopen.

“Accountability for pandemic-era misconduct is non-negotiable,” a Trump administration official told The Post.

This administration is aggressively exploring every legal avenue to hold every possible individual, entity, organization, and government official accountable for COVID-era wrongdoing.” 

Pressure to prosecute Fauci intensified last month when the famous doctor’s former senior adviser David Morens was indicted for allegedly breaking the law to conceal the origins of COVID-19. 

Morens faces one count of conspiracy, two counts of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records and two counts of concealment, removal, or mutilation of records.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), to whom Fauci allegedly lied about financing Wuhan Institute of Virology experiments that modified at least three coronaviruses distinct from COVID-19, tweeted repeatedly about the deadline in the past week.

Paul referred Fauci three times to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution and garnered significant social media attention and frustration from anti-Fauci public figures who said he was escaping justice.

“Whether the DOJ decides to charge Fauci or not, I’m not letting up,” Paul tweeted Monday. “In fact, later this week I’m holding a hearing with a whistleblower. Maybe the American people will finally get the answers they’ve been looking for.”

One issue complicating Fauci’s possible prosecution is the fact that Biden on Jan. 19, 2025, granted him a pardon for offenses spanning the preceding 10 years.

President Trump in December declared the pardon, and others signed by autopen, null and void, but the Justice Department has not tested that assertion, which hinges on an argument that Biden was so mentally diminished that he could not have authorized it. 

The final period during which Fauci could have been charged for his testimony to Paul featured a leadership shakeup at the Justice Department, with Trump firing Pam Bondi as attorney general and replacing her with acting attorney general Todd Blanche on April 2.

It’s unclear how that shuffle may have impacted the analysis of Fauci’s liability.

While critics of the non-prosecution grumble that Blanche didn’t bring a case by the deadline, one source said that within the administration, Fauci isn’t viewed as a top target of Trump, whose political adversaries have seen indictments over the past year for alleged crimes.

Some within the administration see Fauci as less culpable than his former superior, Dr. Francis Collins, who was director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, who subcontracted $750,000 from Fauci’s agency to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Justin Goodman, a vice president at the White Coat Waste Project, which clashed with Fauci over allegedly inhumane experimentation on beagles, told The Post he believes the doctor could face federal charges for allegedly lying to Congress about his use of his personal email.

“There’s still hope for prosecuting Fauci. While the five year statute has run out on his gain of function lies, he also could be charged for lying to Congress in 2024 about not using his personal email for NIH business,” Goodman said.

“White Coat Waste obtained emails through the Freedom of Information Act proving that he told a Washington Post reporter covering the beaglegate scandal to get his personal Gmail address to discuss [the topic]. The five-year statute for lying to Congress in 2024 would end in 2029.”

Goodman said that “at the federal and state level, there are still opportunities to hold him criminally accountable for the COVID coverup,” and that state officials also could have opportunities to charge Fauci for his remarks to them over the years.

State offenses are not covered by federal pardons.

“There are other opportunities. We just need people who have the political will to pursue them to take the reins,” Goodman said.

The Post requested comment from a number previously associated with Fauci, but received no response. (DOJ weighing new criminal case against Dr. Fauci -- despite Biden's autopen pardon and statute of limitations.)

While Fauci deserves to be brought to justice in this life, the fact remains that convincing a jury that he lied about anything—no less the fact that he lied about everything—would, in my view as  being likely as nailing Jell-O brand gelatin desert to the wall. However, Fauci, the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite, statist stooge of the Chicoms and who has displayed a smug arrogance at every point during the last six years, going so far as to the boast “I represent the science” (see Anthony Fauci Science Comments) is going to be judged justly at the moment of his Particular Judgment by the Just Judge Who is Christ the King. All his machinations, his lies, his cunning strategies of deception and obfuscation, his personal responsibility for the deaths of thousands upon thousands of patients, and for the economic impact his lockdown policies had for millions of ordinary middle class Americans will laid bare before his eyes, and he will find, as will each of us when we die and face our own Particular Judgment, that obstinate arrogance will be of no use to man whose public career has been dedicated to playing the lives of human guinea pigs to create “vaccines” from which he has profited handsomely over the decades.

Some states, such as Louisiana and Oklahoma, however, are attempting to use the lessons of the past six years to open up the records of the number of deaths caused by vaccines that many coroners are cover up by labeling as “cause of death unknown,” “sudden death,” “unexpected death, “died by natural causes,” “cardiac arrest,” etc.:

Two states this week moved to require that vaccine records be included in the autopsy reports of children who die from unexplained causes.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed a bill requiring medical examiners to document recent immunizations on the death certificates of children who died from unknown causes.

On Thursday, a Louisiana bill, “A Voice for the Voiceless,” passed the House with a 76-12 vote. The Senate unanimously passed the bill in March. It’s now headed to the desk of Gov. Jeff Landry, who is expected to sign it.

Current law requires coroners who designate a death as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Sudden Unexpected Infant Death, Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome or Sudden Death in the Young — all of which refer to a sudden death with no discernible cause — to report the death and designation to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Oklahoma and Louisiana bills amend the existing public health law by directing coroners to document any vaccines administered within 90 days of death on autopsy reports for children under age 15 who died unexpectedly and without explanation.

Medical researcher and SIDS expert Neil Z. Miller, author of numerous books on vaccine safety, told The Defender in an earlier interview that “of course” such legislation is a good idea.

“A child never dies from ‘unknown causes,’” Miller said. “There is always a reason for death. Often, that reason is vaccines. But medical examiners may be ‘hesitant’ to list vaccines as the probable cause due to intense pressure from medical colleagues.”

The legislation would relieve that pressure.

Other states have introduced similar bills, but they appear to have all stalled:

Louisiana proactive in investigating link between infant deaths and vaccines

In a post on X congratulating Patrick McMath, the state senator who sponsored the bill, Stand for Health Freedom wrote, “Next stop: Governor Landry’s desk. With his signature, Louisiana becomes the first state to include this vital information in the reporting of unexplained child deaths.”

McMath told The Defender the legislation will allow the state “to gather data and see whether or not a correlation exists” between vaccines and sudden infant and child death.

Landry’s office did not immediately respond to The Defender’s inquiry about whether he plans to sign the bill. However, Landry has been a strong advocate for health freedom.

As attorney general, Landry sued then-Gov. John Bel Edwards to stop COVID-19 vaccines from being added to the state’s school immunization schedule.

Landry also filed an amicus brief in support of Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) groundbreaking lawsuit against the legacy news media members of the Trusted News Initiative.

Louisiana has been proactive in investigating the link between infant and child deaths and vaccines. In 2024, the House passed a bill requesting that the Louisiana Department of Health conduct a study examining the relationship between unexpected deaths of infants and children, ages 2 and under, and the administration of vaccinations.

It was also under Landry that the Louisiana Department of Public Health shared its infant mortality data and immunization with CHD’s science team.

An analysis of that data found that infants vaccinated in their second month of life were more likely to die in their third month than unvaccinated infants. Female and Black infants died at higher rates than male or white babies.

In other states that have introduced bills similar to Louisiana’s, legislators cited CHD’s study as key in demonstrating why such information ought to be included in autopsy reports.

Research, data support link between vaccines and SIDS

A SIDS diagnosis is given when an infant under age 1 dies suddenly, typically during sleep, and an investigation into the death fails to yield a cause. Ninety-five percent of SIDS deaths occur in the first six months of life, peaking at ages 2-4 months.

Each year, the U.S. records more than five infant deaths per 1,000 live births, far exceeding rates in other high-income countries.

The CDC’s monitoring of the sudden deaths of infants and young people is not comprehensive. A recent study published in JAMA Network Open found that the CDC underestimates the rate of sudden unexplained deaths in childhood and that certification of sudden unexplained pediatric deaths is inconsistent.

After birth defects and prematurity, SIDS is the third leading cause of death among infants. The medical industry claims to remain puzzled about the cause.

Recent research hypothesizes that infants with underdeveloped liver pathways may be more susceptible to SIDS after vaccination, because their bodies lack the ability to process toxic chemicals present in small quantities in vaccines.

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program — which compensates people injured by vaccines — recently awarded payouts to two families of infants who died suddenly from allegedly “undetermined” causes, according to the medical examiners, following vaccination.

The SIDS diagnosis didn’t exist until the late 1960s, when the category was created in response to a rise in sudden unexplained infant deaths.

In the early 1960s, the number of vaccines administered to most U.S. infants increased. The federal government began appropriating money so the CDC could work with local health departments to vaccinate all children.

In 1972, the agency designated the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) as a federal advisory committee. ACIP makes the recommendations for vaccines to be listed on the childhood immunization schedule.

In 1979, officials removed vaccination as possible cause of SIDS

As SIDS rates rose, so did parental concern that SIDS was connected to vaccination. However, health officials assured parents that unexplained death following vaccination was “merely coincidental,” according to Miller’s research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Toxicology Reports.

He also said that before 1979, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) included cause-of-death classifications associated with “prophylactic vaccination” as an official cause of death.

However, in 1979, the ICD was revised and that category was eliminated. As a result, “medical examiners are compelled to misclassify and conceal vaccine-related fatalities under alternate cause-of-death classifications,” Miller said.

Instead of examining the link between vaccines and SIDS, public health researchers developed a “triple-risk model” for explaining SIDS.

According to that model, SIDS occurs when a baby has an unknown medical condition, is going through an important period of development where the body changes quickly, and it encounters an outside stressor, such as sleeping on its stomach.

Because this model offers the prevailing theory on causes of infant death, it’s not uncommon for law enforcement to blame parents when babies die after vaccination.

Police are not educated about possible links between vaccination and SIDS, and information about vaccination is typically not included in coroner’s reports — a gap the new legislation will correct. (Oklahoma, Louisiana to Require Coroners Include Vaccine Records in SIDS Autopsies.)

This is good news except when one considers the fact that three of the four states (Mississippi, Iowa, and Florida)  where bills similar to those passed in Louisiana and Oklahoma are “red” states where Big Pharm still holds great sway over state legislators because of its ability to generate well-time campaign donors, who are hoping that the Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship will give them another opportunity to put totalitarianism back into action in the name of "global public health" (see Hantavirus Outbreak on MV Hondius Cruise Ship).

Although the whole scademic and its aftermath have been exploited by leaders in the United States of America and around the world to their own maximum benefits, nations can never be made “safe” from any threats to public health and safety when people sin unrepentantly and, quite indeed, are defiant in their mockery of all that is true and in their arrogant celebrate that which brings disorder into their own lives and thus spread a pandemic of spiritual diseases throughout the world, sin, which is why we must be intent upon making reparation for our own sins as we resolve to cooperate more fully with graces won for by Our Lord during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday and He sends us through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, the Mediatrix of All Graces, by the working of God the Ghost in the sacraments.

It is always good, therefore, to keep in mind that the chastisements of this age in which mere mortals play God and treat fellow men as objects to used, experimented upon, or disposed of at will are punishments for our own sins, our own worldliness, our own lukewarmness, our own reluctance to seek to grow in virtue and sanctity. We are more to blame for the problems that exist in these our days than we would like to admit, which is why we must rejoice in the midst of suffering and persecution as this is a sign that Our Lord is done not with us, that we are not reprobated to have a “good time” here in preparation for a very bad time without end hereafter.

Most importantly, of course, is the fact that we are never alone in any suffering that we are asked to bear. We have Our Lady, Saint Joseph, our Guardian Angels and Patron Saints, and a whole host of canonized and uncanonized white and red martyrs in the Church Triumphant in Heaven and in the Church Suffering in Purgatory to help to love God more purely, obey Him more readily, and serve Him more willingly.

Unlike the merciless men of a merciless world, we know that we are at the mercy of Our Divine Redeemer, Whose Most Sacred Heart beats with inexpressible, personal love for us, and that we are the beneficiaries of the intercessory prayers of the Queen of Mercy, Our Lady, who cooperated fully in her Divine Son’s Redemptive Act on Mount Calvary, she who is the Queen of Martyrs given to us by her Divine Son Himself to be our own Blessed Mother as she stood so valiantly at the good of His Holy Cross.

Thus, we beg Our Lady to help us recognize that nothing we suffer in this passing, mortal vale of tears is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused her Divine Son to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His fearful Passion and Death and that caused her own Immaculate Heart to become us the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart as she suffered the Seven Swords of Sorrow to be thrust through it out of love for God and love for us, her spiritual children by adoption.

Every Rosary we pray helps to plant a few seeds for the miraculous conversion of men and their nations to submit themselves as of yore to Christ the King and for the restoration of a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter to whom all men will reverence and obey, not mock and defy.

Our Lady of the Rosary, for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Jude, pray for us.

Saint John the Beloved, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Pancratius, and Domitilla, pray for us.

 

Appendix

Dom Prosper Gueranger on Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Pancratius, and Domiilla

So far in our Paschal Season, the choir of Martyr-Virgins has not yet offered to Jesus its crown of roses and lilies. It does so today, by presenting to him the noble Flavia Domitilla—the fairest flower of Rome, that was cut down by the sword of martyrdom in the first age of the Christian Faith. It was under the persecution of Domitian—the same that condemned John the Evangelist to be burned alive in the cauldron of boiling oil—that Flavia Domitilla was honored with banishment and death for the sake of our Redeemer, whom she had chosen as her Spouse. She was of the Imperial family, being a niece of Flavius Clemens, who adorned the Consular dignity by martyrdom. She was one of the Christians belonging to the court of the Emperor Domitian, who show us how rapidly the Religion of the poor and humble made its way to the highest classes of Roman life. A few years previous to this, St. Paul sent to the Christians of Philippi the greetings of the Christians of Nero’s palace. (Philippians 4:22)

There is still extant, not far from Rome, on the Ardeatine Way, the magnificent subterraneous Cemetery, which Flavia Domitilla ordered to be dug on her Prædium, and in which were buried the two Martyrs, Nereus and Achilleus, whom the Church honors today together with the noble Virgin, who owes her crown to them.

Nereus and Achilleus were in Domitilla’s service. [The Acts of these two Saints—which were drawn up long after their Martyrdom, and on which were formed the Lessons of today’s Office—call them “Eunuchs:” but it is a mistake of the compiler, who belongs to the 5th or 6th Century. The introduction of Eunuchs into the Imperial Court, and into the Roman families, is of a later date than the reign of Domitian.] Hearing them one day speaking on the merit of Virginity, she there and then bade farewell to all worldly pleasures, and aspired to the honor of being the Spouse of Christ. She received the Veil of consecrated Virgins from the hands of Pope St. Clement: Nereus and Achilleus had been baptized by St. Peter himself. What glorious reminiscences for one day!

The bodies of these three Saints reposed, for several centuries, in the Basilica, called the Fasciola, on the Appian Road; and we have a Homily which St. Gregory the Great preached in his Church on their Feast. The Holy Pontiff dwelt on the vanity of this earth’s goods; he encouraged his audience to despise them by the example of the three Martyrs, whose Relics lay under the very Altar around which they were that day assembled. “These Saints,” said he, “before whose Tomb we are now standing, trampled, with contempt of soul, on the world and its flowers. Life was then long, health was uninterrupted, riches were abundant, parents were blessed with many children; and yet, though the world was so flourishing in itself, it had long been a withered thing in their hearts.” (Homily 28, in Evang)

Later on, the Fasciola having been almost reduced to ruins by the disasters that had befallen Rome, the bodies of the three Saints were translated, in the 13th Century, to the Church of St. Adrian, in the Forum. There they remained till the close of the 16th Century, when the great Baronius, who had been raised to the Cardinalate, with the Title of Saints Nereus and Achilleus, resolved to repair the Church that was thus entrusted to his care. Through his munificence, the naves were restored; the history of the three Martyrs was painted on the walls; the marble pulpit, from which St. Gregory preached the Homily, was brought back, and the Homily itself was graven, from beginning to end, on the back; and the Confession was enriched with mosaics and precious marbles, preparatory to its receiving the sacred Relics, of which it had been deprived for three hundred years.

Baronius felt that it was high time to put an end to the long exile of the holy Martyrs, whose honor was not made so specially dear to him. He organized a formal triumph for their return. Christian Rome excels in the art of blending together the forms of classic antiquity and the sentiments inspired by Faith. The chariot, bearing a superb canopy, under which lay the Relics of the three Martyrs, was first led to the Capitol. On reaching the top of the clivus Capitolinus, the eye met two Inscriptions, placed parallel with each other. On one were these words: “To Saint Flavia Domitilla, Virgin and Martyr of Rome, the Capitol, purified from the wicked worship of demons and restored more perfectly than by Flavius Vespasian and Domitian, Emperors, kinsmen of the Christian Virgin.” On the other: “The Senate and People of Rome to Saint Flavia Domitilla, Virgin and Martyr of Rome, who, by allowing herself to be put to death by fire, for the Faith of Christ, brought greater glory to Rome, than did her kinsmen, the Emperors Flavius Vespasian and Domitian, when, at their own expense, they restored the Capitol, that had twice suffered from fire.”

The Reliquaries of the Martyrs were then put on an altar that had been erected near the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. After being venerated by the Faithful, they were replaced on the chariot, which descended by the opposite side of the Capitol. The Procession soon reached the triumphal arch of Septimus Severus, on which were hung these two inscriptions:

“To the holy Martyrs, Flavia Domitilla, Nereus and Achilleus, the best of citizens, the Senate and People of Rome, for their having honored the Roman name by their glorious death, and won peace for the Roman commonwealth by shedding their blood.”

“To Flavia Domitilla, Nereus and Achilleus, the invincible Martyrs of Christ Jesus, the Senate and People of Rome, for their having honored the City by the noble testimony they bore to the Christian Faith.”

Following the Via Sacra, the Procession was soon in front of the triumphal Arch of Titus, the monument of God’s victory over the deicide nation. On one side there were inscribed these words: “This triumphal Arch, formerly dedicated and raised to the Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasian, for his having brought the rebellious Judea under the yoke of the Roman people, is now, by the Senate and People of Rome, more auspiciously dedicated and consecrated to Flavia Domitilla, kind woman of the same Titus, for having, by her death, increased and furthered the Christian Religion.”

On the other side of the Arch, there was the following inscription:

 “To Flavia Domitilla, Virgin and Martyr of Rome, kinswoman of the Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasian, the Senate and People of Rome, for her having, by the shedding her blood and laying down her life for the Faith, rendered a more glorious homage to the death of Christ, than did the said Titus, when, by a divine inspiration, he destroyed Jerusalem, to avenge that same Death.”

Leaving on the left the Colosseum—the hallowed ground whereon so many Martyrs had fought the battle of Faith—they passed under the triumphal Arch of Constantine, which so eloquently speaks of the victory of Christianity, both in Rome and the Empire, and which still bears on it the name of the Flavia family, of which the first Christian Emperor was a member. The two following inscriptions were attached to the Arch.

“To Flavia Domitilla, Nereus and Achilleus, the Senate and People of Rome. On this Sacred Way—whereon so many Roman Emperors received triumphal honors for having brought various provinces into subjection to the Roman People—these Martyrs are receiving today a more glorious triumph, for that they conquered, by a greater courage, the conquerors themselves.”

“To Flavia Domitilla, the Senate and People of Rome. Twelv Emperors, her kinsman, conferred honor on the Flavia family and on Rome herself, by their deeds of fame; but she, by sacrificing all human honors and life itself, for Christ’s sake, rendered greater service to both family and City than they.”

The Procession then continued its route along the Appian Way, and at length reached the Basilica. Baronius, assisted by a great number of Cardinals, received the precious Relics, and took them with great respect to the Confession of the High Altar. Meanwhile the Choir sang this Antiphon of the Pontifical: “Come in, ye Saints of God! for a dwelling hath been prepared for you by the Lord. The faithful people have followed you on your way, that ye may intercede for them with the Majesty of the Lord. Alleluia!”

The following is the account of our three Martyrs, as given in the Liturgy.

Nereus and Achilleus, brothers, were in the service of Flavia Domitilla, and were baptized, together with her and her mother Plautilla, by St. Peter. They persuaded Domitilla to consecrate her virginity to God; in consequence of which, they were accused of being Christians, by Aurelian to whom she was betrothed. They made an admirable confession of their Faith, and were banished to the Isle of Pontia. There they were once again examined, and were condemned to be flogged. They were, shortly afterwards, taken to Terracina; and, by orders of Minucius Rufus, were hoisted on the rack and tormented with burning torches. On their resolutely declaring that, having been baptized by blessed Peter the Apostle, no tortures should ever induce them to offer sacrifice to idols, they were beheaded. Their bodies were taken to Rome, by their disciple Auspicius, Domitilla’s tutor, and were buried on the Ardeantine Way.

Flavia Domitilla, a Roman lady, and niece of the Emperors Titus and Domitian, received the holy veil of virginity from the blessed Pope Clement. She was accused of being a Christian, by Aurelian, to whom she was promised in marriage, and who was a son of the Consul Titus Aurelius. The Emperor Domitian banished her to the Isle of Pontia, where she suffered a long martyrdom in prison. She was finally taken to Terracina, where she again confessed Christ. Finding that her constancy was not to be shaken, the judge ordered the house where she lodged to be set on fire; and thus she, together with two virgins, her foster-sisters, Theodora and Euphrosyna, completed her glorious martyrdom, on the ninth of the nones of May (May 7th), during the reign of the Emperor Trajan. Their bodies were found entire, and were buried by a Deacon, named Cæsarius. But this is the day on which the bodies of the two brothers and that of Domitilla were translated from the Diaconia of Saint Adrian to the Basilica, called Fasciola.

How grand was the triumph which Rome gave to you, O holy Martyrs, so many centuries after your glorious deaths! How true it is, that there is no glory here on earth, which can bear comparison with that of the Saints! Where are now those twelve Emperors, thy kinsmen, O Domitilla? Who cares about their remains? Who even cherishes their memory? One of them was surnamed “the delight of mankind;” and now, how many are there who never heard of his existence? Another, the last of the twelve, had the glory of proclaiming the victory won by the Cross, over the Roman Empire; Christian Rome honors and loves his name; but the homage of religious devotion is not given to him, but to thee, O Domitilla, and to the two Martyrs whose names are now associated with thine.

Who does not recognize the power of Jesus’ Resurrection, in the love and enthusiasm wherewith a whole people welcome your holy Relics, O Martyrs of the Living God? Fifteen hundred years had elapsed; and yet your lifeless remains were greeted with a transport of joy, as though you yourselves were there, and living. It was because we Christians know that Jesus, who is the first-born of the dead (Apocalypse 1:5) has risen from the grave; and that you also are one day to rise glorious like him. Therefore do the Faithful honor, by anticipation, the immortality which, at a future period, is to be given to your Bodies, slain as they were for Jesus’ sake; they already see, by faith, the future brightness which is to be imparted to your Flesh; and in all this, they are proclaiming the dignity which the Redemption has given to man, to whom Death is now but a transition to true Life, and the Tomb but a resting place where the Body is consigned, as seed to the earth, to be restored in a hundred-fold of richer beauty.

Happy they who, as the prophecy says, have washed their robes, and have made them white in the Blood of the Lamb! (Apocalypse 7:14) But happier they, says holy Church, who, after being thus purified, have mingled their own blood with that of the Divine Victim! for by so doing, they have filled up, in their flesh, those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ. (Colossians 1:24) Hence, their intercession is powerful, and we should address our prayers to them with love and confidence. Befriend us, then, O holy Martyrs Nereus, Achilleus and Domitilla! Obtain for us an ardent love for our Risen Jesus; perseverance in the New Life he has conferred upon us; detachment from the things of this world, and a determined resolution to trample them beneath our feet, should they become a danger to our eternal salvation. Pray for us, that we may be courageous in resisting our spiritual enemies, ever ready to defend our holy Faith, and earnest in our endeavors to gain that Kingdom, which is to be borne away by violence. (Matthew 11:12) Be you the Defenders of the holy Roman Church, which fervently celebrates your memory each year. You, Nereus and Achilleus, were converts of Peter; and thou, Domitilla, wast the spiritual daughter of Clement, Peter’s successor: protect the Pontiff who now governs the Church—the Pontiff in whom Peter still lives—the Pontiff, the Successor of Clement. Dispel the storms which are threatening the Cross on the Capitol, and pray for the inhabitants of Rome, that they may be staunch to the Faith. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, May12.)