Conferring "Legitimacy" on All That is Illegitimate

This is my promised commentary about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's decision to create a special chair for King Charles III of the United Kingdom and Great Britain in the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls. 

There is much familiar ground covered in this commentary, but there are others that have not been mentioned in previous commentaries.

A blessed Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost and Commemorations of Saint Peter of Alcantara and of the Propagation of the Faith to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Sainr Peter of Alcantara, pray for us.

Conferring "Legitimacy" on All That is Illegitimate

This is my promised commentary about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's decision to create a special chair for King Charles III of the United Kingdom and Great Britain in the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls. 

There is much familiar ground covered in this commentary, but there are others that have not been mentioned in previous commentaries.

A blessed Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost and Commemorations of Saint Peter of Alcantara and of the Propagation of the Faith to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Sainr Peter of Alcantara, pray for us.

From December 26, 2021: Scuttling Apostolicae Curae? Nothing is Settled in Jorge's False Church Unless It Is "Settled" According to the Dictates of Modernism

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV keeps showing himself quite the worthy successor of the late and entirely unlamented Jorge Mario Bergoglio as he has appointed Blase Cupich to the commission governing the State of Vatican City just weeks after Cupich had announced his decision to bestow an award upon the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite demagogue named Richard Durbin (see This Did Not Just Happen, part one, and This Did Not Just Happen, part two) and has appointed a presbyter who supports the ontological impossibility of “women priests” to be the sodomite-friendly Christoph Schonborn as the conciliar “archbishop” of Vienna.

The coup-de-grace, however, is that the Chicago-area native and horse fancier who seemed as delighted as a little boy to receive gift of a thoroughbred Arabian horse a few days ago (see Leo XIV receives purebred Arabian horse from Polish donor, is creating a special chair for King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in which to sit for “ecumenical” services at the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls in Rome:

 Pope Leo XIV is set to do something unprecedented when King Charles III takes part in his official visit next week.

Leo is designating Charles, the head of the Church of England, as a “royal confrater” of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls, one of the four papal basilicas. To that end Charles will be granted the use of a special, permanent chair.

Charles will also pray alongside the Pope in the Sistine Chapel as part of a public “ecumenical service.”

“It will mark a significant moment in relations between the Catholic Church and Church of England, of which His Majesty is Supreme Governor, recognising the ecumenical work they have undertaken and reflecting the Jubilee year’s theme of walking together as ‘Pilgrims of Hope,’” said a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace.

The two will also take part in a private meeting to discuss “climate sustainability,” according to Reuters. (Leo gives Charles III, head of Church of England, permanent chair at papal basilica.)

There are several dimensions to this scandal, not the least is the fact that decisions such as this one prove that the conciliar revolutionaries really believe that Pope Leo XIII’s declaration n Apostolicae Curae, September 15, 1887, that Anglican “orders” are utterly null and void” has been “eclipsed” with the “passage of time.” If not on de jure basis quite yet, the lords of conciliarism consider the heretical and schismatic Church of England as legitimate and a fully valid means of sanctification and salvation in a de facto manner.

As I will need a full day to prove my contention in this regard and to deal with Charles III’s lifelong support for “population control,” I am dusting off a commentary from 2021 about what appeared to be Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s desire to scuttle Apostolicae Curae once and for all. Check back in about twenty-four hours for the new commentary, which pushes back my commentary about Dilexi te for another day or so.

I have not revised the tenses in this republished commentary to reflect Bergolio’s death nearly six months ago.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Luke the Evangelist, pray for us.

On the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, October 18, 2025

Today, Saturday, October 18, 2025, is the Feast of Saint Luke. This is a brief reflection on the evangelist who is symbolized as a winged ox. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Luke the Evangelist, pray for us.

On the Feast of On the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus's Suffering Servant: Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, October 17, 2025

Do you think that you have sufferings from family members or associates?

The saint whose feast is celebrated today, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, was favored with visions of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in her childhood, and he believed this to have been a normal experience that any child might have. Even as a child, therefore, this favored child of Our Lord's was blessed with tremendous sufferings from a pair of domineering paternal aunts, who persecuted her and her mother after her father's death. This early childhood suffering, which was accompanied by a physical affliction that left her bedridden for four years, was just a preparation for the suffering that Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque endured to spread public devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus at the specific request of Our Lord Himself.

The hearts of men had grown cold because of Jansenism when Our Lord revealed the secrets of His Most Sacred Heart to Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque in the Visitation Convent in Paray le Monial, France, between December of 1673 and June of 1685. We cannot let our own love for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus grow cold in our hearts. We must forgive as we are forgiven, and we must remember the high price of infidelity that France paid for the refusal of King Louis XIV to consecrate the whole of France, and not just Paris, to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (as is related in an appendix to this article).

The next original article? 

Well, the subject is long and thus its completion is taking longer than I thought it would. Thank you for your patience.

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, an intimate of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and a faithful client of Our Lady through her Most Holy Rosary, pray fo

The Path to True Peace: Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary

This is a follow-up commentary to Peace Without the Prince of Peace is No Real Peace At All, which was published six days ago.

I should have an commentary providing an overview of Dilexi te, October 4, 2025, by this time tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hedwig, pray for us.

On the Feast of the Inimitable, Indominable Reformer of Carmel, Saint Teresa of Jesus, October 15, 2025

This is a reflection of the life and the incomparable work of Sain't Teresa of Jesus, the indomitable, incomparable reformer, foundress and model of spiritual perfection, Saint Teresa of Avila.

Here are references to two books about Saint Teresa of Avila apart from her works that are cited in my own reflection:

The Life of Saint Teresa (by a Carmelite nun; preface Mons. R. H. Benson) – pdf, text, kindle format

The Life and Letters of St. Teresa (Fr. H. J. Coleridge) – pdf, text, kindle format: vol. Ivol. IIvol. III

A new commentary continues to be written. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Teresa of Jesus, pray for us.

Leo’s Cavalry Is Not Coming to the Rescue of Believing Catholics

Although this commentary, which focuses on the conciliar sect’s dogmatizing every leftist shibboleth imaginable while terming a faithful adherence to Catholic doctrine as “ideology,” mentions Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s “apostolic exhortation” Dilexi te, a more complete analysis of this work of pure naturalism will follow in a few days. This commentary has been revised slightly in one place since its original posting a little over twelve hours ago.

Please scroll below for three republished articles on the Miracle of the Sun, which took place in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, on this date one hundred eight years ago.

Another donation was received earlier today, Monday, October 13, 2025, reducing the amount that I need to raise by Wednesday, October 15, 2025, the Feast of Saint Teresa of Jesus, is now $600. Any amount at all is helpful. Thank you. Please see the Donations page for details.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor: Always at the Service of the Queen of Heaven and Earth

This is the feast day of one of the great exemplars of the Social Reign of Christ the King: Saint Edward the Confessor, and this is the one hundred sixth eighth anniversary of Our Lady's Fatima sixth and final Fatima apparition during which the Miracle of the Sun occurred.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Queen of Heaven Does Not Act on Her Own, October 13, 2025

This is a reflection on the one hundred eighth anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, as the Miracle of the Sun occurred and she, clothed in the garment of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, proclaimed herself to be Our Lady of the Rosary.

We need to heed Our Lady's Fatima Message as it is nothing other than Heaven's own Peace Plan. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.

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