As promised, this is my rather lengthy commentary about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s elegy of praise to the contemporary motion picture industry, much of which produced so many evil films eighty-nine years ago that Pope Pius XI warned us in Vigilanti Cura that the moral fiber of entire nations was being corrupted.

Films that graphically display, promote, celebrate and glorify the evils of our own day predominate in 2025, but one would never know this from the address Prevost/Leo gave to those in the motion picture industry on Saturday, November 15, 2025, the Feast of Saint Albert the Great and the Commemoration of Our Lady of Divine Providence.

A blessed Feast of the Dedication of the Churches of Saints Peter and Paul to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Update on Sunday evening, November 16, 2025: Although I have begun work on Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's mind-boggling ode to the modern motion picture industry without making any mention of the evils it promotes, including outright blasphemy and incentives to commit all manner of sins against Holy Purity, I cannot do the commentary justice at 11:44 p.m. without staying up for the next four hours. Suffice it to say for the moment, that the bubble in which the likes of the current universal public face of apostasy and betrayal live seems to be completely detached from reality, most especially the reality of the incalculable harm that modern "popular culture" has done to entirety of a truly just social order, to say nothing of the souls who have been corrupted to the point of going to hell for all eternity because of the damage inflicted by the blasphemous, obscene, impure, and indecent productions, both motion picture and television, emananting from "Hollywood." Please check back around this time tomorrow for the next commentary. Finally, non-tax-deductible financial gifts are always welcomed and needed. Thank you.]

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV said a week ago that the conciliar liturgy had to conform to “existing norms.”

Yes, the conciliar revolutionaries are still trying to make the abomination of desolation “reverent.”

Lotsa luck!

The hour is late. I hope to another commentary published tomorrow or Tuesday.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Gertude the Great, pray for us.

This is a revised, updated, and expanded reflection on the life and martrydom of Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, whose feast is celebrated today.

Saint Jospahat Kuncewicz did what conciliarism forbids, namely, seeking the conversion of the heretical and schismatic Orthodox to the Catholic Church, she who is the one and only true Church founded by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope. 

The current pretender in Rome, Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, has carried on the conciliar "tradition" of claiming that the Orthodox churches are simply a branch of "Christianity." This brief reflection refutes that false contention. Indeed, the very life of Saint Jospahat Kuncewicz is a refutation of that false contention.

A new commentary, From Richard Milhous Nixon to Kenneth Lauren Burns: It Never Pays to be Ignorant of True History, was published around 3:00 p.m., yesterday, the Feast of Saint Didacus and, in some places. the Feast of Saint Stanislaus Kostka. I have started work on another two commentaries, but I won't have the first of those two ready for posting until Saturday, November 15, 2025, the Feast of Saint Albert the Great, one of my own patron saints. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, pray for us.

Well, I promised that I have would have a commentary for you today, but I did not think that it would be in the middle of the afternoon.

Nevertheless, though, this commentary discusses filmmaker Kenneth Lauren Burns’s statement that the American Revolution was the greatest event in history “since the birth of Christ.” At least Burns acknowledged the Nativity of Our Lord as a great historical event as then President Richard Milhous Nixon, who referred to himself as “RN,” told the Apollo 11 astronauts upon their return to earth on July 24, 1969, after the first lunar landing that “This has been the greatest week since Genesis,” skipping right over the Incarnation, Nativity, Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Whether it is “RN” or Kenneth Lauren Burns, though, it never pays to be ignorant of true history.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Didacus, pray for us.

Saint Stanislaus Kostka, pray for us.

Human respect was the subject of Father Francis X. Weninger's first sermon for the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, which was commemorated three days ago on Sunday, November 9, 2025, the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of the Holy Saviour (Basilica di San Giovanni Laterano), and I believe that this is a subject that must be near and dear to the heart of every Catholic so as to avoid compromising with the pluralistic spirit of religious indifferentism in the world and within the counterfeit church of conciliarism. 

This commentary has been updated slightly since its original posting, including noting the fact that Bishop Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, Red China, was consecrated in 1981 in the traditional rite, not 1990 as I had written erroneously earlier. I apologize for this mistake. 

I hope to have another original commentary for you tomorrow, Thursday, November 13, 2025, the Feast of Saint Didacus, as I reiterate the urgent need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Martin I, pray for us.

I am working on my next original commentary, but I have decided not to continue work thirty minutes after Midnight on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, the Feast of Saint Martin of Tours and the Commemoration of Saint Mennas.

Thus, I am providing readers with access to Dom Prosper Gueranger’s and Father Francis X. Weninger’s respective reflection on one of the most celebrated bishops of the First Millennium, Saint Martin of Tours.

Finally, there is a need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. It is necessary to raise over $1500 now. Please help if at all possible.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Martin of Tours, pray for us.

Saint Mennas, pray for us.

The resist while recognize empire is in full resist while recognize mode these days after Victor Manuel Fernandez issued Mater Populi Fidelis on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, the Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo, with the approval of Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV. Many within the resistosphere, shall we say, have taken a “pass” on the Jansenist document that denies the title of Our Lady as the Co-Redemptrix and as the Mediatrix of All Graces and has so very much in common with the Jansenists of the Sorbonne in 1696 who attacked The Mystical City of God for many reasons, but especially for referencing the non-ecumenical titles of Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces.

The purpose of this commentary, therefore, is to remind readers that a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter is to be reverenced and obeyed, not disparaged and defied as one of the most tragic consequences of the conciliar revolution has been the destruction of the sensus Catholicus concerning the nature of the papacy and the obedience that Catholics must render to one who is a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter. The “resist while recognize” movement has succeeded in reducing the papacy instituted by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to the level of the American presidency or to the level of a prime minister in a country with a parliamentary-ministerial system of government.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Andrew Avellino, pray for us.

Saint Respicus, Nympha, and Tryphon, pray for us.

Given the fact that another exercise in the farce of naturalism has taken place, I thought that it would be useful reprise a contrast the promise made by kings contained in Catholic Coronation Rite as found in the 1896 Pontificale Romanum to “cut off the mass of iniquity” with our own very blithe and passive acceptance of the “mass of iniquity” as evil keeps being advanced, whether at an accelerated rate by the coercive power of the civil state or at more imperceptible rate by means of its being institutionalized slowly so that people can become used to its acceptance, no matter which organized crime family of naturalism is in power.

There is also a brief reflection about the Last Gospel that is read today (the Gospel passage from the Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost) that fits very well into the subject of this study and there is an appendix containing Dom Prosper Gueranger's reflection on today's feast, the Dedication of the Basilica of the Divine Saviour--the Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Theodore, pray for us. 

This is a commentary about the off-year elections, which prove once again that men and their nations must fall into the abyss if they do not submit themselves with humility and docility to all that Holy Mother Church teaches infallibly in the Holy Name of her Divine Founder, Invisible Head, and Mystical Bridegroom, Christ the King.

I remind the multitudes that paperback version of A Study of Dom Prosper Gueranger's Detailed Defense of The Mystical City of God has been published. The back cover needs some work, shall we say. However, I am pleased that the front cover was sized properly, which was the reason I have been unable to publish the book until last evening. The book is very timely given the fact that Mater Populi Fidelis is redolent with the Jansenism of the doctors at the Sorbonne who attacked The Mystical City of God in the 1690s. Thus, another "best selling" epic has been published. (Not!)

Our Lady, Queen of All Saints, pray for us.

The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs, pray for us.

This is the concluding part of my two-part series discussing the monstrously blasphemous Mater Populi Fidelis.

This part focuses on the denial of Our Lady as the Mediatrix of All Graces.

Now, I may not have a commentary about the off-year elections and the death of the great warmonger named Richard Bruce Cheney, who was the naturalistic opposite of The Great Appeaser, James Earl Carter, Jr., until Friday, November 7, 2025, within the Octave of All Saints and the First Friday in the month of November.

Importantly,  a reader sent me to a truly manificent book, Our Lady: Mediatrix of All Graces, written by Father Raphael O'Connell, S.J., that was published in 1926: Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces. The book is under one hundred thirty pages in length and is written in a very clear and easy to understand mannner. I recommend to everyone as an antidote to Mater Fidelis Populi.

Finally, the paperback version of A Study of Dom Prosper Gueranger's Detailed Defense of The Mystical City of God has been published. The back cover needs some work, shall we say. However, I am pleased that the front cover was sized properly, which was the reason I have been unable to publish the book until last evening. The book is very timely given the fact that Mater Populi Fidelis is redolent with the Jansenism of the doctors at the Sorbonne who attacked The Mystical City of God in the 1690s. Thus, another "best selling" epic has been published. (Not!)

Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces, pray for us.

Blessed Martin de Porres, whose feast is observed in the Archdiocese of New Orleans today, pray for us.

The Holy Relics, pray for us.