The title of this detailed commentary is rather self-explanatory,

However, this commentary refutes “Bishop” Robert Barron’s utter nonsense about the late Mario Matthew Cuomo’s having “agonized” about supporting the execution of innocent human beings under the cover of the civil law and, as well, explains that Lifesite News is simply flat-out wrong in asserting that Mario Matthew Cuomo popularized the “I am personally opposed to abortion but” canard that he only adopted after being persuaded to do so by his political mentor, then New York Governor Hugh Leo Carey, who, unlike Cuomo who died utterly unrepentant about his support fo two of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vegeance, later repented on his support for baby-killing.

As one who followed Mario Matthew Cuomo’s long career of betraying the Holy Faith (and then spoke demagogically about those who criticized him, Cumo, for doing so) and who even ran as lieutenant governor on the Right to Life Line with Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon forty years ago this year, I have stayed up way past my bedtime to review facts that I have discussed in previous articles (and a few new facts about which I had not heretofore written) in context of “Bishop” Barron’s recent remarks calling the late fascistic Governor of New York a “devout Catholic.”

By the way, I prayed for Mario Matthew Cuomo during his lifetime, and I pray for the repose of his immortal soul every day  when I name such Catholics as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Geraldine Anne Ferraro-Zaccaro, and Edward Moore Kennedy. Our Lady always directs the fruit of our prayers for those who have no need of them because they are either in Heaven or Hell, and thus I pray for the souls of those who have most need of our prayers, something I hope that at least a few Catholics will do for me after I die.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Mediatrix of All Graces, knew the contempt that would be visited upon His Divine Grandson, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sent himself into voluntary exile after he was denounced by a priest of the Old Dispensation for not producing a child after twenty years of marriage to his wife, our good Saint Anne.

It was during his exile that Saint Joachim was visited by an angel, who reminded him of the fact that Abraham's wife, Sarah, did not conceive a child until she was ninety years old, telling him that his wife, Saint Anne, would conceive a daughter named Mary, who would be the Mother of God. Saint Joachim and Saint Anne brought their daughter to the Temple when she was three years old, giving their long-awaited child back to the good God Who had given them to her so that she could be the Mother of their own Saviour, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This should teach us to do everything possible to foster vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life among our children, so that we can give them back to God so as to yield a spiritual bounty of souls in His service, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

A new commentary will be posted within minutes of this republished reflection. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, pray for us.

Saint Anne, pray for us.

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She who was conceived without stain of Original Sin and who committed no Actual Sins in her life did not have to have her body undergo the corruption of the grave, although she truly died and was buried after her death.

Separated physically from her Divine Son after His Ascension into Heaven on Ascension Thursday, although she received Him in Holy Communion, Our Lady was Assumed body and soul into Heaven to plead for us with her Divine Son as the Queen of Heaven and of Earth, the Queen to whom every man must pledge his heart's oblation, the Queen whom every nation must honor publicly with Rosary Processions.

 Our Lady wants us to be in Heaven with her for all eternity. She wants our bodies to rise up incorrupt and glorious from the grave on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the Living and Dead so that our bodies can be reunited with our souls for all eternity in the glory of Heaven.

We need to ask her to help us make such perfect reparation for our sins in this passing, mortal vale of tears that we will pay the debt of what we our for our sins now rather than in the fires of Purgatory. We need to ask her to help us to be serious about seeking sanctity as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

What are we waiting for?

Also available for reading on this feast day are: Three Sermons for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. 

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

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

This is the concluding part of a two-part series, but I am just too tired to explain any more than this.

I hope to post another new commentary tomorrow, Saturday, August 15, 2026, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

There is an urgent need to raise seven hundred dollars at this time. Thank you.

Our Lady, Queen Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

Saint Eusebius, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the life of Saint Clare of Assisi that was published oringinally ten years ago. The reflection speaks to the timeless virtues of detachment from the world, self-denial, modesty and a total embrace of holy poverty for love of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His Holy Church.

This reflection emphasizes Saint Clare’s rejection of worldliness and worldly pleasures. No matter what our own sins and failings with respect to worldliness might be now and have been in the past, Saint Clare’s life and holy example inspires us to quit the world once and for all and to prepare for the world to come by storing up treasures in Heaven that do not rust or fade away, and that no thief can take away from us. 

To complete the next original commentary will take at least another six to seven hours of work, which would mean staying up most of the night. After the overnight posting a little over twenty-one hours ago, I am unable to proceed any further with the next commentary now. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Clare of Assisi, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

Blessed Agnes of Prague, pray for us.

This is part one of a two-part series that explains how the widespread acceptance of the medical industry’s manufactured, profit-making myth of “brain death” has led logically over time to variations “redefinitions” of death and, more recently, to outright, undisguised euthanasia as a social “good.”

Also see this two-part video series featuring Dr. Paul A. Byrne discussing the fraud that is “brain death”: VIDEO: Dr. Paul A. Byrne – Is Brain Death Truly Death?

Part two should appear within twenty-four hours.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, pray for us.

Saint Aegdius, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection, written originally in 2009 and revised over the years, to honor our great Wonder Worker, Saint Philomena and also the commemoration of the feast of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna.

Although our Wonder Worker is not on the universal calendar of the Roman Rite, her cultus was confirmed by none other than Pope Saint Pius X. That's good enough for me! Jansenists and rationalists will have to find some other website to surf as this one makes no room for any skepticism about Saint Philomena and the honor and power with which she has been crowned by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

This reflection includes text from a 1945 book, Wonder Worker: Saint Philomena, Virgin Martyr, which was written by Cathy Hallack and published with ecclesiastical approbation of the Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland, in 1945, which takes note of Saint Philomena's vow of virginity, which she made at eleven years of age, and mentions the fact that Diocletian was married to Prisca from 286 A.D. to the time he resigned as Roman emperor in 305 A.D. This means that Diocletian's proposal of marriage was indeed adulterous and bigamous, analogous to that of Herod the Tetrarch himself.

It was thus very touching for us to receive Mass propers for the Wonder Worker's feast from an 1898 Missal that included an entire Mass in her holy honor. This gift was sent to us by a friend of ours, one who does not agree with us concerning the true state of the Church Militant in this time of apostasy and betrayal but has not cast us out into the wilderness and down the Orwellian memory hole as lunatics These Mass propers are a tremendous treasure, one that our friend wanted us to share with true priests so that they can offer her Mass, perhaps as a votive Mass on a ferial day, in honor of our Wonder Worker, Saint Philomena. We thank our friend very much for making these propers available for those true priests who may not have had them prior to now. The link to the Mass text can be found within the body of the republished reflection: Feast of Saint Philomena Mass Propers. A Latin-English translation of these propers completed by Mr. Michael Creighton can be found by clicking here--Latin-English Mass Propers for the Feast of Saint Philomena.)

We are very devoted to Saint Philomena and pray the chaplet in her honor as a family every Saturday evening after Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. I pray her chaplet every day. 

Pope Saint Pius X, who raised the Confraternity of Saint Philomena to an Archconfraternity, told Italian priests in an allocution given in 1912 that no one could claim to be holy while dissenting from the pope:  

Therefore, when we love the Pope, there are no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed; when we love the Pope, we do not say that he has not spoken clearly enough, almost as if he were forced to repeat to the ear of each one the will clearly expressed so many times not only in person, but with letters and other public documents; we do not place his orders in doubt, adding the facile pretext of those unwilling to obey – that it is not the Pope who commands, but those who surround him; we do not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority; we do not set above the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, who, even though learned, are not holy, because whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope. (Pope Saint Pius X, Allocution Vi ringrazio to priests on the 50th anniversary of the Apostolic Union, November 18, 1912, as found at: “Love the Pope!” – no ifs, and no buts: For Bishops, priests, and faithful, Saint Pius X explains what loving the Pope really entails.)

"Whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope."

How ironic it is that those within the Society of Saint Pius X (and the groups or priests who have splintered off from it while maintaining the false, Gallican "resist while recognize" position) and others in the "resist while recognize" movement claim that the conciliar "popes" have been true and legitimate Successors of Saint Peter while dissenting vocally--and very publicly so--from their teaching and disciplinary decisions.

Saint Philomena wants us to be holy, and no one who is holy can dissent from a true pope no matter how many times they protest that they can and not matter how many decades it has been that oneself or one's group has taken a position that is based on a false ecclesiology that has done, if possible, more harm to the authentic Catholic teaching on the papacy than that done by the conciliar revolutionaries themselves.

We are very devoted to Saint Philomena and pray the chaplet in her honor as a family every Saturday evening after Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. I pray her chaplet every day. 

Our Lady of the Universal Living Rosary Association, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, pray for us.

Saint Egidius, pray for us.

This is a very brief reflection for this feast of Saint Lawrence the Martyr. 

I will have another original commentary tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Philomena and the Commemoration of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna and, although not on the universal calendar, the Commemoration of Saint Emigdius. 

Today is also the one hundred forty-second anniversary of the birth of my late paternal grandfather, Edward Martin Droleskey (Detective Sergeant, NYPD, 1910-1935), in Elmira, New York. Please pray for the repose of his immortal soul. Thank you. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Lawrence Martyr, pray for us.

“Cardinal” Arthur Roche wrote a letter to the world’s conciliar “bishops” seven months ago to inform them that “Pope” Leo XIV was not going to rescind the restrictions on the stagings of the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition as contained in his late, non-lamented predecessor’s Traditiones Custodes, July 16, 2021, the Commemoration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

This commentary explains that the conciliar liturgy has made warfare against the integrity of Catholic Faith, and Worship from its very inception and that there is no reconciling the false “faith” of conciliarism with the true Faith as the conciliar liturgy was constructed synthetically to eradicate the sensus Catholics to such an extent that Catholics would disparage the “past” just as much as the Anglicans in the Sixteenth Century did after breaking from Papal Primacy in favor of a false religion designed to tickle the itching ears of mere mortals.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Mary Vianney, pray for us.

Saint Romanus, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Pauline Jaricot, pray for us,

Saint John Mary Vianney is the patron of diocesan priests, a man who humbly recognized that he was not the brightest pupil, that he was, to use even his own description, slow in his studies. He had great difficulty learning his Latin. Other studies came hard to him as well. He did not give up. Helped by a wonderful mentor, Father Balley, who had worked as a carpenter during the French Revolution so as to hide his identity as a Catholic priest as he offered Mass in various hideaways and without any "communion" with the bishops and priests of the "constitutional church," John Mary Vianney persevered time and time and time again, praying to Saint John Francis Regis for help and guidance.

Yes, he was tempted to quit his studies, believing himself to unworthy of priestly ordination because of his lack of intellectual aptitude. Father Balley told him very pointedly, "You've decided to give in to the devil?"

That knocked some sense into our Saint, and it should knock some sense into any young man today who might have experienced some difficulties and perhaps even gross injustices in their own pursuit of the priesthood.

Never give up. We need priests, especially now in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Always close to Our Lady, Saint John Mary Vianney was brought to the point of his priestly ordination on August 13, 1815. His superiors judged that his moral qualities had overcome any academic deficiencies that would have held others back from being ordained to the priesthood, and they were vindicated in their judgment by the long and devoted service that he gave to the people of Ars.

Oh yes, sure, he tried to run away from his people on three occasions, wanting to seek the solitude of a monastery. Each time, however, he responded to the pleas of his sheep who loved their shepherd, who spent so much time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and in the confessional to hear the confessions of the thousands of people who flocked from all over the world to the merits of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus applied to their souls through his priestly ministry, and returned home to Ars.

Saint John Mary Vianney, who knew failure in his studies for the priesthood, was a firm supporter of the "patron of failures," Pauline Jaricot, the foundress of Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Universal Living Rosary Association, and zealously devoted to the cause of our great wonder worker, Saint Philomena.

Saint John Mary Vianney spent himself tirelessly in behalf of the flock that was entrusted to his pastoral care. We need to invoke his intercession so that our own true bishops and priests will be fortified by his example as they seek to serve faithful Catholics, the scattered and wandering sheep of this time of apostasy and betrayal, unto eternity.

A new commentary will appear within fifteen minutes of this revised and republished reflection.  

Our of the Rosary for us.

Saint Lawrence the Deacon, pray for us. 

Saint Romanus, pray for us.