This is a relatively brief commentary about another aspect of Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s just concluded trip to France. A related commentary should appear by Friday, October 2, 2026, the Feast of Our Holy Guardian Angels.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jerome, pray for us.

oday's republished reflection is on the life and the work of Saint Jerome, the great great Dalmatian who put the love of God above all else. Consider just one quotation from the work of this prolific writer and translator of the Bible into the Latin Vulgate:

"It is a smaller sin to follow evil which you think is good, than not to venture to defend what you know for certain is good. If we cannot endure threats, injustice, poverty, how shall we overcome the flames of Babylon? Let us not lose by hollow peace what we have preserved by war. I should be sorry to allow my fears to teach me faithlessness, when Christ has put the true faith in the power of my choice." (Saint Jerome, Prologue to the Treatise Against the Pelagians.)

How many traditionally-minded Catholics who are as of yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who know for certain that it is not good to praise false religions or to enter places of false worship or to treat the "clergy" of false religions as having a mission from the true God of Divine Revelation to serve and save souls refuse to do what is good, that is, to defend the honor and glory and majesty God and His Sacred Deposit Faith in order to indemnify the author of long-since repealed Summorum Pontificum, the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, whose successor, the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio, laid bare for all the world to see that he is "worried" by those who "want to return to the past"?

We must always defend what we know to be true as servants of the greater honor and glory of God.

Saint Jerome did.

What's our excuse?

The next original article will appear in about ten minutes after the posting of this republished reflection.

I ask for your prayers for my dear wife of twenty-five years, Sharon, who turns but a mere sixty-three years of age of age today. Thank you.

Finally, this is the fourth anniversary of the death of Rebecca Lynn Adams Dupree, the daughter of longtime readers of this site, Michael and Sandra Adams, in Amman, Jordan. Please remember Mrs. Dupree's immortal soul and the needs of her parents, two brothers and sister today. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jerome, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Mount Gargano, Italy. 

It is interesting to note that, given the rationalism that underlies Modernists' rejection of the supernatural, that this feast is not celebrated as such in the counterfeit church of conciliarism as it is based upon the apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8, 490. The architects of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service went to great lengths to edit out almost all references to apparitions, Indeed, none other than the old Rosicurcian Mason himself, Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, suppressed the Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8 entirely in the first wave of his Jansenist anti-liturgical changes that went into effect on Sunday, December 3, 1960, the First Sunday of Advent, and the feast that we celebrate today, was eliminated by Annibale Bugnini and company and replaced with the combined Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. 

Believing Catholics, however, know that Holy Mother Church cannot deceive us, and that her Sacred Liturgy is guided by none other than the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost. It is thus that we celebrated the Feast of Dedication of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel today, Tuesday, September 29, 2026.

I am writing a new commentary about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's last day in France yesterday, Monday, September 28, 2026, the Feast of Saint Wenceslaus, but am unable to complete it for posting at this time.

Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us and protect us.

The conciliar “popes” have repeatedly endorsed the falsehood of the separation of Church and State that was condemned by Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Saint Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII at various times during their pontificates.

Today, Monday, September 28, 2026, is also the eastF of the great Saint Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia, who was murdered by his own brother, who hated the fact that that he, King Wenceslaus, was everything that he, Boleslaus, hated, namely, pious and devoted, a servant of Christ the King, a just ruler who ruled to advance the common temporal good in light of man's Last End. Boleslaus hated the fact that his brother, our dear saint, loved the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and baked the Eucharistic bread with his own hands. This should give us pause for reflection in our own circumstances today when so many of our own relatives and one-time friends and acquaintances might hate us simply for being Catholic, no less Catholics who try, despite our sins and failings, to adhere to everything taught by Holy Mother Church from time immemorial. Saint Wenceslaus was a king who was prostrate before THE King, Christ the King, in life who adores him in Heaven face to face. 

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Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Wenceslaus, pray for us.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is in France.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV gave an address to French civic officials yesterday.

This is my commentary about that address.

I am going to sleep.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us!

Saint Rene Goupil, S,J.,  pray for us.

Saint John Lalande, S,J., pray for us.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Noel Chabanel, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Anthony Daniel, S.J.,  pray for us.

Saint John De Brebeuf, S.J., pray for us.

Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us

Today, Saturday, September 26, 2026, is the Feast of the North American Martyrs, the eight Jesuits who gave up their lives for the Holy Faith in what are now parts of Canada and upstate New York between 1642 and 1649, and the Commemoration of  Saint Cyprian and Justina here in the United States of America.

This brief reflection contrasts the life and martyrdom of the eight men killed between 1642 and 1649 and the conciliar "saints". Each of the North American Martyr (Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil, Jean Lalande, Gabriel Lalemant, Noel Chabanel, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, and John de Brebeuf) shed their blood to Catholicize the upper reaches of North America. They were not interested in "inculturating" the Catholic liturgy with the pagan superstitions and barbaric practices of the Iroquois. They were concerned only about attempting to convert the heathens to the true Faith and to plant the seeds for the conversion of the land in which their noble missionary work had taken them.

Can we do any less than they?

We must seek to "keep it Catholic" at all times as we seek to plant the seeds for the conversion of this nation to become the Catholic States of America.

A new commentary will be posted within ten minutes of this reflection's republication. 

Our Lady of the North American Martyrs, pray for us.

Saint Isaac Jogues, pray for us!

Saint Rene Goupil, S,J.,  pray for us.

Saint John Lalande, S,J., pray for us.

Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Noel Chabanel, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Charles Garnier, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Anthony Daniel, S.J.,  pray for us.

Saint John De Brebeuf, S.J., pray for us.

Saints Cyprian and Justina, pray for us

This is a little review of some basic principles underlying the farce of naturalism about which so many Americans people so obsessed.

Sober up, there is no such thing as secular salvation.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

As I encountered all manner of penances, including at jet bridge that would retract but not move forward to the plane on which I had taken my return trip twelve hours after leaving the same airport (the plane had to be pushed by a land tug to a different gate after the Peter Peachfuzz-like efforts on the part of several airport personnel frantically pushing every button they could find), during  my travels to and from Dallas to undergo my annual cardiovascular examination on Tuesday, I only have strength enough to offer readers to offer a brief reflection on the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercy), which is celebrated today, Thursday, September 24, 2026. 

A new commentary should appear tomorrow, Friday, September 25, 2026.

Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.

This is my not-so-brief rejoinder to the conciliar sect’s “A Journey of Hope.”

As I continue to be afflicted with the gastrointestinal problems that began three months ago now, I need more time to complete these commentaries.

Thus, given the fact that I have a cardiological appointment tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the Feast of Saint Thomas of Villanova, I may not have the next original commentary completed before the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy (Ransom) on Thursday, September 24, 2026.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Matthew the Apostle, pray for us.