Stanley Plotkin, a developer of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine, has admitted that he butchered (his term) seventy-six babies to use their tissues to develop the first lines of the vaccine. He has even said that, if his Catholic critics are correct and he has damned himself to hell, he would “glad” to go “there” (meaning hell). That is, as my eighty-two year-old first cousin in Texas in his Texas drawl might say, a “Tommy, that’s a statement and a half.”

Indeed, it is.

This is a relatively brief commentary.

 I will return to matters conciliar tomorrow, specifically focusing on Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s recent invocation of Angelo Roncalli/John XIII’s opening address at the “Second” Vatican Council on October 11, 1962, the Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, while focusing simultaneously on the International Theologian Commission’s newest document concerning “Caring for Our Common Home.” I am afraid that the authors are headed for a “common home” with Stanley Plotkin if they don’t convert and repent before they die.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Gorgonius, pray for us.

This is a republished tribute to Saint Peter Claver, S.J, whose true missionary zeal for the conversion and sanctification and salvation of souls stands in vast contrast to the blase and practically indifferent attitude of the conciliar "popes."

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., personally baptized over 300,000 people in Colombia who were destined for chattel slavery in the Americas, thus freeing those souls from enslavement to the devil by means of Original Sin, equipping them to offer up the injustices of chattel slavery as disciples of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as the devoted clients of His Most Blessed Mother. Saint Peter Claver's example does indeed stand in stark contrast to that of the revolutionaries of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

A new commentary will be published pretty much simultaneously with this republished reflection.  

Non-tax-deductible financial gifts are need very urgently at this time. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Gorgonius, pray for us.

Today is the great feast day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she who is the fairest flower of our race. 

The angels rejoiced around the crib where Good Saint Anne placed her all-holy daughter, who had been conceived without any stain of Original Sin nine months before, that is, on December 8. The New Eve, whose act of perfect obedience to the will of God the Father at the moment that Saint Gabriel the Archangel announced to her that she would be the very Mother of God untied the knot of the first Eve's prideful disobedience in the Garden of Eden, shone at her Nativity with exterior beauty and brightness that reflected the interior beauty and brightness of her immortal soul, filled with grace at the very moment of Immaculate Conception.

The favor of God rested upon Our Lady from all eternity. How can words capture our gratitude and joy to God for giving us Our Lady to be our own Heavenly Mother and Queen?

They can't.

Words can only approximate our gratitude and joy this day--and every day of our lives--over the fact that the Singular Vessel of Devotion in whose Virginal and Immaculate Womb would be conceived Our Divine Redeemer was born this day.

We would not have any chance of getting to Heaven if Our Lady had not been conceived and born.

We have no chance of getting to Heaven without Our Lady's help, which is why we, as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, must cling to her at all times, especially by means of wearing--and the fulfilling the terms of our enrollment in--her Brown Scapular and by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Perhaps the best birthday gift that we can give to Our Lady, apart from our worthy reception of her Divine Son in Holy Communion at a true offering of Holy Mass at the hands of a true bishop or a true priest if this is possible where one lives in this time of apostasy and betrayal, is to resolve now to do live more penitentially in reparation for our sins and those of the world world. By living more penitentially and by praying more Rosaries each day, you see, our souls might--emphasis on might--begin to be filled with more fervor and tenderness for Our Most Blessed Mother, she who made possible our salvation and who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

A blessed Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

Maria Bambia! We salute thee as the fairest flower of our race. Pray for us!

Saint Hadrian, pray for us.

As I continue to experience the physical problems that began on Sunday, June 21, 2026, the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J., it has taken me much longer than I had expected to complete this commentary on the ways in which the adversary himself has attacked marriage and the family, including inspiring mothers to care for their children not to kill them.

Thank you for your patience. I am doing all I can to get another new commentary posted within the next day or two.

Non-tax-deductible gifts are needed now.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Cloud, pray for us.

Unlike his immediate predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and each of his three successors (Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII), the former Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was not in the diplomatic service of the Holy See at any time during the nearly forty-five years of his priesthood prior to his rather remarkable election as the Successor of Saint Peter on August 4, 1903. He was not prone to accept the word of diplomats, and he did not suffer lies and misrepresentations easily.

The farm boy from Riese, Italy, who served as a pastor of souls in a rough-and-tumble Italian cow town, Tombolo, and then in Salzano before becoming Bishop of Mantua and the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, was always close to Our Lady. This tender devotion to Our Lady, which he learned from his saintly mother, helped him to keep close to the sheep even when he was the Vicar of Christ on earth.

Thanks to the sign given him by the life and death of Little Nellie of Holy God, Pope Saint Pius X was the advocate of early First Communion (and early Confirmation) and of frequent Communions. It is no accident at all that the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI made no reference to the centenary of Pascendi Dominci Gregis on September 8, 2007. Ratzinger/Benedict made absolutely no reference on August 15, 2010, to the centenary of Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, which was a ringing condemnation of the false philosophy of the Sillon that is of the essence of conciliarism. He made no reference to the one hundredth anniversary of The Oath Against Modernism on September 1, 1910.

How could he?

He stood condemned by the very words in these documents issued by Pope Saint Pius X.

So did the man who ignored the one hundredth anniversary of Papa Sarto's death, the late Jorge Mario Bergolio, back on August 20, 2014.

Here is the Collect for today's feast in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition:

"O God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ didst fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, forever and ever. Amen."

Pope Saint Pius X opposed Modernism.

So must we as we refuse any "communion" at all with conciliarism or its false shepherds who are at war with the Catholic Faith. 

As I had a very long and penitential trip on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, the Feast of Saint Giles and the Commemoration of the Twelve Holy Brothers, and had to attend a family errand yesterday, September 2, 2026, the Feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary, I am unable to provide you with a new article now. However, I will be back at work on the next original commentary following a few hours of sleep now. 

Our Lady, Mofher of the Divine Shepherd, 

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!

This is a revised and enlarged reflection on Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, who was zealous to convert pagans to the true Faith and thus establish the peace and justice of Christ the King in his land. He is yet another contrast to concilairism's false doctrines of "religious liberty" and "separation of Church and State."'

A new commentary will be posted by this time tomorrow. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Stephen of Hungary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us.

Well, Robert Francis Prevost, who turns seventy-one years of age in thirteen days, that is, on Monday, September 14, 2026, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, is continuing to prove himself to be a reliable supporter of idolatry and a willing stooge of the Chinese Communist Party’s so-called Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.

This commentary has the details.

A republished commentary will appear tomorrow, Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the Feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary, but the next original commentary may not appear until Thursday, September 3, 2026, along with a revised reflection about Pope Saint Pius X on his feast day.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Giles, pray for us.

The Seven Holy Brothers, pray for us.

Yes, the late Mrs. Dolly Parton Dean said in at least two interviews that she was "inspired" as a child to grow up and look like the local "town tramp."

This is not to beat up on the late Mrs. Dean, but to illustrate how those not of the household of the Holy Faith are desperate for "role models" in this passing, mortal vale of tears and not in the rich history of sanctity as exemplified perfectly by Our Lady, the role model for all women, and countless other saints, many of whom preferred death rather than even to give the appearance of immodesty, indecency, or impurity.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Raymond Nonnatus, pray for us.

This is a revised and enlarged version of my reflection on the life of Saint Rose of Lima, a member of the Third Order of Penance of the Order of Preachers of Saint Dominic de Guzman.

Among many other works in her devout life of prayer and austere penances, Saint Rose, who lived among a cluster of saints in Lima, Peru, exhorted the people of Lima to gather in their churches and pray their Rosaries to turn back a pending invasion of their city by a fleet of those virulent anti-Catholics, the Dutch Calvinists. Those hideous people with their diabolical beliefs that have nothing at all to do with Christianity turned back as a result of the Rosaries that were prayed to repel them in their designs to invade Lima and to sack Catholic churches and to desecrated the Most Blessed Sacrament images of the Mother of God.

May we pray to Saint Rose of Lima so that we will remain faithful to the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary as the powerful weapon, after Holy Mass itself, to turn back the enemies of Christ the King in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

Given the fact that the President of the United States of America has ordered the flags on all Federal buildings to fly at half-mast to honor a singer/actress who dressed very immodestly, to say the least, and was very publicly supportive of the sodomite agenda, I am preparing a commentary on the virtue of modesty in dress and deportment that relies principally, although not exclusively, upon Pope Pius XII's November 8, 1957, address on the subject.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.

Saints Felix and Adauctus, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Decollation of Saint John the Baptist and the Commemoration of Saint Sabina. I am republishing a revised reflection on this feast.  

I was hoping to have a new commentary posted at this time. However, I am a little tired from the past week or so of work and am also dealing with the continued gastric problems that have gone on for two months even after the enteropathogenic E.Coli infection was treated successfully. Penance is quite indeed better than ever in 2026.

However, I do hope to have the next commentary ready for publiction by around this time tomorrow morning, the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemorations of Saint Rose of Lima and of Saints Felix and Adauctus.

Thank you for your patience as I patiently await the "deluge" of non-tax-deductible financial gifts. (Smile.)

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Sabina, pray for us.