Many millions of well-meaning Catholics are still fighting on a figurative island of Mindanao in the belief that they must correct a man they believe is a still a legitimate Successor of Saint Peter even though Saint Ambrose explained the following:

“The Catholic faith derives so much strength and support from the words of the Apostolic See, that it is criminal to entertain any doubts concerning it.”  (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., On The Apostolical and Infallible Authority of the Pope When Teaching the Faithful, and On His Relation to a General Council, Third Edition. New York: Sadlier and Company, 1890; Cincinnati, Ohio: John P. Walsh, 1890.)

Lots and lots of Catholics are unknowingly committing criminal acts by entertaining doubts about what is being taught by the agents of the counterfeit church of conciliarism and representing their false coming from the Apostolic See.

This commentary discusses a few of Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s most recent outrages, although he is merely beginning to be as redundant as Jorge Mario Bergoglio was during his first year as the president of the conciliar assembly and is continuing to appoint men to episcopal sees who are, like he himself, continuing the path of a “accompanying church” charted by the Argentine Apostate.

Another original commentary should be published tomorrow, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in addition to my reflection on the feast itself.

My Septuagesima Sunday reflection may be found by scrolling down.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us.

Today is Septuagesima Sunday. 

Lent begins in but seventeen days.

Easter is exactly nine weeks way.

It is time to start our preparations for Lent, time to start thinking about the penances we are going to undertake starting on Ash Wednesday in order to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as we prepare to enter deep into the mysteries of the Paschal Triduum of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Passion, Death, and Resurrection on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The purple vestments representing a penitential season of Holy Mother Church make their reappearance today to remind us that we must be deadly serious about the business of making the best Lent of our lives as we do not know whether this Lent will be our last one on the face of this earth--or whether we will even live to see the end of this particular Lent!

Let us use this time well as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us.

Today, Saturday, January 31, 2026, this year is the day on which the anticipated Mass of the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost is celebrated because tomorrow is Seputagesima Sunday and there not only Sundays after Pentecost this year to pray each of the Masses after the Epiphany. As a consequence, the feast of of the great Saint John Bosco, to whom we are very devotedm celebrated, is downgraded to a commemoration.

This is a revised reflection on an extraordinary priest who had a zeal for the salvation of souls in his youth, a zeal that would last until he died on this date in 1888, one hundred thirty-eight years ago.

Saint John Bosco stands a rebuke to the conciliar revolutionaries, who refuse to seek converts to what they think is the Catholic Church and the manner in which they reaffirm unrepentant sinners in lives that could lead them to Hell for all eternity if they do not go to Confession and amend their lives. This brief reflection, written about fifteen years ago now, is an effort to capture the spirit of this magnificent teacher of the young, mystic and zealous apostle of souls.

I was nearing the completion of my next original commentary when it was clear that I would need another ninety minutes or so to finish the work, which is something that I just could do physically as another flu-like illness has decided to visit me once again as a very well deserved pre-Lenten penance, but I will get back to the work later today.

Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us.

Saint John Bosco, pray for us.

Saint Dominic Savio, pray for us.  

Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello, pray for us.

Today, Thursday, January 29, 2026, is the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales.

I am hereby republishing a brief and woefully indequate account of the Apostle of Charity and zealous foe of Calvinism.

As I am pretty tired from the past few days of writing, I will have my next commentary about things conciliar in a day or two. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a follow-up to yesterday's commentary.

I will return to the wearying task of dealing with Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV later today for posting by this time tomorrow, Thursday, January 29, 2026, the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales.

Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.

Saint Peter Nolasco, pray for us.

Saint Agnes, pray for us.

This is my commentary about the mess in Minneapolis.

Today is the Feast of Saint John Chrysostom and it is on this feast day seventy-four years ago that I began my supernatural life as a Catholic when I was baptized at the hands of Father John Dushan at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Queens Village, New York, two months, three days after I was born. Yes, I was a pagan baby for that long. Please join me in praying for the soul of Father Dushan, who gave me the great gift of the Catholic Faith.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Chrysostom, pray for us.

This commentary reviews the comments made by President Donald John Trump via a prerecorded video message and in person by Vice President James David Vance on Friday, January 23, 2026, the Feast of Feast of Saint Raymond of Pennafort and the Commemoration of Saint Emeriantiana (and in, some places, of the Espousal of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Joseph), to the fifty-third annual March for Life.   

Given the tragic events of two days ago involving yet another shooting by agents of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ten shots fired at a man on the ground), two other planned commentaries must wait.

For the moment, let me remind you that Catholicism unites, error divides.

I beg your continued patience as I continue my writing while dealing with the penitential effects of the injury I suffered twelve days ago as it appears the recovery is going to take a long time. Penance is better than ever in 2026.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Polycarp, pray for us.

Today's offering is a republished reflection on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle.

I am making some progress on my next original commentary, which I hope to complete later this evening. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Paul the Apostle, pray for us.

Saint Peter, pray for us.

As noted in my three-part series on the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Thomas E. Dobbs. Mississippi State Health Officer v. Jackson Women’s Organization, June 24, 2022 (Roe v. Wade is Gone, Baby-Killing Will Continue, part one, Roe v. Wade is Gone, Baby-Killing Will Continue, part two|, and Roe v. Wade is Gone, BabyRoe v. Wade is Gone, Baby-Killing Will Continue, part threeh-Killing Will Continue, part three), the execution of the innocent preborn, both by chemical and surgical means, continues despite the Supreme Court’s overturning of its Monday, January 22, 1973, abominable 7-2 decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. While it is true that most, although not all, surgical killings of the preborn have been stopped in states such as Texas, it is also true that so-called “exceptions” to the binding precepts of the Fifth Commandment exist throughout most of  the “red states” in the United States of America and that the killing of children by chemical means.

Indeed, more babies are being killed today by mifepristone, the abortion pill, than were being killed annually when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, and this is not even counting the hundreds of millions of babies who have been killed by contracetive abortifacient pills, devices, and injections.

Yes, Roe v. Wade is gone, but baby-killing continues.

May God have mercy on us all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Raymond of Pennafort, pray for us.

Saint Ildefonsus, pray for us.

Although my work is still being impeded by the injury I suffered eight days ago, I have completed an overview of President Donald John Trump’s recent comments about Greenland.

I hope to have another related commentary (dealing with the hypocrisy of “Cardinals” Joseph Tobin, Blase Cupich, and Robert McElroy) for you by tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Raymond of Pennafort, and the Commemorations of Saint Emeriatiana, and, in some places, of the Espousal of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Joseph.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Vincent and Anastasius, pray for us.