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.

As promised, this is a refutation of Robert Francis Prevost’s efforts to make Pope Leo XIII’s calls for Christianity seem like an endorsement of contemporary ecumenism, which they were certainly not as Pope Leo XIII called repeatedly for the return of Protestants and the Orthodox to the Catholic Church. [This article was tweaked in a few places about fourteen hours after its posting.[

The hour is late. I will try to complete my commentary on the Greenland situation later today for posting around this time tomorrow.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Fabian and Sebastian, pray for us.

Although a day late, I am hereby making a copy of the prayers for the Chair of Unity Octave that were distributed by Father Francis Miller, O.F.M., several days ago. Father Francis was kind enough to send me the prayers in a Word document three years ago, which permits me to post them so that those who access this website.

These prayers are always important, but perhaps even more so now as Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV said in his Angelus address yesterday, Sunday, January 18, 2026, the Second Sunday after the Epiphany and the Commemorations of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, of Saint Paul the Apostle, and of Saint Prisca, that Pope Leo XIII was an early champion of ecumenism! 

Although I will be writing a commentary about to be posted by later this evening, Monday, January 19, 2026, the Feast of Saint Marius, Martha. Aubucham, and Audifax, and the Commemoration of Saint Canute, King of Demark, here is just a brief reminder of how Pope Leo XIII urged the return of all non-Catholics to the true Church without conditition, qualification, or reservation:

Weigh carefully in your minds and before God the nature of Our request.  It is not for any human motive, but impelled by Divine Charity and a desire for the salvation of all, that We advise the reconciliation and union with the Church of Rome; and We mean a perfect and complete union, such as could not subsist in any way if nothing else was brought about but a certain kind of agreement in the Tenets of Belief and an intercourse of Fraternal love.  The True Union between Christians is that which Jesus Christ, the Author of the Church, instituted and desired, and which consists in a Unity of Faith and Unity of Government. (Pope Leo XIII, referring to the Orthodox in Praeclara Gratulationis Publicae, June 20, 1884.)

More to follow in a few hours.

I will also be continuing the composition of my commentary about Donald John Trump's unhinged demands for Greenland, claiming most recently that, having been denied the Nobel Prize for Peace last year, he no longer is bound to pursue peace. There is a case to be made for Greenland's strategic importance, but the United States of America doees not need to "possess" Greenland, especially against the will of the Greenlanders themselves, and the means by which Donald John Trump is ranting and raving about the "need" to possess Greenland plays right into the hands of his political enemies at home and is alientating even his strongest European allies such as Viktor Orban in Hungary and Giorgia Melloni in Italy.

Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for us.

Saint Marius, Martha, Aubocham, and Audifax, pray for us.

Saint Canute, King of Denmark, pray for us.