Admitting that the worldwide genocide of the preborn by chemical and surgical means is not going to end until there is a great chastisement and a true pope is restored to the Throne of Saint Peter, we must nevertheless do what we can by means of prayer, work, and genuine Catholic Action to defend the inviolability of innocent human life and to bear a public witness to the truth that Catholicism is the one only means to personal salvation and to a genuine social order founded on the splendor Truth Incarnate, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, He Who is the King of both men and nations.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

There was a time when there were real, honest-to-goodness Catholic Archbishops of Canterbury.

Let's see here, that would be from the time of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in 597 A.D. to the time of Reginald Cardinal Pole in 1558, a period of nearly a millennium.

The fortieth legitimate Archbishop of Canterbury is the saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint Thomas a Becket, who was indeed a martyr for the Church's liberties. Saint Thomas a Becket asserted the rights of Christ the King as the Archbishop of Canterbury, insisting that clerics accused of civil crimes be tried in ecclesiastical, not civil, courts. This led him to clash with his onetime friend, King Henry II of the House of Plantagenet. Prefiguring another English king named Henry (this one, number The Eighth, from the House of Tudor), Henry II could not abide his former friend's resistance to his, Henry's attempt to assert royal power over the Church, leading him to uttering the words that would inspire three of his barons to murder the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, on this date in 1170, eight hundred forty-seven years ago now. The latter Henry, the one called "The Eighth," had Saint Thomas a Becket's relics destroyed as his martyrdom was a reminder to one and all that the Church has Divine Rights superior to those of the civil state.

King Henry II had to do public penance for uttering the words that resulted in the martyrdom of Saint Thomas a Becket. His son, King John I, having been slow to learn the lessons of his public penance, was forced by his barons and noblemen in the year 1215 to sign the Magna Carta to guarantee the rights of the Church under civil law in England. This was a victory for the liberties of the Catholic Church that had been won by the blood of this great champion of the Social Reign of Christ the King, Saint Thomas a Becket, whose intercession we seek this day and every day for the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King in all nations, including the United States of America. Indeed, the situation we face in the United States of America today is the direct result of the overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King wrought by the Protestant Revolt and the rise of Judeo-Masonry.

Nations founded in the belief that men can pursue the common temporal good without subordinating themselves to the Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ entrusted exclusively to His Catholic Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible explications who believe that they can be "good" and "virtuous" on their own powers without belief in, access to or cooperation with Sanctifying Grace--are bound to degenerate over the course of time.

Statism is the only end result of the process of decay that must occur when nations reject the simple truth that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order. And it is the statists of the present moment, enabled as they are at this time by Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV and his band of conciliar revolutionaries, who sacrifice the legitimate national sovereignty and national security of their own nations in order to demonstrate their "solidarity" with "bettering" the world on a "global" basis.

My next original article is progressing, but I cannot continue work on it at this time given the late hour at which I finished yesterday's original commentary. 

A blessed Feast of Saint Thomas a Becket on this Fifth Day within the Octave of Christmas to you all!

Our Lady, Mother of God, pray for us.

Saint Thomas a Becket, pray for us.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV is a faithful follower of the late Argentine Apostate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and he has been deadly serious in using his predecessor’s Evangelii Gaudium, November 24, 2013, as the roadmap for his own false “pontificate” as he constantly uses Jorge’s buzz words (“missionary church” to replace a church that is “closed in on itself, the “church as communion, and, of course, “rigidity).

This is just a brief review of how the conciliar revolution continues at full speed under Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV.

My republished reflection on the Feast of the Holy Innocents can be found by scrolling below.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Innocents, pray for us.

Today, the Fourth Day within the Octave of Christmas, is the Feast the Holy Innocents, the children who were put to death at the orders of the jealous titular King of Judea who had been installed by the Roman occupiers to pacify resistance to their unjust occupation of the Holy Land.

King Herod the Great, whose sons Herod and Philip were no less corrupt and violent than he was, wanted to kill the Baby King Whom he thought to be a threat to his own political suzerainty, such as it was as a puppet ruler under the Roman occupiers. It meant nothing to him to wipe out so many innocent children in his quest to kill the Baby King, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who was born in Bethlehem to save, his, Herod the Great's, own immortal soul by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

There have been imitators of Herod the Great throughout history who have sought to put to death the followers of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in an insane effort to wipe the Faith off of the face of this earth. The names of these imitators are legion. Their likes are to be found in our own midst today as politicians of both major organized crime families of naturalism in the United States of America, the Democrat Party and the Republican Party, believe that a just social order can be established and maintained while innocent preborn human beings are slaughtered under cover of law and while the Sovereignty of Christ the King is denied in favor of the sovereignty of men and their false, naturalistic, semi-Pelagian and anti-Incarnational ideas.

That having been noted, however, it is important to point out that the Holy Innocents are honored as saints because they died in the place of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as a political potentate drunk with his own self-importance sought to kill the Newborn Baby King with a furious rage. The slaughter of the innocent preborn today, as horrible as it is and as deserving of our attention especially by means of praying Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary and by means of sidewalk counseling, is different in that the children being killed today are not being targeted specifically in the place of Our Lord.

Unlike the speculative conclusions offered by the "International Theological Commission" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism in 2007, the Catholic Church has never held out "hope" that the souls of unbaptized infants go to Heaven, which is why the crime of the killing of the preborn is so monstrous as it kills the souls of those involved in the execution and denies the slaughtered babies the glory of the Beatific Vision. The Holy Innocents are saints because they were targeted quite specifically because of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and thus shed their blood on His account.

We need to invoke the intercession of the Holy Innocents today and every day to stop the shedding of the blood of the innocent under cover of law, praying to them especially that Catholics blinded by the allure of various naturalistic "strategies" to end the social evils of the day will be reminded of this truth stated by Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910:

For there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ must reign as King of men and nations, my friends. Accept no naturalistic substitutes from the "Herods" of this world and their enablers in the counterfeit church of conciliarism who reject the Social Reign of the Newborn King, Our Divine Redeemer Whom Herod the Great sought to kill.

A new commentary will be posted within fifteen minutes.

Also, I will provide an explication on Father Francis X. Weninger's sermon for this Feast of the Holy Innocents tomorrow, Monday, December 29, 2025, the Feast of Saint Thomas a Becket on the Fifth Day of the Octave of Christmas as well as a republished and possibly revised reflection on the feast day itself.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.t

The Holy Innocents, pray for us.

[An update at 4:03 p.m. on Saturday, December 27, 2025, the Feast of Saint John the Evangelist on the Third Day within the Octave of Christmas: I was informed this morning that James "Jim" Condit, Jr., an indefatigable traditional Catholic and a longtime parishoner at Immaculate Conception Church in Norwood, Ohio, who was also a courageous defender of the Social Reign of Christ the King in the political realm as well as being committed to exposing election fraud, died in an assisted living facility where he had lived for the past eighteen months or so. 

[I first met Jim back in August of 1994 when I gave a presentation during my Wanderer days. I was asked by several family members to talk to him about the state of the Church. However, although I made my own points, I was nevertheless impressed with Jim's firmness in holding fast to the truth about the general apostasy that I was not yet ready to accept as such. It was a little less than twelve years later that he attended a talk that I gave in a former Catholic school building that represented my first presentation as a sedevacantist. I may have argued my points. However, I also listened to what Jim Condit, Jr., said back in 1994

[Additionally, I saw Jim on a number of occasions during the Buchanan for President campaign back in 1995-1996, including in Dubuque, Iowa, during the caucuses on February 12, 1996, and up in Derry, New Hampshire, a week later.]

[Please pray for the consolation of his family members, including his ninety-five year-old father, Mr. James Condit, Sr., who is one of the finest Catholic gentleman one would ever have the privilege of knowing. Jim, Sr., is the father of eleven children, over sixty grandchildren, and a score of great-grandchildren. 

[Eternal rest grant unto Jim Condit, Jr., O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.]

This is probably the shortest commentary that I have ever written.

The title refers to the question so many well-meaning people we meet during the ask after Christmas in various public places ask of us, “How was your Christmas?”

This commentary is an attempt to explain the beauty of the forty days of the Christmas Season in as clear a manner as possible in the event that any of the people who asked me that question yesterday, Friday, December 26, 2025, the Feast of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on the Second Day of Christmas, actually take up my suggestion to access this site for this explanation.

Perhaps this commentary might be useful for a person or two you yourselves may know who may not know that Christmas consists of a forty-day season of joy.

Dom Prosper Gueranger's reflection on the mysteries of the Christmas season has been added as an appendix to this commentary.

It will be back to the grindstone of having to deal with Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV later today for posting tomorrow, Sunday, December 28, 2025, the Feast of the Holy Innocents on the Fourth Day of Christmas.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, a son of Zebedee, was the youngest of the twelve Apostles. He was a virgin, a man who offered to His Divine Master, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, pure love in a heart that was not sullied by the world, the flesh and the devil.

This youngest Apostle with the purest heart was permitted to lean on Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's chest, wherein beat His Most Sacred Heart, at the Last Supper. And it was this purity of heart possessed by Saint John the Evangelist that led him to be present at the foot of the Holy Cross and to be given the singular privilege by Our Divine Redeemer of caring for His own Most Blessed Mother until the time of her death and bodily Assumption into Heaven.

Despite what the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI contended blasphemously in his Jesus of Nazareth book concerning the "disputed" nature of the human authorship of the Fourth Gospel, Saint John the Evangelist is indeed the human author of the Fourth Gospel and of his epistles and the Book of the Apocalypse.

Saint John is the Evangelist of the Incarnation of the Word whose Gospel provides us with Scriptural proofs for the doctrine of the Eucharist and for the Sacrament of Penance. And the Charity preached by Saint John the Evangelist was no exercise in empty sentimentality. For it was Saint John himself who wrote:

"Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy. " (1 John 5: 1-3.)

This reflection has been revised and expanded in several places over the years.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us to remain faithful to the Catholic Faith.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The shadow of the Holy Cross hung over the cave in Bethlehem even as the shepherds who had been called by angels from the nearby fields adored the Infant King alongside the Mother of God and her Most Chaste Spouse, Saint Joseph.

Holy Mother Church directs our attention to this fact today as we focus on the truth that the Birth of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Bethlehem on Christmas Day was to make possible our own spiritual rebirth in the Baptismal font and our birth unto eternal life at the moment of our deaths if we persist to the very end in states of Sanctifying Grace. The path to our salvation runs directly through the Holy Cross and it requires us to be willing to sacrifice riches and honors and pleasures and human respect and even our very lives to bear witness to Christ the King as He has revealed Himself to men exclusively through the Catholic Church that He founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

Saint Stephen the Protomartyr was willing to lay down his life as he preached the Gospel of the Divine Redeemer in an attempt to convert the Jews who were listening to him and engaging him in disputation. He exhibited the Virtue of Fortitude as he proclaimed the Gospel in the midst of insults an threats. And Saint Stephen the Protomartyr exhibited the Virtue of Charity as he prayed for his executioners, one of whom was the fire-breathing anti-Catholic zealot named Saul of Tarsus.

Saint Stephen's prayers at the time of his martyrdom and from eternity thereafter won the conversion of Saul, who became the Apostle to the Gentiles, Saint Paul the Apostle. Saint Stephen wanted to effect the conversion of his executioners. He did not seek to reaffirm them in their act of murder or to reaffirm them in the practice of Judaism. Saint Stephen did not dismiss or denigrate the gravity of their crimes. He simply did not hold those crimes against his persecutors as he prayed for their conversion.

We must pray always for those who hate us, for those who calumniate us, for those who have done us some injury in the past, for those who have rejected us for one reason or another. Praying for and forgiving those from whom we are estranged is not an option for a Catholic. It is an obligation of the interior life imposed directly by the God-Man Himself in the Sermon on the Mount.

If He forgives us so readily in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance, why are we so slow to forgive others who owe us but an infinitesimally small portion of what we owe Him for our own forgiven sins?

As the late Father John Hardon, S.J., noted in a 1996 conference in Sterling Heights, Michigan, at which I gave two presentations, "God permits us to sin so that we can forgive each other. Let me repeat myself here: God permit us to sin so that we can forgive each other."

A sinner who is contrite and thankful to God never withholds forgiveness from his fellow sinner. Saint Stephen teaches us that lesson today.

Are we going to learn it once and for all?

I was going to have a new article for you today. However, I did not have any desire to write about Robert Francis Prevost, who will again be the subject of my next article, or Donald John Trump on Christmas Day. Thank you for your patience. I will have that new article for you on the Feast of Saint John the Evangelist within the Octave of Christmas.

A continued merry and most blessed Christmas to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Stephen the Protomartyr, pray for us.

This is the fourth (and a very brief) reflection for Christmas Day,

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Stephen the Protomartyr, pray for us.

This is the third and final republished reflection on the Nativity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to be posted for your consideration.

Once again, a blessed Christmas to you all!

This is the second of three reflections on the Feast of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to be posted for your consideration. There is some overlap with the refletion published late last evening. However, there are points here that were not covered in the first reflection.

A continued Blessed Christmas Day to you all.

Venite Adoremus!

The Newborn Babe, Christ the King has been born for us.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now, and at the hour of our death.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.