Yes, I am preparing a commentary about the joint American-Israeli attack upon Iran yesterday that killed the ruthless murderer of his own people named Ayatollah Ali Khameini. However, the hour is late and the situation is dynamic.

For the moment, however, suffice to say, that no matter the results thus far, preemptive war is forbidden by the Just War Theory.  Contrary to what President Donald John Trump said within the past week, the Iranians were not close to developing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States of America. That claim was as fictitious as President George Walker Bush’s claim in 2002 and 2003 that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that were capable of posing a direct threat to this country before he launched his own preemptive war, which Donald John Trump has rightly condemned over the years.

None of the predicates of the Just War Theory, which I outlined nine days ago in Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part twenty-eight, were met prior to the launching of the attacks yesterday, February 28, 2026.

Indeed, Omani Foreign Minister Badr-al-Busaidi, who was serving as an intermediary in the indirect talks between the American government and the Iranian Islamicists in Geneva, Switzerland, said that an actual and enforceable deal between the two sides was within reach when the attacks began:

Oman Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who had been a key player in talks aimed at preventing a war between the U.S. and Iran, expressed dismay at the Saturday morning strikes by the U.S. and Israel.

“I am dismayed. Active and serious negotiations have yet again been undermined,” he wrote on X.

“Neither the interests of the United States nor the cause of global peace are well served by this. And I pray for the innocents who will suffer. I urge the United States not to get sucked in further. This is not your war,” he wrote.

On Friday, hours before the strikes, the Omani foreign minister had played up progress in the talks.

“Now we are talking about zero stockpiling and that is very, very important because if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched, then there is no way you can actually create a bomb,” al-Busaidi had told Margaret Brennan of CBS’s “Face the Nation” in an interview posted Friday. 

Iran holds a stockpile of between 300 and 400 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium that nuclear experts have warned can be converted to a nuclear weapon. 

Al-Busaidi said if there is a deal, international nuclear inspectors, likely from the International Atomic Energy Agency, could inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities at places like Isfahan and inspect the stockpiles. 

At the time, some saw the remarks from al-Busaidi, who met with Vice President Vance on Friday, as a last-ditch effort to stave off strikes by the U.S. on Iran amid signs President Trump was frustrated with the lack of progress with Tehran. (Oman foreign minister expresses dismay at US strikes on Iran: 'This is not your war'.)

Badr-al-Busaidi is correct.

This is not America’s war. It is, of course, Israel’s war, and Donald John Trump is usually at the ready to do pretty much what the man who planned the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, wants to be done.

As a final note until I resume work on this subject later this afternoon, there is also the little problem called the Constitution of the United States of America, which assigns the power to declare war to Congress.

For those who think that an adherence to the Constitution’s delineation of powers to the three branches of government should not apply when a “man of action” such as Donald John Trump holds the presidency and is willing to do what others in the past had not done, remember that the totalitarians within the administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris Emhoff did not believe that the constitutional protections of free speech applied to Donald John Trump in particular or to anyone who criticized their policies. Such critics, including me (see Believing Catholics Pose No Threat to a Just Social Order), became the subjects of investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation while even Republican members of Congress had logs of their phone calls subpoenaed by the likes of the arrogant Jack Smith.

If the Constitution bound the Biden oligarchy not to do the illicit things that it did, it also binds President Donald John Trump to make his case for military action to Congress, and the fact that this has not been done since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war against the Empire of Japan on December 8, 1941 (Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan) is irrelevant to what the Constitution requires. How did the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars turn out?

The ends never justify the means no matter who is president.

Those of us who are Catholics must judge the events of the world soberly as we keep ever in mind the fact the war is a regrettable last resort, not a preemptive first resort.

Pray for the safety of our troops who have been put in harm’s way as well as the safety of all innocent civilians everywhere throughout the Middle East.

Most importantly, pray for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, especially by beseeching her through her Most Holy Rosary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Yet another conciliar “bishop” in Germany has said that Catholic teaching about sodomy must change “for the sake of people.”

That’s rich.

What about the people amending their lives for the sake of obeying God and saving their souls?

I will try to have another brief article tomorrow, the Second Sunday of Lent.

A blessed Ember Saturday in Lent to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Robert Francis “Leo the Leftist Lip” Prevost supposedly told the members of the Spanish conciliar hierarchy that his “greatest concern in Spain” is “far-right ideology,” meaning he is afraid of a Catholic movement in this land that has long loved the Holy Faith and is so devoted to Our Lady, who did, after all, give her Most Holy Rosary, to one of Spain’s own sons, Saint Dominic de Guzman:

This is a brief follow up to the commentary published fourteen hours ago, Masterful When He Stays on Script.  It covers an issue that President Donald John Trump discussed in his speech that I did not see as I was on the phone with a physician discussing the results of the MRI on my left wrist and hand. 

What is the issue?

The evil practice of in vitro fertilization, about which no Catholic may remain indifferent or pretend that its promotion by "our guy" is not offensive to God, to the eternal good of souls, or to the common temporal good of nations.

I will try to have another brief article for you on conciliar-related topic by Friday morning as I seek to cut back somewhat on this work to accommodate the situation I discussed in the afterword to the article published earlier today.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a brief commentary about last night's State of the Union address.

An afterword discusses the future of this site in light of the results of the MRI of my left hand and wrist taken two days ago.

A blessed Ember Wednesday in Lent to you all.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

As noted in a book, Life, Death, and Truth: Under Attack by Medicine and Law, which was published six years ago, and in scores of commentaries on this site since then, including the voluminous series of articles I published under the “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” title that I would like to edit and published in book form, a project among many that may have to wait until some nice person might take the time to do so for me after I am dead and buried as it is enough to keep up with the work at hand without any outside assistance on book project, life and death are under constant attack by medicine and law throughout the world.

This commentary includes a few recent examples attesting to the truth of this statement.

Included at the end of this commentary are two appendices about the holy life of Saint Peter Damian, whose feast is celebrated today, Monday, February 23, 2026, along with Commemorations of Monday in the First Week of Lent and of the Vigil of Saint Matthias, Apostle.

An article from February 21, 2024, Corrupt in Faith, Worship, Morals, and Pastoral Practice, as drawn from Mrs. Randy Engel’s The Rite of Sodomy, which was published twenty years ago this year.

As today’s agenda must be given over to running a few errands for the family after I undergo magnetic resonance imaging on my rheumatoid arthritic left hand, I do not think that will be the time to complete my commentary about the substance of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Learning Resources, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump. However, I will be at my battle station, such is in the form of recliner chair that no longer reclines (ah, the penances of Lent), all day on Tuesday and should have that commentary published by Ember Wednesday, February 25, 2026.

Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Damian, pray for us.

Saint Matthias, pray for us.

President Donald John Trump’s outburst¸ which included direct personal attacks against Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, about the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Learning Resources, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump, Friday February 20, 2026, contrasted with the way he serenely accepted Gorsuch’s ruling in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, June 15, 2020, that applied the provisions of United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect sodomites from discrimination by employers.

Money and/or political expediency always trumps moral truth for Donald John Trump.

Pray for the president’s conversion to the true Faith and for his protection against those who are sick enough to dehumanize him and thus make him a target of assassination efforts just as revolutionaries have always dehumanized their perceived enemies.”

This is a very brief commentary.

I now return to work on the commentary whose writing I interrupted to compose this brief article.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection about the First Sunday of Lent and the Commemoration of the Chair of Saint Peter in Antioch. Commemorations are always made of Saint Paul on feasts of Saint Peter and of Saint Peter on the Feasts of Saint Paul. 

Understanding the Complexities of the American Constitutional System was published about thirty minutes ago.

Tomorrow’s commentary will focus on the continued attacks upon Life, Death, and Truth by the global medical industry and their enablers in civil governments.

Tuesday’s commentary should be about the substance of the decision and the dissenting opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Donald John Trump before I return to things conciliar by Ember Wednesday in Lent. Any commentary that I choose to write about the bread and circus called the State of the Union address, which will be delivered on Tuesday evening, February 24, 2026, the Feast of Saint Matthias, will have to wait until later this week as I will have devoted more than enough time to naturalistic matters by then, noting that I will probably write about American Ambassador to Israel Michael Huckabee’s statement the land between the Wadi in Egypt and the great river, the Euphrates, belongs to Israel by “Biblical right” (see Huckabee’s Israel land remarks condemned as ‘dangerous’ as controversy rumbles on).

Finally, I received seventy-five dollars in donations yesterday but still need to raise another two hundred dollars to pay pressing bills. Therefore, I ask readers who have the means to make non-tax-deductible financial gifts and who have not done so recently to do so now. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Although it took me about seven hours longer than I expected, I am presenting to you a basic primer concerning the constitutional framework according to the words of the Constitution itself and of the framers’ own explanations about the document during the ratification campaign from September 17, 1787, to August 17, 1788, in a series of eighty-five articles published under the title of “The Federalist,” known aggregately as The Federalist Papers.

This study, which was written originally prepared for college students at Navarro County in Texas for the Fall 2014 Semester, represents about a half a semester of explanations concerning the American system’s framework while the second half detailed its actual operations. (I have yet to find that second part, which would represent a miniature textbook if added to this current study.)

This document, which is a basis for study and does not have to be read from cover-to-cover, is prefaced by about eight or ten pages of discussion concerning President Donald John Trump’s reaction to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Learning Resources, Inc., v. Donald J. Trump, February 20, 2026, by reminding readers that other presidents have reacted similarly to decisions with which they disagreed, meaning that the tendency of men who have been president is to become frustrated with a constitutional system that was designed of its nature to prevent any one of three branches from possessing the totality of governing authority.

Finally, as some readers are very upset with my analysis of President Donald John Trump’s rambling remarks to his “Board of Peace,” which can never produce true peace any more than the corrupt Judeo-Masonic globalist and anti-life institution, the United Nations, it seeks to supplant, have conveniently forgotten that I am opposed to all forms of naturalism, which is of its nature opposed to the Social Reign of Christ the King.

Articles on this site, which celebrated its twenty-second anniversary of being on line two days ago, have criticized Democrats and Republicans—and I had written hundreds of articles between 1992 and 2000 in The Wanderer criticizing the policies of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. Anyone who can ignore my body of work analyzing and criticizing the likes of Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and Joseph Robinette Autopen Biden, Jr., by claiming that I am picking on Donald John Trump is not thinking clearly. I mean, I did write As Is Ever the Case, Christ the King Loses No Matter Who Wins Elections lambasting the sorry pair of Kamala Harris Emhoff and Timothy James “Let Minneapolis Burn” and “Let the Somalians Steal” Walz, who has been a stooge of the Chinese Communists throughout the course of his entire adult life.

However, no man, such as Donald John Trump, who says he is proud of his daughter for converting to Judaism and has dared to say “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel” is no friend of Christ the King and His Catholic Church no matter how many statements prepared for him by Catholic staffers are fed into a Tele-Promp-Ter to be read as the cameras roll. No one who understands the Catholic feast days his videos and messages that his Catholic staffers tell him are important to his constituents can possibly think that the Zionists have the right to most of the Holy Land nor praise a mass murderer, Benjamin Netanyahu, for a “commitment” to “peace.”

This site exists to advance the cause of Christ the King and His Catholic Church and carries water for no one of the false opposites of the naturalist “left” or “right.” Credit is given where and where due, but it is always given in view of an effort to apply Catholic principles to concrete circumstances and controversies.

Our Lady is our only refuge in this time of chaos as it will be through the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart that the anti-Incarnational lies of Modernity and the heresies, blasphemies, and sacrileges of Modernism will be vanquished for all to see.

A brief reflection on the First Sunday of Lent and on the Commemoration of the Chair of Saint Peter will follow in about forty-five minutes.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

[Update at 2:10 a.m. on Saturday, February 21, 2026, Saturday after Ash Wednesday.

[As it will take me two or three days to construct and then post a detailed study of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the combined cases of  Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (Tariffs), Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, I am going to write about at least one other subject for posting tomorrow, Sunday, February 22, 2026, the First Sunday after Lent and the Commemoration of the Chair of Saint Peter in Antioch.

[However, I came upon a review sheet and study guide for the last course in American National Government that I taught at the college level back in the Fall of 2014. I am going to revise this comprehensive study guide a little bit before posting it later this afernoon as it provides an easily understood explanation of the American system of constitutional checks and balances that seems to defy the grasp of President Donald John Trump, whose visceral reaction to the Court's decisions in the tariff cases yesterday ignores the fact that presidents cannot demand to get their way with the Supreme Court or with Congress. No president is infallible, and not all of any president's actions will withstand judicial review, whether justly or unjustly. 

[The American constitutional system is designed to be messy, cumbersome, awkward, inefficient, and time-consuming to prevent the tyranny of the majority. Anyone who has read the framers own "study guide" about the Constitution in The Federalist will understand how this is so. Whether one likes this system is another matter, but it is the framework which guides policy-makers and by which their actions will be judged by other fallible human beings. 

[Thus, please look for my overview of American National Government in about fifteen hours from now.]

[Finally, I am in need of raising three hundred dollars at this time to pay a few bills and to buy groceries and supplies. I appreciate any and all non-tax-deductible gifts that readers can make at this time.

[Continue to pray to Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary for the peace of her Divine Son in the world by means of the souls of men being filled with Sanctifying Grace.]

Yes, at long last, I am presenting to you part twenty-eight of my “Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis” series.

The work that I had done prior to yesterday had to be torn up in light of President Donald John Trump’s rambling, boastful, egotistical, and narcissistic “speech” to the first meeting of the “Donald J. Trump” Board of Peace, giving this long commentary, which readers must read with care, a direction and focus that is different from its original draft.

Well as Father Davide Pellegrini, the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, has said that the Society will proceed with the consecration of new bishops without the conciliar Vatican’s approval despite having entered into a “dialogue” with Victor Manuel “Tucho” Fernandez. I suppose there is no need for me to write anything more than what I have written in the past few weeks about this matter (Back to the Future with the Society of Saint Pius X, Maximalist Blasphemy, Minimalist Reverence for the Mother of God, and Negotiating About the Unnegotiable Since 1978), but I may try my hand at it later today although I do not know what more can be said at this juncture.

Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary and Queen of Peace, pray for us.