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.

Part twenty-eight of “Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsisis proceeding, but I held off on completing it yesterday because of reports that President Donald John Trump may or may not authorize an unconstitutional military campaign against the Islamic Republican of Iran without seeking either a Congressional Declaration of War or even a completely extra-constitutional Congressional resolution authorizing such action. The man really cares not for constitutional governance as he boasts of acting in accord with his “own morality” in “his own mind.”

Thus, I took the easy road yesterday as this article concerns the unfortunate concern that some in the “resist while recognize” movement have expressed about the fact that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV used girl altar boys at a public staging of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination four days ago in Rome.

Concerned about boy altar girls?

Thirty-one years, ten months after Karol Jozef Wojtla/John Paul II granted permission for their use?

At this late date?

Oy!

Lions, and tigers and bears, oh my!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Our annual Lenten journey into the desert begins today, Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026. Deo gratias!

The season that begins on Ash Wednesday is the time of penance. This is the time to withdraw from the world. This is the time to be earnest about relying upon the ineffable graces that were won for us by the shedding of every single drop of the Most Precious Blood of Our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, during His Passion and Death and that flow into our sous through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

This period of six weeks, four days until Easter Sunday (six weeks, three and one-half days until the Easter Vigil) is nearly one-ninth of an entire calendar year.

May we beg Our Lady to help us make the best Lent of our lives as we do not know if it will be our last. Indeed, we do not know whether we will live to see Easter Sunday in this life on Sunday, April 5, 2026.

Nevertheless, there should be a n

It is my hope to have part twenty-eight of Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis published by tomorrow, Ash Wednesday.

This commentary deals with a related subject, namely, the removal of Carrie Prejean Boller from the White House religious liberty commission because she criticized Zionism as being opposed to God’s Holy Will.

A prominent Catholic said that to say Catholicism is opposed to Zionism is “arrogant.”

Oh, yeah, go tell that to Pope Saint Pius X!

Finally, I am sorry about the relatively slow pace of articles recently. All I can say is that I am doing the best I can. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This will be my last commentary about the Society of Saint Pius X’s renewed efforts to be “recognized” by and “reconciled” to the lords of conciliarism as its leaders plan to consecrate new bishops without a “papal” mandate and, indeed, in defiance of the whom they accept as a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter, Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV.

The first real “ray of hope” for the Society’s “reconciliation” with Rome in its conciliar captivity came one month after the “election” of Karol Jozef Wojtyla/John Paul II when the latter met with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in the private quarters of the Apostolic Palace on Saturday, November 18, 1978, the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul. Lefebvre’s recounting of that meeting in an audience with his seminarians in Econe, Switzerland, on December 21, 1978, the Feast Saint Thomas the Apostle, makes up the bulk of this article. The detail is included to demonstrate that the same arguments being advanced then are more or less the same arguments being made today.

Nothing came of that meeting, just as nothing came of all the efforts that followed thereafter in the past forty-seven years, three months.

Father Francis X. Weninger’s three sermons for Quingagesima Sunday are included near this commentary’s conclusion.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Faustinus and Jovita, pray for us.

Although I was going to complete part twenty-eight of “Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomini Domine, Hosanna in Excelsis,” the issuance of new statutes for the conciliar sect’s international Marian academy demanded my immediate attention. This is a very brief commentary.

The next commentary, which should appear tomorrow, Our Lady’s Saturday and the Commemoration of Saint Valentine, will be about the Society of Saint Pius X’s latest dance of the cuckoos with the conciliar revolutionaries.

A true priest wrote the following about how to “solve” the SSPX “problem”:

“I have a very simple solution: The Society of St. Pius X only need announce they are joining the Chinese Communist party...because, per current Vatican policy, this is the only way to have the consecration of bishops without a papal mandate, without doctrinal discussions and obviously without any excommunications!”

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

As work continues at a snail's pace on the next original commentary because of the well-deserved penances of the past month, I am offering readers some reflections on the Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

The Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us.

Today, Wednesday, February 11, 2026, is the one hundred sixty-eighth anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes, France. Our Lady explained to the fourteen year-old Bernadette that we must do penance for our sins and for those of others.

Can we do any less in our day?

Indeed, the state of the Church Militant on earth and of the world-at-large has worsened as the sins of men have grown more numerous and more daring and as most baptized Catholics have been deprived of access to Sanctifying Grace by virtue of the invalid sacraments offered in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. God is not going to permit any country that kills the innocent preborn with legal impunity and kills souls in the name of the falsehoods of "freedom of speech" and "freedom of the press" and "freedom of religion" and a general sense of legal and cultural licentiousness to know long term material prosperity. Then again, these merchants of death have been enabled by the conciliar revolutionaries, who believe that signs of "outward penance belong to a different era in the history of the Church."

Indeed, today's feast is only an "optional memorial" within the counterfeit church of conciliarism. That is right, only an "optional memorial" and was renamed the feast of "Our Lady of Lourdes" to replace the Feast of Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes. 

The conciliar liturgical revolutionaries are rationalists who disbelieve in the miraculous. This can be demonstrated by comparing the Collect for today's feast in the Catholic Church with the "opening prayer" for the sanitized "optional memorial" within the conciliar sect:

O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for Your Son, we humbly beseech You that, recalling the apparition of the same Virgin, we may obtain health for both soul and body. Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. (General Roman Missal, 1954, Feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11.)

Grant us, O merciful God, protection in our weakness, that we, who keep the Memorial of the Immaculate Mother of God, may with the help of her intercession, rise up from our iniquities. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. (Novus Ordo "Optional Memorial" for the feast of "Our Lady of Lourdes.")

These prayers represent two entirely different religions, and how it is impossible at this late date to recognize the difference is truly unfathomable.

We must indeed take Our Lady's injunction, "Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners," most seriously as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permits. 

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

Saint Bernardette Soubirous, pray for us.