We begin the oldest of all of Holy Mother Church's Novenas, the Novena to God the Holy Ghost in preparation for Pentecost Sunday, Friday, May 30, 2025, today, Saturday, June 7, 2025. The last day to pray for the Novena, of course, is on the Vigil of Pentecost, Saturday, June 7, 2023. An original article, Boy, If Only Leo Knew, Huh?, was posted eight hours ago.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Felix I, pray for us.

King Saint Ferdinand III, King of Leon and Castile, pray for us.

Saint Joan of Arc, pray for us.

Much was made several weeks ago when Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV removed Vincenzo Paglia (see There Will Come A Day When Vincenzo Paglia Will Argue in Favor of "Accompanying" Women Right into the Hands of Baby Butchers) as the president of the so-called “Pontifical” Academy for Life.

As there is nothing new under the conciliar sun, of course, Prevost appointed Renzo Pegoraro, a direct acolyte of Paglia’s, thus expressing complete “continuity” with the “magisterium” of the late and not-so-great except in matters of heresy and apostasy Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Boy, if only Leo knew, huh?

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Felix I, pray for us.

King Saint Ferdinand III, pray for us.

Saint Joan of Arc, pray for us.

"And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." (Matthew 28: 16-20.)

'There is no "expiration" date on this command. Indeed, the commentary in the Bishop Richard Challoner version of the Douay-Rheims Bible explains that the command is in force until Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ comes in glory on the Last Day to judge the living and the dead and that His Church could never go astray, meaning, of course, that it is impossible for the Catholic Church to give any impression at all that God is pleased with false religions such as Mohammedanism and Talmudic Judaism, which is what the conciliar "popes" have done consistently in the past fifty-nine years, having reached the point of complete absurdity now under Jorge Mario Bergoglio:

18 "All power"... See here the warrant and commission of the apostles and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14."

The Catholic Church can never go astray. She is infallible. She does not give us any "new ecclesiology" or "hermeneutic of continuity and discontinuity" to deconstruct the meaning of dogmatic truth, thus attacking the essence of the nature of God Himself, or false ecumenism. Her pastors do not esteem the symbols and values and places of false religions and they do not engage in "inter-religious" "prayer" services. Her pastors do not teach that false religions have a "right" from God to propagate their false beliefs publicly and they do not praise those false beliefs for being "able" to "contribute" to the building of a "better" world. Pastors of the Catholic Church insist always and at all times that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order with no equivocation, uncertainty, ambiguity or obscurity of any kind. As Pope Pius XI noted in Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928, there is need to "strain" to "find" Catholicism in the pronouncements made by Holy Mother Church:

"For the teaching authority of the Church, which in the divine wisdom was constituted on earth in order that revealed doctrines might remain intact for ever, and that they might be brought with ease and security to the knowledge of men, and which is daily exercised through the Roman Pontiff and the Bishops who are in communion with him, has also the office of defining, when it sees fit, any truth with solemn rites and decrees, whenever this is necessary either to oppose the errors or the attacks of heretics, or more clearly and in greater detail to stamp the minds of the faithful with the articles of sacred doctrine which have been explained. " (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)

How has the integrity of the doctrine of the First Commandment been stamped on "minds of the faithful" by the words and deeds of the conciliar "popes"?

Christ the King has taken His throne in Heaven. We must ascend with Him in our thoughts and prayers at all times as we refuse to have our minds and hearts poisoned by the words and the deeds of the false shepherds of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who dare to blaspheme God so regularly and so openly and/or who refuse to open their mouths in defense of the honor and majesty and glory of God when He is so blasphemed and offended.

As the angel made clear to the Eleven as they looked into the sky as Our Lord disappeared from their sight on this day, there is work for us to do:

"They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power: But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments. " Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of James. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." (Acts 1: 6-14.)

Yes, we can't stand around all day long looking into the sky. There is work for us to do before Our Lord comes for us at the moment of our own Particular Judgments, which can come at any hour and on any day, and at the end of the world to judge the living and the dead. 

The work that we have to do is to sanctify and to save our immortal souls as members of the Catholic Church, work that requires us to be attentive to the graces that were won for us on the wood of the Holy Cross by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood and the flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces. And to cooperate with the graces that Our Lady sends we must be fortified in prayer, which is one of the reasons that we must keep most assiduously the first Novena in the history of the Church, the Novena to God the Holy Ghost. Our Lady was separated from her Divine Son when He Ascended to Heaven. She was united to Him, however, by means of her reception of His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in Holy Communion. She was united to the Apostles and the others who prayed in the same Upper Room where He had instituted the Holy Priesthood and the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday. She is united to us. She is our Blessed Mother. We need to ask her for all the graces that we need to save and to sanctify our souls as we eschew worldliness, which is the theme of today's substantially revised article, and as we refuse to participate in the fraud of a false religion, conciliarism, that is replete with daily outrages given to her Divine Son, starting with the outrage that is the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service, and as we make much reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as the consecrated slaves of her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Apostles, pray for us.

Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi (whose feast is suppressed today), pray for us.

Well, although I was up until around 2:00 a.m. yesterday morning to insert documentation into the text of my next Wuhan Virus commentary, most of my day yesterday was given over to automobile problems as the starter on our 2018 Toyota Sienna-L minivan died after seven years of use dating back to May 10, 2025, when we financed the vehicle and drove off the lot with it at a dealership in Corsicana, Texas. There was a good deal of sticker shock when I was told the repair—for a starter mind you—would cost around $700 with parts and labor. There is thus a really urgent need for non-tax-deductible donations at this time. Thank you.

Thus, being unable to complete the Wuhan Virus commentary, I have completed this relatively brief commentary about how those in the resist while recognize movement keep looking for “clues” to find “signs of hope” in what “Pope Leo XIV” says and does.

How long will it be before someone starts a monetized blog entitled “What Did Leo Really Mean to Say?”

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Canterbury, pray for us.

Recent events, including the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza and the craven murders of two employees of Israeli Embassy to the United States of America by a nihilist who tried to crawl away after his heinous crime, have required to me to postpone another commentary on the coronascam jabs to write part seventeen in this series.

Please pray to Our Lady through her Most Holy Rosary for true peace in the Middle East and everywhere else in the world, namely, the peace of her Divine Son, Christ the King, that is the fruit of the conversion of souls to the true Faith and of His abiding presence in those souls by means of Sanctifying Grace.

Today is the Feast of Saint Philip Neri, the founder of the Oratorian Fathers among whose members have been such converts as Father Frederick William Faber, John Henry Cardinal Newman, and the Commemoration of Pope Saint Eleutherius.

Saint Philip Neri was the Apostle of Rome and an Apostle of Joy.

I made it a point to visit the Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, also known as Chiesa Nouva, each of the six trips I have made to Rome (1984, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996, and 2005) to pray in front of the incorrupt body Saint Philip Neri. Indeed, I spent a lot of time there to pray for the help of Saint Philip Neri in my life.

The prayer that Dom Prosper Gueranger composed in honor of Saint Philip Neri concludes by noting that, though he was the Apostle of Joy (Saint Philip Neri once demonstrate a tennis stroke to young boys and, while extending his arm back before completing the stroke, broke a glass pitcher of water that had been situated behind his back; upon doing this, our Saint smiled and said, “Yes, Father Philip gets results”), he was also greatly grieved by the Protestant Revolution and wanted to do everything possible to extirpate this heresy:

Thy love of the Church, O Philip, was most fervent: there can be no true sanctity without it. Though thy contemplation was of the sublimest kind, yet did it not make thee lose sight of the cruel trials which this holy Spouse of Christ had to endure in those sad times. The successful efforts of heresy stimulated thy zeal: oh! get us that keen sympathy for our holy Faith, which will make us take an interest in all that concerns its progress. It is not enough for us that we save our own souls; we must, moreover, ardently desire, and do our utmost to obtain the advancement of God’s Kingdom on earth, the extirpation of heresy, and the exaltation of our holy Mother the Church: if these are not our dispositions, how can we call ourselves Children of God? May thy example urge us to take to heart the sacred cause of our common Mother. Pray, too, for the Church militant, of which thou wast one of the bravest soldiers. Shield with thy protection that Rome which loves thee so devoutly because of the services which she received at thy hands. Thou didst lead her children to holiness during thy mortal career; bless her and defend her now that thou art in heaven. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of Saint Philip Neri, May 26.)

Indeed, how can anyone call themselves Children of God if we do not seek to extirpate heresy and thus exalt Holy Mother Church?

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Philip Neri, pray for us.

Pope Saint Eleutherius, pray for us.

This relatively brief commentary is about the Washington State legislation signed into law on May 2, 2025, the Feast of Saint Athanasius, by Governor Robert Ferguson to force Catholic priests, both presumed and actual, to violate the Seal of Confession.

There are two appendices to this commentary.

The first contains Father Francis X. Weninger’s question and answer explanation about the Sacrament of Penance, and the second contains the text of the Sacrament of Penance and its administration as found within the 1948 Roman Ritual, Volume I, that I have had in my possession since my seminary days over forty-four years ago now. The first part of the material from the Ritual contains translator Father Philip Weller’s theological explanation about the origins, nature, and effects of the Sacrament of Penance.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Baptist de Rossi, pray for us.

Saint John Nepomucene, pray for us.

This concludes my two-part primer on Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Evangelii Gaudium that Robert Francis Prevost has made his own.

Do not be fooled by the removal of this or that conciliar official such as Prevost/Leo has done by removing the notorious moral relativist named Vincenzo Paglia (see There Will Come A Day When Vincenzo Paglia Will Argue in Favor of "Accompanying" Women Right into the Hands of Baby Butchers) from being the president of  the “Pontifical Theological Institute  for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family.” This is all window dressing despite histrionics from within the resist while recognize crowd who are, as I have noted several times within the past month, making the same mistakes many of us made in 1978 when Karol Jozef Wojtyla/John Paul II appeared to be signaling the end of the darkness of Montini/Paul VI years.

The problem now is it what it was then is: Is the counterfeit church of conciliarism the Catholic Church?

I think that the evidence is clear, which is why I am returning to other subjects and will, generally speaking, limit myself to writing about conciliar matters once or twice a week unless something truly out of the ordinary takes place.

For the moment, though, I want to remind the readers of this website that we cannot be concerned about who sees the truth of the state of the Church Militant in this time of apostasy and betrayal or what this or that person does not see the truth. It must be enough for us to be grateful to Our Lady for sending us the graces to see the truth and to beg her for more graces that may persevere in it no matter the pressures from those we know, including members of our own families.

Remaining always steadfast in our total consecration to Our Lord Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother and ever resolved to make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world, may we simply keep praying as many Rosaries each day as we can to console the good God and to bring down a shower of graces upon whomever Our Lady chooses to bestow them.

We do not look for results as we try to furrow the field of the Holy Faith. It is enough for us to beg Our Lady for the gift of Final Perseverance so that we can hear the following words from her Divine Son, Christ the King, at the moment of our Particular Judgment:

Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. (Matthew 25: 21.)

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV has wasted no time proving his chops as a purveyor of false ecumenist.

In what has become a “tradition” in the counterfeit church of conciliarism either on the day or the day after an antipapal installation, Prevost/Leo addressed a collection of non-Catholic “religious” leaders in remarks that were similar, although not absolutely word-for-word identical, to remarks that had been given by the Argentine Apostate on March 20, 2013.

This commentary shows the similarities and notes that “Pope Leo XIV” has committed himself fully to the Abu Dhabi document on “human fraternity and living together” and to Fratelli Tutti.

Just old conciliar wines into even older conciliar wineskins.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bernardine of Sienna, pray for us.

[Update at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, 2025: As it not possible to do so now after some of the late hours in recent weeks, I will have a brief commentary tomorrow evening about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's "homily" and Regina Caeli addressed that he delivered much earlier today. Thank you. Also, non-tax-deductible financial gifts are very needed at this time.]

Although I am continuing work on my part two of the primer about Evangelii Gaudium, I could not pass up the opportunity to offer a commentary about Robert Leo Prevost/Leo XIV’s address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the conciliar Vatican on Friday, May 16, 2025, the Feast of Saint Ubaldus and, in some places, the Feast of Saint John Nepomucene, during which he sang the old conciliar songs about “interreligious dialogue” and “religious freedom” while some in the resist while recognize camp swoon about the fact that he also mentioned the unborn but fell silent about the fact that this reference was in the context of the unemployed and migrants, in other words a new and updated version of Joseph Bernardin’s ever-evolving “consistent ethic of life."

Look, it is kind of remarkable that a putative Successor of Saint Peter is being praised for having spoken out in "defense" of marriage being between one man and one woman and of the unborn. Does anyone bother to stop for a moment to reflect that it is a sorry state of affairs that it is supposed to "news" that a man presumed to be "Pope Leo XIV" would declare these things and be "praised" for doing so. Has the sine qua non of Catholicism been reduced to defending the truth about Holy Matrimony and the right to life of innocent preborn children? 

Is this what one Catholic writer, in contradiction to the entire patrimony of Holy Mother Church, including as early as Saint Augustine of Hippo as quoted by Pope Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum, June 29. 1886, and summarized by Saint Robert Bellarmine ("either the faith is had entirely, or it is not held at all), the "irreducible minima" of what it takes to consider a "pope" to be inside the Barque of Saint Peter?

Phenomenal. 

Just phenomenal.

As Prevost/Leo has his “installation” service today (no, I will not be watching, thank you), I guess that my work on part two of my current series will be further delayed by whatever says in his “homily.” I will note for now that the true popes of the Catholic Church have had coronation ceremonies while each of the conciliar pretenders after Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria/Paul VI, who gave away his novel conical tiara, have had “installation” ceremonies, starting with Albino Luciani/John Paul I on Sunday, September 3, 1978, who authorized the hater of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, Virgilio Noe, to concoct such an installation “Mass” within eight days’ time that has been followed ever since.

Even symbolically, you see, conciliarism is not and can never be Catholicism.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Venantius, pray for us.

As promised, in light of the fact that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, has made the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Evangelii Gaudium his very own Magna Carta, I have hereby edited commentaries about the late Argentine Apostate's first "apostolic exhortation," which was issued on November 24, 2013, in to a "primer" to remind the readers of this site that Evangelii Gaudium was a collection of Modernist cliches about Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals, and, in parts, contained what could be as described as Marxism's own ode to the "power of the people."

This is part one of the primer. Part two will appear very late today, perhaps in less than twenty-four hours. Of necessity, therefore, my commentary about the Washington State Law requring priests/presbyters to break the Seal of the Confessional may not appear under the Fourth Sunday after Easter, May 18, 2025, and the Commemoration of Saint Venantius.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Ubaldus, pray for us.

Saint John Nepomucene, pray for us.