A great deal of time has been taken to produce this very long commentary, which runs at around fifty-two pages of text in twelve-point Times New Roman type according to the Word document on which it was written.

The subject matter of this commentary is one that is of great importance to me as one of the reasons that Christ or Chaos was started as print journal in 1996 and has been online for fifteen years come next month is to help Catholics to see the world clearly through the eyes of the true Faith and to provide them with access to what our true popes and other solid Catholic writers have taught about doing so.

The world as we know it is the product of a welter of anti-Incarnational errors, many of which date back to the Renaissance well before Martin Luther’s revolution against the Divine Plan that God instituted to effect man’s return to Him through His Catholic Church permitted the errors of Renaissance writers to gain the cover of theological “respectability.”

One of the chief progenitors of error prior to Martin Luther was the apostle of amorality, Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writings about divorcing morality from statecraft was the subject of a recent commentary by Dr. James Piereson, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, concerning how best to view the character and governing strategy of President Donald John Trump. However, Machiavellianism is evil no matter who employs it as there is never an instance in which the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law may be suspended.

Moreover, Dr. Piereson invoked the authority of the anti-Catholic named James Madison, who claimed in The Federalist, Number Ten, that it is the conflict of interests and the multiplicity of sets that are the best guarantors of human liberty against the tyranny of a majority. (Truth-in-advertising: although I have always rejected a multiplicity of sects, I am afraid that I was sympathetic to The Federalist, Number Ten, in my misspent youth as a defender of the American founding, something that I began to recognize as erroneous at the age of thirty-five in 1986.)

No, the Cross of the Divine Redeemer is the one and only genuine standard of human liberty. Nothing.

My next original commentary, which may not appear until Wednesday or Thursday of this week, will be my long-postponed commentary on the elections of two months ago and what has transpired in their wake.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth as there is no intervening Sunday within the Octave of te Epiphany of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ this year.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ chose to become Man in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, and place Himself, the Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Son of God the Father, under subjection to mere creatures His Most Blessed Mother, the fairest flower of our race, and to Good Saint Joseph, his foster-father.

The subjection of the God-Man to the authority of His Most Blessed Mother and his foster-father, whom He had chosen from all eternity to provide Him with the earthly love and care and stewardship of a father seeking only to please God with his every thought, word and deed, teaches us that we, who came from families and who, in many instances, are raising families of our own, must be subject to all legitimate authority, duly constituted, in all things that do not pertain to sinful commands. Children are supposed to learn this subjection in the household from their tenderest days, seeing in their fathers the image of Saint Joseph and in their mothers the image of Our Lady.

Children are supposed to realize that God in the very Flesh obeyed His creatures in the Holy Family of Nazareth. So must they.

Parents must, for their part, foster an atmosphere within the family of selflessness, charity, forgiveness and joy, centering the family's life on daily assistance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (if at all possible), regular time spent in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary, supplications to Our Lady's Most Chaste Spouse, Saint Joseph, home enthronement to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Total Consecration to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the same Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scriptural reading and family reading time, especially about the lives of the saints, and a refusal to participate in the rot of popular culture.

This requires sacrifice and the willingness to be misunderstood, calumniated and rejected even by one's own family members as we protect our children from those cultural currents that come from the devil and are designed to lead each of us to Hell for all eternity. To eschew worldliness one must be ready to embrace the Holy Poverty of the Holy Family of Nazareth, detaching oneself from the material acquisitiveness of our consumer society, shaped by Judeo-Calvinist materialism, and to live in light of First Things and Last Things as we week to acquire the only thing that matters: Sanctifying Grace in this life and eternal life in the glory of the Beatific Vision of Father, Son and Holy Ghost in Heaven. Finally, yes, the next article is nearly completion. Thanks for your patience.

The next original article for this has "turned a corner," so to speak, and will be published this evening. It is a long commentary. I thank you for your patience.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, pray for us now and in death's agony.

A blessed Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth to you all.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio sure does keep a lot of interesting company at the Casa Santa Marta. The man who says he is “worried” about the presence of sodomites in the ranks of his false religious sect’s clergy makes it a point to keep a lot of them in residence at the Casa Santa Marta or in and around the Vatican.

The next original article on this site should appear by Friday. It will be a response to an article, written by a scholar who was on the faculty of the then-named State University of New York at Albany’s Graduate School of Public Affairs when I was writing my doctoral dissertation forty-four years ago, in praise of Machiavelli and Machiavellianianism as the test of a public figure’s character. It will take several days to complete my response. However, it will be lengthy and through.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, pray for us.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was made manifest on Christmas Day to the handful of Jewish people, including the shepherds in the field who were sent to adore Him by the angels who had announced the following:

And there were in the same country shepherds watching, and keeping the night watches over their flock. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the brightness of God shone round about them; and they feared with a great fear. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people: For, this day, is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. And it came to pass, after the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us go over to Bethlehem, and let us see this word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath shewed to us. And they came with haste; and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to them concerning this child.And all that heard, wondered; and at those things that were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God, for all the things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. (Luke 2: 6-20.)

Today's feast, the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord, known colloquially in Ireland as "Little Christmas" and in many other places as Three Kings' Day, celebrates Our Lord's manifestation to the whole world through the Gentiles.

Indeed, the Offertory for today's Mass explains that all kings shall adore Christ King and that all nations shall serve Him:

"The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: and all kings of the earth shall adore Him: all nations shall serve Him."

The United States of America is no exception to this. We must pray for the day when the leaders of this country, founded on the falsehoods of Protestantism and Judeo-Masonry that are so hateful to Our King, will adore Him as their King and the day when this nation will serve Him as it acknowledges His Social Kingship over it by submitting in all that pertains to the good of souls to the authority of the Catholic Church that He Himself founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We are suffering at the hands of statists today because the men of Modernity who believed that they had no obligation to offer public worship to Christ the King through His true Church set us on a course that can result only in the triumph of the civil state over the King of Kings Who was made manifest to Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar on this day.

We must make Him manifest in our own lives at at all times, never fearing to suffer in behalf of the truths of the Holy Faith or to suffer in the cause of justice when souls are placed into jeopardy needlessly even by some of our own true shepherds.

An original article should appear by tomorrow, Monday, January 7, 2019.

A blessed Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord to you all!

As promised less than twenty-four hours ago, this is a little commentary about United States Senator Willard Mitt Romney’s self-serving broadside against President Donald John Trump in The Washington Post on Tuesday, January 1, 2019.

The long-awaited commentary on the election two months ago should be published in a few days.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Innocents, pray for us.

Willard, the Ever-Righteous Flip-Flopper, Returns

Every new day of our lives is an opportunity for us to start "fresh," if you will, as we give thanks to God for keeping us alive for another day to give Him honor and glory through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary as we adore Him in true offerings of the Holy Sacrifice Mass and as we petition Him for what we need, both spiritually and temporally.

A blessed New Year 2019 of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to you!

This is a revised reflection for today's feast, the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which begins the the month of January, the month of Holy Name of Jesus. 

Our Lady, Mother of God, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Although there is a very good post at Novus Ordo Watch Wire concerning Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s latest blasphemy against Our Lady, I would be most remiss in defense of her sublime privileges if I did not address, if ever so briefly, the latest outrage on this site.

Indeed, Blessed Among Women: Defending the Sublime Privileges of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was published in 2016 in response to several blasphemous and heretical statements that had been uttered by the pestilential beast of an apostate from Argentina. The currently presiding universal public face of apostasy is nonstop machine of heresy and blasphemy. He is a mocker of the Holy Faith who has no regard for doctrinal truth of any kind, including the doctrinal effects of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Sylvester I, pray for us.

Pope Saint Sylvester I did not abide heresy. He did not ent iable in the slightest. He confronted it as he sought the conversion of all non-Catholics to the true Faith. His firm defense of the Holy Faith as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Vicar on earth must inspire us in our day to seek his intercession for the needs of the Church Militant on earth as she suffers in the catacombs as pretenders to the papal throne make their open accommodations to propositions that have been anathematized time and time again in the past by true popes and/or dogmatic councils.

The Church arose from the catacombs during the pontificate of Pope Saint Sylvester I. May his intercession for us now help to bring about a like arising from the catacombs in our own day as the falsehoods of the counterfeit church of conciliarism are wiped away once and for all.

Although so many Catholics in the world are without the Real Presence of Our Lord to adore, those who are so privileged in this time of apostasy and betrayal would be wise to end this year by spending time before Him in prayer as we pray our Rosaries in thanksgiving for the favors and graces received this year, in reparation for our sins and those of others this year, in petition for our spiritual and temporal needs and, of course, in adoration of the good God Who preserves our existence and Who wants us to show forth our love for Him by our fidelity to His teaching and our sorrow for our sins as members of His true Church.

A blessed New Year of Our Lord 2019 to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Sylvester I, pray for us.