What started out to be a two-part commentary has turned into what will be a four-part commentary studying how some of our true popes stood up to those attacking the Holy Faith as well as defending right principles when necessity compelled them to do so. 

Part three examines the work of Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI. The final part will review the eventful pontificate of Pope Pius XII, whose firm support for Catholics under persecution by Communist tyrants contrasts greatly with the words and inaction of most of the conciliar "popes," none more so than Jorge Mario Bergoglio, although Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini wins a very well deserved honorable mention. 

Holy Name of Mary, be ever our lips.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, commemorating the victory won by King Jan Sobieski of Poland over the Mohammedans at the Gates of Vienna on September 12, 1683.

The troops under the command of Jan Sobieski exclaimed "Jesus, Mary, Sobieski!" as they prayed their Rosaries and routed the Turkish forces.

Each of us does battle every day with the Turks, that is, with the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must call upon the Holy Name of Mary, something we do at least one hundred fifty-three times every day if we pray all fifteen mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary.

This sweet name of the Mother of God must ever be on our lips, and it must be exclaimed by public officials as she is honored as the Queen of Heaven and on earth, yes, of each and every nation on earth, including the United States of America. No one should be ashamed at any time to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary publicly. 

Indeed, we must do so with joy and confidence. Saint Louis de Montfort taught us in True Devotion to Mary that those who are the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary should address others with a Marian salutation.

How felicitous it is, therefore, to greet others with Ave Maria! or a Salve Regina!

How glorious it is to make invocations such as "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!" or "Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation" or "Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death."

May Our Lady, she who is our life, our sweetness and our hope, help us to grow in this virtue, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

Part three of my current series will be published within thirty minutes of this republished reflection's posting.

This is a republished tribute to Saint Peter Claver, S.J, whose true missionary zeal for the conversion and sanctification and salvation of souls stands in vast contrast to the blase and practically indifferent attitude of the conciliar "popes," including Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., personally baptized over 300,000 people in Colombia who were destined for chattel slavery in the Americas, thus freeing those souls from enslavement to the devil by means of Original Sin, equipping them to offer up the injustices of chattel slavery as disciples of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as the devoted clients of His Most Blessed Mother. Saint Peter Claver's example does indeed stand in stark contrast to that of the revolutionaries of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. 

Part three of my current series should appear in a few days before I move on to the demagoguery of the smooth but pure demagogue who will turn eighty years of age on November 20, 2022, a fiend named Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

Insofar as Queen Elizabeth II is concerned, though, I have nothing to say except that I don't see how dying as the titular head of a false church created by a lustful, murderous king is beneficial to one's salvation. All the fulfillment of duty matters naught if one gets his duty to be a member of the Catholic Church wrong. A bit more, however, will be written about the infernal leftist and environmental alarmist named King Charles III within the context of the commentary about Biden and his cohorts in demagoguery. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Gorgonius, pray for us.

Today is the great feast day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she who is the fairest flower of our race. The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost is also commemorated today.

The angels rejoiced around the crib where Good Saint Anne placed her all-holy daughter, who had been conceived without any stain of Original Sin nine months before, that is, on December 8. The New Eve, whose act of perfect obedience to the will of God the Father at the moment that Saint Gabriel the Archangel announced to her that she would be the very Mother of God untied the knot of the first Eve's prideful disobedience in the Garden of Eden, shone at her Nativity with exterior beauty and brightness that reflected the interior beauty and brightness of her immortal soul, filled with grace at the very moment of Immaculate Conception.

The favor of God rested upon Our Lady from all eternity. How can words capture our gratitude and joy to God for giving us Our Lady to be our own Heavenly Mother and Queen?

They can't.

Words can only approximate our gratitude and joy this day--and every day of our lives--over the fact that the Singular Vessel of Devotion in whose Virginal and Immaculate Womb would be conceived Our Divine Redeemer was born this day.

We would not have any chance of getting to Heaven if Our Lady had not been conceived and born.

We have no chance of getting to Heaven without Our Lady's help, which is why we, as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, must cling to her at all times, especially by means of wearing--and the fulfilling the terms of our enrollment in--her Brown Scapular and by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Perhaps the best birthday gift that we can give to Our Lady, apart from our worthy reception of her Divine Son in Holy Communion at a true offering of Holy Mass at the hands of a true bishop or a true priest if this is possible where one lives in this time of apostasy and betrayal, is to resolve now to do live more penitentially in reparation for our sins and those of the world world. By living more penitentially and by praying more Rosaries each day, you see, our souls might--emphasis on might--begin to be filled with more fervor and tenderness for Our Most Blessed Mother, she who made possible our salvation and who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

A blessed Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.

As a reminder, Jorge Mario Bergoglio Would Have Urged Catholics to "Dialogue" with Diocletian, part two, was published a day ago. 

Maria Bambia! We salute thee as the fairest flower of our race. Pray for us!

Saint Hadrian, pray for us.

Although fast-breaking events in a world gone mad occupy the attention of so many these days, the purpose of this website is to help those who access it to see the world more clearly through the eyes of the true Faith without becoming overwrought with the histrionics into which so many Catholics, no matter where they may fall along the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide during this time of apostasy and betrayal, become so engrossed as they lose sight of all supernatural perspective and thereby exhibit little if any understanding that God has known from all eternity that we would be living at this time and that the graces His Co-Equal, Co-Eternal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, won for us during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross are more than sufficient for us to suffer well as His consecrated slaves through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. While I still write about the madness of a world gone mad and will do so yet again after this commentary is completed, I take a much longer view of things than many other commentators who are obsessed with the here and now.

This particular commentary continues a survey of some true popes, Pope Leo XIII and Pope Saint Pius X in particular, responded to attacks on the Faith in general and upon believing Catholics in particular. Part three will focus on Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII.

A commentary on matters political will follow by the end of next week, if not slightly before.

Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Cloud, pray for us.

Unlike his immediate predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and each of his three successors (Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII), the former Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was not in the diplomatic service of the Holy See at any time during the nearly forty-five years of his priesthood prior to his rather remarkable election as the Successor of Saint Peter on August 4, 1903. He was not prone to accept the word of diplomats, and he did not suffer lies and misrepresentations easily.

The farm boy from Riese, Italy, who served as a pastor of souls in a rough-and-tumble Italian cow town, Tombolo, and then in Salzano before becoming Bishop of Mantua and the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, was always close to Our Lady. This tender devotion to Our Lady, which he learned from his saintly mother, helped him to keep close to the sheep even when he was the Vicar of Christ on earth.

Thanks to the sign given him by the life and death of Little Nellie of Holy God, Pope Saint Pius X was the advocate of early First Communion (and early Confirmation) and of frequent Communions. It is no accident at all that the now retired Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI made no reference to the centenary of Pascendi Dominci Gregis on September 8, 2007. Ratzinger/Benedict made absolutely no reference on August 15, 2010, to the centenary of Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, which was a ringing condemnation of the false philosophy of the Sillon that is of the essence of conciliarism. He made no reference to the one hundredth anniversary of The Oath Against Modernism on September 1, 1910 (see Witness Against Benedict XVI: The Oath Against Modernism).

How could he?

He stands condemned by the very words in these documents issued by Pope Saint Pius X.

So does the man who ignored the one hundredth anniversary of Papa Sarto's death, Jorge Mario Bergolio, back on August 20, 2014.

The contrast between the Catholicism of Pope Saint Pius X, a defender of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the confessional Catholic civil state, and the conciliarism of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has denounced "restorationists" as "Pelagian" and "hard-headed" Pharisees while defending "healthy laicism" and "religious liberty" and the "separation of Church and State, could not be more clear.

Here is the Collect for today's feast in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition:

"O God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ didst fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, forever and ever. Amen."

Pope Saint Pius X opposed Modernism.

So must we as we refuse any "communion" at all with conciliarism or its false shepherds who are at war with the Catholic Faith.

As I have had to go for medical tests this week, including a nuclear stress test performed in Dallas, Texas, yesterday, work on part two of my current series has been slowed. I hope to be able to have it posted in a few days. Thank you. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!

The disgraced former conciliar "archbishop" of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1977 to 2002, Rembert George Weakland, "encountered" his Particular Judgment on Monday, August 22, 2022, the Feast of the Immculate Heart of Mary and the Commemoration of Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian.

The title of this commentary about his seventy-one wretched years of priestly apostasy is self-explanatory. The details are contained in the commentary itself.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.

Saints Felix and Adauctus, pray for us.

This is a revised and enlarged version of my reflection on the life of Saint Rose of Lima, a member of the Third Order of Penance of the Order of Preachers of Saint Dominic de Guzman.

Among many other works in her devout life of prayer and austere penances, Saint Rose, who lived among a cluster of saints in Lima, Peru, exhorted the people of Lima to gather in their churches and pray their Rosaries to turn back a pending invasion of their city by a fleet of those virulent anti-Catholics, the Dutch Calvinists. Those hideous people with their diabolical beliefs that have nothing at all to do with Christianity turned back as a result of the Rosaries that were prayed to repel them in their designs to invade Lima and to sack Catholic churches and to desecrated the Most Blessed Sacrament images of the Mother of God.

May we pray to Saint Rose of Lima so that we will remain faithful to the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary as the powerful weapon, after Holy Mass itself, to turn back the enemies of Christ the King in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

A commentary about the perverse work of the morally and doctrinally corrupt Rembert George Weakland will be published within two hours or so. (Scroll down for recent articles.)

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.

Saints Felix and Adauctus, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Commemoration of Saint Sabina. I am republishing a reflection on this feast that was substantially enlarged and revised four years ago with a few new revisions.  

Part two of Jorge Mario Bergoglio Would Have Urged Catholics to "Dialogue" with Diocletian, although I will have a commentary about the late Rembert George Weakland, O.S.B., published no later than Wednesday, August 31, 2022, the Feast of Saint Raymond of Nonnatus. 

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Sabina, pray for us.

Living down to his antipapal expectations, Jorge Mario Bergoglio continues to be mostly deaf, dumb, and blind as his own “bishops,” priests/presbyters, consecrated religious and ordinary Catholics attached to the conciliar structures are attacked, imprisoned, tortured. and killed by Communists in such places as Nicaragua and Red China. Don’t think for a moment that Joseph Robinette Biden and his weaponized, politicized agents of leftist law enforcement agencies are not paying attention to the “pope’s” indifference” when “conservatives” are attacked by those he sees as agents of “social justice” and of efforts to “save the planet.” Jorge would love nothing more than to see his “conservative” “bishops” in the United States of America get roughed up as they continue to defy his own “love-in” with Biden and Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi.

This commentary contrasts Bergoglio’s indifference with the courage action taken by many of our true popes, most especially Pope Pius XI, in the face of attacks upon Catholics and the Holy Faith itself. Part two will follow in a few days.

A brief reflection on Saint Augustine of Hippo, whose feast is commemorated tomorrow, August 28, 2022, the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, can be found at: Saint Augustine of Hippo Provides Hope for Us All.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Calasanctius, pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.