The great saint whose feast we commemorate today, Sunday, March 27, 2022, Laetare Sunday, Saint John Damascene, fought the iconoclasts in his day, and while many, although far from all, of our Catholic churches are now in the hands of the conciliar iconoclasts, we can festoon our homes with images of Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph and other saints as we use these images to remind us that we are united to the saints represented in these images by means of the Communion of Saints that we hope to share Heaven with them for all eternity in the glory of the Beatific Vision.

Today, course, is our daughter Lucy’s twentieth birthday and the fourteenth anniversary of her First Holy Communion.

We are very blessed to have our dear daughter, who was taught by a mother possessed of a pure love of the Holy Catholic Faith and a deep, tender devotion to the Mother of God. I give thanks every day and night for the blessings represented by my family. Deo gratias!

Please do pray for Lucy Mary Therese Norma Droleskey on her birthday today. Thank you.

Finally, I am working on the next original article and made some good headway on it yesterday. The limitations on my time and on my physical strength are many. All I can tell you is that I am being methodical in the composition of the next commentary, which deals with the “B Brothers,” Biden and Bergoglio, and hope to have it completed by Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, March 30, 2022.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Damascene, pray for us.

Finally, although I am not prepared yet to fully discuss the results of the medical tests that I underwent at Mercy Hospital in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, suffice it to say for the moment that there has been some progression of the mild global cerebral volume loss that was discovered nine months ago. I have will have more after I have consulted with my personal physician and will continue my work, albeit at the continued slower pace that I have been working recently, as my physical strength and mental ability permit.

For the moment, though, suffice it to say that to love God means to embrace suffering with joy, and I embrace this suffering without hesitation as the merciful means He has given me to prepare for my Particular Judgment, no matter whether it comes sooner or much later. Blessed be the Holy and Adorable Will of God! Deo gratias.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio lowered the boom on one of his conciliar “bishops” who was not “collegial” with his mandate-approving confreres in Puerto Rico.

This commentary provides a brief history about how the conciliar “popes” removed almost no “bishop” prior to the Boston Globe’s reporting becoming widespread news in 2002 even though such disparate journals as The Wanderer and the National Catholic Reporter had been reporting on clerical scandals for nearly two decades.

Although I am aware that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has issued a new "constitution" for the curial conciliar that seeks to feminize the conciliar-occupied Vatican and obliterates all distinctions between its dicasteries and "pontifical" councils and commissions, I will not be able to offer an extended commentary on this development until after complete part seventeen of "Sin: Moare Deadly than the Coronavirus, work on which will resume after I complete "Naturally Absurd, pat seven," to summarize developments in the world of the pathological liars, sociopaths, and globalist stooges/environmental alarmists, and lockdown specialists found in the administration President in Name Only Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. 

Today, of course, is the great Feast of Saint Joseph, the Chaste Spouse of Our Lady, the just and silent man of the House of David. Saint Joseph denied himself his biological fatherhood in order to serve as the ever-virginal spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the most loving foster-father to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

In him, Saint Joseph, is to be found every virtue for a husband and father to imitate: patience, charity, forbearance in all difficulties, fortitude, perseverance, temperance, and total self-abnegation. Those of us who are husbands and fathers must learn to be more silent, to learn to be more loving, to learn to be more patient, to learn to be more meek, to learn to be ever-ready to worker harder and harder at our life's work so as to help our wives and our children to live as redeemed creatures here below in order to know eternal happiness hereafter in Heaven. Saint Joseph is the model of home life and the patron of artisans, the protector of widows and orphans, the patron of those who are in danger of death. May we invoke his patronage each day after we invoke that of his Most Chaste Spouse, Our Lady, and never be slow to turn to him in our spiritual and temporal needs:

"O Saint Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in thee all my interests and desires. O thou Saint Joseph, do assist me by thy powerful intercession, and obtain for me from thy divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; so that, having engaged here below thy heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers. O Saint Joseph, I never weary contemplating thee, and Jesus asleep in thy arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near thy heart. Press Him in my name and kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. Saint Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for me. Amen!"

The next original article is proceeding at a snail's pace, and there are at least three others after that to follow in due course. I have, however, rectified an oversight made when publishing a piece about Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI on February 10, 2022. The oversight? Failing to import the aticle's text from Word into the body of the article. I am sorry. The article can be found below.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

A blessed Feast of Saint Joseph to you all! 

As I was reviewing articles to be printed out and then mailed to two people who do not have computers, I discovered that this article, which was published on February 10, 2022, had nothing other than a paste of its introduction in the main body where the text was meant to be imported from a Word document. Oy!

Thus, I spent most of yesterday having to reformat and reformat and reformat the text, much of which was taken from a 2013 commentary but which serves as a valuable review in light of Joseph Alois Ratzinger's belief that all will be well for him at his Particular Judgment. 

I am sorry for my mistake and sorrier still that I did not catch fo about six weeks after the fact. 

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

This is a substantially revised tribute to our glorious Saint Patrick, Bishop and Confessor, whose work in behalf of the conversion of the Irish clans from paganism stands in very sharp contrast to the obeisance that has been paid by the conciliar “popes” and their “bishops” to every false religion and pagan superstition imaginable. It was to wipe out paganism that Saint Patrick spent his life as a missionary to the Emerald Isle, that land of Saints and Scholars which has fallen back into paganism in no small measure because of the false doctrines and sacramental barrenness of the liturgical rites of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Saint Patrick stands ready to convert each one of us away from our own sins if only we beg his intercession to help make us saints, especially now in the middle of the Fourth Week of Lent.

We are privileged to have a relic of Saint Patrick that is venerated each night before sleep. This relic was given to us most unexpectedly by a good friend of ours some years ago now.

It is my hope, perhaps furtive, to have the next original article published by tomorrow, Friday, March 18, 2022, the Feast of Saint Cyril of Jersualem and the Commemoration of Friday of the Second Week in Lent (and, in some places, of Our Lord's Holy Shroud), which is also the fortieth anniversary of the death of my late mother, Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey (nee: Maxine Coomer). Please pray for the repose of her immortal soul.

Finally, an original article, Wars and Rumors of Wars, part three, was published yesterday. I will probably add a paragaph or two to discuss Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin's latest rationalization for the war (about fighting Western interests intent on spreading sodomy worldwide), but suffice it to say for the moment that one who wants to stop the spread of one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance should not be presiding over the wanton killing of innocent civilians by his troops in Ukraine nor be permiting the slaughter of the innocent preborn under cover of law in his own country. Willful murder is also one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance, and a man who direct the Duma, the Russian Federation's national legislature, to pass laws making the criticism of the invasion of Ukraine that he ordered could easily direct it to stop all surgical assassinations of the preborn at once. One should clean up one's own house before casting himself as a defender of morality, especially when one is notoriously unchaste in his own life and proud of it. 

A blessed Feast of Saint Patrick to you all! 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Patrick, pray for us.

As has become more usual than not, this commentary took much longer to complete than I thought that it would.

A conciliar-themed commentary will appear in a few days before I resume work on “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part seventeen.”

Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on Pope Saint Gregory the Great, whose feast is celebrated today, Friday, March 12, 2021, along with the commemoration of Ember Saturday in Lent, that draws principally upon Pope Saint Pius X's Iucunda Sane, March 12, 1904.

The next original article, which is a follow-up to Wars and Rumors of Wars, part two,  will appear on this site by Monday, March 14, 2022, at the latest.  

Also, Dr. Paul Byrne has asked me to share with others a presentation that he gave at Sacred Heart Church in Cleveland, Ohio, six days ago. The videos include a presentation and a question and answer period: Talk: https://rumble.com/vw9d2p-dr.-byrne.html. Questions and Answers: https://rumble.com/vw9sm5-q-and-a-dr.-byrne.html.

Finally, I want to take a few moments to take note of the work of Bishop Andres Morello, who passed away in Argentina on the First Sunday of Lent, March 6, 2022, which was also the Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity,

Although I never met His Excellency and only had indirect contact with him through one of his priests (and have known others over the course of time who had very close contact with him), I have long known about him, dating back to the time when the scandals associated with Father Carlos Urrutigoity and the Society of Saint John became a public matter in 2000 and then in subsequent years. Courageously, the then Father Morello, who was the rector of the Society of Saint Pius X’s Seminary in La Reja, Argentina, in the 1980s. This is what I wrote on this sad matter in August of 2014:

As noted six weeks ago in the preface to the posting of the Special Report on the Society of Saint John that I wrote in September and October of 2000, the investigation that I conducted at the behest of two laymen who had served on the Society’s board of advisors before resigning in protest over what they concluded was reckless fiscal mismanagement and a refusal to heed any advice on practical matters. The report was submitted to the Diocese of Scanton and to Father Urrutiogity in the October of 2000, prompting a “Bishop” Timlin to issue a statement to me that is completely laughable in light of all of the evidence that came to light later. Equally laughable is the assertion made on March 22, 2006, by the “papal” nuncio to Paraguay, “Archbishop” Orlando Antonini, to attorney James Bendell that “no trace of this Society remains anywhere in Paraguay."

Those subsequent events demonstrated that an episode involving “skinny dipping” on the property of the Society of Saint John in Shohola, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2000, which was disturbing in and of itself, was an indicator of far greater problems.  Those problems could have been forestalled in the 1980s in Argentina if then Father Alfonso de Galaretta of the Society of Saint Pius X, then the Society’s District Superior in Argentina, had not rejected the conclusion reached by the then rector of the Society’s seminary in La Reja, Argentina, Father Andres Morello, Father Urrutigoity had engaged in homosexual behavior as a seminarian. 

Alas, Father Alfonso de Galaretta, who was consecrated a bishop by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Econe, Switzerland, on June 30, 1988, was predisposed to disbelieve Father Morello, who was consecrated a bishop in 2005, because he, Father Morello, was a sedevacantist. In this way, you see, the truth about then seminarian Carlos Urrutigoity was obscured by the resentment of the action taken by “The Nine” in 1983, thus predisposing Bishop de Galaretta at the time to disbelieve the accusations against Urrutigoity and thus recommend this predator to be accepted at Saint Thomas Aquinas in Winona, Minnesota. A summary of this situation can be found at The Early Years of Father Carlos Urrutigoity’s homosexual career.

There is an important lesson to be drawn from this as the then Father de Galaretta had his objectivity clouded by his feud with the then Father Morello. It is part of fallen human nature for those who are at odds with each other on other matters to let personal animus for a particular person (based sometimes on intense dislike of the person or and/or seething resentment at particular injustices that one may have suffered at the hands of one deemed to be an adversary) predispose one to be blinded to the truth about a third party or about a matter of substance (theological, political, scientific, etc.).

Many, although not all, in the “resist while recognize” camp reject anything written by one who has announced his acceptance of the papal vacancy at this time of apostasy and betrayal. Some resist even examining with dispassionate objectivity any of the evidence brought forth in behalf of the theological principles of the sedevacantist position. “Don’t listen to ‘so and so,’ he’s a sedevacantist” is a common refrain in “resist while recognize circles.

It is thus a sad part of the saga of Father Carlos Urrutigoity and the Society of Saint John that the truth about his proclivities was obscured because of the hostility that existed within the Society of Saint Pius X between those who were said to be “loyal” to Archbishop Lefebvre and those who were said to be “disloyal” to him by means of “siding” with “The Nine.” (As found on this website: Still No Excuses For Those Who Defend the Society of Saint John.)

Bishop Morello knew that no one was either inclined to the commission of or had in fact committed perverse crimes against nature should be advanced to Holy Orders, distinguishing himself very much from his own ordaining bishop, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Bishop Morello wanted to protect the integrity of the clergy and to prevent unworthy men, no less unrepentant moral deviates, from being placed in a position where they could groom other young men to follow them in their paths of perdition.

In this regard, therefore, Bishop Morello was noted for his own moral rectitude, his piety, his deep devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Mother of God, especially through her Most Holy Rosary, and for his abiding humility, which manifested itself in so many ways, especially by his diligence in teaching all the seminary courses himself and in doing all the cooking for his seminarians. His Excellency was a true spiritual father to his seminarians and to each of his priests. 

When necessity required, however, he ably defended his ability to form priests, doing so in a sermon he gave in Spanish at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, in 2014, during a Mass in which he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation, noting:

The Holy Catholic Church, even in the middle of this most difficult situation which She has been traversing since Vatican II, and maybe since before that, is not reduced to one determined group of faithful Priests or to only one Seminary of ecclesiastical formation.  (The sermon was translated into English and published in the bulletin of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel.)

Perhaps more than anything else, however, Bishop Andres Morello was noted for his spiritual wisdom and for his charity.

To wit, one of his priests told him of a terrible pastoral situation he had uncovered in the assignment to which he had been sent. Bishop Morello told him, “This is an opportunity for you to become a great saint.” Very wise advice.

As to His Excellency’s charity, suffice it to say that he was extremely patient and generous with a middle-aged man who went down to Argentina on numerous occasions over the years to discern if he could live as a religious brother. Bishop Morello spent many hours over those visits counseling him before the gentleman decided to get married, and this is only one example of how His Excellency gave of himself to others in imitation of the One to Whom His immortal soul had been configured at the moment of his own priestly ordination.

Please pray for the repose of the immortal soul of a devoted champion of Christ the King and True Devotion to Mary, Bishop Andres Morello, remembering to pray also for his priests, seminarians and all those who had the privilege of working with him or having him as their Confessor and pastor.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.