Today is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the commemorated Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Commemoration of Saint Sabina. I have revised and considerably expanded this reflection on the decollation of of the last of the Old Testament Prophets, Saint John the Baptist.

Also, especially for those of you who do not access this site regularly, a new article, Revised and Expanded: Do Not Be Agitated by the Fearmongers: Pray to Our Lady to See the World Clearly Through the Supernatural Eyes of the True Faith, was published on Thursday, August 26, 2021, the Feast of Pope Saint Zephrinus, and revised and expanded on Saturday, August 28, 2021, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Commemoration of Saint Hermes.

The Donations page has been updated. The need is very urgent for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Finally, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, is available for purchase.

A new article will appear in a few days, if not perhaps a little sooner. After that, however, I will disappear for about a week to ten days to work on another book project, although I will post revised reflections on the Feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary, Thursday, September 2, 2021, the Feast of Pope Saint Pius X, Saturday, September 3, 2021 (which is also the sixtieth anniversary of the priestly ordination of Father Louis J. Campbell, O.S.A,, who has been the pastor of Saint Jude Shrine in Stafford, Texas, since 2001), the Feat of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, and the Feast of Saint Peter Claver, S.J., here in the United States of America on September 9, 2021. Thank you.

A revised reflection on the Feast of Saint Rose of Lima will appear tomorrow, August 30, 2021.

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.

This long commentary, which could have named this long commentary, “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part 13" even though I ended that series with part twelve nearly four months ago now, has been revised and expanded on Saturday, August 28, 2021, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Commemoration of Saint Hermes and of Our Lady Health of the Sick.  Thus, I have chosen a new title to deal with the same subject and in the same depth as done between March of 2020 and May of 2021.

While I realize full well that most of the few people who access this site do not have the time to read such long studies, my goal is to provide information for those who are interesting in studying it by attempting to cast the events of our times in their true supernatural framework as occurring with the Providence of God.

The Donations page has been updated. The need is very urgent for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Finally, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, is available for purchase.

A revised reflection on the commemorated Feast of Saint John the Baptist will appear in a few hours.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Calasanctius, pray for us.

Saint Augstine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

An original article, Revised and Expanded: Do Not Be Agitated by the Fearmongers: Pray to Our Lady to See the World Clearly Through the Supernatural Eyes of the True Faith, was published yesterday at the same time that the the Donations page was updated. The need is very urgent for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Finally, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, has been published and is available for sale.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary,  pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, Wednesday, August 25, 2021, is the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France, that great exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Saint Louis was taught by his holy mother, Blessed Blanche of Castile, to prefer death rather to commit a deliberate Mortal Sin. He heard two Masses a day and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, whose patron saint he remains to this day.

Saint Louis strove to rule according to the Mind of Christ the King as He had deposited It exclusively in the Catholic Church, recognizing that he, Louis IX, would have to answer to Christ the King at the moment of his own Particular Judgment for how he ruled his subjects. His letter to his son Philip is a succinct summary of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It is a model for how everyone in public life should conduct himself in order to please Christ the King as the devoted client of Our Lady, she who is our Immaculate Queen.

Work on the next original commentary is about seventy-five percent complete. Although it is my hope to complete it today for posting by tomorrow, Thursday, August 26, 2021, it is possible, given the nature of the conclusion that is going to require a good deal of work, that the commentary may not appear until Friday, August 27, 2021. 

In the meantime, of course, please purchase (if you have not done so already) and also spread the work about G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi. 

Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to which the month of August is devoted, that heart that was pierced with Seven Swords of Sorrow during the Life of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed out of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These twin hearts of matchless love suffered as one and they beat as one while on earth and they have beat as one in Heaven since Our Lady was Assumed into Heaven body and soul after her death.

Our Lady's Immaculate Heart was unstained by Original Sin or Actual Sins. The Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, therefore, was capable of a purity of love of God and of her fellow men that is almost indescribable. Our Lady's Most Pure, Most Holy Heart despises the sins that caused her Divine Son to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death but at the same time is full of a perfect and completely pure maternal compassion for erring sinners such as you and me.

Our Lord, showing us His infinite compassion for us erring sinners, has sent us His Most Blessed Mother to provide us with her maternal assistance to get home to Heaven as members of His true Church founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We have been given the Rosary, the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel, the Miraculous Medal, and the Green Scapular through her loving hands, through which flow the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

Her apparition to Juan Diego and the miraculous image of herself she left on his tilma helped to convert millions of Indians to the true Faith in the Americas.

Our Lady ratified Pope Pius IX's solemn proclamation of her Immaculate Conception by proclaiming herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous to be the Immaculate Conception on March 25, 1858. And Our Lady's appearance in the Cova da Iria from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917, gave us Heaven's Peace Plan, one that runs through her Immaculate Heart.

We must endeavor at all times to fulfill, as far as we are able in this time of apostasy and betrayal, Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own lives, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit and by living penitentially as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Immaculate Heart.

The era of apostasy and betrayal will end when the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is made manifest. We can play our roles, small though they may be, in helping to bring about this triumph.

As a reminder, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, was published a week ago, and the next original article to appear on this site is being written but may not be posted until Tuesday.

Remember also that non-tax-deductible gifts are always needed and would be highly appreciated at this time. Thank you.

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

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who almost single-handedly revived devotion to Our Lady in the Twelfth Century.

A revised reflection for the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be posted on Sunday, August 22, 2021, which is also the Commemoration of the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, and I hope to have the next original article for this site published by Monday August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, one of the Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites.

In the meantime, please remember that G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship is now available for purchase. Scroll below for more information.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.

This is a relatively brief new commentary, although one that cites two earlier commentaries on this site (one in 2009, the other in 2010), about the thoroughly predictable tragedy that was inevitable as soon as the "genius" named President George Walker Bush, aided by his "neoconservative" war hawk vice president, Richard Cheney, who spearheaded the American disinformation campaign prior to the "Gulf War" of 1991 when he served as Secretary of Defense under President George Herbert Walker "Thousand Points of Light" Bush, started to drop bombs on Afghanistan on Sunday, October 7, 2001. 

An article that appeared in the printed pages of Christ or Chaos a month later was entitled, "As the Bombs Drop on Afghanistan." This article is, sadly,  a bookend to the one from nearly twenty years ago.  

Some "New American Century" that was devised by the likes of William Kristol, Donald Rumsfield, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. Some "New American Century." (See Longer Than World War II for details.)

Once again, G.I.R.M Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, has been published in its Kindle format. The paperback edition should be available later today, and I will post an announcement at that time.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Martyr, pray for us.

May God have mercy on us all.

My republished reflection on Saint Hyacinth can be found below.

Today is the Feast of Feast of Saint Hyacinth, O.P., the great Apostle of the Northland and one of the first members of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman. (Today is also the third day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Octave Day of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.)

Saint Hyacinth's great zeal for souls and his desire to convert pagans out of their diabolical superstitions into the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. Saint Hyacinth, who had such a great and abiding love for Our Lady, who favored him with apparitions, stands in quite a contrast with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Both of these heretics have praised the very false religions that Saint Hyacinth—and every other Catholic missionary—sought to eradicate from the face of the earth by seeking the unconditional conversion of their adherents to the false religion. The difference between Saint Hyacinth's fidelity and apostasy of the conciliar "popes" stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see. See for yourself. As considerable time was spent adding links, including a complete library of articles that have appeared about Bergoglio on this site in the fifty-three months, four days, to the preface of this revised article in order to provide readers with a useful and handy resource for those who are new to this site and want to review past articles on Jorge Mario Bergoglio, it has been impossible to add more recent examples of the endless reaffirmations that the Argentine Apostate has given to those who adhere to false religions, including Talmudism, from which he derives much of his "intellectual" and "spiritual" sustenance. In other words, "Pope Francis" is a stooge and servant of Antichrist.  

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, O.P., pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Martyr, pray for us.

Once again, G.I.R.M Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, has been published in its Kindle format. The paperback edition should be available later today, and I will post an announcement at that time.

An original article will follow in about fifteen minutes.

Saint Joachim, the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Mediatrix of All Graces, knew the contempt that would be visited upon His Divine Grandson, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sent himself into voluntary exile after he was denounced by a priest of the Old Dispensation for not producing a child after twenty years of marriage to his wife, our good Saint Anne.

It was during his exile that Saint Joachim was visited by an angel, who reminded him of the fact that Abraham's wife, Sarah, did not conceive a child until she was ninety years old, telling him that his wife, Saint Anne, would conceive a daughter named Mary, who would be the Mother of God. Saint Joachim and Saint Anne brought their daughter to the Temple when she was three years old, giving their long-awaited child back to the good God Who had given them to her so that she could be the Mother of their own Saviour, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This should teach us to do everything possible to foster vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life among our children, so that we can give them back to God so as to yield a spiritual bounty of souls in His service, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

As noted yesterday, the Kindle version of  G.I.R.M Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship. The paperback version has encountered a technical problem requiring revisions of its back cover, which means that its actual publication will be delayed until Tuesday afternoon after changes are made and uploaded (it takes about twenty hours for paperback books to go through the online "review" process). A formal announcement about both versions will be posted at that time. . 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us!

Saint Roch, pray for us.