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.

As explained about twelve hours ago, I had been unaware of the "homily" that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV delivered to the assembled "cardinals" on Saturday, May 10, 2025, when I wrote part two of this series, I have written part three, which is subtitled: "What Need Does Anyone Have for Clues?" as Leo has told us in his own words he intends to continue the  path of the "Second" Vatican Council and of his predecessor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, especially as the late blaspheming heretic outlined in Evangelii Gadium, November 24, 2013.

Robert Francis Prevost has told us just about everything we need to know about him, an anyone who contiues to need "clues" is making the same same mistake that many of us deluded "conservatives" hoping for a "restoration" from Karol Joszef Wojtyla/John Paul II in 1978 and the years that followed. It took me a long time to realize the "restoration" was not forthcoming as I believed in a myth of my own makng. It is sad to see so many people make the same mistake now.

A companion commentary about Evangelii Gaudium will be published in about twenty-four hours. This will push back my commentary about the State of Washington's recently enacted legislation to force Catholic priests and presbyters to violate the Seal of the Confessional by a day or two, probably two. However, I am working as hard as I can and simply beg the readers' patience as I once again ask for non-tax-deductible financial gifts.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Baptist de la Salle, pray for us.

Saint Isidore the Farmer (whose feast is celebrated in Spain today; his feast day in the United States of America is March 22), pray for us.

Update, 1:15 p.m., Wednesday, May 14, 2025: I was unaware of the "homily" that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV delivered to the assembled "cardinals" on Saturday, May 10, 2025, when I wrote the commentary intoduced below a little over eleven hours ago now. I am thus writing a part three to this series, which is subtitled: "What Need Does Anyone Have for Clues?" as Leo has told us in his own words he intends to continue the "irreversible" path of the "Second" Vatican Council and of his predecessor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, especially as the late blaspheming heretic outlined in Evangelii Gadium, November 24, 2013. Part three will beshorter than part two. However,  Robert Francis Prevost has told us just about everything we need to know about him, an anyone who contiues to need "clues" is making the same same mistake that many of us deluded "conservatives" hoping for a "restoration" from Karol Joszef Wojtyla/John Paul II in 1978 and the years that followed. It took me a long time to realize the "restoration" was not forthcoming as I believed in a myth of my own makng. It is sad to see so many people make the same mistake now. Welll, it is back to work for me!]

 This commentary, which is not as long as the one published two days ago, concludes my two-part series that emphasizes one does not need to look for aesthetic "clues" or "signs" to determine if a putative pope is a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter. 

Friday's commentary will focus on the law passed by the Washington State Legislature that would require Catholic priests, both truly ordained and those not truly ordained, to break the Seal of the Confessional, which is sacrosanct. 

Friday, May 16, 2025, is the Feast of Saint Ubaldus universally, the Feast of Saint John Nepomucene may be kept in some places, and it is certainly an important feast in the Czech Republic and, as such, is an excellent day to address the subject of the Washington State Law. (I had lost track of time when I wrote eleven hours ago that tomorrow was the Feast of Saint Ubaldus and of Saint John Nepomucene. I am sorry for my mistake. I was tired. Mea culpa!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Boniface Martyr, pray for us.

This is part one of a two-part commentary to explain that no matter his sober bearing, his pious countenance, and devotion to Our Lady, Robert Francis Prevost, is a son of the conciliar revolution.

The first section of this current commentary exhorts readers not to be caught up in looking for “clues” or “signs” about whether “Pope Leo XIV” is an orthodox Catholic as the fundamental question is this: Is the counterfeit church of conciliarism the Catholic Church.

I have explained in the past, including most recently in A False Church With False Doctrines, False Liturgical Rites, and False Cardinals Cannot Give Us True Popes, the counterfeit chuch of conciliarism defects from the Catholic Church on a number of points. Having just recently repeated these points, I saw no need to do so in this commentary, which is long enough as it is.

The substantial majority this current commentary discusses how, despite what appears to be a devotion to Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891, that will the focus of much attention in part two of this commentary, “Pope Leo XIV” is entirely at odds with Pope Leo XIII’s great encyclicals on Church-State relations as those encyclicals condemn conciliarism’s worldview as expressed first in Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes, December 7, 1965, and then elaborated upon by the conciliar “popes,” who have praised what Pope Leo XIII and other true popes condemned.

It is my hope to have part two of this commentary published on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, the Octave of the Solemnity of Saint Joseph and the Commemoration of Saint Boniface Martyr (not the Apostle to Germany, whose feast is celebrated annually on June 5 unless superseded by the Octaves of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Pentecost Sunday, or the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.

Oremus!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancratius, pray for us. 

[Update at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, May 10, 2025: Compline for Third Sunday after Easter within the Octave of Saint Joseph; in some places the External Feast of Saint Joseph is celebrated tomorrow, Sunday, May 11, 2025.

[I am working on a follow-up to Annuntio Vobis Dolorum Magnum: Habemus Antipapam. However, there is just too much work left to do on the commentary, "Clothes Do Not a True Pope Make," to attempt to complete it into the wee hours of the morning. Thus, I beg your patience while expressing the hope that the new commentary will appear in about twenty-four to twenty-six hours. It will another thorough examination of the beginning of the false pontificate of a sober, serious son of the conciliar revolution, who despite traditional appearances and an evident piety in how he conducts the Novus Ordo liturgical abomination, will continue the Bergoglian "synodal path" that is in opposition to Holy Mother Church's immutable Divine Constitution. 

[Finally, there is an urgent need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. I am trying to raise $1000 now to pay various bills that have all come due at once. Your generosity would be appreciated. Thank you.]

I announce to you news of great sorrow: We have another antipope, Robert Francis Prevost, who will now masquerade as "Pope Leo XIV." Although a native of the United States of America, Prevost has only spent one-third of his life here. 

As is explained in this brief introduction to the seventh in the current line of antipopes, Robert Francis Prevost will be far more dangerous that his clownish predecessor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, whose agenda he shares entirely but which he, as "Pope Leo XIV," will advance with more apparent dignity, reserve, and modesty. Be assured, however, that Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., will indeed advance the Bergoglian agenda and institutionalize ir more thoroughly and carefully than had Bergoglio himself. (Speaking of clowns, Timothy Michael Dolan, who saw himself as papabile in 2013, was not even a consideration at the conclave as the conciliar "cardinals" were not going to follow one clown with another. Please see: Four Years Later: Still the Most Dangerous Person at the Al Smith Dinner.)

This commentary has been expanded slightly since its original posting, and I have added other prayers to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in the Valley of Pompeii as an appendix.

Continue to pray to Our Lady for a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter!

Our Lady of Pompeii, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us, defend us, and protect us.

Then former President Donald John Trump promised that would not enforce the Comstock Act to prevent the mailing of the human pesticide, RU-486, so that women could continue to kill their preborn babies by chemical means with “interference” from the Federal government.

Immoral promise made.

President Donald John Trump’s Department of Justice under Attorney General Pamela Bondi has now gone to United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas “to dismiss a lawsuit against Biden-era rules approving mail distribution of abortion pills, in a troubling escalation of the Trump administration’s aversion to undoing the pro-abortion policy.”

Immoral promise kept.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray us, defend us and protect us.

AThis a republished reflection on the Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel. 

A new commentary will be posted within a few minutes.

As I noted yesterday, I will have a commentary about the next universal public face of apostasy once the conciliar "cardinals" select one of their own to be the next Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Remember, for all you in the "resist while recognize" universe, the late Argentine Apostate appointed one hundred eight of the one hundred thirty-three "cardinals" voting in the conclave. To paraphrase the late Lindsey Nelson, one of three original broadcasters of the New York Mets who stayed with the team from the first season in 1962 through its seventeenth season in 1978 (Bob Murphy retired in 2003 and died in 2004, and Ralph Kiner broadcast for the Mets from 1962 to 2013), "For those you keeping score at home, that play went 4-6-3, and the percentage of men appointed by Jorge Mario Bergoglio who are choosing his successor is 81.20300751879699%." Lots of luck, guys.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us and keep us.

Recent events have warranted part sixteen of this series. 

A reflection on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph in Paschaltide was republished a few minutes ago. Scroll below for the introduction.

A blessed Solemnity of Saint Joseph to you all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Stanislaus, pray for us.

Today is the Solemnity of Saint Joseph in Paschaltide, a feast that originated under the title of “The Patronage of Saint Joseph” in 1847 by Pope Pius IX before being given its current name in 1911 and then repositioned two years later on the Wednesday following the Second Sunday after Easter by Pope Saint Pius X. This reflection is by way of an annual reminder, slightly revised, to trust in Saint Joseph, the Patron of the Universal Church and the Protector of the Faithful, in these times of persecution by the forces of Antichrist in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. 

A new commentary will be posted in a few moments.

Also, the conclave of the conciliar revolutionaries begins today choose a new universal public face of apostasy to succeed the late Argentine Apostate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. I will have a commentary about the results within a day after the newest antipope appears on the Balcony of the Basilica of Saint Peter.

Fianlly, although I have another commentary to write later today, I am very much aware of the fact that the Washington State Legislature has enacted a bill to force Catholic priests, presumed or actual, to violate the Seal of the Confessional. Opposition to this totalitarian act is something that should unite every Catholic all across and up and down the vast expanse of the ecclesistical divide in this time of apotasy and betrayl. Barring the election of a new antipope, I will about this matter after the brief commentary I shall be writing later today.

A blessed Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to you all!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church and Protector of the Faithful, pray for us.

Saint Stanislaus, pray for us.