This is a revised reflection in honor of my own Confirmation patron saint, Saint Henry the Emperor, on his feast day. Saint Henry was a superb exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King who sought to foster peace among men by promoting the missionary work of Holy Mother Church in parts of central and eastern Europe at the beginning of the Second Millennium. He knew that Catholicism was the one and only foundation of personal and social order, seeking at all times to honor Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen.

May we plead with him this day and every day to help us to see the world more clearly through the eyes of the Catholic Faith as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, He Who is the King of every man and every nation on the face of this earth without any exception whatsoever, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.

Saint Henry the Emperor, pray for us.

A new conciliar document stresses that one of the goals of the “synodal path” is to find a “new way of being church.”

Perhaps it is not necessary to waste time on this apostasy. However, this commentary explains that there has never been nor can there ever be any “new way of being church.”

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bonaventure, pray for us.

This a long study about how the adminstration of President Donald John Trump is handling the mess caused by previous adminstration's decision to refuse enforce the nation's existing immigration laws. Over twelve million foreign nationals were permitted to cross into the United States of America without applying to enter legally as a consquence.

This having been noted, though, there are no easy solutions to the problems we face, and it is always essential that policy-makers act in light of eternity and to see in all others the Divine impress. Seen any of those lately.

Mind you, this is only a study, nothing more, but I offer it to the readers of this site to provide a perspective that very few people are providing.

Finally, I am now $600 short of the goal that I need to meet current expenses, and it is with this in mind that I ask those readers who have not made a tax-deductible financial gift to do so now. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Gualbert, pray for us.

Saints Nabor and Felix, pray for us.

I am offering you a  revised reflection on the holy life and work of Saint John Gualbert that was written many a moon ago. 

A new commentary will be published in about ten mintues or so. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Gualbert, pray for us.

Saints Nabor and Felix, pray for us.

This commentary, which was published over a month ago, has been updated and revised in light of recent remarks of Victor Manuel Fernandez and of Protestant activist who was fired from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at the direction of “married” sodomite Richard Grenell because he, Brown, would not support sodomite “marriage.”

Now, I am working on my next article about immigration enforcement, which is taking time to complete because there are many aspects to the current enforcement efforts that are positive but others that are quite troubling by being so focused on “quotas” that even naturalized citizens, foreign nationals with student or work visas, and permanent residents are being sent to detention centers to await deportation proceedings.

There are many distinctions that need to be made when commenting on such an issue, and it is because I am attempting to make those distinctions that the work on it is taking longer than I expected. I hope to have the commentary completed in time for posting on Saturday, July 12, 2025, the Feast of Saint John Gualbert.

Finally, I received three donations yesterday that have significantly helped me to get closer to my recently stated fund raising goal. Thus, I encourage those who support the work of this site and have the financial wherewith to make a donation but have done so recently, if at all, to do so at this time. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius I, pray for us.

I offer you today, Tuesday, July 9, 2025, a revised commentary on the feasts of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, Saint John of Cologne, O.P., and the Martyrs of Gorkum, Saint Maria Goretti, and Saint Veronica Giuliani that are celebrated in some places even though they are not on the General Roman calendar of the Catholic Church.

The appendix consists of the Mass Propers for the Mass of Saints John Fisher and Thomas with Commemorations of Saint John of Cologne, O.P., and the Martyrs of Gorkum, Saint Maria Goretti, and Saint Veronica Giuliani in Latin and in English. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, pray for us.

Saint John of Cologne, O.P., and The Martyrs of Gorkum, pray for us.

Saint Maria Goretti, pray for us.

Saint Veronica Giuliani, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection about the terrible flash floods that have killed so many in central Texas. The reflection was updated about thirteen hours after publication to include new information and commentary.

We must always pray to Our Lady to be prepared to accept with equanimity the death that God the Father has ordained for us from all eternity to undergo as we pray to her now, and at the hour our death for her motherly protection and intercession for us before the Throne of her Divine Son, Christ the King, Who will judge us when we die and render the Particular Judgment upon our immortal souls.

The next original commentary on this site will discuss the methods being used to round up illegal immigrants in various places around the nation. It is one thing to be vigilant in deporting the illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes across entering this country illegally, but, while recognizing that, yes, it is a crime to enter the United States of America illegally, it is another to use a quota system to round up even those who have been here for thirty to forty to even fifty years, some of whom are naturalized citizens, to meet those quotas.

I discussed a reasonable approach to all this fifteen years ago in Good Catholic Common Sense Must Prevail, part 2, and I will so again in my next commentary.

The commentary after the next one, which will take at least three days to complete, will examine the latest conciliar document issued by the conciliar officials about a "new way of being church." What is the great apsotasy supposed to look like if we are not in it at this time? 

May Our Lord have mercy on us all and maintain ourselves with charity towards all other Catholics as we, through no merits of our own and without being one bit better than those who do not see the apostasy that is before their very eyes, beg Our Lady to help us to persvere in what we know to be true without making any concessions to the falsehoods of the day for any reason, including human respect and financial security.

A few correspondents, mostly nameless, have complained that I am not writing enough to warrant their considering making non-tax-deductible financial gifts. All I can say is that I do what I am able to do even though my output is not as prolific as it was a decade or so ago. I do have more physical limitations now than then and continue working with mild global cerebral atrophy that was diagnosed in 2021 and 2022, which is perhaps why I am very tired after writing studies such as the one posted two days ago.

Anyhow, I do once again urge those who can make such non-tax-deductible financial gifts to do so as I have a very important hard deadline to make for one bill on Monday, July 14, 2025, the Feast of Saint Bonaventure, O.F.M. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, pray for us.

Although I did not expect this commentary to take so long to complete, I prefer depth and thoroughness to being glib and superficial.

Thus, this is a detailed study about the conciliar sect’s so-called “Mass for the Care of Creation." This study was revised in two or three places late this afternoon to make distinctions that were made implicity in the original text but have not been made explicitly.

I might get around to putting some of these studies into book form, but there never seems to be enough time and, of great importance, I lack the technical wherewithal to do this without the assistance of someone more able than I am with graphics and layout design.

Speaking of assistance, I am in need of raising $1700 at this time to pay some expenses rather urgently, including some medical deductibles and some other expenses that are not able to be met at this time. A great deal of work goes into the composition of these commentaries and I would like to think that there are more than seven or eight people to whom I must turn to make donations on a regular basis to support this work.

Please consider making a non-tax-deductible financial gift today.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

My commentary about the conciliar sect's new "Mass" for the "care of creation" is turning out to be quite lengthy and detailed. Even the remarks by two conciliar revolutionaries introducing the "Mass" demonstrate, despite their gratuitous denials to the contrary, a pantheism that speaks of the "redemption of creation" and not of human souls. There is much work to do on all this, but it is my hope to have that work completed by tomorrow, Saturday, July 5, 2025, the Feast of Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria within the Octave of Saints Peter and Paul.

For today, however, I am republishing a commentary from five months ago that has relevance to the secular jubilations associated with the date of the Fourth of July. Far more important than those secular jubilations is the fact that today is the Octave Day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus within the Octave of Saints Peter and Paul and a commemoration, in some places, of All Holy Roman Pontiffs.

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

All Holy Roman Pontiffs, pray for us.

As yesterday, Wednesday, July 2, 2025, the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was taken up with medical appointments, I do not have another new commentary for you today, Thursday, July 3, 2025, the Feast of Pope Saint Leo II within the Octaves of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and of Saints Peter and Paul.

Indeed, the material about Pope Saint Leo II being republished now appeared just four days ago in To Disobey a True Pope is to Disobey God Himself. However, repetition is the mother of learning, and I am always aware that there might be a new reader of two who happens upon this site for the first time or accesses out of curiosity after learning about its existence from someone else.

Also, I have absolutely no intention of wasting my time commenting on the so-called “big, beautiful bill” that contains provisions for which there are no justifications to be found even in the broadest possible interpretation of the “implied powers clause” of Article 1, Section 8, and also balloons the national debt and debt ceiling substantially.

However, perhaps it is worth noting that the liberal supporter of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, noted in the 1830s that American politicians had discovered “how to bribe the people with their own money,” that is about the best description of the bloated ugly bill that is being debated now by the careerists within the United States House of Representatives, where common sense and truth are as alien as they are across the street from the United States Capitol at the Supreme Court.

Most of today will be given over to examining the text of the new conciliar “Mass for the care of creation,” a project that might be possible to complete by this time tomorrow.

Our Lady of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

Pope Saint Leo II, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.