Another root causes commentary, this one dealing with Vice President James David Vance's address to the Munich Security Conference on Friday, February 14, 2025, the Feast of Saint Valentine. 

I should have another commentary ready for publication in about twenty-four hours.

Finally, the Donations page  was updated nine days ago. About five people have responded to private requests. However, only one has responded specifically to the donations page appeal, and that donation came from a regular donor. Only the readers of this site can decide for themselves whether this work is worth even a small donation. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Donald John Trump has issued another executive order. Unlike most of the others he has signed recently, the latest executive order is meant to lower the “cost” of the immoral, baby-killing practice known as in vitro fertilization.

The true cost of in vitro fertilization, though, has nothing to do with money. It has everything to do with mocking God and His laws and the killing of millions of embryonic human beings.

Make America “great again”?

Immoral promises made and kept.

I interrupted work on my commentary about Vice President James David Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference last week to discuss the president’s latest executive order. Work on the Vance matter will continue later today.

However, I am also mindful that the time may be nearing to give the Argentine Apostate a farewell commentary. While I pray daily for Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s conversion, the fact that he is trying to cement his wretched “legacy” while suffering from double pneumonia means that he is fully prepared to die as an unrepentant heretic and blasphemer. May we beg Our Lady for Bergoglio’s eyes to be opened to the truth before they will be opened for him when dies.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

There is much understandable attention being given to the efforts to expose and eliminate wasteful spending, much of used to fund Marxist and anti-family nongovernmental organizations in the name of “saving democracy,” being undertaken by Elon Musk and his associates at the Department of Government Efficiency.

This commentary is to remind readers that, despite the current well-intentioned efforts, the only real way to effect a truly limited government is for men to have a due submission to Christ the King and His Catholic Church as they seek to pursue the common temporal good in light of man’s Last End, the possession of the glory of the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity in Heaven.

Root causes, good readers, root causes.

This website went live on February 20, 2004, as a continuation of the work of printed journal of the same time that was published from September 1996 to February 2004. Although I came to understand and accept the true state of the Church Militant in this time of apostasy and betrayal two years, two months, ten days after this site’s debut, my commentaries on politics and governance have been consistent in their discussion of root causes, and I will never wave in my absolute insistence that it is, quite indeed, Christ or chaos.

The next commentary on this site will deal with Vice President James David Vance’s remarkable take down of the globalist tyrants at the European Security Conference in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on Friday, February 14, 2025, the Feast of Saint Valentine. It was a bold accusation of how the “victors” of the Cold War have institutionalized a Soviet-style system of thought control in their own countries.

There was only one problem with the vice president’s address: “democracy” is not the “solution.” Judeo-Masonic “democracy” must lead to totalitarianism over time.

What was I saying about root causes?

Check back tomorrow.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Today is Septuagesima Sunday. 

Lent begins in but seventeen days.

Easter is exactly nine weeks way.

It is time to start our preparations for Lent, time to start thinking about the penances we are going to undertake starting on Ash Wednesday in order to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as we prepare to enter deep into the mysteries of the Paschal Triduum of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Passion, Death, and Resurrection on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The purple vestments representing a penitential season of Holy Mother Church make their reappearance today to remind us that we must be deadly serious about the business of making the best Lent of our lives as we do not know whether this Lent will be our last one on the face of this earth--or whether we will even live to see the end of this particular Lent! Let us use this time well as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

I was preparing to put the final touches on a detailed commentary about the current efforts to smash the bureaucratic power within the deep state by providing some historical context to the subject when the text, which represented about twelve hours worth of work, disappeared into cyberspace just before I was going to press the "publish" button. Oh well, penance is better than ever in 2025, and I will have to get back to work later today in an attempt to rewrite the written material, not a bit of which had been saved even though I thought it had been.

All is within the Providence of God. Deo gratias!

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Given that President Donald John Trump continues to insist the United States of America is going to make Gaza “ours,” I think that it is useful to provide readers of this site with a review of how the Israeli government played in helping to build up Hamas as a wedge against the Palestine Liberation Organization, a move that backfired just as much as that the American support for the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan forty years ago.

Also reviewed in this commentary is a reminder that the current conflict in the Holy Land was the work of British globalists and international Zionists, who worked in tandem against the Palestinians, whose families had lived in peace thereon for centuries. The Palestinians were displaced, dispossessed, and imprisoned. Many of them were tortured and killed.

A reflection about Saint Valentine, priest and martyr, can be found at the end of this commentary.

The next original commentary on this site with deal with a subject that has been discussed from time to time on this site and was always the subject of a lecture or two within the framework of the American National Government course that I taught in different colleges and universities over the course of three decades: the power of what political scientist Peter Woll many decades called the “fourth branch of government,” the Federal bureaucracy.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Valentine, pray for us.

The hour is very late/early as I wanted to complete this detailed analysis of Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Ordo Amoris in which he condemns mass deportations, yes, even of those guilty of committing violent crimes, as against to his order of false charity.

Perhaps President Donald John Trump's border czar, Thomas Homan, can arrange to deport Jorge Mario Bergoglio back to Argentina.

Seriously, Bergoglio is not the problem. The false conciliar sect is. See Memorandum from Saint Ambrose to All Catholics: “The Catholic faith derives so much strength and support from the words of the Apostolic See, that it is criminal to entertain any doubts concerning it.”

This commentary has been revised with the correction of three typographical errors and the addition of a few new sentences.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, February 11, 2025 is the one hundred sixty-seventh anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes, France. Our Lady explained to the fourteen year-old Bernadette that we must do penance for our sins and for those of others.

Can we do any less in our day?

Indeed, the state of the Church Militant on earth and of the world-at-large has worsened as the sins of men have grown more numerous and more daring and as most baptized Catholics have been deprived of access to Sanctifying Grace by virtue of the invalid sacraments offered in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. God is not going to permit any country that kills the innocent preborn with legal impunity and kills souls in the name of the falsehoods of "freedom of speech" and "freedom of the press" and "freedom of religion" and a general sense of legal and cultural licentiousness to know long term material prosperity. Then again, these merchants of death have been enabled by the conciliar revolutionaries, who believe that signs of "outward penance belong to a different era in the history of the Church."

Indeed, today's feast is only an "optional memorial" within the counterfeit church of conciliarism. That is right, only an "optional memorial" and was renamed the feast of "Our Lady of Lourdes" to replace the Feast of Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes. 

The conciliar liturgical revolutionaries are rationalists who disbelieve in the miraculous. This can be demonstrated by comparing the Collect for today's feast in the Catholic Church with the "opening prayer" for the sanitized "optional memorial" within the conciliar sect:

O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for Your Son, we humbly beseech You that, recalling the apparition of the same Virgin, we may obtain health for both soul and body. Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. (General Roman Missal, 1954, Feast of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11.)

Grant us, O merciful God, protection in our weakness, that we, who keep the Memorial of the Immaculate Mother of God, may with the help of her intercession, rise up from our iniquities. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. (Novus Ordo "Optional Memorial" for the feast of "Our Lady of Lourdes.")

These prayers represent two entirely different religions, and how it is impossible at this late date to recognize the difference is truly unfathomable.

The past two original commentaries, Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part ten, and Biden and Fauci's League of Sociopaths were expanded slightly before the reposting of this current reflection. The next original article will be published either late this afternoon or early this evening. Thank you.

We must indeed take Our Lady's injunction, "Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners," most seriously as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permits. 

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

Saint Bernardette Soubirous, pray for us.

[Update at 12:17 a.m., Monday, February 10, 2025, the Feast of Saint Scholastica: Although I have been working on a new commentary for past six hours or so, I have hit a wall, so to speak, and must simply stop work on it now as I am a little “spent” from writing the commentaries of the past week, I did, though, update the Donations page even though it contains the same information found below except for the addition of Dom Prosper Gueranger’s panegyric to Saint Scholastica. Thank you for your consideration as, having made most of the monthly bills, I do have to pay other bills, including the annual hosting fee for this website. Thank you.]

Well, here it is again, another overnight posting.

For those who are interested, however, this is a new commentary discussing former President in Name Only Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s., January 20, 2025, pardon of his fellow sociopath, Anthony Fauci, who caused such incalculable harm during his thirty-eight-year career as the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a harm that continues now and will continue well into the future because of those supposedly “safe and effective emergency use” jabs that he encouraged to be produced during the forty-fifth president’s warped Operation Warp Speed.

As should be expected, this is a detailed commentary. However, it is only about a quarter of the length of the some of the longer entries in the “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” series that began five years ago, that is, on March 25, 2020, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Finally, as I too tired to format the donations page, let me just state here briefly that I need to raise over seven hundred fifty dollars ($750) to cover he costs of purchasing prescription progressive lenses and sun glasses to protect my eyes, which were recently diagnosed as having gone from “mild global dry macular degeneration” to the next stage, “intermediate global macular degeneration,” while at the computer and, as regards the sunglasses, out in the daylight and to guard against night glare on the rare occasions that I find myself driving after dark, a practice that I have tried to discontinue as much as possible.

Also included in the amount to be raised are additional copays for the colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures that I underwent on January 28, 2025, the Feast of Saint Peter Nolasco and the Commemoration of the Second Feast of Saint Agnes, that wound up being considerably more than the estimate amount that I was able to raise from a generous donor before the procedures, and this is to say nothing about the one hundred forty-four dollars ($144) that I need to raise to pay the good Catholics whose company has been hosting this website for the past fifteen years now.

I am sorry to ask, but the situation requires me to do. Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

A blessed Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany and Commemorations of Saints Cyril of Alexandria and of Saint Apollonia to you all.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now, and at the hour of our death.

Saint Cyril of Alexandria, pray for us.

Saint Apollonia, pray for us.

As promised, here is part ten of this occasional series. This entry deals with President Donald John Trump's plans for "takeover" of Gaza. 

Yes, Make America Great Again can be rephrased as Make Israeli Hegemony Permanent.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Romuald, pray for us.

Given all that has been happening in the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Judeo-Masonic naturalism, including President Donald John Trump’s deadly serious desire “relocate” Palestinians from Gaza while noting that Gaza has been decimated without saying who ordered the decimation (hint: the man standing right next to him, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was found a fellow Zionist social engineer after his own darkened heart), I have had to wait until now to compose a commentary about Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s January 2, 2025, effort to turn Dom Prosper Gueranger. O.S.B., into a veritable prophet of conciliarism’s liturgical revolution. This is nothing new for Senior Jorge as he did the same thing with Pope Saint Pius X seven and one-half years ago.

Thus, before I get around to completing another commentary about former President in Name Only Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s., pardon of Anthony Fauci, I going to have to write another commentary about the ease with which the current president can decide arbitrarily to relocate an entire people while giving those who bombed their land to smithereens everything that their racialist dreams have long desired to come true.

May God have mercy on us all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Agatha, pray for us.

Saint Philip of Jesus, pray for us.