This is a brief reflection on the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo, to which Father Francis X. Weninger's reflection about the great convert to the Holy Faith has been appended.

For the moment, though, I want to include the sixth of Father Wenginger's practical considerations on the life of Saint Augustine of Hippo:

VI. From a hardened heretic, St. Augustine became not only a fervent Catholic, but also a teacher and protector of the true faith. The gift of the Catholic faith he prized above everything, and offered frequently to God most humble thanks for it. "There is no greater treasure," he writes, "no greater honor, no greater good, in this world, than the Catholic faith." From the period of his conversion, he was eager in his endeavors to convert the heretics from their errors, and bring them back into the pale of the true Church, both, by word of mouth, and also by his pen. His most fervent wish was, that all might be Catholics. May you esteem the gift of the Catholic faith more than you have heretofore done. Give thanks to God that He has bestowed this gift upon you. Seek, by words as well as by a truly Christian life, to convert others to the true faith. And, finally, learn from St. Augustine, how you should pass the time which God gives you, when he sends you sickness before your end. Guard yourself against frivolous and idle conversations, do not permit them at your sick bed. Use the time to repent of your iniquities. Let others read to you from a devout book, that you may constantly be occupied with good thoughts. The last days of your life are precious; use them rightly; they never return. Cease not to repent of your sins and to pray God to forgive you, until your last breath; for, the words of St. Augustine are and ever will remain true: " No Christian, however piously he may have lived, should die without repentance." (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., On the Feast of Saint Augustin of Hippo, August 28.)

We must always treasure our Catholic Faith and never lose our zeal for helping to bring non-Catholics to the bosom of Holy Mother Church, to correct error in a spirit of a true love of God and for the eternal and temporal good of others, and to never give into any kind of naturalistic view about our own lives or the events of society. We are to view everything through the eyes of the true Faith at all times without any exception whatsoever. Keep it Catholic. Keep it Catholic all the time.

A commentary about yesterday's tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was posted early last evening and underwent a few revisions thereafter: In the Direct Grip of the Adversary.

Work on another original article has begun and should be completed by late this afternoon.

Our Lady of the Rosary,  pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

This is a brief commentary about the tragic events that took place this morning at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a gender-confused young man. Robert Westman, opened fire through the church’s stained-glass windows and took aim at school children at what a purported offering of Holy Mass, killing two, wounding fourteen other children, and also three adults.

Please pray for the souls of the murdered children, who were above the age of reason, and the consolation of their grieving parents, for the recovery of the wounded, and for the needs of all who have been affected by yet another mindless tragedy in a world where has rejected and mocked Christ the King and targets the innocent preborn for execution by chemical and surgical means every day under cover of the civil law.

This commentary was revised in several places around 9:05 p.m. on the Feast of Saint Joseph Calasanctius.

May Our Lord have mercy on us all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Calasanctius, pray for us.

This is a very long study dealing with the random acts of nihilistic violence and epidemic of self-annihilation by euthanasia that is taking place with ever greater frequency here in the so-called “civilized West” that has taken several days to complete.

Considerable space is to Hilaire Belloc’s 1931 essay on “The New Paganism” near the end of this commentary.

A new commentary may not appear until Thursday, August 28, 2025, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo, but I will do my very best to try to get it done for posting by Wednesday, August 27, 2025, the Feast of Saint Joseph Calasanctius.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Zephyrinus, pray for us.

Today, Monday, Friday, August 25, 2025, 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.

Finally, I can report to you that the next original article for this site is being written and should be completed by this time tomorrow morning. Thank you.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

Although a new commentary is being written at this time that I hope to have completed in approximately seven hours from now, I thought it useful to post the revisions I made to today’s new commentary, Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV: A True Son of Conciliarism's Reconcilation with False Religions, that begin after my quoting an article about Sharia law being deemed valid in Austria for resolving “civil disputes and that end just before I discuss the Protestant Revolution’s overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King as being principally responsible for the chaos that has descended upon Europe since then, in a stand-alone post for the benefit of those readers who have read today’s commentary in its entirety and who may not want to go back to look for the revisions.

I will have a revised reflection on our beloved Saint Louis IX, King of France, posted sometime after Midnight tomorrow morning even if I cannot complete the next original commentary that is occupying my attention at this time.

Finally, I note with sadness the deaths of Mr. Thomas A. Nelson, the founder of TAN Books and Publishers, Mr. Gary Louis Morella, a stalwart defender of innocent human life and of the Social Reign of Christ the King, and Mrs. Barbara Kamprath-Radtke, the mother of a one-time faculty member at Christ the King College, that have come to my attention in the past week or so.

Mr. Thomas Aquinas Nelson was well known to faithful Catholics. Although we met only twice in person (once in 2004 at a conference in Rockford, Illinois, and once on March 12, 2011, when attending Mass in a traditional chapel in the same city), I had occasion to speak with him several times over the phone in the past thirty-one years. His contributions to the education of Catholics did not end with his death as the original TAN reprintings, some of which have undergone revisions since he sold the company, will continue to educate, edify, and inspire Catholics for as long as those books are in print.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls 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.

Saint Bartholomew, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, King of France, pray for us.

As I have several other subjects to address in the next few days, this will the last time for a week or so that I deal with Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV’s constant affirmations of his commitment to the entire panoply of the conciliar agenda.

This commentary, which was revised and enlarged about thirteen hours after its initial posting, focuses on a secular writer’s reaction to the American/Peruvian Apostate’s delusional belief that Catholics can “learn” about different religious “traditions from migrants, who are said to be heralds of hope. The secular writer knew this to be delusional, but does not realize that the path to this madness stems straight from the Protestant Revolution’s overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King five hundred years ago.

There are four appendices at the end of this commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bartholomew, pray for us.

Although I am five weeks late in dealing with the subject of this commentary and recognizing that others have commented contemporaneously on the matter (I do not read such commentaries so as to maintain the independence of my own work but sometimes see that these have been published), I nevertheless want to offer my own commentary about the address that Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV delivered to “Orthodox Christians” from the United States of American in presence of “Metropolitan Elpidiophoros and the egregious support of the sodomite agenda, Joseph “Cardinal” Tobin, the conciliar “archbishop” of Newark, New Jersey.

That anyone within the “resist while recognize” movement is still squinting for the “hidden Catholicism” in Prevost/Leo’s addresses, homilies, and actions after an address the false “pontiff” delivered on Thursday, July 17, 2025, the Feast of Saint Alexius and, in some places, the Feast of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary, demonstrates a total unwillingness to recognize that no true Successor of Saint Peter has spoken of the heretical and schismatic Orthodox sect as the conciliar “popes” have done and continue to do.

Another original commentary should appear tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Bartholomew and the Commemoration of the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost.

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

Saint Philip Benizi, 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.

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

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

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV gave a general audience address eight days ago, that is, on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, the Feast of Saints Hippolytus and Cassian and, in some places, the Feast of Our Lady Refuge of Sinners, in which he discussed the reasons, albeit couched in conciliarspeak that has nothing to do with the traditional language used by the Catholic Church, why Judas Iscariot lost his salvation that has excited those who are reading the antipapal tea leaves in heightened states of expectation as though they are looking for the hidden features in Highlights Magazine for Children.

However, what the antipapal exegetes are not discussing much is that God neither avenges nor punishes sin.

Heresy.

Half of this commentary deals with false “pontiff’s” softened approach to the damnation of Judas Iscariot while the other half provides proof about the fact that God does avenge sin and punishes sinners because He loves them and wants them to turn to Him through His true Church by means an integral Confession of their sins in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance and to make reparation for those sins thereafter.

As I have family duties that will eat up a great deal of my day today, I do not know whether I can complete the next original article, which also deals with Robert Leo Prevost/Leo XIV, in time to be published along with my annual reflection on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, but I will try.

Finally, I only found late last evening that, remarkably, President Donald John Trump is concerned about his salvation. He made the comments when he phoned to a program called “Fox and Friends,” with which I am entirely unfamiliar, on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, the Feast of Saint John Eudes.

Trump explained that one of his motivations in securing a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, whose forces are still savagely attacking civilian population centers in Ukraine, is that he thinks that such a deal might help him go to Heaven:

“I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” he explained. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.” (‘I Want to Try and Get to Heaven’: Trump Gets Reflective on ‘Fox & Friends’. The news story itself makes an irreverent reference to the Mother God.)

This is a remarkable admission from President Donald John Trump as it shows humility and something approaching contrition without knowing how to get himself straight with Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Christ. I will have a commentary about this early next week.

Please continue to pray to Our Lady for President and Mrs. Trump’s complete and unconditional conversion to the Catholic Church.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection about Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who almost single-handedly revived devotion to Our Lady in the Twelfth Century and fought heresy with her maternal help and protection.

A new commentary is being written and should be published late this afternoon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.