This relatively brief commentary is about the Washington State legislation signed into law on May 2, 2025, the Feast of Saint Athanasius, by Governor Robert Ferguson to force Catholic priests, both presumed and actual, to violate the Seal of Confession.

There are two appendices to this commentary.

The first contains Father Francis X. Weninger’s question and answer explanation about the Sacrament of Penance, and the second contains the text of the Sacrament of Penance and its administration as found within the 1948 Roman Ritual, Volume I, that I have had in my possession since my seminary days over forty-four years ago now. The first part of the material from the Ritual contains translator Father Philip Weller’s theological explanation about the origins, nature, and effects of the Sacrament of Penance.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Baptist de Rossi, pray for us.

Saint John Nepomucene, pray for us.

This concludes my two-part primer on Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Evangelii Gaudium that Robert Francis Prevost has made his own.

Do not be fooled by the removal of this or that conciliar official such as Prevost/Leo has done by removing the notorious moral relativist named Vincenzo Paglia (see There Will Come A Day When Vincenzo Paglia Will Argue in Favor of "Accompanying" Women Right into the Hands of Baby Butchers) from being the president of  the “Pontifical Theological Institute  for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family.” This is all window dressing despite histrionics from within the resist while recognize crowd who are, as I have noted several times within the past month, making the same mistakes many of us made in 1978 when Karol Jozef Wojtyla/John Paul II appeared to be signaling the end of the darkness of Montini/Paul VI years.

The problem now is it what it was then is: Is the counterfeit church of conciliarism the Catholic Church?

I think that the evidence is clear, which is why I am returning to other subjects and will, generally speaking, limit myself to writing about conciliar matters once or twice a week unless something truly out of the ordinary takes place.

For the moment, though, I want to remind the readers of this website that we cannot be concerned about who sees the truth of the state of the Church Militant in this time of apostasy and betrayal or what this or that person does not see the truth. It must be enough for us to be grateful to Our Lady for sending us the graces to see the truth and to beg her for more graces that may persevere in it no matter the pressures from those we know, including members of our own families.

Remaining always steadfast in our total consecration to Our Lord Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother and ever resolved to make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world, may we simply keep praying as many Rosaries each day as we can to console the good God and to bring down a shower of graces upon whomever Our Lady chooses to bestow them.

We do not look for results as we try to furrow the field of the Holy Faith. It is enough for us to beg Our Lady for the gift of Final Perseverance so that we can hear the following words from her Divine Son, Christ the King, at the moment of our Particular Judgment:

Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. (Matthew 25: 21.)

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV has wasted no time proving his chops as a purveyor of false ecumenist.

In what has become a “tradition” in the counterfeit church of conciliarism either on the day or the day after an antipapal installation, Prevost/Leo addressed a collection of non-Catholic “religious” leaders in remarks that were similar, although not absolutely word-for-word identical, to remarks that had been given by the Argentine Apostate on March 20, 2013.

This commentary shows the similarities and notes that “Pope Leo XIV” has committed himself fully to the Abu Dhabi document on “human fraternity and living together” and to Fratelli Tutti.

Just old conciliar wines into even older conciliar wineskins.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bernardine of Sienna, pray for us.

[Update at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, 2025: As it not possible to do so now after some of the late hours in recent weeks, I will have a brief commentary tomorrow evening about Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV's "homily" and Regina Caeli addressed that he delivered much earlier today. Thank you. Also, non-tax-deductible financial gifts are very needed at this time.]

Although I am continuing work on my part two of the primer about Evangelii Gaudium, I could not pass up the opportunity to offer a commentary about Robert Leo Prevost/Leo XIV’s address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the conciliar Vatican on Friday, May 16, 2025, the Feast of Saint Ubaldus and, in some places, the Feast of Saint John Nepomucene, during which he sang the old conciliar songs about “interreligious dialogue” and “religious freedom” while some in the resist while recognize camp swoon about the fact that he also mentioned the unborn but fell silent about the fact that this reference was in the context of the unemployed and migrants, in other words a new and updated version of Joseph Bernardin’s ever-evolving “consistent ethic of life."

Look, it is kind of remarkable that a putative Successor of Saint Peter is being praised for having spoken out in "defense" of marriage being between one man and one woman and of the unborn. Does anyone bother to stop for a moment to reflect that it is a sorry state of affairs that it is supposed to "news" that a man presumed to be "Pope Leo XIV" would declare these things and be "praised" for doing so. Has the sine qua non of Catholicism been reduced to defending the truth about Holy Matrimony and the right to life of innocent preborn children? 

Is this what one Catholic writer, in contradiction to the entire patrimony of Holy Mother Church, including as early as Saint Augustine of Hippo as quoted by Pope Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum, June 29. 1886, and summarized by Saint Robert Bellarmine ("either the faith is had entirely, or it is not held at all), the "irreducible minima" of what it takes to consider a "pope" to be inside the Barque of Saint Peter?

Phenomenal. 

Just phenomenal.

As Prevost/Leo has his “installation” service today (no, I will not be watching, thank you), I guess that my work on part two of my current series will be further delayed by whatever says in his “homily.” I will note for now that the true popes of the Catholic Church have had coronation ceremonies while each of the conciliar pretenders after Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria/Paul VI, who gave away his novel conical tiara, have had “installation” ceremonies, starting with Albino Luciani/John Paul I on Sunday, September 3, 1978, who authorized the hater of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, Virgilio Noe, to concoct such an installation “Mass” within eight days’ time that has been followed ever since.

Even symbolically, you see, conciliarism is not and can never be Catholicism.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Venantius, pray for us.

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.