Although late in the day, this is still 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, a reader of this site sent me a link to an address that the Argentine Apostate, whose general audience address on Wednesday was the subject of an article posted at Midnight this morning (Catholic Church Contra Jorge's "God of Surprises"), gave yesterday, the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, on the "irreversible" nature of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service. In doing so, the false "pontiff" tried to invoke Pope Saint Pius X and Pope Pius XII as witnesses in behalf of the conciliar revolution. There are careful distinctions /that need to be made and I will endeavor to do so in my next commentary.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

Well, it is a late hour once again,

Jorge made yet another reference to his mythical "God of surprises" two days ago now.

Readers of this site will not be "surprised" by this commentary.

I will have a revised reflection on the life of Saint Louis IX, King of France, published later today, August 25, 2017, but the next orginal article won't appear until the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost because it is back to the chiropractic today after a blessedly penitential few days, Thank you for your prayers, and much more importantly, please pray for all those in the path of Hurricane Harvey.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

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

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 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.

What are we waiting for?

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

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

By the way, speaking of peace, the next original article will comment on the plan announced by President Donald John Trump last night to "win" the fight against the Taliban in the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan. 

As the hour is late and I must get some rest before arising for another round of chiropractic treatments on the lower back that was injured nearly five weeks ago now, suffice it to say that this article is a commentary on a recent article in L'Osservatore Romano by an Italian presbyter and pseudo-theologian who claimed that the chief obtacle to Jorge Mario Bergoglio's call for "pastoral conversion" are "bishops" and priests/presbyers, "high and low." This has been on my "to do" list for some time. However, I am doing what I am able given the limitations of the current circumstances.

As funds are not exactly plentiful now, all non-tax-deductible financial gifts to help fund the trips to the chiropractor for the next two weeks would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, pray for us.

Unable to complete my next article, which is about conciliarism, two very short and woefully inadequate reflections on lives of two saints who had a common denominator in fervent devotion to the Mother God, Saint John Eudes and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, are being offered. It had been my intention to write more about each of these two saints. However, two days out of each of week now are pretty much unavailable for writing because of the long trips that I must make to the chiropractor for the continued treatment of the injuries I sustained a month ago now.

Most Pure Heart of Mary, pray for us.

Saint John Eudes, pray for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of Feast of Saint Hyacinth, O.P., the great Apostle of the Northland and one of the first members of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman. (Today is also the third day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Octave Day of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.)

Saint Hyacinth's great zeal for souls and his desire to convert pagans out of their diabolical superstitions into the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order. Saint Hyacinth, who had such a great and abiding love for Our Lady, who favored him with apparitions, stands in quite a contrast with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and his successor, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Both of these heretics have praised the very false religions that Saint Hyacinth—and every other Catholic missionary—sought to eradicate from the face of the earth by seeking the unconditional conversion of their adherents to the false religion. The difference between Saint Hyacinth's fidelity and apostasy of the conciliar "popes" stark. It is right there in black and white for all who have the grace to see. See for yourself. As considerable time was spent adding links, including a complete library of articles that have appeared about Bergoglio on this site in the fifty-three months, four days, to the preface of this revised article in order to provide readers with a useful and handy resource for those who are new to this site and want to review past articles on Jorge Mario Bergoglio, it has been impossible to add more recent examples of the endless reaffirmations that the Argentine Apostate has given to those who adhere to false religions, including Talmudism, from which he derives much of his "intellectual" and "spiritual" sustenance. In other words, "Pope Francis" is a stooge and servant of Antichrist.  

Today's original article, Victim of Its Own Iniquities, was published about a half hour after Midnight this morning. Several typograhical errors were corrected this afternoon.    

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, O.P., pray for us.

Saint Lawrence the Martyr, pray for us.

This commentary on the tragic events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, was published early this morning shortly after Midnight. Some typographical errors have been corrected and one sentence in the final section of the commentary has been rephrased to make its meaning clearer. 

A revised reflection on the life of Saint Hyacinth, whose feast is celebrated today, will be published either later today or tomorrow. There was just too much work to do it that could not be completed late last night. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Hyacinth, pray for us.

Saint Joachim, the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the Mediatrix of All Graces, knew the contempt that would be visited upon His Divine Grandson, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sent himself into voluntary exile after he was denounced by a priest of the Old Dispensation for not producing a child after twenty years of marriage to his wife, our good Saint Anne.

It was during his exile that Saint Joachim was visited by an angel, who reminded him of the fact that Abraham's wife, Sarah, did not conceive a child until she was ninety years old, telling him that his wife, Saint Anne, would conceive a daughter named Mary, who would be the Mother of God. Saint Joachim and Saint Anne brought their daughter to the Temple when she was three years old, giving their long-awaited child back to the good God Who had given them to her so that she could be the Mother of their own Saviour, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This should teach us to do everything possible to foster vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated religious life among our children, so that we can give them back to God so as to yield a spiritual bounty of souls in His service, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

The revised and much enlarged text of this article also includes a reflection and description of the life of Saint Roch, whose feast is celebrated today in those churches named in his honor, as found in Dom Prosper Gueranger’s The Liturgical Year.

Also, I would like to call the attention of this site's readers to an article written by Dr. Paul Byrne, who has certainly taught me much in the past twenty-three years since I first met him in Toledo, Ohio: Was The Death of Charlie Gard Hastened?. Please do take the time to read this article.

Finally, although I had hoped to have my commentary on the terrible events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, it was not possible for me to complete my work yesterday, August 15, 2017, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This entire day will be spent completing the commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us!

Saint Roch, pray for us.

Well, the hour is late after a long day driving to and from another chiropractic treatment on my injured spine.

Suffice it to say that the concluding part of my two-part series about Antonio Spadaro’s and Miguel Figueroa’s article in La Civilta Cattolica last month focuses on the intellectual dishonest claim that “religion” has played “more” of a role in American politics and public policy in recent decades than in the past. This is either an outright deception or demonstrative of the authors’ ignorance.

A commentary about the terrible tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be written day, August 15, 2017, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

For the moment, however, my view of “white supremacist” groups was expressed very clearly five years ago in To Advocate Christ The King, Nothing Else. Such groups, filled with all manner of deceptions, are used by the adversary to foment violence and discord in a world that is the product of the anti-Incarnational errors of Modernity and thus serve a number of nefarious purposes that only agitates people the more on matters that should divide no one. We are to see the Divine impress in everyone and to treat them as we would treat Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself.

A full commentary, which will touch on the hypocrisies of the inhabitants of the false opposite of the naturalist “left,” will follow by tomorrow morning, God willing and Our Lady interceding.

A blessed Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to you all.