I offer those who still access this site a reflection Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort's exhortations to avoid worldliness by becoming friends of the Cross and by being truly devoted to Our Lady as the consecrated slave of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

A new commentary will be published within fifteen minutes. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Paul of the Cross, pray for us.

Saint Vitalis, pray for us.

Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, pray for us.

Saint Peter Chanel, pray for us.

There will a sixth installment in this series published tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Peter Canisius, S.J., as this fifth part covered Dignitatis Infinita's treatment of "sex abuse," "violence against women," and "abortion" in great detail.

I am well aware that many things, most of them salacious, are happening in the mad, mad. mad, mad world in which we are living. However, I am remaining focused on this current series and promise to get caught up by the end of this coming week on non-salacious issues on which I think this site can make a useful contribution.

Speaking of contributions, they are also welcomed, quite of course!

Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us.

Popes Saints Cletus and Marcellinus, pray for us.

This is part four of my ongoing series about Dignitatis Infinita. This segment analyzes the document's treatment of war, "the travail of migrants," and human trafficking. 

There will be one more part of this series and then another commentary about Victor Manuel Fernandez's stated belief that Catholic teaching concerning the "intrinsically disordered" nature of perverse sins in violation of the Sixth and Ninth Commandments has to "change" because of the "love" exhibited by those committing sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, pray for us.

I am offering a republished reflection on the life and martyrdom of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, O.F.M., Cap., the Protomartyr of the Capuchin Franciscans and the patron saint of the Society for the Propagation of the faith, today, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, which is also the Octave Day of the Solmenity of Saint Joseph in those venues observing the General Roman Calendar of 1954.

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, O.F.M., Cap. opposed false ecumenism with his very life. Unlike the conciliar "popes" and their "episcopal" henchmen, Saint Fidelis came to "extirpate heresy, not to embrace it."

Part four of my current series will be published in a few moments.

May God have mercy on us all.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, O.F.M., Cap., pray for us.

Herewith is part three of my current series. This part discusses the shallow nature and errors contained in Dignitatis Infinita’s “drama of poverty” section.

The actual text of this segment is only fifteen pages. However, there are six appendices to provide documentary support for many of the points made within the commentary’s main text. The appendices are meant to provide information for those who have either forgotten points that I have made on numerous occasions or have never read them in the first place.

Work now commences on part four, which might be posted in about twenty-four hours. Maybe.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Popes Saints Soter and Caius, pray for us.

As I am still working at this late/early hour on part three of my current series, I believe that more profitable use of my time right now is to provide the readers of this site with two of Father Francis X. Weninger’s short and concise sermons for this, the Third Sunday after Easter.

It is my hope to have part three of the current series published by tomorrow, the Feast of Saints Soter and Caius.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Anselm, pray for us.

This is part two of my continuing series.

This segment discusses some of the foundational "sources" upon which Dignitatis Infinita has been based. The next segment will review the document's treatment of what is called "the drama of poverty" and the "plight of migrants.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is the first of a multi-part series examining Dignitatis Infinita, April 2, 2024. 

This initial installment focuses on part of Victor Manuel Fernandez's prefece to the text of Dignitatis Infinita, a document that is a vintage concilar production in that it insidiously combines truth with error and conflates issues such as the "drama of poverty" and the "plight of migrants" "moral truths" that take precedence over the chemical and surgical execution of preborn children. Significantly, there is no mention of sodomy within the text of Dignitatis Infinita, an omission that Fernandez himself discussed a day afer the document was released publicly on April 8, 2024, the Transferred Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as he believes that what he think is the Catholic Church will have to "change" its teaching that acts against nature are intrinsically disordered.  

This series will take many days to complete, and I will probably give myself a break now and again to discuss other subjects in between the segments before the series is completed. 

Finally, there is a closing section on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, which is observed today in those traditional venues that follow the General Roman Calendar of 1954.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

As mentioned yesterday, this commentary deals with the reaction to the Arizona State Supreme Court decision that upheld the enforceablility of a statue first passed in 1864 by the Arizona Territorial Legislature and then codified anew in 1901 and again in 1913, one year after Arizona gained statehood. 

Although an entirely original composition, there is nothing essential "new" in this commentary, only a forceful reiteration of points made repeatedly throughout the years of my college teaching and as a Catholic writer: Christ the King is Sovereign, not the "will of the people."

This commentary has been revised slightly in the section after I explain that not "everybody" wants what former President Donald John Trump says they do, namely, a "return" of "decision-making" about baby butchery to the states, which is where the whole matter began to begin with back in the 1960s:

Not even the pro-aborts want what Donald John Trump says "everybody" wants as even they never wanted Roe v. Wade to be overturned in the first place, no less to give the "people" a "say" about baby-killing, although they are gleefully exploiting baby-butchery's legal and cultural institutionalization in the fifty-one years since January 22, 1973, to curry favor with the masses who believe that women have a "choice" to do that which no human being has authority to do anything other than to obey God and to give love to children, not submit them to a baby butcher for their execution. 

Sure, many of the so-called "federalists," "constitutionalists," and libertarians advising former President Donald John Trump to speak as he has been doing in the past year are content to live with baby-butchery if that is what the "people" decide, but so what?

Is it necessary to point out that the decriminalization of baby-butchery began in state legislatures in the 1960s?

I suppose that it is, so here goes (whereupon commences a brief history of how surgical baby-butchery gained ground in various state legislatures according to the "will of the people").

The “people” have no sovereignty over the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural law.

The next original commentary will be an analysis of the anthropocentric Dignitatis Infinita. Look for the commentary by Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Herewith is a brief reflection on the Feast of Pope Saint Leo the Great, which is suppressed this year because the feast falls on Easter Tuesday.

The readings for Matins contained the Divine Office for the Feast of Pope Saint Gregory the Great summarize the nature of the purity of the papacy as the absolute guarantor of doctrinal orthodoxy at all times:

When the Lord, as we read in the Evangelist, asked His disciples Who did men, amid their divers speculations, believe that He, the Son of Man, was; blessed Peter answered and said Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father, Which is in heaven and I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it; and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Thus therefore standeth the ordinance of the Truth, and blessed Peter, abiding still that firm rock which God hath made him, hath never lost that right to rule in the Church which God hath given unto him.

In the universal Church it is Peter that doth still say every day, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, and every tongue which confesseth that Jesus is Lord is taught that confession by the teaching of Peter. This is the faith that overcometh the devil and looseth the bands of his prisoners. This is the faith which maketh men free of the world and bringeth them to heaven, and the gates of hell are impotent to prevail against it. With such ramparts of salvation hath God fortified this rock, that the contagion of heresy will never be able to infect it, nor idolatry and unbelief to overcome it. This teaching it is, my dearly beloved brethren, which maketh the keeping of this Feast to-day to be our reasonable service, even the teaching which maketh you to know and honour in myself, lowly though I be, that Peter who is still entrusted with the care of all other shepherds and of all the flocks to them committed, and whose authority I have, albeit unworthy to be his heir.

When, therefore, we address our exhortations to your godly ears, believe ye that ye are hearing him speak whose office we are discharging. Yea, it is with his love for you that we warn you, and we preach unto you no other thing than that which he taught, entreating you that ye would gird up the loins of your mind and lead pure and sober lives in the fear of God. My disciples dearly beloved, ye are to me, as the disciples of the Apostle Paul were to him, (Phil. iv. 1,) a crown and a joy, if your faith, which, in the first times of the Gospel, was spoken of throughout the whole world, Rom. i. 8, abide still lovely and holy. For, albeit it behoveth the whole Church which is spread throughout all the world, to be strong in righteousness, you it chiefly becometh above all other peoples to excel in worth and godliness, whose house is built upon the very crown of the Rock of the Apostle, and whom not only hath our Lord Jesus Christ, as He hath redeemed all men, but whom also His blessed Apostle Peter hath made the foremost object of his teaching. (Pope Saint Leo the Great, as found in Matins, The Divine Office, Feast of Pope Saint Leo the Great.)

Well, it is all there, isn’t it?

One must engage in all kinds of intellectual gymnastics to believe that the contagion of heresy is not rife within the counterfeit church of conciliarism, which is why all those who are not yet convinced of the truth of our ecclesiastical situation in this time of apostasy and betrayal should re-read these words:

This is the faith which maketh men free of the world and bringeth them to heaven, and the gates of hell are impotent to prevail against it. With such ramparts of salvation hath God fortified this rock, that the contagion of heresy will never be able to infect it, nor idolatry and unbelief to overcome it. (Pope Saint Leo the Great, as found in Matins, The Divine Office, Feast of Pope Saint Leo the Great.)

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has esteemed the symbols of idolaters. So have Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and “Saint John Paul II” before his own election as the head of the false conciliar sect on March 13, 2013, and Bergoglio has shown repeatedly that he has no belief in the integrity of the Catholic Faith. So have his predecessors in the past sixty-four and one-half years.

As the Arizona State Supreme Court has upheld the constitutonality and enforceability of an 1864 statute banning surgical killing with the "exception" of the life of the mother and thus unleased a firestorm of criticism from such unlikely "allies" as Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Donald John Trump, it is useful, I believe, to address this matter before continuing work on Jorge and Victor's Anthrpocentic View of Morality. It may not be possible to complete the article about the Arizona State Supreme Court decision this evening, but I hope to have it completed and posted by late afternoon on Thursday, April 11, 2024.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Leo the Great, pray for us.