This is a substantially revised tribute to our glorious Saint Patrick, Bishop and Confessor, whose work in behalf of the conversion of the Irish clans from paganism stands in very sharp contrast to the obeisance that has been paid by the conciliar “popes” and their “bishops” to every false religion and pagan superstition imaginable. It was to wipe out paganism that Saint Patrick spent his life as a missionary to the Emerald Isle, that land of Saints and Scholars which has fallen back into paganism in no small measure because of the false doctrines and sacramental barrenness of the liturgical rites of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Saint Patrick stands ready to convert each one of us away from our own sins if only we beg his intercession to help make us saints, especially now in the middle of the Fourth Week of Lent.

We are privileged to have a relic of Saint Patrick that is venerated each night before sleep. This relic was given to us most unexpectedly by a good friend of ours some years ago now.

It is my hope, perhaps furtive, to have the next original article published by tomorrow, Friday, March 18, 2022, the Feast of Saint Cyril of Jersualem and the Commemoration of Friday of the Second Week in Lent (and, in some places, of Our Lord's Holy Shroud), which is also the fortieth anniversary of the death of my late mother, Norma Florence Red Fox Droleskey (nee: Maxine Coomer). Please pray for the repose of her immortal soul.

Finally, an original article, Wars and Rumors of Wars, part three, was published yesterday. I will probably add a paragaph or two to discuss Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin's latest rationalization for the war (about fighting Western interests intent on spreading sodomy worldwide), but suffice it to say for the moment that one who wants to stop the spread of one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance should not be presiding over the wanton killing of innocent civilians by his troops in Ukraine nor be permiting the slaughter of the innocent preborn under cover of law in his own country. Willful murder is also one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance, and a man who direct the Duma, the Russian Federation's national legislature, to pass laws making the criticism of the invasion of Ukraine that he ordered could easily direct it to stop all surgical assassinations of the preborn at once. One should clean up one's own house before casting himself as a defender of morality, especially when one is notoriously unchaste in his own life and proud of it. 

A blessed Feast of Saint Patrick to you all! 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Patrick, pray for us.

As has become more usual than not, this commentary took much longer to complete than I thought that it would.

A conciliar-themed commentary will appear in a few days before I resume work on “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part seventeen.”

Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on Pope Saint Gregory the Great, whose feast is celebrated today, Friday, March 12, 2021, along with the commemoration of Ember Saturday in Lent, that draws principally upon Pope Saint Pius X's Iucunda Sane, March 12, 1904.

The next original article, which is a follow-up to Wars and Rumors of Wars, part two,  will appear on this site by Monday, March 14, 2022, at the latest.  

Also, Dr. Paul Byrne has asked me to share with others a presentation that he gave at Sacred Heart Church in Cleveland, Ohio, six days ago. The videos include a presentation and a question and answer period: Talk: https://rumble.com/vw9d2p-dr.-byrne.html. Questions and Answers: https://rumble.com/vw9sm5-q-and-a-dr.-byrne.html.

Finally, I want to take a few moments to take note of the work of Bishop Andres Morello, who passed away in Argentina on the First Sunday of Lent, March 6, 2022, which was also the Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity,

Although I never met His Excellency and only had indirect contact with him through one of his priests (and have known others over the course of time who had very close contact with him), I have long known about him, dating back to the time when the scandals associated with Father Carlos Urrutigoity and the Society of Saint John became a public matter in 2000 and then in subsequent years. Courageously, the then Father Morello, who was the rector of the Society of Saint Pius X’s Seminary in La Reja, Argentina, in the 1980s. This is what I wrote on this sad matter in August of 2014:

As noted six weeks ago in the preface to the posting of the Special Report on the Society of Saint John that I wrote in September and October of 2000, the investigation that I conducted at the behest of two laymen who had served on the Society’s board of advisors before resigning in protest over what they concluded was reckless fiscal mismanagement and a refusal to heed any advice on practical matters. The report was submitted to the Diocese of Scanton and to Father Urrutiogity in the October of 2000, prompting a “Bishop” Timlin to issue a statement to me that is completely laughable in light of all of the evidence that came to light later. Equally laughable is the assertion made on March 22, 2006, by the “papal” nuncio to Paraguay, “Archbishop” Orlando Antonini, to attorney James Bendell that “no trace of this Society remains anywhere in Paraguay."

Those subsequent events demonstrated that an episode involving “skinny dipping” on the property of the Society of Saint John in Shohola, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2000, which was disturbing in and of itself, was an indicator of far greater problems.  Those problems could have been forestalled in the 1980s in Argentina if then Father Alfonso de Galaretta of the Society of Saint Pius X, then the Society’s District Superior in Argentina, had not rejected the conclusion reached by the then rector of the Society’s seminary in La Reja, Argentina, Father Andres Morello, Father Urrutigoity had engaged in homosexual behavior as a seminarian. 

Alas, Father Alfonso de Galaretta, who was consecrated a bishop by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Econe, Switzerland, on June 30, 1988, was predisposed to disbelieve Father Morello, who was consecrated a bishop in 2005, because he, Father Morello, was a sedevacantist. In this way, you see, the truth about then seminarian Carlos Urrutigoity was obscured by the resentment of the action taken by “The Nine” in 1983, thus predisposing Bishop de Galaretta at the time to disbelieve the accusations against Urrutigoity and thus recommend this predator to be accepted at Saint Thomas Aquinas in Winona, Minnesota. A summary of this situation can be found at The Early Years of Father Carlos Urrutigoity’s homosexual career.

There is an important lesson to be drawn from this as the then Father de Galaretta had his objectivity clouded by his feud with the then Father Morello. It is part of fallen human nature for those who are at odds with each other on other matters to let personal animus for a particular person (based sometimes on intense dislike of the person or and/or seething resentment at particular injustices that one may have suffered at the hands of one deemed to be an adversary) predispose one to be blinded to the truth about a third party or about a matter of substance (theological, political, scientific, etc.).

Many, although not all, in the “resist while recognize” camp reject anything written by one who has announced his acceptance of the papal vacancy at this time of apostasy and betrayal. Some resist even examining with dispassionate objectivity any of the evidence brought forth in behalf of the theological principles of the sedevacantist position. “Don’t listen to ‘so and so,’ he’s a sedevacantist” is a common refrain in “resist while recognize circles.

It is thus a sad part of the saga of Father Carlos Urrutigoity and the Society of Saint John that the truth about his proclivities was obscured because of the hostility that existed within the Society of Saint Pius X between those who were said to be “loyal” to Archbishop Lefebvre and those who were said to be “disloyal” to him by means of “siding” with “The Nine.” (As found on this website: Still No Excuses For Those Who Defend the Society of Saint John.)

Bishop Morello knew that no one was either inclined to the commission of or had in fact committed perverse crimes against nature should be advanced to Holy Orders, distinguishing himself very much from his own ordaining bishop, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Bishop Morello wanted to protect the integrity of the clergy and to prevent unworthy men, no less unrepentant moral deviates, from being placed in a position where they could groom other young men to follow them in their paths of perdition.

In this regard, therefore, Bishop Morello was noted for his own moral rectitude, his piety, his deep devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Mother of God, especially through her Most Holy Rosary, and for his abiding humility, which manifested itself in so many ways, especially by his diligence in teaching all the seminary courses himself and in doing all the cooking for his seminarians. His Excellency was a true spiritual father to his seminarians and to each of his priests. 

When necessity required, however, he ably defended his ability to form priests, doing so in a sermon he gave in Spanish at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, Connecticut, in 2014, during a Mass in which he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation, noting:

The Holy Catholic Church, even in the middle of this most difficult situation which She has been traversing since Vatican II, and maybe since before that, is not reduced to one determined group of faithful Priests or to only one Seminary of ecclesiastical formation.  (The sermon was translated into English and published in the bulletin of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel.)

Perhaps more than anything else, however, Bishop Andres Morello was noted for his spiritual wisdom and for his charity.

To wit, one of his priests told him of a terrible pastoral situation he had uncovered in the assignment to which he had been sent. Bishop Morello told him, “This is an opportunity for you to become a great saint.” Very wise advice.

As to His Excellency’s charity, suffice it to say that he was extremely patient and generous with a middle-aged man who went down to Argentina on numerous occasions over the years to discern if he could live as a religious brother. Bishop Morello spent many hours over those visits counseling him before the gentleman decided to get married, and this is only one example of how His Excellency gave of himself to others in imitation of the One to Whom His immortal soul had been configured at the moment of his own priestly ordination.

Please pray for the repose of the immortal soul of a devoted champion of Christ the King and True Devotion to Mary, Bishop Andres Morello, remembering to pray also for his priests, seminarians and all those who had the privilege of working with him or having him as their Confessor and pastor.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul 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.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.

[Update on March 10, 2022, the Feast of the Forty Holy Martyrs: As the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has issued a statement strongly defended Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and as the Argentine Apostate has stated yet again that all war is "madness," thus ignoring the Just War Theory and the popes' teaching on it, I am in the midst of writing a brief follow-up to this commentary. Although I am tempted to put the follow-up on hold to deal with Jorge Mario Bergoglio's ouster of the conciliar "bishop" of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Daniel Fernández Torres, for failing to observe "collegiality" by refusing to go along with the other six conciliar "bishops" of Puerto Rico in their support for vaccine mandates and for his opposition to the sodomite agenda, I want to complete the follow-up to his commentary first as it will include a good deal of history concerning the Russian persecution of the Uniat Rites both before, during, and after Soviet rule. Thank you.]

Those who do not have the time to ready this study, which attempts to make important distinctions and qualifications without in anyway claiming any kind of infallibility in the judgments contained herein, can simply proceed to the conclusion, which attempts to put the terrible tragedy of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a supernatural perspective.

However, as there has been much talk about Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin’s stated desire to “de-nazify” Ukraine and much disinformation about what this means, I deem it important to disabuse readers of the propaganda about “denazification,” a slogan that always been used as the pretext for arresting and then liquidating Communism’s opponents (or in this case, Putin’s opponents):

Propaganda efforts have redoubled since Putin launched its aggression against Ukraine a week ago. Suddenly, a host of stories has appeared in conservative media that try to rally support for Vladimir Putin because he is allegedly fighting Nazis and the New World Order in Ukraine.  One of the worst examples is, perhaps, the Gateway Pundit, which has been duped into publishing stories by one Larry Johnson, whose only focus is the glorification of Russia and the smearing of Ukraine as a nation of Nazis.

We could respond by advising Russia and its advocates to worry about their own neo-Nazi infestation, but since this smear has now become widespread, it is prudent to address it.

The Nazi smear is a twisted but effective technique used by Russian propaganda and our left-wing media in equal abundance.  Russia has been doing it since Stalin made it "a thing."  This smear is effective because its victims try to distance themselves from one another and sometimes join in accusations, hoping others won't think of them as Nazis.  It's also effective because it's extremely dirty.  Trying to debunk it makes one dive deep into repulsive dirt.

Remember how Trump was smeared over Charlottesville — where did those Neo-Nazis even come from?  Remember Nick Sandmann?  Remember how Kyle Rittenhouse "became" a neo-Nazi for shooting at violent thugs in self-defense?  Of course you do.  But somehow no one remembers it when exactly the same technique is used on Ukraine.

When the Nazis occupied Ukraine in 1941, my Armenian grandfather became trapped there with four of his children, while his fifth and oldest joined the Soviet Army and was killed in action.  The Nazis arrested my grandfather and sent him to a concentration camp because they decided that he looked Jewish.  By some miracle, he survived and returned home to raise my father and my three aunts.  Growing up, I have been a few times insulted by random antisemites who thought I was Jewish, and I know from personal experience how unfair and downright evil it is to single out people because of their ethnicity.  I've written articles in support of Israel and one time was arrested for hanging pro-Israel posters on the GMU campus.  Don't even bother accusing me of whitewashing a bunch of Nazis.

A lot of the anti-Ukrainian propaganda points have been growing from a widely planted story claiming that their Azov battalion is a Nazi organization.  Debunking that libel today is especially difficult because the Russian influence operators have already distributed the myth around the world, all the way to the U.S. Congress.  It would take an entire think-tank to shovel through that pile of "evidence."

Why have the Russian propagandists chosen that particular group?  Azov is extremely effective against the Kremlin-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.  The fact is, Russian aggression was the only reason Azov was formed in the first place, so the Kremlin has only itself to blame for it.

The Azov battalion was organized in 2014 when the poorly armed and unprepared Ukrainian army was forced to fight an unexpected war against Kremlin-orchestrated "separatism" in eastern Ukraine.  Seeing how the military was failing, one of the richest Ukrainian industrialists and the governor of the Dnipro Oblast, Igor Kolomoisky, spent a hefty chunk of his own money to recruit and arm a volunteer battalion to defend Ukraine.  The unit was named Azov after the small Azov Sea in southern Ukraine.  This was quickly followed by a series of Ukrainian victories, in which Azov played a part.

Its initial sponsor, Kolomoisky, is Jewish and has since become an Israeli citizen, living in Israel.  Not exactly neo-Nazi material, but the media influencers conveniently omit that fact.  The smear is as absurd as if Hitler were to spread rumors about General Patton being a Nazi so as to hinder the American war effort.

Have there been volunteers with extremist views?  Surely, there have been.  Extremists exist in every nation, and they tend to join militias, as such people are drawn to violence.  In a life-or-death situation for the country, when every fighter and every minute counts, no one does background checks on people who volunteer to fight for a good cause.  Or would you rather they stay home and send bespectacled academics to the war instead?

It's not difficult to single out a dimwit or two and provoke them to make stupid statements on record, then magnify them out of proportion in the media.  The media have done it many times to American conservatives; conservatives should know better.

Were there extremist or racist soldiers fighting in George Patton's army?  I bet there were a few, but it doesn't follow that Patton was one of them, or that the U.S. Army had no moral right to fight Hitler and its victory was not legitimate.

To reference American popular culture, Azov is the Ukrainian version of the Suicide Squad.  Accordingly, they chose a bellicose, ominous-looking emblem of the crossed letter Z that also calls to mind a modified Ukrainian Trident but, to the critics, it appears too close to the SS emblem or the swastika.  It arguably follows traditional embroidery ornaments, and, after all, we don't demonize the entire Buddhist community in Asia for the continued use of their traditional swastika symbol.

There is some scary quality about the designs one can make with the letter Z.  Germans used it, Ukrainians used it, and so have the Russians in the war against Ukraine (see the illustration).  Yet, if I were the Azov P.R. agent, I'd probably advise them to hire a different art director.

In the seven years since Azov was formed, it has been cleaned up to become a special unit in the Ukrainian National Guard, but the smear of being a neo-Nazi militia is still being artificially inflated out of proportion.  It came to a point in January of 2021 when the battalion had to write an official refutation to a Time Magazine article that called them a "white-supremacist militia."  If you remember what happened in Washington in January of 2021, you may wonder if the timing of that story was not coincidental and if a Russian influence operation may play a role in the sudden surge of "white supremacist" and "Nazi" name-calling in the American media, aimed to split and demoralize the country.

Appealing to the history of antisemitism in Ukraine isn't much proof.  Ukraine is not unique here because the history of Europe, especially Russia, is littered with examples of antisemitism.  What makes Ukraine unique is its current Jewish president, Zelensky — the only such head of state in the entire world outside Israel.  By the logic of the Nazi smear, Azov should be fighting on the Russian side against Zelensky.  But Russian propaganda has never bothered to be consistent.  The more insane, the better.

By the same propaganda logic, Germany should be open for invasion by anyone willing to do so because it has a history of state-sponsored antisemitism under Hitler.  Except that today's Germany is not what it was generations ago, and that is what should matter now.

It would seem that the Russian influence operation has been successful not just in planting smear stories, but also in removing the stories that counter their narrative.  The existing links that support this article are in Ukrainian or Russian, so they won't be of much use in the U.S., but for those who read either of those languages, here is a detailed breakdown published by Hromadske, a Ukrainian nonprofit organization for public journalism.

Of the English-language sources, observe the debunking of one of the vile examples of the anti-Azov Russian hoaxes.  On the eve of the Netherlands' referendum about relations with Ukraine, Russian propaganda released a video in which alleged "Azov members" in masks threaten Dutch citizens with violent terrorist acts and burn the Dutch flag.  This example speaks volumes about the goals, methods, and targets of such operations.

Speaking of neo-Nazi videos, here's a recent one on Instagram, in which neo-Nazis swear allegiance to their Fuehrer.  Only they are not Azov fighters, nor are they even Ukrainians.  They are goose-stepping, black-clad young Russians declaring their undying love for the Putin regime.  In other words, Putlerjugend.

The best source is saved for last. It was published by The Hill and written by Kristofer Harrison, who worked for defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and was a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.  He is a co-founder and principal of AMS, a company that specializes in Russian information warfare.

In the article "Did California's Ro Khanna get duped by Russia's propaganda?," Harrison writes:

Congratulations, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), it appears you were just duped by Russia (and bragged about it). As a result, you promoted Russian propaganda about Ukraine's Azov Battalion being Nazis with text in the behemoth $1.3 trillion spending bill. The question is, who put you up to it? ...

It is ridiculous nonsense that Ukraine is beset with a bunch of Nazis. The Russians have been pushing this foolishness for a while. In Russia, if you want to discredit someone, call them a Nazi. Putin is using it to justify his war to his subjects. Russians are not particularly keen on attacking Ukraine. But if it is to free them from the yoke of Nazis, well, that's different.

The reason why the Kremlin is using information war against the Azov Battalion, specifically, is partially because they sometimes make themselves easy PR targets. These are guys with guns fighting a Russian invasion, not a PR agency with media training. But the bigger reason is that the Azov Battalion is one of the most effective defensive units.

Russia can't beat them on the battlefield, so they use K Street lobbyist sellouts to help cripple them. Who wants to provide guns to fascists? Nobody. That is the ruse you fell for.

In this instance, the Russian active measure began with an article in a publication that should know better: Foreign Policy. John Conyers read the piece on the Congressional Record. It then spread like wildfire among lazy journalists and Russia's network of fools, knaves and propagandists. ...

Russia is attacking the U.S., and quisling K Street lobbyists are helping them. Help us identify them.

Propaganda surely exists on both sides, it's part of any war.  But it's curious to see how, in American social media, especially among some conservatives, it has become popular to ridicule and debunk any embellishments coming out of Ukraine, with no attention whatsoever to a less noticeable, creeping insertion of anti-Ukrainian tropes in the American media, which comes not as a meme, but as an "eye-opener" of a "serious political expert."

Think about that before you make another disparaging comment about an underdog nation fighting for freedom and independence against a stronger, dictatorial neighbor.  Just like some Americans on January 6, Ukrainians rebelled over a brazenly stolen election by a Kremlin-backed candidate in 2004, and then they rebelled again against a Kremlin-backed president in 2014, and they have been fighting off Russian aggression ever since.  Today, Russia is bombing Ukrainian cities, and the Azov battalion is the only force that bravely stands in the way of a superior invading army, defending a strategic port city, Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov. (About Those Neo-Nazis in Ukraine.)

There is much more in this commentary, which does not have be read at once. Indeed, some may not decide to read it at all. Fine.

However, there is propaganda being used by the “left” and the “right” here in the United States of America, and this commentary attempts to use Vladmir Putin’s own words to demonstrate that, despite having legitimate grievances against the globalist agents of the New World Order in the West, Vladimir Putin desires to wipe Ukraine, which has been exploited by those globalist agents to prod and provoke the Russian bear in big and little ways, off the map and to make it clear to other Soviet republics that they either toe the Russian line or face extinction in their own right.

Pray for conversion of the ruthless Vladimir Putin.

Pray for the conversion of the showman and tool of Western globalists, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Pray for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter, and to these ends pray Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary daily.

Finally, I ask you all to pray for the repose of soul of the late Bishop Andres Morello, about whom I will have a bit more to write either later today or within the next few days.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul 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 John of God, pray for us.

This article in honor of Saint John of God, whose feast is celebrated today, was written seven years ago now. A lot of hard work went into its completion. I believe it to be one a piece that will give great consolation to those who have not as of yet read it.

Saint John of God was little understood during his life. It was the case that even his longtime spiritual director, Saint John of Avila, who knew him fairly well, did not understand his decisions. Saint John of God suffered from all manner of slanders and even beatings in his life. He suffered slanders even up to the point of his own death. It was enough for him to be understood by God. It should be enough for us as well, especially during this time of apostasy and betrayal when so many of us are misunderstood and castigated by relatives and friends and acquaintances as being "outside of the Church" for our refusal to make any concessions to conciliarism or its false shepherds. We should be grateful that we are as misunderstood and hated and calumniated as was Saint John of God!

Part two of "Wars and Rumors of Wars" will be published within ten minutes of this posting. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John of God, pray for us.

This is a revised and expanded, although still entirely inadequate, commentary on the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Monday, March 7, 2022.

Part two of "Wars and Rumors of Wars" has turned out to be a very detailed study of the unspeakable tragedy unfolding in Ukraine as the Russians. I had hoped to have it completed by today, but, having worked on it until just shortly before preparing this reflection for republication, I will do my best to have it ready for publication in twenty-four hours. I have done little else in the past three days than to work on the new commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., pray for us.

Update on the Feast of Saint Casimir:

I am working on part two of "Wars and Rumors of Wars," which is turning out to be a very long study. 

One of the points that I am covering at length in the new commentary focuses on Vladimir Putin's claim that he wants to "denazify" Ukraine even though a neo-Nazi political paerty in Ukraine only garnered two percent of the vote in a recent election.

It was in a recent speech, which will be analyzed in the next commentary, that Putin discussed how Ukrainians embraced the Nazis when they invaded the country in 1941 without, however, explaining that there was a reason for this initial embrace: the Soviets had spent most of the 1930s engineering a famine that killed nearly ten million Catholic Ukrainians. The German military forces were looked upon as “saviors” by many Ukrainians, who soon came to understand that their putative saviors desired to enslave them every bit as much as they had been enslaved by the Soviets.

Thus, Putin’s use of the term “denazification” is extremely important as this is the term that was used by Joseph Stalin and his stooges throughout Eastern Europe to root out all anti-Communist political forces, including thousands upon thousands of Catholic priests and laity who were deemed “Nazis” because of their opposition to Marxism-Leninism, thereby imprisoning, torturing, and killing them. I have no doubt at all that this is what will happen in Ukraine. 

Putin has many legitimate grievances against the West. None of them provide him with a casus belli for an invasion of a sovereign nation replete with an incredible swath of destruction and the displacement of nearly a million innocent Ukrainians. There is no justification for this destruction, devastation, and displacement. 

To criticize Putin is not to indemnify Volodymyr Zelensky, but it is to say that this is not a bettle between "good guys" and "bad guys" as no one is fighting forb Christ the King and His true Church. No one is fighting to restore public honor to the Mother of God. This war is a needless tragedy and it is a chastisement that will lead to further suffering in the future.

Pray ot Our Lady of the Rosary for peace!

Our annual Lenten journey into the desert begins today,  Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Deo gratias!

The season that begins on Ash Wednesday is the time of penance. This is the time to withdraw from the world. This is the time to be earnest about relying upon the ineffable graces that were won for us by the shedding of every single drop of the Most Precious Blood of Our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, during His Passion and Death and that flow into our sous through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

This period of six weeks, four days until Easter Sunday (six weeks, three and one-half days until the Easter Vigil) is nearly one-ninth of an entire calendar year. May we beg Our Lady to help us make the best Lent of our lives as we do not know if it will be our last. Indeed, we do not know whether we will live to see Easter Sunday in this life on Sunday, April 17, 2022.

Our Lady of Dolors, pray for us.

The title of this commentary should be self-explanatory.

We must remain forever calm while we pray Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary as far more important than the battles taking place in the world is the battle taking place between the Kingdom of Heaven and the kingdom of perdition for the possession of our immortal souls.

It is my hope to have part seventeen of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus" published within a week, mindful that I will undergo medical tests (which are completely unrelated to the fractured right hip that I suffered seventy-six days ago)today, Monday, February 28, 2022, that might delay the completion of this next commentary by a few days. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

February 20, 2022, marked the eighteenth anniversary of this website’s debut online to continue the work of the eponymous journal, which began publication in August of 1996, after its operations have moved to the internet.

Even though, as is well-known and much-derided, I came to understand the true state of the Church Militant during this time of apostasy and betrayal twenty-four months after this website went “live” without wavering one little bit in my conviction on this truth, this site has been consistent since its inception in continuing the work of the printed journal to advance knowledge about and love for the Social Reign of Christ the King, especially by spreading knowledge about true devotion to Our Lord through His Most Blessed Mother’s Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

To be honest, I have lost count of the numbers of articles published on this site. Many of the articles have repeated the same things repeatedly as I know that people are prone to forget what they read, especially with all the plethora of “information” available online.

This particular study, therefore, attempts to put the recent admirable protests by truckers in the People’s Republic of Red Canada under Deng Xiaoping Trudeau in some historical perspective as totalitarianism is the only thing than can result over the course of time when men do not submit themselves to the sweet yoke of the Social Reign of Christ the King as it must be exercised by His Catholic Church in all that pertains to the good of souls.

Men will run rampant, both individually and collectively, when they do not fear the just judgment of Christ the King on their own individual immortal souls and when they believe that it is possible to establish a just social order without a due reliance upon the graces He sends to us through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother and also a due submission to the authority of Holy Mother Church when necessity compels her intervention after the exhausting of her maternal duty to exhort and to admonish.

Our Lady, her most Holy Rosary, her Miraculous Medal, Brown Scapular, and Green Scapular provide us with both the hope and the help that we need in these perilous times. Most importantly, Our Lady will shower us with graces upon graces here if we advance knowledge of and love for her role as our Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.

Finally, as I have noted, it takes me more time to write than in the past. Things have been slowed by my recovery from the surgery I underwent ten weeks, two days ago, and there are a few other minor health problems that continue to cause a decrease in my former prolificity. Thank you for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Matthias, pray for us. 

Yes, it is I, the formerly prolific writer who moves now at a snail’s pace. However, just as the snail usually reaches its destination, I still keep trying to write these articles, and there are at least four major ones to tackle after having this one, which deals with the recent story of conciliar presbyter who used an invalid formula (“We baptize you”) when presiding over baptismal ceremonies within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism for over twenty years. Twenty years and no one noticed until just recently?

What a mess, and as bad as “Father” Andres Arango’s “mistake” (his term) is, it is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg that will face a true pope when one is restore to the Throne of Saint Peter within the Providence of God.

As the late Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P., used to pray after each Mass, “O Lord, grant us a true pope!”

Once again, this is a reminder that  have started a GiveSendGo page to help raise funds for the medical expenses that have caught with me nine weeks, four days after the two-hour surgery to repair four fractures in might right hip. I have chosen "GiveSendGo" to avoid any further contact with "GoFundMe" given its treatment of the Canadian truckers who are demanding an end to the totalitarian vaccine mandates in the People's Republic of Red Canada. However, donations to pay down the medical expenses cab also be made through PayPal or Zelle (follow the instructions and make a donation by entering my email address, DrThomasADroleskey@gmail.com). 

Another commentary will follow in about four days.  

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.