This is a commentary, which was revised slightly around 3:15 p.m., on the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, about the assassination of conservative activist and unapologetic “Christian Zionist” Charlie Kirk, who, despite his courageous opposition to most of the prevailing moral evils of our day, was always a reliable ally of our supposed “only ally in the Middle East," Israel. Mr. Kirk even went so far in 2019 as to mock the survivors of the USS Liberty, the ship that was deliberately attacked by Israeli war planes on June 8, 1967, during the Six Day War.

Some have questioned my description of the assassinated Charlie Kirk as a "Christian Zionist." I want to assure my readers that I traffic in facts and try to avoid the use of gratuitous epithets. For example, the "mainstream" "conservaitve Washington Free Beacon praised the late Mr. Kirk as an "ardent Zionist" (see RIP Charlie Kirk: American Patriot, Faithful Christian, Ardent Zionist.)

Mr. Kirk’s assassination came at the hands of a twenty-two year-old assassin by the name of Tyler Robinson, who, it would appear, was a member of the ever-so-“tolerant” false opposite of the naturalist “left” who believed that anyone who opposed what the “left” supports must be liquidated.

This sad state of affairs, which has left his young wife, who is a Catholic, without a husband, and her two young children without a father, is a logical result of the multiplicity of errors that proliferate in the anti-Incarnational pluralistic state of Modernity.

May we pray to Our Lady on this Feast of the Holy Name of Mary for the conversion of the United States of America and for the consolation of Mrs. Kirk and their children, who were eyewitnesses to the assassination, at this time.

Sweet Heart of Jesus, be our love.

Holy Name of Mary, be our salvation.

Today is the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, commemorating the victory won by King Jan Sobieski of Poland over the Mohammedans at the Gates of Vienna on September 12, 1683.

The troops under the command of Jan Sobieski exclaimed "Jesus, Mary, Sobieski!" as they prayed their Rosaries and routed the Turkish forces.

Each of us does battle every day with the Turks, that is, with the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must call upon the Holy Name of Mary, something we do at least one hundred fifty-three times every day if we pray all fifteen mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary.

This sweet name of the Mother of God must ever be on our lips, and it must be exclaimed by public officials as she is honored as the Queen of Heaven and on earth, yes, of each and every nation on earth, including the United States of America. No one should be ashamed at any time to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary publicly. 

Indeed, we must do so with joy and confidence. Saint Louis de Montfort taught us in True Devotion to Mary that those who are the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary should address others with a Marian salutation.

How felicitous it is, therefore, to greet others with Ave Maria! or a Salve Regina!

How glorious it is to make invocations such as "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we love you, save souls!" or "Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation" or "Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death."

May Our Lady, she who is our life, our sweetness and our hope, help us to grow in this virtue, especially in this time of apostasy and betrayal.

A new commentay will be published within a few minutes of the re-posting of this reflection.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

[As the hour is very late again, I am not able to complete a commentary about the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk for today's posting. I had been working on another Robert Francis Prevost-related commentary at the time the news of Mr. Kirk's shooting broke. 

[I will have much to write in the commentary. However, I will only note here that a country not founded into right principles will degenerate over time in the abyss of violent lawlessness. Our true popes have warned us about the dangers of "free speech" that permits the dissemination of all types of errors to agitate souls to hate those who adhere to a different set of errors than the ones that they advance. 

[Please pray to Our Lady for the conversion of the United States of America to the Catholic Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no genuine social order as we pray as well for Mr. Kirk's wife and children at this time of their terrible loss.]

The hour is very late, and I am nearly falling asleep as I write this introduction to a commentary about the conciliar archfiend of Chicago, Illinois, Blase Cupich’s latest gratuitous attack upon authentic Catholic Tradition, the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, and “traditionalists.”

I hope to have another original commentary for you tomorrow, the Feast of Saints Protus and Hyacinth.

Once again, the need for non-tax-deductible financial gifts is quite urgent.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, pray for us.

This is a republished tribute to Saint Peter Claver, S.J, whose true missionary zeal for the conversion and sanctification and salvation of souls stands in vast contrast to the blase and practically indifferent attitude of the conciliar "popes."

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., personally baptized over 300,000 people in Colombia who were destined for chattel slavery in the Americas, thus freeing those souls from enslavement to the devil by means of Original Sin, equipping them to offer up the injustices of chattel slavery as disciples of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as the devoted clients of His Most Blessed Mother. Saint Peter Claver's example does indeed stand in stark contrast to that of the revolutionaries of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

As the revisions I had to make in this reflection to change all references to Jorge Mario Bergolio to the past tense took longer than I expected as the platform on which this site has existed for the past eleven years of his twenty-one and one-half years of operation kept erasing everything I had done five times, forcing me to copy the text on Word and the import it back to this platform, the next original article has been delayed until tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.  

Non-tax-deductible financial gifts are need very urgently at this time. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Peter Claver, S.J., pray for us.

Saint Gorgonius, pray for us.

Today is the great feast day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she who is the fairest flower of our race. 

The angels rejoiced around the crib where Good Saint Anne placed her all-holy daughter, who had been conceived without any stain of Original Sin nine months before, that is, on December 8. The New Eve, whose act of perfect obedience to the will of God the Father at the moment that Saint Gabriel the Archangel announced to her that she would be the very Mother of God untied the knot of the first Eve's prideful disobedience in the Garden of Eden, shone at her Nativity with exterior beauty and brightness that reflected the interior beauty and brightness of her immortal soul, filled with grace at the very moment of Immaculate Conception.

The favor of God rested upon Our Lady from all eternity. How can words capture our gratitude and joy to God for giving us Our Lady to be our own Heavenly Mother and Queen?

They can't.

Words can only approximate our gratitude and joy this day--and every day of our lives--over the fact that the Singular Vessel of Devotion in whose Virginal and Immaculate Womb would be conceived Our Divine Redeemer was born this day.

We would not have any chance of getting to Heaven if Our Lady had not been conceived and born.

We have no chance of getting to Heaven without Our Lady's help, which is why we, as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, must cling to her at all times, especially by means of wearing--and the fulfilling the terms of our enrollment in--her Brown Scapular and by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Perhaps the best birthday gift that we can give to Our Lady, apart from our worthy reception of her Divine Son in Holy Communion at a true offering of Holy Mass at the hands of a true bishop or a true priest if this is possible where one lives in this time of apostasy and betrayal, is to resolve now to do live more penitentially in reparation for our sins and those of the world world. By living more penitentially and by praying more Rosaries each day, you see, our souls might--emphasis on might--begin to be filled with more fervor and tenderness for Our Most Blessed Mother, she who made possible our salvation and who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.

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

The next original article will be posted when it is completed. I have to stop predicting when articles will be completed as the time and care required to write a commentary cannot be rushed. I am not as young as I used to be. Things move slower as a result. I am sorry.

Maria Bambia! We salute thee as the fairest flower of our race. Pray for us!

Saint Hadrian, pray for us.

A long article at very late or very early hour.

The next original commentary should appear on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, the Feast of Saint Peter Claver, S.J.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Cloud, pray for us.

This is a brief follow up to Deady "Cures" for Non-Deadly Diseases, which was published on September 1, 2025.

Non-tax-deductible financial gifts are needed at this time rather urgently.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Rose of Viterbo, pray for us.

Unlike his immediate predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and each of his three successors (Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII), the former Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was not in the diplomatic service of the Holy See at any time during the nearly forty-five years of his priesthood prior to his rather remarkable election as the Successor of Saint Peter on August 4, 1903. He was not prone to accept the word of diplomats, and he did not suffer lies and misrepresentations easily.

The farm boy from Riese, Italy, who served as a pastor of souls in a rough-and-tumble Italian cow town, Tombolo, and then in Salzano before becoming Bishop of Mantua and the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, was always close to Our Lady. This tender devotion to Our Lady, which he learned from his saintly mother, helped him to keep close to the sheep even when he was the Vicar of Christ on earth.

Thanks to the sign given him by the life and death of Little Nellie of Holy God, Pope Saint Pius X was the advocate of early First Communion (and early Confirmation) and of frequent Communions. It is no accident at all that the late Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI made no reference to the centenary of Pascendi Dominci Gregis on September 8, 2007. Ratzinger/Benedict made absolutely no reference on August 15, 2010, to the centenary of Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, which was a ringing condemnation of the false philosophy of the Sillon that is of the essence of conciliarism. He made no reference to the one hundredth anniversary of The Oath Against Modernism on September 1, 1910.

How could he?

He stood condemned by the very words in these documents issued by Pope Saint Pius X.

So did the man who ignored the one hundredth anniversary of Papa Sarto's death, the late Jorge Mario Bergolio, back on August 20, 2014.

Here is the Collect for today's feast in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition:

"O God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ didst fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, forever and ever. Amen."

Pope Saint Pius X opposed Modernism.

So must we as we refuse any "communion" at all with conciliarism or its false shepherds who are at war with the Catholic Faith. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!

"Father" James Martin has announced that, after meeting with Robert Francis Prevost/Leo XIV, the currently reigning universal public face of apostasy will continue the late and quite demonic Jorge Mario Bergoglio's "inclusiveness" towards those steeped in sins of unnatural vice that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. 

While the outrage about this is understandble, less understandable is the fact that very few Catholics seem to be concerned about Robert Francis Prevost./Leo XIV's many defections from Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals, defections that he has shared with each of his six immediate predecessors in this is of apostasy and betrayal.

There is an appendix reprising material from an article published on September 3, 2009, that I believe summarizes the connundrum faced by "conservative" or traditional Catholics who are within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism in the belief that they are in the Catholic Church in two different fictional colloquies. 

Another new article should appear by Thursday, Septemer 4, 2025, the Feast, in some places, of Saint Rose of Viterbo. 

Finally, Mrs. Randy Engel, the Chairman of the US Coalition for Life, has sent an appeal to help the Catholics of the Holy Land: US Coalition for Life Appeal to Help the Catholics of the Holy Land.)

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Stephen of Hungary, pray for us.