Intent on Spreading the Holy Faith

Today is the Feast of Saint Henry the Emperor, my own Confirmation patron saint.

Saint Henry the Emperor was a superb exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King who sought to foster peace among men by promoting the missionary work of Holy Mother Church in parts of central and eastern Europe near the end of the First Millennium. He knew that Catholicism was the one and only foundation of personal and social order, seeking at all times to honor Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen. May we plead with him this day and every day to help us to see the world more clearly through the eyes of the Catholic Faith as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, He Who is the King of every man and every nation on the face of this earth without any exception whatsoever, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

There should be an original article published at some point tomorrow for those remaining as readers of this site. Given the constraints of my own time, it is hard to choose from among a variety of different items in the news from the mad word of Modernism and from the mad world of Modernity.

Suffice it to say for the moment that what I wrote in Jorge Cooks the Books three months ago now applies to the Argentine Apostate's latest interview with the nonagenarian atheist Eugenio Scalfari of La Repubblica. Bergoglio knows full well what he is doing. Although he feigns a concern for the commissars on his "Council of Eight," these interviews are very carefully calculated ways to make it impossible for any possible "fuddy duddies" in the conciliar hierarchy to eradicate any remaining vestiges of Catholicism in the structures of his false church. Bergoglio's agenda is thus defined by the following single paragraph in Pope Saint Pius X's Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907 (by the way. I am still trying to figure out how to italicize words and to provide hyperlinks in the text of these daily introductions):

"It remains for Us now to say a few words about the Modernist as reformer. From all that has preceded, it is abundantly clear how great and how eager is the passion of such men for innovation. In all Catholicism there is absolutely nothing on which it does not fasten. They wish philosophy to be reformed, especially in the ecclesiastical seminaries. They wish the scholastic philosophy to be relegated to the history of philosophy and to be classed among absolute systems, and the young men to be taught modern philosophy which alone is true and suited to the times in which we live. They desire the reform of theology: rational theology is to have modern philosophy for its foundation, and positive theology is to be founded on the history of dogma. As for history, it must be written and taught only according to their methods and modern principles. Dogmas and their evolution, they affirm, are to be harmonized with science and history. In the Catechism no dogmas are to be inserted except those that have been reformed and are within the capacity of the people. Regarding worship, they say, the number of external devotions is to be reduced, and steps must be taken to prevent their further increase, though, indeed, some of the admirers of symbolism are disposed to be more indulgent on this head. They cry out that ecclesiastical government requires to be reformed in all its branches, but especially in its disciplinary and dogmatic departments They insist that both outwardly and inwardly it must be brought into harmony with the modern conscience which now wholly tends towards democracy; a share in ecclesiastical government should therefore be given to the lower ranks of the clergy and even to the laity and authority which is too much concentrated should be decentralized The Roman Congregations and especially the index and the Holy Office, must be likewise modified The ecclesiastical authority must alter its line of conduct in the social and political world; while keeping outside political organizations it must adapt itself to them in order to penetrate them with its spirit. With regard to morals, they adopt the principle of the Americanists, that the active virtues are more important than the passive, and are to be more encouraged in practice. They ask that the clergy should return to their primitive humility and poverty, and that in their ideas and action they should admit the principles of Modernism; and there are some who, gladly listening to the teaching of their Protestant masters, would desire the suppression of the celibacy of the clergy. What is there left in the Church which is not to be reformed by them and according to their principles?" (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, No. 38)

Well, perhaps that is all that needs to be said, at least for now. I will, though, have another original article for you by tomorrow, God willing and Our Lady interceding.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.

Saint Henry the Emperor, pray for us.

Bergoglio Shows Us Hell Every Day

Well, welcome back to the original Christ or Chaos website, albeit with a slightly different, although recognizable, look on its front page and on pages created from hereon out than appeared between February 20, 2004, and January 24, 2014, when the Contribute software no longer permitted me to edit or create new pages on this site. The non-functionality of the Contribute software forced me to convert a little used site that had been created to promote a book published two years ago, and it has been on that site that articles have been appearing since January 27, 2014.

The revamped Christ or Chaos site permits readers to access articles archived on this site and those located on the temporary site that has been used for almost exactly six months. The Articles page above lists each of the articles published between January 1, 2006, and today, July 14, 2014, the Feast of Saint Bonaventure, although readers will be directed back to the temporary site for those articles published between January 27, 2014, and July 11, 2014. Those articles will be transferred over the course of time to this site on a piecemeal basis until the temporary site can be shut down entirely. Given the press of daily duties and the work to put out volume one of Conversion in Reverse in a print-on-demand format (as well as to write volumes two and three and deal with at least three other book projects), that transfer process may take a time.

The new look for this site was recommended by an enterprising reader, who worked very hard at doing everything that I wanted done, taking the time to walk this technological nincompoop through the steps of accessing and creating articles on it. There will be a learning curve, and my work is going to get somewhat easier in a few days when a new computer arrives (thanks to the generosity of two individuals who responded to a private solicitation in this regard), one that will run on Windows 7 and not the horrible Windows 8. The new look for the site has been created on "Drupal," which is similar to the Word Press that was used for the temporary home of my new articles but which I find much easier to use. I believe that readers will agree that the new look is much more reader-friendly. I thank this reader tremendously for his superb help and great patience with this "tech" ignoramus. Thank you.

Today's article?

Well, it's about Jorge Mario Bergoglio's meeting three weeks ago, on the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, with representations of the "Global Evangelical Alliance" and this hideous apostate's expressed intention to go to a Pentecostalist "church" in Rome to apologize how the Catholic Church "oppressed" its presence in the Eternal City. Although there is a fine post on this matter at Novus Ordo Watch Wire (linked in the body of today's article), I do have a few things to say on the denial of the Catholic Faith and of the very definition of Holy Mother Church's Divine Constitution. Actually, more than a few things to say.

I may disappear for a few days until I make more headway on inserting corrections in volume one of Conversion in Reverse. However, just keep checking.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bonaventure, pray for us.

The Amorality Industrial Complex, part three

Amorality has defined the life and work of most of those who have served in public life in the United States of America since its beginnings nearly two hundred fifty years ago.

In Honor of and Thanksgiving to Saint Philomena, the Wonder Worker

This is a brief reflection, written originally in 2009 and revised over the years, to honor our great Wonder Worker, Saint Philomena and also the commemoration of the feast of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna.

Although our Wonder Worker is not on the universal calendar of the Roman Rite, her cultus was confirmed by none other than Pope Saint Pius X. That's good enough for me! Jansenists and rationalists will have to find some other website to surf as this one makes no room for any skepticism about Saint Philomena and the honor and power with which she has been crowned by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

This reflection includes text from a 1945 book, Wonder Worker: Saint Philomena, Virgin Martyr, which was written by Cathy Hallack and published with ecclesiastical approbation of the Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland, in 1945, which takes note of Saint Philomena's vow of virginity, which she made at eleven years of age, and mentions the fact that Diocletian was married to Prisca from 286 A.D. to the time he resigned as Roman emperor in 305 A.D. This means that Diocletian's proposal of marriage was indeed adulterous and bigamous, analogous to that of Herod the Tetrarch himself.

It was thus very touching for us to receive Mass propers for the Wonder Worker's feast from an 1898 Missal that included an entire Mass in her holy honor. This gift was sent to us by a friend of ours, one who does not agree with us concerning the true state of the Church Militant in this time of apostasy and betrayal but has not cast us out into the wilderness and down the Orwellian memory hole as lunatics These Mass propers are a tremendous treasure, one that our friend wanted us to share with true priests so that they can offer her Mass, perhaps as a votive Mass on a ferial day, in honor of our Wonder Worker, Saint Philomena. We thank our friend very much for making these propers available for those true priests who may not have had them prior to now. The link to the Mass text can be found within the body of the republished reflection: Feast of Saint Philomena Mass Propers. A Latin-English translation of these propers completed by Mr. Michael Creighton can be found by clicking here--.)

We are very devoted to Saint Philomena and pray the chaplet in her honor as a family every Saturday evening after Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. I pray her chaplet every day. 

Pope Saint Pius X, who raised the Confraternity of Saint Philomena to an Archconfraternity, told Italian priests in an allocution given in 1912 that no one could claim to be holy while dissenting from the pope:  

Therefore, when we love the Pope, there are no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed; when we love the Pope, we do not say that he has not spoken clearly enough, almost as if he were forced to repeat to the ear of each one the will clearly expressed so many times not only in person, but with letters and other public documents; we do not place his orders in doubt, adding the facile pretext of those unwilling to obey – that it is not the Pope who commands, but those who surround him; we do not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority; we do not set above the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, who, even though learned, are not holy, because whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope. (Pope Saint Pius X, Allocution Vi ringrazio to priests on the 50th anniversary of the Apostolic Union, November 18, 1912, as found at: “Love the Pope!” – no ifs, and no buts: For Bishops, priests, and faithful, Saint Pius X explains what loving the Pope really entails.)

"Whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope."

How ironic it is that those within the Society of Saint Pius X (and the groups or priests who have splintered off from it while maintaining the false, Gallican "resist while recognize" position) and others in the "resist while recognize" movement claim that the conciliar "popes" have been true and legitimate Successors of Saint Peter while dissenting vocally--and very publicly so--from their teaching and disciplinary decisions.

Saint Philomena wants us to be holy, and no one who is holy can dissent from a true pope no matter how many times they protest that they can and not matter how many decades it has been that oneself or one's group has taken a position that is based on a false ecclesiology that has done, if possible, more harm to the authentic Catholic teaching on the papacy than that done by the conciliar revolutionaries themselves.

We are very devoted to Saint Philomena and pray the chaplet in her honor as a family every Saturday evening after Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. I pray her chaplet every day. 

The next original commentary should appear by tomorrow, the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi.

Our Lady of the Universal Living Rosary Association, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, pray for us.

On the Commemorated Feast of Saint Catharine of Siena, T.O.P.

Today’s article is a slight revision and republication of a very brief and wholly inadequate reflection on the life of the great mystic, stigmatist and spiritual directress of souls, Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.P., whose feast day is the day after that of the Protomartyr of the Order of Preachers, Saint Peter of Verona (Saint Peter Martyr).

Saint Catherine was calumniated during her life, and she was blamed for having precipitated the Great Western Schism by convincing Pope Gregory XI to return to return to Rome in 1378. She suffered all such calumny with joy.

What’s our excuse for grumbling and/or murmuring about our crosses and the state of chaos in which we live in this time of apostasy and betrayal?

Remember, everything thing that happens to us has been ordained by the hand of God Himself with exquisite perfection. Saint Catherine of Siena never lost an opportunity to suffer well. Indeed, she begged to suffer more and more for love of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. So should we.

I am working on the next original commentary, although it might take a few more days for me to cover all the aspects involved in its subject matter. Thank you for your patience. (An original commentary was published two days ago: There Will Come A Day When Vincenzo Paglia Will Argue in Favor of "Accompanying" Women Right into the Hands of Baby Butchers.)

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

 

Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.P., pray for us.

Revised: Sin More Dangerous Than the Coronavirus, part seventeen

Although the plandemicists have retreated somewhat from public view, we are still suffering the effects of their well-orchestrated psychological operation to alter reality and get large numbers of people worldwide to accept a false narrative as being true while concomitantly doing

On the Feast of Our Good Saint Anne, the Mother of the Mother of God

Today, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, is the Feast of our Good Saint Anne, the mother of the Mother of God and the grandmother of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

This is a very brief reflection in honor of Saint Anne.

The newest original commentary on this site, Be Not Deceived: The Real Jorge Mario Bergoglio Is Not A Defender of a Faith He Does Not Hold, was published yesterday, Monday, July 25, 2022, the Feast of Saint James the Greater and the Commemoration of Saint Christopher. The next original commentary is being written, although it may take the better part of this week to complete it. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

Good Saint Anne, Mother of the Mother of God, pray for us.

Jorge "Claps Back" at Salvatore Cordileone and Stands Up for Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi and Her Pro-Abort Ilk

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has wasted no time in firing back at "Archbishop" Salvatore Cordileone's banning of Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi from the reception of what purports to be "Holy Communion" at the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination because of her unapologetically militant stance in support of the slicing and dicing of innocent human beings within their mothers' wombs. Bergoglio's elevation of Robert McElroy to the conciliar "college of cardinals" is a clear signal that he, Bergoglio, supports those who support giving "Holy Commuion" to pro-abort, pro-sodomite Catholic officials, whether elected or appointed, in public life.

This is a short commentary, which was written after work on what was intended to be the next original article for this site was interrupted when I learned the news about McElroy's elevation within the concilar sect while looking a secular news flash on my celluarl phone. That other commentary should appear no later than Wednesday, June 1, 2022, as I will reserve tomorrow, May 31, 2022, for my republished reflection on the Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Today, apart from being Memorial Day here in the United States of America, is the sixty-third anniversary of my First Communion, which was made at Saint Aloysius Church in Great Neck, New York. It was a bright, sunny day and many of us were smiling ear as we processed back to Saint Aloysius School on Breuer Avenue: We had received God Himself for the first time! What indescribable joy! What initmacy with Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who purchased us at the matchless cost of shedding every single drop of His Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday! Oh, how we must beg Our Lord to have that same fervor each time we receive Our Lord in Holy Communion as he had at our own First Holy Communion.

Please pray for all my fellow First Communicants, living and deceased, and for the priests and consecrated religious, the Reverend Sisters of Mercy, who prepared us for that glorious day sixty-three years ago this day.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Felix I, pray for us.

Saint Ferdinand III, King of Leon and Castile, pray for us.

Saint Joan of Arc, pray for us.

 

Republished: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Jorge Mario Bergoglio Is the Biggest Fool of Them All

Although I am very much mindful that this is Holy Week, this republished commentary from last year is very apropos for this week of weeks in which Our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, wrought our salvation for us during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross on Good Friday as it deals with Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s repeated disparagement of Our Lady as the Co-Redemptrix of the human race.

Indeed, this commentary is very appropriate for Holy Week as it includes the following passage from Father Francis X. Weninger’s First Sermon for Good Friday speaks to the point of doctrine Bergoglio called “foolishness” on December 12, 2019, very directly:

As it seemed good to the Lord to place a helpmate by the side of the earthly Adam, so we behold at the side of Jesus, the heavenly Adam, Mary, the Eve of the New Law; that, as by the fall of the first Adam and Eve the whole human race was plunged into an abyss of woe, so through the second — Jesus and Mary — rescued man was led to hope for heaven.

It is true that, in the abstract, it was the merits of Christ alone which effected our redemption, yet, that its fruits might be imparted to man individually, Jesus was pleased to place by his side a mother — Mary — for the consolation and assistance of the human race.

Therefore, God filled her heart with the most fervent affection for us, who have been born in sin, ensnared by numberless temptations, walking in the path to heaven, it may be, but in constant danger of going astray, and persecuted by the enemies of our salvation who rejoice when we make but one false step, hoping thereby that we will become their prey forever. Mary's heart is filled with the most unspeakable compassion for us; and no mother, of her own natural inclination, so fondly loves a child, so tenderly cares for its welfare, so untiringly watches over it in every danger, as does Mary in regard to the children of men; especially if they have had the happiness of receiving baptism as members of the Holy Catholic Church. "Come ye all to me, and be filled with my fruits." Thus does Holy Church cry out to those who zealously walk under her protection and patronage in the way of perfection, the path which leads to the joys of heaven. (Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Liturgical Year: Three Sermons for Every Feast, published originally by C. J. H. Lowen, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1882, pp. 279-287.)

This commentary is divided into the following parts:

  1. An Overview of Bergoglio’s Blasphemy
  2. The Theology of Redemptive Suffering is Excluded by Denying Our Lady as the Co-Redemptrix
  3. The Meaning of Our Lady as Co-Redemptrix
  4. Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J. On the Infallibility of Papal Teaching
  5. Summary
  6. An Act of Reparation
  7. Appendix: Father Francis Weninger’s First Sermon for Good Friday

The material from Father Francis X. Weninger's book on papal infallibility is absolutely priceless. Consider this one excerpt:

In compliance with an ordinance from the Pope, the holy Doctor forbade the troublesome Jovinians the Episcopal city of Milan.

In a funeral oration on his brother Satyrus, he [Saint Ambrose] eulogized the zeal of the deceased in the cause of the Roman Church, and alluded, with undisguised satisfaction, to his custom of inquiring from all, whom he chanced to meet, whether they were in communion with the See of Peter. If Satyrus discovered that they had failed in this respect, he rebuked them, because he considered that thereby they had cut themselves loose from the communion of the whole Church.

 

In his forty-seventh sermon, the Saint advanced the principle: “Where Peter is, there is the Church.” “Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia.” If this axiom is once admitted, it is plain that Peter and his successors, when acting as vicars of Christ, can never err in doctrinal decisions. If they could, the Church herself would be in error. But this supposition destroys the very idea of the church. Therefore, according to St. Ambrose, Peter and his successors can never lapse into error(Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., On The Apostolical and Infallible Authority of the Pope When Teaching the Faithful, and On His Relation to a General Council, Third Edition. New York: Sadlier and Company, 1890; Cincinnati, Ohio: John P. Walsh, 1890.)

Truth is simple, which is why I rue the fact that it took me until 2006 to see it but am nevertheless grateful for the fact that I was led to the truth, which demands our adherence no matter what criticism will come our way and remembering, as always, that seeing it makes us not one whit better than anyone else nor does it guarantee us final perseverance in a state of Sanctifying Grace. We must always cling to Our Lady as we rreat all others as we would treat her Divine Son in the very flesh.

There will be another republished article tomorrow. (The need for non-tax-deductible donations remains. Thank you.)

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

Revised and Expanded: Sin: More Dangerous Than the Coronavirus, part nine

[Late-afternoon update on January 4, 2020, the Octave Day of the Feast of the Holy Innocents]: This commentary has been revised and expanded.

Included in the revised commentary is the following passage, and I urge those who access this site to watch the videos linked therein:

The whole “pandemic” narrative is based on outright lies and the deliberate inflation of the numbers, which are then fed into the flawed modeling programs upon which the lockdown state has managed to curb legitimate personal liberties while throwing many people who do not possess the true Faith into bouts of depression from the loneliness and isolation their home imprisonment has caused them.

The situation is far more monstrous than all this, however, as Erin Olszewski, a registered nurse who traveled from Florida in early 2020 to work at Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, has provided hidden camera evidence of the fact that physicians are deliberately putting non-infect patients on ventilators and telling the nurses to go out with their program and to not to give Zinc or hydroxycloroquine upon the orders of a monster named Andrew Mark Cuomo. Those who did not check into Elmhurst Hospital with the Wuhan/China/Chinese/Covid-19/Coronavirus died after acquiring there. This is a plot to inflate the numbers and to kill off innocent human beings. Anyone who does not see this is a fool. 

Here is a link to a twenty-three minute video produced by Del Bigtree, the producer of Vaxxed, highlighting Miss Olszewski's documentation: Erin Olszewski interviewed by Del Bigtree. This video, though, is based upon another interview concerning Erin Olszewski's hidden camera work inside of Elmhurst Hospital, Journeyman Pictures Interview with Erin Olszewski, and an hour-long documentary, Frontline Nurse Turns Into Investigative Journalist. Please watch these videos and pray that Our Lord will have mercy on us all!]

There is a lot of information in this new commentary, which is long. 

However, it is my hope that a few readers who access this site will read the commentary at some point in the next few days as the never-ending farce of naturalism reaches new fever pitches over a result that is a foregone conclusion and was known in the immediate aftermath of an election theft of epic proportions in November. Then again, the entire modern civil state is based on the theft of true sovereignty over men and their nations from Christ the King, and such a theft winds up producing totalitarianism eventually. We simply happen to be alive to see this with our own eyes.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

The Holy Innocents, pray for us.

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