Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, part nineteen

Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen.  We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.  (Applause.)  
 
My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.  That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier. (President Donald John Trump, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 2025.)

A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.

Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.

If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.

For 40 years, Iran has been saying, “Death to America, death to Israel”.

They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs – that was their speciality.

We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate, in particular, so many were killed by their general, Qassem Soleimani.

I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.

It will not continue.

I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.

I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done and, most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight, and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.

Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity. I hope that’s so. I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan “Razin” Caine – spectacular general – and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.

With all of that being said, this cannot continue.

There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.

Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight’s was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal, but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.

There’s no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.

Tomorrow, General Caine, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at 8am (12:00 GMT) at the Pentagon, and I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God.

I want to just say, “We love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them.” God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America.

Thank you very much. Thank you. (President Donald John Trump, Address to the Nation, June 21, 2025: Donald Trump’s address to nation after attack on Iran.)

Just five months, one day passed between President Donald John Trump’s second inaugural address and the one that he delivered on the evening of June 21, 2025, the third day within the Octave of Corpus Christi and the Commemoration of Saint Aloysius.

No matter what is being called the most “operationally secure” mission in the history of the United States of America and no matter the militarily successful nature of that mission, President Donald John Trump has made it clear that, first and foremost, he has always been about “Making Israel Safe Again” and to that end he is willing to blaspheme God by thanking Him for a mission He did not sanction and has nothing to do with the peace of His Co-Eternal, Co-Equal Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Whose Holy Name he never utters when speaking about the protection of the Zionist State of Israel and its murderously imperialistic policies that have always been about the establishment of “Greater Israel.”

Thus, not to belabor points made so many times before, let me summarize the situation as cogently as I can.

1. As I have noted so many times in the past, the State of Israel was founded in direct opposition to the ordained will of God as expressed very clearly by Pope Saint Pius X to Theodore Herzl, the founder of International Zionism, on January 25, 1904, the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, when the latter asked His Holiness to “bless” his plan to resettle Jews in Palestine:

POPE: We are unable to favor this movement [of Zionism]. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The ground of Jerusalem, if it were not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot answer you otherwise.The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people.

HERZL: [The conflict between Rome and Jerusalem, represented by the one and the other of us, was once again under way. At the outset I tried to be conciliatory. I said my little piece. . . . It didn’t greatly impress him. Jerusalem was not to be placed in Jewish hands.] And its present status, Holy Father?

POPE: I know, it is disagreeable to see the Turks in possession of our Holy Places. We simply have to put up with it. But to sanction the Jewish wish to occupy these sites, that we cannot do.

HERZL: [I said that we based our movement solely on the sufferings of the Jews, and wished to put aside all religious issues].

POPE: Yes, but we, but I as the head of the Catholic Church, cannot do this. One of two things will likely happen. Either the Jews will retain their ancient faith and continue to await the Messiah whom we believe has already appeared—in which case they are denying the divinity of Jesus and we cannot assist them. Or else they will go there with no religion whatever, and then we can have nothing at all to do with them. The Jewish faith was the foundation of our own, but it has been superceded by the teachings of Christ, and we cannot admit that it still enjoys any validity. The Jews who should have been the first to acknowledge Jesus Christ have not done so to this day.

HERZL: [It was on the tip of my tongue to remark, “It happens in every family: no one believes in his own relative.” But, instead, I said:] Terror and persecution were not precisely the best means for converting the Jews. [His reply had an element of grandeur in its simplicity:]

POPE: Our Lord came without power. He came in peace. He persecuted no one. He was abandoned even by his apostles. It was only later that he attained stature. It took three centuries for the Church to evolve. The Jews therefore had plenty of time in which to accept his divinity without duress or pressure. But they chose not to do so, and they have not done it yet.

HERZL: But, Holy Father, the Jews are in a terrible plight. I do not know if Your Holiness is aware of the full extent of their tragedy. We need a land for these harried people.

POPE: Must it be Jerusalem?

HERZL: We are not asking for Jerusalem, but for Palestine—for only the secular land.

POPE: We cannot be in favor of it.

[Editor Lowenthal interjects here] Here unrelenting replacement theology is plainly upheld as the norm of the Roman Catholic Church. Further, this confession, along with the whole tone of the Pope in his meeting with Herzl, indicates the perpetuation of a doctrinal emphasis that has resulted in centuries of degrading behavior toward the Jews. However, this response has the “grandeur” of total avoidance of that which Herzl had intimated, namely that the abusive reputation of Roman Catholicism toward the Jews was unlikely to foster conversion. Further, if, “It took three centuries for the Church to evolve,” it was that very same period of time that it took for the Church to consolidate and launch its thrust of anti-Semitism through the following centuries.

HERZL: Does Your Holiness know the situation of the Jews?

POPE: Yes, from my days in Mantua, where there are Jews. I have always been in friendly relations with Jews. Only the other evening two Jews were here to see me. There are other bonds than those of religion: social intercourse, for example, and philanthropy. Such bonds we do not refuse to maintain with the Jews. Indeed we also pray for them, that their spirit see the light. This very day the Church is celebrating the feast of an unbeliever who became converted in a miraculous manner—on the road to Damascus. And so if you come to Palestine and settle your people there, we will be ready with churches and priests to baptize all of you. (Marvin Lowenthal, The Diaries of Theodore Herzl.)

2. Thus, although the fact of the State of Israel’s existence is a fait’accompli, its existenc is in defiance of the will of God, Who has permitted the Mohammedan blasphemers to chastise the State of Israel from May of 1948 to the present time. No nation that defies the will of God will never know “peace” of any kind, and the United States of America can drop all the bombs its leaders decide—unconstitutionally and immorally, I might add—on Iran and other “bad actors” as they called can never make Israel or the world-at-large any “safer.” God punishes those who defy Him, and those who blaspheme Him by invoking His Holy Name to justify that defiance and/or to rationalize military aggression will be regardless of how strongly they seek to defend themselves.

3. None of this is to justify any attacks upon the Israeli people or to Jews anywhere else in the world, but it is to state that the infidelity is punished and that Our Lord uses the instruments of His choosing to do so now just as he used the pagan Romans to expel the Biblical Jews from the Holy Land in 70 A.D. after He had given them a thirty-seven year period of mercy to respond to the preaching of the Apostles.

4. Judaism of any kind is as much a religion of the devil as is any other false religion, such as Mohammedanism. The souls of both Mohammedans and Jews are slaves to the devil by means of Original Sin and their own Mortal Sins in the objective order of things, thus inclining them both to hatred, violence, and revenge. Men whose souls are held captive to the devil do not act in good will and they certainly do not speak for nor act in the Holy Name of the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ warned the Jews of His own time what would happen to them if they rejected Him. They did not listen to Him. Indeed, they mocked and reviled Him as do the Talmudic Zionists in Israel who reject His Incarnation as they, repeating the same mistake as their Biblical ancestors, blaspheme Him, attack His Churches, and murder His followers in Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza, actions that provoke His wrath and that must be punished whether or not the like it or admit that it is such:

From the later words and acts of Simon bar Jonas, it is plain that his conception of the Messiah, as he advanced toward manhood, was that of the vast majority of the Jewish people. Few could imagine the Holy One coming to suffer in atonement for the sins of the world, much less for the sins of Israel. Everyone knew that Moses had been punished for disobedience, that the Babylonian captivity had been the penalty for connivance with idolatry. Yet the old sense of sinfulness had yielded to a certain proud complacency, born in part, no doubt, of an awareness of very real virtues. The Jewish leaders forgot that they were a Chosen People not through any special excellence of their own, but through God's favor to Abraham. This sort of smugness easily takes possession of classes long established in wealth and power.

The doctrine of original sin in particular had been almost wholly forgotten in Israel. True, it still stood boldly forth on the first pages of the Book of Genesis. This makes it all the more astonishing that no one preached it, and hardly any believed it. Perhaps their recent sorrows had made the Jews forget the primal tragedy which was the beginning of human history. Perhaps the vision of towering wheat fields had little by little come to blot out of their minds the memory of the tree of knowledge, the locked garden, the flaming sword. A future woven out of hopeful dreams had become more real than a past as aching and tangible as the rocks of Judea.

It is a curious fact that this sort of idealizing is sometimes the very stuff of which materialists are made. It is because they love this world, its satisfactions and its power, that they turn away from its imperfections to an imaginary world in which they want those gratifications to be fully realized – but in the flesh, in the here and now. Only a mystery of grace could turn such mundane aspirations into a spiritual hope. (William Thomas Walsh, Saint Peter the Apostle, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948, pp. 24-25.)

It is highly important to understand that this process is quite complex. The terminus a quo, the undesirable condition, from which men are removed in the process of salvation is basically sin, the status of aversion from almighty God. A man is said to be saved, absolutely and simply, when he is taken out of the condition of original or mortal sin and brought into the status of the eternal and supernatural life of grace. Ultimately that process in achieved and perfected when the person saved comes to possess the life of grace eternally and inamissibly, in the everlasting glory of the Beatific Vision. There is genuine salvation, however, when the man who has hitherto been in the state of original or mortal sin is brought into the life of sanctifying grace, even in this world, when that life of grace can be lost through the man's own fault.

There is, however, a definitely social aspect to the process of salvation. In the merciful designs of God's providence, the man who is transferred from the state of original or mortal sin into the state of grace is brought in some way “within” a social unit, the supernatural kingdom of the living God. In heaven that community is the Church triumphant, the company of the elect enjoying the Beatific Vision. On earth it is the Church militant. Under the conditions of the new or the Christian dispensation, that community is the organized or visible religious society which is the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ on earth.

We must not lose sight of the fact that people in the condition of aversion from God, in the state of original or mortal sin, belong in some way to a kingdom or an ecclesia under the leadership of Satan, the moving spirit among the spiritual enemies of God. Hence the process of salvation involves necessarily the transfer of an individual from one social unit or community to another, from the kingdom Satan to the true and supernatural kingdom of the living God. (Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton, The Catholic Church and Salvation In Light of the Recent Pronouncements of the Holy See, published in 1958 and reprinted in 2006 by Seminary Press, Round Top, New York, pp, 134-135.)

This is important to emphasize as anyone who is unbaptized, a condition that applies to Jews and Mohammedans and pagans, belongs to an ecclesia under the leadership of Satan, which predisposes them to a hatred of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, His Holy Cross and His Holy Church and predisposes them as well to wage wafare against all to do with Our Lord, His Church, His Divine Revelation and even the binding precepts of the Natural Law. Amorality must be the result of such hatred.

Monsignor Fenton explained that the Jewish ecclesia had ceased to exist with Our Lord's death on the wood of the Holy Cross, and that Saint Peter, our first pope, sought to bring them out their adherence to false beliefs that could only wind up damning them for all eternity:

This intrinsically social aspect of salvation is brought out in the account, in the Acts of the Apostles, of the end of St. Peter's sermon on the first Christian Pentecost and of the results of that sermon.

Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their hearts and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren?

But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

They therefore that receive his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers. [Acts, 2: 37-42]

According to the inspired word of God in the Acts of the Apostles, St. Peter exhorted the men who listened to him of that first Christian Pentecost to “save themselves from this perverse generation.” Furthermore, we are told that the individuals who “received his word” received the sacrament of baptism, and that they were “added” to the number of the disciples of Christ who had been with St. Peter and the other disciples before he delivered his sermon. The society of the disciples of Jesus Christ, the organization which we know now as the Catholic Church, continued with this great number of new members, to do exactly what it had been doing since the day of Our Lord's ascension into heaven.

We read that the group, composed as it was of these new converts who had come into the Church as a result of St. Peter's Pentecost sermon and of the disciples who had entered the group during Our Lord's public life, was “persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers.” And we read the same sort of account of the activity of the original band of disciples that returned to Jerusalem immediately after the Ascension.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey.

And when they were come in they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Batholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude the brother of James.

All these were persevering with one mind in prayer, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. [Acts 1. 12-14]

Both the text and the context of the Acts of the Apostles assure us that the people who heeded St. Peter's injunction to save themselves from this perverse generation entered the true Church of God, the kingdom of God on earth. They entered the Catholic Church.

Now, if St. Peter's words on this occasion meant anything at all, they signified that the individuals to whom he was speaking were in a situation which would lead them to eternal ruin if they continued in it. They were described as belonging to a “perverse generation.” They were told to save themselves by getting out of it. The institution into which they would enter by the very fact of leaving “this perverse generation” was none other that the society of Our Lord's disciples, the Catholic Church itself.

The clear implication of St. Peter's statement is that the Church, the kingdom of God, was the only institution or social unit of salvation. Not to be within this society was to be in the perverse generation within which a man was faced with eternal and entire spiritual ruin. To leave the perverse generation was to enter the Church.

In other words, the clear teaching of this section of the Acts of the Apostles is precisely that given by Pope Leo XIII in the opening passages of his encyclical Humanum genus. The central point of this teaching is that the entire human race is divided between the kingdom of God, the ecclesia, and the kingdom of Satan. To be saved from the kingdom of Satan is to enter the kingdom of God. In this context it is not difficult to see how, by God's institution, the Catholic Church, the one and only supernatural kingdom of God on earth, is presented as a necessary means for the attainment of salvation. By God's institution the process of salvation itself involves a passage from the kingdom of Satan into the ecclesia.

Now, for the proper understanding of this doctrine, especially in view of the teaching on this subject contained in some recent books and articles, it is imperative to understand the religious condition of the people to whom St. Peter delivered his sermon on that first Christian Pentecost. Again, the Acts of the Apostles contains essentially important information.

This book describes them in general with the statement that “there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven.” The homelands of these men are enumerated in the statement attributed to the multitude itself.

And they were all amazed and wondered saying: Behold, are not all these that speak, Galileans?

And how have we heard, every man, our own tongue wherein we were born?

Parthinians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers from Rome, Jews also and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God. [Acts 2: 7-11.]

According to the text of the Acts, a great many of these people were pilgrims, men and women who had come to Jerusalem to celebrate the great Jewish feast of Pentecost. Our Lord had died on the Cross only a little over seven weeks before St. Peter delivered that sermon, and many of the people who listened to St. Peter must have been on their way to Jerusalem at the very time Our Lord died. They had begun their pilgrimage as an act of worship in the Jewish religion at the very time when the Jewish religion was the one approved especially by God and when the Jewish politico-religious commonwealth was actually the supernatural kingdom of God on earth, the ecclesia of the Old Testament.

These people as individuals probably had nothing whatsoever to do with the persecution and the murder of the Incarnate Word of God. They had started on their journey as members of God's chosen people, the people of His covenant. Their journey to Jerusalem was made precisely in order to worship and honor God. They were truly devout individuals.

Yes, seven weeks before, the religious body to which they belonged had ceased to be God's ecclesia. The Jewish politico-religious social unit had definitively rejected Our Lord, the Messias promised in the Old Testament. This company had hitherto enjoyed its position as God's ecclesias or His congregatio fidelium by virtue of the fact this it had accepted and professed its acceptance of the divine message about the promised Redeemer. In rejecting the Redeemer Himself, this social unit had automatically rejected the teaching God had given about Him. The rejection of this message constituted an abandonment of the divine faith itself. By manifesting this rejection of the faith, the Jewish religious unit fell from its position as the company of the chosen people. It was no longer God's ecclesia, His supernatural kingdom on earth. It became part of the kingdom of Satan.

While the great Jewish social unit was rejecting Our Lord and thus repudiating its acceptance of the divinely revealed message about Him, the little company of the disciples, organized by Our Lord around Himself, retained its faith. It continued to accept and to obey Our Lord and to believe the divinely revealed that centered around Him. Thus at the moment of Our Lord's death on Calvary, the moment when the old dispensation was ended and the Jewish religious association ceased to be the supernatural kingdom of God on earth, this recently organized society of Our Lord's disciples began to exist as the ecclesia or the kingdom.

This society was the true continuation of Israel. The men who were within it were the true sons of Abraham, in that they had the genuine faith of Abraham. This society was the new association of the chosen people. Its members were, as St. Paul called them, the elect or the chosen of God.

It must be understood, incidentally, that this society was actually God's supernatural kingdom on earth in a much more complete and perfect sense than the old Jewish commonwealth had ever been. The old Israel had constituted the pople of the covenant. According to God's unfailing promise, the Redeemer was to be born within that company. Yet conditions had never been such that a man had to be within this company in order to attain to eternal salvation. (Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton, The Catholic Church and Salvation In Light of the Recent Pronouncements of the Holy See, published in 1958 and reprinted in 2006 by Seminary Press, Round Top, New York, pp, 136-139.)

It cannot get any clearer than the following sentence in the selection from Monsignor Fenton's masterpiece of Catholic theology just quoted:

By manifesting this rejection of the faith, the Jewish religious unit fell from its position as the company of the chosen people. It was no longer God's ecclesia, His supernatural kingdom on earth. It became part of the kingdom of Satan. (Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton, The Catholic Church and Salvation In Light of the Recent Pronouncements of the Holy See, published in 1958 and reprinted in 2006 by Seminary Press, Round Top, New York, p. 139.)

Obviously, the conciliar “popes,” each of whom has been a Judaizer, do not accept such clear reiterations of Catholic truth. Conciliarism is a corrupt misrepresentation of the Catholic Faith. It is really that simple.

Following the example of the conciliar “popes,” starting with Antipope John XIIII, the American “bishops” have deliberately conflated opposition to Judaism as a manifestation of antisemitism. Time and time again have been the occasion when one conciliar “bishop” after another has rush to a Talmudic synagogue to make “reparation” for this or that “offense” that the Talmudists have taken to an action undertaken by the conciliar Vatican. The most strident instance of this that comes to mind is how the corrupt Roger “Cardinal” Mahony and Sean “Cardinal” O’Malley denounced Bishop Richard Williamson, then of the Society of Saint Pius X, in 2009 following an interview he gave to Swedish television that was aired one day before Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI lifted Karol Josef Wojtyla/John Paul II’s “excommunication” upon the four priests of the Society who had been consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on June 30, 1988.

By way of reiteration, we must make a distinction between willing the good of all Jews everywhere and the objective reality that God punishes infidelity and all unjust acts of aggression that have been committed by the Zionist leaders of Israel ever since its founding in 1948, especially against Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and in Gaza. No nation can be made “secure” or “safe” if its leaders sanction genocidal actions and engage in preemptive attacks upon other nations.

5. None of this is to indemnify the Islamic Republic of Iran in support of terrorism internationally and its brutal reign of terror upon its own people. Mohammedanism is a diabolical rejection of the doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity founded by a pedophilic blasphemer who committed himself to spread of his false, blasphemous religion by violent force.

Nevertheless, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s existence is, like Israel’s, a fait’accompli. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a sovereign nation whose leaders have attacked Americans and the forces of the United States of America because American leaders from the time of President Lyndon Baines Johnson to the present day have slavishly enabled Israel’s genocidal actions in its own country, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Gaza, and Iran itself. This does not justify Iran’s promotion of global terrorism, but that promotion, no matter how immoral—and it is immoral, has been conducted on the basis of rational policies that are founded on false principles of Mohammedan beliefs.

No matter the fact that there is no such thing as “radical Mohammedanism,” the violence that the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran have directed at Americans worldwide is only a natural expression of Mohammedanism, which is violent of its false nature.

6. The leaders of once Catholic Europe have embraced a veritable Mohammedan invasion of their countries and thus destroyed their own national identities and made possible an increase of violent crime, most of which have gone completely unpunished, because they, apart from being globalist utopians who desire to show how “tolerant” and “welcoming” they are, do not have enough of their own native citizens to man the labor force. However, this is only the result of their collective demographic suicide by the promotion of contraception, direct surgical abortion, sterilization, and euthanasia, forced euthanasia, child euthanasia, suicide, assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide in addition to “brain death”/vital organ vivisection, the starvation and dehydration of patients, and “palliative care”/hospice. The Mohammedans have won by force that which they lost by means of the just wars conducted against them by Catholic princes and military officials during the First and Second Millennia and they now won by procreation a conquest of Europe that had been prevented by Charles Martel, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the combined Christian fleet at the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. No one should mistake a criticism of the Israeli and American bombing of Iran for any indemnification of the Islamic Republic of Iran nor of Mohammedanism in general.

7. This all having been stipulated, the leaders of United States of America have no right to bomb a sovereign nation nor to demand that that sovereign nation stop developing weapons that is not a direct and immediate threat to its own legitimate national security interests. The intervention of the United States of America in international affairs have aided and abetted injustices in Mexico, The Philippines, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, many parts of Latin America even though no one has appointed the United States of America upon the policeman of the world nor to assert as beyond question the existence of
“weapons of mass destruction” that justify its unilateral use of military force.

8. Presidents of the United States of America have assured Americans that the world would made be “safer” by the overthrow of the likes of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Moammar Ghaddafi in Libya, the protection of the Bosnian Mohammedans on the Balkan Peninusla, and Bashir-al-Assad in Syria. Now, we are assured that the bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran will make the world “safer.” Shame on those who still continue to accept such sophistries and manifestly false assurances after all the suffering that American service personnel for being placed in conflicts that have not involved any direct, no less any immediate, threats to the legitimate national security interests of the United States of America.

9. Indeed, not only do these endless not make the world "safer" they make Americans less safe by opening up to the terrorist attacks here and across the globe. Americans have been put at risk needlessly because its leaders serve the interests of an imperialistic, genocidal foreign power, Israel, whose leaders claim for itself a nonexistent Biblical right to control the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.

10. This having been noted, though, no American is more unsfare than an innocent preborn child, and it is because of the continuing genocide against the preborn by chemical and surgical means that God may very well permit terrorist attacks by adherents of false religions to chastise the United States of America for the many ways it offends Him by promoting and protecting the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance and by promoting all manner of impurity, indecency, immodesty, filfth and degradation here and around the world.

11. Mind you, I love my country, but my love for her is predicated upno willing her good, namely the conversion of everyone herein to the bosom of Holy Mother Church. I no more want to see harm come to any American at any time for any reason than other other reasonable human being with a shred of even natural decency. However, we should not be surprised if, as a matter of Our Lord's  justice, terrorists tried to "avenge" the American bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities. We need to pray that Our Lady, Queen of Mercy, who has stayed the hand of her Divine Son's justice thus far will continue to show mercy unto us erring creatures and give everyone, including each one of us, more of a chance to amend their lives and to make reparation for their sins.

It would be foolish to predict what happens now or in the immediate future.

What we must understand as Catholics is that God is Omnipotent and Omniscience. He lives outside of time and space and sees both the beginning and the end of the world in an instant “now.” He permits His rational creatures the free will to choose for Him or two choose against Him and, if they do the latter, permits those who defy, mock, and blaspheme Him to suffer the consequences for such defiance, mockery and blasphemy both in this life and in the life to come.

Recognizing, therefore, that God is permitting the current situation to unfold within His Holy Providence, we must remain calm in the loving embrace of His Most Blessed Mother to send us the graces necessary to please her Divine Son at all times by persevering in a state of Sanctifying Grace and fearing only to commit a Mortal Sin, and worse yet, to die in a state of Final Impenitence.

We are not to be agitated by the events of the world as to permit oneself be so agitated is nothing other than to surrender to a lack of faith that pleases the devil himself. We remain calm as we understand that our own personal world could end at any time of Our Lord’s choosing to be called unto Him to make an account of the stewardship of our lives at that fearful moment of the Particular Judgment.

Thus, with complete reliance upon and total confidence in Our Lady without one iota of presumption, we pray our Rosaries this day and every day for, yes, a just peace among nations but also and far more importantly to pray for the peace of her Divine Son, Christ the King, in souls of all men throughout the world as we beg her for the conversion of all men and nations to His true Church, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can never be just social order within nations nor a just peace among them.

With full confidence in Our Lady, therefore, we pray for the day when all men everywhere will exclaim:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus, Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saint Paulinus of Nola, pray for us.