Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue Goes Mumbling and Stumbling Into the Distance

Keeping this in mind, therefore, I am not going to waste your good Catholic time or mine parsing the totality of Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s so-called “farewell speech,” which was delivered on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, the Feast of the Paul the First Hermit and, in the United States of America, the Feast of Our Lady of Prompt Succour. I have spent enough of my good Catholic time on this insufferable hypocrite and epic abuser of constitutional authority in the past five decades without spending more time than is necessary to dispense with this pro-abortion, pro-perversity Catholic apostate corrupt grifter’s final remarks with alacrity.

Before I comment on the two excerpts that I believe require a bit of attention, it would be instructive to include reactions to Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s farewell speech from an editorial in the New York Post, a commentary by Miranda Devine in the same publication, and a “X” post by a former pollster for Madame Defarge (aka Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton), Mark Penn:

Give it up for Ol’ Joe: At least he’s consistent.

Always bitter, lying and barely making any sense.

Biden spent four years dodging the press, but expected every network to pre-empt their regular programming to air his prevaricating “farewell.”

“Wheel of Fortune” would have been more enlightening. 

First, classless Biden refused to give his successor, president-elect Trump, any credit in getting the Gaza peace deal over the line, saying three different ways “it was me, all me.”

No mention of how Biden spent years threatening and undermining one of the United States’ closest allies, Israel, and maybe that’s why he couldn’t get anyone to take him seriously.

Then it was on to the regular propaganda.

Biden again claimed that he “created” millions of jobs, a bald lie he never gives up. 

Tripping over his words, Biden then went on a thinly-veiled rant against Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that without government censorship of social media, democracy will die.

Fear the oligarchy!

Indeed.

They do have a habit of hiring unqualified drug addicts for access to their powerful fathers.

Any good will one might have for this elderly man with a poor memory evaporates in the face of this arrogance.

Doing his patented whisper-speaking, Biden drips with anger — not at the state of the world, but that he doesn’t get any credit.

He leaves office a deeply unpopular senile crank. 

There was only one true statement in the entire speech: “Nothing is more important to me than my family.”

With the pardon of his corrupt son Hunter, we don’t doubt it. For the rest of us, good riddance. (Bitter old man Joe Biden goes out in a cloud of lies -- good riddance.)

Joe Biden is leaving office the way he came in — on a cloud of self-delusion and a rancid stench of lies. 

He promised to be a standard-bearer of decency, respecter of norms and the rule of law. 

He presented himself as a unifier who would help the country heal after the pandemic, a man of integrity and impeccable character, ­unlike his wretched predecessor. 

Yet behind closed doors, in the devious recesses of his soul, Joe plotted and planned just two things: self-aggrandizement and vengeance. 

Joe paid lip service to a grab bag of virtuous goals but, really, he was all about himself.

As he has been all his life. 

Hence his Jerry Springer-style family life that he and Jill always have dressed up as the Waltons. 

Now he leaves office as the most unpopular president in history other than Nixon, according to a Gallup poll. 

So in the days before his failed presidency vanishes, he and Jill are scurrying around delivering set-piece speeches and soft-soap interviews in a vain effort to craft a glowing “legacy.” 

His farewell address from the Oval Office Wednesday night was the last of these scripted delusions, studded with lies and boasts and grandiose lines from history written by others. 

The most divisive president in recent memory claimed he had “kept my commitment to be president for all Americans.” 

The president whose administration and deep-state protectors bullied social-media companies into censoring American speech, including in the New York Post, claimed to champion a “free and independent press.” 

Marked by mendacity 

The congenital liar whose career is marked by plagiarism, mendacity and corruption warned of a future in which “the truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.” 

The man whose family raked in millions from selling his influence to shady oligarchs and Chinese Communist Party entities, who just gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to ­George Soros, railed against “dark money.” 

The speech would not have changed a single mind about Biden’s legacy. Nobody is fooled. 

He also released a farewell letter Wednesday, laughably claiming he has left the country “stronger, more prosperous and more secure.” 

Nothing could be further from the truth.

On his watch, America is embroiled in two proxy wars, tens of millions of unvetted illegal immigrants are roaming the country, we just suffered the second worst terrorist attack since 9/11, and inflation has ravaged the middle class. 

The president who weaponized the Justice Department against his political enemies and regularly defamed Donald Trump and his supporters as “fascists” also claimed he was a unifier: “We came together as Americans, and . . . we emerged stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.” 

Nobody buys it. 

His legacy can be discerned in two special counsel reports out this week: Trump-hunter Jack Smith’s last gasp was to assert that the president-elect would have been convicted if he hadn’t won the election.

Hunter Biden protector-turned-prosecutor David Weiss’ flimsy, 27-page report whitewashed his sham investigation of the first son in Delaware, which would have resulted in zero charges if IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler hadn’t blown the whistle on DOJ obstruction. 

But the American people saw the lawfare and corruption for what it was and rejected Joe Biden at the ballot box. 

Of course, Biden doesn’t see the election results as a rejection of him.

He claimed last week he would have won the election if his party hadn’t pushed him aside. 

Seizing credit 

Vainglorious and small until the bitter end, Biden called a press conference Wednesday to seize personal credit for the hostage deal in Israel, without a mention of Trump, despite Israel and Arab officials alike crediting the president-elect with the breakthrough. 

“If they [the hostages] are not back by the time I get into office, all hell is gonna break out,” Trump had warned Hamas and Iran last month, and sure enough, The Times of Israel reports that Trump hostage negotiator Steve Witkoff has done “more to sway [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu than outgoing president Joe Biden did in a year.” 

But when a reporter asked Biden how much credit Trump deserves for the deal, he replied: “Well, this is the exact framework that I proposed back in May — exact.” 

So why weren’t the hostages released back then? 

As he was leaving the podium, another reporter asked who should get credit for the deal, “you or Trump?” Biden stopped, turned his head with a smirk and snarled, “Is that a joke?” 

Then he turned on his heels and shuffled out the door. 

It was vintage Biden, a graceless grab for ego gratification that defines his character. 

Yes, legacy is terribly important to Joe and Jill.

It consumes the couple. 

It is a “family project,” as The Washington Post characterized Jill’s attitude in a schmaltzy interview published Wednesday in which she expressed bitterness about former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s role in knifing Joe. 

“We were friends for 50 years. It was disappointing,” Jill said. 

Despite the rancor, she is determined to burnish her own legacy as “a healer who traveled the country to comfort Americans as they emerged from the depths of the pandemic.” 

Her favorite event was a first state dinner for teachers overwhelmed by the pomp and ceremony she turned on.

“It took their breath away,” she says with pride. 

She frets that “people won’t credit Joe for some of his achievements . . . I hope that they remember Joe as a strong, empathetic president with integrity and character. I mean, character really is everything, isn’t it?” 

Yes. Character is destiny. Joe’s is carved in stone now as permanently as the greats on Mount Rushmore whose memory he sullied and who Pelosi laughably mused he might join. 

But legacies can’t be controlled.

They are the sum total of your character, the way you lived your life, the other lives you touched, the character of the children you raised, the judgment of everyone who saw your conduct. 

America sees Joe Biden now for who he is, a one-term failure, a Tammany Hall grifter who sold out his country, an insufferable blowhard whose only claim to fame was that he did more damage than any of his predecessors. 

His term in office was a brief and unfortunate interruption of the truly historic presidency of the man he tried to destroy. 

Joe’s legacy is to be sandwiched by Trump in history. (Miranda Devine: Self-deluded Biden is spending his last days as president showcasing all the same lies and cementing his tarnished 'legacy'.)

Farewell Biden

The danger that Joe Biden failed to warn about in his speech was the power of government and its abuse.

Abuse when government determines what can and cannot be written on social media.

Abuse when government gives jobs and money to political friends instead of those most qualified.

Abuse when political opponents are arrested and charged at the urging of the president.

Abuse when the laws are not enforced and the border left open for political reasons.

Abuse when hundreds of billions of dollars in loans are forgiven for political gain despite court rulings.

Abuse when a president says others should pay taxes while pardoning his own son for failing to pay taxes on millions shaken out of shady global interests.

Farewell to the almost unprecedented abuse of government power, the core value of the constitution. (Mark Penn on X: "Farewell Biden The danger that Joe Biden failed to warn about in his speech was the power of government and its abuse. Abuse when government determines what can and cannot be written on social media. Abuse when government gives jobs and money to political friends instead of" / X.)

Thus, for my purposes, I am only going to comment on the following part of an address I did not watch as to have done so would have been detrimental to my interior life of the soul as well as would have been a cause for additional gastrointestinal agita. Penance is better than ever in 2025, of course, but it is precept of the Fifth Commandment never to do anything that might unnecessarily harm one’s body.

Here is the excerpt from Bitter Biden’s farewell address about which I will comment later in this commentary:

That’s why my farewell address tonight, I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And this is a dangerous — and that’s the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultrawealthy people, and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see the consequences all across America. And we’ve seen it before.

Interjection Number One:

The actual oligarchy, of course, is that of anarchical financiers such as George and Alexander Soros, Bill Gates, and other globalist supporters of open borders, “criminal justice reform” that lets serial predators, violent thugs, the mentally ill, and others victimize innocent human beings and business establishments who work with those within the administrative state to support an infrastructure of elitist control over what ordinary people can express publicly, do with their own lives, their own property, and their own money. This oligarchy of elitists have cast themselves as the high priests and priestesses who lord it over the masses and who are ready to use the full authority of the administrative state to threaten, intimidate, prosecute, and imprison those who dissent from whatever “received wisdom” is the order of their day.

It is also important to note that Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and his bag men (Hunter, James, and Frank Biden) have had no problem dealing with Chinese Communist oligarchs as well as various Eastern European and Central Asia oligarchs in Ukraine, Russian, and Kazakhstan. Indeed, the Bidens have made millions upon millions of dollars from these oligarchs.

Additionally, the American and Western European oligarchs who are part of the World Economic Forum and the Bilderberger meetings support the dismemberment of the innocent preborn, “brain death”/human organ vivisection, a “quality of life” standard in healthcare that is designed to “ease out” unsuspecting patients with chronic conditions to make them complicit in variety of pharmaceutical products that wind up shortening their lives, “palliative care”/hospice, direct euthanasia, forced euthanasia, assisted suicide, physician assisted suicide, the starvation and dehydration of patients said to be “brain damaged” or comatose, the whole panoply of evils associated with the sin of Sodom up to and including the mutilation of children who have been confused by ideological instruction in so-called “gender theories” that lead these little ones into thinking that they can be something biologically that they can never be.

No, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is not concerned about his oligarchs. Of course not. He is considered about those in Donald John Trump’s orbit, particularly Elon Musk.

Now, to be sure, Elon Musk is not any kind of friend to the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law or the Natural Law as he, along with the man he supports, President-elect Donald John Trump, supports such evils as in vitro fertilization, which he, Musk, has used:

The twin babies that Elon Musk fathered with Shivon Zilis, one of his senior employees at his brain chip company Neuralink, were conceived through in vitro fertilization, according to a published report.

The Canadian-born executive, who works as Musk’s director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, has since told some of her colleagues that she conceived the children with the Tesla CEO through IVF, according to five people familiar with the situation. Reuters couldn’t establish the accuracy of Zilis’ account.

Zills, who has worked at Neuralink for five years, gave birth to the twins last November.

The company’s rules prohibit employees from having personal relationships with anyone that is in a more senior role due to potential conflicts of interest.

But Reuters is reporting that the company management accepted Zilis’ explanation that her arrangement with Musk was non-romantic in nature. She has thus been permitted to continue in her role as director of operations and special projects.

Sources also told Reuters that Zilis and Musk have continued working together in the months since the birth of the twins. Most recently, Musk dispatched Zilis to meet with Thomas Oxley, the CEO of Neuralink’s competitor, Synchron.

Musk, Zilis, and Oxley have spoken about Neuralink potentially investing in Synchron, according to Reuters.

Zilis and spokespeople for Musk and Neuralink did not respond to requests for comment.

Musk, who has spoken frequently about declining birth rates and the threat they pose to humanity, has confirmed that he is the father. He has nine children with three different women.

The twins were born a month before Musk and Canadian pop singer Grimes welcomed their second child, a baby girl, via a surrogate. (Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis conceived twins through IVF: report.)

Obviously, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is not concerned about Musk’s support for and use of in vitro fertilization, to say nothing of his funding of brain chips that are straight out of the pages of the Book of the Apocalypse. Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue is concerned about Elon Musk’s desire to reduce the size, scope, and regulatory authority of the administrative (or deep) state that answer to his, Biden’s globalist oligarchs while thumbing their noses at “nuisances” such as elected members of the United States Congress and their attempts to actually use their legislative oversight authority over the executive branch’s administration of the law. The apparatchiks have heretofore considered themselves untouchable, and it was to protect them that Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue denounced oligarchs even though is for sale to any and all globalist oligarchs who befriend his son.

All right, let us proceed to the next select excerpt from Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s farewell speech of Wednesday, November 17, 2025, about which I choose to comment:

Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families and our very democracy from the abuse of power. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology of our time, perhaps of all time.

Nothing offers more profound possibilities and risks for our economy, and our security, our society. For humanity. Artificial intelligence even has the potential to help us answer my call to end cancer as we know it. But unless safeguards are in place, A.I. could spawn new threats to our rights, our way of life, to our privacy, how we work, and how we protect our nation. We must make sure A.I. is safe and trustworthy and good for all humankind.

In the age of A.I., it’s more important than ever that the people must govern. And as the Land of Liberty, America — not China — must lead the world in the development of A.I.

You know, in the years ahead, it’s going to be up to the president, the presidency, the Congress, the courts, the free press, and the American people to confront these powerful forces. We must reform the tax code. Not by giving the biggest tax cuts to billionaires, but by making them begin to pay their fair share.

We need to get dark money — that’s that hidden funding behind too many campaign contributions — we need to get it out of our politics. We need to enact an 18-year time limit, term limit, time and term, for the strongest ethics — and the strongest ethics reforms for our Supreme Court. We need to ban members of Congress from trading stock while they are in the Congress. We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president, no president is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office. The president’s power is not limit — it is not absolute. And it shouldn’t be.

And in a democracy, there is another danger — that the concentration of power and wealth. It erodes a sense of unity and common purpose. It causes distrust and division. Participating in our democracy becomes exhausting and even disillusioning, and people don’t feel like they have a fair shot. We have to stay engaged in the process. I know it’s frustrating. A fair shot is what makes America America. Everyone is entitled to a fair shot, not a guarantee, just a fair shot, an even playing field. Going as far as your hard work and talent can take you. (Full Transcript of President Biden’s Farewell Address.)

Final Comment:

This is very rich for a man who tried to destroy “democracy” and suppress “dissent.”

As I have noted many times before, “democracy” is to the denizens of the false opposite of the naturalist “left” what “peace” is to Communists.

That is, just as the leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics believed that “peace” consisted in not opposing its expansionism around the world and that “aggression” consisted in actively opposing this expansion, so it is that Western “leftists” believe that “democracy” consists that in preventing anyone who opposes their “received wisdom” from getting elected and, if they do get elected, to thwart any and all attempts of the “racists” and “dividers” from effectively governing while accusing them of “destroying democracy” by proposing, enacting, and then attempting to enforce policies for which they, the so-called “haters,” were elected to fulfill.

Similarly, “misinformation” for leftists is anything and everything that contradicts their own lies, including their efforts to suppress all information about the harm being done by the coronascam poisoned jabs:

Meta CEO founder Mark Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan that members of President Biden's administration yelled at his employees, demanding they take down content on their behalf.

Meta announced Tuesday that it would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to "restore free expression" across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have "gone too far." Zuckerberg spoke about the platform's struggles to maintain freedom of expression while fending off pressure from the Biden administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"During the Biden administration, when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program," the social media CEO said, "while they were trying to push that program they also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly, were true. They basically pushed us and said, you know, that ‘anything saying that says vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.’ And I was just like ‘We’re not going to do that, we’re clearly not going to do that, I mean that is kind of inarguably true."

"Who is ‘they’?" Rogan asked. "Who was telling you to take down things that talk about vaccine side effects?"

"It was people in the Biden administration," the Meta CEO said.

He then spoke further about the "government censorship," much of which he says has been covered by the congressional investigation, where he said, "I mean basically these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse, and it's like… these documents are, it's all kind of out there."

Zuckerberg summarized that the conflict between his company and the government "basically got to this point where we were like, ‘No, we're not going to, we're not going to take down things that are true.' That's ridiculous."

Zuckerberg recalled initially pushing back against the Biden administration on things that are factually true or memes, but later recalled how the game changed when Biden "gave some statement at some point, I don't know if it was a press conference, or to some journalist, where he basically was like, ‘These guys are killing people.'" 

'Then, like, all these different agencies and branches of government basically just, like, started investigating and coming after our company. It was brutal, it was brutal," he said.

Rogan later asked about the response after the investigation, "was anybody held accountable? Was there any, I mean any repercussions?"

"I mean they lost the election," Zuckerberg joked. (Zuckerberg tells Rogan Biden admin would 'scream' and 'curse' at his employees, demanding censorship.)

Journalist Matt Taibbi spoke to Brian Kilmeade about Mark Zuckerberg coming out against government censorship of social media and revealing the pressure he faced from the Biden administration to censor content on Facebook and Instagram.

"On the whole, it is a net positive," Taibbi said. "Zuckerberg coming out and saying all this confirms a lot of what I reported and a lot of the information that came out from Jim Jordan's committee investigation into the Facebook Files. Even if it is not 100% sincere, it confirms some things and suggests that maybe these tech companies are afraid to continue doing this kind of thing."

"Zuckerberg already broke the ice on this in August when he issued a letter talking about how the White House had pressured Facebook to censor, and the FBI had nudged the company to believe the Hunter Biden laptop story was disinformation. His use of the word 'censor' in that letter in August kind of broke the ice on the mainstream coverage of this topic -- no one had really used that word before. So whatever the motivation is, I think it is a net plus for the effort to increase free speech on these platforms."


"The emails about the White House aide Andy Slavitt calling up Facebook and yelling at them, demanding they take things down ASAP, those were all public. They were part of the Murthy v. Missouri court case and Jim Jordan's extensive Judiciary Committee report that published a huge cache of those emails, which had all those exchanges -- including the White House side of that story," Taibbi added. "There's no doubt this happened, the question is what did Facebook do about it? They did push back a little, but they didn't push back nearly enough. There were some really bad episodes, including one where the White House asked them to take down a video of Tucker Carlson, when he was at Fox, where Tucker was saying the White House itself may not fully believe in the efficacy of the vaccine. And of course, that turned out to be true, Facebook responded initially that that doesn't violate the terms of service, but they did de-amplify it by 50%, which is incredible."

"Zuckerberg was the reason in the Twitter Files that we looked into the Hunter Biden story because he had given another interview to Rogan a long time ago where he said the FBI had contacted them about the Hunter Biden story," he continued. "When we got into the Twitter Fioles, we found that there were thousands of communications about thousands of different things, long lists of accounts they wanted action."

"The stuff with Facebook was actually worse than the stuff in the Twitter Files because that involved communications directly from the White House, directly ordering them to take things down, like RFK's tweets."

"This is all shocking, and I think unconstitutional." (Taibbi: WH-Directed Suppression Of Speech On Facebook Was Worse Than On Twitter.)

Everything the administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., did was unconstitutional, including what the Bitter old demonic demagogue tried to do on Friday, January 17, 2017, by claiming that the feminist so-called “Equal Rights Amendment” had been ratified even though (a) a president has now constitutional authority whatsoever in the passage and ratification of a constitutional amendment; and (b) the time limit for the amendment’s ratification by thirty-eight state legislatures, which had been seven years, was extended by thirty months in 1979, and thus died a peaceful and well-deserved death in 1982. It cannot be revived again unless two-thirds of both houses of Congress vote to do so, after which the horrific amendment (which would make every perversity imaginable part of the constitution even though the Supreme Court of the United States of America has done so on a case-by-case basis). Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s attempt to declare the amendment ratified is a completely unconstitutional overreach of his authority, and it is a fitting way for this spiritual and moral reprobate to end his term as president in name only.

How some ever, though, lest one think that “salvation” is on the way and that the truth about coronascam poisoned jabs is going to be told by the incoming administration of President Donald John Trump, who takes the presidential oath of office for the second time in about eighty-three hours of this commentary’s publication, I would urge the readers of this site to get ready for the sober truth that Donald John Trump has learned nothing about the harm caused by his warped “Operation Warped Speed” as he met with a man on Friday, January 17, 2017, the Feast of Saint Antony the Abbot, who undercut Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.’s., putative efforts in 2017 to head a commission to investigate vaccine safety during the Trump-Pence administration.

The name of the man with whom Trump met yesterday?

I am glad you asked.

Bill Gates:

Billionaire Bill Gates revealed he recently had an “intriguing” three-hour dinner with President-elect Donald Trump — and he was left “frankly impressed” by their sit-down.

“I had a chance, about two weeks ago, to go have a long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday.

The Microsoft co-founder, 69, said much of their “wide-ranging” dinner table chat focused on global health challenges.

“I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” the tech titan said of Trump, 78. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”

They were joined by incoming White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and one of Gates’ staffers.

“The four of us sat there, and it was quite wide-ranging,” Gates said of the dinner.  

“I spoke a lot about HIV and that [The Gates] Foundation is literally working on a cure for that. We’re at an early stage, and so he in the COVID days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” he said.

“So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here. And we both got, I think, pretty excited about that,” Gates told WSJ’s Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker. 

“We talked about polio where we’re very close to getting that done, but if you stop, it’ll spread back,” he continued.

“And he was fascinated to hear what he could do to maximize the chance that during the next four years that incredible milestone will be achieved.”

Details of the dinner emerged just weeks after Trump made a cryptic post on Truth Social saying that Gates had asked to come to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Some speculated, at the time, that Trump’s message was meant for fellow tech billionaire Elon Musk’s eyes only.

“Where are you? When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe,’ Mar-a-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come, tonight. We miss you and x! New Year’s Eve is going to be AMAZING!!! DJT,” the incoming president wrote.

At the time, Gates’ team didn’t respond when asked whether he had requested a sit-down with the soon-to-be 47th president.

It wasn’t immediately clear exactly where, or when, the Gates-Trump dinner took place.

Gates, who also met with Trump back in 2016 ahead of his first presidential term, is the latest billionaire to dine with him in the wake of his historic 2024 election win.

Other top business leaders — including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — recently traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with the next commander in chief in the lead-up to his Jan. 20 inauguration. (Bill Gates 'frankly impressed' after 3-hour dinner with Trump.)

Although it is understandable that many believing Catholics are relieved that truly destructive, authoritarian and very fascistic administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris Emhoff is coming an end at a long last, there should be a sober realization that Donald John Trump has not changed when it comes to being impressed with the likes of the world’s chief depopulator, Bill Gates, and the fact that this man who profiteers from helping to fund the production of poisoned jabs that sterilize unsuspecting women and inject human bodies with all manner of poisons that caused a variety of health problems and the phenomenon that was unknown prior to the vaccine rollout at the of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, the plethora of “sudden deaths” had the soon-to-be president’s ear for over three hours means that whatever good United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. thinks he is going to do about vaccine “safety” will be undermined by the self-proclaimed “global health” expert, William Gates.

By the way, incoming White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles is very connected to Big Pharma.

What was I saying about Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose seven weeks ago?

Yes, Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue and his crew of Marxist ideologues will be leaving, but I urge the readers of this site not to fall for the traps ready to be snapped by those within the false opposite of the naturalist “right,” always remembering the following words of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ:

I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. [3] Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you. [4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. [5] I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

[6] If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth. [7] If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. [8] In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples. [9] As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love. [10] If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do abide in his love. (John 15: 1-10.)

The sad truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that naturalists of any stripe believe that they can do things without Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His true Church, and they believe that they do not have to keep the Commandments. Both Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue and Donald John Trump support perversity (although Trump does not support child mutilation but otherwise has no problem with adults who mutilate their bodies) and in vitro fertilization.

We must pray to Our Lady under the title of her Immaculate Conception as the Patroness of the United States of America for the conversion of everyone in this nation and thus the nation itself to the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order.

As Pope Pius XI noted in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922:

24. The inordinate desire for pleasure, concupiscence of the flesh, sows the fatal seeds of division not only among families but likewise among states; the inordinate desire for possessions, concupiscence of the eyes, inevitably turns into class warfare and into social egotism; the inordinate desire to rule or to domineer over others, pride of life, soon becomes mere party or factional rivalries, manifesting itself in constant displays of conflicting ambitions and ending in open rebellion, in the crime of lese majeste, and even in national parricide.

25. These unsuppressed desires, this inordinate love of the things of the world, are precisely the source of all international misunderstandings and rivalries, despite the fact that oftentimes men dare to maintain that acts prompted by such motives are excusable and even justifiable because, forsooth, they were performed for reasons of state or of the public good, or out of love for country. Patriotism -- the stimulus of so many virtues and of so many noble acts of heroism when kept within the bounds of the law of Christ -- becomes merely an occasion, an added incentive to grave injustice when true love of country is debased to the condition of an extreme nationalism, when we forget that all men are our brothers and members of the same great human family, that other nations have an equal right with us both to life and to prosperity, that it is never lawful nor even wise, to dissociate morality from the affairs of practical life, that, in the last analysis, it is "justice which exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." (Proverbs xiv, 34)

26. Perhaps the advantages to one's family, city, or nation obtained in some such way as this may well appear to be a wonderful and great victory (this thought has been already expressed by St. Augustine), but in the end it turns out to be a very shallow thing, something rather to inspire us with the most fearful apprehensions of approaching ruin. "It is a happiness which appears beautiful but is brittle as glass. We must ever be on guard lest with horror we see it broken into a thousand pieces at the first touch." (St. Augustine de Civitate Dei, Book iv, Chap. 3)

27. There is over and above the absence of peace and the evils attendant on this absence, another deeper and more profound cause for present-day conditions. This cause was even beginning to show its head before the War and the terrible calamities consequent on that cataclysm should have proven a remedy for them if mankind had only taken the trouble to understand the real meaning of those terrible events. In the Holy Scriptures we read: "They that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed." (Isaias i, 28) No less well known are the words of the Divine Teacher, Jesus Christ, Who said: "Without me you can do nothing" (John xv, 5) and again, "He that gathereth not with me, scattereth." (Luke xi, 23)

28. These words of the Holy Bible have been fulfilled and are now at this very moment being fulfilled before our very eyes. Because men have forsaken God and Jesus Christ, they have sunk to the depths of evil. They waste their energies and consume their time and efforts in vain sterile attempts to find a remedy for these ills, but without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin. It was a quite general desire that both our laws and our governments should exist without recognizing God or Jesus Christ, on the theory that all authority comes from men, not from God. Because of such an assumption, these theorists fell very short of being able to bestow upon law not only those sanctions which it must possess but also that secure basis for the supreme criterion of justice which even a pagan philosopher like Cicero saw clearly could not be derived except from the divine law. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

That last paragraph, number twenty-eight, says it all. The gist of the two hundred thirty-seven articles linked at the top of this article can be summarized in the following words written by Pope Pius XI over ninety-two years ago:

They waste their energies and consume their time and efforts in vain sterile attempts to find a remedy for these ills, but without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

Sadly, many Catholics continue to waste their energies and consume their time and efforts (if not money!) in vain sterile efforts to find a remedy for the ills of Modernity without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin.

To Trust in Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary

Yet it is that so many Catholics will try to save the little that remains from the existing ruins without realizing that their steady acceptance of the so-called “lesser of two evils” has made possible the institutionalization of grave moral evils whose advance will continue, either incrementally or exponentially, as long as men refuse to take serious these words written by Saint Paul the Apostle in his Epistle to the Ephesians:

Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high place. Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice, And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace:

In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God). By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints. (Ephesians 6: 11-18.)

All the tribulations in this vale of tears will be over in a blink of an eye. It is most likely that we will stand before Christ the King, Our Divine Judge, long before He is finished with chastising this world filled with men who prefer the stench of their sins to the sweet aroma of Sanctifying Grace.

We must stand firm on behalf of our Catholic Faith at all times and in all situations as we recall the following words from Pope Pius XII’s Christmas Message to the world’s Catholics on December 24, 1943:

The path of humanity in the present confusion of ideas has been a path without God, indeed against God; without Christ, indeed against Christ. With this we do not want or intend to offend the wanderers; they are and remain our brothers.

However, it is appropriate that Christianity also considers that part of the responsibility, which falls to her in today's trials. Or haven't many Christians also made concessions to those false ideas and directions of life, so often disapproved by the magisterium of the Church?

Every lukewarmness and every rash bargaining with human respect in the profession of faith and its maxims; every pusillanimity and vacillation between good and evil in the practice of the Christian life, in the education of children and in governing the family; any hidden or manifest sin; all of this, and what more could be added, was and is a mournful contribution to the disaster which today is ravaging the world. And who would ever have the right to consider himself innocent of any fault? Reflection on yourselves and your works and the humble acknowledgment of this moral responsibility will make you perceive and feel in the depths of your soul how dutiful and holy a prayer and an action that appeases and implores the mercy of God and help to save the brothers; giving that honor back to God. (Pope Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message to the Peoples of the Whole World, December 24, 1943.)

We must make reparation for our own sins, which have worsened the state of the world-at-large and that of the Church Militant on earth far, far more than we might be willing to understand or to accept, which is why it is necessary for us to offer up all our works, prayers, and sufferings to the Throne of the Most Blessed Trinity by surrendering ourselves freely as the consecrated slaves of the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

We may not live long enough to see a happy resolution to the problems that afflict the world because of the sins of men who are either contemptuous of the laws of God or reject them outright. However, it is our duty to pray ceaselessly for the conversion of all men to the true Faith and to exhort them according to time and circumstances of our dealings with others to develop a profound love for Our Lady, the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and a total consecration to her Divine Son through her Immaculate Heart.

Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary is the key to getting us out of the mess that the world is in now, something that Pope Pius XII noted in Ingruentiam Mallorum, September 15, 1951:

We do not hesitate to affirm again publicly that We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. Not with force, not with arms, not with human power, but with Divine help obtained through the means of this prayer, strong like David with his sling, the Church undaunted shall be able to confront the infernal enemy, repeating to him the words of the young shepherd: “Thou comest to me with a sword, and a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of armies . . . and all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear, for this is his battle, and he will deliver you into our hands” (I Kings 17, 45-47)

16. For this reason, We earnestly desire, Venerable Brethren, that all the faithful, following your example and your exhortation should respond solicitously to Our paternal exhortation, uniting their hearts and their voices with the same ardor of charity. If the evils and the assaults of the wicked increase, so likewise must the piety of all good people increase and become ever more vigorous. Let them strive to obtain from our most loving Mother, especially through this form of prayer, that better times may quickly return for the Church and society.

17. May the very powerful Mother of God, moved by the prayers of so many of her sons, obtain from her only Son — let us all beseech her — that those who have miserably wandered from the path of truth and virtue may, with new fervor, find it again; that hatred and rivalry, which are the sources of discord and every kind of mishap, may be put aside, and that a true, just, and genuine peace may shine again upon individuals, families, peoples, and nations. And, finally, may she obtain that, after the rights of the Church have been secured in accord with justice, its beneficent influence may penetrate without obstacle the hearts of men, the social classes, and the avenues of public life so as to join people among themselves in brotherhood and lead them to that prosperity which regulates, preserves, and coordinates the rights and duties of all without harming anyone and which daily makes for greater and greater mutual friendship and collaboration. (Pope Pius XII noted in Ingruentiam Mallorum, September 15, 1951.)

We must trust in Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary and pray that our fidelity will bear good fruit for ourselves and for the whole world as we await the day when the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart will made manifest and as her Divine Son, Christ the King, takes His rightful place among men and their nations once again.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

Viva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of the Rosary, 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.

Appendix

On the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Rome

We need to pray today, the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter, something that will occur in a truly miraculous manner.

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., provided us with a marvelous reflection on the history and significance of this day:

The Archangel Gabriel told the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Annunciation, that the Son Who was to be born of Her should be a King, and that of His Kingdom there should be no end. Hence, when the Magi were led from the East to the Crib of Jesus, they proclaimed in Jerusalem that they came to seek a King. But his new Empire needed a capital; and whereas the King, Who was to fix His throne in it, was, according to the eternal decrees, to re-ascend into Heaven, it was necessary that the visible character of His Royalty should be left here on earth, and this even to the end of the world. He that should be invested with this visible character of Christ our King would be the Vicar of Christ.

Our Lord Jesus Christ chose Simon for this sublime dignity of being His Vicar. He changed his name into one which signifies the Rock, that is “Peter;” and in giving him this new name, He tells us that the whole Church throughout the world is to rest upon this man as upon a Rock which nothing shall ever move (Matt. 16: 18). But this promise of Our Lord included another; namely, that as Peter was to close his earthly career by the cross, He would give him Successors in whom Peter and his authority should live to the end of time.

But again, there must be some mark or sign of this succession, to designate to the world who the Pontiff is on whom, to the end of the world, the Church is to be built. There are so many Bishops in the Church; in which one of them is Peter continued? This Prince of the Apostles founded and governed several Churches; but only one of these was watered with his blood, and that one was Rome; only one of these is enriched with his Tomb, and that one is Rome; the Bishop of Rome, therefore, is the Successor of Peter, and consequently the Vicar of Christ. It is of the Bishop of Rome alone that it is said: Upon thee will I build My Church; and again: To thee will I give the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven (St. Matthew 16: 19); and again: I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; do thou confirm thy brethren (St. Luke 22: 32); and again: Feed my lambs; feed my sheep. (St. John 21: 15, 17).

Protestantism saw the force of this argument, and therefore strove to throw doubts on St. Peter’s having lived and died in Rome. They who labored to establish doubts of this kind rightly hoped that, if they could gain their point, they would destroy the authority of the Roman Pontiff, and even the very notion of a Head of the Church. But History has refuted this puerile objection, and now all learned Protestants agree with Catholics in admitting a fact which is one of the most incontestable, even on the ground of human authority.

It was in order to nullify, by the authority of the Liturgy, this strange pretension of Protestants, that Pope Paul IV, in 1558, restored the ancient Feast of St. Peter’s Chair at Rome, and fixed it on the 18th of January. For many centuries the Church had not solemnized the mystery of the Pontificate of the Prince of the Apostles on any distinct feast, but had made the single Feast of February 22nd serve for both the Chair at Antioch and the Chair at Rome. From that time forward, the 22nd of February has been kept for the Chair at Antioch, which was the first occupied by the Apostle.  (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, January 18.)

A Brief Interjection:

I interject at this point to note that the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome was abolished by the Consilium that planned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical travesty as it was an stumbling block, if you will, in the path of false ecumenism, and it was under the supposed “restorer of tradition,” Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI that the since abolished “Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei” required the “Ecclesia Dei” communities to observe only the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Antioch and to celebrate only the Feast of Saint Prisca on January 18. False ecumenism rules the day in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, a point that I made repeatedly in G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship.

Returning now to Dom Prosper Gueranger’s reflection on today’s feast, the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome:

To-day, therefore, the Kingship of our Emmanuel shines forth in all its splendour, and the children of the Church rejoice in finding themselves to be Brethren and fellow-citizens, united in the Feast of their common Capital, the Holy City of Rome. When they look around them, and find so many sects, separated from each other, and almost forced into decay, because they have no centre of union — they give thanks to the Son of God, for his having provided for the preservation of his Church and Truth, by his instituting a visible Head who never dies, and in whom Peter is for ever continued, just as Christ himself is continued in Peter. Men are no longer sheep without a Shepherd; the word, spoken at the beginning, is uninterruptedly perpetuated through all ages; the primitive mission is never suspended, and, by the Roman Pontiff, the end of time is fastened on to the world’s commencement.

“What a consolation for the children of God!” cries out Bossuet, in his Essay on Universal History, “and what conviction that they are in possession of the truth, when they see, that from Innocent the Eleventh, who now (1681) so worthily occupies the first See of the Church, we go back, in unbroken succession, even to St. Peter, whom Jesus appointed Prince of the Apostles; that from St. Peter, we come, traversing the line of the Pontiffs who ministered under the Law, even to Aaron, yea, even to Moses; thence, even to the Patriarchs, and even to the beginning of the world!”

When St. Peter entered Rome, he came to realize and explain the destinies of this Queen of Cities; he came to promise her an Empire even greater than the one she already possessed. This new Empire is not to be founded by the sword, as was the first. Rome has been hitherto the proud mistress of nations; henceforth she is to be the Mother of the world by Charity; and though all peaceful, yet her Empire shall last to the end of time. Let us listen to St. Leo the Great, describing to us in one of the finest of his Sermons, and in his own magnificent style, the humble yet all-eventful entrance of the Fisherman of Genesareth into the Capital of the Pagan world:

“The good and just and omnipotent God, Who never refused His mercy to the human race, and instructed all men in general in the knowledge of Himself by His super-abundant benefits, took pity, by a more hidden counsel and a deeper love, on the voluntary blindness of them that had gone astray, and on the wickedness which was growing in its proneness to evil; and sent therefore into the world His co-equal and co-eternal Word. The Word being made Flesh did so unite the Divine and human nature, as that the deep abasement of the one was the highest uplifting of the other.

But, that the effect of this unspeakable gift might be diffused throughout the entire world, the providence of God had been preparing the Roman Empire, which had so far extended its limits, as to embrace in itself all the nations of the earth. For nothing could be better suited to the divine plan, than the confederation of various kingdoms under one and the same Empire; and the preaching of the gospel to the whole world would the more rapidly be effected by having the several nations united under the government of one common City.

But this City, ignoring the author of this her promotion, whilst mistress of almost every nation under the sun, was the slave of every nation’s errors; and prided himself on having got a grand religion, because she had admitted every false doctrine. So that, the faster the devil’s hold of her, the more admirable her deliverance by Christ.

For, when the twelve Apostles, after receiving, by the Holy Ghost, the gift of tongues, divided among themselves the world they had to evangelise — the most blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostolic order, was sent to the Capital of the Roman Empire, in order that the light of truth, which had been revealed for the salvation of all nations, might the more effectively flow, from the head itself, into the whole body of the world.

The fact was, that there were, in this City, people belonging to every nation, and the rest of the world soon learnt whatever was taught at Rome. Here, therefore, were to be refuted the opinions of philosophy; here, the follies of human wisdom to be exploded; here, the worship of devils to be convicted of blasphemy; here, the impiety of all the sacrifices to be first abolished; for, it was here that an official superstition had systematised into one great whole the fragmentary errors of every other portion of the earth.

To this City, therefore, most blessed Apostle, Peter, thou fearest not to come! The companion of thy glory, Paul the Apostle, is not with thee, for he is busy founding other Churches; yet, thou enterest this forest of wild beasts, and, with greater courage than when walking on the waters, thou settest foot on this deep stormy sea! Thou, that didst tremble before a servant-girl in the house of Caiphas, art fearless now before this Rome, this mistress of the world. Is it, that the power of Claudius is less than the authority of Pilate? or the cruelty of Nero less than the savageness of the Jews ? Not so: but the vehemence of thy love made thee heedless of thy risks; and having come that thou mightest love, thou forgottest to fear. Thou didst imbibe this sentiment of fearless charity, on that day, when the profession of thy love for thy Master was made perfect by the mystery of his thrice put question. And what asks he of thee, after thus probing thy heart, but that thou feed the the sheep of Him thou lovest, with the food, whereon thyself hadst feasted.

Then, too, there were the miracles thou hadst wrought, the gifts of grace thou hadst received, the proofs of the great works thou hadst achieved — all giving thee fresh courage. Thou hadst taught the truth to such of the children of Israel as had embraced the faith; thou hadst founded the Church of Antioch, where first began the glorious Christian title; thou hadst preached the gospel in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia; and assured of the success of thy work, and of the many years thou hadst yet to live, thou didst bring the trophy of the Cross of Christ into the very walls of Rome, where the counsels of God had already determined that thou shouldst have both the honour of power, and the glory of martyrdom.” – St Leo, Sermon 82, On the Feast of the Apostles, Peter and Paul.

The future of the human race, now under the guidance of the Church, is, therefore, centred in Rome, and the destinies of that City are interwoven with those of her undying Pontiff. We, the children of the Church, though differing in race, and tongue, and character, yet are we all Romans by holy religion; as Romans, we are united, by Peter, to Christ; and this our glorious name is the link of that great Fraternity of Catholics throughout the world.

Jesus Christ by Peter, and Peter by his successor — these are our rulers in the order of spiritual Government. Every Pastor, whose authority emanates not from the See of Rome, is a stranger to us, and an intruder. So likewise, in the order of our Faith, that is, of what we believe, Jesus Christ by Peter, and Peter by his successor, teach us divine doctrine, and how to distinguish truth from error. Every Symbol of Faith, every doctrinal judgment, every teaching, contrary to the Symbol, and judgments, and teachings of the See of Rome, is of man, and not of God, and must be rejected, hated, and anathematised. On the Feast of St. Peter’s Chair at Antioch, (February 22,) we will speak of the Apostolic See, as the one only source of governing power in the Church; to-day, we will consider and honour the Chair at Home as the source and rule of our Faith. Here, again, let us borrow the sublime words of St. Leo, and hear him discuss the claims of Peter to Infallibility of teaching. The Holy Doctor will teach us how to understand the full force of those words, which were spoken by our Lord, and which he intended should be, for all ages, the grand charter of Faith.

“The Word made Flesh was dwelling among us, and he, our Saviour, had spent his whole self for the reparation of the human race. There was nothing too complicated for his wisdom, nothing too difficult for his power. The elements were subject to him, Spirits ministered to him, Angels obeyed him, nor could the mystery of human Redemption be ineffectual, for God, both in his Unity and Trinity, was the worker of that mystery. And yet, Peter is chosen from the rest of the entire world, to be the one, the only one, put over the vocation of all nations, and over all the Apostles, and over all the Fathers of the Church: that so, whilst there were to be many Priests and many Pastors in the people of God, Peter should govern, by the special power given to him, all those whom Christ also rules by his own supreme power. Great and wonderful, dearly Beloved, is this fellowship with Christ’s power granted, by divine condescension, to this man! Moreover, if our Lord willed that there should be something in common to Peter and the rest of the Princes of his Church, it was only on this condition — that whatever he gave to them, he gave to them through Peter.”

(St Matthew 16:16) which when he had said, our Lord thus answered him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona; because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father, who is in heaven; (St Matthew 16:17) that is, blessed art thou, in that my Father hath taught thee, and human opinion hath not misled thee, but heavenly inspiration hath instructed thee; not flesh and blood, but He, whose Only Begotten Son I am, hath shown me to thee. And I say to thee: that is, as my Father hath manifested to thee my divinity, so do I now declare to thee thine own dignity. That thou art Peter (the Rock): that is, though I am the immoveable Rock, (1 Corinthians 10:4) the Corner-Stone, (Ephesians 2:20) who make both one, (Ephesians 2:14) and the Foundation, other than which no man can lay; (1 Corinthians 3:11) yet, art thou, also, a Rock, because thou art solidly based by my power, and what I have by right, thou hast by participation. And upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it: (St Matthew 16:18) that is, I will construct an everlasting temple upon thy Strength, and my Church, which is to reach to heaven, shall grow up on the firmness of this thy faith.

On the eve of his Passion, which was to test the courage of his disciples, our Lord said to Peter: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren. (St Luke 22:31-32) All the Apostles were in danger of being tempted to fear, and all stood in need of the divine help, for the devil desired to sift and crush them all; and yet, it is especially for Peter that our Lord is careful; it is for Peter’s faith that he offers an express prayer; as though the others would be sure to be firm, if the mind of their leader were unflinching. So that, the strength of all the rest is in Peter, and the assistance of divine grace is distributed in this order — Peter is to receive firmness through Christ, and he himself then give it to the Apostles.” (St Leo, Sermon 4)

In another of his Sermons, the same holy Doctor explains to us, how it is that Peter ever lives and ever teaches in the Chair of Rome. After having cited the passage from the sixteenth chapter of St. Matthew, (verses 16-19,) he says: “This promise, of Him who is truth itself, must, therefore, be a permanent fact — and Peter, the unceasing Rock of strength, must be the ceaseless ruler of the Church. For we have only to consider the pre-eminence that is given him, and the mysterious titles conferred on him, and we at once see the fellowship he has with our Lord Jesus Christ: he is called the Rock (Peter); he is named the Foundation; he is appointed keeper of the gates of heaven; he’ is made judge, with such power of loosing and binding, that his sentence holds even in heaven. These commissions, and duties, and responsibilities, where-with he was invested, he discharges with fuller perfection and power, now that he is in Him and with Him, from whom he received all these honours. If, therefore, we do anything that is right, if we decree anything that is right, if, by our daily supplications, we obtain anything from the divine mercy — it is his doing and his merit, whose power lives, and whose authority is supreme, in this his own Chair. All this, dearly Beloved, was obtained by that confession, which, being inspired into the Apostle’s heart by God the Father, soared above all the incertitudes of human opinions, and drew upon him, who spoke it, the solidity of a Rock, that was to be proof against every attack. For, throughout the whole Church, Peter is every day still proclaiming: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; and every tongue, that confesses the Lord, is guided by the teaching of this word. This is the faith which conquers the devil, and sets his captives free. This is the faith which delivers men from the world, and takes them to heaven, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. For such is the solidity wherewith God has strengthened it, that neither heretical depravity has been able to corrupt, nor pagan perfidy to crush, it.” (St Leo, Sermon 3) Thus speaks St. Leo. “Let it not, therefore, be said,” observes Bossuet, in his Sermon on the Unity of the Church, “let it not be said, or thought, that this ministry of Peter finishes with his life on earth. That which is given as the support of a Church which is to last for ever, can never be taken away. Peter will live in his successors; Peter will speak, in his Chair, to the end of time. So speak the Fathers; so speak the six hundred and thirty Bishops of the Council of Chalcedon.” And again: Thus, the Roman Church is ever a Virgin-Church;  the Faith of Rome is always the Faith of the Church; what has once been believed, will be forever believed; the same voice is heard all over the world; and Peter, in his successors, is now, as he was during his life, the foundation on which the Faithful rest. Jesus Christ has said that it shall be so; and heaven and earth shall pass away rather than his word.”

Full of gratitude, therefore, to the God of truth, who has vouchsafed to raise up this Chair in his Church, we will listen, with submission of intellect and heart, to the teaching which emanates from it. Rejecting with indignation those dangerous theories, which can only serve to keep up sects within the Church; and confessing, with all the past ages, that the promises made to St. Peter continue in his successors; — we will conclude, aided by the twofold light of logic and history, that the teachings, addressed to the Church by the Roman Pontiff, can never contain error, and can contain nothing but the doctrine of truth. Such has always been the sense of the Church, and her practice has been the expression of her spirit. Now, if we acknowledge a permanent miracle in the uninterrupted succession of the Bishops of Rome, in spite of all the revolutions of eighteen centuries — we acknowledge it to be a still higher prodigy, that, notwithstanding the instability of man’s opinions and judgments, the Chair of Rome has faithfully preserved the truth without the slightest admixture of error, whereas the sees of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople, were scarcely able to maintain the true Faith for a few centuries, and have become, so frequently, those Chairs of ‘pestilence spoken of by the Royal Prophet. (Psalms 1:1.)

We are in that season of the ecclesiastical year, which is devoted to honouring the Incarnation and Birth of the Son of God, and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin: it behoves us to remember, especially on this present Feast, that it is to the See of Peter that we owe the preservation of these dogmas, which are the very basis of our holy religion. Rome not only taught them to us when she sent us the saintly missioners who evangelised our country; but, more-over, when heresy attempted to throw its mists and clouds over these high Mysteries, it was Rome that secured the triumph to truth, by her sovereign decision. At Ephesus — when Nestorius was condemned, and the dogma, which he assailed, was solemnly proclaimed, that is, that the Divine Nature and the Human Nature, which are in Christ, make but one Person, and that Mary is, consequently, the true Mother of God — the two hundred Fathers of that General Council thus spoke: — “Compelled by the Letters of our Most Holy Father Celestine, Bishop of the Roman Church, we have proceeded, in spite of our tears, to the condemnation of Nestorius.” At Chalcedon — where the Church had to proclaim, against Eutyches, the distinction of the two Natures in the Incarnate Word, God and Man — the six hundred and thirty Fathers, after hearing the Letter of the Roman Pontiff, gave their decision, and said: “Peter has spoken by the mouth of Leo.”

Here, then, is the privilege of Rome: to watch, by Faith, over the eternal interests of mankind, as she watched previously, for long ages, and by the sword, over the temporal interests of the then known world. Let us love and reverence this City, our Mother and our Guide. To-day we are called upon to celebrate her praise; let us do so with filial affection. Let us listen to some of the ancient Hymns in honour of St. Peter, and of which some were used in the Liturgy of certain Churches. First of all, there are the admirable verses of Prudentius, which form the Prayer of St. Lawrence for christian Rome, and which the Poet supposes him to be making as he is burning on the gridiron. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, January 18.)

Our Lady knew that the bridal couple’s wedding feast in Cana was running out of wine before the bride and groom did. She beseeched her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to assist them. Unable to refuse her anything, Our Lord complied, thereby performing his first public miracle, which was a foreshadowing of the Holy Eucharist, at her humble behest.

Similarly, Our Lord will not His dear Blessed Mother’s request for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter sooner rather than later if he beseech her with humility and with confidence, especially through her Most Holy Rosary as His own consecrated slaves that her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

As goes Holy  Mother Church so goes the world, and the world is in a mess today because the Principle of Unity that is meant to serve as the clarion of voice of the Sacred Deposit of Faith and the defender of the Holy Faith against all heresies and errors, including those of Modernity and Modernism, is lacking that men are seeking salvation in all the wrong places as they deify themselves and thus unwitting make of themselves and others the victims of their own iniquities.

Keeping this in mind, therefore, I am not going to waste your good Catholic time or mine parsing the totality of Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s so-called “farewell speech,” which was delivered on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, the Feast of the Paul the First Hermit and, in the United States of America, the Feast of Our Lady of Prompt Succour. I have spent enough of my good Catholic time on this insufferable hypocrite and epic abuser of constitutional authority in the past five decades without spending more time than is necessary to dispense with this pro-abortion, pro-perversity Catholic apostate corrupt grifter’s final remarks with alacrity.

Before I comment on the two excerpts that I believe require a bit of attention, it would be instructive to include reactions to Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s farewell speech from an editorial in the New York Post, a commentary by Miranda Devine in the same publication, and a “X” post by a former pollster for Madame Defarge (aka Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton), Mark Penn:

Give it up for Ol’ Joe: At least he’s consistent.

Always bitter, lying and barely making any sense.

Biden spent four years dodging the press, but expected every network to pre-empt their regular programming to air his prevaricating “farewell.”

“Wheel of Fortune” would have been more enlightening. 

First, classless Biden refused to give his successor, president-elect Trump, any credit in getting the Gaza peace deal over the line, saying three different ways “it was me, all me.”

No mention of how Biden spent years threatening and undermining one of the United States’ closest allies, Israel, and maybe that’s why he couldn’t get anyone to take him seriously.

Then it was on to the regular propaganda.

Biden again claimed that he “created” millions of jobs, a bald lie he never gives up. 

Tripping over his words, Biden then went on a thinly-veiled rant against Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that without government censorship of social media, democracy will die.

Fear the oligarchy!

Indeed.

They do have a habit of hiring unqualified drug addicts for access to their powerful fathers.

Any good will one might have for this elderly man with a poor memory evaporates in the face of this arrogance.

Doing his patented whisper-speaking, Biden drips with anger — not at the state of the world, but that he doesn’t get any credit.

He leaves office a deeply unpopular senile crank. 

There was only one true statement in the entire speech: “Nothing is more important to me than my family.”

With the pardon of his corrupt son Hunter, we don’t doubt it. For the rest of us, good riddance. (Bitter old man Joe Biden goes out in a cloud of lies -- good riddance.)

 

Joe Biden is leaving office the way he came in — on a cloud of self-delusion and a rancid stench of lies. 

He promised to be a standard-bearer of decency, respecter of norms and the rule of law. 

He presented himself as a unifier who would help the country heal after the pandemic, a man of integrity and impeccable character, ­unlike his wretched predecessor. 

Yet behind closed doors, in the devious recesses of his soul, Joe plotted and planned just two things: self-aggrandizement and vengeance. 

Joe paid lip service to a grab bag of virtuous goals but, really, he was all about himself.

As he has been all his life. 

Hence his Jerry Springer-style family life that he and Jill always have dressed up as the Waltons. 

Now he leaves office as the most unpopular president in history other than Nixon, according to a Gallup poll. 

So in the days before his failed presidency vanishes, he and Jill are scurrying around delivering set-piece speeches and soft-soap interviews in a vain effort to craft a glowing “legacy.” 

His farewell address from the Oval Office Wednesday night was the last of these scripted delusions, studded with lies and boasts and grandiose lines from history written by others. 

The most divisive president in recent memory claimed he had “kept my commitment to be president for all Americans.” 

The president whose administration and deep-state protectors bullied social-media companies into censoring American speech, including in the New York Post, claimed to champion a “free and independent press.” 

Marked by mendacity 

The congenital liar whose career is marked by plagiarism, mendacity and corruption warned of a future in which “the truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.” 

The man whose family raked in millions from selling his influence to shady oligarchs and Chinese Communist Party entities, who just gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to ­George Soros, railed against “dark money.” 

The speech would not have changed a single mind about Biden’s legacy. Nobody is fooled. 

He also released a farewell letter Wednesday, laughably claiming he has left the country “stronger, more prosperous and more secure.” 

Nothing could be further from the truth.

On his watch, America is embroiled in two proxy wars, tens of millions of unvetted illegal immigrants are roaming the country, we just suffered the second worst terrorist attack since 9/11, and inflation has ravaged the middle class. 

The president who weaponized the Justice Department against his political enemies and regularly defamed Donald Trump and his supporters as “fascists” also claimed he was a unifier: “We came together as Americans, and . . . we emerged stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.” 

Nobody buys it. 

His legacy can be discerned in two special counsel reports out this week: Trump-hunter Jack Smith’s last gasp was to assert that the president-elect would have been convicted if he hadn’t won the election.

Hunter Biden protector-turned-prosecutor David Weiss’ flimsy, 27-page report whitewashed his sham investigation of the first son in Delaware, which would have resulted in zero charges if IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler hadn’t blown the whistle on DOJ obstruction. 

But the American people saw the lawfare and corruption for what it was and rejected Joe Biden at the ballot box. 

Of course, Biden doesn’t see the election results as a rejection of him.

He claimed last week he would have won the election if his party hadn’t pushed him aside. 

Seizing credit 

Vainglorious and small until the bitter end, Biden called a press conference Wednesday to seize personal credit for the hostage deal in Israel, without a mention of Trump, despite Israel and Arab officials alike crediting the president-elect with the breakthrough. 

“If they [the hostages] are not back by the time I get into office, all hell is gonna break out,” Trump had warned Hamas and Iran last month, and sure enough, The Times of Israel reports that Trump hostage negotiator Steve Witkoff has done “more to sway [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu than outgoing president Joe Biden did in a year.” 

But when a reporter asked Biden how much credit Trump deserves for the deal, he replied: “Well, this is the exact framework that I proposed back in May — exact.” 

So why weren’t the hostages released back then? 

As he was leaving the podium, another reporter asked who should get credit for the deal, “you or Trump?” Biden stopped, turned his head with a smirk and snarled, “Is that a joke?” 

Then he turned on his heels and shuffled out the door. 

It was vintage Biden, a graceless grab for ego gratification that defines his character. 

Yes, legacy is terribly important to Joe and Jill.

It consumes the couple. 

It is a “family project,” as The Washington Post characterized Jill’s attitude in a schmaltzy interview published Wednesday in which she expressed bitterness about former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s role in knifing Joe. 

“We were friends for 50 years. It was disappointing,” Jill said. 

Despite the rancor, she is determined to burnish her own legacy as “a healer who traveled the country to comfort Americans as they emerged from the depths of the pandemic.” 

Her favorite event was a first state dinner for teachers overwhelmed by the pomp and ceremony she turned on.

“It took their breath away,” she says with pride. 

She frets that “people won’t credit Joe for some of his achievements . . . I hope that they remember Joe as a strong, empathetic president with integrity and character. I mean, character really is everything, isn’t it?” 

Yes. Character is destiny. Joe’s is carved in stone now as permanently as the greats on Mount Rushmore whose memory he sullied and who Pelosi laughably mused he might join. 

But legacies can’t be controlled.

They are the sum total of your character, the way you lived your life, the other lives you touched, the character of the children you raised, the judgment of everyone who saw your conduct. 

America sees Joe Biden now for who he is, a one-term failure, a Tammany Hall grifter who sold out his country, an insufferable blowhard whose only claim to fame was that he did more damage than any of his predecessors. 

His term in office was a brief and unfortunate interruption of the truly historic presidency of the man he tried to destroy. 

Joe’s legacy is to be sandwiched by Trump in history. (Miranda Devine: Self-deluded Biden is spending his last days as president showcasing all the same lies and cementing his tarnished 'legacy'.)

 

Farewell Biden

The danger that Joe Biden failed to warn about in his speech was the power of government and its abuse.

Abuse when government determines what can and cannot be written on social media.

Abuse when government gives jobs and money to political friends instead of those most qualified.

Abuse when political opponents are arrested and charged at the urging of the president.

Abuse when the laws are not enforced and the border left open for political reasons.

Abuse when hundreds of billions of dollars in loans are forgiven for political gain despite court rulings.

Abuse when a president says others should pay taxes while pardoning his own son for failing to pay taxes on millions shaken out of shady global interests.

Farewell to the almost unprecedented abuse of government power, the core value of the constitution. (Mark Penn on X: "Farewell Biden The danger that Joe Biden failed to warn about in his speech was the power of government and its abuse. Abuse when government determines what can and cannot be written on social media. Abuse when government gives jobs and money to political friends instead of" / X.)

Thus, for my purposes, I am only going to comment on the following part of an address I did not watch as to have done so would have been detrimental to my interior life of the soul as well as would have been a cause for additional gastrointestinal agita. Penance is better than ever in 2025, of course, but it is precept of the Fifth Commandment never to do anything that might unnecessarily harm one’s body.

Here is the excerpt from Bitter Biden’s farewell address about which I will comment later in this commentary:

That’s why my farewell address tonight, I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And this is a dangerous — and that’s the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultrawealthy people, and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see the consequences all across America. And we’ve seen it before.

Interjection Number One:

The actual oligarchy, of course, is that of anarchical financiers such as George and Alexander Soros. Bill Gates, and other globalist supporters of open borders, “criminal justice reform” that lets serial predators, violent thugs, the mentally ill, and others victimize innocent human beings and business establishments who work with those within the administrative state to support an infrastructure of elitist control over what ordinary people can express publicly, do with their own lives, their own property, and their own money. This oligarchy of elitists have cast themselves as the high priests and priestesses who lord it over the masses and who are ready to use the full authority of the administrative state to threaten, intimidate, prosecute, and imprison those who dissent from whatever “received wisdom” is the order of their day.

It is also important to note that Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and his bag men (Hunter, James, and Frank Biden) have had no problem dealing with Chinese Communist oligarchs as well as various Eastern European and Central Asia oligarchs in Ukraine, Russian, and Kazakhstan. Indeed, the Bidens have made millions upon millions of dollars from these oligarchs.

Additionally, the American and Western European oligarchs who are part of the World Economic Forum and the Bilderberger meetings support the dismemberment of the innocent preborn, “brain death”/human organ vivisection, a “quality of life” standard in healthcare that is designed to “ease out” unsuspecting patients with chronic conditions to make them complicit in variety of pharmaceutical products that wind up shortening their lives, “palliative care”/hospice, direct euthanasia, forced euthanasia, assisted suicide, physician assisted suicide, the starvation and dehydration of patients said to be “brain damaged” or comatose, the whole panoply of evils associated with the sin of Sodom up to and including the mutilation of children who have been confused by ideological instruction in so-called “gender theories” that lead these little ones into thinking that they can be something biologically that they can never be.

No, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is not concerned about his oligarchs. Of course not. He is considered about those in Donald John Trump’s orbit, particularly Elon Musk.

Now, to be sure, Elon Musk is not any kind of friend to the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law or the Natural Law as he, along with the man he supports, President-elect Donald John Trump, supports such evils as in vitro fertilization, which he, Musk, has used:

The twin babies that Elon Musk fathered with Shivon Zilis, one of his senior employees at his brain chip company Neuralink, were conceived through in vitro fertilization, according to a published report.

The Canadian-born executive, who works as Musk’s director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, has since told some of her colleagues that she conceived the children with the Tesla CEO through IVF, according to five people familiar with the situation. Reuters couldn’t establish the accuracy of Zilis’ account.

Zills, who has worked at Neuralink for five years, gave birth to the twins last November.

The company’s rules prohibit employees from having personal relationships with anyone that is in a more senior role due to potential conflicts of interest.

But Reuters is reporting that the company management accepted Zilis’ explanation that her arrangement with Musk was non-romantic in nature. She has thus been permitted to continue in her role as director of operations and special projects.

Sources also told Reuters that Zilis and Musk have continued working together in the months since the birth of the twins. Most recently, Musk dispatched Zilis to meet with Thomas Oxley, the CEO of Neuralink’s competitor, Synchron.

Musk, Zilis, and Oxley have spoken about Neuralink potentially investing in Synchron, according to Reuters.

Zilis and spokespeople for Musk and Neuralink did not respond to requests for comment.

Musk, who has spoken frequently about declining birth rates and the threat they pose to humanity, has confirmed that he is the father. He has nine children with three different women.

The twins were born a month before Musk and Canadian pop singer Grimes welcomed their second child, a baby girl, via a surrogate. (Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis conceived twins through IVF: report.)

Obviously, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is not concerned about Musk’s support for and use of in vitro fertilization, to say nothing of his funding of brain chips that are straight out of the pages of the Book of the Apocalypse. Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue is concerned about Elon Musk’s desire to reduce the size, scope, and regulatory authority of the administrative (or deep) state that answer to his, Biden’s globalist oligarchs while thumbing their noses at “nuisances” such as elected members of the United States Congress and their attempts to actually use their legislative oversight authority over the executive branch’s administration of the law. The apparatchiks have heretofore considered themselves untouchable, and it was to protect them that Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue denounced oligarchs even though is for sale to any and all globalist oligarchs who befriend his son.

All right, let us proceed to the next select excerpt from Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s farewell speech of Wednesday, November 17, 2025, about which I choose to comment:

Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families and our very democracy from the abuse of power. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology of our time, perhaps of all time.

Nothing offers more profound possibilities and risks for our economy, and our security, our society. For humanity. Artificial intelligence even has the potential to help us answer my call to end cancer as we know it. But unless safeguards are in place, A.I. could spawn new threats to our rights, our way of life, to our privacy, how we work, and how we protect our nation. We must make sure A.I. is safe and trustworthy and good for all humankind.

In the age of A.I., it’s more important than ever that the people must govern. And as the Land of Liberty, America — not China — must lead the world in the development of A.I.

You know, in the years ahead, it’s going to be up to the president, the presidency, the Congress, the courts, the free press, and the American people to confront these powerful forces. We must reform the tax code. Not by giving the biggest tax cuts to billionaires, but by making them begin to pay their fair share.

We need to get dark money — that’s that hidden funding behind too many campaign contributions — we need to get it out of our politics. We need to enact an 18-year time limit, term limit, time and term, for the strongest ethics — and the strongest ethics reforms for our Supreme Court. We need to ban members of Congress from trading stock while they are in the Congress. We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president, no president is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office. The president’s power is not limit — it is not absolute. And it shouldn’t be.

And in a democracy, there is another danger — that the concentration of power and wealth. It erodes a sense of unity and common purpose. It causes distrust and division. Participating in our democracy becomes exhausting and even disillusioning, and people don’t feel like they have a fair shot. We have to stay engaged in the process. I know it’s frustrating. A fair shot is what makes America America. Everyone is entitled to a fair shot, not a guarantee, just a fair shot, an even playing field. Going as far as your hard work and talent can take you. (Full Transcript of President Biden’s Farewell Address.)

Final Comment:

This is very rich for a man who tried to destroy “democracy” and suppress “dissent.”

As I have noted many times before, “democracy” is to the denizens of the false opposite of the naturalist “left” what “peace” is to Communists.

That is, just as the leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics believed that “peace” consisted in not opposing its expansionism around the world and that “aggression” consisted in actively opposing this expansion, so it is that Western “leftists” believe that “democracy” consists that in preventing anyone who opposes their “received wisdom” from getting elected and, if they do get elected, to thwart any and all attempts of the “racists” and “dividers” from effectively governing while accusing them of “destroying democracy” by proposing, enacting, and then attempting to enforce policies for which they, the so-called “haters,” were elected to fulfill.

Similarly, “misinformation” for leftists is anything and everything that contradicts their own lies, including their efforts to suppress all information about the harm being done by the coronascam poisoned jabs:

 

 

Meta CEO founder Mark Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan that members of President Biden's administration yelled at his employees, demanding they take down content on their behalf.

Meta announced Tuesday that it would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to "restore free expression" across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have "gone too far." Zuckerberg spoke about the platform's struggles to maintain freedom of expression while fending off pressure from the Biden administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"During the Biden administration, when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program," the social media CEO said, "while they were trying to push that program they also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly, were true. They basically pushed us and said, you know, that ‘anything saying that says vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.’ And I was just like ‘We’re not going to do that, we’re clearly not going to do that, I mean that is kind of inarguably true."

"Who is ‘they’?" Rogan asked. "Who was telling you to take down things that talk about vaccine side effects?"

"It was people in the Biden administration," the Meta CEO said.

He then spoke further about the "government censorship," much of which he says has been covered by the congressional investigation, where he said, "I mean basically these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse, and it's like… these documents are, it's all kind of out there."

Zuckerberg summarized that the conflict between his company and the government "basically got to this point where we were like, ‘No, we're not going to, we're not going to take down things that are true.' That's ridiculous."

Zuckerberg recalled initially pushing back against the Biden administration on things that are factually true or memes, but later recalled how the game changed when Biden "gave some statement at some point, I don't know if it was a press conference, or to some journalist, where he basically was like, ‘These guys are killing people.'" 

'Then, like, all these different agencies and branches of government basically just, like, started investigating and coming after our company. It was brutal, it was brutal," he said.

Rogan later asked about the response after the investigation, "was anybody held accountable? Was there any, I mean any repercussions?"

"I mean they lost the election," Zuckerberg joked. (Zuckerberg tells Rogan Biden admin would 'scream' and 'curse' at his employees, demanding censorship.)

Journalist Matt Taibbi spoke to Brian Kilmeade about Mark Zuckerberg coming out against government censorship of social media and revealing the pressure he faced from the Biden administration to censor content on Facebook and Instagram.

"On the whole, it is a net positive," Taibbi said. "Zuckerberg coming out and saying all this confirms a lot of what I reported and a lot of the information that came out from Jim Jordan's committee investigation into the Facebook Files. Even if it is not 100% sincere, it confirms some things and suggests that maybe these tech companies are afraid to continue doing this kind of thing."

"Zuckerberg already broke the ice on this in August when he issued a letter talking about how the White House had pressured Facebook to censor, and the FBI had nudged the company to believe the Hunter Biden laptop story was disinformation. His use of the word 'censor' in that letter in August kind of broke the ice on the mainstream coverage of this topic -- no one had really used that word before. So whatever the motivation is, I think it is a net plus for the effort to increase free speech on these platforms."


"The emails about the White House aide Andy Slavitt calling up Facebook and yelling at them, demanding they take things down ASAP, those were all public. They were part of the Murthy v. Missouri court case and Jim Jordan's extensive Judiciary Committee report that published a huge cache of those emails, which had all those exchanges -- including the White House side of that story," Taibbi added. "There's no doubt this happened, the question is what did Facebook do about it? They did push back a little, but they didn't push back nearly enough. There were some really bad episodes, including one where the White House asked them to take down a video of Tucker Carlson, when he was at Fox, where Tucker was saying the White House itself may not fully believe in the efficacy of the vaccine. And of course, that turned out to be true, Facebook responded initially that that doesn't violate the terms of service, but they did de-amplify it by 50%, which is incredible."

"Zuckerberg was the reason in the Twitter Files that we looked into the Hunter Biden story because he had given another interview to Rogan a long time ago where he said the FBI had contacted them about the Hunter Biden story," he continued. "When we got into the Twitter Fioles, we found that there were thousands of communications about thousands of different things, long lists of accounts they wanted action."

"The stuff with Facebook was actually worse than the stuff in the Twitter Files because that involved communications directly from the White House, directly ordering them to take things down, like RFK's tweets."

"This is all shocking, and I think unconstitutional." (Taibbi: WH-Directed Suppression Of Speech On Facebook Was Worse Than On Twitter.)

Everything the administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., did was unconstitutional, including what the Bitter old demonic demagogue tried to do on Friday, January 17, 2017, by claiming that the feminist so-called “Equal Rights Amendment” had been ratified even though (a) a president has now constitutional authority whatsoever in the passage and ratification of a constitutional amendment; and (b) the time limit for the amendment’s ratification by thirty-eight state legislatures, which had been seven years, was extended by thirty months in 1979, and thus died a peaceful and well-deserved death in 1982. It cannot be revived again unless two-thirds of both houses of Congress vote to do so, after which the horrific amendment (which would make every perversity imaginable part of the constitution even though the Supreme Court of the United States of America has done so on a case-by-case basis). Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue’s attempt to declare the amendment ratified is a completely unconstitutional overreach of his authority, and it is a fitting way for this spiritual and moral reprobate to end his term as president in name only.

How some ever, though, lest one think that “salvation” is on the way and that the truth about coronascam poisoned jabs is going to be told by the incoming administration of President Donald John Trump, who takes the presidential oath of office for the second time in about eighty-three hours of this commentary’s publication, I would urge the readers of this site to get ready for the sober truth that Donald John Trump has learned nothing about the harm caused by his warped “Operation Warped Speed” as he met with a man on Friday, January 17, 2017, the Feast of Saint Antony the Abbot, who undercut Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.’s., putative efforts in 2017 to head a commission to investigate vaccine safety during the Trump-Pence administration.

The name of the man with whom Trump met yesterday?

I am glad you asked.

Bill Gates:

Billionaire Bill Gates revealed he recently had an “intriguing” three-hour dinner with President-elect Donald Trump — and he was left “frankly impressed” by their sit-down.

“I had a chance, about two weeks ago, to go have a long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday.

The Microsoft co-founder, 69, said much of their “wide-ranging” dinner table chat focused on global health challenges.

“I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” the tech titan said of Trump, 78. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”

They were joined by incoming White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and one of Gates’ staffers.

“The four of us sat there, and it was quite wide-ranging,” Gates said of the dinner.  

“I spoke a lot about HIV and that [The Gates] Foundation is literally working on a cure for that. We’re at an early stage, and so he in the COVID days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” he said.

“So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here. And we both got, I think, pretty excited about that,” Gates told WSJ’s Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker. 

“We talked about polio where we’re very close to getting that done, but if you stop, it’ll spread back,” he continued.

“And he was fascinated to hear what he could do to maximize the chance that during the next four years that incredible milestone will be achieved.”

Details of the dinner emerged just weeks after Trump made a cryptic post on Truth Social saying that Gates had asked to come to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Some speculated, at the time, that Trump’s message was meant for fellow tech billionaire Elon Musk’s eyes only.

“Where are you? When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe,’ Mar-a-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come, tonight. We miss you and x! New Year’s Eve is going to be AMAZING!!! DJT,” the incoming president wrote.

At the time, Gates’ team didn’t respond when asked whether he had requested a sit-down with the soon-to-be 47th president.

It wasn’t immediately clear exactly where, or when, the Gates-Trump dinner took place.

Gates, who also met with Trump back in 2016 ahead of his first presidential term, is the latest billionaire to dine with him in the wake of his historic 2024 election win.

Other top business leaders — including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — recently traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with the next commander in chief in the lead-up to his Jan. 20 inauguration. (Bill Gates 'frankly impressed' after 3-hour dinner with Trump.)

Although it is understandable that many believing Catholics are relieved that truly destructive, authoritarian and very fascistic administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris Emhoff is coming an end at a long last, there should be a sober realization that Donald John Trump has not changed when it comes to being impressed with the likes of the world’s chief depopulator, Bill Gates, and the fact that this man who profiteers from helping to fund the production of poisoned jabs that sterilize unsuspecting women and inject human bodies with all manner of poisons that caused a variety of health problems and the phenomenon that was unknown prior to the vaccine rollout at the of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, the plethora of “sudden deaths” had the soon-to-be president’s ear for over three hours means that whatever good United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. thinks he is going to do about vaccine “safety” will be undermined by the self-proclaimed “global health” expert, William Gates.

By the way, incoming White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles is very connected to Big Pharma.

What was I saying about Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose seven weeks ago?

Yes, Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue and his crew of Marxist ideologues will be leaving, but I urge the readers of this site not to fall for the traps ready to be snapped by those within the false opposite of the naturalist “right,” always remembering the following words of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ:

I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. [3] Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you. [4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. [5] I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

[6] If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth. [7] If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. [8] In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples. [9] As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love. [10] If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do abide in his love. (John 15: 1-10.)

The sad truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that naturalists of any stripe believe that they can do things without Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His true Church, and they believe that they do not have to keep the Commandments. Both Bitter Biden the Demonic Demagogue and Donald John Trump support perversity (although Trump does not support child mutilation but otherwise has no problem with adults who mutilate their bodies) and in vitro fertilization.

We must pray to Our Lady under the title of her Immaculate Conception as the Patroness of the United States of America for the conversion of everyone in this nation and thus the nation itself to the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order.

As Pope Pius XI noted in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922:

24. The inordinate desire for pleasure, concupiscence of the flesh, sows the fatal seeds of division not only among families but likewise among states; the inordinate desire for possessions, concupiscence of the eyes, inevitably turns into class warfare and into social egotism; the inordinate desire to rule or to domineer over others, pride of life, soon becomes mere party or factional rivalries, manifesting itself in constant displays of conflicting ambitions and ending in open rebellion, in the crime of lese majeste, and even in national parricide.

25. These unsuppressed desires, this inordinate love of the things of the world, are precisely the source of all international misunderstandings and rivalries, despite the fact that oftentimes men dare to maintain that acts prompted by such motives are excusable and even justifiable because, forsooth, they were performed for reasons of state or of the public good, or out of love for country. Patriotism -- the stimulus of so many virtues and of so many noble acts of heroism when kept within the bounds of the law of Christ -- becomes merely an occasion, an added incentive to grave injustice when true love of country is debased to the condition of an extreme nationalism, when we forget that all men are our brothers and members of the same great human family, that other nations have an equal right with us both to life and to prosperity, that it is never lawful nor even wise, to dissociate morality from the affairs of practical life, that, in the last analysis, it is "justice which exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." (Proverbs xiv, 34)

26. Perhaps the advantages to one's family, city, or nation obtained in some such way as this may well appear to be a wonderful and great victory (this thought has been already expressed by St. Augustine), but in the end it turns out to be a very shallow thing, something rather to inspire us with the most fearful apprehensions of approaching ruin. "It is a happiness which appears beautiful but is brittle as glass. We must ever be on guard lest with horror we see it broken into a thousand pieces at the first touch." (St. Augustine de Civitate Dei, Book iv, Chap. 3)

27. There is over and above the absence of peace and the evils attendant on this absence, another deeper and more profound cause for present-day conditions. This cause was even beginning to show its head before the War and the terrible calamities consequent on that cataclysm should have proven a remedy for them if mankind had only taken the trouble to understand the real meaning of those terrible events. In the Holy Scriptures we read: "They that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed." (Isaias i, 28) No less well known are the words of the Divine Teacher, Jesus Christ, Who said: "Without me you can do nothing" (John xv, 5) and again, "He that gathereth not with me, scattereth." (Luke xi, 23)

28. These words of the Holy Bible have been fulfilled and are now at this very moment being fulfilled before our very eyes. Because men have forsaken God and Jesus Christ, they have sunk to the depths of evil. They waste their energies and consume their time and efforts in vain sterile attempts to find a remedy for these ills, but without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin. It was a quite general desire that both our laws and our governments should exist without recognizing God or Jesus Christ, on the theory that all authority comes from men, not from God. Because of such an assumption, these theorists fell very short of being able to bestow upon law not only those sanctions which it must possess but also that secure basis for the supreme criterion of justice which even a pagan philosopher like Cicero saw clearly could not be derived except from the divine law. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

That last paragraph, number twenty-eight, says it all. The gist of the two hundred thirty-seven articles linked at the top of this article can be summarized in the following words written by Pope Pius XI over ninety-two years ago:

They waste their energies and consume their time and efforts in vain sterile attempts to find a remedy for these ills, but without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin. (Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922.)

Sadly, many Catholics continue to waste their energies and consume their time and efforts (if not money!) in vain sterile efforts to find a remedy for the ills of Modernity without even being successful in saving what little remains from the existing ruin.

To Trust in Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary

Yet it is that so many Catholics will try to save the little that remains from the existing ruins without realizing that their steady acceptance of the so-called “lesser of two evils” has made possible the institutionalization of grave moral evils whose advance will continue, either incrementally or exponentially, as long as men refuse to take serious these words written by Saint Paul the Apostle in his Epistle to the Ephesians:

Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high place. Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice, And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace:

In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God). By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints. (Ephesians 6: 11-18.)

All the tribulations in this vale of tears will be over in a blink of an eye. It is most likely that we will stand before Christ the King, Our Divine Judge, long before He is finished with chastising this world filled with men who prefer the stench of their sins to the sweet aroma of Sanctifying Grace.

We must stand firm on behalf of our Catholic Faith at all times and in all situations as we recall the following words from Pope Pius XII’s Christmas Message to the world’s Catholics on December 24, 1943:

The path of humanity in the present confusion of ideas has been a path without God, indeed against God; without Christ, indeed against Christ. With this we do not want or intend to offend the wanderers; they are and remain our brothers.

However, it is appropriate that Christianity also considers that part of the responsibility, which falls to her in today's trials. Or haven't many Christians also made concessions to those false ideas and directions of life, so often disapproved by the magisterium of the Church?

Every lukewarmness and every rash bargaining with human respect in the profession of faith and its maxims; every pusillanimity and vacillation between good and evil in the practice of the Christian life, in the education of children and in governing the family; any hidden or manifest sin; all of this, and what more could be added, was and is a mournful contribution to the disaster which today is ravaging the world. And who would ever have the right to consider himself innocent of any fault? Reflection on yourselves and your works and the humble acknowledgment of this moral responsibility will make you perceive and feel in the depths of your soul how dutiful and holy a prayer and an action that appeases and implores the mercy of God and help to save the brothers; giving that honor back to God. (Pope Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message to the Peoples of the Whole World, December 24, 1943.)

We must make reparation for our own sins, which have worsened the state of the world-at-large and that of the Church Militant on earth far, far more than we might be willing to understand or to accept, which is why it is necessary for us to offer up all our works, prayers, and sufferings to the Throne of the Most Blessed Trinity by surrendering ourselves freely as the consecrated slaves of the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

We may not live long enough to see a happy resolution to the problems that afflict the world because of the sins of men who are either contemptuous of the laws of God or reject them outright. However, it is our duty to pray ceaselessly for the conversion of all men to the true Faith and to exhort them according to time and circumstances of our dealings with others to develop a profound love for Our Lady, the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and a total consecration to her Divine Son through her Immaculate Heart.

Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary is the key to getting us out of the mess that the world is in now, something that Pope Pius XII noted in Ingruentiam Mallorum, September 15, 1951:

We do not hesitate to affirm again publicly that We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. Not with force, not with arms, not with human power, but with Divine help obtained through the means of this prayer, strong like David with his sling, the Church undaunted shall be able to confront the infernal enemy, repeating to him the words of the young shepherd: “Thou comest to me with a sword, and a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of armies . . . and all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear, for this is his battle, and he will deliver you into our hands” (I Kings 17, 45-47)

16. For this reason, We earnestly desire, Venerable Brethren, that all the faithful, following your example and your exhortation should respond solicitously to Our paternal exhortation, uniting their hearts and their voices with the same ardor of charity. If the evils and the assaults of the wicked increase, so likewise must the piety of all good people increase and become ever more vigorous. Let them strive to obtain from our most loving Mother, especially through this form of prayer, that better times may quickly return for the Church and society.

17. May the very powerful Mother of God, moved by the prayers of so many of her sons, obtain from her only Son — let us all beseech her — that those who have miserably wandered from the path of truth and virtue may, with new fervor, find it again; that hatred and rivalry, which are the sources of discord and every kind of mishap, may be put aside, and that a true, just, and genuine peace may shine again upon individuals, families, peoples, and nations. And, finally, may she obtain that, after the rights of the Church have been secured in accord with justice, its beneficent influence may penetrate without obstacle the hearts of men, the social classes, and the avenues of public life so as to join people among themselves in brotherhood and lead them to that prosperity which regulates, preserves, and coordinates the rights and duties of all without harming anyone and which daily makes for greater and greater mutual friendship and collaboration. (Pope Pius XII noted in Ingruentiam Mallorum, September 15, 1951.)

We must trust in Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary and pray that our fidelity will bear good fruit for ourselves and for the whole world as we await the day when the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart will made manifest and as her Divine Son, Christ the King, takes His rightful place among men and their nations once again.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

Viva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of the Rosary, 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 Balthazar, pray for us.

Saint Prisca, pray for us.

Appendix A

On the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Rome

We need to pray today, the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter, something that will occur in a truly miraculous manner.

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., provided us with a marvelous reflection on the history and significance of this day:

The Archangel Gabriel told the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Annunciation, that the Son Who was to be born of Her should be a King, and that of His Kingdom there should be no end. Hence, when the Magi were led from the East to the Crib of Jesus, they proclaimed in Jerusalem that they came to seek a King. But his new Empire needed a capital; and whereas the King, Who was to fix His throne in it, was, according to the eternal decrees, to re-ascend into Heaven, it was necessary that the visible character of His Royalty should be left here on earth, and this even to the end of the world. He that should be invested with this visible character of Christ our King would be the Vicar of Christ.

Our Lord Jesus Christ chose Simon for this sublime dignity of being His Vicar. He changed his name into one which signifies the Rock, that is “Peter;” and in giving him this new name, He tells us that the whole Church throughout the world is to rest upon this man as upon a Rock which nothing shall ever move (Matt. 16: 18). But this promise of Our Lord included another; namely, that as Peter was to close his earthly career by the cross, He would give him Successors in whom Peter and his authority should live to the end of time.

But again, there must be some mark or sign of this succession, to designate to the world who the Pontiff is on whom, to the end of the world, the Church is to be built. There are so many Bishops in the Church; in which one of them is Peter continued? This Prince of the Apostles founded and governed several Churches; but only one of these was watered with his blood, and that one was Rome; only one of these is enriched with his Tomb, and that one is Rome; the Bishop of Rome, therefore, is the Successor of Peter, and consequently the Vicar of Christ. It is of the Bishop of Rome alone that it is said: Upon thee will I build My Church; and again: To thee will I give the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven (St. Matthew 16: 19); and again: I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; do thou confirm thy brethren (St. Luke 22: 32); and again: Feed my lambs; feed my sheep. (St. John 21: 15, 17).

Protestantism saw the force of this argument, and therefore strove to throw doubts on St. Peter’s having lived and died in Rome. They who labored to establish doubts of this kind rightly hoped that, if they could gain their point, they would destroy the authority of the Roman Pontiff, and even the very notion of a Head of the Church. But History has refuted this puerile objection, and now all learned Protestants agree with Catholics in admitting a fact which is one of the most incontestable, even on the ground of human authority.

It was in order to nullify, by the authority of the Liturgy, this strange pretension of Protestants, that Pope Paul IV, in 1558, restored the ancient Feast of St. Peter’s Chair at Rome, and fixed it on the 18th of January. For many centuries the Church had not solemnized the mystery of the Pontificate of the Prince of the Apostles on any distinct feast, but had made the single Feast of February 22nd serve for both the Chair at Antioch and the Chair at Rome. From that time forward, the 22nd of February has been kept for the Chair at Antioch, which was the first occupied by the Apostle.  (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, January 18.)

A Brief Interjection:

I interject at this point to note that the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome was abolished by the Consilium that planned the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical travesty as it was an stumbling block, if you will, in the path of false ecumenism, and it was under the supposed “restorer of tradition,” Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI that the since abolished “Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei” required the “Ecclesia Dei” communities to observe only the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Antioch and to celebrate only the Feast of Saint Prisca on January 18. False ecumenism rules the day in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, a point that I made repeatedly in G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship.

Returning now to Dom Prosper Gueranger’s reflection on today’s feast, the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome:

To-day, therefore, the Kingship of our Emmanuel shines forth in all its splendour, and the children of the Church rejoice in finding themselves to be Brethren and fellow-citizens, united in the Feast of their common Capital, the Holy City of Rome. When they look around them, and find so many sects, separated from each other, and almost forced into decay, because they have no centre of union — they give thanks to the Son of God, for his having provided for the preservation of his Church and Truth, by his instituting a visible Head who never dies, and in whom Peter is for ever continued, just as Christ himself is continued in Peter. Men are no longer sheep without a Shepherd; the word, spoken at the beginning, is uninterruptedly perpetuated through all ages; the primitive mission is never suspended, and, by the Roman Pontiff, the end of time is fastened on to the world’s commencement.

“What a consolation for the children of God!” cries out Bossuet, in his Essay on Universal History, “and what conviction that they are in possession of the truth, when they see, that from Innocent the Eleventh, who now (1681) so worthily occupies the first See of the Church, we go back, in unbroken succession, even to St. Peter, whom Jesus appointed Prince of the Apostles; that from St. Peter, we come, traversing the line of the Pontiffs who ministered under the Law, even to Aaron, yea, even to Moses; thence, even to the Patriarchs, and even to the beginning of the world!”

When St. Peter entered Rome, he came to realize and explain the destinies of this Queen of Cities; he came to promise her an Empire even greater than the one she already possessed. This new Empire is not to be founded by the sword, as was the first. Rome has been hitherto the proud mistress of nations; henceforth she is to be the Mother of the world by Charity; and though all peaceful, yet her Empire shall last to the end of time. Let us listen to St. Leo the Great, describing to us in one of the finest of his Sermons, and in his own magnificent style, the humble yet all-eventful entrance of the Fisherman of Genesareth into the Capital of the Pagan world:

“The good and just and omnipotent God, Who never refused His mercy to the human race, and instructed all men in general in the knowledge of Himself by His super-abundant benefits, took pity, by a more hidden counsel and a deeper love, on the voluntary blindness of them that had gone astray, and on the wickedness which was growing in its proneness to evil; and sent therefore into the world His co-equal and co-eternal Word. The Word being made Flesh did so unite the Divine and human nature, as that the deep abasement of the one was the highest uplifting of the other.

But, that the effect of this unspeakable gift might be diffused throughout the entire world, the providence of God had been preparing the Roman Empire, which had so far extended its limits, as to embrace in itself all the nations of the earth. For nothing could be better suited to the divine plan, than the confederation of various kingdoms under one and the same Empire; and the preaching of the gospel to the whole world would the more rapidly be effected by having the several nations united under the government of one common City.

But this City, ignoring the author of this her promotion, whilst mistress of almost every nation under the sun, was the slave of every nation’s errors; and prided himself on having got a grand religion, because she had admitted every false doctrine. So that, the faster the devil’s hold of her, the more admirable her deliverance by Christ.

For, when the twelve Apostles, after receiving, by the Holy Ghost, the gift of tongues, divided among themselves the world they had to evangelise — the most blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostolic order, was sent to the Capital of the Roman Empire, in order that the light of truth, which had been revealed for the salvation of all nations, might the more effectively flow, from the head itself, into the whole body of the world.

The fact was, that there were, in this City, people belonging to every nation, and the rest of the world soon learnt whatever was taught at Rome. Here, therefore, were to be refuted the opinions of philosophy; here, the follies of human wisdom to be exploded; here, the worship of devils to be convicted of blasphemy; here, the impiety of all the sacrifices to be first abolished; for, it was here that an official superstition had systematised into one great whole the fragmentary errors of every other portion of the earth.

To this City, therefore, most blessed Apostle, Peter, thou fearest not to come! The companion of thy glory, Paul the Apostle, is not with thee, for he is busy founding other Churches; yet, thou enterest this forest of wild beasts, and, with greater courage than when walking on the waters, thou settest foot on this deep stormy sea! Thou, that didst tremble before a servant-girl in the house of Caiphas, art fearless now before this Rome, this mistress of the world. Is it, that the power of Claudius is less than the authority of Pilate? or the cruelty of Nero less than the savageness of the Jews ? Not so: but the vehemence of thy love made thee heedless of thy risks; and having come that thou mightest love, thou forgottest to fear. Thou didst imbibe this sentiment of fearless charity, on that day, when the profession of thy love for thy Master was made perfect by the mystery of his thrice put question. And what asks he of thee, after thus probing thy heart, but that thou feed the the sheep of Him thou lovest, with the food, whereon thyself hadst feasted.

Then, too, there were the miracles thou hadst wrought, the gifts of grace thou hadst received, the proofs of the great works thou hadst achieved — all giving thee fresh courage. Thou hadst taught the truth to such of the children of Israel as had embraced the faith; thou hadst founded the Church of Antioch, where first began the glorious Christian title; thou hadst preached the gospel in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia; and assured of the success of thy work, and of the many years thou hadst yet to live, thou didst bring the trophy of the Cross of Christ into the very walls of Rome, where the counsels of God had already determined that thou shouldst have both the honour of power, and the glory of martyrdom.” – St Leo, Sermon 82, On the Feast of the Apostles, Peter and Paul.

The future of the human race, now under the guidance of the Church, is, therefore, centred in Rome, and the destinies of that City are interwoven with those of her undying Pontiff. We, the children of the Church, though differing in race, and tongue, and character, yet are we all Romans by holy religion; as Romans, we are united, by Peter, to Christ; and this our glorious name is the link of that great Fraternity of Catholics throughout the world.

Jesus Christ by Peter, and Peter by his successor — these are our rulers in the order of spiritual Government. Every Pastor, whose authority emanates not from the See of Rome, is a stranger to us, and an intruder. So likewise, in the order of our Faith, that is, of what we believe, Jesus Christ by Peter, and Peter by his successor, teach us divine doctrine, and how to distinguish truth from error. Every Symbol of Faith, every doctrinal judgment, every teaching, contrary to the Symbol, and judgments, and teachings of the See of Rome, is of man, and not of God, and must be rejected, hated, and anathematised. On the Feast of St. Peter’s Chair at Antioch, (February 22,) we will speak of the Apostolic See, as the one only source of governing power in the Church; to-day, we will consider and honour the Chair at Home as the source and rule of our Faith. Here, again, let us borrow the sublime words of St. Leo, and hear him discuss the claims of Peter to Infallibility of teaching. The Holy Doctor will teach us how to understand the full force of those words, which were spoken by our Lord, and which he intended should be, for all ages, the grand charter of Faith.

“The Word made Flesh was dwelling among us, and he, our Saviour, had spent his whole self for the reparation of the human race. There was nothing too complicated for his wisdom, nothing too difficult for his power. The elements were subject to him, Spirits ministered to him, Angels obeyed him, nor could the mystery of human Redemption be ineffectual, for God, both in his Unity and Trinity, was the worker of that mystery. And yet, Peter is chosen from the rest of the entire world, to be the one, the only one, put over the vocation of all nations, and over all the Apostles, and over all the Fathers of the Church: that so, whilst there were to be many Priests and many Pastors in the people of God, Peter should govern, by the special power given to him, all those whom Christ also rules by his own supreme power. Great and wonderful, dearly Beloved, is this fellowship with Christ’s power granted, by divine condescension, to this man! Moreover, if our Lord willed that there should be something in common to Peter and the rest of the Princes of his Church, it was only on this condition — that whatever he gave to them, he gave to them through Peter.”

(St Matthew 16:16) which when he had said, our Lord thus answered him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona; because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father, who is in heaven; (St Matthew 16:17) that is, blessed art thou, in that my Father hath taught thee, and human opinion hath not misled thee, but heavenly inspiration hath instructed thee; not flesh and blood, but He, whose Only Begotten Son I am, hath shown me to thee. And I say to thee: that is, as my Father hath manifested to thee my divinity, so do I now declare to thee thine own dignity. That thou art Peter (the Rock): that is, though I am the immoveable Rock, (1 Corinthians 10:4) the Corner-Stone, (Ephesians 2:20) who make both one, (Ephesians 2:14) and the Foundation, other than which no man can lay; (1 Corinthians 3:11) yet, art thou, also, a Rock, because thou art solidly based by my power, and what I have by right, thou hast by participation. And upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it: (St Matthew 16:18) that is, I will construct an everlasting temple upon thy Strength, and my Church, which is to reach to heaven, shall grow up on the firmness of this thy faith.

On the eve of his Passion, which was to test the courage of his disciples, our Lord said to Peter: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren. (St Luke 22:31-32) All the Apostles were in danger of being tempted to fear, and all stood in need of the divine help, for the devil desired to sift and crush them all; and yet, it is especially for Peter that our Lord is careful; it is for Peter’s faith that he offers an express prayer; as though the others would be sure to be firm, if the mind of their leader were unflinching. So that, the strength of all the rest is in Peter, and the assistance of divine grace is distributed in this order — Peter is to receive firmness through Christ, and he himself then give it to the Apostles.” (St Leo, Sermon 4)

In another of his Sermons, the same holy Doctor explains to us, how it is that Peter ever lives and ever teaches in the Chair of Rome. After having cited the passage from the sixteenth chapter of St. Matthew, (verses 16-19,) he says: “This promise, of Him who is truth itself, must, therefore, be a permanent fact — and Peter, the unceasing Rock of strength, must be the ceaseless ruler of the Church. For we have only to consider the pre-eminence that is given him, and the mysterious titles conferred on him, and we at once see the fellowship he has with our Lord Jesus Christ: he is called the Rock (Peter); he is named the Foundation; he is appointed keeper of the gates of heaven; he’ is made judge, with such power of loosing and binding, that his sentence holds even in heaven. These commissions, and duties, and responsibilities, where-with he was invested, he discharges with fuller perfection and power, now that he is in Him and with Him, from whom he received all these honours. If, therefore, we do anything that is right, if we decree anything that is right, if, by our daily supplications, we obtain anything from the divine mercy — it is his doing and his merit, whose power lives, and whose authority is supreme, in this his own Chair. All this, dearly Beloved, was obtained by that confession, which, being inspired into the Apostle’s heart by God the Father, soared above all the incertitudes of human opinions, and drew upon him, who spoke it, the solidity of a Rock, that was to be proof against every attack. For, throughout the whole Church, Peter is every day still proclaiming: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God; and every tongue, that confesses the Lord, is guided by the teaching of this word. This is the faith which conquers the devil, and sets his captives free. This is the faith which delivers men from the world, and takes them to heaven, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it. For such is the solidity wherewith God has strengthened it, that neither heretical depravity has been able to corrupt, nor pagan perfidy to crush, it.” (St Leo, Sermon 3) Thus speaks St. Leo. “Let it not, therefore, be said,” observes Bossuet, in his Sermon on the Unity of the Church, “let it not be said, or thought, that this ministry of Peter finishes with his life on earth. That which is given as the support of a Church which is to last for ever, can never be taken away. Peter will live in his successors; Peter will speak, in his Chair, to the end of time. So speak the Fathers; so speak the six hundred and thirty Bishops of the Council of Chalcedon.” And again: Thus, the Roman Church is ever a Virgin-Church;  the Faith of Rome is always the Faith of the Church; what has once been believed, will be forever believed; the same voice is heard all over the world; and Peter, in his successors, is now, as he was during his life, the foundation on which the Faithful rest. Jesus Christ has said that it shall be so; and heaven and earth shall pass away rather than his word.”

Full of gratitude, therefore, to the God of truth, who has vouchsafed to raise up this Chair in his Church, we will listen, with submission of intellect and heart, to the teaching which emanates from it. Rejecting with indignation those dangerous theories, which can only serve to keep up sects within the Church; and confessing, with all the past ages, that the promises made to St. Peter continue in his successors; — we will conclude, aided by the twofold light of logic and history, that the teachings, addressed to the Church by the Roman Pontiff, can never contain error, and can contain nothing but the doctrine of truth. Such has always been the sense of the Church, and her practice has been the expression of her spirit. Now, if we acknowledge a permanent miracle in the uninterrupted succession of the Bishops of Rome, in spite of all the revolutions of eighteen centuries — we acknowledge it to be a still higher prodigy, that, notwithstanding the instability of man’s opinions and judgments, the Chair of Rome has faithfully preserved the truth without the slightest admixture of error, whereas the sees of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople, were scarcely able to maintain the true Faith for a few centuries, and have become, so frequently, those Chairs of ‘pestilence spoken of by the Royal Prophet. (Psalms 1:1.)

We are in that season of the ecclesiastical year, which is devoted to honouring the Incarnation and Birth of the Son of God, and the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin: it behoves us to remember, especially on this present Feast, that it is to the See of Peter that we owe the preservation of these dogmas, which are the very basis of our holy religion. Rome not only taught them to us when she sent us the saintly missioners who evangelised our country; but, more-over, when heresy attempted to throw its mists and clouds over these high Mysteries, it was Rome that secured the triumph to truth, by her sovereign decision. At Ephesus — when Nestorius was condemned, and the dogma, which he assailed, was solemnly proclaimed, that is, that the Divine Nature and the Human Nature, which are in Christ, make but one Person, and that Mary is, consequently, the true Mother of God — the two hundred Fathers of that General Council thus spoke: — “Compelled by the Letters of our Most Holy Father Celestine, Bishop of the Roman Church, we have proceeded, in spite of our tears, to the condemnation of Nestorius.” At Chalcedon — where the Church had to proclaim, against Eutyches, the distinction of the two Natures in the Incarnate Word, God and Man — the six hundred and thirty Fathers, after hearing the Letter of the Roman Pontiff, gave their decision, and said: “Peter has spoken by the mouth of Leo.”

Here, then, is the privilege of Rome: to watch, by Faith, over the eternal interests of mankind, as she watched previously, for long ages, and by the sword, over the temporal interests of the then known world. Let us love and reverence this City, our Mother and our Guide. To-day we are called upon to celebrate her praise; let us do so with filial affection. Let us listen to some of the ancient Hymns in honour of St. Peter, and of which some were used in the Liturgy of certain Churches. First of all, there are the admirable verses of Prudentius, which form the Prayer of St. Lawrence for christian Rome, and which the Poet supposes him to be making as he is burning on the gridiron. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, January 18.)

Our Lady knew that the bridal couple’s wedding feast in Cana was running out of wine before the bride and groom did. She beseeched her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to assist them. Unable to refuse her anything, Our Lord complied, thereby performing his first public miracle, which was a foreshadowing of the Holy Eucharist, at her humble behest.

Similarly, Our Lord will not His dear Blessed Mother’s request for the restoration of a true pope on the Throne of Saint Peter sooner rather than later if he beseech her with humility and with confidence, especially through her Most Holy Rosary as His own consecrated slaves that her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.

As goes Holy  Mother Church so goes the world, and the world is in a mess today because the Principle of Unity that is meant to serve as the clarion of voice of the Sacred Deposit of Faith and the defender of the Holy Faith against all heresies and errors, including those of Modernity and Modernism, is lacking that men are seeking salvation in all the wrong places as they deify themselves and thus unwitting make of themselves and others the victims of their own iniquities.

 

Appendix B

Reflections on Saints Prisca, Marius, Canute, and Wulstan

Saint Prisca (Saint Priscilla), whose feast was commemorated today, that is, Tuesday, January 18, 2022, the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter: Apart from being the Feast of Chair of Saint Peter at Rome. Saint Prisca refused to do what "Saint" John Paul II, Antipope Emeritus Benedict XVI did so frequently and that Jorge Mario Bergoglio does even more frequently than his two immediate predecessors, namely, to deny Christ the King before men in order to appear "respectful" of those who "believe differently."

Father A. J. O'Reilly, drawing upon The Acts of the Martyrs, provided us with the details of Saint Prisca's glorious martrydom in his The Martyrs of the Coliseum: 

At the time Claudius was Caesar, he issued a new and most impious edict to the whole world, that the Christians should offer sacrifice to the gods or be put to death. He ordered his presidents and judges to carry out his law, that he might destroy the the worship of the Christians; he enjoined on them, moreover, that those consenting to the sacrifice should be considered worthy of great honour, while non-conformists should be treated with the utmost cruelty. In order to manifest the earnestness of his impious law, this Emperor Claudius held sacrifices in the Temple of Apollo, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to seize all who were known to be Christians, men and women, and by dint of terror and direful tortures force them to sacrifice to the gods.

There were then malignant men who ardently desired to destroy the Christian worship; and coming to a certain church, they found the blessed Prisca, praying. She was of noble blood; her father had been thrice consul, and was exceedingly rich. This holy child was in her seventh year, and was adorned with the grace of god and the most perfect purity of morals. The ministers of the Emperor said to her: "Our Emperor Claudius has commanded you to sacrifice voluntarily to the gods?" The blessed Prisca said with a joyful heart" "First let me enter the holy universal Church, that I may commend myself to my Lord Jesus Christ, and then we will go in peace. It is necessary that, in the name of our Lord, I confound your unworthy Emperor, and assist in the triumph of Jesus. And returning to the church, she completed her prayers.

Having finished her petition, she went with them to the Emperor. the ministers, entering into the apartments of Claudius, said to him: "This girl is willing to obey the commands of your majesty." On hearing this he rejoiced exceedingly, and ordered her to be brought into his presence. When she was brought into the palace before him, he said: "Thou art great, O god Apollo! and glorious above all the gods, who has brought me this illustrious virgin, so beautiful and with such good dispositions." Then turning to blessed Prisca, he said" "I have arranged to have you brought to me, to make you my mistress, and the sharer in the power of my kingdom." To this Prisca said: "But I will sacrifice without blood, and only to the immaculate God, my Lord Jesus Christ."

The Emperor, hearing these things, and not understanding their meaning, ordered her to be led to the Temple of Apollo that she might sacrifice to him. The holy virgin being ordered to enter the temple, said with a cheerful countenance to the Emperor: "Do you also enter, and all the priests of Apollo, that you may see how the omnipotent and immaculate Lord is pleased with the sacrifices of His faithful." The Emperor ordered all who had gathered round to watch what she was going to do.

Blessed Prisca said: "Glory be to Thee, O glorious Father! I invoke Thee, I implore Thee, cast down this motionless and dumb idol, the vile emblem of falsehood and corruption; but do Thou, O Lord, hear me, a sinner, that this Emperor may know how vain is the hope he has placed in his idols, and that he ought to adore no other god but Thee alone."

When she had prayed thus, there was immediately a great earthquake, so that the whole city was shaken; the statue of the god shook, and fell to the ground; in like manner the fourth part of the temple was destroyed, and overwhelmed a multitude of people, together with the priests of the idol.

The Emperor was terrified, and fled. Prisca said to him: "Stay, Emperor, and assist; your Apollo is broken to pieces, and you may now gather up the fragments, moreover, his priests are destroyed in the same ruin; let him come now and assist them."

And the demon who dwelt in the idol cried out with a loud voice: "O virgin Prisca! handmaid of the great God who reigns in heaven, thou who keepest His commandments and hast stripped me of my habitation!--I have lived here for sixty-seven years, and under Claudius Caesar twelve. Many martyrs have come and have not exposed me. Having under me ninety-three other most impious spirits, I order each of them to sacrifice to me daily fifty souls of men. O Emperor, persecutor of the Christians! thou hast found a holy soul, through whom thou wilt finish thy reign in disgrace." These words were spoken by a loud voice and great lamentation; terrible darkness surrounded those who were present, and they went away in great trepidation and doubt.

The Emperor, not understanding that it was by the divine power that the idol had been overthrown, ordered her to be buffeted on the face; and when the executioners had beaten her for some time, they lost their strength and cried out: "Woe to us sinners! surely we suffer more than this girl: she i snot hurt, and we are in pain. We beseech thee, O Emperor, to have her taken from us." But the Emperor, enraged against them, ordered the face of the blessed Prisca to be beaten still more. Looking towards heaven, the holy virgin said--

"Blessed art Thou, O Lord Jesus Christ! for Thou givest eternal peace to those who believe in Thee." And when she had said this, she was surrounded with a bright light, and a voice from heaven was heard saying--

"Daughter, be of good courage and fear nothing, for I am the God whom thou invokest, and I will never abandon thee."

After these things the Emperor was enraged almost to madness.

The next day, sitting before his tribunal, the Emperor said: "The that wicked little sorceress be brought in, that we may see some more of her charms."

When she was brought before him, he said to her: "Will you consent to live with me, and sacrifice to the gods?"

But she firmly replied: "Cease, most impious of men, and son of a satanic father! Are you not ashamed to insult a helpless girl and ill treat her thus, when you know she will never consent to sacrifice to your idols?"

Then the Emperor in a fury ordered her to be stript and to be beaten with whips. The child's body appeared as white as snow, and so bright was the bright light that issued from her, that the eyes of the beholders were dazzled. Whilst they were beating her, the holy virgin said: "I have cried with my voice to the Lord, and He heard me in the combat of my passion."

The Emperor, hearing her pay thus, said: "Do you think you will seduce me with your magic?"

But blessed Prisca answered: "Thy father Satan is the prince of all darkness; he loves fornicators and embraces magicians." The Emperor then ordered her to be beaten with rods, but the Saint, hearing this new punishment, smiled and said: "O unjust and impious man, enemy of God and inventor of evils! you are too blinded to know the blessings you are procuring for me from the Eternal Creator." (Father A. J. O'Reilly, The Martyrs of the Roman Coliseum.) 

Why, ladies and gentlemen, are so many Catholics fearful of the likes of the petty caesars who are said to pose "greater evils" even though the supposedly "lesser evils" are in total agreement with their false opposites that the Catholic Faith is not now nor can ever be the unifying principle of any nation, including the United States of America?

Why are we not as willing as Saint Prisca to suffer torture and death in order to bear witness to the Holy Faith? Why all of the fear and histrionics?

As has been noted in many other articles on this site, the conciliar "popes" are as one with the anti-Incarnational premies of the Judeo-Masonic civil state of Modernity. They do not believe that the Cathoic is now nor can ever be the unifying principle of any nation as to assert this would be to violate the tenets of "religious liberty."

Saint Prisca did not believe in religious liberty. She believed in bearing a courageous witness to the Holy Faith, enduring many attempts to kill her before she did indeed become a martyr for the Faith. As is recorded in The Martyrs of the Roman Coliseum: 

Then the Emperor, enraged beyond measure, ordered her to be led outside the city to be beheaded. The holy martyr Prisca, rejoicing said: "O Lord Jesus Christ, Redeemer of all, I praise Thee, I adore Thee, I beseech Thee, I implore Thee, who hast liberated me from all the evils intended for me. Save me now, O Lord Jesus Christ, with whom there is no acceptation of persons; perfect me in the confession of Thy name; order me to be received into Thy glory, that I may happily escape the evils by which I am surrounded; and reward the impious Claudius according to his works towards Thy helpless handmaid!" And having said this she turned towards the executioners and addressed them thus: "Fulfil the orders you have received.: And thus did the blessed Prisca end her life by the sword; and a voice was heard from heaven, saying: "Because thou hast fought for My name, Prisca, enter into the kingdom of heaven with all My saints." And when this was said, the executioners fell and their faces and died. 

Then it was announced to the Bishop of Rome by a Christian who watched in concealment, how they led the blessed Prisca along the Ostian Way, to about the tenth milestone, and there beheaded her, and took away her life. The Bishop, having heard this, went with him to the place he mentioned, and they found her body between two eagles, once at her head and the other at her feet, guarding it, lest the beasts should touch it. There was a dazzling light round her head, and her face smiled in the Holy Spirit. Then the Bishop himself and his companion dug a grave, and buried her in the spot.

When the Emperor heard all these things, he was struck the same day with terrible grief in his heart, and like a rabid dog ate his own flesh, and groaning and trembling, he cried: "Have pity on me, O God of the Christians! I know I have transgressed Thy precepts, O Christ, and blasphemed Thee; I have persecuted Thy name, and have ungratefully sinned against Thee; Thou rewardest me as I have desired." He expired, convulsed and writhing in agony, and a terrible voice was heard saying, "Enter, Emperor, into the furnace of hell; to to exterior darkness, for gloomy places of pain are prepared for thee." There was a great earthquake, and there believed that day, of those who were in Rome, on account of the voice that was heard from heaven, more than five thousand, not counting women and children. the martyrdom of the blessed Prisca took place on the 18th day of January. (Father A. J. O'Reilly, The Martyrs of the Roman Coliseum.)

No, Saint Prisca was not a practitioner of false ecumenism. She was a faithful Catholic who hated and mocked false religions, which is precisely the opposite of what the conciliar "popes" have done.

The Roman Martyrology is replete with like rebukes to everything that Jorge Mario Bergoglio says and does, and I mean absolutely everything.

Unlike the conciliar “popes,” including Senor Jorge from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who have engaged in acts of idolatry by entering into places of false worship and esteeming the images of symbols found in such dens of the devil, our saints have given up their very lives and endured the harshest of tortures to avoid even giving a momentary appearance of approval to any kind of false religion, its images and its rites.

Such is the case also of the saints whose feast is celebrated tomorrow, January 19, 2022, Saints Marius, his wife, Saint Martha, and their two sons, Saints Audifax and Abachum, who were martyred during the year 270 A.D. during the reign of Emperor Claudius II (Claudius Gothicus), after refusing to sacrifice to the idols.

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., related the heroism of Saint Marius and his companions, the very members of his own family, in The Liturgical Year, which includes the lesson from Matins for today’s Divine Office:

Christians from all parts of the world have ever flocked to Rome as to the rock of faith and the foundation of the Church, and honoured with the greatest reverence and piety the spot hallowed by the sepulchre of the Prince of the Apostles. These words of Holy Church are exemplified in the Martyrs of to-day. Fired with ambition to have some part and fellowship in the glorious Society of the holy Apostles and Martyrs, they left all things and hastened to the Eternal City, there to receive in the fullest measure what they sought. Like the Magi of old they came from the far East. The star of faith had shone for them, and in obedience to its call they set forth in all eagerness to offer their gifts of homage and loyalty to the divine King in the person of His Vicar and his suffering members. Such generosity was not left unrewarded; our Emmanuel crowned it with the laurels of martyrdom admitting them into that cloud of witnesses that ever stand about him. Let us keep before our minds with our Lord, the author and finisher of their faith, this great and glorious band of martyrs, so that we too may ever run unwearied and with courage so that we too may ever run unwearied and with courage and patience in the fight proposed to us.

The following lesson is given in the office:

Marius was a Persian of high rank, who came to Rome in the reign of the Emperor Claudius, with his wife Martha, who was equally noble, and their two sons Audifax and Abachum, to pray at the graves of the Martyrs. Here they comforted the Christians who were in prison, and whom they relieved by their ministrations and alms, and buried the bodies of the Saints. For these acts they were all arrested, but no threats or terrors could move them to sacrifice to idols. They were accordingly mangled with clubs, and drawn with ropes, after which they were burnt by applying plates of red-hot metal to their bodies, and their flesh partly torn off with metal hooks. Lastly their hands were all cut off, and they were fastened together by the neck, in which state they were driven through the city to the thirteenth mile-stone on the Cornelian Way, a place now called Santa Ninfa, where they were to die. Martha addressed a moving exhortation to her husband and sons to hold out bravely to the last, for the love of Jesus Christ; and was then herself drowned. The other three martyrs were next beheaded in the same sand-pit. Their bodies were thrown into a fire. The lady Felicity of Rome collected the half-burnt remains, and caused them to be buried at her own estate. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year: Volume III: Christmas—Book II, pp. 337-338.)

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, considers religious differences to be a matter of individual thoughts or “feelings,” leading to an obligation on the part of “believers” to respect all “religions” as pleasing to God and thus capable of promoting peace and justice.

Pope Leo XIII explained in Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885, that such practical religious indifferentism leads to the triumph of practical atheism in men and their nations:

To hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism, however it may differ from it in name.Men who really believe in the existence of God must, in order to be consistent with themselves and to avoid absurd conclusions, understand that differing modes of divine worship involving dissimilarity and conflict even on most important points cannot all be equally probable, equally good, and equally acceptable to God. (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, November 1, 1885. See also Practical Atheism as the Lowest Common Denominator and Not A Mention of Christ the King.)

The saint who is commemorated tomorrow, Wednesday, Januuary 19, 2022, after Saint Marius and his Companions, Saint Canute IV, King of Denmark, was killed as a result of a scheme hatched by his own brother, Olaf, who despise the fact that Saint Canute sought to reproach sinners and to call them to conversion. In other words, Olaf is a figure of Jorge the Oaf, who believes that efforts to convert non-Catholics and those Catholics who are living dissolute lives are examples of “idolatry” and “judgmentalism.”

We turn once again to Dom Prosper Gueranger’s The Liturgical Year:

The Magi Kings as we have already observed, have been followed to the Crib of Jesus by saintly Christian monarchs on the Church’s Calendar during the season which is consecrated to the Mystery of his Birth. The eleventh century is one of the most glorious of the Christian era, and gave, both to the Church and the various states of Europe, a great number of saintly Kings. Among them Canute the Fourth of Denmark stands pre-eminent by reason of the aureole of his martyrdom. He had every quality which forms a Christian prince: he was a zealous propagator of the faith of Christ, he was a brave warrior, he was pious, and he was charitable to the poor. His zeal for the Church (and in those days her rights were counted as the rights of the people) was made the pretext for putting him to death: he died in the midst of a sedition as a victim sacrifice for his people’s sake. His offering to the new-born King was that of his blood; and in exchange for the perishable crown he lost, he received that which the Church gives to her Martyrs, and which can never be taken away. The history of Denmark in the eleventh century is scarce known by the rest of the world; but the glory of that country’s having had one of kings a Martyr is known throughout the whole Church, and the Church inhabits the whole earth. This power, possessed by the Spouse of Christ of conferring honour on the name and actions of the servants and friends of God, is one of the grandest spectacles out of heaven; for when she holds up a name as worthy of honour, that name becomes immortalized, whether he who bore it were a powerful king or the poorest peasant.

We find the following life of this holy King given in the Lessons until recently used in the Breviary:

Canute the Fourth, son of Sweyn Estrithius, King of Denmark, was conspicuous for his faith, piety, and purity of life, and even from this infancy gave proof of exceeding holiness. Having been elected by the votes of the people to the throne held by his father, he at once began zealously to promote religion, to add to the revenues of the Churches, and to provide the same with costly fittings and furniture. Being also inflamed with zeal for the propagation of the faith, he refused not to enter into just war with barbarous nations which, when he had conquered and subdued, he subjected to the law of Christ. Having obtained several glorious victories, and increased the riches of the treasury, he laid his regal diadem at the feet of a crucifix, offering himself and his kingdom to him who is the King of kings and Lord of lords. He chastised his body by fasting, hair-shirts and disciplines. He was assiduous in prayer and contemplation, liberal in his alms to the poor, and ever kind to all, never deviating from the path of justice and the divine commandments.

By these and other such virtues the holy King made rapid strides to the summit of perfection. Now it happened that William, Duke of Normandy, invaded the kingdom of England with a formidable army, and the English sought assistance from the Danes. The King resolved to grant them his aid, and intrusted the expedition to his brother Olaf. But he, from the desire of getting possession of his throne, turned his forces against the King, and stirred up the soldiers and the people to rebellion. Neither were there wanting motives for this rebellion; the for the King had issued laws commanding the payment of ecclesiastical tithes, the observance of the commandments of God and his Church, and the infliction of penalties on defaulters; all which were made a handle of by perverse and wicked malcontents, for spreading discontent, exciting the people to revolt, and at last, to plot the death of the saintly King.

Foreknowing what was to happen, the King saw that he would soon be put to death for justice’ sake. Having foretold it, he set out to Odense, where, entering into the Church of St. Alan the Martyr, as the place of combat, he fortified himself with the Sacraments, and commended his last struggle to our Lord. He had not long been there, when a band of conspirators arrived. They endeavoured to set fire to the Church, to burst open the doors, and to force an entrance. But failing in this, they scaled the windows, and with great violence, threw a shower of stones and arrows upon the holy King, who was on his knees, praying for his enemies. Wounded by the stones and arrows, and at least pierced through with a spear, he was crowned with a glorious martyrdom, and fell before the altar with his arms stretched out. Gregory the Seventh was the reining Pontiff. God showed by many miracles how glorious was his Martyr; and Denmark was afflicted with a great famine and sundry calamities, in punishment of the sacrilegious murder which had been perpetrated. Many persons, who were afflicted with various maladies, found aid and health by praying at the tomb of the Martyr. On one occasion, when the Queen endeavoured during the night to take up his body secretly and carry it to another place, she was deterred from her design by being struck with fear at the sight of a most brilliant light, which came down from heaven. (Matins, The Divine Office, Feast of Saint Canute, King of Denmark, January 19.)

Yes, Saint Canute IV, King of Denmark, was resented because he enjoined his people to obey God’s Commandments. Jorge Mario Bergoglio has no use for the Ten Commandments as he truly believes that their strict observance is impossible and that those who demand such strict adherence are “Pharisees.”

Dom Prosper Gueranger’s prayer to Saint Canute is one that we should make our own:

O holy king! The Sun of Justice had risen upon thy country, and all thy ambition was that they people might enjoy the fullness of its light and warmth. Like the Magi of the East, thou didst lay thy crown at the feet of the Emmanuel, and at length didst offer thy very life in his service and in that of his Church. But thy people were not worthy of thee; they shed thy blood, as the ungrateful Israel shed the Blood of the Just One who is now born unto us, and whose sweet Infancy we are now celebrating. Thou didst offer thy martyrdom for the sins of thy people offer it now also for them, that they may recover the true faith that have so long lost. Pray for the Rulers of Christian lands, that they may be faithful to their duties, zealous for justice, and may have respect for the liberty of the Church. Ask for us of the Divine Infant a devotedness in his cause like that which glowed in thy breast; and since we have not a crown to lay at his feet, pray for us that we may be generous to give our whole heart. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year: Volume III: Christmas—Book II, pp. 339-342.)

The people of Denmark preferred to remain in the darkness of their sins. They did not want to have their consciences singed with the burning torch of truth spoken by their own king, Saint Canute IV.

“Pope Francis” believes that is “merciless” to singe the consciences of hardened sinners, which is why he goes out of his way to embrace them even as they sin without demanding them to amend their lives by quitting their sins. Life is, as he has said so many times, a big “party,” right?

Wrong.

The Roman Martyrology today also contains the name of the great Saint Wulstan, to whom we have prayed every day for the past ten years now since we learned of his life and his example.

Saint Wulstan was a truly humble priest, monk, and prior who became the Bishop of Worcester, England, before the Norman invasion in 1066, a time of great tumult for his own Anglo-Saxon people as they came to be governed by foreigners from across the English Channel. He did not castigate the conquerors, however, as he wanted to be able to exhort them in behalf of the cause of justice and the good of souls, a zeal that won for him the respect of King William I, sometimes referred to as William te Conqueror, who sought out the counsel of this humble and pious shepherd of his flock.

Dom Prosper Guerganer’s The Liturgical Year contains his own summary of Saint Wulstan’s life and the reading in the Divine Office that are no longer to be found in the Matins for this day:

Several dioceses in England celebrate on this day the feast of Saint Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester. The last of the Anglo-Saxon saints, Wulstan was worthy to close the long line of men and women who had earned for the country the proud title of “Insula Sanctorum.” His character as sketched by a contemporary is singularly attractive. A simple man, strong in his simplicity, yet kindly and gifted with a merry wit, he held straight on his course in God’s service as a priest, monk, prior, and bishop, spending himself in the laborious offices of his ministry, much more intent on the burdens of his position than on emoluments. A love of beauty ran through his life and manifested itself in building fine churches, in his care of books, in his love for the freshness of children.

In his long life of eighty-seven years Wulstan saw the gradual passing of the old order, the reigns of Ethelebert, Canute, Edward the Confessor and of his friend King Harold down to the fateful day when power passed into Norman hands [1066]. With all his love for his own land and dynasty the Saint gave not time to useless regrets. He had warned the people that for their sins the country would fall under the dominion of strangers, and when the conquest became a fact he threw his great influence into support of the new dynasty. But he was no time-server, and had no hesitation in confronting the Conqueror to demand redress of injustice done to his See. King William learned to admit the sturdy Saxon prelate, and Wulstan, instead of sharing the fate of nearly all the native bishops who were removed and replaced by Normans, remained in his See and was made the King’s lieutenant for the Midlands.(Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year: Volume III: Christmas—Book II, pp. 343-345.)

The following are the lessons of Saint Wulstan.

Wulstan whilst a simple priest had acquired to himself a great renown for holiness. Afterwards having become a monk of Worcester Prior, he was in a short time raised to the government of the same church. Almost entirely ignorant of secular learning, he gave himself wholly to spiritual science. He was numbered among the most eloquent speakers of the English language, in proof of which, this is principally to be remembered, that by his assiduous preaching he converted the citizens of Bristol, whom neither the regal nor the pontifical power could withdraw from the infamous slave trade.

Being made bishop, he sedulously fulfilled all the duties of a good shepherd. He began to visit all parts of his diocese, to give ordinations, to dedicate churches, to reprove sinners, and to animate the souls committed to his care, both by word and example, to the desire of eternal life. It frequently happened that he fasted from sunrise till nightfall whilst he was occupied in confirming children to the number of two or three thousand who were brought from all parts. Such was his meekness and zeal for souls in hearing confessions that persons came to him from all parts of England, and by his admonitions sinners amended their crimes by worthy deeds of penance.

Neither did he whilst watching over the salvation of others neglect his own. He served God by the constant celebration of Mass, by assiduous prayer, by continued abstinence from flesh-meat and by overflowing charity to the needy. The more humbly he esteemed himself, by so much the more his virtues were proclaimed by all, so that not only the English and Normans, but the kings and rulers of foreign nations also commended themselves to his prayers. He died, a very old man, in the year from the Incarnation of our Lord, one thousand and ninety-five, and was buried in the church of Worcester. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year: Volume III: Christmas—Book II, pp. 343-345.)

Yes, each of the saints mentioned above serve as rebukes, both individually and collectively, to the religious indifferentism, the blasphemies, the heresies, and the scandalous sacrileges promoted by the conciliar "popes," including the current universal public face of apostasy, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who uses viscera and demagoguery with a diabolically-inspired ferocity. Saint Wulstan reproved sinners. Bergoglio pats them on the back while reproving those who seek their conversion as “obstinate” and idolaters, which is why his unfailingly loyal support for pro-abortion statists worldwide is all the more damnable on a day when so many Americans will be marching for life even though they do not realize that there is a battle for the life of the Holy Faith that is being waged by the man most consider to be "Pope Francis,"  a war that is being waged more overtly than at any time since the death of Pope Pius XII on October 9, 1958.

May the Rosaries we pray this day help to make reparation for the crimes of the baby-killers as well as for those of whose continue to kill the life of the soul and thus made more possible the daily war against all innocent human life, whether in the womb by means of chemical and surgical baby-killing or by the killing off of anyone after birth under the aegis of "brain death" or in the name of "compassion" by means of "palliative care." 

We can plant the seeds for the conversion of men and their nations to the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order.

Viva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of the Rosary 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 Prisca, pray for us.

Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abucham, pray for us.

Sant Canute, King of Denmark, pray for us.

Saint Wulstan, pray for us.