November 18, 2016, Update

As I am trying to be as methodical and thorough as possible, part three of "Sober Up" is taking a very long time to complete, and it is not likely to be posted until Monday, November 21, 2016, the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, given the paucity of time available to me today and tomorrow.

As the commentary goes against the grain of the current enthusiasm that many have over the election results, care is being taken to provide factual evidence to tamp down this enthusiasm and to remain wary of natualistic developments that seem too "good" to be true. Thus it is that I must take the time needed to make distinctions and to provide documentation of various points. The commentary will still be very relevant on Monday, perhaps even more so if some of President-elect Donald John Trump's Cabinet appointments are made known by that time.

Today, Friday, November 18, 2016, is the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul. It was on this date in 1907 that Pope Saint Pius X issued Praestantia Scripturae to impose a penalty of excommunication upon those who dared to contradict Lamentabili Sane, July 1, 1907, and Pascendi Dominci Gregis, September 8, 1907. This is a penalty that applies to each of the conciliar "popes," including the current universal face of apostasy, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. 

As has been noted so frequently on this site in the past forty-four months since Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s ascent to power within the walls of the Occupied Vatican on the West Bank of the Tiber River, we are witnessing only the perfection of the inherent degeneracy of conciliarism’s false teachings and its sacramentally barren liturgical rites. It was only a matter of time for men who have propagated grave doctrinal errors would come to propagate ever manner of moral error imaginable in the name of a false “mercy” and “tolerance.”

The counterfeit church of conciliarism is a false church. Its "pontiffs" and "bishops" have given us a steady diet of apostasy, blasphemy and sacrilege over the course of the past fifty-five years.

Once again, Antichrist is not going to give his calling card. We are going to have to use the faculty of reason, guided by the sensus Catholicus and the clear teaching of the Catholic Church, to recognize who he his and who has done his bidding for him in advance of his coming, and this is true in the civil realm, my friends, as well as in that of the ecclesiastical.

This truth must be faced squarely by those who have thus far not given away everything (respect, friendships, outlets for the publication of articles, access to media appearances, personal financial security) by continuing to insist what is contrary to the Catholic Faith: that a heretic can sit on the Throne of Saint Peter.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis is a heretic. So have been his predecessors.

Pope Saint Pius X and Pope Pius XII both reminded us that those who treat lightly of the decrees of the Roman curial congregations and who view papal encyclical letters and pronouncements as non-binding as they are not issued ex cathedra that a Catholic is bound by such decrees and statements as are merely reiterations of what is contained in the Faith Itself, which is entirely irreformable:

8. They are free from all blame who treat lightly the condemnations passed by the Sacred Congregation of the Index or by the Roman Congregations. (Pope Saint Pius X, Lamentabili Sane, July 1, 1907.)

In his encyclical letter "Providentissimus Deus," given on November 18, 1893, our predecessor, Leo XIII, of immortal memory, after describing the dignity of Sacred Scripture and commending the study of it, set forth the laws which govern the proper study of the Holy Bible; and having proclaimed the divinity of these books against the errors and calumnies of the rationalists, he at the same time defended them against the false teachings of what is known as the higher criticism, which, as the Pontiff most wisely wrote, are clearly nothing but the commentaries of rationalism derived from a misuse of philology and kindred studies. Our predecessor, too, seeing that the danger was constantly on the increase and wishing to prevent the propagation of rash and erroneous views, by his apostolic letters "Vigilantes studiique memores," given on October 30, 1902, established a Pontifical Council or Commission on Biblical matters, composed of several Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church distinguished for their learning and wisdom, to which Commission were added as consulters a number of men in sacred orders chosen from among the learned in theology and in the Holy Bible, of various nationalities and differing in their methods and views concerning exegetical studies. In so doing the Pontiff had in mind as an advantage most adapted for the promotion of study and for the time in which we live that in this Commission there should be the fullest freedom for proposing, examining and judging all opinions whatsoever, and that the Cardinals of the Commission were not to reach any definite decision, as described in the said apostolic letters, before they had examined the arguments in favor and against the question to be decided, omitting nothing which might serve to show in the clearest light the true and genuine state of the Biblical questions under discussion. Only after all this had been done were the decisions reached to be submitted for the approval of the Supreme Pontiff and then promulgated.

After mature examination and the most diligent deliberations the Pontifical Biblical Commission has happily given certain decisions of a very useful kind for the proper promotion and direction on safe lines of Biblical studies. But we observe that some persons, unduly prone to opinions and methods tainted by pernicious novelties and excessively devoted to the principle of false liberty, which is really immoderate license and in sacred studies proves itself to be a most insidious and a fruitful source of the worst evils against the purity of the faith, have not received and do not receive these decisions with the proper obedience.

Wherefore we find it necessary to declare and to expressly prescribe, and by this our act we do declare and decree that all are bound in conscience to submit to the decisions of the Biblical Commission relating to doctrine, which have been given in the past and which shall be given in the future, in the same way as to the decrees of the Roman congregations approved by the Pontiff; nor can all those escape the note of disobedience or temerity, and consequently of grave sin, who in speech or writing contradict such decisions, and this besides the scandal they give and the other reasons for which they may be responsible before God for other temerities and errors which generally go with such contradictions.

Moreover, in order to check the daily increasing audacity of many modernists who are endeavoring by all kinds of sophistry and devices to detract from the force and efficacy not only of the decree "Lamentabili sane exitu" (the so-called Syllabus), issued by our order by the Holy Roman and Universal Inquisition on July 3 of the present year, but also of our encyclical letters "Pascendi dominici gregis" given on September 8 of this same year, we do by our apostolic authority repeat and confirm both that decree of the Supreme Sacred Congregation and those encyclical letters of ours, adding the penalty of excommunication against their contradictors, and this we declare and decree that should anybody, which may God forbid, be so rash as to defend any one of the propositions, opinions or teachings condemned in these documents he falls, ipso facto, under the censure contained under the chapter "Docentes" of the constitution "Apostolicae Sedis," which is the first among the excommunications latae sententiae, simply reserved to the Roman Pontiff. This excommunication is to be understood as salvis poenis, which may be incurred by those who have violated in any way the said documents, as propagators and defenders of heresies, when their propositions, opinions and teachings are heretical, as has happened more than once in the case of the adversaries of both these documents, especially when they advocate the errors of the modernists that is, the synthesis of all heresies.

Wherefore we again and most earnestly exhort the ordinaries of the dioceses and the heads of religious congregations to use the utmost vigilance over teachers, and first of all in the seminaries; and should they find any of them imbued with the errors of the modernists and eager for what is new and noxious, or lacking in docility to the prescriptions of the Apostolic See, in whatsoever way published, let them absolutely forbid the teaching office to such; so, too, let them exclude from sacred orders those young men who give the very faintest reason for doubt that they favor condemned doctrines and pernicious novelties. We exhort them also to take diligent care to put an end to those books and other writings, now growing exceedingly numerous, which contain opinions or tendencies of the kind condemned in the encyclical letters and decree above mentioned; let them see to it that these publications are removed from Catholic publishing houses, and especially from the hands of students and the clergy. By doing this they will at the same time be promoting real and solid education, which should always be a subject of the greatest solicitude for those who exercise sacred authority.

All these things we will and order to be sanctioned and established by our apostolic authority, aught to the contrary notwithstanding. (Pope Saint Pius X, Praestantia Scripturae, November 18, 1907.)

20. Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent, since in writing such Letters the Popes do not exercise the supreme power of their Teaching Authority. For these matters are taught with the ordinary teaching authority, of which it is true to say: "He who heareth you, heareth me";[3] and generally what is expounded and inculcated in Encyclical Letters already for other reasons appertains to Catholic doctrine. But if the Supreme Pontiffs in their official documents purposely pass judgment on a matter up to that time under dispute, it is obvious that that matter, according to the mind and will of the Pontiffs, cannot be any longer considered a question open to discussion among theologians. (Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis, August 12, 1950.)

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an apostle of Antichrist, and those who refuse to see this and who keep waiting for the "next outrage" to occur are simply continuing to accustom themselves to accept the falsehood that apostasy, heresy, blasphemy and sacrilege can be associated with a true Sovereign Pontiff. Such people are preparing to accept Antichrist himself without a qualm of conscience, and Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis is his poster-boy as to how to accomplish his end in these our times. 

Keep close, if possible, to Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in His Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament, if this is possible where you live.

Pray as many Rosaries each day as your state-in-life permits.

Offer all of the sufferings of the moment to the Throne of the Most Blessed Trinity as the consecrated slave of Christ the King through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart Mary, whose triumph will be manifest when will least expect it.

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.

Election Commentary Coming Early Next Week

Work continues on a post-election commentary that is turning out to be quite lengthy. Please bear with me as I take the time needed to complete it. Indeed, it is probably just as well to let some of the euphoria die down a bit.

For the moment, however, I want to remind the few readers of this site that, no matter the extraordinary outcome of the election in the purely natural terms of electoral politics, there are aspects to the outcome of the election that go beyond the "bad guys lost" and the "less bad guys won" celebrations that are as of yet ongoing. One set of devils will be leaving power soon, but Kabbalists aren't exactly on the side of the angels, shall we say, and they will be well represened in the Trump White House, starting with his own son-in-law.

Thus it is that my commentary, which will be very lengthy, is not going to be of a celebratory nature no matter the understandable sense of relief that many Americans have over the fact that Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and his band of recklessly lawless statists will be leaving power in but seventy-one days and will not be succeeded by the woman who once sponsored a seance in the White House to conjure up the "spirit" of Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. I understand the sense of relief because I share it.

Such a sense of relief, though, does not mean that there is a cause for celebration as the fact that "bad guys" have lost does not mean that the "less bad guys" will not do many of the same bad things as the "bad guys." As happened during the administration of George Walker Bush, who did really bad things between January 20, 2001, and January 20, 2009, that made possible the election of Obama/Soetoro, many Catholics will keep their mouths shut about the bad things that will be done by the "less bad guys" now because they will be opposed by the mainslime media, George Sororo's paid agitators, who are already well at their work of endless agitation and rioting, and most of the conciliar "bishops" and their "pope," who is truly the Most Dangerous Man on the Planet, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who had his own October Surprise thirteen days ago now.

A blessed Martinmas to you all today, the Feast of Saint Martin of Tours.

Please continue to pray Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary for the Poor Souls during this month of November.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Martin of Tours, pray for us.

As The Farce Draws To A Close

Although I am writing two different commentaries on the farce of natualism that may or may not end on Tuesday November 8, 2016, I reviewed two earlier articles that have been posted in the past three months that I want to call to your attention as nothing since then has caused me to change my conclusions: As Antichrist Deceives Catholics To Maintain His Hold on Civil Power and The System Has Been Rigged Since July 4, 1776.

Indeed, let me reprise an excerpt from the first article listed just above:

After all, ladies and gentlemen, all you need to know about Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is that she, a serial liar and second-in-command of a veritable family crime family, supports each of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. That’s it, period.

Similarly, all you need to know about Donald John Trump is that he arranged for a practicing sodomite, Peter Thiel, to speak at the Republican National Convention, in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday, July 21, 2016, and that he was delighted that the delegates in attendance applauded when he made reference to:

 “49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted LGBTQ community – no good and we're going to stop it.

As your President, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology – beleive me.” 

And as a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said. Thank you. (Donald John Trump Acceptance Address, Republican National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio July 21, 2016.)

By the way, Donald John Trump made no reference in that acceptance address to the daily slaughter of the innocent preborn by chemical and surgical means. He celebrated perversity and ignored willful murder.

It was thus very good of a reader of this site to send me to a link to a very important post at Call Me Jorge as it contains photographic and textual proof concerning the simple fact that Donald John Trump is deadly serious in his support for the sin that caused God to send fire and brimstone to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gommorha. It is diabolical to promote this sin no matter who does it. It is diabolical for Hillary Diane Clinton and Timothy Michael Kaine, and it is diabolical for Donald Trump. How tragic it is that Catholics are choosing to remain silent about Trump's support for the pestilential sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance. Those who are silent now because they fear Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton will continue to refrain from criticizing "their" president as to do so would be to help "the other side." 

Folks, there is no "other side" in this farce. The devil himself will be the big winner no matter which of his minions gets elected, whether on Tuesday or at a later date after whatever challenges that might arise run their course in the court system.

Why is this so hard to understand?

Why?

What is so difficult to understand about the simple truth expressed by Saint Charles Borromeo's Latin secretary, Silvio Cardinal Antoniano, in the late Sixteenth Century?

The more closely the temporal power of a nation aligns itself with the spiritual, and the more it fosters and promotes the latter, by so much the more it contributes to the conservation of the commonwealth. For it is the aim of the ecclesiastical authority by the use of spiritual means, to form good Christians in accordance with its own particular end and object; and in doing this it helps at the same time to form good citizens, and prepares them to meet their obligations as members of a civil society. This follows of necessity because in the City of God, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, a good citizen and an upright man are absolutely one and the same thing. How grave therefore is the error of those who separate things so closely united, and who think that they can produce good citizens by ways and methods other than those which make for the formation of good Christians. For, let human prudence say what it likes and reason as it pleases, it is impossible to produce true temporal peace and tranquillity by things repugnant or opposed to the peace and happiness of eternity. (Silvio Cardinal Antoniano, quoted by Pope Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri, December 31, 1929.)

Moreover, Pope Saint Pius X reminded Catholics that they can never just "put aside" their Holy Faith to think, speak or act as naturalists:

3. These are fundamental principles: No matter what the Christian does, even in the realm of temporal goods, he cannot ignore the supernatural good. Rather, according to the dictates of Christian philosophy, he must order all things to the ultimate end, namely, the Highest Good. All his actions, insofar as they are morally either good or bad (that is to say, whether they agree or disagree with the natural and divine law), are subject to the judgment and judicial office of the Church. (Pope Saint Pius X, Singulari Quadam, September 24, 1912.)

There is never a time, no matter the urgency, that requires a Catholic to think as a natualist and to act as though the greatest evil in the world is Mortal Sin and for a person to die in its wretched stench. Catholicism is the only and only foundation of personal and social order. Why, please tell me why, this is so difficult to understand?

No, Venerable Brethren, We must repeat with the utmost energy in these times of social and intellectual anarchy when everyone takes it upon himself to teach as a teacher and lawmaker - the City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. Omnia instaurare in Christo. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15 , 1910.)

Here we have, founded by Catholics, an inter-denominational association that is to work for the reform of civilization, an undertaking which is above all religious in character; for there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. The new Sillonists cannot pretend that they are merely working on “the ground of practical realities” where differences of belief do not matter. Their leader is so conscious of the influence which the convictions of the mind have upon the result of the action, that he invites them, whatever religion they may belong to, “to provide on the ground of practical realities, the proof of the excellence of their personal convictions.” And with good reason: indeed, all practical results reflect the nature of one’s religious convictions, just as the limbs of a man down to his finger-tips, owe their very shape to the principle of life that dwells in his body. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)

To point out these facts is not to say that Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is "good" or will not do horrible things as President. 

To point out these facts is to say those who believe that Donald John Trump's support of moral evils (as well as his being in the complete grip of the Talmudists who advise him) will "make America great again" is tragically mistaken. No, nations that indemnify the sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance can never be made "great" or "secure" again by those support the nonexistent "right" of citizens who are immerse in them to be recognize as a legitimate category of human beings. Never means precisely that. Never.

This is the First Saturday of the month of Novemember. Let us entrust ourselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as we pray our Rosaries of reparations for our sins and those of the whole world, including the lords of Modernity and the lords of Modernism who have enabled sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance and have lobbied for their public acceptance in the name "mercy" and "inclusion."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

All the Saints, pray for us.

The Holy Relics, pray for us.