A brief commentary on Monday's dog and pony show in Iowa.

Work continues on "Painting the Vatican Walls Red." Thanks for your patience.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Blaise, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, always the humble handmaid of the Lord who humbled herself this day, the last day of Christmastide, which ends after Holy Mass this morning, by submitting to the rituals of the law although she was not in need of such a ritualistic purification because of her Perpetual Virginity. This is the day that Our Lady presented her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in the same Temple where He would be found twelve years later answering questions of the rabbis, the same Temple whose curtain would be torn in two from top to bottom as He breathed His last on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us, thereby signifying the permanent end of the Old Covenant and the supersession of Judaism by Catholicism as the true religion.

The aged Simeon, who waited patiently every day in the Temple for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to him, that he would not die before his eyes had seen and his arms had beheld the Messiah, sent the first Sword of Sorrow plunging through Our Lady's Sorrowful and and Immaculate Heart when he prophesied that the Child he beheld would be destined for the rise and for the fall of man, a sign to be opposed, a Sign of Contradiction.

We must never fear to be signs of contradiction in our own lives in imitation of the THE Sign of Contradiction, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as He hung on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem us as he was mocked and reviled by the very people from whose stock He had taken His Sacred Humanity. We must be willing to suffer all manner of calumny and humiliation for the many times that we have preferred human respect to fidelity to Our Lord, for the many times we have refused to call upon Our Lady's maternal intercession, for the many times we have refused to "take sides," especially in our day by refusing to reject conciliarism and its ravenous wolves once and for all.

A brief commentary on last night's exercise in naturalism will follow shortly before work resumes later today on the rather long commentary that has the working title of "Painting the Vatican Walls Red."

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!

Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church and Protector of the Faithful, pray for us.

Yesterday was Sexagesima Sunday and the Commemoration of the great Saint John Bosco, to whom we are very devoted.

Saint John Bosco stands a rebuke to everything that manner in which the conciliar revolutionaries refuse to seek converts to what they think is the Catholic Church and the manner in which they reaffirm unrepentant sinners in lives that could lead them to Hell for all eternity if they do not go to Confession and amend their lives.

This brief reflection, written about four or five years ago, I believe, is an effort to capture the spirit of this magnificent teacher of the young, mystic and zealous apostle of souls.

As work on "Painting the Vatican Walls Red" (which is a working title as it stands now) involves a great deal of documentation, which must be inserted into the body of my own text, I am simply going to do what I can do on the piece each day until it is done. About eight hours yesterday were devoted to the article, which I believe will make a contribution to the few readers who remain on this website.

Depending upon when the results of the circus in Iowa are reported, there might be an appropriately brief commentary on the Iowa Caucuses. It was twenty years ago now that I spoke as a surrogate speaker for Patrick Joseph Buchanan to two different groups of several thousand people at Hempstead High School in Dubuque, Iowa, which served as the caucus headquarters for the evening of Monday, February 12, 1996.

Although I had given a presentation the night before at the other side of the state, Sioux City, Iowa, where I had taught at Morningside Colllege in the 1992-1993 academic year and returned frequently to speak in the years thereafter up to December 7, 2005, campaign official Terence Jeffrey, now the editor-in-chief of the Cybercast News Service, told me once I had arrived back in Des Moines on February 12, 1996, that I was to drive to Dubuque to speak at the caucuses there. It was quite an experience, but I do not regret my decision four years later to forego any further involvement in electoral politics. There was much more important work to do to defend the Social Reign of Christ the King, and the deck is very much stacked against Our King in the realm of electoral politics.

Nevertheless however, it was quite an experience for a political science professor and columnist to be involved in a presidential campaign ten years after running for lieutenant governor of the State of New York on the Right to Life Party line.

We do not need armies of campaigners for candidates, though. We need armies of good soldiers of Christ the King who are willing to fight the good fight of the faith to save their own souls and to plant the seeds for the conversion of others and their nations to the true Faith, especially by placing their efforts under the protection of Our Lady by keeping close to her at all times through her Most Holy Rosary.

Pray for the conversion of all men to the Catholic Faith!

Vivat Christus Rex!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us.

Saint John Bosco, pray for us.

Saint Dominic Savio, pray for us.

Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello, pray for us,

This relatively brief article centers on a single exchange that took place in the Republican Party presidential debate of Thursday, January 28, 2016, the Feast of Saint Peter Nolasco and the Second Feast of Saint Agnes, in Des Moines, Iowa. The article covers familiar ground to longtime readers. However, some of those who are newer to the site may have need of reading about the simple fact that no institution of civil governance is superior to the law of God. Period.

Yes, work does continue on the exceedingly long commentary whose working title at present is "Painting the Vatican Walls Red." I hope to complete it later today, Sexagesima Sunday and the Commemoration of our beloved Saint John Bosco. A revised commentary on this wonderful father and teacher of the young who had the character of being able to read souls will appear later today.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Bosco, pray for us.

Although work on my next commentary, “Painting the Vatican Walls Red,” proceeds, it is a very lengthy commentary requiring much effort to produce. It is my hope to find a ten to eleven hour period today, Friday, January 29, 2016, the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, to complete the article.

In light of last night’s farce of midget naturalists arguing with each other about solving problems without addressing root causes, something that must occur in a Judeo-Masonic, not “Judeo-Christian,” Marco Antonio Rubio, land replete with every error imaginable, I did take time to reformat an article published on October 29, 2010, which was published four days before the end of the 2010 biennial circus on November 2, 2010, the Commemoration of All Souls. I have done nothing to revise the text itself, which means that there are occasional references to Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and to the candidates of the two organized crime families of naturalism who were then running for office.

The republished article’s premise, however, is just as relevant now as it was then.

Links to a number of articles on naturalism that had been published on this site between October of 2007 and October 29, 2010, are to be found at the beginning of this republished, reformatted commentary, which might put a bit of this year’s farce in perspective, something that I have tried to do in at least two or three recent original commentaries.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Francis de Sales, pray for us.

Well, this commentary, which was nearing conclusion about this time a day ago now, was delayed by problems saving its text to the server of the company that hosts this site (I just managed to pay the monthly hosting fee as it has been a rugged month financially). Further delays were encountered last evening as text inserted from Word got eaten up. Thus it is that the commentary is being posted later than I would have liked. However, it was in Divine Providence that its publication is being delayed until now.

The new commentary is a follow-up to the revised article that was posted five days ago now. While Jorge Mario Bergoglio comes in for a bit of attention in this new commentary, the next two or three articles on this site will focus on his recent efforts as an agent of the One World Ecumenical Church and enabler of worldwide Communism. Yes, you read that right, an enabler of worldwide Communism. I will demonstrate how this is so in my next commentary.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint John Chrysostom, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle and the Commemoration of Saint Peter.

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ personally intervened to effect the conversion of the fire-breathing hater and persecutor of Catholics, Saul of Tarsus. By so doing, of course, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity made Man in His Most Blessed Mother's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost, violated the counterfeit church of conciliarism's prohibition of proselytism. Saul of Tarsus did not seek out Our Lord, but was sought out by Him so that he would become Saint Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles one of twin pillars of the Church of Rome along with the first pope himself, Saint Peter the Apostle.

Work on the next few articles continues as I write text and insert documentary material with their hyperlinks. This is a time-consuming process. However, one of those articles should, I hope and pray, be ready for posting by tomorrow morning.

Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles, pray for us.

Saint Paul, pray for us.

Saint Peter, pray for us.

Today is Septuagesima Sunday. Lent begins in but seventeen days. Easter is exactly nine weeks way. It is time to start our preparations for Lent, time to start thinking about the penances we are going to undertake starting on Ash Wednesday in order to make reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as we prepare to enter deep into the mysteries of the Paschal Triduum of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Passion, Death, and Resurrection on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The purple vestments representing a penitential season of Holy Mother Church make their reappearance today to remind us that we must be deadly serious about the business of making the best Lent of our lives as we do not know whether this Lent will be our last one on the face of this earth--or whether we will even live to see the end of this particular Lent! Let us use this time well as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit.

Work continues on no less than three commentaries, which may be published in sequence starting tomorrow as was the case last week when three original commentaries were posted, followed by a revised commentary this past Friday.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Timothy, pray for us.