[This republished article did not appear on this home page when it was posted on September 3, 2020, something that came to me as a surprise when I checked this site just a few moments ago on the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost while working on the next original article.]
Unlike his immediate predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and each of his three successors (Popes Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII), the former Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was not in the diplomatic service of the Holy See at any time during the nearly forty-five years of his priesthood prior to his rather remarkable election as the Successor of Saint Peter on August 4, 1903. He was not prone to accept the word of diplomats, and he did not suffer lies and misrepresentations easily.
The farm boy from Riese, Italy, who served as a pastor of souls in a rough-and-tumble Italian cow town, Tombolo, and then in Salzano before becoming Bishop of Mantua and the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, was always close to Our Lady. This tender devotion to Our Lady, which he learned from his saintly mother, helped him to keep close to the sheep even when he was the Vicar of Christ on earth.
Thanks to the sign given him by the life and death of Little Nellie of Holy God, Pope Saint Pius X was the advocate of early First Communion (and early Confirmation) and of frequent Communions. It is no accident at all that the now retired Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI made no reference to the centenary of Pascendi Dominci Gregis on September 8, 2007. Ratzinger/Benedict made absolutely no reference on August 15, 2010, to the centenary of Pope Saint Pius X's Notre Charge Apostolique, which was a ringing condemnation of the false philosophy of the Sillon that is of the essence of conciliarism. He made no reference to the one hundredth anniversary of The Oath Against Modernism on September 1, 1910 (see Witness Against Benedict XVI: The Oath Against Modernism).
How could he?
He stands condemned by the very words in these documents issued by Pope Saint Pius X.
So does the man who ignored the one hundredth anniversary of Papa Sarto's death, Jorge Mario Bergolio, back on August 20, 2014.
The contrast between the Catholicism of Pope Saint Pius X, a defender of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the confessional Catholic civil state, and the conciliarism of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has denounced "restorationists" as "Pelagian" and "hard-headed" Pharisees while defending "healthy laicism" and "religious liberty" and the "separation of Church and State, could not be more clear.
Here is the Collect for today's feast in the Immemorial Mass of Tradition:
"O God, who for the defense of the Catholic Faith and the restoration of all things in Christ didst fill Saint Pius, Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic courage: grant in Thy loving kindness that by following his teachings and examples we may attain eternal rewards. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, forever and ever. Amen."
Pope Saint Pius X opposed Modernism.
So must we as we refuse any "communion" at all with conciliarism or its false shepherds who are at war with the Catholic Faith.
Although I returned to full-time "active duty" in the care of our small farm while Sharon and Lucy were away at the American Miniature Horse Association's World Show for the final few days of exhibitions, which ended on Saturday, September 5, 2020, the Feast of Saint Lawrence Justinian (and the twenty-eighth anniversary of the death of my father, Dr. Albert Henry Martin Droleskey), I am in the midst of writing another original article for this site while also formatting volume 6 of To Live in Light of Eternity. Please scroll below for information on the publication of volume five and of Life, Death, and Truth: Under Attack by Medicine and Law.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!