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.

A new commentary that makes reference to Pope Saint Pius X will be published in about fifteen minutes.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!

This is a revised and enlarged reflection on Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, who was zealous to convert pagans to the true Faith and thus establish the peace and justice of Christ the King in his land. He is yet another contrast to concilairism's false doctrines of "religious liberty" and "separation of Church and State."

An original article will be published tomorrow morning along with a republished  reflection on Pope Saint Pius X. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Stephen of Hungary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us.

Those of you who have read each of the twelve articles comprising the “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus series (part one, part two, 

This is a revised and enlarged version of my reflection on the life of Saint Rose of Lima, a member of the Third Order of Penance of the Order of Preachers of Saint Dominic de Guzman.

Among many other works in her devout life of prayer and austere penances, Saint Rose, who lived among a cluster of saints in Lima, Peru, exhorted the people of Lima to gather in their churches and pray their Rosaries to turn back a pending invasion of their city by a fleet of those virulent anti-Catholics, the Dutch Calvinists. Those hideous people with their diabolical beliefs that have nothing at all to do with Christianity turned back as a result of the Rosaries that were prayed to repel them in their designs to invade Lima and to sack Catholic churches and to desecrated the Most Blessed Sacrament images of the Mother of God.

May we pray to Saint Rose of Lima so that we will remain faithful to the daily recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary as the powerful weapon, after Holy Mass itself, to turn back the enemies of Christ the King in the world and in the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

Also, for those of you who have been away from this site for a while, I am going to provide four reminders:

First, my latest fully original commentary, Revised and Expanded: Do Not Be Agitated by the Fearmongers: Pray to Our Lady to See the World Clearly Through the Supernatural Eyes of the True Faith, was revised and expanded yet again yesterday, Sunday, August 29, 2021, the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemorations of the Decollation (Beheading) of Saint John the Baptist and of Saint Sabina. The article is now in its final form.

Second, a revised and expanded reflection on On the (Commemorated) Feast of the Decollation (Beheading) of Saint John the Baptist  was published late yesterday afernoon, Sunday, August 29, 2021.

Third, the Donations page has been updated. The need is very urgent for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Fourth, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, is available for purchase.

A new commentary should appear in a few days.

Finally, please pray for those in the path of Hurriane Ida. The conclusion of Revised and Expanded: Do Not Be Agitated by the Fearmongers: Pray to Our Lady to See the World Clearly Through the Supernatural Eyes of the True Faith contains a reflection on the nature of natural disasters and sicknesses that is appropriate reading in light of this new chastisement.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.

Saints Felix and Adauctus, pray for us.

Today is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost and the commemorated Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Commemoration of Saint Sabina. I have revised and considerably expanded this reflection on the decollation of of the last of the Old Testament Prophets, Saint John the Baptist.

Also, especially for those of you who do not access this site regularly, a new article, Revised and Expanded: Do Not Be Agitated by the Fearmongers: Pray to Our Lady to See the World Clearly Through the Supernatural Eyes of the True Faith, was published on Thursday, August 26, 2021, the Feast of Pope Saint Zephrinus, and revised and expanded on Saturday, August 28, 2021, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Commemoration of Saint Hermes.

The Donations page has been updated. The need is very urgent for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Finally, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, is available for purchase.

A new article will appear in a few days, if not perhaps a little sooner. After that, however, I will disappear for about a week to ten days to work on another book project, although I will post revised reflections on the Feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary, Thursday, September 2, 2021, the Feast of Pope Saint Pius X, Saturday, September 3, 2021 (which is also the sixtieth anniversary of the priestly ordination of Father Louis J. Campbell, O.S.A,, who has been the pastor of Saint Jude Shrine in Stafford, Texas, since 2001), the Feat of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, and the Feast of Saint Peter Claver, S.J., here in the United States of America on September 9, 2021. Thank you.

A revised reflection on the Feast of Saint Rose of Lima will appear tomorrow, August 30, 2021.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint Sabina, pray for us.

This long commentary, which could have named this long commentary, “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus, part 13" even though I ended that series with part twelve nearly four months ago now, has been revised and expanded on Saturday, August 28, 2021, the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo and the Commemoration of Saint Hermes and of Our Lady Health of the Sick.  Thus, I have chosen a new title to deal with the same subject and in the same depth as done between March of 2020 and May of 2021.

While I realize full well that most of the few people who access this site do not have the time to read such long studies, my goal is to provide information for those who are interesting in studying it by attempting to cast the events of our times in their true supernatural framework as occurring with the Providence of God.

The Donations page has been updated. The need is very urgent for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Finally, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, is available for purchase.

A revised reflection on the commemorated Feast of Saint John the Baptist will appear in a few hours.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph Calasanctius, pray for us.

Saint Augstine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

An original article, Revised and Expanded: Do Not Be Agitated by the Fearmongers: Pray to Our Lady to See the World Clearly Through the Supernatural Eyes of the True Faith, was published yesterday at the same time that the the Donations page was updated. The need is very urgent for non-tax-deductible financial gifts. Thank you.

Finally, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, has been published and is available for sale.

Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary,  pray for us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, pray for us.

Saint Hermes, pray for us.

Today, Tuesday, Wednesday, August 25, 2021, is the Feast of Saint Louis IX, King of France, that great exemplar of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Saint Louis was taught by his holy mother, Blessed Blanche of Castile, to prefer death rather to commit a deliberate Mortal Sin. He heard two Masses a day and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, whose patron saint he remains to this day.

Saint Louis strove to rule according to the Mind of Christ the King as He had deposited It exclusively in the Catholic Church, recognizing that he, Louis IX, would have to answer to Christ the King at the moment of his own Particular Judgment for how he ruled his subjects. His letter to his son Philip is a succinct summary of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. It is a model for how everyone in public life should conduct himself in order to please Christ the King as the devoted client of Our Lady, she who is our Immaculate Queen.

Work on the next original commentary is about seventy-five percent complete. Although it is my hope to complete it today for posting by tomorrow, Thursday, August 26, 2021, it is possible, given the nature of the conclusion that is going to require a good deal of work, that the commentary may not appear until Friday, August 27, 2021. 

In the meantime, of course, please purchase (if you have not done so already) and also spread the work about G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, which received a favorable review online on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi. 

Vivat Christus Rex!

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Louis IX, pray for us.

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to which the month of August is devoted, that heart that was pierced with Seven Swords of Sorrow during the Life of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed out of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These twin hearts of matchless love suffered as one and they beat as one while on earth and they have beat as one in Heaven since Our Lady was Assumed into Heaven body and soul after her death.

Our Lady's Immaculate Heart was unstained by Original Sin or Actual Sins. The Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God, therefore, was capable of a purity of love of God and of her fellow men that is almost indescribable. Our Lady's Most Pure, Most Holy Heart despises the sins that caused her Divine Son to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death but at the same time is full of a perfect and completely pure maternal compassion for erring sinners such as you and me.

Our Lord, showing us His infinite compassion for us erring sinners, has sent us His Most Blessed Mother to provide us with her maternal assistance to get home to Heaven as members of His true Church founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

We have been given the Rosary, the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel, the Miraculous Medal, and the Green Scapular through her loving hands, through which flow the graces won for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

Her apparition to Juan Diego and the miraculous image of herself she left on his tilma helped to convert millions of Indians to the true Faith in the Americas.

Our Lady ratified Pope Pius IX's solemn proclamation of her Immaculate Conception by proclaiming herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous to be the Immaculate Conception on March 25, 1858. And Our Lady's appearance in the Cova da Iria from May 13, 1917, to October 13, 1917, gave us Heaven's Peace Plan, one that runs through her Immaculate Heart.

We must endeavor at all times to fulfill, as far as we are able in this time of apostasy and betrayal, Our Lady's Fatima Message in our own lives, especially by praying as many Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit and by living penitentially as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Immaculate Heart.

The era of apostasy and betrayal will end when the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is made manifest. We can play our roles, small though they may be, in helping to bring about this triumph.

As a reminder, G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship, was published a week ago, and the next original article to appear on this site is being written but may not be posted until Tuesday.

Remember also that non-tax-deductible gifts are always needed and would be highly appreciated at this time. Thank you.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now, and at the hour of our death.

Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, pray for us.

This is a brief reflection on Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who almost single-handedly revived devotion to Our Lady in the Twelfth Century.

A revised reflection for the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be posted on Sunday, August 22, 2021, which is also the Commemoration of the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, and I hope to have the next original article for this site published by Monday August 23, 2021, the Feast of Saint Philip Benizi, one of the Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites.

In the meantime, please remember that G.I.R.M. Warfare: The Conciliar Church's Unremitting Warfare Against Catholic Faith and Worship is now available for purchase. Scroll below for more information.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.