lifesitenews--2020-12-19--Priest who authored UK Catholic sex education book convicted as pedophile

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December 18 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Father Joseph Quigley of the Archdiocese of Birmingham , England was convicted this week of sexual activity with a child , sexual assault , false imprisonment ( he liked to lock children in a crypt ) and cruelty .
One case against him dated from the 1990s , another concerned his actions between 2006 and 2008 .
The Archdiocese , headed until 2009 by Vincent Nichols , now the Cardinal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Archbishop Bernard Longley , failed to report Quigley to the police when they learned of one set of his crimes in 2008 .
Instead , they flew him to the United States for “ rehabilitation ” in a specialist clinic and subsequently allowed him to return to work in the U.K. After that , he was supposedly under “ restrictions , ” but managed somehow to celebrate Mass at a school in 2009 , and he was commissioned by the Archdiocese to carry out a school inspection in 2011 .
What were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matter of fact , Quigley supposedly had considerable expertise in education .
If he had been diagnosed as a “ a sexual sadist and voyeur , ” what did that matter ?
Let me quote the report in the U.K. ’ s liberal Catholic weekly , The Tablet .
At the time that the first allegations against Quigley were made in 2008 , he was both director of education for the Birmingham archdiocese and national adviser on religious education for the Catholic Education Service ( CES ) , of which Archbishop Nichols was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been a much-respected expert on Catholic education .
In 2001 he produced Birmingham ’ s sex education manual , All That I Am , in which he recommended children of nine should be taught about sex .
This led him to be consulted by the authors of a Department of Health study on sexuality .
In it he was quoted as saying for children , sexual “ maturation is taking place earlier .
We don ’ t want to leave children hostage to society .
If we talk about sexuality as a gift @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to that at an appropriate level.
” The All That I Am book was a trailblazer in bringing sex education into Catholic schools 20 years ago .
What sort of a person wants to “ introduce ” children to sexuality at age nine ?
The question answers itself .
And yet now we have state-mandated sex education directed at even younger children , and the Bishops of England and Wales , fresh from adopting into approved lesson-plans materials copied and pasted from radical homosexual campaigning groups , remain in deep denial about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hindsight , to see Quigley defending All That I Am against criticisms made in the pages of the magazine of the UK Faith Movement in 2007 : Father Ian Fleming , responding to Quigley , reiterates his initial complaints that the program failed to set out coherently a Catholic attitude to sexuality , introduced “ natural family planning ” as if it was another form of contraception , and dismissed the issue of homosexuality with a warning against the use of scriptural “ proof texts ” and a bowdlerized quotation from the Catechism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perhaps inevitable that the Bishops of England and Wales should seek secular solutions to the clerical sex-abuse issue when pressed by secular powers .
Considering monsters like Quigley , it is easy to accept the narrative that the abuse of clerical authority is one part of the problem , and a tendency of bishops to forgive the foibles of their clergy out of clericalism , another .
Perhaps , some are quick to suggest , Catholic theology and the discipline of clerical celibacy contribute to the problem .
This , however , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sexual abuse mirrors that of many in the secular worlds of entertainment , sports , and education .
Like many abusers , he exploited a position of influence and trust .
The language and ideas that he used to facilitate and cloak his abuse were drawn from fashionable psychology promoting a “ liberated ” approach to sexuality among children .
This is not a problem of Catholic values going rogue in institutions , such as schools , which should be safely in secular hands .
This is a problem of some very dark @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personnel and institutions .
Quigley was at the center of the Church ’ s capitulation to the secular sex education agenda in England and Wales , and this suited him just fine .
Nothing could be better camouflage for grooming children than an approach to education that consists in breaking down their natural sexual reserve , because breaking down children ’ s natural reserve is what grooming is .
Nothing , again , could have suited him better , when asked to explain himself to successive Archbishops , than this same language of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parental concerns were overblown and outdated in modern times , and that they needed to be more relaxed about their children having sexual experiences .
It would be surprising if not , because that is the line the bishops typically take when defending their own sex education policies .

Church leaders did not report allegations to the police against the priest, who helped to bring sex education into Catholic schools 20 years ago.
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December 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Father Joseph Quigley of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, England was convicted this week of sexual activity with a child, sexual assault, false imprisonment (he liked to lock children in a crypt) and cruelty. One case against him dated from the 1990s, another concerned his actions between 2006 and 2008.
The Archdiocese, headed until 2009 by Vincent Nichols, now the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and since then by Archbishop Bernard Longley, failed to report Quigley to the police when they learned of one set of his crimes in 2008. Instead, they flew him to the United States for “rehabilitation” in a specialist clinic and subsequently allowed him to return to work in the U.K.
After that, he was supposedly under “restrictions,” but managed somehow to celebrate Mass at a school in 2009, and he was commissioned by the Archdiocese to carry out a school inspection in 2011.
What were they thinking? Well, as a matter of fact, Quigley supposedly had considerable expertise in education. If he had been diagnosed as a “a sexual sadist and voyeur,” what did that matter? Let me quote the report in the U.K.’s liberal Catholic weekly, The Tablet.
At the time that the first allegations against Quigley were made in 2008, he was both director of education for the Birmingham archdiocese and national adviser on religious education for the Catholic Education Service (CES), of which Archbishop Nichols was chair. … For years Quigley had been a much-respected expert on Catholic education. In 2001 he produced Birmingham’s sex education manual, All That I Am, in which he recommended children of nine should be taught about sex. This led him to be consulted by the authors of a Department of Health study on sexuality. In it he was quoted as saying for children, sexual “maturation is taking place earlier. We don’t want to leave children hostage to society. If we talk about sexuality as a gift, clearly we want to introduce them to that at an appropriate level.”
The All That I Am book was a trailblazer in bringing sex education into Catholic schools 20 years ago. What sort of a person wants to “introduce” children to sexuality at age nine? The question answers itself. And yet now we have state-mandated sex education directed at even younger children, and the Bishops of England and Wales, fresh from adopting into approved lesson-plans materials copied and pasted from radical homosexual campaigning groups, remain in deep denial about the problem.
It is interesting, with hindsight, to see Quigley defending All That I Am against criticisms made in the pages of the magazine of the UK Faith Movement in 2007: Father Ian Fleming, responding to Quigley, reiterates his initial complaints that the program failed to set out coherently a Catholic attitude to sexuality, introduced “natural family planning” as if it was another form of contraception, and dismissed the issue of homosexuality with a warning against the use of scriptural “proof texts” and a bowdlerized quotation from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
It is perhaps inevitable that the Bishops of England and Wales should seek secular solutions to the clerical sex-abuse issue when pressed by secular powers. Considering monsters like Quigley, it is easy to accept the narrative that the abuse of clerical authority is one part of the problem, and a tendency of bishops to forgive the foibles of their clergy out of clericalism, another. Perhaps, some are quick to suggest, Catholic theology and the discipline of clerical celibacy contribute to the problem.
This, however, is wrong. Quigley’s career of sexual abuse mirrors that of many in the secular worlds of entertainment, sports, and education. Like many abusers, he exploited a position of influence and trust. The language and ideas that he used to facilitate and cloak his abuse were drawn from fashionable psychology promoting a “liberated” approach to sexuality among children. This is not a problem of Catholic values going rogue in institutions, such as schools, which should be safely in secular hands. This is a problem of some very dark secular ideas invading the Church’s personnel and institutions.
Quigley was at the center of the Church’s capitulation to the secular sex education agenda in England and Wales, and this suited him just fine. Nothing could be better camouflage for grooming children than an approach to education that consists in breaking down their natural sexual reserve, because breaking down children’s natural reserve is what grooming is.
Nothing, again, could have suited him better, when asked to explain himself to successive Archbishops, than this same language of liberation. I expect he suggested that parental concerns were overblown and outdated in modern times, and that they needed to be more relaxed about their children having sexual experiences. It would be surprising if not, because that is the line the bishops typically take when defending their own sex education policies.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-20--Is the coronavirus a bioweapon?

Is the coronavirus a bioweapon?

December 19 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – No less a figure than Dr. Francis Boyle , an expert on biowarfare , believes that “ the coronavirus that we ’ re dealing with here is an offensive biological warfare weapon.
” Speaking of Wuhan ’ s Institute of Virology , which is at the epicenter of the epidemic , he added that there have “ been previous reports of problems with that lab and things leaking out of it.
” For Dr. Boyle to be correct , the CCP would have to have both the “ intention ” and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bioweapon .
Does it ?
It is no secret that the Chinese Communist regime , despite being a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention , regards the development of bioweapons as a key part of achieving military dominance .
The vice-president of China ’ s Academy of Military Medical Sciences , He Fuchu ( 贺福初 ) , said in 2015 that biomaterials were the new “ strategic commanding heights ” of warfare .
PLA general Zhang Shibo ( 张仕波 ) went even further in his 2017 book , War ’ s New High @ @ @ @ @ @ @ development is gradually showing strong signs characteristic of an offensive capability , ” including the potential for “ specific ethnic genetic attacks ” ( 特定种族基因攻击 ) .
Reflect on that phrase – “ specific ethnic genetic attacks ” – for a minute .
What General Zhang is talking about , to be perfectly clear , is bioweapons that kill other races , but for which people who look like him have a natural or acquired immunity .
Such a weapon would , if potent enough , decimate the populations of Europe , South @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a shot , leaving an open field for Chinese domination .
Those who might counter that one wild-eyed general does not necessarily speak for the Communist leadership should bear in mind that Zhang himself is part of that leadership .
He was a full member of the 18th Central Committee ( 2012-17 ) and is the former president of the National Defense University .
Does COVID-19 cause more serious infections among non-Chinese races ?
It ’ s hard to say , since almost all the information coming out of China is fabricated for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t rule out the possibility .
It is at least curious that , while it ’ s party time in Wuhan , many U.S. states and European countries are locking down again .
So as far as intentions are concerned , I think the evidence is indisputable that the PRC would develop offensive biological warfare weapons targeted at other races if they could .
But can they ?
What do we know about China ’ s genetic engineering capabilities ?
We know that China has mastered CRISPR technology , which enables the kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ create a biological superweapon .
After all , it was a Chinese scientist , He Jiankui , who announced that he had reengineered the human genome to make it resistant to HIV , a feat for which he recently received a three year prison sentence .
If you are intent upon genetically engineering offensive biological warfare weapons you also need a very secure facility to ensure that they do not escape from containment .
After all , you are taking dangerous pathogens like SARS , Ebola , and various strains of coronavirus and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
China only has one such Level 4 microbiology lab , the Wuhan Institute of Virology , and it is located in – you guessed it – the city of Wuhan .
Finally , in addition to the technology and the facilities , you need raw biomaterial .
This means laying your hands on the most deadly viruses to be found in nature , into which you can engineer characteristics that make it even more deadly .
Some ways of doing this include enhancing human-to-human transmission of a virus originally harvested from another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before someone is infected begins to show symptoms .
Here we have incontrovertible evidence that the Wuhan lab has acquired some of the most deadly coronaviruses on the planet .
It ’ s worth noting that just last year , two Chinese nationals , husband and wife team Dr. Keding Cheng and Dr. Xiangguo Qiu , were removed from the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as part of an intellectual property theft investigation .
The lab is Canada ’ s only Level 4 microbiology lab , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same type of lab the Chinese operate in Wuhan .
Dr. Qiu is known for working on the Ebola virus , while her husband has published studies of SARS .
The RCMP investigation noted that both made frequent trips back to the Wuhan lab .
The bottom line is that China has everything it needs to create a deadly bioweapon : the technology , the facility , and the raw biomaterial .
Much ink has been spilled by the Washington Post and other mainstream media outlets to try and convince us that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nature rather than nefariousness , and that anyone who says otherwise is an unhinged conspiracy theorist .
Dr. Li-meng Yan has published a series of papers proving to the satisfaction of objective observers that the novel coronavirus was not only manmade but was intended to be used as a bioweapon .
She has been predictably attacked by the virology establishment , eager to protect its reputation .
They argue that a true bioweapon would be far more lethal .
But this proves nothing .
The fact that a bioweapon under development does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proof that it is not a bioweapon , merely that it is not yet ready to deploy .
And , bioweapon-in-the-making or not , there seems little doubt that the coronavirus was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
Propinquity suggests causation .
After all , if the first coronavirus infection were a simple result of accidental animal-to-human transmission as claimed , this could have occurred anywhere in China .
How curious that the epicenter of the epidemic just happens to be in a city of 11 million people where China ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Chance ?
I think not .
Another reason to think that what the world is dealing with a bioweapon is the reaction of the Communist authorities .
Beijing has gone to truly extraordinary lengths to cover up the source of the pandemic , the Wuhan lab .
They first pointed to the snakes and bats supposedly being sold at the Wuhan Seafood Market , and shut the market down .
But it soon came out that snakes do not carry any coronaviruses and that bats – which do – were not sold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one final piece of evidence that for me , as a China hand , supports the theory that the coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon that was deliberately released upon the world .
There is a rumor going around on the Chinese internet that the United States has deliberately unleashed an American bioweapon on the Chinese population .
Tellingly , such absurd claims are not being censored by the authorities , while accurate reporting on the epidemic is .
It is very much in character for the Communist Party leaders to blame their chief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commit .
With their endless lies and evasions , Party leaders trying to hide their criminal complicity in the epidemic ’ s origins .
For me as a China watcher , even taking into account the Party ’ s penchant for secrecy , the multiple levels of deception engaged in by Communist officials over the past year have been extraordinary .
We may never know for certain whether the bioweapon known as COVID-19 was deliberately released upon the world .
But we do know that the major Western print , broadcast , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to dismiss the very possibility as a paranoid fantasy .
But – as the old joke goes – it ’ s not paranoia if they are really out to get you .
And on this point the evidence is clear .
We know , because PLA generals have told us so , that their researchers are racing to develop lethal bioweapons as fast as their theft of Western technology and stolen virus samples will allow .
We also know , because these same generals have told us , that the goal is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is simply no question that Communist leaders have used the pandemic that they have inflicted upon the world as part and parcel of their strategy for China to replace the USA as the dominant power on the planet .
Did they deliberately release it first on their own people ?
What better way to spread the Chinese Virus all around the globe than to use the Chinese people themselves as unwitting disease vectors ?
I suspect that the only real surprise for the Chinese leadership in the novel coronavirus plague is that China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic that they had hoped to one day unleash on other countries .
At the same time that America and the rest of the world are dealing with the aftermath of the China Virus pandemic , we must be alert to the very real possibility of a future release of an even deadlier pathogen .
Does anyone think that the Communist authorities – once they had perfected a bioweapon to which they themselves had a natural or induced immunity – would hesitate to unleash a deadly pandemic on the West to achieve their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Those who doubt that the leaders of the Communist Party would use such an “ assassin ’ s mace ” need to tell us precisely what moral or ethical considerations would stay their hand .
Because I can think of none .
Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of Bully of Asia : Why China ’ s Dream is the New Threat to World Order .
A former National Science Foundation fellow , he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biological Oceanography , East Asian Studies , and Cultural Anthropology .
One of America 's leading China watchers , he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China .

December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – No less a figure than Dr. Francis Boyle, an expert on biowarfare, believes that “the coronavirus that we’re dealing with here is an offensive biological warfare weapon.” Speaking of Wuhan’s Institute of Virology, which is at the epicenter of the epidemic, he added that there have “been previous reports of problems with that lab and things leaking out of it.”
For Dr. Boyle to be correct, the CCP would have to have both the “intention” and the “capability” to develop such a bioweapon. Does it?
It is no secret that the Chinese Communist regime, despite being a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention, regards the development of bioweapons as a key part of achieving military dominance. The vice-president of China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, He Fuchu (贺福初), said in 2015 that biomaterials were the new “strategic commanding heights” of warfare.
PLA general Zhang Shibo (张仕波) went even further in his 2017 book, War’s New High Land, claiming that “modern biotechnology development is gradually showing strong signs characteristic of an offensive capability,” including the potential for “specific ethnic genetic attacks” (特定种族基因攻击).
Reflect on that phrase – “specific ethnic genetic attacks” – for a minute.
What General Zhang is talking about, to be perfectly clear, is bioweapons that kill other races, but for which people who look like him have a natural or acquired immunity. Such a weapon would, if potent enough, decimate the populations of Europe, South Asia, and the Americas without firing a shot, leaving an open field for Chinese domination.
Those who might counter that one wild-eyed general does not necessarily speak for the Communist leadership should bear in mind that Zhang himself is part of that leadership. He was a full member of the 18th Central Committee (2012-17) and is the former president of the National Defense University.
Does COVID-19 cause more serious infections among non-Chinese races? It’s hard to say, since almost all the information coming out of China is fabricated for political purposes, but we can’t rule out the possibility. It is at least curious that, while it’s party time in Wuhan, many U.S. states and European countries are locking down again.
So as far as intentions are concerned, I think the evidence is indisputable that the PRC would develop offensive biological warfare weapons targeted at other races if they could. But can they? What do we know about China’s genetic engineering capabilities?
We know that China has mastered CRISPR technology, which enables the kind of gene splicing that is needed to create a biological superweapon. After all, it was a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, who announced that he had reengineered the human genome to make it resistant to HIV, a feat for which he recently received a three year prison sentence.
If you are intent upon genetically engineering offensive biological warfare weapons you also need a very secure facility to ensure that they do not escape from containment. After all, you are taking dangerous pathogens like SARS, Ebola, and various strains of coronavirus and trying to make them even more deadly. China only has one such Level 4 microbiology lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and it is located in – you guessed it – the city of Wuhan.
Finally, in addition to the technology and the facilities, you need raw biomaterial. This means laying your hands on the most deadly viruses to be found in nature, into which you can engineer characteristics that make it even more deadly. Some ways of doing this include enhancing human-to-human transmission of a virus originally harvested from another species, or increasing the latency period before someone is infected begins to show symptoms.
Here we have incontrovertible evidence that the Wuhan lab has acquired some of the most deadly coronaviruses on the planet. It’s worth noting that just last year, two Chinese nationals, husband and wife team Dr. Keding Cheng and Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, were removed from the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as part of an intellectual property theft investigation. The lab is Canada’s only Level 4 microbiology lab, which is to say, it’s the same type of lab the Chinese operate in Wuhan. Dr. Qiu is known for working on the Ebola virus, while her husband has published studies of SARS. The RCMP investigation noted that both made frequent trips back to the Wuhan lab.
The bottom line is that China has everything it needs to create a deadly bioweapon: the technology, the facility, and the raw biomaterial.
Much ink has been spilled by the Washington Post and other mainstream media outlets to try and convince us that the deadly coronavirus is a product of nature rather than nefariousness, and that anyone who says otherwise is an unhinged conspiracy theorist. Dr. Li-meng Yan has published a series of papers proving to the satisfaction of objective observers that the novel coronavirus was not only manmade but was intended to be used as a bioweapon.
She has been predictably attacked by the virology establishment, eager to protect its reputation. They argue that a true bioweapon would be far more lethal. But this proves nothing. The fact that a bioweapon under development does not work as well as intended is not proof that it is not a bioweapon, merely that it is not yet ready to deploy. And, bioweapon-in-the-making or not, there seems little doubt that the coronavirus was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Propinquity suggests causation. After all, if the first coronavirus infection were a simple result of accidental animal-to-human transmission as claimed, this could have occurred anywhere in China. How curious that the epicenter of the epidemic just happens to be in a city of 11 million people where China’s only Level 4 lab is located. Chance? I think not.
Another reason to think that what the world is dealing with a bioweapon is the reaction of the Communist authorities. Beijing has gone to truly extraordinary lengths to cover up the source of the pandemic, the Wuhan lab. They first pointed to the snakes and bats supposedly being sold at the Wuhan Seafood Market, and shut the market down. But it soon came out that snakes do not carry any coronaviruses and that bats – which do – were not sold at a seafood market.
There is one final piece of evidence that for me, as a China hand, supports the theory that the coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon that was deliberately released upon the world. There is a rumor going around on the Chinese internet that the United States has deliberately unleashed an American bioweapon on the Chinese population. Tellingly, such absurd claims are not being censored by the authorities, while accurate reporting on the epidemic is. It is very much in character for the Communist Party leaders to blame their chief geopolitical rival for crimes that they themselves commit.
With their endless lies and evasions, Party leaders trying to hide their criminal complicity in the epidemic’s origins. For me as a China watcher, even taking into account the Party’s penchant for secrecy, the multiple levels of deception engaged in by Communist officials over the past year have been extraordinary.
We may never know for certain whether the bioweapon known as COVID-19 was deliberately released upon the world. But we do know that the major Western print, broadcast, and social media are all doing their best to dismiss the very possibility as a paranoid fantasy.
But – as the old joke goes – it’s not paranoia if they are really out to get you. And on this point the evidence is clear. We know, because PLA generals have told us so, that their researchers are racing to develop lethal bioweapons as fast as their theft of Western technology and stolen virus samples will allow. We also know, because these same generals have told us, that the goal is to develop bioweapons targeting specific races. There is simply no question that Communist leaders have used the pandemic that they have inflicted upon the world as part and parcel of their strategy for China to replace the USA as the dominant power on the planet.
Did they deliberately release it first on their own people? What better way to spread the Chinese Virus all around the globe than to use the Chinese people themselves as unwitting disease vectors?
I suspect that the only real surprise for the Chinese leadership in the novel coronavirus plague is that China itself has become ground zero for the pandemic that they had hoped to one day unleash on other countries.
At the same time that America and the rest of the world are dealing with the aftermath of the China Virus pandemic, we must be alert to the very real possibility of a future release of an even deadlier pathogen.
Does anyone think that the Communist authorities – once they had perfected a bioweapon to which they themselves had a natural or induced immunity – would hesitate to unleash a deadly pandemic on the West to achieve their “China Dream” of world domination? Those who doubt that the leaders of the Communist Party would use such an “assassin’s mace” need to tell us precisely what moral or ethical considerations would stay their hand. Because I can think of none.
Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order. A former National Science Foundation fellow, he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. He holds advanced degrees in Biological Oceanography, East Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. One of America's leading China watchers, he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China.
Follow Steven Steven Mosher is an internationally recognised authority on China and population issues as well as an acclaimed author and speaker and founder and head of the Population Research Institute. He was the first American social scientist to visit mainland China in 1979 where he witnessed women being forced to have abortion under the new “one-child-policy” which he then exposed to the world. Mr. Mosher was a pro-choice atheist at the time, but witnessing these traumatic abortions led him to reconsider his convictions and to eventually become a practicing, pro-life Roman Catholic. Mosher has appeared numerous times before the US Congress as an expert in world population, China and human Rights abuses. He has also made TV appearances on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, 20/20, FOX and CNN news, as well as being a regular guest on talk radio shows across the nation. He is the author of the best-selling A Mother’s Ordeal: One woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child-Policy. His latest book is Bully of Asia, exposing the threat of China to the entire world at this time. Articles by Steve have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The New Republic, The Washington Post, National Review, Reason, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Freedom Review, Linacre Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Human Life Review, First Things, and numerous other publications. Steven Mosher lives in Virginia with his wife, Vera, and their nine children.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-20--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

December 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
Join us today !
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this rosary , you can access them via this PDF .
This document also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the daily rosary on LifeSite led by Fr .
Pillari .

(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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lifesitenews--2020-12-22--Intensely locked down California now producing record coronavirus numbers

December 21 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — California governor Gavin Newsom has made a name for himself in America as one of the people most zealously using lockdowns as a means of controlling the Wuhan virus .
( These rules , of course , do n't apply to him . )
For quite a while , Californians were smug about their exquisite self-control in hunkering down , social distancing , and wearing masks .
However , California is now one of the sickest places in the world , with a soaring infection rate .
What the heck happened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years ago and live in a state that had a short-lived lockdown .
For months , though , except for masks and social distancing , life has mostly returned to normal in my neck of the woods .
People are still getting the Wuhan virus , but the state is maintaining a good balance that sees it acknowledge that it can not completely stifle the illness and it must not destroy people 's livelihoods and mental health .
Meanwhile , my friends in California are in their eighth ( or is it the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I 'm stunned when I make a rare visit to Facebook so I can take a peek at what 's going on in their lives .
Things are miserable — and my friends are the kind of white-collar employees who still make a living because they can work from home .
Meanwhile , for those less fortunate than white-collar workers with grown children , schools are closed ; restaurants , bars , hair salons , and gyms are being destroyed ; and people are getting very angry .
All of this suffering might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus 's worst effects , but that 's not what happened .
Instead , California merely delayed the inevitable .
Or perhaps California made the inevitable worse because its totalitarian approach weakened people 's immune systems by depriving them of fresh air , sunlight , social interaction , and gainful employment , all while pushing them into the misery of loneliness , depression , and substance abuse .
And again , all this misery was for nothing : California — the country 's largest and richest state — is the new epicenter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unprecedented surges of seriously infected patients threatening to overwhelm hospitals and overflow morgues .
The state is reporting unnerving numbers : California has set nationwide records for new cases again and again in the past week — most recently on Wednesday , when it posted more than 41,000 infections .
If California were a country , it would be among the world leaders in new covid-19 cases , ahead of India , Germany and Britain .
The number of available beds in intensive care units is plummeting .
In the San Joaquin Valley @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , resorting to `` surge capacity . ''
And in Southern California , a region that includes Los Angeles and San Diego , ICU capacity dipped to just 0.5 % Wednesday .
Regarding the ICU capacity , it turns out that the misery of `` no rooms at the hospital '' is self-inflicted .
Daniel Greenfield noticed that , for all of Gavin Newsom 's draconian policies , the one thing he forgot to do was to increase ICU capacity : Spring had given way to summer and then to autumn and winter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pretext of preserving `` ICU capacity '' and `` flattening the curve '' .
The rationale of shutting down an entire state , not so much for the sake of stopping the virus , but for keeping enough beds open in intensive care units , never made much sense even back then .
What did Governor Newsom and California Democrats do to increase ICU capacity ?
In April , California had 7,345 ICU beds .
Now , in December , it has 7,881 .
In under eight months , the wealthiest state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Or 7 % .
No wonder fed up Californians are engaged in a recall effort against Gov .
Newsom .
According to the official recall website , the petition effort is already 55 % of the way to the required number of signatures to trigger a recall .
This is pretty impressive when you consider that no one can go door-to-door or sit at a table at a shopping mall to collect those signatures .
Instead , people print the petitions and mail them back .
When I was young , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ margarine with the tagline , `` It 's not nice to fool Mother Nature . ''
Chiffon margarine may have succeeded in fooling Mother Nature , but California has not .
Viruses will do what viruses do .
California tried to fool the virus by destroying its economy and many of its people .
One can only hope Californians will have learned that `` science ! ''
does not make them gods and will finally look askance at the tech tyrants and other Democrats whom they 've allowed to control their destinies .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page .
View it here .

California is now one of the sickest places in the world, with a soaring infection rate.
December 21, 2020 (American Thinker) — California governor Gavin Newsom has made a name for himself in America as one of the people most zealously using lockdowns as a means of controlling the Wuhan virus. (These rules, of course, don't apply to him.) For quite a while, Californians were smug about their exquisite self-control in hunkering down, social distancing, and wearing masks. However, California is now one of the sickest places in the world, with a soaring infection rate. What the heck happened?
I left California a couple of years ago and live in a state that had a short-lived lockdown. For months, though, except for masks and social distancing, life has mostly returned to normal in my neck of the woods. People are still getting the Wuhan virus, but the state is maintaining a good balance that sees it acknowledge that it cannot completely stifle the illness and it must not destroy people's livelihoods and mental health.
Meanwhile, my friends in California are in their eighth (or is it the ninth?) month of lockdowns. I'm stunned when I make a rare visit to Facebook so I can take a peek at what's going on in their lives.
Things are miserable — and my friends are the kind of white-collar employees who still make a living because they can work from home. Meanwhile, for those less fortunate than white-collar workers with grown children, schools are closed; restaurants, bars, hair salons, and gyms are being destroyed; and people are getting very angry.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: Shut down big government NOT small business Show Petition Text 22607 have signed the petition. Let's get to 25000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition Many small businesses are being forced to close temporarily or even permanently under the strain of a second wave of government-imposed COVID shutdowns. This is totally and thoroughly wrong...especially when big business, government, and large segments of the professional world are totally insulated from the repercussions of the shutdowns. Something drastic needs to be done now! SIGN this urgent petition calling for state legislatures to cut the salaries of governors and mayors who are responsible for closing small businesses by enacting draconian COVID shutdown measures. The bottom line is that the people imposing shutdown measures need to feel the bite of the restrictions they are imposing on other peoples' livelihoods so that they have a personal incentive to re-open their economies and make accommodation for the survival of small businesses. Local restaurants, cafes, gyms, clothiers, bookshops, florists, and many more, are being forced to shut their doors, some forever. Americans who have spent their entire lives building their business - and, taken all of the risk - stand to lose everything. But, the following are all considered essential and never get shut down: lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, courts, big corporations, and the media... And, to add insult to injury, some politicians who are imposing these shutdowns, like Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, are actually getting huge pay raises starting in the new year. Cuomo's raise is $25,000 next year alone! This is utterly scandalous! It is time to say enough is enough! If small business owners are being CRUSHED by government COVID restrictions, the politicians responsible should also feel the BITE of those restrictions! This is the only way to make the "political class" understand how devastating their shutdowns truly are to small business owners and their employees. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, supply millions of jobs to people across the country, and ironically provide the taxes used to fund the programs so loved by most of the governors and mayors. Because of the nature of small and medium businesses, their owners and workers are on the frontlines of the COVID crisis. They need to be rewarded for this bravery, not closed down. Accommodation needs to be made for small businesses so that they can weather this storm and thrive after it has passed. These are businesses we all love using, and we want them to be there long after COVID is just a bad memory. When this is all over, do we really want every coffee shop to be a Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts, or every restaurant to be a McDonald's? The answer is not only "no," but "Heck, no!" Therefore, governors and mayors need to be personally incentivized to do everything in their power to see that small and medium businesses can survive and thrive - AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. That's why we're calling on state legislators to cut the salaries of all governors and mayors who are imposing draconian shutdowns where no accommodation is being made for small businesses. Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition today! **Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
All of this suffering might have made sense if California had avoided the virus's worst effects, but that's not what happened. Instead, California merely delayed the inevitable. Or perhaps California made the inevitable worse because its totalitarian approach weakened people's immune systems by depriving them of fresh air, sunlight, social interaction, and gainful employment, all while pushing them into the misery of loneliness, depression, and substance abuse.
And again, all this misery was for nothing:
California — the country's largest and richest state — is the new epicenter of America's coronavirus crisis, with unprecedented surges of seriously infected patients threatening to overwhelm hospitals and overflow morgues. The state is reporting unnerving numbers: California has set nationwide records for new cases again and again in the past week — most recently on Wednesday, when it posted more than 41,000 infections. If California were a country, it would be among the world leaders in new covid-19 cases, ahead of India, Germany and Britain. The number of available beds in intensive care units is plummeting. In the San Joaquin Valley, hospitals ran out over the weekend, resorting to “surge capacity.” And in Southern California, a region that includes Los Angeles and San Diego, ICU capacity dipped to just 0.5% Wednesday.
Regarding the ICU capacity, it turns out that the misery of “no rooms at the hospital” is self-inflicted. Daniel Greenfield noticed that, for all of Gavin Newsom's draconian policies, the one thing he forgot to do was to increase ICU capacity:
Spring had given way to summer and then to autumn and winter, and California Democrats are still using the pretext of preserving “ICU capacity” and “flattening the curve”. The rationale of shutting down an entire state, not so much for the sake of stopping the virus, but for keeping enough beds open in intensive care units, never made much sense even back then. It's insane now. What did Governor Newsom and California Democrats do to increase ICU capacity? In April, California had 7,345 ICU beds. Now, in December, it has 7,881. In under eight months, the wealthiest state only managed to add 536 ICU beds. Or 7%.
No wonder fed up Californians are engaged in a recall effort against Gov. Newsom. According to the official recall website, the petition effort is already 55% of the way to the required number of signatures to trigger a recall. This is pretty impressive when you consider that no one can go door-to-door or sit at a table at a shopping mall to collect those signatures. Instead, people print the petitions and mail them back.
When I was young, there was a great ad campaign for Chiffon margarine with the tagline, “It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.” Chiffon margarine may have succeeded in fooling Mother Nature, but California has not.
Viruses will do what viruses do. California tried to fool the virus by destroying its economy and many of its people. One can only hope Californians will have learned that “science!” does not make them gods and will finally look askance at the tech tyrants and other Democrats whom they've allowed to control their destinies.
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page. View it here.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-22--World-renowned medical journal pushes to remove sex from birth certificates

December 21 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — Although it 's seemingly good news that there 's a Wuhan virus vaccine available , not everyone is embracing it .
After all , they 've seen the medical establishment , from Fauci on down , make one mistake after another during this difficult year .
Worse , many in the medical establishment are proving to be insane as only leftists can be .
The latest example is the once prestigious and reliable New England Medical Journal , which published an article declaring biological sex irrelevant .
In the latest issue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lawyer have written that it 's time to do away with putting a newborn baby 's biological sex — as demonstrated by its external genitalia — on birth certificates .
The article is behind a paywall , but the summary is there for all to see : First , let 's meet the authors .
Vadim Shteyler is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Brown University .
He 's a hospitalist , which means he 's a regular internal medicine doctor who does n't have an office practice but works only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a law professor at Vanderbilt Law School .
`` She studies constitutional and statutory guarantees of non-discrimination based on traits such as race , sex , sexual orientation , gender identity , religion and disability . ''
Eli Y. Adashi is the former dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University .
His clinical specialty is gynecology .
As you can see , these people are not fringe crackpots .
They are associated with reputable institutions .
They 're getting published in the New England Medical Journal , one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They can be said to represent the mainstream of American medical thinking and its intersection with legal principles .
And from that pinnacle of professionalism , they 're telling us that whether a child is a boy or a girl is irrelevant for purposes of a birth certificate .
And why do they say that ?
Because a vanishingly small percentage of the population has a mental illness that leads those sad people to believe they 're in the wrong body .
Keep in mind that there is no study at all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a purely psychological problem , often associated with severe childhood trauma , especially in the form of absentee fathers and insane mothers .
Accepting as true person 's claim that he is really a member of the opposite sex is precisely the same as accepting as true an emaciated anorexic 's claim that she is morbidly obese — and offering her diet pills and stomach-stapling .
Reality is not a construct .
We can quibble about our approaches to reality ( I say the fabric 's color is puce ; you say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real world exists .
Gravity is a thing , and even if you tell yourself you 're a bird , when you step off that roof and flap your arms , you 're not going anywhere but down .
When a society abandons reality — when it pretends the genetic coding that dictates our body 's sex is meaningless — that society is headed for a disastrous landing .
Mentally ill men who think they 're women do not need to go to a gynecologist like Dr. Adashi because they do not have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or any of the other organs associated with a female animal 's prime function , which is to incubate babies .
Likewise , mentally ill women who think they 're men do need to go to that same gynecologist because their reproductive organs can fall prey to all sorts of unpleasant diseases and conditions that are best treated by someone trained in the area — something like Dr. Adashi , for example .
When we start pretending boys are girls and girls are boys , the pretend girls waste gynecologists ' time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be boys dangerously ignore their biological needs .
Once doctors start playing along with these anti-science , anti-reality fantasies , these same doctors lose the trust of the 95 % or so of Americans who inhabit a fact-based world in which human animals with penises are boys and human animals with vaginas are girls .
What sane person would trust a doctor , of all people , who ca n't tell the two apart ?
And that gets us back to those vaccines the college-educated , increasingly leftist medical establishment is insisting we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are asking themselves when it comes to a vaccine that was rushed into production why they should take medical advice from a doctor who is incapable of telling a boy from a girl or a medical establishment that supports such madness .
Published with permission from the American Thinker .

PETITION UPDATE (7/9/2021) -
Father James Altman was informed late last week that he has been removed as pastor of St. James the Less parish, and that his priestly faculties have been suspended indefinitely.
Please Click Here to WATCH LifeSite's exclusive interview with Fr. Altman, and Click Here to READ more about this turn of events.
As Bishop William J. Callahan’s decree explains, this means he is forbidden from celebrating “The Holy Eucharist” with any members of the faithful present, except for his elderly parents. He is also “no longer allowed to preach,” administer baptism, or assist at marriages.
Altman said that he wasn’t issued restrictions from hearing Confessions or Anointing of the Sick.
The decree also states that he is to continue to live within the Diocese of LaCrosse, where he has been instructed to meet with the Vicar for Clergy at least once a month, and has been “invited to begin” a month-long “spiritual retreat” to help him to “spiritually heal” and “address the issues that caused the issuance of this decree.”
The order states it is in effect as long as “cause” is present, but it does not specify what the cause is. Callahan said he asked Altman to resign on May 23 for being “divisive and ineffective.”
Altman first triggered backlash from his bishop when his video “You cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat. Period” went viral last year. Altman shared that in response to this, his office “got the most vile, despicable phone calls, letters” and “some terrible, really foul messages.”
Callahan criticized Altman at the time for his “manner and tone,” to which Altman countered, “what about the manner and tone of the 10,000 babies that are chopped up last Saturday?”
“What I would hope would always come through no matter what people think about my manner and tone, is that they would recognize that what’s coming through there is God’s love,” Altman told LifeSiteNews. “A love that I recognize because He’s loved me, and I didn’t deserve that.”
“If I seem angry at times, it has nothing to do with me, it has to do with the people. And I asked the question recently, how can they love? If you love, how can you not feed your children?”
In late April, Altman chided the U.S. bishops for needlessly shutting churches and denying the faithful sacraments during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the hierarchy showed “an abundance of cowardice.”
In his interview with LifeSite, Altman alluded to the fact that some don’t like seeing him “upset.”
“I’m thinking well, if you’re denying my child food, the Bread of Life – [Bishop Fulton J. Sheen] said, if you can’t get angry about stuff like that then you can’t love either. Because greater love has greater anger towards those things that are contrary to the salvation of eternal souls, which is the only thing that matters in the end,” said Altman.
"I don’t care what they do to me, honestly, in the end… what troubles me is the interference with the feeding of God’s children, which is through word and through the sacrament. Both of which were denied to people over the past 15 months."
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition, and to continue to contact the Diocese of LaCrosse's Chancery Office, to politely voice your opposition to the removal of Fr. Altman from his parish. The Chancery's phone number is: 608-788-7700.
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PETITION UPDATE (5/24/2021) -
Father James Altman, the Wisconsin priest whose video message last fall "You can’t be a Catholic and a Democrat" went viral and who has fearlessly admonished the U.S. bishops for shutting churches and denying the faithful Sacraments during the COVID-19 crisis, announced on Pentecost Sunday that his bishop has asked him to resign for being "divisive and ineffective."
Please CLICK HERE to READ LifeSiteNews' latest article related to Fr. Altman's ongoing persecution, just to continue shepherding his flock.
Bishop William P. Callahan began threatening the outspoken priest with "canonical penalties" in September, even as public support for the priest surged among rank-and-file Catholics around the country and the world.
And now, a group called 'Faithful America' is proudly boasting responsibility for taking down Fr. Altman, but Faithful America are not even a Catholic organization!
Thankfully, Fr. Altman says he is working with a canon lawyer to resolve this matter.
WATCH Fr. Altman's Sunday sermon in which he announces the bishop's decision to ask for his resignation.
"In response my canon lawyer asked for clarification – asked for the justification and a chance to review what was in my file that suggested I was so divisive and ineffective,” explained Altman. “And I say all this only because, I'm no expert on canon law, but understand only that while we are contesting bishop's request — and we are — he could in theory appoint a parish administrator whilst I remain a pastor without duties until the appeal goes through Rome, which could take up to a year or more."
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, offered his support for Altman via Twitter.
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition with your like-minded family and friends.
And, after signing and sharing, please take a minute to contact the LaCrosse Diocese to politely voice your support for Fr. Altman, and against leftist pressure groups like 'Faithful America.' Please ask Bishop Callahan to prayerfully reconsider his decision and allow Fr. Altman to remain as pastor of St. James the Less parish.
The phone number for the diocese office is: 608.788.7700
Thank you!
PETITION UPDATE (9/15/2020) -
Just this past weekend a prayer vigil was held outside the Cathedral in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on behalf of Fr. James Altman, the priest facing Church penalties for saying that you cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat in 2020.
Hundreds of faithful Catholics turn out to pray for Fr. Altman. Though Fr. Altman did use strong language to warn his flock against spiritual perils, what he said about the Democratic Party's platform is true!
Motivated by a deep sense of justice, supporters gathered at the Cathedral to pray for the priest, and for Bishop Callahan to stand by his priest rather than punish him.
"Fr. Altman is a rare breed. He’s a modern-day St. John the Baptist," declared one woman who attended the prayer vigil. "He’s really changed my life and so many others he’s had that impact on. We need more priests who are true shepherds."
Fr. Richard Heilman, who is the founder of the U.S. Grace Force and who was also present to help lead people in prayer during the vigil, had this to say about Fr. Altman: "Bottom line: he loves, loves, loves his flock. And so, like a good shepherd, if he sees the wolves invading, he sounds the warning alarm."
Please consider SIGNING this petition if you have not already signed. And, please SHARE this petition and video with your family, friends and colleagues. Thank you!
If after signing and sharing you wish to make an even greater impact, we encourage you to contact the Diocese of LaCrosse's Chancery Offices to politely let them know that you support Fr. Altman and want to see him continue in his essential ministry.
Diocese of LaCrosse's Chancery Office phone number: 608-788-7700.
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ORIGINAL PETITION TEXT:
Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less parish in the Wisconsin Diocese of LaCrosse, has been threatened with canonical punishment by his Bishop, Most Rev. William Patrick Callahan.
Fr. Altman's alleged "offense"?
Stating what every faithful Catholic knows to be true in 2020: "You cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat."
Please SIGN this petition which will go to Bishop Callahan and ask him to stop any canonical proceedings against Fr. Altman.
In a strongly-worded YouTube video, designed to shepherd the faithful out of harm's way (supporting the Democratic Party's evil platform), Fr. Altman states the following:
"Here's a memo to clueless, baptized Catholics out there: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period. Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches. So, just quit pretending that you're Catholic and vote Democrat. Repent of your support of that party and its platform, or face the fires of Hell..."
Strong stuff to be sure, but Fr. Altman was taking his cue from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (whom he quotes) – the Church has a "duty and obligation" to speak up when politicians act in an immoral way.
In other words, a pastor must give strong warnings, at times, to guide souls away from grave danger, even when the dangers come from politicians or a political party.
When your house is burning down...or, more appropriately, when someone is attempting to burn your house down, it's time to dispense with the niceties of politically correct language.
And, as Fr. Altman suggests, the Democratic Party's evil platform which promotes the desecration of God's plan for humanity is, in effect, trying to burn down our house (i.e., the Church).
Not only do the Democrats openly advocate for abortion (i.e., killing innocent human beings), but they also promote the destruction of the natural family and the desecration of human nature in support of the homosexual and transgender agendas.
Remember the following:
The Obama-Biden Administration attempted to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to participate in the provision of abortion-inducing drugs and contraception and threatened schools with the loss of federal funding if they wouldn’t let boys in girls’ bathrooms and vice versa.
Democratic Senators Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono grilled a judge, who is a Knight of Columbus, on his membership in the Knights, absurdly suggesting that membership in the Catholic mens' fraternal organization should disqualify someone from sitting on the bench.
And, in 2017, the DNC Chairman said that pro-lifers were not welcome in the party.
No faithful Catholic should even think about voting for such a platform. And, the bishops should be on the frontlines, speaking this truth to power.
Thankfully, the Bishop of Tyler, Texas, Most Rev. Joseph Strickland, has come out in support of Fr. Altman's statement, tweeting:
"As the Bishop of Tyler I endorse Fr. Altman’s statement in this video. My shame is that it has taken me so long. Thank you Fr Altman for your COURAGE. If you love Jesus & His Church & this nation...please HEED THIS MESSAGE.”
With this petition, we now ask that Fr. Altman's own bishop, Most. Rev. Callahan, likewise support his priest and stop any canonical proceedings against him.
Devoid of united leadership from the Hierarchy, individual priests must do their best to inform the laity of the mortal dangers on full view in the Democrats' platform.
And, threatening to silence priests for strongly speaking the truth only plays into the hand of those who actually hate what the Church stands for...and who will, if elected, most likely seek to injure, or even eradicate, the Church.
The bishops should know that the legacy of the Democratic Party being the party of the small man and of the Catholic immigrant is now over.
The Democratic Party of today is the party of radical individualism, not the common good. And, rabid support for abortion and the homosexual agenda are practically obligatory.
As such, the Democratic Party is not a friend of the Church and any priest or bishop who thinks otherwise is being deceived, or allowing himself to be deceived or bullied.
This is not just an abstraction! This is a serious threat to Christianity and their party's platform needs to be met with strong opposition.
Thank you for SIGNING this petition to the bishop of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Bishop Callahan, asking him to support Fr. Altman rather than bringing any canonical proceedings against him.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Bishop threatens ‘canonical penalties’ for priest whose viral video warned Catholics can’t be Democrats': https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-threatens-canonical-penalties-for-fr-altman
YouTube Video - 'Fr. James Altman: You cannot be Catholic & a Democrat. Period.': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7eoTN2vNM
Statement regarding Fr. James Altman from Bishop Callahan: https://diolc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Statement-Father-James-Altman-090920.pdf
'Bishop Strickland echoes priest: ‘You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat’': https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-strickland-echoes-priest-you-cannot-be-catholic-and-be-a-democrat
**Photo Credit: Screen capture from Fr. James Altman's YouTube video on Alpha News MN


lifesitenews--2020-12-22--Top European court tosses Christian family’s case where kids were seized by state

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STRASBOURG , France , December 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) dismissed the legal challenge of a Christian Pentecostal family in Norway whose children were unlawfully seized in 2015 for their Christian beliefs .
The decision to throw out the case came after four painstaking years of international litigation .
ADF International recorded that the Bodnariu family filed their case with the ECHR on the basis of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights , which protects “ the right to private and family life , ” and Article 9 , which protects “ the family ’ s freedom of religion.
” The Bodnariu family claimed that the lead investigator had “ prejudices against the family ’ s Pentecostal faith ” and failed to “ properly investigate the matter before taking steps to separate the family.
” A report from the Christian Legal Centre , which documented the plight of the Bodnarius , an immigrant family from Romania , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ on the basis that the family had not availed themselves of possible domestic remedies for damages ” within Norway ’ s own legal system .
The family had been seeking legal help outside of Norway because the Norwegian system had failed them so badly and was the cause of the family ’ s original separation .
Commenting on the ECHR ’ s decision , the father of the family , Marius , said , “ ( D ) espite the result , we do not regret bringing this case to the European @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has raised international attention to the abuses of family life happening on a daily basis in Norway because of a broken child welfare system.
” “ We are nonetheless disappointed with the outcome , ” he added .
“ We would have never risked the possibility of further separation of our family by seeking damages within the system that so abused our rights .
This case was never about money damages .
It was about righting the wrong that was done to us.
” In 2015 , two of Ruth and Marius Bodnariu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , were attending a school in Norway .
When the headteacher learned that the girls ’ parents disciplined their children using corporal punishment methods such as spanking , the information was forwarded to the Department of Culture , which then involved the state ’ s Barnevernet ( child welfare department ) .
The Barnevernet swiftly took action against the parents because it is illegal in Norway to use corporal punishment on children .
The Barnevernet sent agents to the school to interrogate the girls , at which point it is reported that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things for fear of being punished by spanking or having their ears pulled .
That same day , the two girls were apprehended from their school “ without prior notification of the family ” and taken to an undisclosed location .
Subsequently , Barnevernet agents arrived at the family home and seized the remaining children and their mother , who was taking care of her 9-month-old baby , not on the basis of physical abuse but on charges of “ Christian radicalization and indoctrination.
” Although the authorities were holding the children for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no evidence of abuse was found or presented .
The testimony of the children was inconsistent , with their uncle , Marius ’ brother , pointing out that “ you can easily manipulate a child to say something that is not true.
” He added that “ ( t ) he law in Norway gives almost total credibility to the child and none to the parent.
” The children themselves seemed to have been placed under pressure to tell authorities what they wanted to hear .
They were questioned without supervision or guidance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a police interrogation , ” the Christian Legal Centre said , “ one of the children even asked in her frustration what else did they want her to make up.
” “ Norwegian officials continued to repeat the mantra that the children must be believed , even when much of what was said was contradictory or demonstrably false , ” they added .
The lead investigator “ expresses her own doubts that the children are making up the allegations , ” but demonstrated a harsh bias against the family for their values , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true because a Christian upbringing is inherently violent.
” The Norwegian authorities went so far as to have the couple 's baby undergo both a CT scan and an x-ray , but neither test showed any signs of physical abuse .
The Bodnariu case was one of eight brought before the ECHR involving the Barnevernet ’ s questionable removal of children from families , as pressure mounts on the Norwegian government to “ respect the right of parents to raise their children unless there is evidence of a serious breach of the parents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seven months of legal battles to be reunited with their children .
Fearing that they would again face discriminatory action from the Norwegian government , the Bodnarius moved back to their native Romania .
“ Our story must serve as a warning , ” Marius noted , “ that upholding religious freedom and the legal right of parents to bring up their children in line with their beliefs is fundamental and crucial for any democratic society .
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The parents' children were unlawfully seized in Norway in 2015 over the family’s Christian beliefs.
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STRASBOURG, France, December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed the legal challenge of a Christian Pentecostal family in Norway whose children were unlawfully seized in 2015 for their Christian beliefs. The decision to throw out the case came after four painstaking years of international litigation.
ADF International recorded that the Bodnariu family filed their case with the ECHR on the basis of a violation by the Norwegian government under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects “the right to private and family life,” and Article 9, which protects “the family’s freedom of religion.” The Bodnariu family claimed that the lead investigator had “prejudices against the family’s Pentecostal faith” and failed to “properly investigate the matter before taking steps to separate the family.”
A report from the Christian Legal Centre, which documented the plight of the Bodnarius, an immigrant family from Romania, noted that the ECHR dismissed the case “on the basis that the family had not availed themselves of possible domestic remedies for damages” within Norway’s own legal system. The family had been seeking legal help outside of Norway because the Norwegian system had failed them so badly and was the cause of the family’s original separation.
Commenting on the ECHR’s decision, the father of the family, Marius, said, “(D)espite the result, we do not regret bringing this case to the European Court. Our family’s suffering has raised international attention to the abuses of family life happening on a daily basis in Norway because of a broken child welfare system.”
“We are nonetheless disappointed with the outcome,” he added. “We would have never risked the possibility of further separation of our family by seeking damages within the system that so abused our rights. This case was never about money damages. It was about righting the wrong that was done to us.”
In 2015, two of Ruth and Marius Bodnariu’s daughters, Eliana and Naomi, were attending a school in Norway. When the headteacher learned that the girls’ parents disciplined their children using corporal punishment methods such as spanking, the information was forwarded to the Department of Culture, which then involved the state’s Barnevernet (child welfare department). The Barnevernet swiftly took action against the parents because it is illegal in Norway to use corporal punishment on children.
The Barnevernet sent agents to the school to interrogate the girls, at which point it is reported that the girls said they would avoid doing certain things for fear of being punished by spanking or having their ears pulled. That same day, the two girls were apprehended from their school “without prior notification of the family” and taken to an undisclosed location.
Subsequently, Barnevernet agents arrived at the family home and seized the remaining children and their mother, who was taking care of her 9-month-old baby, not on the basis of physical abuse but on charges of “Christian radicalization and indoctrination.”
Although the authorities were holding the children for fear of abuse in the home, no evidence of abuse was found or presented. The testimony of the children was inconsistent, with their uncle, Marius’ brother, pointing out that “you can easily manipulate a child to say something that is not true.” He added that “(t)he law in Norway gives almost total credibility to the child and none to the parent.”
The children themselves seemed to have been placed under pressure to tell authorities what they wanted to hear. They were questioned without supervision or guidance, parental or professional. “During a police interrogation,” the Christian Legal Centre said, “one of the children even asked in her frustration what else did they want her to make up.”
“Norwegian officials continued to repeat the mantra that the children must be believed, even when much of what was said was contradictory or demonstrably false,” they added.
The lead investigator “expresses her own doubts that the children are making up the allegations,” but demonstrated a harsh bias against the family for their values, saying “that they must nonetheless be true because a Christian upbringing is inherently violent.”
The Norwegian authorities went so far as to have the couple's baby undergo both a CT scan and an x-ray, but neither test showed any signs of physical abuse.
The Bodnariu case was one of eight brought before the ECHR involving the Barnevernet’s questionable removal of children from families, as pressure mounts on the Norwegian government to “respect the right of parents to raise their children unless there is evidence of a serious breach of the parents’ duties.”
It took the Bodnarius seven months of legal battles to be reunited with their children. Fearing that they would again face discriminatory action from the Norwegian government, the Bodnarius moved back to their native Romania.
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“Our story must serve as a warning,” Marius noted, “that upholding religious freedom and the legal right of parents to bring up their children in line with their beliefs is fundamental and crucial for any democratic society.”
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lifesitenews--2020-12-22--Justin Timberlake joins Apple TV to promote transgenderism in new film

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December 21 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — In case you missed it , the tech tyrants and media are pushing hard to get Americans to accept that there 's something called transgenderism that 's a real thing .
The latest effort is Palmer , a new movie from Apple TV .
The premise is that a hardened ex-con in the Deep South finds salvation raising a boy who thinks he 's a girl .
Judging by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrong with the movie , but the same trailer provides a bit of a hint as to what 's really going on with this phenomenon .
The IMDB blurb for Palmer , which is getting released on January 29 , is brief : `` An ex-convict strikes up a friendship with a boy from a troubled home . ''
I prefer the description from an Ace of Spades commenter : What the comment does n't mention is that the trailer shows only two compassionate people ( and it does n't include anyone in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good guys ( or gals ) are an old lady and a young black woman .
I mentioned that the movie inadvertently helps explain why more kids are transgender .
To get Justin Timberlake 's character into parenting , the filmmakers had the kid lack a father and have a crazy mother who abandons him .
That 's real .
Boys who over-identify with their mothers ( especially crazy mothers ) because they have no fathers are more likely to try to be women .
It 's not complicated .
And perhaps it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left 's war on men and its pattern of turning out crazy women .
Explaining the `` transgender '' phenomenon is one thing , and I 'm sure that 's not what the movie 's creative team meant to do .
The real question is why leftists are shilling so hard for transgenderism nowadays .
Two things are at play here .
First , as researcher Cleon Skousen identified in his book , The Naked Communist , communism deliberately attacks ordinary sexuality and the family structure as a way of weakening Western , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a long history of using sexuality to lessen individuals ' sense of control over their own bodies .
The following statement comes from a startlingly prescient list of communist goals and activities that Congressman Albert S. Herlong read into the House record in 1963 .
He based the list on 45 concepts drawn from Skousen 's writing : `` Present homosexuality , degeneracy and promiscuity as 'normal , natural and healthy . '
'' I do not believe in discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation or private sexual practices .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promoting these behaviors weakens the social fabric .
On the bell curve of human behaviors and family outcomes , stable heterosexual relationships tend to be the best way to raise children .
Get rid of them — and , especially , get rid of fathers — and you end up with an emasculated culture that can not withstand external pressures .
In addition to destabilizing society , there 's another reason to push transgenderism , and it 's one that George Orwell articulated in Nineteen Eighty-Four : In the end , the Party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ five , and you would have to believe it .
It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later : the logic of their position demanded it .
Not merely the validity of experience , but the very existence of external reality , was tacitly denied by their philosophy .
The heresy of heresies was common sense .
And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise , but that they might be right .
For , after all , how do we know that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the force of gravity works ?
Or that the past is unchangeable ?
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind , and if the mind itself is controllable — what then ?
When leftists successfully convince all Americans that there is no such thing as fixed sex , they have destroyed common sense and gained complete control over the people they govern .
By watching Palmer , Americans are n't just watching Justin Timberlake trying to be taken seriously .
They 're watching a direct attack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being subjected to an Orwellian effort to destroy their hold on reality .
Published with permission from the American Thinker .

The real question is why leftists are shilling so hard for transgenderism nowadays.
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December 21, 2020 (American Thinker) — In case you missed it, the tech tyrants and media are pushing hard to get Americans to accept that there's something called transgenderism that's a real thing. The latest effort is Palmer, a new movie from Apple TV. The premise is that a hardened ex-con in the Deep South finds salvation raising a boy who thinks he's a girl. Judging by the trailer, there's so much wrong with the movie, but the same trailer provides a bit of a hint as to what's really going on with this phenomenon.
The IMDB blurb for Palmer, which is getting released on January 29, is brief: “An ex-convict strikes up a friendship with a boy from a troubled home.” I prefer the description from an Ace of Spades commenter:
This is funny: Trailer for an Apple original movie. Justin Timberlake is a hardened ex-con forced to raise his neighbors transexual boy when his mother abandons him. Of course this takes place in the south and all the evil hicks are throwing shade at him in every scene! LOL!!!
What the comment doesn't mention is that the trailer shows only two compassionate people (and it doesn't include anyone in the church). Instead, the good guys (or gals) are an old lady and a young black woman.
I mentioned that the movie inadvertently helps explain why more kids are transgender. To get Justin Timberlake's character into parenting, the filmmakers had the kid lack a father and have a crazy mother who abandons him. That's real.
Boys who over-identify with their mothers (especially crazy mothers) because they have no fathers are more likely to try to be women. It's not complicated. And perhaps it's getting more common because of the left's war on men and its pattern of turning out crazy women.
Explaining the “transgender” phenomenon is one thing, and I'm sure that's not what the movie's creative team meant to do. The real question is why leftists are shilling so hard for transgenderism nowadays. Two things are at play here.
First, as researcher Cleon Skousen identified in his book, The Naked Communist, communism deliberately attacks ordinary sexuality and the family structure as a way of weakening Western, Judeo-Christian norms. Additionally, communists have a long history of using sexuality to lessen individuals' sense of control over their own bodies.
The following statement comes from a startlingly prescient list of communist goals and activities that Congressman Albert S. Herlong read into the House record in 1963. He based the list on 45 concepts drawn from Skousen's writing: “Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as 'normal, natural and healthy.'”
I do not believe in discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation or private sexual practices. I do believe, however, that aggressively promoting these behaviors weakens the social fabric. On the bell curve of human behaviors and family outcomes, stable heterosexual relationships tend to be the best way to raise children. Get rid of them — and, especially, get rid of fathers — and you end up with an emasculated culture that cannot withstand external pressures.
In addition to destabilizing society, there's another reason to push transgenderism, and it's one that George Orwell articulated in Nineteen Eighty-Four:
In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable — what then?
When leftists successfully convince all Americans that there is no such thing as fixed sex, they have destroyed common sense and gained complete control over the people they govern.
By watching Palmer, Americans aren't just watching Justin Timberlake trying to be taken seriously. They're watching a direct attack on the underpinnings of American society and being subjected to an Orwellian effort to destroy their hold on reality.
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
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