lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Trump admin cuts Obamacare rule forcing abortion, sex-change coverage

WASHINGTON , D.C. , July 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The Trump administration announced this weekend it has formally rescinded Obama-era decrees that effectively forced insurance plans to subsidize elective abortions and medical treatment that would affirm the gender-confusion of patients who identify as members of the opposite sex .
In May 2016 , the Obama administration redefined “ sex discrimination ” under the so-called Affordable Care Act ( better known as Obamacare ) to include an individual ’ s “ internal sense of gender , which may be male , female , neither , or a combination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also covered “ termination of pregnancy ” under its definition of sex discrimination .
The rule was blocked in December of that year , meaning it hasn ’ t actually been enforced , but as long as it is on the books , danger remained of a future court reviving it .
So the Trump administration ’ s Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) announced last month that it will “ enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government ’ s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ male or female and as determined by biology.
” On Sunday , HHS announced that it has finalized the new rule undoing the old one .
“ HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government ’ s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘ sex ’ as male or female and as determined by biology , ” the announcement declared .
“ The 2016 Rule declined to recognize sexual orientation as a protected category under the ACA , and HHS will leave that judgment undisturbed.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to vigorously enforce federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race , color , national origin , disability , age , and sex in healthcare ” according to the plain meaning of those words .
“ HHS respects the dignity of every human being , and as we have shown in our response to the pandemic , we vigorously protect and enforce the civil rights of all to the fullest extent permitted by our laws as passed by Congress , ” HHS Office for Civil Rights director Roger Severino said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commitment to enforcing civil rights in health care.
” This is only the latest in a series of moves by the current administration to undo the pro-abortion legacy of former President Barack Obama , particularly Obama ’ s executive actions pertaining to the controversial healthcare law that bears his name .
Last week , the U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled that the administration could rescind Obama ’ s rule forcing religious institutions , such as the Little Sisters of the Poor , to cover contraception in health insurance plans .
It remains to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” portion of the new rule will fare in light of the Supreme Court ’ s decision last month to reinterpret “ sex discrimination ” under the federal Civil Rights Act to include transgenderism .
Another lawsuit has already been filed specifically challenging HHS ’ s reversal on Section 1557 .
Either way , both major elements of the new rule are sure to be reversed if former Vice President Joe Biden , Obama ’ s former running mate , defeats Donald Trump for the presidency in November .
Biden has condemned the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Little Sisters , and is running on an aggressive pro-LGBT platform that includes redefining “ sex ” to include “ gender identity ” across federal law .

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The Trump administration announced this weekend it has formally rescinded Obama-era decrees that effectively forced insurance plans to subsidize elective abortions and medical treatment that would affirm the gender-confusion of patients who identify as members of the opposite sex.
In May 2016, the Obama administration redefined “sex discrimination” under the so-called Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare) to include an individual’s “internal sense of gender, which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female.” The rule also covered “termination of pregnancy” under its definition of sex discrimination.
The rule was blocked in December of that year, meaning it hasn’t actually been enforced, but as long as it is on the books, danger remained of a future court reviving it. So the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced last month that it will “enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology.”
On Sunday, HHS announced that it has finalized the new rule undoing the old one. “HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology,” the announcement declared. “The 2016 Rule declined to recognize sexual orientation as a protected category under the ACA, and HHS will leave that judgment undisturbed.”
Instead, it will “continue to vigorously enforce federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, and sex in healthcare” according to the plain meaning of those words.
“HHS respects the dignity of every human being, and as we have shown in our response to the pandemic, we vigorously protect and enforce the civil rights of all to the fullest extent permitted by our laws as passed by Congress,” HHS Office for Civil Rights director Roger Severino said. “We are unwavering in our commitment to enforcing civil rights in health care.”
This is only the latest in a series of moves by the current administration to undo the pro-abortion legacy of former President Barack Obama, particularly Obama’s executive actions pertaining to the controversial healthcare law that bears his name. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled that the administration could rescind Obama’s rule forcing religious institutions, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, to cover contraception in health insurance plans.
It remains to be seen how the “gender identity” portion of the new rule will fare in light of the Supreme Court’s decision last month to reinterpret “sex discrimination” under the federal Civil Rights Act to include transgenderism. Another lawsuit has already been filed specifically challenging HHS’s reversal on Section 1557.
Either way, both major elements of the new rule are sure to be reversed if former Vice President Joe Biden, Obama’s former running mate, defeats Donald Trump for the presidency in November. Biden has condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the Little Sisters, and is running on an aggressive pro-LGBT platform that includes redefining “sex” to include “gender identity” across federal law.
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lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Abp. Viganò letter to President Trump now available in Spanish, French, Chinese

July 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò ’ s historic letter to President Trump warning him about the global Deep State and the complicit “ deep church ” has been translated into Spanish , French , and Chinese .
The letter can be read below by clicking on the following links .
Click here to read the letter in Spanish .
Presione aquí para leer la carta completa en español .
Click here to read the letter in French .
Cliquez ici pour lire la lettre en français Click here to read the letter in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the president about the true nature of the global coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd riots occurred on July 7th .
In his letter , the Archbishop said the rioting is part of the eternal spiritual struggle between the forces of good and evil .
He also mentioned Freemasonry .
“ It will not be surprising if , in a few months , we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Solve et Coagula , as the Masonic adage teaches , ” Viganò ’ wrote .
Viganò , who served as the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. , also said that there “ are Bishops ... who , by their words , prove that they are … subservient to the deep state , to globalism … to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it.
” Viganò ’ s letter , which was originally published on LifeSite ( click @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was shared by President Trump on his twitter page .
The tweet has been “ liked ” more than 140,000 times .
The letter was viewed on LifeSiteNews over 4.1 million times and the John-Henry Weston show video on the letter to Trump has so far received 332,786 views .
The letter and Trump ’ s tweet about it was covered by numerous national and international media such as Fox News , The Washington Post ( in its typically slanted manner ) , the UK Daily Mail , the Sun in the UK @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Glennbeck.com and many of the most prominent and other Catholic media such as the US bishops ’ CNS News service , the giant Catholic EWTN network , the National Catholic Register , Catholic World Report magazine , the CruxNow news service , The Catholic Herald in the UK , Italy ’ s prominent Marco Tosatti blog , Complicit Clergy , the Edward Pentin blog , Catholic on line , a Remnant TV video , a Taylor Marshal video and very many more .
The NY Times has ignored the story about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s tweet , liberal Catholic media outlets expressed outrage and published theories about the White House ’ s connection to not only Archbishop Viganò but also to Traditional Catholic commentator Taylor Marshall .
In recent weeks , Archbishop Viganò has continued to speak out against the crisis in the church .
He places much of the blame for the chaos in the Church on the Second Vatican Council .
“ If we have not understood the causal relationship between Vatican II and its logical and necessary consequences over the course of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be possible to steer the rudder of the Church back to the direction given it by her Divine Helmsman , ” Viganò wrote in a letter to a nun .
Several churchmen have pushed back against Viganò ’ s position on Vatican II , including Bishop Athanasius Schneider .
They believe that rather than throw out Vatican II altogether the church needs to correct the council ’ s most “ defective ” elements .

Viganò’s letter warning about a global Deep State and a 'deep church' has been viewed on LifeSiteNews over 4.1 million times and the John-Henry Weston show on the letter to Trump has so far received 332,786 views.
July 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s historic letter to President Trump warning him about the global Deep State and the complicit “deep church” has been translated into Spanish, French, and Chinese. The letter can be read below by clicking on the following links.
Click here to read the letter in Spanish.
Presione aquí para leer la carta completa en español.
Click here to read the letter in French.
Cliquez ici pour lire la lettre en français
Click here to read the letter in Chinese
點擊這裡閱讀中文信
Archbishop Viganò’s warning to the president about the true nature of the global coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd riots occurred on July 7th. In his letter, the Archbishop said the rioting is part of the eternal spiritual struggle between the forces of good and evil. He also mentioned Freemasonry.
“It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as to build a world without freedom: Solve et Coagula, as the Masonic adage teaches,” Viganò’ wrote.
Viganò, who served as the Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., also said that there “are Bishops … who, by their words, prove that they are … subservient to the deep state, to globalism … to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it.”
Viganò’s letter, which was originally published on LifeSite (click here to read the letter), was shared by President Trump on his twitter page. The tweet has been “liked” more than 140,000 times. The letter was viewed on LifeSiteNews over 4.1 million times and the John-Henry Weston show video on the letter to Trump has so far received 332,786 views.
The letter and Trump’s tweet about it was covered by numerous national and international media such as Fox News, The Washington Post (in its typically slanted manner), the UK Daily Mail, the Sun in the UK, the Daily Caller, the Gellerreport,Glennbeck.com and many of the most prominent and other Catholic media such as the US bishops’ CNS News service, the giant Catholic EWTN network, the National Catholic Register, Catholic World Report magazine, the CruxNow news service, The Catholic Herald in the UK, Italy’s prominent Marco Tosatti blog, Complicit Clergy, the Edward Pentin blog, Catholic on line, a Remnant TV video, a Taylor Marshal video and very many more. The NY Times has ignored the story about the letter.
So honored by Archbishop Viganò’s incredible letter to me. I hope everyone, religious or not, reads it! https://t.co/fVhkCz89g5 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
In the aftermath of Trump’s tweet, liberal Catholic media outlets expressed outrage and published theories about the White House’s connection to not only Archbishop Viganò but also to Traditional Catholic commentator Taylor Marshall.
In recent weeks, Archbishop Viganò has continued to speak out against the crisis in the church. He places much of the blame for the chaos in the Church on the Second Vatican Council.
“If we have not understood the causal relationship between Vatican II and its logical and necessary consequences over the course of the last sixty years, it will not be possible to steer the rudder of the Church back to the direction given it by her Divine Helmsman,” Viganò wrote in a letter to a nun.
Several churchmen have pushed back against Viganò’s position on Vatican II, including Bishop Athanasius Schneider. They believe that rather than throw out Vatican II altogether the church needs to correct the council’s most “defective” elements.
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lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Priest tells families to hold their own hosts during consecration, self-administer Communion

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HATTIESBURG , Mississippi , July 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Because of the coronavirus , a pastor in the Diocese of Biloxi has distributed sacred vessels to the families in his parish .
The heads of household are to hold hosts during the consecration and then distribute Communion to their families .
Father Tommy Conway , pastor of Saint Fabian Catholic Church in Hattiesburg , Mississippi , announced the Communion scheme which challenges liturgical and canon norms in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be provided with a ziplock “ Mass bag ” which contains “ everything you need for Mass except Holy Communion.
” • “ Every family will be issued a sacred vessel , and a husband and wife will be designated as Eucharistic ministers for your family.
” • “ When you come to church , you bring your sacred vessel and your Mass bag , and then you ’ ll pick up the appropriate number of hosts for your family , 2 , 3 , 4 , so on.
” • “ When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , you will take your hosts , unconsecrated , from your zip lock bag and place them into your sacred vessel.
” • “ An adult member of your family will hold the sacred vessel for the consecration , the Lord ’ s Prayer , and the Lamb of God.
” • “ At Communion time , you will then as adults give Communion to each other and one of the adults will give Communion to your children , and then you place your sacred vessel back into your Mass bag and you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ week.
” LifeSiteNews reached out to the Biloxi Bishop Louis Kihneman III for comment , but he did not respond by publication time .
Experts on liturgy consulted by LifeSiteNews reacted with shock and dismay at the plan , which has already been executed at Saint Fabian ’ s .
“ This is hardly to be distinguished from a Protestant communion service , ” said Father John Zuhlsdorf , popularly known as “ Fr .
Z , ” and an expert on the reverent celebration of Mass .
“ Communion in the hand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the hand and self Communication , having nothing to do with the priest , having nothing to do with the altar , is sacrilege at a new nadir , ” declared Zuhlsdorf .
“ I don ’ t in the least think that this priest intends for all of this to be so infra dignitatem , so tacky .
I ’ m convinced he is well meaning , ” said Zuhlsdorf .
“ However , it could be that he is simply so deeply tuned into a modernist frequency that he does n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does n't contemplate the potential sacrileges both unintended and intended.
” Zuhlsdorf raised a series of serious questions about the practice instituted at Saint Fabian ’ s : • How are the “ sacred vessels ” to be purified ?
The priest says , “ Place your sacred vessel back into your Mass bag and you ’ ll have it ready for next week.
” Without purification .
Are people just going to shake out particles onto the ground , or , unaware of them , haul them around in their ziplock baggies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all these “ sacred vessels ” afterward , whatever they are , when COVID time passes and they are no longer needed ?
Will people keep them ?
What happens to them then ?
• How are people to be designated as “ Eucharistic ministers ” without sound training ?
• What ’ s to prevent people from taking a few extra hosts to be consecrated and then saved for later , at home ?
Or for that nice lady down the street , not Catholic , but really nice ?
Or even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given or sold to satanists for ghastly rituals and desecration ?
The Mystery of the Eucharist “ is too great for anyone to permit himself to treat it according to his own whim , so that its sacredness and its universal ordering would be obscured ” .
.
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On the contrary , anyone who acts thus by giving free reign to his own inclinations , even if he is a Priest , injures the substantial unity of the Roman Rite , which ought to be vigorously preserved , and becomes responsible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the hunger and thirst for the living God that is experienced by the people today .
Nor do such actions serve authentic pastoral care or proper liturgical renewal ; instead , they deprive Christ ’ s faithful of their patrimony and their heritage .
For arbitrary actions are not conducive to true renewal , but are detrimental to the right of Christ ’ s faithful to a liturgical celebration that is an expression of the Church ’ s life in accordance with her tradition and discipline .
In the end , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the very celebration of the Eucharist , which is oriented in its own lofty way and by its very nature to signifying and wondrously bringing about the communion of divine life and the unity of the People of God .
The result is uncertainty in matters of doctrine , perplexity and scandal on the part of the People of God , and , almost as a necessary consequence , vigorous opposition , all of which greatly confuse and sadden many of Christ ’ s faithful in this age of ours when Christian life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the inroads of “ secularization ” as well .
“ Perhaps more than in any other nation , Americans have simply chosen to be disobedient in regard to extraordinary ministers , creating their own rules as they go along , ” Kwasniewski wrote in 2018 .
“ I ask : Is this a truly Catholic attitude ?
Or is it just one more example of how far the Church in America has drifted into making up its own religion with its own homegrown rules ?
” “ These crazy gyrations affirm the findings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plummeting belief in the Church 's teachings about the Blessed Sacrament , ” noted Zuhlsdorf .
“ And those findings may apply to priests , as well.
” “ It 's like something from another religion , ” he added .

The priest’s directives that each family will have a ‘Mass bag’ with a ‘sacred vessel’ to use during consecration come as a response to COVID-19.
PETITION: Urge U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference to defend Catholic heritage and statues! Sign the petition here.
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi, July 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Because of the coronavirus, a pastor in the Diocese of Biloxi has distributed sacred vessels to the families in his parish. The heads of household are to hold hosts during the consecration and then distribute Communion to their families.
Father Tommy Conway, pastor of Saint Fabian Catholic Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, announced the Communion scheme which challenges liturgical and canon norms in a Facebook video.
He explains:
Every family will be provided with a ziplock “Mass bag” which contains “everything you need for Mass except Holy Communion.”
“Every family will be issued a sacred vessel, and a husband and wife will be designated as Eucharistic ministers for your family.”
“When you come to church, you bring your sacred vessel and your Mass bag, and then you’ll pick up the appropriate number of hosts for your family, 2, 3, 4, so on.”
“When it’s time for the offertory, you will take your hosts, unconsecrated, from your zip lock bag and place them into your sacred vessel.”
“An adult member of your family will hold the sacred vessel for the consecration, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Lamb of God.”
“At Communion time, you will then as adults give Communion to each other and one of the adults will give Communion to your children, and then you place your sacred vessel back into your Mass bag and you’ll have it ready for next week.”
LifeSiteNews reached out to the Biloxi Bishop Louis Kihneman III for comment, but he did not respond by publication time.
Experts on liturgy consulted by LifeSiteNews reacted with shock and dismay at the plan, which has already been executed at Saint Fabian’s.
“This is hardly to be distinguished from a Protestant communion service,” said Father John Zuhlsdorf, popularly known as “Fr. Z,” and an expert on the reverent celebration of Mass.
“Communion in the hand was bad enough, but consecration in the hand and self Communication, having nothing to do with the priest, having nothing to do with the altar, is sacrilege at a new nadir,” declared Zuhlsdorf.
“I don’t in the least think that this priest intends for all of this to be so infra dignitatem, so tacky. I’m convinced he is well meaning,” said Zuhlsdorf. “However, it could be that he is simply so deeply tuned into a modernist frequency that he doesn't realize how bad this looks, he doesn't contemplate the potential sacrileges both unintended and intended.”
Zuhlsdorf raised a series of serious questions about the practice instituted at Saint Fabian’s:
How are the “sacred vessels” to be purified? The priest says, “Place your sacred vessel back into your Mass bag and you’ll have it ready for next week.” Without purification. Are people just going to shake out particles onto the ground, or, unaware of them, haul them around in their ziplock baggies?
What is to become of all these “sacred vessels” afterward, whatever they are, when COVID time passes and they are no longer needed? Will people keep them? What happens to them then?
How are people to be designated as “Eucharistic ministers” without sound training?
What’s to prevent people from taking a few extra hosts to be consecrated and then saved for later, at home? Or for that nice lady down the street, not Catholic, but really nice? Or even to be, quod Deus avertat, given or sold to satanists for ghastly rituals and desecration?
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, former Professor of Theology and Philosphy at Wyoming Catholic College, pointed to Redemptionis Sacramentum 183:
The Mystery of the Eucharist “is too great for anyone to permit himself to treat it according to his own whim, so that its sacredness and its universal ordering would be obscured” . . . On the contrary, anyone who acts thus by giving free reign to his own inclinations, even if he is a Priest, injures the substantial unity of the Roman Rite, which ought to be vigorously preserved, and becomes responsible for actions that are in no way consistent with the hunger and thirst for the living God that is experienced by the people today. Nor do such actions serve authentic pastoral care or proper liturgical renewal; instead, they deprive Christ’s faithful of their patrimony and their heritage. For arbitrary actions are not conducive to true renewal, but are detrimental to the right of Christ’s faithful to a liturgical celebration that is an expression of the Church’s life in accordance with her tradition and discipline. In the end, they introduce elements of distortion and disharmony into the very celebration of the Eucharist, which is oriented in its own lofty way and by its very nature to signifying and wondrously bringing about the communion of divine life and the unity of the People of God. The result is uncertainty in matters of doctrine, perplexity and scandal on the part of the People of God, and, almost as a necessary consequence, vigorous opposition, all of which greatly confuse and sadden many of Christ’s faithful in this age of ours when Christian life is often particularly difficult on account of the inroads of “secularization” as well.
“Perhaps more than in any other nation, Americans have simply chosen to be disobedient in regard to extraordinary ministers, creating their own rules as they go along,” Kwasniewski wrote in 2018. “I ask: Is this a truly Catholic attitude? Or is it just one more example of how far the Church in America has drifted into making up its own religion with its own homegrown rules?”
“These crazy gyrations affirm the findings of the Pew Research survey which revealed plummeting belief in the Church's teachings about the Blessed Sacrament,” noted Zuhlsdorf. “And those findings may apply to priests, as well.”
“It's like something from another religion,” he added.
Contact information for respectful communication:
Bishop Louis F. Kihneman, III
Diocese of Biloxi
1790 Popps Ferry Road
Biloxi, MS 39532
+1 (228) 702-2100
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lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Why are pro-lifers concerned about Communion in the hand?

On Thursday , July 16 , some of the most well-known pro-life heroes from all over the world will proclaim @ @ @ @ @ reverence due to Our Lord they would never receive Holy Communion in the hand .

On Thursday, July 16, some of the most well-known pro-life heroes from all over the world will proclaim that out of love and reverence due to Our Lord they would never receive Holy Communion in the hand.
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lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Is violent porn one reason skyrocketing number of girls are seeking to change gender?

July 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Last week , I was chatting with one of my friends who has done a lot of work as an anti-porn educator .
One of the things we ’ ve often discussed is how pornography has made puberty and dating so much more difficult for girls .
Sexual violence now infuses sexual interactions as a matter of course , and both of us have had young people—especially young girls—ask us after anti-porn presentations if the demands of their boyfriends are “ okay ” or if they can refuse to engage in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Many of them have trouble distinguishing between sexual assault and a normal sexual experience .
These conversations , by the way , are generally taking place at Christian schools .
During our discussion , I mused that perhaps many girls want to identify as boys these days simply because they do not want to be girls .
If girlhood is now a minefield of sexting , pornography , social media , and cyber-bullying , perhaps some of them see masculinity as a sort of escape .
Only a few days later , reading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book Irreversible Damage : The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters , I came across this passage : Pornography has always been shocking and offensive to young women who first encounter it .
But today ’ s internet porn adds a layer of menace .
Choking has become so common among all categories of viewing on Pornhub that there is no separate rubric for it .
As The Guardian noted of commonly depicted scenes , “ Women are choked with anything for a penis to a fist to the point of gagging , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At the end of the scene the woman “ says , often in a hoarse voice , how much she ‘ loved it.
’ ” “ In my experience , the kids that I work with are often pretty freaked out by porn , ” Sasha Ayad told me of the trans-identified adolescent girls she sees in her practice .
“ In some cases , you know , porn did play a big role in their new adopted identity.
” Violent porn not only terrifies young girls about men and the prospect of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the expectations and behavior of boys .
Sex researcher at Indiana University School of Public Health Debby Herbenick found that nearly a quarter of adult women say they have felt scared during sex and “ 13 percent of sexually active girls ages 14 to 17 have already been choked.
” If you have trouble seeing the appeal of transgender life , consider that the typical dating life available to young women today doesn ’ t look as great as it used to be…this culture make [ s ] it hard to imagine why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
None of that surprises me .
Pornography has created an utterly hostile environment for girls , especially as the sort of violence described above is now simply a feature of the sexual landscape .
In fact , Shrier notes that many of the girls seeking to transition do not necessarily want to transition into boys—they just don ’ t want to be girls .
Many of them seek an ambiguity or androgyny , straddling the fence between the sexes , identifying as “ non-binary ” or simply “ neither.
” They are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ live in , and trans influencers , testosterone , and the celebration of their peers is their ticket out of the lives they have grown to hate .
In many ways , Shrier ’ s book is a badly-needed sequel to American Girls : Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales of Vanity Fair , which was released in 2016 .
It is breathtaking to consider how much as happened since Sales ’ book came out and how effectively the transgender movement has colonized the public schools since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ struggles of girlhood four years ago , detailing their misery , how social media was “ ruining their lives , ” the relentless pressure to sext , to create amateur porn , to act like a porn star on Instagram and SnapChat .
Girls from California to Kansas told Sales that they hated their lives .
Rates of depression and suicide were spiking like never before .
As it turns out , many girls are looking at the transgender movement and they are not seeing a lifestyle that calls for the destruction of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their identity .
Instead , they are seeing a way out of the hell that the Sexual Revolution—and our culture—has created for them .
We have failed to protect our girls .
We should look at what is taking place , and we should all be so very ashamed .
Jonathon ’ s new podcast , The Van Maren Show , is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement .
In his latest episode , he interviews Abigail Shrier , the author of Irreversible Damage : The Transgender Craze @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explosion of teenage girls identifying as transgender .
They also discuss how the trans movement is destroying an entire generation of girls and how this sinister ideology has spread so quickly .
You can subscribe here and listen to the episode below :

July 14, 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Last week, I was chatting with one of my friends who has done a lot of work as an anti-porn educator. One of the things we’ve often discussed is how pornography has made puberty and dating so much more difficult for girls. Sexual violence now infuses sexual interactions as a matter of course, and both of us have had young people—especially young girls—ask us after anti-porn presentations if the demands of their boyfriends are “okay” or if they can refuse to engage in the porn-inspired activities being demanded of them. Many of them have trouble distinguishing between sexual assault and a normal sexual experience. These conversations, by the way, are generally taking place at Christian schools.
During our discussion, I mused that perhaps many girls want to identify as boys these days simply because they do not want to be girls. If girlhood is now a minefield of sexting, pornography, social media, and cyber-bullying, perhaps some of them see masculinity as a sort of escape. Only a few days later, reading through Abigail Shrier’s brilliant new book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, I came across this passage:
Pornography has always been shocking and offensive to young women who first encounter it. But today’s internet porn adds a layer of menace. Choking has become so common among all categories of viewing on Pornhub that there is no separate rubric for it. As The Guardian noted of commonly depicted scenes, “Women are choked with anything for a penis to a fist to the point of gagging, and in some cases almost passing out.” At the end of the scene the woman “says, often in a hoarse voice, how much she ‘loved it.’” “In my experience, the kids that I work with are often pretty freaked out by porn,” Sasha Ayad told me of the trans-identified adolescent girls she sees in her practice. “In some cases, you know, porn did play a big role in their new adopted identity.” Violent porn not only terrifies young girls about men and the prospect of sex with them, it is changing the expectations and behavior of boys. Sex researcher at Indiana University School of Public Health Debby Herbenick found that nearly a quarter of adult women say they have felt scared during sex and “13 percent of sexually active girls ages 14 to 17 have already been choked.” If you have trouble seeing the appeal of transgender life, consider that the typical dating life available to young women today doesn’t look as great as it used to be…this culture make[s] it hard to imagine why anyone would want to be a girl.
None of that surprises me. Pornography has created an utterly hostile environment for girls, especially as the sort of violence described above is now simply a feature of the sexual landscape. In fact, Shrier notes that many of the girls seeking to transition do not necessarily want to transition into boys—they just don’t want to be girls. Many of them seek an ambiguity or androgyny, straddling the fence between the sexes, identifying as “non-binary” or simply “neither.” They are seeking an escape from the world they live in, and trans influencers, testosterone, and the celebration of their peers is their ticket out of the lives they have grown to hate.
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In many ways, Shrier’s book is a badly-needed sequel to American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales of Vanity Fair, which was released in 2016. It is breathtaking to consider how much as happened since Sales’ book came out and how effectively the transgender movement has colonized the public schools since then. Sales laid out the excruciating struggles of girlhood four years ago, detailing their misery, how social media was “ruining their lives,” the relentless pressure to sext, to create amateur porn, to act like a porn star on Instagram and SnapChat. Girls from California to Kansas told Sales that they hated their lives. Rates of depression and suicide were spiking like never before.
As it turns out, many girls are looking at the transgender movement and they are not seeing a lifestyle that calls for the destruction of their femininity, their fertility, and their identity. Instead, they are seeing a way out of the hell that the Sexual Revolution—and our culture—has created for them. We have failed to protect our girls. We should look at what is taking place, and we should all be so very ashamed.
Jonathon’s new podcast, The Van Maren Show, is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement. In his latest episode, he interviews Abigail Shrier, the author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. They discuss the explosion of teenage girls identifying as transgender. They also discuss how the trans movement is destroying an entire generation of girls and how this sinister ideology has spread so quickly. You can subscribe here and listen to the episode below:


lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Poland’s pro-family president re-elected by narrow margin

WARSAW , Poland , July 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) ― Poland ’ s president was re-elected with 51.2 percent of the vote on Sunday .
President Andrzej Duda , 48 , of the center-right Law and Justice ( PiS ) party managed to see off challenger Rafał Trzaskowski , also 48 , of the center-left Civic Platform ( PO ) party in an election with the highest voter turnout in 25 years .
The election battle was closely fought , and 68.2 percent of Poland ’ s eligible voters turned out to cast their ballot in Sunday ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were so closely matched in the exit polls that it was not immediately apparent that Duda had actually won .
The first round of the 2020 presidential elections occurred on June 28 .
That Sunday Duda received 43.5 percent of the vote and Trzaskowski , the current Mayor of Warsaw , 30.5 percent .
During this round the president was challenged for the social conservative vote by the National Movement ’ s Krzysztof Bosak , 38 , who received 6.79 percent .
The Polish choice was not only between two candidates but between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ versus a globalist pro-LGBT ethos .
Krystian Kratiuk of Polonia Christiana magazine told LifeSiteNews that Trzaskowski ’ s near-success is evidence of “ significant changes ” in society .
“ The fact that Trzaskowski was supported by so many people is because of significant changes in Polish society , [ a mentality ] which is striving for a Western model – a totally liberal lifestyle , with homosexuality at the forefront , ” he stated by email .
However , Kratiuk also said that there is an “ informal anti-PiS party ” that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within Poland .
PiS , the ruling party , is also attacked from time to time by the international press and by the European Union .
Given all this opposition , Kratiuk deemed Duda ’ s win “ a huge success.
” “ Liberal-left media hate Polishness and Poles , Polish culture , Catholicism , patriotism .
They despise them , ” the Kraków-based journalist told LifeSiteNews .
“ This has never been seen better than today .
That 's why many people turned out to vote for Duda against the elite , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own people.
” Reservations included doubt about Duda ’ s party ’ s real commitment to the pro-life cause .
Despite Duda saying that he will sign into law any bill criminalizing eugenic abortion of disabled children , his party has dragged its feet on bringing the issue to a final vote .
Nevertheless , the danger Trzaskowski posed to traditional Polish values inspired the majority , Kratiuk believes .
“ This election also shows that in Poland , despite the crushing dominance of liberal-left media , there is still a strong conservative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the biggest in 25 years , ” he said .
Kratiuk also gave credit for Duda ’ s success to the social programs introduced by the Law and Justice party over the last few years , including a baby bonus of 500 PLN per month per child .
These initiatives , which PiS assured the public PO would cut , have improved the Polish standard of living .
Next time PiS might not be so lucky .
Trzaskowski received more votes from the 18-49 year old segment of society , whereas Duda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 50 .
He won by only 500,000 votes , and by the next parliamentary elections in 2023 , 1.3 million elderly Polish voters will probably have died and been replaced in the polls by today ’ s western-looking teenagers .
Kratiuk wonders if Duda and PiS will begin to compromise on their pro-family , pro-tradition policy to win the youth vote , as the political power and ideological stance of the rising generation are “ clear.
” “ The only thing that is not clear is how PiS will behave in this matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether it remains the bastion of Polish Catholicism or follows in the footsteps of the [ socially liberal ] British Conservative Party , it will not turn into a party in which ‘ it is okay to be gay.
’ ” At the same time , the journalist noted that the ruling party has as yet taken no concrete steps to counter LGBT philosophy in Poland .
Kratiuk thinks Duda ’ s promise to add a ban on adoption of children by homosexuals to the Polish Constitution was a sop to social conservatives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Movement ’ s Krzysztof Bosak instead .
Some found a vivid example of the generation gap in President Duda ’ s own family .
After the exit poll , Duda ’ s 25-year-old daughter Kinga expressed a desire that nobody in Poland “ fear leaving the house ” because of who “ [ they ] love.
” “ I would like to appeal that nobody in our country will fear leaving the house , ” the London-based Kinga Duda said .
“ Regardless of the color of our skin , of whom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ love , ” she continued .
“ We are all equal .
We are all equal , and nobody deserves to be the object of hatred.
” “ This was interpreted as a tribute to the LGBT community , ” Kratiuk said .
“ Duda has not commented on this so far.
” Meanwhile , the re-elected president responded to the news of his victory in the most iconic way possible in Poland : he went straight to Częstochowa to pray before the Black Madonna icon representing Our Lady Queen of Poland .

‘This election also shows that in Poland, despite the crushing dominance of liberal-left media, there is still a strong conservative and Catholic spirit’
WARSAW, Poland, July 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Poland’s president was re-elected with 51.2 percent of the vote on Sunday.
President Andrzej Duda, 48, of the center-right Law and Justice (PiS) party managed to see off challenger Rafał Trzaskowski, also 48, of the center-left Civic Platform (PO) party in an election with the highest voter turnout in 25 years.
The election battle was closely fought, and 68.2 percent of Poland’s eligible voters turned out to cast their ballot in Sunday’s second round. The two contenders were so closely matched in the exit polls that it was not immediately apparent that Duda had actually won.
The first round of the 2020 presidential elections occurred on June 28. That Sunday Duda received 43.5 percent of the vote and Trzaskowski, the current Mayor of Warsaw, 30.5 percent. During this round the president was challenged for the social conservative vote by the National Movement’s Krzysztof Bosak, 38, who received 6.79 percent.
The Polish choice was not only between two candidates but between two philosophies: traditional Polish family values versus a globalist pro-LGBT ethos. Krystian Kratiuk of Polonia Christiana magazine told LifeSiteNews that Trzaskowski’s near-success is evidence of “significant changes” in society.
“The fact that Trzaskowski was supported by so many people is because of significant changes in Polish society, [a mentality] which is striving for a Western model – a totally liberal lifestyle, with homosexuality at the forefront,” he stated by email.
However, Kratiuk also said that there is an “informal anti-PiS party” that includes almost all the largest media organizations within Poland. PiS, the ruling party, is also attacked from time to time by the international press and by the European Union. Given all this opposition, Kratiuk deemed Duda’s win “a huge success.”
“Liberal-left media hate Polishness and Poles, Polish culture, Catholicism, patriotism. They despise them,” the Kraków-based journalist told LifeSiteNews.
“This has never been seen better than today. That's why many people turned out to vote for Duda against the elite, despite reservations. Elites who hate their own people.”
Reservations included doubt about Duda’s party’s real commitment to the pro-life cause. Despite Duda saying that he will sign into law any bill criminalizing eugenic abortion of disabled children, his party has dragged its feet on bringing the issue to a final vote.
Nevertheless, the danger Trzaskowski posed to traditional Polish values inspired the majority, Kratiuk believes.
“This election also shows that in Poland, despite the crushing dominance of liberal-left media, there is still a strong conservative and Catholic spirit; the election turnout was the biggest in 25 years,” he said.
Kratiuk also gave credit for Duda’s success to the social programs introduced by the Law and Justice party over the last few years, including a baby bonus of 500 PLN per month per child. These initiatives, which PiS assured the public PO would cut, have improved the Polish standard of living.
Next time PiS might not be so lucky. Trzaskowski received more votes from the 18-49 year old segment of society, whereas Duda’s success depended on people over 50. He won by only 500,000 votes, and by the next parliamentary elections in 2023, 1.3 million elderly Polish voters will probably have died and been replaced in the polls by today’s western-looking teenagers.
Kratiuk wonders if Duda and PiS will begin to compromise on their pro-family, pro-tradition policy to win the youth vote, as the political power and ideological stance of the rising generation are “clear.”
“The only thing that is not clear is how PiS will behave in this matter,” he said.
“But whether it remains the bastion of Polish Catholicism or follows in the footsteps of the [socially liberal] British Conservative Party, it will not turn into a party in which ‘it is okay to be gay.’”
At the same time, the journalist noted that the ruling party has as yet taken no concrete steps to counter LGBT philosophy in Poland. Kratiuk thinks Duda’s promise to add a ban on adoption of children by homosexuals to the Polish Constitution was a sop to social conservatives who might otherwise have voted for the National Movement’s Krzysztof Bosak instead.
Some found a vivid example of the generation gap in President Duda’s own family. After the exit poll, Duda’s 25-year-old daughter Kinga expressed a desire that nobody in Poland “fear leaving the house” because of who “[they] love.”
“I would like to appeal that nobody in our country will fear leaving the house,” the London-based Kinga Duda said.
“Regardless of the color of our skin, of whom we support, and of whom we love,” she continued.
“We are all equal. We are all equal, and nobody deserves to be the object of hatred.”
“This was interpreted as a tribute to the LGBT community,” Kratiuk said. “Duda has not commented on this so far.”
Meanwhile, the re-elected president responded to the news of his victory in the most iconic way possible in Poland: he went straight to Częstochowa to pray before the Black Madonna icon representing Our Lady Queen of Poland.
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lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Noted theologian agrees with Archbishop Viganò over problems with Vatican II, but suggests ‘reset’ i

Noted theologian agrees with Archbishop Viganò over problems with Vatican II, but suggests ‘reset’ is not possible

July 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In the recent weeks , Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and the Italian theologian Father Alfredo Morselli have been conducting a friendly exchange of thoughts in the wake of the Italian archbishop 's interventions concerning the Second Vatican Council ( full correspondence see below ) .
And today , though without mention any names , Father Morselli is adding further thoughts to the debate , in a statement sent to LifeSite .
In his initial letter , Father Morselli , while supportive and respectful toward Archbishop Viganò , disagrees with him on some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ letters that have already been published in Italian , Morselli described the Second Vatican Council as a sort of “ detonator ” – and thus a destructive event – but he holds that there must have been a corruption prior to the Council that made these developments possible .
Describing the situation of the Church “ prior to the Council , ” this priest and theologian wrote : “ The thermometer of a good part of the clergy and Catholic intelligentsia indicated moral corruption , tepidity , fear , pride , careerism , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cross and come to terms with the world .
The pot uncovered by Viganò had been boiling for a long time.
” Speaking in commercial terms , Father Morselli added that “ if the market was not ready , the product would not have been launched.
” Father Morselli went on to describe the growing corruption in the Catholic Church after the death of Saint Pope Pius X who tried to fight Modernists within the Church : “ After the death of Saint Pius X men continued to sin , the battle against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back to such an extent that Pius XII , Garrigou Lagrange and Mariano Cordovani did not succeed in even scratching the surface of the Nouvelle Theologie that occupied all the university chairs .
Masonry placed the most impure blackmailable people in key positions , and the good ( who in reality were not truly good ) were just so many Don Abbondios.
” In his June 24 response to Father Morselli , Archbishop Viganò said that he is “ in agreement ” with him “ on the fact that the Second Vatican Council @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of subject in itself , endowed with its own will.
” “ Authoritative studies have demonstrated , ” he continued , “ that the preparatory schemae prepared by the Holy Office were meant to confirm the image of a rock-solid Church that in reality , especially far from Rome , was showing signs of a dangerous breakdown.
” Therefore , Viganò agrees that the Catholic Faith was already weakened in different aspects before the Second Vatican Council .
Further commenting on the initial schemae of the Council , he wrote : “ If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with new schemae that had been prepared in the cliques of German , French , Swiss , and Dutch innovators , evidently many members of the episcopate ( with their court of self-styled theologians , the majority of whom were already the object of canonical censures ) were corrupt in both intellect and will.
” Archbishop Viganò pointed to the manipulative character of some of the changes at the Council and added that the “ Council was in fact a dishonest operation , a scam carried out against the faithful and the clergy.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's situation under Pope Francis .
Comments the archbishop : “ Proceeding along this slippery , unfortunate and destructive path , we have finally arrived at the bankruptcy of the company at the hands of its Argentinian liquidator , ready to deliver the Church of Mercy Co. into the hands of the New World Order .
Bergoglio is probably confident that , in this new structure , he will be given some sort of managerial role , if only out of recognition for the work he has accomplished.
” In a new statement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( see full text below ) , the theologian further expounds on this topic of the Second Vatican Council .
Here , he does not address particularly a person , but points to substantive matters that are related to the general discussion on the Second Vatican Council .
It is clear that Father Morselli wishes to contribute to a friendly , polite , and charitable discourse among well-meaning friends and experts where disagreements will naturally arise .
In his set of points made in this new statement , Father Morselli presents arguments that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could be an additional invitation to further discourse and debate in Catholic ecclesial and intellectual circles , for the sake of a clarification of the roots of our current crisis and its best resolution .
For example , Morselli states that in his view , most of the problems that have been caused by ambiguous formulations in the conciliar documents have subsequently been clarified by the Magisterium .
He says : “ Almost all the problems of the conciliar texts have been solved – unfortunately only theoretically – by the following documents : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Catholic Church ] , Veritatis splendor , Dominus Jesus , Fides et Ratio , Ecclesia de Eucharistia , Redemptoris Missio , the CDF 's response on the 'subsistit ' issue.
” He also insists that it is up to the Magisterium to make authoritative clarifications , and that it is not correct to present the Council as the sole cause of the current evil in the Church .
Finally , Father Morselli states that there is no simple turning back to the 1960s : “ The prospect that he hypothesized as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the last 60 years and start again from Pius XII '' , is not Catholic and is a pious illusion.
” As can be seen in these few points made by Father Morselli , what lies ahead is a longer discourse , and sometimes a painful one .
But we can trust that God would surely help those great Catholics minds to come to good and helpful conclusions that at some point in the future might serve the Catholic Magisterium to make needed decisions and clarifications .
*** Please see here first the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ second , a new statement by Morselli published on LifeSite today .
Exchange of letters between Don Alfredo Maria Morselli and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Vatican II Don Alfredo Morselli wrote in the form of a letter ( text below ) the considerations that were subsequently published on the blog messainlatino.it .
Ave Maria !
I would like to better explain why I do not place all of the blame for the present crisis at the feet of Vatican II , while not denying its function as a detonator ( which can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
Marketing strategies are divided into push and pull strategies ; that is , a company that is trying to sell a product can seek to create a need for it and push something for which there is no real need .
Or else it can , after investigating the market , understand that there is an ample pool of potential clients who feel the need for a certain product .
The two strategies often work together .
What is the “ commercial ” analysis of the situation prior to the Council @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the clergy and Catholic intelligentsia indicated moral corruption , tepidity , fear , pride , careerism , a desire to break away from the Cross and come to terms with the world .
The pot uncovered by Viganò had been boiling for a long time .
Saint Paul said that times would come in which men would be surrounded by teachers according to their own desires , teachers who would have support and make possible calling good evil and vice-versa ( Cf .
2 Tim 4:3 ) .
The teachers according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the moment has come to present themselves to the world and sell their product in a good market .
What I am saying is that if the market was not ready , the product would not have been launched .
After the death of Saint Pius X men continued to sin , the battle against Modernism was quickly forgotten , Modernism grew back to such an extent that Pius XII , Garrigou Lagrange and Mariano Cordovani did not succeed in even scratching the surface of the Nouvelle Theologie that occupied all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impure blackmailable people in key positions , and the good ( who in reality were not truly good ) were just so many Don Abbondios .
The tumor spread metastases everywhere , and the most recent popes Paul VI , Saint John Paul II , Benedict XVI , could only administer palliatives .
Some also criticize the aforementioned popes , but perhaps it was the best our Eternal Father could do .
Or else he mysteriously allowed a providential “ evil of punishment ” to form .
And in the meantime the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in vitro pontiff was kept in the laboratories of the Modernists .
Now the patient is in hospice , hanging on the double thread of the “ non praevalebunt ” and the promises of Fatima .
And also on the great quantity of Blood in the third part of the secret .
I thank you for your email , in which I see confirmed your supernatural vision of the events that afflict Holy Mother Church .
I am in agreement with you on the fact that the Second Vatican Council can not be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself , endowed with its own will .
Authoritative studies have demonstrated that the preparatory schemae prepared by the Holy Office were meant to confirm the image of a rock-solid Church that in reality , especially far from Rome , was showing signs of a dangerous breakdown .
And if it was so simple to replace them with new schemae that had been prepared in the cliques of German , French , Swiss , and Dutch innovators , evidently many members of the episcopate ( with their court of self-styled theologians , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of canonical censures ) were corrupt in both intellect and will .
What you identify with the most common marketing strategies and that you rightly see as having been realized in the Council was in fact a dishonest operation , a scam carried out against the faithful and the clergy : in order to increase business , the product and the corporate image were changed , promoting it with publicity campaigns and discounts .
The “ warehouse leftovers ” were liquidated or sent to the pulping mill .
But the Church of Christ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no commercial purposes , and its ministers are not managers .
This sensational error , or rather this true and proper fraud , was conceived by people who with this human and mercantile vision of spiritual things demonstrated not only their own inadequacy but also their unworthiness for the role they held .
And yet it was precisely that mentality that officially marked the rupture with Tradition : transforming the Church into a corporation meant placing it into an absurd competition with competing sects and false religions , imposing an adaptation of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs of the customers , and at the same time also imposing the need to arouse in potential buyers the need for new , alternative “ goods and services ” which they did not even feel a need for .
And thus we were given the communitarian emphasis of the Liturgy , the “ do-it-yourself ” approach to Scripture , the “ throw it all out ” approach to Doctrine and Morals , the new staff uniforms , etc ... .
I believe that , if we want to continue with the comparison @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not be denied that precisely in order to eliminate the presence of a product that does not have many competitors , it was necessary not only to make it less exclusive but sooner or later to reach the point of absorbing the company that produces it by a more powerful and widespread one : initially the best product is kept as the “ first line ” for a more demanding clientele , then it is removed from production and finally even the brand itself disappears .
Proceeding along this slippery , unfortunate and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the bankruptcy of the company at the hands of its Argentinian liquidator , ready to deliver the Church of Mercy Co. into the hands of the New World Order .
Bergoglio is probably confident that , in this new structure , he will be given some sort of managerial role , if only out of recognition for the work he has accomplished .
There is no one who can not see that this commercial vision has nothing Catholic about it , above all since the Church belongs to Christ , who delegates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Church into what it is not and never can be takes shape as a very grave sin and an unheard of crime , both against God and against the flock that He has ordered to graze in very well-defined pastures , not to be dispersed in crevasses and brambles .
And if the ones responsible for this enormous ruin are the unfaithful administrators who falsified the statutes and balance sheets and defrauded the customers , they will have to be asked for an account : redde rationem villicationis tuae [ give an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 16:2 ) .
New intervention by Father Morselli – published on LifeSite July 14 The recent externations of Vatican II by some Pastors , which I also consider Masters , and whose teaching I shared everything up to now , I do not entirely agree .
I would like , with great respect towards them , to intervene in the debate and clarify some concepts that I consider essential .
I also specify that I do not intend to attribute directly to anyone in particular the errors that I denounce below , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangers that we could be run , in the due common holy opposition to the neo-modernist crisis .
1 ) The current crisis is of unprecedented proportions and is substantially neo-modernist , and far more serious in quality than the modernist crisis of the early 1900s .
2 ) There is no simple cause-effect relationship between the Council and the current crisis .
2.1 ) Preparation for the crisis began long before 1960 .
2.2 ) Without a suitable terrain ( a large corruption of customs with consequent obscuration of the intellect , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would not have taken root .
[ A sort of parable of the sower on the contrary : the seed of error germinates only on bad soil ] 2.3 ) The current pontificate was theorized and prepared well before the work of the so-called `` Mafia of St. Gallen '' .
3 ) A distinction must be made between the conciliar documents and what happened next .
3.1 ) The fact that many deviations from the truth have been made in the name of the Council , does not imply that the direct @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by those who perpetrated the aforementioned unfortunate innovations 3.2 ) It is not Catholic to deny the assistance of the Holy Spirit even during the last Council , as if there was nothing good in it .
4 ) The Council texts themselves contain some phrases formulated in an ambiguous way , which provide the neo-modernists with a foothold to interpret them in the worst way .
5 ) Almost all the problems of the conciliar texts have been solved - unfortunately only theoretically - by the following documents : in particular the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] , Veritatis splendor , Dominus Jesus , Fides et Ratio , Ecclesia de Eucharistia , Redemptoris Missio , the CDF 's response on the `` subsistit '' issue .
6 ) The troubles are derived , rather than from the single badly formulated sentences , from the choice to express themselves in a non-definitive way , unfortunate way when the crisis situation would have required the most explicit and firm clarity .
7 ) Nor should we forget the tragic omission of the explicit and formal condemnation of communism .
8 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called `` pastoral '' does not imply that consent should not be given to individual statements , of widely diversified quality , each interpreted and accepted in different degrees , according to the objective rules of hermeneutics of the magisterium .
9 ) The opposition to part of the conciliar text can only be made by remaining in the wake of the Catholic theology proper to the `` De fide '' treaty : 9.1 ) Faith includes `` Credere Deo '' , that is , it has as its object a truth proposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9.2 ) The Magisterium remains the proximate norm of faith , and adherence to it is the `` primum '' , in order of execution , of the act of faith .
9.3 ) Like the Holy Scripture , the Magisterium is not subject to `` private interpretation '' , but only the Magisterium can interpret itself in an authentic and authoritative way .
9.4 ) It follows that the errors that a single document ( of a certain quality of the required assent ) may contain , can be opposed with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , exemplifying , saying : `` Madam Master , I do not understand how there is no contradiction between what has been proposed to believe so far and the latter statement.
`` The `` pietas '' in the formulation of the `` dubia '' does not imply the absence of fortitude and decision .
The prospect that looks at Vatican II `` simpliciter '' as the cause of all evils is a historically incorrect simplification .
The prospect that he hypothesized as a way out : `` we will reset the last 60 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' , is not Catholic and is a pious illusion .

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July 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In the recent weeks, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and the Italian theologian Father Alfredo Morselli have been conducting a friendly exchange of thoughts in the wake of the Italian archbishop's interventions concerning the Second Vatican Council (full correspondence see below). And today, though without mention any names, Father Morselli is adding further thoughts to the debate, in a statement sent to LifeSite.
In his initial letter, Father Morselli, while supportive and respectful toward Archbishop Viganò, disagrees with him on some points. In this first exchanges of letters that have already been published in Italian, Morselli described the Second Vatican Council as a sort of “detonator” – and thus a destructive event – but he holds that there must have been a corruption prior to the Council that made these developments possible.
Describing the situation of the Church “prior to the Council,” this priest and theologian wrote: “The thermometer of a good part of the clergy and Catholic intelligentsia indicated moral corruption, tepidity, fear, pride, careerism, a desire to break away from the Cross and come to terms with the world. The pot uncovered by Viganò had been boiling for a long time.”
Speaking in commercial terms, Father Morselli added that “if the market was not ready, the product would not have been launched.”
Father Morselli went on to describe the growing corruption in the Catholic Church after the death of Saint Pope Pius X who tried to fight Modernists within the Church: “After the death of Saint Pius X men continued to sin, the battle against Modernism was quickly forgotten, Modernism grew back to such an extent that Pius XII, Garrigou Lagrange and Mariano Cordovani did not succeed in even scratching the surface of the Nouvelle Theologie that occupied all the university chairs. Masonry placed the most impure blackmailable people in key positions, and the good (who in reality were not truly good) were just so many Don Abbondios.”
(Don Abbondio is a protagonist in the famous Italian novel The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni who is a coward and does not resist an evil local overlord.)
In his June 24 response to Father Morselli, Archbishop Viganò said that he is “in agreement” with him “on the fact that the Second Vatican Council cannot be considered as a sort of subject in itself, endowed with its own will.” “Authoritative studies have demonstrated,” he continued, “that the preparatory schemae prepared by the Holy Office were meant to confirm the image of a rock-solid Church that in reality, especially far from Rome, was showing signs of a dangerous breakdown.”
Therefore, Viganò agrees that the Catholic Faith was already weakened in different aspects before the Second Vatican Council. Further commenting on the initial schemae of the Council, he wrote: “If it was so simple to replace them with new schemae that had been prepared in the cliques of German, French, Swiss, and Dutch innovators, evidently many members of the episcopate (with their court of self-styled theologians, the majority of whom were already the object of canonical censures) were corrupt in both intellect and will.”
Archbishop Viganò pointed to the manipulative character of some of the changes at the Council and added that the “Council was in fact a dishonest operation, a scam carried out against the faithful and the clergy.” He sees a continuation to today's situation under Pope Francis. Comments the archbishop:
“Proceeding along this slippery, unfortunate and destructive path, we have finally arrived at the bankruptcy of the company at the hands of its Argentinian liquidator, ready to deliver the Church of Mercy Co. into the hands of the New World Order. Bergoglio is probably confident that, in this new structure, he will be given some sort of managerial role, if only out of recognition for the work he has accomplished.”
In a new statement that Father Morselli kindly sent to LifeSite (see full text below), the theologian further expounds on this topic of the Second Vatican Council. Here, he does not address particularly a person, but points to substantive matters that are related to the general discussion on the Second Vatican Council.
It is clear that Father Morselli wishes to contribute to a friendly, polite, and charitable discourse among well-meaning friends and experts where disagreements will naturally arise.
In his set of points made in this new statement, Father Morselli presents arguments that should each be further expounded upon and could be an additional invitation to further discourse and debate in Catholic ecclesial and intellectual circles, for the sake of a clarification of the roots of our current crisis and its best resolution.
For example, Morselli states that in his view, most of the problems that have been caused by ambiguous formulations in the conciliar documents have subsequently been clarified by the Magisterium. He says: “Almost all the problems of the conciliar texts have been solved – unfortunately only theoretically – by the following documents: in particular the CCC [Catechism of the Catholic Church], Veritatis splendor, Dominus Jesus, Fides et Ratio, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Redemptoris Missio, the CDF's response on the 'subsistit' issue.” He also insists that it is up to the Magisterium to make authoritative clarifications, and that it is not correct to present the Council as the sole cause of the current evil in the Church.
Finally, Father Morselli states that there is no simple turning back to the 1960s: “The prospect that he hypothesized as a way out: “we will reset the last 60 years and start again from Pius XII”, is not Catholic and is a pious illusion.”
As can be seen in these few points made by Father Morselli, what lies ahead is a longer discourse, and sometimes a painful one. But we can trust that God would surely help those great Catholics minds to come to good and helpful conclusions that at some point in the future might serve the Catholic Magisterium to make needed decisions and clarifications.
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Please see here first the correspondence between Viganò and Morselli, and second, a new statement by Morselli published on LifeSite today.
Exchange of letters between Don Alfredo Maria Morselli and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Vatican II
Don Alfredo Morselli wrote in the form of a letter (text below) the considerations that were subsequently published on the blog messainlatino.it.
Ave Maria! I would like to better explain why I do not place all of the blame for the present crisis at the feet of Vatican II, while not denying its function as a detonator (which cannot do anything in itself without explosives). Marketing strategies are divided into push and pull strategies; that is, a company that is trying to sell a product can seek to create a need for it and push something for which there is no real need. Or else it can, after investigating the market, understand that there is an ample pool of potential clients who feel the need for a certain product. The two strategies often work together.
What is the “commercial” analysis of the situation prior to the Council? The thermometer of a good part of the clergy and Catholic intelligentsia indicated moral corruption, tepidity, fear, pride, careerism, a desire to break away from the Cross and come to terms with the world. The pot uncovered by Viganò had been boiling for a long time.
Saint Paul said that times would come in which men would be surrounded by teachers according to their own desires, teachers who would have support and make possible calling good evil and vice-versa (Cf. 2 Tim 4:3).
The teachers according to the desires of the world have understood that the moment has come to present themselves to the world and sell their product in a good market. What I am saying is that if the market was not ready, the product would not have been launched.
After the death of Saint Pius X men continued to sin, the battle against Modernism was quickly forgotten, Modernism grew back to such an extent that Pius XII, Garrigou Lagrange and Mariano Cordovani did not succeed in even scratching the surface of the Nouvelle Theologie that occupied all the university chairs. Masonry placed the most impure blackmailable people in key positions, and the good (who in reality were not truly good) were just so many Don Abbondios.
The tumor spread metastases everywhere, and the most recent popes Paul VI, Saint John Paul II, Benedict XVI, could only administer palliatives. Some also criticize the aforementioned popes, but perhaps it was the best our Eternal Father could do. Or else he mysteriously allowed a providential “evil of punishment” to form. And in the meantime the “test tube” with an ad hoc in vitro pontiff was kept in the laboratories of the Modernists.
Now the patient is in hospice, hanging on the double thread of the “non praevalebunt” and the promises of Fatima. And also on the great quantity of Blood in the third part of the secret.
In Corde Matris,
Father Alfredo M. Morselli
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Response of Archbishop Viganò
Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
24 June 2020
Dear and Reverend Father Morselli,
I thank you for your email, in which I see confirmed your supernatural vision of the events that afflict Holy Mother Church.
I am in agreement with you on the fact that the Second Vatican Council cannot be considered as a sort of subject in itself, endowed with its own will. Authoritative studies have demonstrated that the preparatory schemae prepared by the Holy Office were meant to confirm the image of a rock-solid Church that in reality, especially far from Rome, was showing signs of a dangerous breakdown. And if it was so simple to replace them with new schemae that had been prepared in the cliques of German, French, Swiss, and Dutch innovators, evidently many members of the episcopate (with their court of self-styled theologians, the majority of whom were already the object of canonical censures) were corrupt in both intellect and will.
What you identify with the most common marketing strategies and that you rightly see as having been realized in the Council was in fact a dishonest operation, a scam carried out against the faithful and the clergy: in order to increase business, the product and the corporate image were changed, promoting it with publicity campaigns and discounts. The “warehouse leftovers” were liquidated or sent to the pulping mill. But the Church of Christ is not a corporation, it has no commercial purposes, and its ministers are not managers. This sensational error, or rather this true and proper fraud, was conceived by people who with this human and mercantile vision of spiritual things demonstrated not only their own inadequacy but also their unworthiness for the role they held. And yet it was precisely that mentality that officially marked the rupture with Tradition: transforming the Church into a corporation meant placing it into an absurd competition with competing sects and false religions, imposing an adaptation of the “product” to meet the alleged needs of the customers, and at the same time also imposing the need to arouse in potential buyers the need for new, alternative “goods and services” which they did not even feel a need for. And thus we were given the communitarian emphasis of the Liturgy, the “do-it-yourself” approach to Scripture, the “throw it all out” approach to Doctrine and Morals, the new staff uniforms, etc….
I believe that, if we want to continue with the comparison that you have suggested, it cannot be denied that precisely in order to eliminate the presence of a product that does not have many competitors, it was necessary not only to make it less exclusive but sooner or later to reach the point of absorbing the company that produces it by a more powerful and widespread one: initially the best product is kept as the “first line” for a more demanding clientele, then it is removed from production and finally even the brand itself disappears. Proceeding along this slippery, unfortunate and destructive path, we have finally arrived at the bankruptcy of the company at the hands of its Argentinian liquidator, ready to deliver the Church of Mercy Co. into the hands of the New World Order. Bergoglio is probably confident that, in this new structure, he will be given some sort of managerial role, if only out of recognition for the work he has accomplished.
There is no one who cannot see that this commercial vision has nothing Catholic about it, above all since the Church belongs to Christ, who delegates her government to His vicars. Transforming the Church into what it is not and never can be takes shape as a very grave sin and an unheard of crime, both against God and against the flock that He has ordered to graze in very well-defined pastures, not to be dispersed in crevasses and brambles. And if the ones responsible for this enormous ruin are the unfaithful administrators who falsified the statutes and balance sheets and defrauded the customers, they will have to be asked for an account: redde rationem villicationis tuae [give an account of your management] (Lk 16:2).
Cum benedictione
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
Official translation by Giuseppe Pellegrino
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New intervention by Father Morselli – published on LifeSite July 14
The recent externations of Vatican II by some Pastors, which I also consider Masters, and whose teaching I shared everything up to now, I do not entirely agree. I would like, with great respect towards them, to intervene in the debate and clarify some concepts that I consider essential.
I also specify that I do not intend to attribute directly to anyone in particular the errors that I denounce below, but I would just like to highlight the dangers that we could be run, in the due common holy opposition to the neo-modernist crisis.
Thesis on the Council
1) The current crisis is of unprecedented proportions and is substantially neo-modernist, and far more serious in quality than the modernist crisis of the early 1900s.
2) There is no simple cause-effect relationship between the Council and the current crisis.
2.1) Preparation for the crisis began long before 1960.
2.2) Without a suitable terrain (a large corruption of customs with consequent obscuration of the intellect, even among Pastors and theologians) neo-modernism would not have taken root. [A sort of parable of the sower on the contrary: the seed of error germinates only on bad soil]
2.3) The current pontificate was theorized and prepared well before the work of the so-called “Mafia of St. Gallen”.
3) A distinction must be made between the conciliar documents and what happened next.
3.1) The fact that many deviations from the truth have been made in the name of the Council, does not imply that the direct causal relationship is true, moreover invoked by those who perpetrated the aforementioned unfortunate innovations
3.2) It is not Catholic to deny the assistance of the Holy Spirit even during the last Council, as if there was nothing good in it.
4) The Council texts themselves contain some phrases formulated in an ambiguous way, which provide the neo-modernists with a foothold to interpret them in the worst way.
5) Almost all the problems of the conciliar texts have been solved – unfortunately only theoretically – by the following documents: in particular the CCC [Catechism of the Catholic Church], Veritatis splendor, Dominus Jesus, Fides et Ratio, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Redemptoris Missio, the CDF's response on the “subsistit” issue.
6) The troubles are derived, rather than from the single badly formulated sentences, from the choice to express themselves in a non-definitive way, unfortunate way when the crisis situation would have required the most explicit and firm clarity.
7) Nor should we forget the tragic omission of the explicit and formal condemnation of communism.
8) The fact that the Council has been called “pastoral” does not imply that consent should not be given to individual statements, of widely diversified quality, each interpreted and accepted in different degrees, according to the objective rules of hermeneutics of the magisterium.
9) The opposition to part of the conciliar text can only be made by remaining in the wake of the Catholic theology proper to the “De fide” treaty:
9.1) Faith includes “Credere Deo”, that is, it has as its object a truth proposed and accepted, and not chosen.
9.2) The Magisterium remains the proximate norm of faith, and adherence to it is the “primum”, in order of execution, of the act of faith.
9.3) Like the Holy Scripture, the Magisterium is not subject to “private interpretation”, but only the Magisterium can interpret itself in an authentic and authoritative way.
9.4) It follows that the errors that a single document (of a certain quality of the required assent) may contain, can be opposed with the “Dubia” method, that is, exemplifying, saying: “Madam Master, I do not understand how there is no contradiction between what has been proposed to believe so far and the latter statement. “
The “pietas” in the formulation of the “dubia” does not imply the absence of fortitude and decision.
Conclusions
The prospect that looks at Vatican II “simpliciter” as the cause of all evils is a historically incorrect simplification.
The prospect that he hypothesized as a way out: “we will reset the last 60 years and start again from Pius XII”, is not Catholic and is a pious illusion.
Follow Maike Dr. Maike Hickson was born and raised in Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Hannover, Germany, after having written in Switzerland her doctoral dissertation on the history of Swiss intellectuals before and during World War II. She now lives in the U.S. and is married to Dr. Robert Hickson, and they have been blessed with two beautiful children. She is a happy housewife who likes to write articles when time permits. Dr. Hickson published in 2014 a Festschrift, a collection of some thirty essays written by thoughtful authors in honor of her husband upon his 70th birthday, which is entitled A Catholic Witness in Our Time. Hickson has closely followed the papacy of Pope Francis and the developments in the Catholic Church in Germany, and she has been writing articles on religion and politics for U.S. and European publications and websites such as LifeSiteNews, OnePeterFive, The Wanderer, Rorate Caeli, Catholicism.org, Catholic Family News, Christian Order, Notizie Pro-Vita, Corrispondenza Romana, Katholisches.info, Der Dreizehnte, Zeit-Fragen, and Westfalen-Blatt.
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lifesitenews--2020-07-14--Federal judge blocks Georgia law banning most abortions on babies with heartbeats

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GEORGIA , July 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A federal judge has blocked Georgia ’ s 2019 law banning most abortions on babies with detectable heartbeats , ruling that it violates the U.S. Constitution .
Signed into law in May 2019 , the Living Infants Fairness and Equality ( LIFE ) Act ( HB 481 ) would forbid abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected , except in cases of rape , incest , physical medical emergencies , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allowed to take effect , it would have banned abortions in all other cases as early as six weeks into a pregnancy – when a baby ’ s heartbeat can be detected .
Last year abortion advocates with the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) , Center for Reproductive Rights ( CRR ) , and Planned Parenthood challenged the law ’ s constitutionality and U.S. District Judge Steve Jones placed an injunction on the law before it ever took effect .
“ The court rejects the state defendants ' argument that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well-being , ’ ” Jones wrote .
“ Instead , HB 481 ’ s specific references to Roe v. Wade and ‘ established abortion related precedents ’ ... lends support to plaintiffs ' argument that the purpose of H.B .
481 was to ban or de facto ban abortion , '' he continued .
Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr , both Republicans , said that they would appeal the ruling .
“ Georgia values life , and we will keep fighting for the rights of the unborn , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a similar law in Tennessee which would ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected alongside a range of other abortion restrictions and conditions , was signed into law but was immediately stopped from taking effect by a lawsuit .
The Georgia ruling is the latest in a number of rulings on state abortion laws following last month ’ s June Medical Services L.L.C .
v. Russo , the 5-4 Supreme Court decision which judged that it is unconstitutional to require abortion facilities to establish admitting privileges with nearby hospitals in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an Indiana federal judge ruled that a state law mandating the reporting of medical complications associated with abortions is unconstitutional .
The Supreme Court of Missouri recently overturned a state law which blocking taxpayer funding of abortion facilities , with judges concluding that the ban was in in conflict with Missouri ’ s state constitution .

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said the state would appeal the ruling.
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GEORGIA, July 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge has blocked Georgia’s 2019 law banning most abortions on babies with detectable heartbeats, ruling that it violates the U.S. Constitution.
Signed into law in May 2019, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act (HB 481) would forbid abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, except in cases of rape, incest, physical medical emergencies, and pregnancies deemed “medically futile.”
If allowed to take effect, it would have banned abortions in all other cases as early as six weeks into a pregnancy – when a baby’s heartbeat can be detected.
Last year abortion advocates with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), and Planned Parenthood challenged the law’s constitutionality and U.S. District Judge Steve Jones placed an injunction on the law before it ever took effect.
And yesterday Jones blocked the law altogether.
“The court rejects the state defendants' argument that the statutory purpose solely concerns ‘promoting fetal well-being,’” Jones wrote.
“Instead, HB 481’s specific references to Roe v. Wade and ‘established abortion related precedents’ … lends support to plaintiffs' argument that the purpose of H.B. 481 was to ban or de facto ban abortion,” he continued.
Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, both Republicans, said that they would appeal the ruling.
“Georgia values life, and we will keep fighting for the rights of the unborn,” Kemp said in a statement.
We will appeal the Court’s decision. Georgia values life, and we will keep fighting for the rights of the unborn. https://t.co/pET5HC9Nnq — Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) July 13, 2020
Yesterday, a similar law in Tennessee which would ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected alongside a range of other abortion restrictions and conditions, was signed into law but was immediately stopped from taking effect by a lawsuit.
The Georgia ruling is the latest in a number of rulings on state abortion laws following last month’s June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo, the 5-4 Supreme Court decision which judged that it is unconstitutional to require abortion facilities to establish admitting privileges with nearby hospitals in the event of life-threatening complications.
Last week an Indiana federal judge ruled that a state law mandating the reporting of medical complications associated with abortions is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court of Missouri recently overturned a state law which blocking taxpayer funding of abortion facilities, with judges concluding that the ban was in in conflict with Missouri’s state constitution.
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