lifesitenews--2020-04-22--Justin Trudeau fails to bully province into funding private abortion center

FREDERICTON , New Brunswick , April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A Canadian Premier has resisted pressure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ’ s Liberal government to financially support the only private abortion center in his province , even after its health funding was cut .
In March , federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu reduced funding to New Brunswick by $ 140,216 because the province refused to subsidize Clinic 554 , the only private abortion facility in New Brunswick .
Hajdu said she derived the dollar figure from the out-of-pocket costs for those seeking abortions in 2017-18 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ influenced by repeated attempts from Trudeau and Hajdu to force him to fund Clinic 554 .
Under New Brunswick law , government funding for abortion in the province is only provided to those performed at hospitals .
Clinic 554 is the original site of the Morgentaler abortion center and has been in operation since 2015 without the financial backing of the province .
Citing financial issues , Clinic 554 is now reportedly for sale .
Despite the funding cut to the province , Higgs held firm and refused to budge .
In early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be “ temporarily ” restored after the outbreak of the coronavirus .
Higgs said in a press conference after that announcement that “ we 're not funding a private clinic in New Brunswick , ” adding “ we 're meeting the Canada Health rules and the Canada Health Act.
” Trudeau and Hajdu have been vocal that the New Brunswick law banning private abortion clinic funding violates the Canada Health Act .
In the fall of 2019 , Trudeau warned Higgs that his province “ has an obligation ” to fund private @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come into compliance with the Canada Health Act , they will be subject to deductions as appropriate for the specific infraction , ” Hajdu said in February .
David Cooke , Campaign Life Coalition ’ s ( CLC ) national campaign manager , told LifeSiteNews that he applauded Higgs ’ commitment .
“ This is a real win for the pro-life cause .
In the face of enormous pressure from the one-sided mainstream media and the vocal pro-abort lobby , New Brunswick has held fast in denying taxpayer funding to a private , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slaughterhouse , ” Cooke said .
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“ Even with the entire weight of the federal Liberal government being brought to bear on behalf of Clinic 554 , Premier Higgs refused to budge.
” Despite the lack of provincial backing for Clinic 554 , abortion remains available and taxpayer-funded in New Brunswick at two hospitals in Moncton .
The province also continues to fund the dangerous abortion drug Mifegymiso to women for free .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ firm , nevertheless our fight continues to ensure that one day not a single dime of taxpayer money will fund abortions in this province , and that abortion will not be the law of the land anymore in Canada , ” Cooke told LifeSiteNews .
Higgs has been New Brunswick ’ s Premier since 2018 .
His Progressive Conservative Party narrowly won the election that year , and with the help of the People 's Alliance party , he defeated pro-abortion Liberal Premier Brian Gallant via a no-confidence motion .
In 2014 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doctors ' approvals for an abortion .
CLC launched a petition in late 2019 that encouraged Higgs to stand his ground against federal pressure to fund private abortions .
In late December , Cooke went to New Brunswick to present Higgs with the names of more than 2,200 who signed the petition .
As of today , the petition has nearly reached its 3,000 goal .
“ Good news is hard to come by in the pro-life battle , but when we do find it , we need to give thanks and encourage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ courage and commitment – as Premier Higgs has , ” Cooke said in a CLC news release about Higgs refusal to capitulate to the federal government .
“ Let ’ s be sure to send him an email expressing our gratitude for refusing to bail out Clinic 554.
” The New Brunswick Right to Life ’ s Mother and Child House runs the Women 's Care Centre , which offers free ultrasounds , counseling , and pregnancy tests .
They are located right next to Clinic 554 , having had to rebuild on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2016 .
A recent survey shows a majority of Canadians are opposed to late-term and sex-selective abortion and would support making these practices illegal .

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian Premier has resisted pressure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to financially support the only private abortion center in his province, even after its health funding was cut.
In March, federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu reduced funding to New Brunswick by $140,216 because the province refused to subsidize Clinic 554, the only private abortion facility in New Brunswick. Hajdu said she derived the dollar figure from the out-of-pocket costs for those seeking abortions in 2017-18.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs was not influenced by repeated attempts from Trudeau and Hajdu to force him to fund Clinic 554.
Under New Brunswick law, government funding for abortion in the province is only provided to those performed at hospitals. Clinic 554 is the original site of the Morgentaler abortion center and has been in operation since 2015 without the financial backing of the province. Citing financial issues, Clinic 554 is now reportedly for sale.
Despite the funding cut to the province, Higgs held firm and refused to budge. In early April, Hajdu announced that the funding would be “temporarily” restored after the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Higgs said in a press conference after that announcement that “we're not funding a private clinic in New Brunswick,” adding “we're meeting the Canada Health rules and the Canada Health Act.”
Trudeau and Hajdu have been vocal that the New Brunswick law banning private abortion clinic funding violates the Canada Health Act. In the fall of 2019, Trudeau warned Higgs that his province “has an obligation” to fund private abortions.
“If they don't come into compliance with the Canada Health Act, they will be subject to deductions as appropriate for the specific infraction,” Hajdu said in February.
David Cooke, Campaign Life Coalition’s (CLC) national campaign manager, told LifeSiteNews that he applauded Higgs’ commitment.
“This is a real win for the pro-life cause. In the face of enormous pressure from the one-sided mainstream media and the vocal pro-abort lobby, New Brunswick has held fast in denying taxpayer funding to a private, for-profit, financially failing, preborn baby slaughterhouse,” Cooke said.
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“Even with the entire weight of the federal Liberal government being brought to bear on behalf of Clinic 554, Premier Higgs refused to budge.”
Despite the lack of provincial backing for Clinic 554, abortion remains available and taxpayer-funded in New Brunswick at two hospitals in Moncton. The province also continues to fund the dangerous abortion drug Mifegymiso to women for free.
“Although thankful to Premier Higgs for standing firm, nevertheless our fight continues to ensure that one day not a single dime of taxpayer money will fund abortions in this province, and that abortion will not be the law of the land anymore in Canada,” Cooke told LifeSiteNews.
Higgs has been New Brunswick’s Premier since 2018. His Progressive Conservative Party narrowly won the election that year, and with the help of the People's Alliance party, he defeated pro-abortion Liberal Premier Brian Gallant via a no-confidence motion.
In 2014, Gallant eliminated a pro-life requirement of two doctors' approvals for an abortion.
CLC launched a petition in late 2019 that encouraged Higgs to stand his ground against federal pressure to fund private abortions. In late December, Cooke went to New Brunswick to present Higgs with the names of more than 2,200 who signed the petition. As of today, the petition has nearly reached its 3,000 goal.
“Good news is hard to come by in the pro-life battle, but when we do find it, we need to give thanks and encourage those who have shown a measure of courage and commitment – as Premier Higgs has,” Cooke said in a CLC news release about Higgs refusal to capitulate to the federal government.
“Let’s be sure to send him an email expressing our gratitude for refusing to bail out Clinic 554.”
The New Brunswick Right to Life’s Mother and Child House runs the Women's Care Centre, which offers free ultrasounds, counseling, and pregnancy tests. They are located right next to Clinic 554, having had to rebuild on the site after suffering a fire in 2016.
A recent survey shows a majority of Canadians are opposed to late-term and sex-selective abortion and would support making these practices illegal.
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lifesitenews--2020-04-22--WATCH: Virginians protest Democrat gov’s ‘disaster’ of a lockdown

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RICHMOND , Virginia , April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – As the clock struck 11:00 a.m. in downtown Richmond , Virginia , the choir of car horns eclipsed the top-of-the-hour church bells .
Thousands of Christians and conservatives from all over the Commonwealth protested in a vehicle gridlock at the # Reopen Virginia rally , which circled the Virginia State Capitol Wednesday morning .
LifeSiteNews reported from the ground in the capital of the Old Dominion State and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from near and far to make their voices heard .
Inspired by the recent gridlock protests in Lansing , Michigan , and in North Carolina , the # Reopen Virginia rally originated last Thursday in a Facebook post by David Britt , who “ proposed that we gridlock Richmond.
” He received comments that others were interested in the idea , so he decided to hold a conference call to discuss it , and in his words , “ there you are !
” He noted that based on the numbers , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disaster.
” Small business owners , workers in “ non-essential ” businesses , and patients needing elective surgeries felt the same way .
All gathered in their cars honking horns and holding signs demanding that Governor Ralph Northam reopen Virginia and do so soon .
Britt told LifeSiteNews that the target reopen date of June 10 is completely arbitrary .
“ Not even New York has June 10th , ” he noted .
One small business owner , Ed Cowdrey from Doswell , Virginia , whose business Castle Glen Estates Winery is reeling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ABC stores are open but his winery had to close .
He vehemently noted that the lockdown is destroying his small business , and he and his wife are now tapping into their life savings .
One woman with hydrocephalus spoke to LifeSiteNews saying she needs a brain surgery but can not get one because it is an elective surgery .
Many on the ground showed utter disgust over the fact that Planned Parenthood remains open for abortions , but life-saving surgeries are being postponed .
“ Yeah , not an abortion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the woman 's husband told LifeSiteNews .
Christian Virginians demanded that churches be reopened and abortion mills close .
One woman shouted from her car that , “ we need prayer now more than ever.
” A group of five Christian women even walked the gridlock route seven times in prayer invoking the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues .
Their heartfelt prayer invoked the Lord and claimed Him as “ Lord and King over all Virginia .
”

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RICHMOND, Virginia, April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – As the clock struck 11:00 a.m. in downtown Richmond, Virginia, the choir of car horns eclipsed the top-of-the-hour church bells. Thousands of Christians and conservatives from all over the Commonwealth protested in a vehicle gridlock at the #Reopen Virginia rally, which circled the Virginia State Capitol Wednesday morning. LifeSiteNews reported from the ground in the capital of the Old Dominion State and heard from citizens who made the trek from near and far to make their voices heard.
Inspired by the recent gridlock protests in Lansing, Michigan, and in North Carolina, the #Reopen Virginia rally originated last Thursday in a Facebook post by David Britt, who “proposed that we gridlock Richmond.”
He received comments that others were interested in the idea, so he decided to hold a conference call to discuss it, and in his words, “there you are!” He noted that based on the numbers, “the health of the Commonwealth was facing disaster.”
Small business owners, workers in “non-essential” businesses, and patients needing elective surgeries felt the same way. All gathered in their cars honking horns and holding signs demanding that Governor Ralph Northam reopen Virginia and do so soon.
Britt told LifeSiteNews that the target reopen date of June 10 is completely arbitrary.
“Not even New York has June 10th,” he noted.
One small business owner, Ed Cowdrey from Doswell, Virginia, whose business Castle Glen Estates Winery is reeling from the lockdown, lamented the fact that ABC stores are open but his winery had to close. He vehemently noted that the lockdown is destroying his small business, and he and his wife are now tapping into their life savings.
One woman with hydrocephalus spoke to LifeSiteNews saying she needs a brain surgery but cannot get one because it is an elective surgery. Many on the ground showed utter disgust over the fact that Planned Parenthood remains open for abortions, but life-saving surgeries are being postponed. “Yeah, not an abortion, we need brain surgery,” the woman's husband told LifeSiteNews.
Christian Virginians demanded that churches be reopened and abortion mills close. One woman shouted from her car that, “we need prayer now more than ever.” A group of five Christian women even walked the gridlock route seven times in prayer invoking the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. Their heartfelt prayer invoked the Lord and claimed Him as “Lord and King over all Virginia.”
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lifesitenews--2020-04-22--Archbishop Viganò: Third Secret of Fatima has not yet been fully published

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April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In a stunning new interview , Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò , the former papal nuncio in Washington , D.C. and the prelate who accused Pope Francis of covering up the crimes of Theodore McCarrick , has now publicly stated that he does not believe that the Vatican up to today has published the full Third Secret of Fatima .
This report has already found interest in Italy , by outlets such as Corrispondenza Romana and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a Portuguese website , Archbishop Viganò says , “ The third part of the message that Our Lady entrusted to the shepherds of Fatima , so that they could deliver it to the Holy Father , remains a secret today.
” In 1917 , Our Lady repeatedly appeared to three shepherd children – two of whom are now canonized – and gave them one secret with three parts , the first and the second to be revealed to the public .
The third part of the Secret – often called the Third @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Pope , who was then asked by Our Lady to make it known to the world not later than 1960 .
The first and the second parts of the Secret show a vision of hell , speak about the spread of the “ errors ” of Russia , the need for penance , and for Russia to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary .
The third part as it has been published shows a Pope who is being killed on a hill , together with clergymen and laymen .
Further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who lives currently in an undisclosed location , then says , “ Our Lady asked [ the secret ] to be revealed in 1960 , but John XXIII published , on February 8 of that year , a statement in which he stated that [ ... ] ‘ he does not want to assume the responsibility of guaranteeing the truth of the words that the three little shepherds say that the Virgin Mary addressed to them.
’ ” “ With this departure from the Queen of Heaven 's message , ” Viganò @ @ @ @ @ @ @ initiated , evidently because the content of the message would reveal the terrible conspiracy of her enemies against the Church of Christ.
” According to the archbishop , until a “ few decades ago , ” people would not have believed that we could even dare to “ gag ” the Blessed Mother , “ but in recent years we have also seen attempts to censor the Gospel itself , which is the Word of His divine Son.
” The Italian prelate states that the Vatican , when officially presenting the Third Secret @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an “ incomplete ” version .
Archbishop Viganò is referring then to the Italian journalist and author Antonio Socci , “ who has thoroughly investigated the Third Secret , [ and ] has unmasked this malicious behavior on the part of Cardinal Bertone.
” Socci published in 2006 ( in English in 2009 ) his book The Fourth Secret of Fatima , in which he argues that the Vatican did not publish the full Third Secret as it had been given to the shepherd children in Fatima in 1917 .
According to his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vision of the secret which was then further explained by Our Lady .
These words explaining the vision are still missing , according to this author .
Archbishop Viganò , in his new interview , seems to follow this line of argument .
He also insists that the full consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary – as it had been requested by Our Lady of Fatima – has not taken place , either .
Instead of following Heaven 's request , the prelate says , the Vatican wanted to take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a “ path of distension [ detente ] , ” which had been “ inaugurated precisely by Roncalli , without understanding that without God no peace is possible.
” “ Today , ” Viganò adds , “ with a President of the Russian Confederation who is certainly a Christian [ Vladimiar Putin ] , the Virgin 's request could be granted , avoiding further misfortunes for the Church and the world.
” LifeSiteNews reported in 2017 on a statement made by the German curial cardinal Paul Josef Cordes , who gave testimony @ @ @ @ @ @ @ II , in 1984 , did not explicitly mention the name of Russia when consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary .
Cordes stated that the Pope “ had made this act of consecration on 23 [ sic – 25 ] March 1984 , when the statue of Our Lady of Fatima had come to Rome .
However , he held back to mention Russia explicitly ; because the Vatican diplomats had urgently asked him not to mention this country because otherwise political conflicts might perhaps arise.
” Archbishop Viganò further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time when Our Lady wanted to have the Third Secret made public – the apostasy that we are currently witnessing began .
It is also the time when the Second Vatican Council took place , from 1962 to 1965 .
The prelate says in his new interview that the message of the Third Secret is still valid for us today .
Before we consider Viganò 's words , let us remember that in May 2010 , on his way back to Rome from his visit in Fatima , Pope Benedict XVI said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is also the fact that attacks on the Pope and the Church come not only from without , but the sufferings of the Church come precisely from within the Church , from the sin existing within the Church.
” He continued , “ This too is something that we have always known , but today we are seeing it in a really terrifying way : that the greatest persecution of the Church comes not from her enemies without , but arises from sin within the Church , and that the Church thus has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to accept purification , to learn forgiveness on the one hand , but also the need for justice.
” The Pope then insisted that the message of Fatima is still valid for our time when he said : “ We would be mistaken to think that Fatima 's prophetic mission is complete.
” Here , the prelate makes an explicit reference to Freemasonry , which centuries ago developed plans on how to destroy the Catholic Church from within , by undermining her very own teachings and customs .
Many of these historical matters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dr. Taylor Marshall , called Infiltration .
This book had been supported by Bishop Athanasius Schneider , who authored a foreword for it .
‘ Neo-Church ’ is ‘ a deformed and monstrous creature that does not come from God ’ Archbishop Viganò speaks of a “ new church ” that has been developed in the recent decades , a church that is “ simply not the Church of Christ !
” He adds that “ the post-conciliar , Modernist and Masonic church also aspires to transform , to overcome the Church of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neo-Church ’ , a deformed and monstrous creature that does not come from God.
” “ The aim of this neo-Church , ” Viganò continues , “ is not to lead the chosen people to recognize the Messiah , as [ with ] the Synagogue ; it is not to convert and save all peoples before the second coming of Christ , as for the Catholic Church , but to constitute themselves as a spiritual arm of the New World Order and defender of Universal Religion.
” It is in this sense that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ the conciliar revolution had to first demolish the Church 's legacy , its millenary Tradition , from which it extracted its own vitality and authority as the Mystical Body of Christ , to later get rid of the exponents of the ancient Hierarchy , and only recently began to propose yourself , without pretension , to what you want to be.
” It was Bishop Athanasius Schneider who , in 2019 in his book Christus Vincit , also raised critical questions and doubts about some select elements of the teachings of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along with the words of Archbishop Viganò .
Speaking further about the Freemasonic plan to weaken and undermine the Catholic Church from within , Archbishop Viganò says that many bishops might not even be aware of these dangerous developments .
He states : With this interview , Archbishop Viganò invites us to debate several key issues that have troubled many Catholics in the recent past and that have left many wondering how it could have happened that the Church lost so much of her moral integrity ( see for example the McCarrick scandal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Benedict XVI said in 2016 : “ The missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that the unbaptized person is lost forever .
After the [ Second Vatican ] Council , this conviction was definitely abandoned .
The result was a two-sided , deep crisis .
Without this attentiveness to the salvation , the Faith loses its foundation .
”

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April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In a stunning new interview, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio in Washington, D.C. and the prelate who accused Pope Francis of covering up the crimes of Theodore McCarrick, has now publicly stated that he does not believe that the Vatican up to today has published the full Third Secret of Fatima. This report has already found interest in Italy, by outlets such as Corrispondenza Romana and Stilum Curiae.
Speaking to Dies Irae, a Portuguese website, Archbishop Viganò says, “The third part of the message that Our Lady entrusted to the shepherds of Fatima, so that they could deliver it to the Holy Father, remains a secret today.”
In 1917, Our Lady repeatedly appeared to three shepherd children – two of whom are now canonized – and gave them one secret with three parts, the first and the second to be revealed to the public.
The third part of the Secret – often called the Third Secret – was to be given to the Pope, who was then asked by Our Lady to make it known to the world not later than 1960.
The first and the second parts of the Secret show a vision of hell, speak about the spread of the “errors” of Russia, the need for penance, and for Russia to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The third part as it has been published shows a Pope who is being killed on a hill, together with clergymen and laymen.
Further explaining his position, the Italian prelate, who lives currently in an undisclosed location, then says, “Our Lady asked [the secret] to be revealed in 1960, but John XXIII published, on February 8 of that year, a statement in which he stated that […] ‘he does not want to assume the responsibility of guaranteeing the truth of the words that the three little shepherds say that the Virgin Mary addressed to them.’”
“With this departure from the Queen of Heaven's message,” Viganò continues, “a cover-up operation was initiated, evidently because the content of the message would reveal the terrible conspiracy of her enemies against the Church of Christ.”
According to the archbishop, until a “few decades ago,” people would not have believed that we could even dare to “gag” the Blessed Mother, “but in recent years we have also seen attempts to censor the Gospel itself, which is the Word of His divine Son.”
The Italian prelate states that the Vatican, when officially presenting the Third Secret to the public in 2000, presented an “incomplete” version.
He says:
“In 2000, during the Pontificate of John Paul II, the Secretary of State, Cardinal Sodano, presented as his Third Secret a version of himself that, in relation to some elements, appeared clearly incomplete. It is not surprising that the new Secretary of State, Cardinal Bertone, tried to divert attention on an event of the past, in order to make believe to the people of God that the words of the Virgin had nothing to do with the crisis of the Church and with the collusion between Modernists and Freemasonry carried out behind the scenes of Vatican II.”
Archbishop Viganò is referring then to the Italian journalist and author Antonio Socci, “who has thoroughly investigated the Third Secret, [and] has unmasked this malicious behavior on the part of Cardinal Bertone.”
Socci published in 2006 (in English in 2009) his book The Fourth Secret of Fatima, in which he argues that the Vatican did not publish the full Third Secret as it had been given to the shepherd children in Fatima in 1917. According to his research, the Vatican only published the vision of the secret which was then further explained by Our Lady. These words explaining the vision are still missing, according to this author.
Archbishop Viganò, in his new interview, seems to follow this line of argument. He also insists that the full consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary – as it had been requested by Our Lady of Fatima – has not taken place, either.
He says:
“Let us not forget Our Lady’s ignored call for the Pope and all the Bishops to consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, as a condition for defeating Communism and atheistic materialism: consecrating not ‘the world’, not ‘that nation that She wants Let us consecrate him’, but ‘Russia’. Did it cost so much to do it? Evidently so, for those who do not have a supernatural look.”
Instead of following Heaven's request, the prelate says, the Vatican wanted to take a peaceful approach with the Soviet regime, a “path of detente,” which had been “inaugurated precisely by Roncalli, without understanding that without God no peace is possible.”
“Today,” Viganò adds, “with a President of the Russian Confederation who is certainly a Christian [Vladimiar Putin], the Virgin's request could be granted, avoiding further misfortunes for the Church and the world.”
LifeSiteNews reported in 2017 on a statement made by the German curial cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, who gave testimony to the fact that Pope John Paul II, in 1984, did not explicitly mention the name of Russia when consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Cordes stated that the Pope “had made this act of consecration on 23 [sic – 25] March 1984, when the statue of Our Lady of Fatima had come to Rome. However, he held back to mention Russia explicitly; because the Vatican diplomats had urgently asked him not to mention this country because otherwise political conflicts might perhaps arise.”
Archbishop Viganò further explains that in the 1960s – exactly the time when Our Lady wanted to have the Third Secret made public – the apostasy that we are currently witnessing began. It is also the time when the Second Vatican Council took place, from 1962 to 1965.
Apostasy and ‘fulfillment’ of a 200-year plan?
The prelate says in his new interview that the message of the Third Secret is still valid for us today. Before we consider Viganò's words, let us remember that in May 2010, on his way back to Rome from his visit in Fatima, Pope Benedict XVI said about the Fatima message that “there is also the fact that attacks on the Pope and the Church come not only from without, but the sufferings of the Church come precisely from within the Church, from the sin existing within the Church.”
He continued, “This too is something that we have always known, but today we are seeing it in a really terrifying way: that the greatest persecution of the Church comes not from her enemies without, but arises from sin within the Church, and that the Church thus has a deep need to relearn penance, to accept purification, to learn forgiveness on the one hand, but also the need for justice.”
The Pope then insisted that the message of Fatima is still valid for our time when he said: “We would be mistaken to think that Fatima's prophetic mission is complete.”
Viganò' states the following:
“Benedict XVI himself confirmed the timeliness of the Virgin's message, although – according to the interpretation spread by the Vatican – it must be considered fulfilled. Those who read the Third Secret clearly said that its content concerns the apostasy of the Church, which began precisely in the early sixties and that today it has reached a stage so evident that it can be recognized by secular observers. This almost obsessive insistence on issues that the Church has always condemned, such as relativism and religious indifference, false ecumenism, Malthusian ecologism, homo-heresy and immigration, found in the Abu Dhabi Declaration the fulfillment of a plan devised by the secret sects since more than two centuries ago.”
Here, the prelate makes an explicit reference to Freemasonry, which centuries ago developed plans on how to destroy the Catholic Church from within, by undermining her very own teachings and customs. Many of these historical matters are outlined in a recent book by Dr. Taylor Marshall, called Infiltration. This book had been supported by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who authored a foreword for it.
‘Neo-Church’ is ‘a deformed and monstrous creature that does not come from God’
Archbishop Viganò speaks of a “new church” that has been developed in the recent decades, a church that is “simply not the Church of Christ!”
He adds that “the post-conciliar, Modernist and Masonic church also aspires to transform, to overcome the Church of Christ, replacing it with a ‘neo-Church’, a deformed and monstrous creature that does not come from God.”
“The aim of this neo-Church,” Viganò continues, “is not to lead the chosen people to recognize the Messiah, as [with] the Synagogue; it is not to convert and save all peoples before the second coming of Christ, as for the Catholic Church, but to constitute themselves as a spiritual arm of the New World Order and defender of Universal Religion.”
It is in this sense that, according to this Italian archbishop, “the conciliar revolution had to first demolish the Church's legacy, its millenary Tradition, from which it extracted its own vitality and authority as the Mystical Body of Christ, to later get rid of the exponents of the ancient Hierarchy, and only recently began to propose yourself, without pretense, to what it wants to be.”
It was Bishop Athanasius Schneider who, in 2019 in his book Christus Vincit, also raised critical questions and doubts about some select elements of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council that seem to go along with the words of Archbishop Viganò.
Speaking further about the Freemasonic plan to weaken and undermine the Catholic Church from within, Archbishop Viganò says that many bishops might not even be aware of these dangerous developments. He states:
“What you call utopia is actually a dystopia, because it represents the realization of Freemasonry's plan and the preparation of the advent of Antichrist. I am also convinced that the majority of my Brothers, and even more so, almost all priests and the faithful, are not aware of this hellish plan at all, and that recent events have opened the eyes of many.”
With this interview, Archbishop Viganò invites us to debate several key issues that have troubled many Catholics in the recent past and that have left many wondering how it could have happened that the Church lost so much of her moral integrity (see for example the McCarrick scandal) and missionary zeal. Even Pope Benedict XVI said in 2016:
“The missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that the unbaptized person is lost forever. After the [Second Vatican] Council, this conviction was definitely abandoned. The result was a two-sided, deep crisis. Without this attentiveness to the salvation, the Faith loses its foundation.”
Since publication of this article, Robert Moynihan has published a full translation of the interview here.
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--2020-04-22--Missouri sues China for ‘death, economic disruption ... suffering’ caused by the coronavirus

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JEFFERSON CITY , Missouri , April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Missouri is the first state to file a lawsuit against China for the country ’ s alleged responsibility in spreading the coronavirus across the world .
The complaint , directed at various Chinese government entities and the Communist Party , was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on April 21 .
“ COVID-19 has done irreparable damage to countries across the globe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disruption , and human suffering , ” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement .
“ In Missouri , the impact of the virus is very real – thousands have been infected and many have died , families have been separated from dying loved ones , small businesses are shuttering their doors , and those living paycheck to paycheck are struggling to put food on their table , ” he continued .
As of yesterday , Missouri reported almost 6,000 cases of COVID-19 within the state , as well as 189 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the world about the danger and contagious nature of COVID-19 , silenced whistleblowers , and did little to stop the spread of the disease , ” Schmitt said .
For that reason , he argued , China must be “ held accountable.
” In addition to the text of the complaint , the Attorney General also released a short document containing Key Factual Allegations .
According to the state of Missouri , “ the key factual allegations are that in the critical weeks between December 2019 and January 23 , 2020 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concealment , and retaliation to conceal the gravity and seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak from the rest of the world.
” The document then goes on to list four specific allegations , starting with the Chinese “ ( d ) enying the risk of human-to-human transmission.
” “ On December 30 , Chinese doctors at Wuhan hospitals posted on social media that they were observing human-to-human transmission .
Until January 20 , Chinese officials continued to insist that there was no evidence of human transmission – denying solid evidence to the contrary.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silenced whistleblowers .
“ Between January 1 and 3 , 2020 , Chinese officials arrested eight doctors and forcibly silenced them as ‘ rumor-mongers ’ – an action that was broadcast on state media , likely to deter others from speaking out.
” China also failed to contain the outbreak , according to the state of Missouri .
“ Reports indicate that Chinese officials , while they were concealing the outbreak , began hoarding quality PPE while permitting only defective PPE to be exported to the rest of the world , ” the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lives of healthcare workers and first responders in other countries.
” In addition to these allegations , the complaint itself mentioned an “ emerging theory on the origin of the virus , ” stating “ it was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology , which was studying the virus as part of a commercial activity.
” According to Fox News , “ the intelligence community … confirmed to Fox News that they have taken the possibility of the coronavirus being man-made or engineered inside China as some sort of bioweapon off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at this point.
” At the same time , the virus might have been released “ as part of China ’ s attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States.
” Donald Trump Jr. , the oldest son of President Donald Trump , praised the lawsuit on Twitter .
“ Huge news , ” he wrote .
“ Given the lies and disinformation from China throughout this process a very appropriate move .
So many lives and jobs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Recently , the President instructed his administration to halt funding for the World Health Organization because of its ties to China .
Steven Mosher , an expert on relations between China and the United States , condemned the WHO for its subservience to China .
“ I think they ought to change their name from the World Health Organization to , let ’ s see , maybe the China Health Organization because they ’ re serving China ’ s interests , ” Mosher told The Van Maren Show .
“ Dr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ not a medical doctor – who heads the World Health Organization – is from Ethiopia , which has received billions of dollars in investment from China .
He ’ s their guy .
He was promoted to be the director of the World Health Organization by China .
And he has been carrying China ’ s water ever since , ” Mosher pointed out .

It's the first U.S. state to seek damages, alleging that the Chinese government 'lied to the world' and 'did little to stop the spread of the disease.'
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JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Missouri is the first state to file a lawsuit against China for the country’s alleged responsibility in spreading the coronavirus across the world. The complaint, directed at various Chinese government entities and the Communist Party, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on April 21.
“COVID-19 has done irreparable damage to countries across the globe, causing sickness, death, economic disruption, and human suffering,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement.
“In Missouri, the impact of the virus is very real – thousands have been infected and many have died, families have been separated from dying loved ones, small businesses are shuttering their doors, and those living paycheck to paycheck are struggling to put food on their table,” he continued.
As of yesterday, Missouri reported almost 6,000 cases of COVID-19 within the state, as well as 189 deaths.
“The Chinese government lied to the world about the danger and contagious nature of COVID-19, silenced whistleblowers, and did little to stop the spread of the disease,” Schmitt said. For that reason, he argued, China must be “held accountable.”
In addition to the text of the complaint, the Attorney General also released a short document containing Key Factual Allegations.
According to the state of Missouri, “the key factual allegations are that in the critical weeks between December 2019 and January 23, 2020, the Chinese Government engaged in misrepresentations, concealment, and retaliation to conceal the gravity and seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak from the rest of the world.”
The document then goes on to list four specific allegations, starting with the Chinese “(d)enying the risk of human-to-human transmission.”
“On December 30, Chinese doctors at Wuhan hospitals posted on social media that they were observing human-to-human transmission. Until January 20, Chinese officials continued to insist that there was no evidence of human transmission – denying solid evidence to the contrary.”
Secondly, Missouri accuses China of having silenced whistleblowers. “Between January 1 and 3, 2020, Chinese officials arrested eight doctors and forcibly silenced them as ‘rumor-mongers’ – an action that was broadcast on state media, likely to deter others from speaking out.”
China also failed to contain the outbreak, according to the state of Missouri.
Finally, China is accused of “(h)oarding personal protective equipment (PPE).”
“Reports indicate that Chinese officials, while they were concealing the outbreak, began hoarding quality PPE while permitting only defective PPE to be exported to the rest of the world,” the document states. “This hoarding endangered the lives of healthcare workers and first responders in other countries.”
In addition to these allegations, the complaint itself mentioned an “emerging theory on the origin of the virus,” stating “it was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was studying the virus as part of a commercial activity.”
According to Fox News, “the intelligence community … confirmed to Fox News that they have taken the possibility of the coronavirus being man-made or engineered inside China as some sort of bioweapon off the table and have ruled it out at this point.”
At the same time, the virus might have been released “as part of China’s attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States.”
Donald Trump Jr., the oldest son of President Donald Trump, praised the lawsuit on Twitter.
“Huge news,” he wrote. “Given the lies and disinformation from China throughout this process a very appropriate move. So many lives and jobs lost that could have been avoided!”
Huge news. Given the lies and disinformation from China throughout this process a very appropriate move. So many lives and jobs lost that could have been avoided! Missouri files suit against China for 'enormous' consequences of coronavirus 'deceit' https://t.co/MqQfnsUIMd — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 21, 2020
Recently, the President instructed his administration to halt funding for the World Health Organization because of its ties to China.
Steven Mosher, an expert on relations between China and the United States, condemned the WHO for its subservience to China. “I think they ought to change their name from the World Health Organization to, let’s see, maybe the China Health Organization because they’re serving China’s interests,” Mosher told The Van Maren Show.
“Dr. Tedros (Ghebreyesus), who is not a medical doctor – who heads the World Health Organization – is from Ethiopia, which has received billions of dollars in investment from China. He’s their guy. He was promoted to be the director of the World Health Organization by China. And he has been carrying China’s water ever since,” Mosher pointed out.
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lifesitenews--2020-04-22--‘Slut-shaming’ phenomenon shows young people still deeply concerned about sexual standards

April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – I ’ d like to add something to my recent post about ‘ consequence-free sex ’ , something more about the motivation for chastity .
In that post , I noted various consequences of the lifestyle of “ serial monogamy shading into promiscuity ” , which is the expected , if not universal , way of life for unmarried people .
Among these consequences are the spiritual consequences , which are of ultimate importance .
Chastity requires heroic resistance to social pressure , and the best foundation for this resistance is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this post I want to say something about another aspect of the situation which tends to be ignored : we might call it disgust at sin , or shame .
When I was a philosophy student , I heard the late Prof. Bernard Williams talking about virtue , and how virtue concepts change over time .
There is something in this : the conception of honor found in Homer , for example , is somewhat different from that found in Dickens .
The example he used , however , was chastity .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it had completely lost its applicability in modern moral discourse .
It no longer has any meaning .
Williams was wrong .
To see this , do an internet search for the term “ slut-shaming ” .
Twitter offers a particularly rich trove of results .
Slut-shaming is not something anyone admits to doing , so you won ’ t find defenses or sympathetic definitions of it .
What you do find , however , is terror , hurt , and rage , at perceived slut-shaming .
You might think : this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an accepted system of criticism and justification like , say , honesty and dishonesty .
After all , the usual reaction is not to defend a person from a shaming accusation ( “ she didn ’ t cheat on her boyfriend !
” ) but to protest that such an accusation should never be made ( “ so what if she cheated on her boyfriend !
” ) .
Nevertheless , this is not the result Prof. Williams would have expected .
If someone told me that I had failed to defend my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fashion , say by burning down the homestead of a man who had insulted me , I wouldn ’ t become enraged by this accusation , I would chuckle .
The women who think they ’ ve been shamed about their sexual behavior aren ’ t laughing .
They fear this .
It matters to them .
I ’ m not about to advocate shaming young people to keep them in line .
My interest in this phenomenon is rather this : it demonstrates that people are still deeply concerned about chastity , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that word .
Many people would like to free themselves from the shackles of chastity , but they can ’ t , and they remain concerned about other people ’ s perceptions of their sexual standards .
If our great-grandmothers could see these anguished social media debates , they would inform us that a woman ’ s sexual reputation is a dominant component of her social value .
Is it really possible that people still think that ?
It is as if our supposedly prudish ancestors are haunting us , causing the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to wonder , in moments of weakness : does what I have just done make me a bad person ?
We can express this phenomenon in terms more familiar to the Catholic spiritual tradition .
What liberated young people , of both sexes , can not free themselves from is the disgust at sin .
They can numb themselves to it , certainly , but they can ’ t completely eliminate it , because everyone has a fundamental intuition about morality .
As St Paul notes , even those without access to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , have the law—if not the Law of Moses , then the Natural Law— “ written on their hearts ” , and it is on this basis that they will be judged by God ( Romans 2:15-16 ) : It is true that the social conventions governing sexual behavior outside marriage have collapsed , but those hoping that this would free us all from guilt have been disappointed .
On the contrary , it is now much less clear than before what one needs to do to be doing the right thing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ disappearance of the bright line between right and wrong has had the result that perfectly typical behavior has become morally dubious .
Modern Catholic education has tended to proceed on the assumption that , as Prof. Williams thought , traditional concepts and arguments about chastity no longer have any social traction .
This is not accurate .
Certainly , things have changed , and for the worse .
Adherence to traditional morality won ’ t make you admired and respected , as it once would .
But having a firm and articulate grip @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what is not , enables young people to navigate the hell-scape of modernity with free hearts and clear consciences , and lifts them out of range of the bitterest of all accusations .

'It demonstrates that people are still deeply concerned about chastity, even if they don’t use that word.'
April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – I’d like to add something to my recent post about ‘consequence-free sex’, something more about the motivation for chastity.
In that post, I noted various consequences of the lifestyle of “serial monogamy shading into promiscuity”, which is the expected, if not universal, way of life for unmarried people.
Among these consequences are the spiritual consequences, which are of ultimate importance.
Chastity requires heroic resistance to social pressure, and the best foundation for this resistance is a supernatural love of virtue. Nevertheless, in this post I want to say something about another aspect of the situation which tends to be ignored: we might call it disgust at sin, or shame.
When I was a philosophy student, I heard the late Prof. Bernard Williams talking about virtue, and how virtue concepts change over time. There is something in this: the conception of honor found in Homer, for example, is somewhat different from that found in Dickens. The example he used, however, was chastity. As a virtue concept, he said, it had completely lost its applicability in modern moral discourse. It no longer has any meaning.
Williams was wrong. To see this, do an internet search for the term “slut-shaming”.
Twitter offers a particularly rich trove of results. Slut-shaming is not something anyone admits to doing, so you won’t find defenses or sympathetic definitions of it. What you do find, however, is terror, hurt, and rage, at perceived slut-shaming. You might think: this shows that accusation does not fit into an accepted system of criticism and justification like, say, honesty and dishonesty. After all, the usual reaction is not to defend a person from a shaming accusation (“she didn’t cheat on her boyfriend!”) but to protest that such an accusation should never be made (“so what if she cheated on her boyfriend!”). Nevertheless, this is not the result Prof. Williams would have expected. If someone told me that I had failed to defend my family’s honor in a Homeric fashion, say by burning down the homestead of a man who had insulted me, I wouldn’t become enraged by this accusation, I would chuckle. The women who think they’ve been shamed about their sexual behavior aren’t laughing. They fear this. It matters to them.
I’m not about to advocate shaming young people to keep them in line. My interest in this phenomenon is rather this: it demonstrates that people are still deeply concerned about chastity, even if they don’t use that word. Many people would like to free themselves from the shackles of chastity, but they can’t, and they remain concerned about other people’s perceptions of their sexual standards. If our great-grandmothers could see these anguished social media debates, they would inform us that a woman’s sexual reputation is a dominant component of her social value. Is it really possible that people still think that? It is as if our supposedly prudish ancestors are haunting us, causing the most care-free and sexually liberated generation in history to wonder, in moments of weakness: does what I have just done make me a bad person?
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We can express this phenomenon in terms more familiar to the Catholic spiritual tradition. What liberated young people, of both sexes, cannot free themselves from is the disgust at sin. They can numb themselves to it, certainly, but they can’t completely eliminate it, because everyone has a fundamental intuition about morality. As St Paul notes, even those without access to the revelation made to Moses, the Gentiles, have the law—if not the Law of Moses, then the Natural Law—“written on their hearts”, and it is on this basis that they will be judged by God (Romans 2:15-16):
Their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.
It is true that the social conventions governing sexual behavior outside marriage have collapsed, but those hoping that this would free us all from guilt have been disappointed. On the contrary, it is now much less clear than before what one needs to do to be doing the right thing. Instead of making everything permissible, the disappearance of the bright line between right and wrong has had the result that perfectly typical behavior has become morally dubious.
Modern Catholic education has tended to proceed on the assumption that, as Prof. Williams thought, traditional concepts and arguments about chastity no longer have any social traction. This is not accurate.
Certainly, things have changed, and for the worse.
Adherence to traditional morality won’t make you admired and respected, as it once would. But having a firm and articulate grip on what is truly shameful, and what is not, enables young people to navigate the hell-scape of modernity with free hearts and clear consciences, and lifts them out of range of the bitterest of all accusations.
Follow Joseph Dr Joseph Shaw has a Doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he also gained a first degree in Politics and Philosophy and a graduate Diploma in Theology. He has published on Ethics and Philosophy of Religion and is the editor of The Case for Liturgical Restoration: Una Voce Position Papers on the Extraordinary Form (Angelico Press). He is the Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales and Secretary of Una Voce International. He teaches Philosophy in Oxford University and lives nearby with his wife and nine children.
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lifesitenews--2020-04-22--America’s abortion plague won’t end if Roe v. Wade is overturned

Abortion has been a controversial topic for decades , but how much do you really know about the history of @ @ @ @ @ s episode of The Van Maren Show Marvin Olasky , editor-in-chief of WORLD magazine and @ @ @ @ @ joins Jonathon to discuss the true history of the pro-life movement and what it can @ @ @ @ @ culture war .
Olasky points to the long history of abortion before Roe v. Wade @ @ @ @ @ fighting abortion on a strictly legal front will only get us so far since it @ @ @ @ @ .
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Abortion has been a controversial topic for decades, but how much do you really know about the history of abortion?
In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief of WORLD magazine and author of pro-life books, joins Jonathon to discuss the true history of the pro-life movement and what it can teach us about winning the culture war.
Olasky points to the long history of abortion before Roe v. Wade to highlight the fact that fighting abortion on a strictly legal front will only get us so far since it is truly a cultural issue.
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lifesitenews--2020-04-22--Biden organizes town hall with abortion-loving actor Tony Goldwyn

April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Former Vice President Joe Biden organized a virtual town hall event Sunday to explore COVID-19 ’ s impact on entertainment-industry jobs , tapping prominent pro-abortion actor Tony Goldwyn as the host .
Biden did not participate in the discussion , Deadline reported , which featured Goldwyn , senior Biden adviser ( and self-labeled “ rabid feminist ” ) Symone Sanders , percussionist Alvester Garnett , Phantom of the Opera head electrician Pete Donovan , and Hamilton wardrobe dresser Jeannie Naughton .
The conversation ’ s focus was on theater jobs , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ argument that Biden would guide America through the public-health crisis better than President Donald Trump .
Biden is a “ real cheerleader of empathy , not just a promoter , a self promoter , ” Goldwyn claimed .
“ With President Trump , everything is in relationship to himself and every one of his press conferences is a promotional opportunity of ‘ Look how great I am .
Look how great we ’ re doing.
’ And meanwhile people are dying and certainly struggling.
” However , Goldwyn is not known for extending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Breitbart noted .
“ There ’ s been a lot of disinformation about Planned Parenthood and the focus of the lifesaving work that they do for women ’ s health care , ” the actor claimed in 2017 .
“ I saw a much-publicized image of all those white men sitting around in a room at the White House talking about what should be done about women ’ s health care , and I thought I would step up.
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“ If Planned Parenthood is defunded , millions of women , particularly women struggling economically , are going to be in serious trouble , ” Goldwyn continued .
“ And the truth is , there will be far more abortions performed — and unsafe ones as a result .
The people that are anti-abortion actually are sabotaging their own moral stance by taking this position.
” Goldwyn ’ s abortion advocacy is a close match for Biden 's own platform on the subject , which pledgs direct taxpayer funding of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and would ban states from setting their own abortion policies , even on modest regulations such as ultrasound requirements or waiting periods .
On the subject of COVID-19 , the former Vice President recently said recently that the crisis presents an “ opportunity now to significantly change the mindset of the American people ” on the subject of climate change , getting the country to “ think much bigger than we have before , ” and enact spending and regulations Americans “ weren ’ t ready to do even two , three years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrat standing in the party ’ s primary to decide who challenges President Trump , but mounting concerns about the 77-year-old candidate ’ s mental sharpness have prompted speculation that Democrats may attempt to replace him at the party convention with a younger candidate , such as New York Gov .
Andrew Cuomo .
Biden also faces a sexual assault claim from former Senate staffer Tara Reade .

The Democrat candidate was praised for his 'empathy' by the fellow abortion supporter.
April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Former Vice President Joe Biden organized a virtual town hall event Sunday to explore COVID-19’s impact on entertainment-industry jobs, tapping prominent pro-abortion actor Tony Goldwyn as the host.
Biden did not participate in the discussion, Deadline reported, which featured Goldwyn, senior Biden adviser (and self-labeled “rabid feminist”) Symone Sanders, percussionist Alvester Garnett, Phantom of the Opera head electrician Pete Donovan, and Hamilton wardrobe dresser Jeannie Naughton. The conversation’s focus was on theater jobs, and as well as the campaign’s argument that Biden would guide America through the public-health crisis better than President Donald Trump.
Biden is a “real cheerleader of empathy, not just a promoter, a self promoter,” Goldwyn claimed. “With President Trump, everything is in relationship to himself and every one of his press conferences is a promotional opportunity of ‘Look how great I am. Look how great we’re doing.’ And meanwhile people are dying and certainly struggling.”
However, Goldwyn is not known for extending his own empathy to preborn babies, Breitbart noted.
“There’s been a lot of disinformation about Planned Parenthood and the focus of the lifesaving work that they do for women’s health care,” the actor claimed in 2017. “I saw a much-publicized image of all those white men sitting around in a room at the White House talking about what should be done about women’s health care, and I thought I would step up.”
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“If Planned Parenthood is defunded, millions of women, particularly women struggling economically, are going to be in serious trouble,” Goldwyn continued. “And the truth is, there will be far more abortions performed — and unsafe ones as a result. The people that are anti-abortion actually are sabotaging their own moral stance by taking this position.”
Goldwyn’s abortion advocacy is a close match for Biden's own platform on the subject, which pledgs direct taxpayer funding of abortion and contraception at home and abroad and would ban states from setting their own abortion policies, even on modest regulations such as ultrasound requirements or waiting periods.
On the subject of COVID-19, the former Vice President recently said recently that the crisis presents an “opportunity now to significantly change the mindset of the American people” on the subject of climate change, getting the country to “think much bigger than we have before,” and enact spending and regulations Americans “weren’t ready to do even two, three years ago.”
Biden may be the last Democrat standing in the party’s primary to decide who challenges President Trump, but mounting concerns about the 77-year-old candidate’s mental sharpness have prompted speculation that Democrats may attempt to replace him at the party convention with a younger candidate, such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Biden also faces a sexual assault claim from former Senate staffer Tara Reade.
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lifesitenews--2020-04-22--How COVID-19 may have been deliberately engineered in a China biolab

April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Let ’ s start with the bats , the species known as Intermediate Horseshoe Bat , to be exact .
The Chinese Communist authorities claim that the China Virus , called SARS-CoV-2 , is a naturally occurring coronavirus that is carried by the Horseshoe Bat .
They also claim that the virus “ jumped ” from its normal host to humans at the Wuhan “ wet ” market .
Both of these claims are demonstrably false .
Let ’ s start with the Wuhan “ wet ” market .
As I told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Watters World , ” last week , if the “ wet ” market was actually “ ground zero ” for the outbreak , the authorities would have burned it to the ground .
Instead , they have now reopened it .
It is an open secret in Wuhan that , as a team of researchers from Wuhan noted in late February , that there were no bats in the market and that direct transmission from bats to humans in the market was “ unlikely.
” Two other researchers had reported the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ [ T ] he bat was never a food source in the city and no bat was traded in the market.
” But these researchers , both surnamed Xiao , went even further .
They pointed out that there were bats in Wuhan -- thousands of them—but they were being kept in two biolabs not far from the “ wet ” market where they were used for research purposes .
They identified the two labs as the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) and the Wuhan Institute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wuhan CDC is the national center for China ’ s bat coronavirus research .
Wuhan Institute of Virology uses recombinant technology to create and study new coronaviruses .
The conclusion of the two Doctors Xiao was that “ somebody was entangled with the evolution of [ SARS-CoV-2 ] … the killer coronavirus probably escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.
” Their word choice is a little awkward because the researchers were writing in what is for them foreign language .
But what they clearly mean is that the China Coronavirus now plaguing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ natural recombination of two different viruses in nature through an intermediate host , as many claim .
Rather it was deliberately engineered in the laboratory by joining parts of different viruses together using what is called recombinant technology .
More on the science of how this was done later .
Right now all you need to know is that , within a few hours of its publication , their paper on “ The possible origins of [ SARS-CoV-2 ] coronavirus ” was withdrawn .
This same fate has since befallen several papers by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great risk to themselves , to reveal the truth about the origin of the outbreak to the world .
Now back to the bats .
China ’ s chief bat hunter is an employee of the Wuhan CDC named Tian Junhua .
Mr. Tian ’ s full-time job since 2012 has been collecting bat viruses for research purposes .
Over this time he collected thousands of live bats , as well as countless samples of bat urine and feces , from caves over six hundred miles distant from Wuhan .
The tiny mammals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city under their own power , but were trapped and transported to the two biolabs by the industrious Mr. Tian .
As the two Drs .
Xiao wryly noted , “ The probability was very low for the bats to fly to the market.
” As a result of the efforts of Mr. Tian and others , China now boasts that it has “ taken the lead ” in global virus research .
It claims to have discovered over 2,000 new viruses since the SARS Coronavirus epidemic of 2003 .
To give you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s effort , the total number of viruses discovered over the last two hundred years is , at 2,284 , only slightly more .
China ’ s frenzied collection efforts have nearly doubled the total number of known viruses , and includes hundreds of new and possibly dangerous coronaviruses .
That ’ s a lot of potentially harmful pathogens to keep track of .
But it is also a huge cache of coronaviruses to harvest parts and pieces from if you are looking to make an already deadly coronavirus even deadlier .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a group of researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology , led by a woman named Shi Zhengli , may have been intent upon doing right up until the end of 2019 .
We all know what happened then .
Shi Zhengli received her master ’ s degree from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 1990 .
After earning her Ph.D. in France , she returned to WIV to direct the Institute ’ s research project into bat coronaviruses .
If Mr. Tian is China ’ s batman , Dr. Shi is China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ articles published by Dr. Shi and her team of virologists describe naturally occurring SARS-like coronaviruses that , like the SARS virus itself , could infect human beings directly .
But Dr. Shi ’ s group was not content to merely study existing coronaviruses .
They were also genetically engineering new ones .
In a 2008 article in the Journal of Virology , she and her team described how they were genetically engineering SARS-like viruses from horseshoe bats to enable them to use angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 ( ACE2 ) to gain entry into human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 10 years ago , Shi ’ s team was already creating entirely new and deadly coronaviruses .
They did so by inserting that part of the dangerous SARS virus that allows it to infect people into a second bat coronavirus , which was then able to attack human cells just like the original SARS virus does .
But simply recreating a new SARS virus was only a first step .
Shi and her team wanted to move beyond that to create completely new , and potentially even more deadly coronaviruses .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advanced recombinant technique .
She may have found one in research being done at the University of North Carolina by Prof. Ralph S. Baric .
Prof. Baric had developed a technique for quickly and easily producing what he called “ infectious clones.
” This involves taking coronaviruses from horseshoe bats and genetically engineering them to more easily infect human cells .
Why would he -- or anyone else for that matter -- do such a thing ?
Baric explains : “ In 2013 preemergent SARS-like Coronaviruses were identified in horseshoe bats and found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human population .
… preemergent coronaviruses ( CoVs ) pose a global threat that requires immediate intervention .
Rapid intervention necessitates the capacity to generate , grow , and genetically manipulate infectious CoVs in order to rapidly evaluate pathogenic mechanisms , host and tissue permissibility , and candidate antiviral therapeutic efficacy.
” ( italics added ) Now all of this—preemergent coronaviruses … poised for entry … global threat … requires immediate intervention—all sounds very ominous .
But what people need to understand is that the good professor is talking about coronaviruses that have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , breathing human being .
Rather , he is talking about coronaviruses that might , possibly , at some point in the future , make the leap from bats to humans .
Or they might not .
Ever .
This means that the phrase “ preemergent coronavirus ” is at best misleading , at worst a fiction .
It is a fiction because neither Prof. Baric , nor Dr. Shi Zhengli , nor anyone else , can possibly know whether any one of these naturally occurring viruses will ever infect a single human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Baric is very pleased to inform us , citing his own research , that “ much of the [ coronavirus ] research over the last 15 years has been possible because of the capacity to generate infectious clones using highly efficient reverse genetics platforms , coupled with robust small animal models of human disease.
” In other words , he and his team used the technique they created to easily construct unnatural coronaviruses and see if they will infect and kill mice .
Dr. Shi Zhengli collaborated with Baric in carrying out some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a 2015 article in Nature Medicine in which they discussed bat coronaviruses that were potentially capable of infecting human beings .
Now , a sane person might think that the idea of creating dangerous new pathogens in the lab for which humanity had no acquired immunity , no vaccines , and no drug therapies might not be a good idea .
The U.S. National Institutes of Health , under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci , however , initially funded Prof. Baric ’ s research .
But then Dr. Fauci had second thoughts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ letter to the University of North Carolina , notifying the university that Prof. Baric ’ s research project may violate a new moratorium on risky virology studies involving influenza , MERS and SARS viruses .
The letter and the document from the “ Public Health Emergency ” office of HHS that it references , orders a pause on “ Gain of Function ” research into SARS-like coronaviruses .
What is “ Gain of Function ” research , precisely ?
The document defines it as “ research that improves the ability of a pathogen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ confer [ ing ] attributes to … SARS [ coronaviruses ] such that the resulting virus has enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility ( via the respiratory route ) in mammals .
… [ that ] may entail biosafety and biosecurity risks.
” The original scientific rationale for “ enhancing ” the ability of certain coronaviruses to infect and kill human beings was to get one step ahead of the net pandemic .
“ We will create superbugs in the lab , ” the scientists said to themselves , “ and we will learn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ therapies and vaccines .
Then when the next superbug emerges from nature , we will be ready.
” But what happens if you create a new superbug in the lab and , before you have devised a defense against it , it escapes from the lab .
What then ?
The consequences of unleashing such an “ enhanced ” coronavirus on the world—a pathogen for which human beings had no natural defenses , and for which human science had no treatments or vaccines—would be incalculable .
The U.S. pause on such research was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , over three years later , when NIH put in place what it called “ robust oversight ” that considers the “ scientific merits and potential benefits , ” as well as the “ potential to create ... or use an enhanced potential pandemic pathogen.
” In other words , the brakes were put on the dangerous “ gain-of-function ” research being done in the U.S. for fear that it would “ create ” a pathogen that could , if it leaked from the lab , cause a pandemic .
We decided that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generally not worth the benefits .
Not so in China , however .
There , in Dr. Shi ’ s laboratory , the creation of dangerous “ pathogens of pandemic potential ” apparently went forward without pause or effective oversight .
Communist China is not known for its concern for human life .
Since we are now dealing with exactly the kind of deadly and infectious SARS-like coronaviruses that scientists have been creating in the lab for at least the past ten years , it is reasonable to ask if the China Coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is it one of batwoman ’ s concoctions ?
Virtually everyone now agrees that the China Coronavirus , SARS-CoV-2 , leaked from Dr. Shi ’ s lab .
But I would suggest that the virus itself is the product of Gain of Function research in which its potency was artificially “ enhanced ” to make it more infectious and more lethal using recombinant techniques first developed in the U.S. , perhaps at Prof. Baric ’ s lab .
The leak was an accident .
The “ enhancement ” was deliberate .
On March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , unsigned “ Editor ’ s Note ” was added to Shi and Baric ’ s original article in Nature Medicine .
The oddly worded note read : “ We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered .
There is no evidence that this is true ; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.
” Actually , the “ most likely source ” of the coronavirus is not just one animal but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of coronaviruses were isolated from their hosts and then pieced together in the lab using recombinant technology to create a new and much more infectious variety .
In Part II I will review the evidence that the novel coronavirus is the result of what Chinese researchers themselves have called an “ unusual insertion ” in a Horseshoe Bat coronavirus that may have come from a Pangolin coronavirus .
Steven W. Mosher @ StevenWMosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of Bully of Asia : Why China ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to World Order .

The Wuhan Virus may have been deliberately engineered in the laboratory by joining parts of different viruses together using what is called recombinant technology.
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April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Let’s start with the bats, the species known as Intermediate Horseshoe Bat, to be exact. The Chinese Communist authorities claim that the China Virus, called SARS-CoV-2, is a naturally occurring coronavirus that is carried by the Horseshoe Bat. They also claim that the virus “jumped” from its normal host to humans at the Wuhan “wet” market.
Both of these claims are demonstrably false.
Let’s start with the Wuhan “wet” market. As I told Jesse Watters on his FOX news show, “Watters World,” last week, if the “wet” market was actually “ground zero” for the outbreak, the authorities would have burned it to the ground. Instead, they have now reopened it.
It is an open secret in Wuhan that, as a team of researchers from Wuhan noted in late February, that there were no bats in the market and that direct transmission from bats to humans in the market was “unlikely.”
Two other researchers had reported the same thing a week earlier, namely, “[T]he bat was never a food source in the city and no bat was traded in the market.” But these researchers, both surnamed Xiao, went even further. They pointed out that there were bats in Wuhan–thousands of them—but they were being kept in two biolabs not far from the “wet” market where they were used for research purposes.
They identified the two labs as the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The Wuhan CDC is the national center for China’s bat coronavirus research. Wuhan Institute of Virology uses recombinant technology to create and study new coronaviruses. The conclusion of the two Doctors Xiao was that “somebody was entangled with the evolution of [SARS-CoV-2] … the killer coronavirus probably escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.”
Their word choice is a little awkward because the researchers were writing in what is for them foreign language. But what they clearly mean is that the China Coronavirus now plaguing the planet is not the result of a natural recombination of two different viruses in nature through an intermediate host, as many claim. Rather it was deliberately engineered in the laboratory by joining parts of different viruses together using what is called recombinant technology.
More on the science of how this was done later. Right now all you need to know is that, within a few hours of its publication, their paper on “The possible origins of [SARS-CoV-2] coronavirus” was withdrawn. This same fate has since befallen several papers by Chinese authors who have attempted, at great risk to themselves, to reveal the truth about the origin of the outbreak to the world.
Now back to the bats.
China’s chief bat hunter is an employee of the Wuhan CDC named Tian Junhua. Mr. Tian’s full-time job since 2012 has been collecting bat viruses for research purposes. Over this time he collected thousands of live bats, as well as countless samples of bat urine and feces, from caves over six hundred miles distant from Wuhan. The tiny mammals obviously didn’t get to the city under their own power, but were trapped and transported to the two biolabs by the industrious Mr. Tian. As the two Drs. Xiao wryly noted, “The probability was very low for the bats to fly to the market.”
As a result of the efforts of Mr. Tian and others, China now boasts that it has “taken the lead” in global virus research. It claims to have discovered over 2,000 new viruses since the SARS Coronavirus epidemic of 2003. To give you a sense of the scale of China’s effort, the total number of viruses discovered over the last two hundred years is, at 2,284, only slightly more. China’s frenzied collection efforts have nearly doubled the total number of known viruses, and includes hundreds of new and possibly dangerous coronaviruses.
That’s a lot of potentially harmful pathogens to keep track of. But it is also a huge cache of coronaviruses to harvest parts and pieces from if you are looking to make an already deadly coronavirus even deadlier.
And that seems to be exactly what a group of researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, led by a woman named Shi Zhengli, may have been intent upon doing right up until the end of 2019.
We all know what happened then.
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Shi Zhengli received her master’s degree from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 1990. After earning her Ph.D. in France, she returned to WIV to direct the Institute’s research project into bat coronaviruses. If Mr. Tian is China’s batman, Dr. Shi is China’s batwoman.
Some of the articles published by Dr. Shi and her team of virologists describe naturally occurring SARS-like coronaviruses that, like the SARS virus itself, could infect human beings directly.
But Dr. Shi’s group was not content to merely study existing coronaviruses. They were also genetically engineering new ones. In a 2008 article in the Journal of Virology, she and her team described how they were genetically engineering SARS-like viruses from horseshoe bats to enable them to use angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to gain entry into human cells.
In other words, more than 10 years ago, Shi’s team was already creating entirely new and deadly coronaviruses. They did so by inserting that part of the dangerous SARS virus that allows it to infect people into a second bat coronavirus, which was then able to attack human cells just like the original SARS virus does.
But simply recreating a new SARS virus was only a first step. Shi and her team wanted to move beyond that to create completely new, and potentially even more deadly coronaviruses. For that she needed a new and more advanced recombinant technique. She may have found one in research being done at the University of North Carolina by Prof. Ralph S. Baric.
Prof. Baric had developed a technique for quickly and easily producing what he called “infectious clones.” This involves taking coronaviruses from horseshoe bats and genetically engineering them to more easily infect human cells.
Why would he–or anyone else for that matter–do such a thing?
Baric explains: “In 2013 preemergent SARS-like Coronaviruses were identified in horseshoe bats and found to be poised for entry into the human population. … preemergent coronaviruses (CoVs) pose a global threat that requires immediate intervention. Rapid intervention necessitates the capacity to generate, grow, and genetically manipulate infectious CoVs in order to rapidly evaluate pathogenic mechanisms, host and tissue permissibility, and candidate antiviral therapeutic efficacy.” (italics added)
Now all of this—preemergent coronaviruses … poised for entry … global threat … requires immediate intervention—all sounds very ominous. But what people need to understand is that the good professor is talking about coronaviruses that have not actually infected a single, living, breathing human being. Rather, he is talking about coronaviruses that might, possibly, at some point in the future, make the leap from bats to humans. Or they might not. Ever.
This means that the phrase “preemergent coronavirus” is at best misleading, at worst a fiction. It is a fiction because neither Prof. Baric, nor Dr. Shi Zhengli, nor anyone else, can possibly know whether any one of these naturally occurring viruses will ever infect a single human being.
In any event, Prof. Baric is very pleased to inform us, citing his own research, that “much of the [coronavirus] research over the last 15 years has been possible because of the capacity to generate infectious clones using highly efficient reverse genetics platforms, coupled with robust small animal models of human disease.”
In other words, he and his team used the technique they created to easily construct unnatural coronaviruses and see if they will infect and kill mice. Dr. Shi Zhengli collaborated with Baric in carrying out some of this research, as highlighted in a 2015 article in Nature Medicine in which they discussed bat coronaviruses that were potentially capable of infecting human beings.
Now, a sane person might think that the idea of creating dangerous new pathogens in the lab for which humanity had no acquired immunity, no vaccines, and no drug therapies might not be a good idea. The U.S. National Institutes of Health, under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, initially funded Prof. Baric’s research.
But then Dr. Fauci had second thoughts. In late 2014 he sent a letter to the University of North Carolina, notifying the university that Prof. Baric’s research project may violate a new moratorium on risky virology studies involving influenza, MERS and SARS viruses.
The letter and the document from the “Public Health Emergency” office of HHS that it references, orders a pause on “Gain of Function” research into SARS-like coronaviruses. What is “Gain of Function” research, precisely? The document defines it as “research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease … [by] “confer[ing] attributes to … SARS [coronaviruses] such that the resulting virus has enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility (via the respiratory route) in mammals. … [that] may entail biosafety and biosecurity risks.”
The original scientific rationale for “enhancing” the ability of certain coronaviruses to infect and kill human beings was to get one step ahead of the net pandemic. “We will create superbugs in the lab,” the scientists said to themselves, “and we will learn how to defeat them by developing drug therapies and vaccines. Then when the next superbug emerges from nature, we will be ready.”
But what happens if you create a new superbug in the lab and, before you have devised a defense against it, it escapes from the lab. What then?
The consequences of unleashing such an “enhanced” coronavirus on the world—a pathogen for which human beings had no natural defenses, and for which human science had no treatments or vaccines—would be incalculable.
The U.S. pause on such research was not lifted until December 29, 2017, over three years later, when NIH put in place what it called “robust oversight” that considers the “scientific merits and potential benefits,” as well as the “potential to create … or use an enhanced potential pandemic pathogen.”
In other words, the brakes were put on the dangerous “gain-of-function” research being done in the U.S. for fear that it would “create” a pathogen that could, if it leaked from the lab, cause a pandemic. We decided that the risks associated with such research were generally not worth the benefits.
Not so in China, however. There, in Dr. Shi’s laboratory, the creation of dangerous “pathogens of pandemic potential” apparently went forward without pause or effective oversight. Communist China is not known for its concern for human life.
Since we are now dealing with exactly the kind of deadly and infectious SARS-like coronaviruses that scientists have been creating in the lab for at least the past ten years, it is reasonable to ask if the China Coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus. Or is it one of batwoman’s concoctions?
Virtually everyone now agrees that the China Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, leaked from Dr. Shi’s lab. But I would suggest that the virus itself is the product of Gain of Function research in which its potency was artificially “enhanced” to make it more infectious and more lethal using recombinant techniques first developed in the U.S., perhaps at Prof. Baric’s lab. The leak was an accident. The “enhancement” was deliberate.
On March 30th of this year, an unusual, unsigned “Editor’s Note” was added to Shi and Baric’s original article in Nature Medicine. The oddly worded note read: “We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.”
Actually, the “most likely source” of the coronavirus is not just one animal but two, whose distinct but related species of coronaviruses were isolated from their hosts and then pieced together in the lab using recombinant technology to create a new and much more infectious variety.
* * *
In Part II I will review the evidence that the novel coronavirus is the result of what Chinese researchers themselves have called an “unusual insertion” in a Horseshoe Bat coronavirus that may have come from a Pangolin coronavirus.
Steven W. Mosher @StevenWMosher 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.
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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--2020-04-22--German cardinal: Access to public Mass is a ‘fundamental right’

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April 22 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Cologne has given an interview to the German broadcaster ZDF , in which he now calls for a loosening of the restrictions on public Masses in Germany .
He insists that access to a public Mass is a “ fundamental right ” that is “ protected by the Constitution.
” Speaking to ZDF , the cardinal also stated that “ we are not simply a cultural or an economical service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is about a fundamental right that is essential for our free society.
” Woelki – who is the successor of the now-deceased Cardinal Joachim Meisner in the Archdiocese of Cologne – stressed that in the recent days during this crisis , “ many people reached out to us in a more intensified manner , asking for pastoral care.
” “ This fundamental right , the state , the society has to demand – and also secure.
” Cardinal Woelki made these comments in the context of the current debate and negotiations between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state .
The German bishops are planning to start public Masses again on April 30 .
The Diocese of Dresden-Meissen ( which covers most of the federal state of Sachsen ) has already started to reopen Masses for not more than 15 faithful at a time .
Woelki , too , let it be known that his diocese is preparing for public Masses again , with due hygienical protective measures .
Cardinal Woelki further explained his position to the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost .
“ One the practical level , one has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ that of course nobody believes that we will simply , from one day to another , return to the Masses as they were before the corona crisis.
” “ Such return to normalcy is still far away , ” he added .
But he insists that one should allow certain Masses with hygienic measures .
Woelki 's statement comes at a time where one of his fellow German bishops , Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg , is calling those faithful who are asking for the Sacraments “ whining , ” and “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And in the face of the hardships and suffering of those who have to fear for their own lives or the lives of relatives , who hardly see an economic perspective for themselves or who are professionally on the front lines in the fight against the pandemic , aren ’ t our cancellations of worship services almost luxury problems ?
” Instead of asking for the Sacraments one should rather show solidarity and not act like “ lobbyists.
” This statement that has met with criticism comes at a time where in Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Catholics are pleading with their bishops “ please , give us back Holy Mass.
” Sebastian Kurz , Austria 's Chancellor , just announced that from May 15 on , public Masses may take place again .

'It is about a fundamental right that is essential for our free society.'
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April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Cologne has given an interview to the German broadcaster ZDF, in which he now calls for a loosening of the restrictions on public Masses in Germany. He insists that access to a public Mass is a “fundamental right” that is “protected by the Constitution.”
Speaking to ZDF, the cardinal also stated that “we are not simply a cultural or an economical service,” but, rather that “it is about a fundamental right that is essential for our free society.”
Woelki – who is the successor of the now-deceased Cardinal Joachim Meisner in the Archdiocese of Cologne – stressed that in the recent days during this crisis, “many people reached out to us in a more intensified manner, asking for pastoral care.”
“This fundamental right, the state, the society has to demand – and also secure.”
Cardinal Woelki made these comments in the context of the current debate and negotiations between the Catholic Church in Germany and the state. The German bishops are planning to start public Masses again on April 30. The Diocese of Dresden-Meissen (which covers most of the federal state of Sachsen) has already started to reopen Masses for not more than 15 faithful at a time. Woelki, too, let it be known that his diocese is preparing for public Masses again, with due hygienical protective measures.
Cardinal Woelki further explained his position to the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost. “One the practical level, one has to add,” he stated, “that of course nobody believes that we will simply, from one day to another, return to the Masses as they were before the corona crisis.”
“Such return to normalcy is still far away,” he added. But he insists that one should allow certain Masses with hygienic measures.
Woelki's statement comes at a time where one of his fellow German bishops, Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg, is calling those faithful who are asking for the Sacraments “whining,” and “belligerent.” He also asked: “And in the face of the hardships and suffering of those who have to fear for their own lives or the lives of relatives, who hardly see an economic perspective for themselves or who are professionally on the front lines in the fight against the pandemic, aren’t our cancellations of worship services almost luxury problems?” Instead of asking for the Sacraments one should rather show solidarity and not act like “lobbyists.”
This statement that has met with criticism comes at a time where in Germany's neighboring country, Austria, young Catholics are pleading with their bishops “please, give us back Holy Mass.” Sebastian Kurz, Austria's Chancellor, just announced that from May 15 on, public Masses may take place again.
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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