lifesitenews--2020-12-03--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

December 3 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
Join us today !
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this rosary , you can access them via this PDF .
This document also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the daily rosary on LifeSite led by Fr .
Pillari .

(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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lifesitenews--2020-12-03--Ireland’s top university bans Catholic society from holding prayer meetings

DUBLIN , Ireland , December 3 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Ireland ’ s foremost university , Trinity College Dublin , has banned the university ’ s Catholic society from organizing prayer meetings , saying they violate the society ’ s constitution .
The Laurentian Society of Trinity College Dublin states that it “ welcomes all students who wish to engage intellectually with the Catholic faith.
” Its Facebook page reads : “ The Laurentian Society is the Catholic society of Trinity College Dublin .
Its vocation is to offer a space of fellowship and prayer to students , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teachings through various activities and events all through the year.
” The Irish Catholic reports that it has seen correspondence from the university ’ s Central Societies Committee ( CSC ) in which the CSC issued a warning to the society “ that they can no longer advertise or hold prayer meetings under the society ’ s banner , as the committee claims it is in breach of the society ’ s status as a ‘ cultural ’ society.
” According to The Irish Catholic , the CSC wrote that other groups or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in the college provide for the students ’ worship needs , and that they may continue to meet and pray as part of that community.
” However , such “ worship-based events are in no way connected to the Laurentian Society , due to the society ’ s status as a ‘ cultural society.
’ ” The society has deemed the decision an “ arbitrary divide between worship and culture , arguing that for practicing Catholics the two can not be separated.
” A student from the university spoke to The Irish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my first take on this is that it ’ s simply unjust .
If it ’ s not equally applied , then this is discrimination.
” Continuing , the student added that the event was a “ good reason to reconsider ... going to a place like Trinity.
” The CSC secretary , Ultan Pringle , wrote to The University Times , saying : “ The Laurentian Society constitution outlines that the aims and objectives of the society are as follows : to provide a forum for the exposition and discussion of historical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from a Catholic perspective and to educate interested members of the College community on aspects of Catholicism , including in particular the teachings of the Catholic Church.
” Pringle continued : “ The aim of the society then is to engage with and explore faith-based culture and literature .
Trinity already provides a space for worship and religious practice through the College Chaplaincy.
” Speaking to The University Times , the Laurentian Society said , “ As far as we ’ re aware , this has never been an issue with any religion-based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Catholic students now feel that we are being singled out and attacked .
At best , this seems to be ignorance of what is classified as cultural practice ; at worst , it is anti-Catholic bigotry , which is all too common in today ’ s culture.
” Speaking to LifeSite , Ellen Moynihan , general officer for the Laurentian Society , stated : “ The ban on prayer meetings was a harsh blow for everyone on committee .
It was rather discouraging to receive a second impediment to worship amidst the already-existing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Moynihan continued , “ However , it was a unanimous agreement amongst our society committee members that narrow is the gate and small is the way that leadeth unto life , as our Lord himself told us .
We continue to trust with great hope.
” Catholic commentator and barrister Maria Steen told The Irish Catholic , “ The CSC ’ s attempts to delimit the cultural expression of a Catholic cultural society is , in effect , cultural repression.
” UK and Irish Christians take worship ‘ underground ’ in wake of @ @ @

DUBLIN, Ireland, December 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Ireland’s foremost university, Trinity College Dublin, has banned the university’s Catholic society from organizing prayer meetings, saying they violate the society’s constitution.
The Laurentian Society of Trinity College Dublin states that it “welcomes all students who wish to engage intellectually with the Catholic faith.” Its Facebook page reads: “The Laurentian Society is the Catholic society of Trinity College Dublin. Its vocation is to offer a space of fellowship and prayer to students, and to promote the Catholic faith and teachings through various activities and events all through the year.”
The Irish Catholic reports that it has seen correspondence from the university’s Central Societies Committee (CSC) in which the CSC issued a warning to the society “that they can no longer advertise or hold prayer meetings under the society’s banner, as the committee claims it is in breach of the society’s status as a ‘cultural’ society.”
According to The Irish Catholic, the CSC wrote that other groups or “bodies, such as the chaplaincy, in the college provide for the students’ worship needs, and that they may continue to meet and pray as part of that community.” However, such “worship-based events are in no way connected to the Laurentian Society, due to the society’s status as a ‘cultural society.’”
The society has deemed the decision an “arbitrary divide between worship and culture, arguing that for practicing Catholics the two cannot be separated.”
A student from the university spoke to The Irish Catholic, saying, “I think my first take on this is that it’s simply unjust. If it’s not equally applied, then this is discrimination.” Continuing, the student added that the event was a “good reason to reconsider … going to a place like Trinity.”
The CSC secretary, Ultan Pringle, wrote to The University Times, saying: “The Laurentian Society constitution outlines that the aims and objectives of the society are as follows: to provide a forum for the exposition and discussion of historical and contemporary issues pertaining to Catholic culture from a Catholic perspective and to educate interested members of the College community on aspects of Catholicism, including in particular the teachings of the Catholic Church.”
Pringle continued: “The aim of the society then is to engage with and explore faith-based culture and literature. Trinity already provides a space for worship and religious practice through the College Chaplaincy.”
Speaking to The University Times, the Laurentian Society said, “As far as we’re aware, this has never been an issue with any religion-based cultural societies on campus, and many Catholic students now feel that we are being singled out and attacked. At best, this seems to be ignorance of what is classified as cultural practice; at worst, it is anti-Catholic bigotry, which is all too common in today’s culture.”
Speaking to LifeSite, Ellen Moynihan, general officer for the Laurentian Society, stated: “The ban on prayer meetings was a harsh blow for everyone on committee. It was rather discouraging to receive a second impediment to worship amidst the already-existing lockdown restrictions on public prayer gatherings.”
Moynihan continued, “However, it was a unanimous agreement amongst our society committee members that narrow is the gate and small is the way that leadeth unto life, as our Lord himself told us. We continue to trust with great hope.”
Catholic commentator and barrister Maria Steen told The Irish Catholic, “The CSC’s attempts to delimit the cultural expression of a Catholic cultural society is, in effect, cultural repression.”
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Irish Police enforce ban on Mass, threaten priests with jail.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-04--‘Sold out to Satan’: Viganò unloads on coronavirus ‘pseudo-health regime’

December 3 , 2020 ( Inside the Vatican ) — “ O God , you are awesome from your sanctuary ; the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.
” —Psalm 68:35 On November 19 , 2020 , the founder of the World Economic Forum , Klaus Schwab , declared that “ Covid is an opportunity for a global reset.
” In reality , Schwab was slavishly repeating what Jacques Attali said in the French weekly L ’ Express on May 3 , 2009 [ so , 11 years ago ] : “ History teaches us that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really afraid : then it initially develops defense mechanisms ; sometimes intolerable ( scapegoats and totalitarianisms ) ; sometimes useless ( distractions ) ; sometimes effective ( therapies , which , if necessary , may depart from all previous moral principles ) .
Then , once the crisis is over , fear transforms these mechanisms to make them compatible with individual freedom and inscribe them as policies of a healthy democracy.
” Back then it was the swine flu which , according to the media , was expected to cause millions of deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doses of vaccines never used , because they proved useless , from “ Big Pharma.
” Useless for all — except for those who sold them , making huge profits .
One might wonder why a flu virus that according to recent WHO data has a mortality ( 0.13 % ) slightly higher than that of a normal seasonal flu syndrome ( 0.10 % ) could have led to the declaration of the pandemic and to a series of practically identical countermeasures in almost all European nations and the American continent .
One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generally discredited , minimized or prohibited , while the vaccine is considered the most effective solution .
And it needs to be explained how it is possible to create a vaccine , since — according to the statements of the US CDC ( United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ) — the virus has not yet been isolated .
What antigen may be used , if the virus SARS-CoV-2 can not be isolated and replicated ?
And what reliability can the virus tests have , since the tests are calibrated to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” in general ?
And if on October 19 the Spallanzani Hospital in Rome announced the develop of a test that distinguishes between normal flu and Covid-19 , may we know what so far have patients who undergo the new test been found positive for ?
Perhaps this lack of clarity is why some members of the Moderna and Pfizer boards of directors have sold part of their company shares .
So let ’ s go back to the questions that many posed to themselves months ago , and to the never-contradicted contents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump : a world plan appears in its disconcerting reality .
The architects of the plan , creating an unjustified social alarm about an alleged pandemic — that today we see is no more serious than a normal flu , as confirmed by official data from all over the world — has been used to create a tremendous global social and economic crisis and so to legitimize the drastic reduction of the basic rights of the population .
It is what its authors themselves call the Great Reset : the global reset of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masses of people .
In this project , the Covid virus plays a fundamental role , as an alibi that justifies — in the face of the “ totem ” of a science that has prostituted itself to the interests of an elite after having abdicated its mission to save human lives — the deprivation of freedom , the interference of governments in the private life of its citizens , the establishment of a pseudo-health regime in which , against all objective scientific evidence , the number of diners , the distance between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ selling , breathing and even praying , is decided from above .
Someone , in the deafening silence of the Catholic Hierarchy , has imposed the closure of churches or the limitation of religious celebrations , considering the House of God as a cinema or a museum , but at the same time declaring abortion clinics “ essential services.
” These are the paradoxes of a misguided power , managed by people corrupt in the soul and sold out to Satan , a power which , after obsessively repeating the mantras of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people ” is now forced to impose a dictatorship on the people themselves , in the name of the achievement of objectives aimed at protecting the political and financial interests of the elite .
The rich are getting richer and richer , while the middle classes that constitute the social fabric and the very soul of nations is being cut down .
The French Revolution wiped out the Western aristocracy .
The Industrial Revolution obliterated the peasants and spread the proletarianization which led to the disaster of Socialism and Communism .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the school .
This Great Reset , desired by the globalist elite , represents the final revolution with which to create a shapeless and anonymous mass of slaves connected to the internet , confined to the house , threatened by an endless series of pandemics designed by those who already have the miraculous vaccine ready .
Precisely in these days , with the harmony of a plan that seems orchestrated in every detail under a single leadership , the imposition of a vaccine is being theorized by many parties , even before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fully known , and even before the vaccine ’ s possible side-effects may be fully ascertained .
This obligation to receive a vaccine is projected by many to occur alongside the issuance by a “ health passport , ” so that those who have such a passport may move without limitations , while those who refuse a vaccine would not be able to use means of transport , attend restaurants and visit public places , schools and offices .
That this represents an intolerable violation of the individual ’ s freedoms does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do not hesitate to sack parliaments to impose their tyrannical norms , knowing that their power exists as long as they obey the Great Reset agenda , endorsed by the international institutions such as the European Union and the UN .
Faced with such a massive and coordinated deployment of forces we remain astonished , bewildered by the impudence of those who are telling us , in essence , that we must silently accept the dictatorship of a faceless power group , because that is how the group has decided .
We are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Left — and of the Democrats in the United States — to this agenda , which knows no limits , no restraints on its execution , to the point of organizing an electoral coup of such magnitude and gravity as to be horrified .
The manual fraud of duplicate ballots , the votes of deceased people , citizens who discover they have voted a thousand times and employees who tamper with the results by obscuring the windows of the polling stations with cardboard panels , is accompanied by the use of a vote-counting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be open to fraudulent use , but even to have been designed at the software level to allow the shifting of votes from one candidate to another , based on a complex algorithm .
We discover that the people behind this macroscopic fraud are always the same , always of the same political party , always subservient to the same ideology .
People corrupt in intellect and will , because they made themselves the slaves of a ruthless tyrant , after refusing to obey a good , just and merciful Lord .
Thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of sin and rebellion against God , today they would like to drag the whole of humanity into an abyss of death and despair : it is the miserable revenge of Satan , who , not being able to defeat the One who cast him into hell , tries to drag with him as many souls as possible , in an attempt to frustrate the work of Redemption .
We , believers in Christ Our Only Lord , have no reason to fear , even against all human reason : we know that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no longer servants but children of God , and that by preserving the friendship of our Lord with Grace we can trust in Him , in His provident help , in His powerful protection .
Ultimately , this is true freedom : the freedom of the children of God , who obey His law not out of fear but out of love , not out of compulsion but because in adhering to the divine will they will find their own perfect fulfillment and their complete realization .
For every soul is created for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eternal bliss as a reward of fidelity to the Savior .
Don ’ t let our hearts be troubled !
The maneuvers of those who work in darkness are coming to light , showing themselves in all their horror and revealing their perverse and infernal matrix .
Lies , deceptions , violence , death : this is the harsh reality of evil before which people of good will can only be horrified .
If Our Lord deigns to listen to the prayers of His children , this castle of lies and fraud will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to go back into hiding to escape the rigors of justice and the execration of peoples .
These are decisive hours : we continue to pray , to recite the Holy Rosary , to nourish ourselves with the Most Holy Eucharist , to do penance .
The choral voice that rises up to the throne of the divine Majesty will not remain unheard .
Let us not be discouraged , because it is in the moment of trial that the Lord gives us the opportunity to show our trust in Him and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Whatsoever you ask in my name , I will do , so that the Father may be glorified in the Son ” ( Jn 14 , 13 ) .
Our Lord told us clearly : anything .
We therefore ask the Father , in the name of the Son our Lord and Redeemer , through the intercession of His most holy Mother our powerful mediator , to show His glory , to grant the exaltation of Holy Church , peace and prosperity to the Christian peoples , the conversion of sinners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ God arises , and his enemies will be scattered , and those who hate him will flee before him ” ( Psalm 68:1 ) .
Here is the text in the original Italian : Il 19 Novembre 2020 il fondatore del World Economic Forum , Klaus Schwab , ha dichiarato che « Il Covid è l ’ occasione per un reset mondiale » .
In realtà Schwab ripete pedissequamente ciò che il 3 Maggio 2009 , sul settimanale francese L ’ Express , disse Jacques Attali : « La storia ci insegna @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quando ha realmente paura : allora essa inizialmente sviluppa meccanismi di difesa ; a volte intollerabili ( dei capri espiatori e dei totalitarismi ) ; a volte inutili ( della distrazione ) ; a volte efficaci ( delle terapeutiche , che allontanano se necessario tutti i principi morali precedenti ) .
Poi , una volta passata la crisi , la paura trasforma questi meccanismi per renderli compatibili con la libertà individuale ed iscriverli in una politica di salute democratica » .
Allora si trattava della febbre suina , che secondo i media avrebbe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ la quale gli Stati acquistarono da BigPharma milioni di dosi di vaccini mai utilizzati perché rivelatisi inutili .
Inutili per tutti , fuorché per coloro che li hanno venduti con enormi profitti .
Ci si potrebbe chiedere come mai un virus influenzale che secondo i dati recenti dell ’ OMS ha una mortalità ( 0,13 % ) di poco superiore a quella di una normale sindrome influenzale stagionale ( 0,10 % ) possa aver portato alla dichiarazione della pandemia e ad una serie di contromisure praticamente identiche in quasi tutti gli Stati europei @ @ @ @ @ @ @ potrebbe chiedere anche la ragione per cui le cure per il Covid-19 siano generalmente screditate , minimizzate o proibite , mentre il vaccino viene considerato la soluzione più efficace ; e sarebbe da comprendere come sia possibile creare un vaccino , dal momento che – secondo le dichiarazioni del CDC ( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ) statunitense – il virus non è stato ancora isolato : quale antigene viene utilizzato , se non si può isolare e replicare il SARS-CoV-2 ?
e quale affidabilità possono avere i tamponi , dal momento @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generico ?
E se il 19 Ottobre l ’ Ospedale Spallanzani di Roma ha annunciato la sperimentazione di un test che distingue tra normale influenza e Covid-19 , finora a cosa risultano positivi i pazienti che vi si sottopongono ?
Forse è per questo che alcuni membri del board di Moderna e della Pfizer hanno venduto parte delle proprie azioni .
Torniamo così alle domande che molti si erano posti mesi orsono , e alla mia denuncia contenuta nelle due Lettere Aperte al Presidente Trump : appare nella sua sconcertante realtà un piano @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ingiustificato allarme sociale su una presunta pandemia che oggi vediamo non essere più grave di una normale sindrome influenzale come confermano i dati ufficiali di tutto il mondo , viene utilizzata per creare una tremenda crisi sociale ed economica globale e legittimare la drastica riduzione dei diritti basilari della popolazione .
È quello che viene definito dai suoi stessi autori il Great Reset , il resettaggio globale dell ’ economia , della società , delle masse .
In questo progetto il Covid gioca un ruolo fondamentale , come alibi che giustifica – dinanzi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interessi dell ’ élite dopo aver abdicato alla sua missione di salvare vite umane – la privazione della libertà , l ’ intromissione dei governi nella vita privata dei cittadini , l ’ instaurazione di un regime pseudo-sanitario in cui , contro ogni evidenza scientifica oggettiva , viene deciso dall ’ alto il numero di commensali , la distanza tra le persone , la possibilità di comprare , vendere , respirare e addirittura di pregare .
Qualcuno , nel silenzio assordante della Gerarchia , ha imposto la chiusura delle chiese o la limitazione @ @ @ @ @ @ @ di Dio come un cinema o un museo , ma allo stesso tempo dichiarando “ servizi essenziali ” le cliniche abortive .
Sono i paradossi di un potere traviato , gestito da persone corrotte nell ’ anima e vendute a Satana , che dopo aver ripetuto ossessivamente il mantra della democrazia e del potere che appartiene al popolo si trova oggi costretto ad imporre la dittatura contro lo stesso popolo , in nome del raggiungimento di obbiettivi volti a tutelare gli interessi politici e finanziari dell ’ élite .
I ricchi si stanno @ @ @ @ @ @ @ falciato via quel ceto medio che costituisce il tessuto sociale e l ’ anima stessa delle Nazioni .
La Rivoluzione Francese cancellò l ’ aristocrazia occidentale ; la Rivoluzione Industriale cancellò i contadini e diffuse la proletarizzazione che portò alla sciagura del Socialismo e del Comunismo ; la Rivoluzione del Sessantotto demolì la famiglia e la scuola .
Questo Great Reset , voluto dall ’ élite globalista , rappresenta l ’ ultima rivoluzione con la quale creare una massa informe e anonima di schiavi connessi alla rete , confinati in casa , minacciati @ @ @ @ @ @ @ da chi ha già pronto il miracoloso vaccino .
Proprio in questi giorni , con la sincronia di un piano orchestrato nei minimi particolari sotto un ’ unica regia , da più parti si va teorizzando l ’ imposizione del vaccino , del quale peraltro non si conosce la reale efficacia né le conseguenze che esso potrà avere .
A quest ’ obbligo dovrebbe accompagnarsi anche un passaporto sanitario , in modo che quanti ne sono provvisti possano muoversi senza limitazioni , mentre coloro che lo rifiutano non dovrebbero poter usare i mezzi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pubblici , scuole e uffici .
Che questo rappresenti una intollerabile violazione delle libertà dell ’ individuo non pare costituire un problema : i legislatori non esitano ad esautorare i Parlamenti per imporre le loro norme tiranniche , sapendo che il loro potere sussiste finché obbediscono all ’ agenda del Great Reset , fatta propria dalle istituzioni internazionali come l ’ Unione Europea e l ’ ONU .
Dinanzi ad uno spiegamento di forze così massiccio e coordinato rimaniamo attoniti , sconcertati dalla sfacciataggine di chi ci sta dicendo , in sostanza , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ di un gruppo di potere senza volto , perché così esso ha deciso .
Restiamo sconcertati dall ’ asservimento della Sinistra mondiale – e dei Dem negli Stati Uniti – a questa agenda , che non conosce nessun limite , nessun freno alla propria esecuzione ; al punto da organizzare un colpo di stato elettorale di tale portata e gravità da lasciare inorriditi .
Ai brogli manuali delle schede duplicate , dei voti di persone defunte , dei cittadini che scoprono di aver votato mille volte e degli impiegati che manomettono i risultati @ @ @ @ @ @ @ di cartone si affianca l ’ uso di un apparato di computo dei voti che sta dimostrando non solo il suo uso fraudolento , ma di esser stato addirittura progettato a livello di software per consentire lo spostamento di voti da un candidato all ’ altro , sulla base di un complesso algoritmo .
Scopriamo che le persone dietro a questa frode macroscopica sono sempre le stesse , sempre della stessa parte politica , sempre asservite alla stessa ideologia .
Persone corrotte nell ’ intelletto e nella volontà , perché si sono rese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aver rifiutato di obbedire a un Signore buono , giusto e misericordioso .
Così , come costoro hanno accettato la schiavitù del peccato e della ribellione a Dio , essi oggi vorrebbero trascinare l ’ intera umanità in un baratro di morte e disperazione : è la miserabile vendetta di Satana , che non potendo sconfiggere Colui che lo ha scacciato negli inferi , cerca di trascinare con sé quante più anime possibile , nel tentativo di vanificare l ’ opera della Redenzione .
Noi , credenti in Cristo Nostro Unico Signore , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contro ogni ragione umana : noi sappiamo che , rinati nel Battesimo , non siamo più servi ma figli di Dio , e che conservando con la Grazia l ’ amicizia del nostro Signore possiamo confidare in Lui , nel Suo provvidente soccorso , nella Sua potente protezione .
Questa è , in definitiva , la vera libertà : la libertà dei figli di Dio , che obbediscono alla Sua legge non per timore ma per amore , non per costrizione ma perché nell ’ adesione alla volontà divina essi troveranno il proprio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Poiché ogni anima è creata per la maggior gloria di Dio , per la beatitudine eterna come premio della fedeltà al Salvatore .
Non sia turbato il nostro cuore !
Le manovre di chi opera nelle tenebre stanno venendo alla luce , mostrandosi in tutto il loro orrore e svelando la loro matrice perversa e infernale .
Menzogne , inganni , violenze , morte : questa è la cruda realtà del male dinanzi alla quale le persone di buona volontà non possono che inorridire .
Se Nostro Signore si degnerà di ascoltare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ castello di menzogne e di frodi crollerà miseramente , e i suoi artefici dovranno tornare a nascondersi per sfuggire ai rigori della giustizia e all ’ esecrazione dei popoli .
Queste sono ore decisive : continuiamo a pregare , a recitare il Santo Rosario , a nutrirci della Santissima Eucaristia , a fare penitenza .
La voce corale che si leva fino al trono della divina Maestà non rimarrà inascoltata .
Non lasciamoci scoraggiare , perché è nel momento della prova che il Signore ci dà la possibilità di mostrare la nostra fiducia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ della Sua misericordia .
Published with permission from Inside the Vatican .

The exiled archbishop had harsh words for the 'Great Reset' and those seeking to implement it.
December 3, 2020 (Inside the Vatican) — “O God, you are awesome from your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.” —Psalm 68:35
On November 19, 2020, the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, declared that “Covid is an opportunity for a global reset.”
In reality, Schwab was slavishly repeating what Jacques Attali said in the French weekly L’Express on May 3, 2009 [so, 11 years ago]: “History teaches us that humanity evolves significantly only when it is really afraid: then it initially develops defense mechanisms; sometimes intolerable (scapegoats and totalitarianisms); sometimes useless (distractions); sometimes effective (therapies, which, if necessary, may depart from all previous moral principles). Then, once the crisis is over, fear transforms these mechanisms to make them compatible with individual freedom and inscribe them as policies of a healthy democracy.”
Back then it was the swine flu which, according to the media, was expected to cause millions of deaths and for which nations bought millions of doses of vaccines never used, because they proved useless, from “Big Pharma.” Useless for all — except for those who sold them, making huge profits.
One might wonder why a flu virus that according to recent WHO data has a mortality (0.13%) slightly higher than that of a normal seasonal flu syndrome (0.10%) could have led to the declaration of the pandemic and to a series of practically identical countermeasures in almost all European nations and the American continent.
One might also wonder why Covid-19 treatments are generally discredited, minimized or prohibited, while the vaccine is considered the most effective solution.
And it needs to be explained how it is possible to create a vaccine, since — according to the statements of the US CDC (United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) — the virus has not yet been isolated.
What antigen may be used, if the virus SARS-CoV-2 cannot be isolated and replicated?
And what reliability can the virus tests have, since the tests are calibrated to detect only on the generic “Coronavirus” in general?
And if on October 19 the Spallanzani Hospital in Rome announced the develop of a test that distinguishes between normal flu and Covid-19, may we know what so far have patients who undergo the new test been found positive for?
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Perhaps this lack of clarity is why some members of the Moderna and Pfizer boards of directors have sold part of their company shares.
So let’s go back to the questions that many posed to themselves months ago, and to the never-contradicted contents of my two Open Letters to President Trump: a world plan appears in its disconcerting reality. The architects of the plan, creating an unjustified social alarm about an alleged pandemic — that today we see is no more serious than a normal flu, as confirmed by official data from all over the world — has been used to create a tremendous global social and economic crisis and so to legitimize the drastic reduction of the basic rights of the population. It is what its authors themselves call the Great Reset: the global reset of the economy, of society and of masses of people.
In this project, the Covid virus plays a fundamental role, as an alibi that justifies — in the face of the “totem” of a science that has prostituted itself to the interests of an elite after having abdicated its mission to save human lives — the deprivation of freedom, the interference of governments in the private life of its citizens, the establishment of a pseudo-health regime in which, against all objective scientific evidence, the number of diners, the distance between people, the possibility of buying, selling, breathing and even praying, is decided from above.
Someone, in the deafening silence of the Catholic Hierarchy, has imposed the closure of churches or the limitation of religious celebrations, considering the House of God as a cinema or a museum, but at the same time declaring abortion clinics “essential services.”
These are the paradoxes of a misguided power, managed by people corrupt in the soul and sold out to Satan, a power which, after obsessively repeating the mantras of “democracy” and “power belongs to the people” is now forced to impose a dictatorship on the people themselves, in the name of the achievement of objectives aimed at protecting the political and financial interests of the elite.
The rich are getting richer and richer, while the middle classes that constitute the social fabric and the very soul of nations is being cut down.
The French Revolution wiped out the Western aristocracy.
The Industrial Revolution obliterated the peasants and spread the proletarianization which led to the disaster of Socialism and Communism.
The Revolution of ’68 demolished the family and the school.
This Great Reset, desired by the globalist elite, represents the final revolution with which to create a shapeless and anonymous mass of slaves connected to the internet, confined to the house, threatened by an endless series of pandemics designed by those who already have the miraculous vaccine ready.
Precisely in these days, with the harmony of a plan that seems orchestrated in every detail under a single leadership, the imposition of a vaccine is being theorized by many parties, even before the vaccine’s actual effectiveness is fully known, and even before the vaccine’s possible side-effects may be fully ascertained.
This obligation to receive a vaccine is projected by many to occur alongside the issuance by a “health passport,” so that those who have such a passport may move without limitations, while those who refuse a vaccine would not be able to use means of transport, attend restaurants and visit public places, schools and offices.
That this represents an intolerable violation of the individual’s freedoms does not seem to be a problem: law-makers do not hesitate to sack parliaments to impose their tyrannical norms, knowing that their power exists as long as they obey the Great Reset agenda, endorsed by the international institutions such as the European Union and the UN.
Faced with such a massive and coordinated deployment of forces we remain astonished, bewildered by the impudence of those who are telling us, in essence, that we must silently accept the dictatorship of a faceless power group, because that is how the group has decided.
We are disconcerted by the enslavement of the world Left — and of the Democrats in the United States — to this agenda, which knows no limits, no restraints on its execution, to the point of organizing an electoral coup of such magnitude and gravity as to be horrified.
The manual fraud of duplicate ballots, the votes of deceased people, citizens who discover they have voted a thousand times and employees who tamper with the results by obscuring the windows of the polling stations with cardboard panels, is accompanied by the use of a vote-counting apparatus which is proving not only to be open to fraudulent use, but even to have been designed at the software level to allow the shifting of votes from one candidate to another, based on a complex algorithm.
We discover that the people behind this macroscopic fraud are always the same, always of the same political party, always subservient to the same ideology. People corrupt in intellect and will, because they made themselves the slaves of a ruthless tyrant, after refusing to obey a good, just and merciful Lord.
Thus, as these have accepted the slavery of sin and rebellion against God, today they would like to drag the whole of humanity into an abyss of death and despair: it is the miserable revenge of Satan, who, not being able to defeat the One who cast him into hell, tries to drag with him as many souls as possible, in an attempt to frustrate the work of Redemption.
We, believers in Christ Our Only Lord, have no reason to fear, even against all human reason: we know that, reborn in Baptism, we are no longer servants but children of God, and that by preserving the friendship of our Lord with Grace we can trust in Him, in His provident help, in His powerful protection.
Ultimately, this is true freedom: the freedom of the children of God, who obey His law not out of fear but out of love, not out of compulsion but because in adhering to the divine will they will find their own perfect fulfillment and their complete realization.
For every soul is created for the greater glory of God, for eternal bliss as a reward of fidelity to the Savior.
Don’t let our hearts be troubled!
The maneuvers of those who work in darkness are coming to light, showing themselves in all their horror and revealing their perverse and infernal matrix.
Lies, deceptions, violence, death: this is the harsh reality of evil before which people of good will can only be horrified.
If Our Lord deigns to listen to the prayers of His children, this castle of lies and fraud will collapse miserably, and its architects will have to go back into hiding to escape the rigors of justice and the execration of peoples.
These are decisive hours: we continue to pray, to recite the Holy Rosary, to nourish ourselves with the Most Holy Eucharist, to do penance.
The choral voice that rises up to the throne of the divine Majesty will not remain unheard.
Let us not be discouraged, because it is in the moment of trial that the Lord gives us the opportunity to show our trust in Him and to see the greatness of His mercy.
“Whatsoever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (Jn 14, 13). Our Lord told us clearly: anything.
We therefore ask the Father, in the name of the Son our Lord and Redeemer, through the intercession of His most holy Mother our powerful mediator, to show His glory, to grant the exaltation of Holy Church, peace and prosperity to the Christian peoples, the conversion of sinners, the defeat of His enemies.
“God arises, and his enemies will be scattered, and those who hate him will flee before him” (Psalm 68:1).
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
25 November 2020
St Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr
Here is the text in the original Italian:
O Dio, tu sei tremendo dal tuo santuario; il Dio d’Israele dà forza e potenza al suo popolo. —Sal 68, 35
Il 19 Novembre 2020 il fondatore del World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, ha dichiarato che «Il Covid è l’occasione per un reset mondiale». In realtà Schwab ripete pedissequamente ciò che il 3 Maggio 2009, sul settimanale francese L’Express, disse Jacques Attali: «La storia ci insegna che l’umanità evolve significativamente soltanto quando ha realmente paura: allora essa inizialmente sviluppa meccanismi di difesa; a volte intollerabili (dei capri espiatori e dei totalitarismi); a volte inutili (della distrazione); a volte efficaci (delle terapeutiche, che allontanano se necessario tutti i principi morali precedenti). Poi, una volta passata la crisi, la paura trasforma questi meccanismi per renderli compatibili con la libertà individuale ed iscriverli in una politica di salute democratica». Allora si trattava della febbre suina, che secondo i media avrebbe dovuto causare milioni di vittime e per la quale gli Stati acquistarono da BigPharma milioni di dosi di vaccini mai utilizzati perché rivelatisi inutili. Inutili per tutti, fuorché per coloro che li hanno venduti con enormi profitti.
Ci si potrebbe chiedere come mai un virus influenzale che secondo i dati recenti dell’OMS ha una mortalità (0,13%) di poco superiore a quella di una normale sindrome influenzale stagionale (0,10%) possa aver portato alla dichiarazione della pandemia e ad una serie di contromisure praticamente identiche in quasi tutti gli Stati europei e del continente americano. Ci si potrebbe chiedere anche la ragione per cui le cure per il Covid-19 siano generalmente screditate, minimizzate o proibite, mentre il vaccino viene considerato la soluzione più efficace; e sarebbe da comprendere come sia possibile creare un vaccino, dal momento che – secondo le dichiarazioni del CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) statunitense – il virus non è stato ancora isolato: quale antigene viene utilizzato, se non si può isolare e replicare il SARS-CoV-2? e quale affidabilità possono avere i tamponi, dal momento che essi sono calibrati solo sul Coronavirus generico? E se il 19 Ottobre l’Ospedale Spallanzani di Roma ha annunciato la sperimentazione di un test che distingue tra normale influenza e Covid-19, finora a cosa risultano positivi i pazienti che vi si sottopongono? Forse è per questo che alcuni membri del board di Moderna e della Pfizer hanno venduto parte delle proprie azioni.
Torniamo così alle domande che molti si erano posti mesi orsono, e alla mia denuncia contenuta nelle due Lettere Aperte al Presidente Trump: appare nella sua sconcertante realtà un piano mondiale i cui artefici, creando un ingiustificato allarme sociale su una presunta pandemia che oggi vediamo non essere più grave di una normale sindrome influenzale come confermano i dati ufficiali di tutto il mondo, viene utilizzata per creare una tremenda crisi sociale ed economica globale e legittimare la drastica riduzione dei diritti basilari della popolazione. È quello che viene definito dai suoi stessi autori il Great Reset, il resettaggio globale dell’economia, della società, delle masse.
In questo progetto il Covid gioca un ruolo fondamentale, come alibi che giustifica – dinanzi al totem di una scienza prostituitasi agli interessi dell’élite dopo aver abdicato alla sua missione di salvare vite umane – la privazione della libertà, l’intromissione dei governi nella vita privata dei cittadini, l’instaurazione di un regime pseudo-sanitario in cui, contro ogni evidenza scientifica oggettiva, viene deciso dall’alto il numero di commensali, la distanza tra le persone, la possibilità di comprare, vendere, respirare e addirittura di pregare. Qualcuno, nel silenzio assordante della Gerarchia, ha imposto la chiusura delle chiese o la limitazione delle celebrazioni religiose, considerando la Casa di Dio come un cinema o un museo, ma allo stesso tempo dichiarando “servizi essenziali” le cliniche abortive. Sono i paradossi di un potere traviato, gestito da persone corrotte nell’anima e vendute a Satana, che dopo aver ripetuto ossessivamente il mantra della democrazia e del potere che appartiene al popolo si trova oggi costretto ad imporre la dittatura contro lo stesso popolo, in nome del raggiungimento di obbiettivi volti a tutelare gli interessi politici e finanziari dell’élite. I ricchi si stanno arricchendo sempre di più, mentre viene falciato via quel ceto medio che costituisce il tessuto sociale e l’anima stessa delle Nazioni.
La Rivoluzione Francese cancellò l’aristocrazia occidentale; la Rivoluzione Industriale cancellò i contadini e diffuse la proletarizzazione che portò alla sciagura del Socialismo e del Comunismo; la Rivoluzione del Sessantotto demolì la famiglia e la scuola. Questo Great Reset, voluto dall’élite globalista, rappresenta l’ultima rivoluzione con la quale creare una massa informe e anonima di schiavi connessi alla rete, confinati in casa, minacciati da una serie infinita di pandemie progettate da chi ha già pronto il miracoloso vaccino. Proprio in questi giorni, con la sincronia di un piano orchestrato nei minimi particolari sotto un’unica regia, da più parti si va teorizzando l’imposizione del vaccino, del quale peraltro non si conosce la reale efficacia né le conseguenze che esso potrà avere. A quest’obbligo dovrebbe accompagnarsi anche un passaporto sanitario, in modo che quanti ne sono provvisti possano muoversi senza limitazioni, mentre coloro che lo rifiutano non dovrebbero poter usare i mezzi di trasporto, frequentare ristoranti e locali pubblici, scuole e uffici. Che questo rappresenti una intollerabile violazione delle libertà dell’individuo non pare costituire un problema: i legislatori non esitano ad esautorare i Parlamenti per imporre le loro norme tiranniche, sapendo che il loro potere sussiste finché obbediscono all’agenda del Great Reset, fatta propria dalle istituzioni internazionali come l’Unione Europea e l’ONU.
Dinanzi ad uno spiegamento di forze così massiccio e coordinato rimaniamo attoniti, sconcertati dalla sfacciataggine di chi ci sta dicendo, in sostanza, che dobbiamo accettare in silenzio la dittatura di un gruppo di potere senza volto, perché così esso ha deciso. Restiamo sconcertati dall’asservimento della Sinistra mondiale – e dei Dem negli Stati Uniti – a questa agenda, che non conosce nessun limite, nessun freno alla propria esecuzione; al punto da organizzare un colpo di stato elettorale di tale portata e gravità da lasciare inorriditi. Ai brogli manuali delle schede duplicate, dei voti di persone defunte, dei cittadini che scoprono di aver votato mille volte e degli impiegati che manomettono i risultati oscurando le finestre dei seggi con pannelli di cartone si affianca l’uso di un apparato di computo dei voti che sta dimostrando non solo il suo uso fraudolento, ma di esser stato addirittura progettato a livello di software per consentire lo spostamento di voti da un candidato all’altro, sulla base di un complesso algoritmo.
Scopriamo che le persone dietro a questa frode macroscopica sono sempre le stesse, sempre della stessa parte politica, sempre asservite alla stessa ideologia. Persone corrotte nell’intelletto e nella volontà, perché si sono rese schiave di un tiranno spietato, dopo aver rifiutato di obbedire a un Signore buono, giusto e misericordioso. Così, come costoro hanno accettato la schiavitù del peccato e della ribellione a Dio, essi oggi vorrebbero trascinare l’intera umanità in un baratro di morte e disperazione: è la miserabile vendetta di Satana, che non potendo sconfiggere Colui che lo ha scacciato negli inferi, cerca di trascinare con sé quante più anime possibile, nel tentativo di vanificare l’opera della Redenzione.
Noi, credenti in Cristo Nostro Unico Signore, non abbiamo motivo di temere, anche contro ogni ragione umana: noi sappiamo che, rinati nel Battesimo, non siamo più servi ma figli di Dio, e che conservando con la Grazia l’amicizia del nostro Signore possiamo confidare in Lui, nel Suo provvidente soccorso, nella Sua potente protezione. Questa è, in definitiva, la vera libertà: la libertà dei figli di Dio, che obbediscono alla Sua legge non per timore ma per amore, non per costrizione ma perché nell’adesione alla volontà divina essi troveranno il proprio perfetto compimento e la loro piena realizzazione. Poiché ogni anima è creata per la maggior gloria di Dio, per la beatitudine eterna come premio della fedeltà al Salvatore.
Non sia turbato il nostro cuore! Le manovre di chi opera nelle tenebre stanno venendo alla luce, mostrandosi in tutto il loro orrore e svelando la loro matrice perversa e infernale. Menzogne, inganni, violenze, morte: questa è la cruda realtà del male dinanzi alla quale le persone di buona volontà non possono che inorridire. Se Nostro Signore si degnerà di ascoltare le preghiere dei Suoi figli, questo castello di menzogne e di frodi crollerà miseramente, e i suoi artefici dovranno tornare a nascondersi per sfuggire ai rigori della giustizia e all’esecrazione dei popoli.
Queste sono ore decisive: continuiamo a pregare, a recitare il Santo Rosario, a nutrirci della Santissima Eucaristia, a fare penitenza. La voce corale che si leva fino al trono della divina Maestà non rimarrà inascoltata. Non lasciamoci scoraggiare, perché è nel momento della prova che il Signore ci dà la possibilità di mostrare la nostra fiducia in Lui e di vedere la grandezza della Sua misericordia.
«Qualunque cosa chiederete nel nome mio, la farò, perché il Padre sia glorificato nel Figlio» (Gv 14, 13). Nostro Signore ce l’ha detto chiaramente: qualsiasi cosa. Chiediamo dunque al Padre, nel nome del Figlio nostro Signore e Redentore, per l’intercessione della Sua santissima Madre nostra potente mediatrice, di mostrare la Sua gloria, di concedere l’esaltazione della Santa Chiesa, la pace e la prosperità ai popoli cristiani, la conversione dei peccatori, la disfatta dei Suoi nemici.
«Si alzi Dio, e i suoi nemici saranno dispersi, e quelli che l’odiano fuggiranno davanti a lui» (Sal 68, 1).
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Arcivescovo
25 Novembre 2020
S. Catharina, Virgo et Martyr
Published with permission from Inside the Vatican.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-05--‘Apocalypse’: British doc writes scathing essay aghast at govt COVID takeover

UNITED KINGDOM , December 4 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A veteran British doctor has written an essay detailing how much damage the government ’ s approach to the outbreak of COVID-19 is doing to the practice of medicine and how much government overreach threatens personal liberty .
The physician , who has practiced for 25 years , has written his third essay for the online magazine The Critic under the pseudonym “ The Covid Physician , '' detailing his disgust with the government .
“ The post-Covid pseudo-medical order has not only destroyed the medical paradigm I faithfully @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he wrote in “ A day in the life of the Covid Physician , ” but “ [ i ] t has inverted it .
I do not recognise the government apocalypse in my medical reality .
The breath-taking speed and ruthless efficiency with which the media-industrial complex have co-opted our medical wisdom , democracy and government to usher in this new medical order is a revolutionary act.
” “ A medical tyranny transitioning to a technocratic totalitarianism , ” he continued .
“ A cis- to trans-medicine moment.
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what powerful non-doctors in the government are doing than he is of the coronavirus itself .
COVID-19 , he feels , is not particularly fatal , rating in severity somewhere between “ the flu and the Hong Kong flu.
” “ The average age of a Covid death about 82 years — similar to the normal lifespan , the general survival rate of a Covid ‘ case ’ is 99.6 per cent .
In the under 20s it is virtually 100 per cent , ” he wrote .
The Covid Physician began his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high-needs patient with motor neurone disease , “ an asylum seeker who thought she was escaping persecution and tyranny , ” who is avoided by carers and visited by doctors only virtually , over the internet , thanks to the lockdown .
And she ’ s not the only one .
“ It occurs to me that the dehumanising , forced-impoverishment and restrictions of my refugee and asylum patient group is now upon us all — meagre social credits , not allowed to work , restricted movement , restricted access to healthcare .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ boat , now , ” he wrote .
The doctor described himself beginning his boring day of “ seeing , yet not seeing ” his patients over the computer by wondering where all the “ unwell ” ones had gone .
I wonder .
How many can I prevent from coming in , today ?
Then a brief thought comes to me … like a sliver of light illuminating a former career … yes … I remember now … where have all the unwell patients gone ?
Where are all the children with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so many .
Now none .
Where are all those unexpected emergencies that should have dialled 999 ?
Where did they go ?
What happens to them , now ?
Does Covid really displace and cure all else ?
I shrug off these heavy questions with a disturbing ease .
I still need to put food on the table .
Is this how the doctors coped in Auschwitz ?
Am I losing my compassion ?
He is greatly annoyed by non-doctor Matt Hancock , a leading Conservative politician and forming economist who is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for health and social care .
Hancock has stated that the new COVID vaccine is necessary to reduce the risk of people getting the coronavirus and influenza together , which The Covid Physician said is “ most unlikely.
” “ [ B ] ut as this is the thoroughly abnormal new normal what can we do in a parliamentary dictatorship to correct him ?
” he asked .
Hancock is also a “ blunt instrument , ” the writer believes .
He is bemused when another doctor sends him a message to complain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” on short notice .
The Covid Physician reflects that even if it takes two months to get the nation inoculated , the health minister will be able to preserve his job or get another one .
“ He would still be able to inject some of his cringeworthy pharmaceutical ‘ hope in millions of arms ’ with boots on the ground before another Ides of March mortality spike , ” the Physician wrote .
“ Certainly , a vaccine is the only hope for his political career .
But I feel sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Babylon or OWKIN would ease his pain with a lucrative sinecure as he happily revolves out of government .
Either way , live or die , the chances are any vaccine will be political win-win for him.
” In contrast , The Covid Physician praises former Pfizer executive Dr. Michael Yeadon , another coronavirus lockdown skeptic .
He notes that the expert was soon shut down .
“ It was a breath of fresh air when someone with compassion , knowledge and wisdom finally spoke , '' he wrote .
“ Dr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pfizer and briefly , ex-colleague of Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance .
His film was censored by YouTube within 24 hours .
In the same week Facebook censored a medical post by Dr. Carl Heneghan , an Oxford Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and GP as coronavirus ‘ false information.
’ ” The Covid Physician believes that a “ virtual pogrom ” against doctors and scientists who do not agree with the ruling narrative about the coronavirus is taking place .
But even worse , perhaps , is the government ’ s collection of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across Britain .
“ When we NHS workers were mass-tested in June , they took whole-blood samples , ” The Covid Physician wrote .
“ I was not consented for anything other than the inaccurate Roche antibody test .
A business colleague had developed a finger-prick test which was far more accurate at the time , but someone trained in the humanities at the civil service declined it , ” he continued .
“ It seemed feckless , but whole-blood means other tests can be done later , such as T-cell immunity studies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subsequently emerged from PHE .
So , what ’ s to say Moderna will not be given access to our samples and/or our data without explicit consent ?
This has been occurring elsewhere in the NHS at an unregulated pace with Google ’ s DeepMind project.
” The Covid Physican , pondering the mass testing and mass quarantining of Britons going on , wonders if a form of “ communo-fascism ” has simply conquered the Western world .
“ I think of the Nuremberg Code , medical ethics , and patient choice , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not believe how disproportionate the massive political response is to the relatively small magnitude of the medical problem .
I recall the UN declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights .
Why are states breaking so many sacred global covenants for something which has killed somewhere on the scale from flu to Hong Kong flu ?
” “ Such a flimsy , phoney pretext with which to bring the world to its knees .
My concern is a medical version of communo-fascism has captured the WHO and our nation states .
”

PETITION UPDATE (8/27/2020)
Thank you for continuing to SIGN and SHARE this petition, which asks policymakers at all levels of government to reverse mandatory mask orders within their borders.
Facebook has restored the share link for this petition, saying that the decision to block it was a 'mistake...'
Please share with your Facebook friends, but we should all take heed of this warning: when an organization or individuals have to beg, plead and cajole just to express objective truths, it may be time to start looking for other social networking platforms.
Facebook needs to treat its users with respect, no matter their political persuasion. Moreover, Facebook needs to treat objective reality and facts with more respect.
One-size-fits-all oppressive government mask mandates must stop!
Healthy adults and children should not be forced - by the state - to wear masks when the risk of infection is low and the benefit of wearing a mask is highly questionable.
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PETITION UPDATE (8/25/2020)
Facebook is actively censoring this petition, saying that some people find it 'abusive.'
How anyone could find alternate facts about oppressive mask mandates 'abusive' is incredible...that is, impossible to believe.
This is exactly the kind of censorship which Big Tech is getting a bad reputation for.
The fact that Facebook calls differing opinion and objective reality "abusive" says a lot about Facebook and their agenda to silence reason and logic, not just conservatives and Christians.
But, people are more intelligent than Facebook give them credit for.
And, the more this continues, the more reasonable people will look alternate platforms to share their thoughts and connect with their friends and family. The more that happens, the less revenue Facebook will generate.
All of us have a decision to make, and the time is coming where we might have to tell our Facebook friends that we are moving to another platform.
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One-size-fits-all oppressive government mask mandates must stop!
Healthy adults and children should not be forced - by the state - to wear masks when the risk of infection is low and the benefit of wearing a mask is highly questionable.
Please SIGN this petition which asks policymakers at all levels of government to reverse mandatory mask mandates within their borders.
Public health policies should be based on science and logic, not on the type of political posturing and virtue-signaling which led Joe Biden to recently call for a national mask mandate.
And, public health policies certainly shouldn't lead to a situation where more people could become sick.
But, that is exactly what these mandatory mask mandates are doing.
Here are four inconvenient facts about masks:
1) Masks** are largely ineffective at stopping the transmission of viruses.
The vast majority of masks worn by the public are made from material which cannot filter-out viruses because virus particles are too small to catch or obstruct. Wearing cloth masks to stop a virus is like putting a bee in a bird cage to keep it from flying away.
Wearing a mask for long periods of time ensures that the wearer has a warm and moist receptacle around his or her mouth, on which viruses and bacteria can land and accumulate.
Thus, masks are actually likely to have little effect in stopping the spread of COVID-19 acting as a barrier, but could actually make things worse acting as a receptacle.
2) Mandates which call for masks to be worn outdoors are both absurd and oppressive.
3) There are clearly documented hazards of wearing masks for long periods of time.
4) And, since school is on everyone's mind...
Notwithstanding the above information on the ineffectiveness of most masks against viruses, we don't know if asymptomatic children can even transmit the virus.
But, it was a reported in an article in the July 21, 2020 Uk Times that: "There has been no recorded case of a teacher catching the coronavirus from a pupil anywhere in the world, according to one of the UK government's leading scientific advisers."
And, we also know that children are extremely unlikely to get seriously ill or die from COVID infections. In any case, children cannot possibly be expected to wear a mask properly in a way that would cut transmission.
There are still a lot of unknowns about COVID-19, but we have grown in our understanding of this disease since the beginning of the crisis.
The knowledge we have gained should allow government and health authorities to make more nuanced policies than the current one-size-fits-all mask mandates.
Where are the legislative hearings in county commissions, and state, provincial or federal legislatures before these drastic actions are mandated? Where are the open and transparent debates among experts that provide our representatives with the necessary information to make good policy decisions?
The real pandemic is the panic and the resulting tyranny that is being caused by dictatorial governors, corporate media and the monopolistic Big Tech.
The truth is that COVID-19 is like a bad cold for most people; this is not ebola or the plague.
Of course, the very elderly and those with serious health conditions should take precautions or be quarantined, but the rest of society should begin the long process of returning to normality.
The frenzy to force everyone to wear a mask, at all times, has gone beyond all comprehension, and goes against science and logic.
Please SIGN this petition which asks policymakers at all levels of government to reverse any mandatory mask order within the borders of their county, state, province, or country.
Thank you!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Explosion in mandatory masking isn’t driven by science, but fear', PART I - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/explosion-in-mandatory-masking-isnt-driven-by-science-but-fear
'Explosion in mandatory masking isn’t driven by science, but fear', PART II - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/explosion-in-mandatory-masking-isnt-driven-by-science-but-fear-part-ii
OSHA Document on Surgical Masks and Respirators stating that surgical masks do NOT prevent airborne particles (e.g. viruses) from being inhaled - https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3219.pdf
'PETER HITCHENS: Face masks turn us into voiceless submissives - and it’s not science forcing us to wear them, it’s politics' - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8537489/PETER-HITCHENS-Face-masks-turn-voiceless-submissives.html
**Here, we are referring to the masks worn by the vast majority of the public, not to specialist masks or respirator-type masks.
***Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com


lifesitenews--2020-12-05--Canadian bishops’ aid org never stopped funding suspected pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ partner groups

MONTREAL , December 4 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — The Canadian bishops ’ international aid organization admitted that it never stopped funding 52 partner groups under investigation for flouting Catholic social doctrine and moral teaching , despite telling the bishops it had imposed a moratorium on financing these suspect organizations .
“ It is not true that Development and Peace partners have stopped receiving their funding , ” Romain Duguay , deputy director general of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace ( D & P ) , told a reporter for the Montreal-based French-language Présence information religieuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops ( CCCB ) launched a joint investigation with Development and Peace in late 2017 , after an internal probe revealed that D & P had partnered with multiple groups in the Global South that promoted abortion , contraception , sterilization , homosexual relationships , or gender ideology .
A LifeSiteNews 2017 investigation found that 70 percent of D & P ’ s known Latin American grantees are pro-abortion , including Fanm Deside in Haiti .
In September 2020 , the bishops approved the final report of the investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 30 percent of the 180 groups Development and Peace partners with abroad .
Duguay made his remarks to Présence just before the November D & P national council meeting where the council received that final report .
He was also adamant that the final report is confidential , as are identities of the 52 dubious groups , the names of which , according to Présence reporter François Gloutnay , were substituted by numbers in the report .
“ The report will not be given , in full , to anyone , ” Duguay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confidential document.
” Duguay told Michael Swan of the Catholic Register in May 2020 that under a newly adopted structure of transparency , D & P will no longer hide the names and locations of its partner organizations and projects .
“ There was a culture of saying , because we have some partners who are in a situation of life and death , we are not going to name the partner .
So the culture was then let ’ s not ( name partners ) , ” Duguay said then .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the money is going .
They want to know also what we are doing . ''
The four bishops on the now pared-down Development and Peace national council were present at the November national council meeting , Lisa Gall , communications director for the CCCB , told LifeSiteNews .
They are St. John ’ s Archbishop Peter Hundt , Calgary Bishop William McGrattan , Pembroke Bishop Guy Desrochers , and Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatiére Bishop Pierre Goudreault .
Gall confirmed that the investigation was concluded , with the bishops accepting the report in September .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consideration , a decision has been made with respect to continuing , or not continuing , the partnership , ” she said in an email .
In the aftermath of the D & P national council meeting , the bishops and D & P “ will discuss the outcomes and decide upon next steps , which will include the preparation and release of information to follow.
” D & P said it put 'moratorium ' on funds for suspect groups The joint investigation was sparked by the Catholic Women ’ s League raising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ center in Haiti that received Development and Peace funding .
By April 2018 , a dozen bishops had announced they were withholding the 2018 Share Lent donations from D & P until they had assurance from organization that its partners complied with Catholic teaching .
In November 2018 , Development and Peace executive director Serge Langlois told the organization ’ s members in a memo that “ Caritas Canada will not use 2018 Share Lent funds for the 52 partners under review , so long as the situation of the partners is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And we have placed a temporary moratorium on the financing of the partners in question , ” added Langlois .
The 12 bishops thereupon released Share Lent funds to D & P before the end of 2018 , with Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto the last to do so .
The Toronto archdiocese contributes about $ 800,000 annually to D & P through its ShareLife Lenten campaign .
The Alberta and Northwest Territories bishops said in a December 2018 letter that they were releasing the 2018 Share Lent collection to D & P @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had “ placed a temporary funding moratorium ” on the problematic groups , and was reviewing its “ partnership policy.
” On that basis , the bishops were also allowing the 2019 Share Lent collection to take place , they wrote .
“ We continue to expect , of course , that the funds raised in 2019 will be forwarded only to partners whose commitment to Catholic social and moral doctrine is firm .
Here , too , we have asked for a full accounting in confirmation of such distribution of the funds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March 29 , 2019 , D & P renewed for another year the moratorium on “ the funding of the 52 partners until all questions regarding their acceptability have been resolved , ” Présence reported .
Duguay told Présence reporter François Gloutnay that it was clear Development and Peace had agreed only to stop sending Share Lent funds to the suspect groups .
“ The moratorium did not say that the partners had been suspended financially .
It is the Share Lent money that would not be paid to them , ” he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ received their promised funding while the investigation was ongoing , Duguay emphasized .
“ While waiting for the examination ( of the partners ) to be completed and for all clarifications to be obtained , no partner has ceased to receive its funding , ” he told Gloutnay .
Duguay reiterated this in an email statement to LifeSiteNews .
“ As per the moratorium that we put in place , no Share Lent monies have been used to fund projects of partners that were part of the partnership review .
Furthermore , no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were cleared during the process , ” Duguay said .
“ Any monies advanced were in legal fulfillment of contracts in place prior to the establishment of the moratorium , ” he added .
Gloutnay speculated that the CCCB report may have “ pardoned ” a number of the 52 suspect groups .
Notably , Development and Peace announced November 13 that it is seeking funds for Fundación ERIC and Radio Progreso , two of its partners in Honduras which were among the groups investigated , he pointed out .
Jesuit Fr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ organizations , was questioned last year as part of the review for publishing views in support of abortion and the LGBTQ lifestyle .
Moreno defended the publication of such views , as did his order , citing Pope Francis as having “ helped the Church articulate a way beyond the impasse of a too narrow understanding of the defense of life.
” Moreover , D & P tweeted November 12 that the Quebec Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie had approved a major grant to one of its partners in Haiti , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ LifeSiteNews reported in 2009 , and again in 2017 , that Fanm Deside promotes contraception and lobbies for the legalization of abortion .
The CCCB questioned Fanm Deside a year ago regarding its position on the legalization of abortion in Haiti before restoring its funding , Gloutnay reported .
Sister Gisele Turcot of Fanm Deside , who , according to Gloutnay , defended the organization to both the Canadian and Haitian bishops , told him that she believes the CCCB has “ pardoned ” her group .
“ I was not aware of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ received any news , neither from Development and Peace , nor from the CCCB , ” she said .
“ I am very happy , of course , but also amazed to learn it .
For me , it is a recognition that the reproaches addressed to this group are unfounded and that the obstacles to the financing of its projects have finally been lifted , ” added Sr. Turcot .
Georges Buscemi of Campagne Québec-Vie blasted the Catholic aid group for perpetrating a “ shell game ” not only on the bishops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moratorium was indeed promised , then a real moratorium , that is , a cessation of all funding to these doubtful groups , is what should have happened , ” he told LifeSiteNews .
“ Instead , we got a shell game , where Catholic money goes to Catholic groups , freeing up the money D & P receives from the government and other sources to fund the questionable groups , ” Buscemi said .
“ If D & P no longer wants to be constrained by Catholic moral teaching , it just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and let the bishops know , so that we can finally stop promoting D & P in our parishes.
” An editorial by François Gilles published on Campaign Québec-Vie ’ s website was even more scathing of Duguay ’ s admissions .
“ It was evident that for Catholics , doubtless recklessly believing in the intellectual honesty of their interlocutors , the term ‘ moratorium ’ meant that no money would be given to seriously immoral projects , just as for Development and Peace , the term moratorium meant that the money of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for these organizations , ” Gilles wrote in French .
“ Do we really take Canadian Catholics here for the last fools ?
In the face of so much contempt , we must ask the CCCB that , as long as the question of the funding of dubious organizations is not resolved , not only no money from the faithful be paid to Development and Peace , but that none of its advertisements in our churches are promoted , ” he added .
“ There are other charities and development organizations that are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ above all , do not take Catholics for headless hens that lay golden eggs.
” According to Development and Peace annual reports , its revenue from Share Lent contributions was $ 6.4 million in 2019 , $ 6.3 million in 2018 , and $ 8.3 million in 2017 .
From the Justin Trudeau Liberal federal government , D & P received $ 17,855,807 in 2019 ; $ 16,297,804.00 in 2018 ; $ 20,637,996 in 2017 , and $ $ 21,899,104 in 2016 .
Contact information for your bishop to respectfully express your views @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ charity D & P petitions Trudeau to pump more funds into pro-abortion policy More LifeSite coverage on Development and Peace can be found here .

Development and Peace confirmed that the bishops' supposed moratorium on contributing to partners suspected of contravening Catholic teaching was not true.
MONTREAL, December 4, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian bishops’ international aid organization admitted that it never stopped funding 52 partner groups under investigation for flouting Catholic social doctrine and moral teaching, despite telling the bishops it had imposed a moratorium on financing these suspect organizations.
“It is not true that Development and Peace partners have stopped receiving their funding,” Romain Duguay, deputy director general of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (D&P), told a reporter for the Montreal-based French-language Présence information religieuse in a November 24 article.
“It never was.”
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) launched a joint investigation with Development and Peace in late 2017, after an internal probe revealed that D&P had partnered with multiple groups in the Global South that promoted abortion, contraception, sterilization, homosexual relationships, or gender ideology.
A LifeSiteNews 2017 investigation found that 70 percent of D&P’s known Latin American grantees are pro-abortion, including Fanm Deside in Haiti.
In September 2020, the bishops approved the final report of the investigation of the 52 suspect groups, roughly 30 percent of the 180 groups Development and Peace partners with abroad.
Duguay made his remarks to Présence just before the November D&P national council meeting where the council received that final report.
He was also adamant that the final report is confidential, as are identities of the 52 dubious groups, the names of which, according to Présence reporter François Gloutnay, were substituted by numbers in the report.
“The report will not be given, in full, to anyone,” Duguay said. “It’s a confidential document.”
Duguay told Michael Swan of the Catholic Register in May 2020 that under a newly adopted structure of transparency, D&P will no longer hide the names and locations of its partner organizations and projects.
“There was a culture of saying, because we have some partners who are in a situation of life and death, we are not going to name the partner. So the culture was then let’s not (name partners),” Duguay said then.
“Today, everybody wants to know where the money is going. They want to know also what we are doing.”
The four bishops on the now pared-down Development and Peace national council were present at the November national council meeting, Lisa Gall, communications director for the CCCB, told LifeSiteNews.
They are St. John’s Archbishop Peter Hundt, Calgary Bishop William McGrattan, Pembroke Bishop Guy Desrochers, and Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatiére Bishop Pierre Goudreault.
Gall confirmed that the investigation was concluded, with the bishops accepting the report in September.
“This means that for all partners under consideration, a decision has been made with respect to continuing, or not continuing, the partnership,” she said in an email.
In the aftermath of the D&P national council meeting, the bishops and D&P “will discuss the outcomes and decide upon next steps, which will include the preparation and release of information to follow.”
D&P said it put 'moratorium' on funds for suspect groups
The joint investigation was sparked by the Catholic Women’s League raising questions about a women’s health center in Haiti that received Development and Peace funding.
By April 2018, a dozen bishops had announced they were withholding the 2018 Share Lent donations from D&P until they had assurance from organization that its partners complied with Catholic teaching.
In November 2018, Development and Peace executive director Serge Langlois told the organization’s members in a memo that “Caritas Canada will not use 2018 Share Lent funds for the 52 partners under review, so long as the situation of the partners is not clarified,” Présence reported.
“And we have placed a temporary moratorium on the financing of the partners in question,” added Langlois.
The 12 bishops thereupon released Share Lent funds to D&P before the end of 2018, with Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto the last to do so. The Toronto archdiocese contributes about $800,000 annually to D&P through its ShareLife Lenten campaign.
The Alberta and Northwest Territories bishops said in a December 2018 letter that they were releasing the 2018 Share Lent collection to D&P on the understanding that the aid organization had “placed a temporary funding moratorium” on the problematic groups, and was reviewing its “partnership policy.”
On that basis, the bishops were also allowing the 2019 Share Lent collection to take place, they wrote.
“We continue to expect, of course, that the funds raised in 2019 will be forwarded only to partners whose commitment to Catholic social and moral doctrine is firm. Here, too, we have asked for a full accounting in confirmation of such distribution of the funds,” the bishops added.
On March 29, 2019, D&P renewed for another year the moratorium on “the funding of the 52 partners until all questions regarding their acceptability have been resolved,” Présence reported.
Moratorium only on Share Lent funds: Duguay
Duguay told Présence reporter François Gloutnay that it was clear Development and Peace had agreed only to stop sending Share Lent funds to the suspect groups.
“The moratorium did not say that the partners had been suspended financially. It is the Share Lent money that would not be paid to them,” he said.
All D&P partners received their promised funding while the investigation was ongoing, Duguay emphasized.
“While waiting for the examination (of the partners) to be completed and for all clarifications to be obtained, no partner has ceased to receive its funding,” he told Gloutnay.
Duguay reiterated this in an email statement to LifeSiteNews.
“As per the moratorium that we put in place, no Share Lent monies have been used to fund projects of partners that were part of the partnership review. Furthermore, no new projects were started with partners unless they were cleared during the process,” Duguay said.
“Any monies advanced were in legal fulfillment of contracts in place prior to the establishment of the moratorium,” he added.
Gloutnay speculated that the CCCB report may have “pardoned” a number of the 52 suspect groups.
Notably, Development and Peace announced November 13 that it is seeking funds for Fundación ERIC and Radio Progreso, two of its partners in Honduras which were among the groups investigated, he pointed out.
Jesuit Fr. Ismael Moreno, who runs the organizations, was questioned last year as part of the review for publishing views in support of abortion and the LGBTQ lifestyle.
Moreno defended the publication of such views, as did his order, citing Pope Francis as having “helped the Church articulate a way beyond the impasse of a too narrow understanding of the defense of life.”
Moreover, D&P tweeted November 12 that the Quebec Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie had approved a major grant to one of its partners in Haiti, Fanm Deside (Women Decide).
LifeSiteNews reported in 2009, and again in 2017, that Fanm Deside promotes contraception and lobbies for the legalization of abortion.
The CCCB questioned Fanm Deside a year ago regarding its position on the legalization of abortion in Haiti before restoring its funding, Gloutnay reported.
Sister Gisele Turcot of Fanm Deside, who, according to Gloutnay, defended the organization to both the Canadian and Haitian bishops, told him that she believes the CCCB has “pardoned” her group.
“I was not aware of this grant. And I have not received any news, neither from Development and Peace, nor from the CCCB,” she said.
“I am very happy, of course, but also amazed to learn it. For me, it is a recognition that the reproaches addressed to this group are unfounded and that the obstacles to the financing of its projects have finally been lifted,” added Sr. Turcot.
D&P playing a 'shell game'
Georges Buscemi of Campagne Québec-Vie blasted the Catholic aid group for perpetrating a “shell game” not only on the bishops but all Catholics.
“If a moratorium was indeed promised, then a real moratorium, that is, a cessation of all funding to these doubtful groups, is what should have happened,” he told LifeSiteNews.
“Instead, we got a shell game, where Catholic money goes to Catholic groups, freeing up the money D&P receives from the government and other sources to fund the questionable groups,” Buscemi said.
“If D&P no longer wants to be constrained by Catholic moral teaching, it just has to drop all pretense to Catholicity and let the bishops know, so that we can finally stop promoting D&P in our parishes.”
An editorial by François Gilles published on Campaign Québec-Vie’s website was even more scathing of Duguay’s admissions.
“It was evident that for Catholics, doubtless recklessly believing in the intellectual honesty of their interlocutors, the term ‘moratorium’ meant that no money would be given to seriously immoral projects, just as for Development and Peace, the term moratorium meant that the money of scrupulous Catholics alone would not be used for these organizations,” Gilles wrote in French.
“Do we really take Canadian Catholics here for the last fools? In the face of so much contempt, we must ask the CCCB that, as long as the question of the funding of dubious organizations is not resolved, not only no money from the faithful be paid to Development and Peace, but that none of its advertisements in our churches are promoted,” he added.
“There are other charities and development organizations that are truly respectful of Christian values and, above all, do not take Catholics for headless hens that lay golden eggs.”
According to Development and Peace annual reports, its revenue from Share Lent contributions was $6.4 million in 2019, $6.3 million in 2018, and $8.3 million in 2017.
From the Justin Trudeau Liberal federal government, D&P received $17,855,807 in 2019; $16,297,804.00 in 2018; $20,637,996 in 2017, and $$21,899,104 in 2016.
Contact information for your bishop to respectfully express your views can be found here.
Contact:
Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
Phone: 514 257-8711
Toll-free: 1-888-234-8533
Email: [email protected]
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More LifeSite coverage on Development and Peace can be found here.
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