lifesitenews--2020-12-21--Top medical journal comes out against listing sex on birth certificates

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December 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The New England Journal of Medicine joined the ranks of medical institutions elevating “ social justice ” above sound medicine last week with the publication of an article calling for “ rethinking ” how biological sex is recorded on birth certificates .
“ Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility , and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people , ” argued the paper co-authored by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , JD ; and Eli Adashi , MD , of Brown University and Vanderbilt University Law School .
“ Moving such designations below the line of demarcation wouldn ’ t compromise the birth certificate ’ s public health function but could avoid harm.
” The paper explained that moving sex below the line of demarcation means that while it would technically remain part of the birth records , alongside data such as parents ’ marital status “ which is used for statistical purposes , ” while preventing it from “ appear ( ing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” “ Designating sex as male or female on birth certificates suggests that sex is simple and binary when , biologically , it is not , ” the paper argued .
“ Sex is a function of multiple biologic processes with many resultant combinations ” such as “ chimerism , mosaicism , or micromosaicism , conditions in which a person 's cells may contain varying sex chromosomes , often unbeknownst to them.
” Further , “ assigning sex at birth also does n't capture the diversity of people 's experiences ” with “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” The authors go so far as to claim that “ sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility ; they serve only legal — not medical — goals , ” while potentially inviting “ scrutiny ” and “ shame , ” as well as thwarting gender-confused individuals ’ ability to access opposite-sex locker or shower facilities or serve in the military .
“ Fears about privacy and safety violations in public accommodations are n't supported by evidence , ” they claimed , despite testimony from female students as to the emotional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with males , or allegations of sexual assault enabled by opposite-sex access to girls ’ restrooms .
“ Articles like this certainly have their place in debating transgenderism .
But when they appear in the most influential medical journal in the world , it calls into question the editors ’ ability to dispassionately choose which medical papers to publish , ” responded National Review ’ s Wesley Smith .
“ I mean , if a reputable study reached conclusions that were scientifically sound but cut against the grain of transgender ideology , do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pages of the NEJM ?
Not a chance !
” “ Publishing ideological advocacy in what is supposed to be a journal that primarily publishes objective scientific information contributes to the growing public distrust of the science sector , ” Smith continued .
“ That doesn ’ t help people with gender dysphoria specifically , or contribute to the betterment of society overall.
” While LGBT activists insist that being a man or woman is strictly a matter of self-perception , in reality sex is rooted in an individual ’ s chromosomes and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Despite insistence that indulging gender-confused individuals ’ chosen “ identity ” is essential to their health and happiness , gender confusion has been linked to a variety of long-term mental and emotional ills , including higher suicide rates .

The New England Journal of Medicine published an article suggesting that sex designations 'offer no clinical utility' and only serve legal -- and not medical -- goals.
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December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The New England Journal of Medicine joined the ranks of medical institutions elevating “social justice” above sound medicine last week with the publication of an article calling for “rethinking” how biological sex is recorded on birth certificates.
“Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people,” argued the paper co-authored by Vadim Shteyler, MD; Jessica Clarke, JD; and Eli Adashi, MD, of Brown University and Vanderbilt University Law School. “Moving such designations below the line of demarcation wouldn’t compromise the birth certificate’s public health function but could avoid harm.”
The paper explained that moving sex below the line of demarcation means that while it would technically remain part of the birth records, alongside data such as parents’ marital status “which is used for statistical purposes,” while preventing it from “appear(ing) on certified copies of birth certificates.”
“Designating sex as male or female on birth certificates suggests that sex is simple and binary when, biologically, it is not,” the paper argued. “Sex is a function of multiple biologic processes with many resultant combinations” such as “chimerism, mosaicism, or micromosaicism, conditions in which a person's cells may contain varying sex chromosomes, often unbeknownst to them.” Further, “assigning sex at birth also doesn't capture the diversity of people's experiences” with “gender identity” versus “social expectations.”
The authors go so far as to claim that “sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility; they serve only legal — not medical — goals,” while potentially inviting “scrutiny” and “shame,” as well as thwarting gender-confused individuals’ ability to access opposite-sex locker or shower facilities or serve in the military.
“Fears about privacy and safety violations in public accommodations aren't supported by evidence,” they claimed, despite testimony from female students as to the emotional stress of having to share intimate facilities with males, or allegations of sexual assault enabled by opposite-sex access to girls’ restrooms.
“Articles like this certainly have their place in debating transgenderism. But when they appear in the most influential medical journal in the world, it calls into question the editors’ ability to dispassionately choose which medical papers to publish,” responded National Review’s Wesley Smith. “I mean, if a reputable study reached conclusions that were scientifically sound but cut against the grain of transgender ideology, do you think it would ever make the pages of the NEJM? Not a chance!”
“Publishing ideological advocacy in what is supposed to be a journal that primarily publishes objective scientific information contributes to the growing public distrust of the science sector,” Smith continued. “That doesn’t help people with gender dysphoria specifically, or contribute to the betterment of society overall.”
While LGBT activists insist that being a man or woman is strictly a matter of self-perception, in reality sex is rooted in an individual’s chromosomes and reflected by hundreds of genetic characteristics. Despite insistence that indulging gender-confused individuals’ chosen “identity” is essential to their health and happiness, gender confusion has been linked to a variety of long-term mental and emotional ills, including higher suicide rates.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-21--Virginia Republicans censure anti-Trump Republican for officiating same-sex ‘wedding’

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December 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The Appomattox County Republican Committee unanimously voted to censure a Republican Congressman for violating the “ values and principles of the Republican Party ” by officiating a same-sex “ wedding ” in 2019 , for which the GOP had failed to censure Rep. Denver Riggleman last year .
As LifeSiteNews covered at the time , in July 2019 the libertarian Riggleman ( who represents Virginia ’ s 5th Congressional District ) officiated a “ wedding ” ceremony for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguing that while he believes “ government shouldn ’ t be involved in marriage at all , but if it is , everybody has to be treated equally before the law .
That is part of our Republican creed .
And it also comes down to love is love .
I ’ m happy to join two people together who obviously love each other.
” Conservatives on the Republican Committee of the 5th Congressional District of Virginia failed to censure Riggleman over the incident at the time , but the Appomattox County Republican @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this year , the Washington Blade reported .
The “ wedding , ” which the committee said “ goes against the values and principles of the Republican Party ” and “ betray ( s ) and disregard ( s ) the concerns for the many Conservative and Christian voters in the 5th district who elected ” him in the first place , was just one of several grievances against Riggleman this time around .
Others include his public criticism of President Donald Trump and calls for Trump to concede the presidential election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerns , despite Riggleman having “ hypocritically made claims of voter fraud ” himself against Republican Bob Good in the district congressional primary , which Riggleman lost .
Riggleman retaliated against the unanimous censure by accusing the committee of “ rig ( ging ) ” the convention against him because he supports “ marriage equality.
” Good , who went on to win the congressional race , describes himself as a “ biblical ” and “ constitutional conservative , ” and has opposed same-sex “ marriage ” in office since signing a resolution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawless ” Obergefell decision forcing all 50 states to recognize it .

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Local restaurants, cafes, gyms, clothiers, bookshops, florists, and many more, are being forced to shut their doors, some forever.
Americans who have spent their entire lives building their business - and, taken all of the risk - stand to lose everything.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-21--US bishop publicly takes COVID vaccine connected to aborted fetal tissue

MIAMI , Florida , December 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami has posted to his Instagram account two pictures of himself receiving the abortion-tainted Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 16 , making him the first U.S. bishop to publicly receive a COVID-19 vaccine .
The Pfizer vaccine was tested on fetal cells , as opposed to being created from fetal cells and containing that baby ’ s DNA .
Catholic commentator Deacon Nick Donnelly pointed out in response to Bishop Wenski ’ s announcement that the Pfizer vaccine was “ tested on the kidney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the 1970's.
” Bishop Athanasius Schneider has stated in reference to vaccines that are in some way connected to abortion that one who “ uses these vaccines must realize that his body is benefitting from the ‘ fruits ’ of one of mankind ’ s greatest crimes.
” In his second Instagram post showing a picture of his vaccination , Archbishop Wenski explained his public display , as relayed to the Florida Catholic : “ I wanted to show today , first of all , that we have confidence in the vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any ethical concerns about the vaccine .
Hopefully my stepping up will encourage other people to get the vaccine as it becomes available to them.
” In his comments to the Florida Catholic , Bishop Wenski referenced the USCCB ’ s document “ Moral Considerations Regarding the new COVID-19 Vaccines , ” which says that “ being vaccinated safely against COVID-19 should be considered an act of love of our neighbor and part of our moral responsibility for the common good.
” The USCCB document claims : “ In view of the gravity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of availability of alternative vaccines , the reasons to accept the new COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are sufficiently serious to justify their use , despite their remote connection to morally compromised cell lines.
” It also advises that taking the “ more morally compromised ” AstraZeneca vaccine is permissible for the same reason .
The USCCB document in turn cites the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ’ s ( CDF ) Instruction Dignitas Personae “ On Certain Bioethical Questions , ” issued in 2008 .
While it affirms , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ material ” ) , that “ there is a duty to refuse to use such ‘ biological material ’ even when there is no close connection between the researcher and the actions of those who performed the artificial fertilization or the abortion , ” it also gives an exception for vaccine recipients where “ Grave reasons may be morally proportionate to justify the use ” of such “ biological material.
” “ As for the moral responsibility of those who are merely the recipients of the vaccines , the Congregation affirms that a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ a vaccine which was developed using cell lines of illicit origin , while keeping in mind that everyone has the duty to make known their disagreement and to ask that their healthcare system make other types of vaccines available , ” the CDF continues .
There are compelling moral arguments being presented by bishops and priests as to why it is morally illicit to receive a vaccine connected to the use of aborted fetal tissue .
Fr .
Michael Copenhagen , in his article “ Restore Ye to its Owners : On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Abortion , ” begins by highlighting the issue , [ in these vaccines ] , of the theft and desecration of human remains .
He brings up Scripture ’ s story of Tobit , who “ insisted on honoring God and neighbor by burying the dead at a time when the desecration of their remains was the state mandate .
For this great deed , he was forced to flee and placed under a sentence of death.
” Dr. Copenhagen points out that the human remains involved in vaccines have likewise been desecrated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labelling human remains obtained through violence as ‘ illicit biological material ’ is not only insufficient but dehumanizing and offensive.
” Also , because the cells belong to the child , who has been “ silenced , ” and “ the parents have forfeited by abortion any right of consent to respectful scientific use of the body , the scientists and patent holders have no right to possess or use the cells : these human remains belong to God , must be respectfully reposed.
” Therefore , the remains of the child have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” from this act does not negate moral complicity in taking a vaccine involving their exploitation .
Fr .
Copenhagen compares it to benefitting from funds stolen during a murderous bank robbery : “ If I am the beneficiary of a violent bank robbery where the clerk was murdered to secure funds , my personal distance from the robbery does not make it licit to possess or spend those funds or even other monies made playing the stock market with them ” To those bishops and clergy members who argue that bodily safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccines connected to abortion , Bishop Schneider has pointed out , “ Bodily health is not an absolute value .
Obedience to the law of God and the eternal salvation of the souls must be given primacy.
” Fr .
Dave Nix has wondered why bishops have been devoting such efforts to encourage Catholics to take the COVID-19 vaccine in the name of health , but have not made similar efforts to discourage the oral contraceptive pill , which is both physically harmful and morally sinful .
Fr .
Nix , a former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pill is “ extremely dangerous , having caused “ countless women ” to die of pulmonary embolisms and strokes secondary to the oral contraceptive pill .
“ If bishops conferences wanted to save the most lives and the most souls , they would make statements like their current ones on coronavirus vaccine , but rather on the oral contraceptive pill , ” he said .
Fr .
Nix went on to caution bishops who are encouraging people to take the COVID-19 vaccine , warning that whereas vaccine manufacturers can not be held liable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bishops themselves can be sued .
“ My suggestion to groups of bishops and priests out there telling people to take this vaccine out of charity for their neighbor : Well you might want to note that you are not covered in any such indemnity protections.
” “ In other words , if you tell your faithful that they have to take this vaccine to be a good catholic and they take it and end up non-verbal or zonked out of their mind in five years , or infertile or dead , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of your pay grade into medicine.
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Pfizer's COVID vaccine was tested on aborted fetal cells, as opposed to being created from fetal cells and containing that baby’s DNA.
MIAMI, Florida, December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami has posted to his Instagram account two pictures of himself receiving the abortion-tainted Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 16, making him the first U.S. bishop to publicly receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
The Pfizer vaccine was tested on fetal cells, as opposed to being created from fetal cells and containing that baby’s DNA.
Catholic commentator Deacon Nick Donnelly pointed out in response to Bishop Wenski’s announcement that the Pfizer vaccine was “tested on the kidney cells of a baby murdered through abortion in the 1970's.” Bishop Athanasius Schneider has stated in reference to vaccines that are in some way connected to abortion that one who “uses these vaccines must realize that his body is benefitting from the ‘fruits’ of one of mankind’s greatest crimes.”
In his second Instagram post showing a picture of his vaccination, Archbishop Wenski explained his public display, as relayed to the Florida Catholic: “I wanted to show today, first of all, that we have confidence in the vaccine and that we don’t have any ethical concerns about the vaccine. Hopefully my stepping up will encourage other people to get the vaccine as it becomes available to them.”
In his comments to the Florida Catholic, Bishop Wenski referenced the USCCB’s document “Moral Considerations Regarding the new COVID-19 Vaccines,” which says that “being vaccinated safely against COVID-19 should be considered an act of love of our neighbor and part of our moral responsibility for the common good.”
The USCCB document claims: “In view of the gravity of the current pandemic and the lack of availability of alternative vaccines, the reasons to accept the new COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are sufficiently serious to justify their use, despite their remote connection to morally compromised cell lines.” It also advises that taking the “more morally compromised” AstraZeneca vaccine is permissible for the same reason.
The USCCB document in turn cites the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s (CDF) Instruction Dignitas Personae “On Certain Bioethical Questions,” issued in 2008. While it affirms, regarding aborted fetal remains (“biological material”), that “there is a duty to refuse to use such ‘biological material’ even when there is no close connection between the researcher and the actions of those who performed the artificial fertilization or the abortion,” it also gives an exception for vaccine recipients where “Grave reasons may be morally proportionate to justify the use” of such “biological material.”
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: No to mandatory vaccination for the coronavirus Show Petition Text 1082416 have signed the petition. Let's get to 1100000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition People of goodwill can disagree about the safety, efficacy and religious implications of a new vaccine for the coronavirus. But, everyone should agree on this point: No government can force anyone who has reached legal adulthood to be vaccinated for the coronavirus. Equally, no government can vaccinate minors for the coronavirus against the will of their parents or guardians. Please SIGN this urgent petition which urges policymakers at every level of government to reject calls for mandatory coronavirus vaccination. Fear of a disease - which we know very little about, relative to other similar diseases - must not lead to knee-jerk reactions regarding public health, nor can it justify supporting the hidden agenda of governmental as well as non-governmental bodies that have apparent conflicts of interest in plans to restrict personal freedoms. The so-called "public health experts" have gotten it wrong many times during the current crisis. We should not, therefore, allow their opinions to rush decision-makers into policies regarding vaccination. And, while some people, like Bill Gates, may have a lot of money, his opinion and that of his NGO (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) - namely, that life will not return to normal till people are widely vaccinated - should not be permitted to influence policy decisions on a coronavirus vaccination program. Finally, we must also not allow the rush by pharmaceutical companies to produce a new coronavirus vaccine to, itself, become an imperative for vaccination. Unwitting citizens must not be used as guinea pigs for New World Order ideologues, or Big Pharma, in pursuit of a vaccine (and, profits) which may not even protect against future mutated strains of the coronavirus. And it goes without saying that the production of vaccines using aborted babies for cell replication is a total non-starter, as the technique is gravely immoral. However, if after sufficient study of the issue, a person who has reached the age of majority wishes to be vaccinated with a morally produced vaccine, along with his children, that is his business. But we cannot and will not permit the government to make that decision for us. Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this petition, urging policymakers at all levels of government to reject mandatory coronavirus vaccination. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bill Gates: Life won’t go back to ‘normal’ until population 'widely vaccinated' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bill-gates-life-wont-go-back-to-normal-until-population-widely-vaccinated COVID-19 scare leads to more digital surveillance, talk of mandatory vaccine 'tattoos' for kids' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-19-scare-leads-to-more-digital-surveillance-talk-of-mandatory-vaccine-tattoos-for-kids Trudeau says no return to ‘normal’ without vaccine: 'Could take 12 to 18 months' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-says-no-return-to-normal-without-vaccine-could-take-12-to-18-months Trudeau mulls making coronavirus vaccine mandatory for Canadians - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-mulls-making-coronavirus-vaccine-mandatory-for-canadians US bishop vows to ‘refuse’ COVID-19 vaccine if made from ‘aborted fetal tissue' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-bishop-vows-to-refuse-covid-19-vaccine-if-made-from-aborted-fetal-tissue ** While LifeSite opposes immorally-produced vaccines using aborted fetal cell lines, we do not have a position on any particular coronavirus vaccines produced without such moral problems. We realize many have general concerns about vaccines, but also recognize that millions of lives have been saved due to vaccines. *** Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
“As for the moral responsibility of those who are merely the recipients of the vaccines, the Congregation affirms that a serious health danger could justify use of “a vaccine which was developed using cell lines of illicit origin, while keeping in mind that everyone has the duty to make known their disagreement and to ask that their healthcare system make other types of vaccines available,” the CDF continues.
There are compelling moral arguments being presented by bishops and priests as to why it is morally illicit to receive a vaccine connected to the use of aborted fetal tissue.
Fr. Michael Copenhagen, in his article “Restore Ye to its Owners: On the Immorality of Receiving Vaccines Derived from Abortion,” begins by highlighting the issue, [in these vaccines], of the theft and desecration of human remains.
He brings up Scripture’s story of Tobit, who “insisted on honoring God and neighbor by burying the dead at a time when the desecration of their remains was the state mandate. For this great deed, he was forced to flee and placed under a sentence of death.”
Dr. Copenhagen points out that the human remains involved in vaccines have likewise been desecrated through exploitation and trafficking, that “labelling human remains obtained through violence as ‘illicit biological material’ is not only insufficient but dehumanizing and offensive.”
Also, because the cells belong to the child, who has been “silenced,” and “the parents have forfeited by abortion any right of consent to respectful scientific use of the body, the scientists and patent holders have no right to possess or use the cells: these human remains belong to God, must be respectfully reposed.” Therefore, the remains of the child have been stolen, and our “distance” from this act does not negate moral complicity in taking a vaccine involving their exploitation.
Fr. Copenhagen compares it to benefitting from funds stolen during a murderous bank robbery: “If I am the beneficiary of a violent bank robbery where the clerk was murdered to secure funds, my personal distance from the robbery does not make it licit to possess or spend those funds or even other monies made playing the stock market with them”
To those bishops and clergy members who argue that bodily safety and health is sufficient to justify taking vaccines connected to abortion, Bishop Schneider has pointed out, “Bodily health is not an absolute value. Obedience to the law of God and the eternal salvation of the souls must be given primacy.”
Fr. Dave Nix has wondered why bishops have been devoting such efforts to encourage Catholics to take the COVID-19 vaccine in the name of health, but have not made similar efforts to discourage the oral contraceptive pill, which is both physically harmful and morally sinful.
Fr. Nix, a former paramedic, learned that the oral contraceptive pill is “extremely dangerous, having caused “countless women” to die of pulmonary embolisms and strokes secondary to the oral contraceptive pill.
“If bishops conferences wanted to save the most lives and the most souls, they would make statements like their current ones on coronavirus vaccine, but rather on the oral contraceptive pill,” he said.
Fr. Nix went on to caution bishops who are encouraging people to take the COVID-19 vaccine, warning that whereas vaccine manufacturers cannot be held liable for vaccine-related injury and death, the bishops themselves can be sued.
“My suggestion to groups of bishops and priests out there telling people to take this vaccine out of charity for their neighbor: Well you might want to note that you are not covered in any such indemnity protections.”
“In other words, if you tell your faithful that they have to take this vaccine to be a good catholic and they take it and end up non-verbal or zonked out of their mind in five years, or infertile or dead, they can sue you for going way outside of your pay grade into medicine.”
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lifesitenews--2020-12-21--Those who fight the crisis in the Church are like Herod: Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY , December 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Pope Francis has renewed his attack on members of Vatican bureaucracy who object to the theological novelties being forced on the Church .
Some of the novelties arising in the crisis , he said , come from the Holy Spirit .
In his annual Christmas greeting to the Curia , the 84-year-old Argentinian pontiff said today that the crisis in the Church “ is a necessary moment.
” Crises should not be confused with conflicts , he stated .
“ Crisis generally has a positive outcome , whereas conflict @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apparently irreconcilable antagonism that separates others into friends to love and enemies to fight .
In such a situation , only one side can win , ” Pope Francis said .
( Official English translation here . )
The pontiff said that “ conflict ” seeks to divide people into the “ guilty ” and the “ righteous , ” leading to a loss of the sense of “ common belonging ” , the growth of “ certain elitist attitudes ” and “ ‘ cliques ’ that permit narrow and partial mindsets , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Pope Francis emphasized that crisis is normal , whereas conflict is bad .
“ When the Church is viewed in terms of conflict—right versus left , progressive versus traditional—she becomes fragmented and polarized , distorting and betraying her real true nature .
She is [ … ] a body perennially in crisis , precisely because [ the body ] is alive .
She must never become a body in conflict , with victors and vanquished , ” he said .
“ For in this way she would spread apprehension , become more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a uniformity far removed from the riches and plurality that the Spirit has bestowed to His Church.
” The pontiff then stated that the Holy Spirit is introducing “ novelties ” ( or , in the official translation , “ newness ” ) through the crisis in the Church .
He seemed to suggest that new teachings were being germinated from the death of the old .
“ The newness born of crisis and willed by the Spirit is never a newness opposed to the old , but one that springs from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” he said .
“ Jesus explains this process in a simple and clear image : Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies , it remains just a single grain ; but if it dies , it bears much fruit ' ( Jn 12:24 ) , ” he continued .
[ N.B .
In this passage Jesus was describing , not His teachings , but His death . ]
Pope Francis added : “ The dying of a seed is ambivalent : it is both an end and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be called both ‘ death and decay ’ and ‘ birth and blossoming , ’ for the two are one .
We see an end , while at the same time , in that end a new beginning is taking shape.
” It follows , for Pope Francis , that those who resist the novelties of the crisis in the Church are condemned to be “ alone ” and “ sterile.
” “ By shielding ourselves from crisis , we hinder the work of God ’ s grace , which would manifest itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he said .
The pontiff stated that the Vatican bureaucracy should not be frightened by “ realism ” that sees them as the sum of their failures and sins , nor deny that there is much in them and their communities in need of “ conversion.
” However , by using ambiguous language , he seemed to confuse real evil with an adherence to traditional doctrine .
“ Everything evil , wrong , weak and unhealthy that comes to light serves as a forceful reminder of our need to die to a way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does not reflect the Gospel , ” Pope Francis said , and then continued : “ Only by dying to a certain mentality will we be able to make room for the newness that the Spirit constantly awakens in the heart of the Church .
“ The Fathers of the Church were well aware of this , and they called it 'metanoia ’ .
” Lactantius , an advisor to Emperor Constantine , defined metanoia as “ a return to right understanding ” or conversion in a work he wrote in the early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for includes a radical reformation of the Catholic Church , which he said , can not be like sewing a patch on an old garment .
He envisions a whole new dress for the Church , and suggests that Jesus ’ s remarks about sewing old cloth on a new , or filling old wineskins with new wines applies to His Church in 2020 .
“ In times of crisis , Jesus warns us against certain attempts to emerge from it that are doomed from the start , ” Francis said .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a new garment to put it upon an old garment ’ ; the result is predictable : he will tear the new , because ‘ the piece from the new will not match the old ’ .
Similarly , ‘ no one puts new wine into old wineskins ; if he does , the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled , and the skins will be destroyed .
New wine must be put into new wineskins ( Lk .
5:36-38 ) ’ .
” Pope Francis also applied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to his plans to give the Bride of Christ a thorough makeover , saying that the “ correct behaviour ” is like the “ scribe trained for the kingdom of God who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old ( Matt .
13:52 ) .
” “ That treasure is Tradition , which , as Benedict XVI recalled , ‘ is the living river that links us to the origins , the living river in which the origins are ever present , the great river that leads us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Catechesis , 26 April 2006 ) , ” he said .
“ The ‘ old ’ is the truth and grace we already possess .
The ‘ new ’ are those different aspects of the truth that we gradually come to understand , ” he continued .
“ No historical form of living the Gospel can exhaust its full comprehension.
” Then , as he has done several times before , the pontiff repeated a Latin tag ascribed to St. Vincent of Lerins , meaning that doctrine is “ solidified over the years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with age.
” According to the pontiff , this is how tradition “ grows.
” “ No historical form of living the Gospel can exhaust its full comprehension , ” he said .
Pope Francis also spoke of the need of being guided “ by the Holy Spirit ” to “ daily draw closer to ‘ all the truth ’ Jesus promised in the Gospel of John ( 16:13 ) .
He intimated that his view of “ synodality ” involves “ communion with the presence of the Spirit , ” not a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” In the concluding section of his speech , Pope Francis encouraged the members of the Curia to stop “ living in conflict ” and to feel that they are “ journeying together , open to crisis.
” “ A crisis is itself movement , a part of our journey .
Conflict , on the other hand , is a false trail leading us astray , aimless , directionless and trapped in a labyrinth ; it is a waste of energy and an occasion for evil , ” he said .
As usual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which he said traps Curial officials in “ an unpleasant , sad and stifling state of self-absorption ” and “ turns crisis into conflict.
” Here he compared the shepherds , who heard the “ angel ’ s message ” and went to visit Jesus , to King Herod , who heard the Magi ’ s story and turned to “ deceit and violence.
” In the context of his condemnation about gossip , the pontiff seemed to ask those who have reservations about powerful people in the Curia to keep their opinions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , no matter what our place in the Church , should ask whether we want to follow Jesus with the docility of the shepherds or with the defensiveness of Herod , to follow him amid crisis or to keep Him at bay in conflict , ” he said .
Pope Francis also seemed to reflect on his own reputation in the Church when he spoke of the poor and quoted the Brazilian liberation theologian Archbishop Halder Camera , saying : “ When I am concerned for the poor , they call me a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why such great poverty exists , they call me a communist.
” Pope Francis has been the subject of frequent criticism in the past two years for the Vatican ’ s secret accord with the communist government of the People ’ s Republic of China , and his silence in the face of abuse by the Chinese communists of Christians and other religious minorities in China .
However , the pontiff once again underscored that nobody should speak up against such novelties , saying “ Let no one wilfully hinder the work that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and let us ask for the gift to serve in humility , so that He can increase and we decrease ( cf.Jn 3:30 ) .
” As an afterthought , he told members of the Curia that he was going to give them two books , one by Charles de la Foucauld ( 1858-1916 ) and another by a “ disciple of Cardinal Martini.
” Cardinal Martini , who died in 2012 , was a former Archbishop of Milan and a darling of liberal Catholics .
In an interview he gave shortly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Church was “ 200 years out of date.
” “ Our culture has aged , our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up , our rituals and our cassocks are pompous , ” Martini said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera .
Citing the criminal abuse of children by priests to further his agenda , Martini said that “ the Church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change , starting from the pope and the bishops.
” “ The pedophilia scandals oblige us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pope Francis ’ annual Christmas greetings to the Curia has been the subject of mingled amusement and chagrin since 2014 , when he first used the festive event as a platform to berate the assembled Vatican bureaucrats for their sins .

Those who resist the novelties of the crisis in the Church are condemned to be 'alone' and 'sterile', he said
VATICAN CITY, December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has renewed his attack on members of Vatican bureaucracy who object to the theological novelties being forced on the Church. Some of the novelties arising in the crisis, he said, come from the Holy Spirit.
In his annual Christmas greeting to the Curia, the 84-year-old Argentinian pontiff said today that the crisis in the Church “is a necessary moment.” Crises should not be confused with conflicts, he stated.
“Crisis generally has a positive outcome, whereas conflict always creates discord and competition, an apparently irreconcilable antagonism that separates others into friends to love and enemies to fight. In such a situation, only one side can win,” Pope Francis said. (Official English translation here.)
The pontiff said that “conflict” seeks to divide people into the “guilty” and the “righteous,” leading to a loss of the sense of “common belonging”, the growth of “certain elitist attitudes” and “‘cliques’ that permit narrow and partial mindsets, which weaken the universality of our mission.”
Pope Francis emphasized that crisis is normal, whereas conflict is bad.
“When the Church is viewed in terms of conflict—right versus left, progressive versus traditional—she becomes fragmented and polarized, distorting and betraying her real true nature. She is […] a body perennially in crisis, precisely because [the body] is alive. She must never become a body in conflict, with victors and vanquished,” he said.
“For in this way she would spread apprehension, become more rigid and less synodal, and impose a uniformity far removed from the riches and plurality that the Spirit has bestowed to His Church.”
The pontiff then stated that the Holy Spirit is introducing “novelties” (or, in the official translation, “newness”) through the crisis in the Church. He seemed to suggest that new teachings were being germinated from the death of the old.
“The newness born of crisis and willed by the Spirit is never a newness opposed to the old, but one that springs from the old and makes it continually fruitful,” he said.
“Jesus explains this process in a simple and clear image: Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit' (Jn 12:24),” he continued.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: No to government and corporate penalties for refusing COVID-19 vaccine Show Petition Text 103183 have signed the petition. Let's get to 125000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition **Photo credit: Shutterstock.com Mainstream media sources are promoting offensive suggestions by some doctors that people who refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 should be "punished" by the government and by business - effectively coercing them into taking the vaccine. One group of doctors writing in 'USA Today' suggested that the government impose special taxes (i.e., fines) on people who refuse the vaccination and that business simply refuse to serve them. [see story below]
Another doctor writing in an online publication called 'The Conversation' shamelessly suggested that people who refuse a vaccine should be given a psychoactive drug to induce compliance. [see story below] But, these suggestions are plain political posturing, and have nothing to do with science or with the recent trends of the disease. And, in case they haven't noticed, we live in a democracy not a medical dictatorship! Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks policy-makers and business people, at all levels, to pledge to respect the rights of those who, in good conscience, decide not to vaccinate themselves or their children. People should not have to live in fear of governmental or corporate retribution for refusing a vaccine which is being rushed to market by Big Pharma and their fellow-travelers in NGOs, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It would be intolerable and immoral for the government or business to coerce someone, and their family, to take a COVID vaccine against their will to avoid a fine, or just so they can do their weekly grocery shopping. Medical freedom must be respected in principle and also in practice. So, it is now time that our policy-makers listen to all voices involved in this vital conversation, and start to represent those who will not tolerate being punished for refusing a vaccine. Simply put, legislatures must begin to act as legislatures again. Questions must be asked. Hearings and investigations must be held. And, the legislatures of each state and country must return to the business of representing the people who voted for them, assuming their rightful place as the originator of legislation. We can no longer accept the dictates of executive branches without question, especially now that, statistically speaking, the initial brunt of the COVID crisis has passed. Neither can we accept the dictates of doctors who seem detached from reality and from science, and who only seem to be attached to the idea of promoting ideas which contribute to the agrandizement of power and control of political interests, and wealth of those who stand to make a lot of money from the sale of a COVID vaccine. Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks government and business leaders to pledge to respect the rights of those who refuse a COVID vaccine, and not seek to punish them for doing so. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 'Doctors lay out plan to ‘punish’ people who refuse coronavirus vaccine: ‘There is no alternative’' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctors-lay-out-plan-to-punish-people-who-refuse-coronavirus-vaccine-there-is-no-alternative 'US professor: ‘Psychoactive pill’ should be covertly administered to ensure lockdown compliance' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-professor-ensure-lockdown-compliance-by-drugging-dissenters-with-psychoactive-pill Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
[N.B. In this passage Jesus was describing, not His teachings, but His death.]
Pope Francis added: “The dying of a seed is ambivalent: it is both an end and the beginning of something new. It can be called both ‘death and decay’ and ‘birth and blossoming,’ for the two are one. We see an end, while at the same time, in that end a new beginning is taking shape.”
It follows, for Pope Francis, that those who resist the novelties of the crisis in the Church are condemned to be “alone” and “sterile.”
“By shielding ourselves from crisis, we hinder the work of God’s grace, which would manifest itself in us and through us,” he said.
The pontiff stated that the Vatican bureaucracy should not be frightened by “realism” that sees them as the sum of their failures and sins, nor deny that there is much in them and their communities in need of “conversion.” However, by using ambiguous language, he seemed to confuse real evil with an adherence to traditional doctrine.
“Everything evil, wrong, weak and unhealthy that comes to light serves as a forceful reminder of our need to die to a way of living, thinking and acting that does not reflect the Gospel,” Pope Francis said, and then continued: “Only by dying to a certain mentality will we be able to make room for the newness that the Spirit constantly awakens in the heart of the Church.
“The Fathers of the Church were well aware of this, and they called it 'metanoia’.”
Lactantius, an advisor to Emperor Constantine, defined metanoia as “a return to right understanding” or conversion in a work he wrote in the early 4thcentury.
The metanoia Pope Francis called for includes a radical reformation of the Catholic Church, which he said, cannot be like sewing a patch on an old garment. He envisions a whole new dress for the Church, and suggests that Jesus’s remarks about sewing old cloth on a new, or filling old wineskins with new wines applies to His Church in 2020.
“In times of crisis, Jesus warns us against certain attempts to emerge from it that are doomed from the start,” Francis said.
“If someone ‘tears a piece from a new garment to put it upon an old garment’; the result is predictable: he will tear the new, because ‘the piece from the new will not match the old’. Similarly, ‘no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. New wine must be put into new wineskins (Lk. 5:36-38)’.”
Pope Francis also applied a parable from the Gospel of Matthew to his plans to give the Bride of Christ a thorough makeover, saying that the “correct behaviour” is like the “scribe trained for the kingdom of God who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old (Matt. 13:52).”
“That treasure is Tradition, which, as Benedict XVI recalled, ‘is the living river that links us to the origins, the living river in which the origins are ever present, the great river that leads us to the gates of eternity’ (Catechesis, 26 April 2006),” he said.
“The ‘old’ is the truth and grace we already possess. The ‘new’ are those different aspects of the truth that we gradually come to understand,” he continued.
“No historical form of living the Gospel can exhaust its full comprehension.”
Then, as he has done several times before, the pontiff repeated a Latin tag ascribed to St. Vincent of Lerins, meaning that doctrine is “solidified over the years, extended with time, and refined with age.” According to the pontiff, this is how tradition “grows.”
“No historical form of living the Gospel can exhaust its full comprehension,” he said.
Pope Francis also spoke of the need of being guided “by the Holy Spirit” to “daily draw closer to ‘all the truth’ Jesus promised in the Gospel of John (16:13). He intimated that his view of “synodality” involves “communion with the presence of the Spirit,” not a “democratic assembly of majorities and minorities.”
In the concluding section of his speech, Pope Francis encouraged the members of the Curia to stop “living in conflict” and to feel that they are “journeying together, open to crisis.”
“A crisis is itself movement, a part of our journey. Conflict, on the other hand, is a false trail leading us astray, aimless, directionless and trapped in a labyrinth; it is a waste of energy and an occasion for evil,” he said.
As usual, he decried “gossip”, which he said traps Curial officials in “an unpleasant, sad and stifling state of self-absorption” and “turns crisis into conflict.” Here he compared the shepherds, who heard the “angel’s message” and went to visit Jesus, to King Herod, who heard the Magi’s story and turned to “deceit and violence.”
In the context of his condemnation about gossip, the pontiff seemed to ask those who have reservations about powerful people in the Curia to keep their opinions to themselves.
“Each of us, no matter what our place in the Church, should ask whether we want to follow Jesus with the docility of the shepherds or with the defensiveness of Herod, to follow him amid crisis or to keep Him at bay in conflict,” he said.
Pope Francis also seemed to reflect on his own reputation in the Church when he spoke of the poor and quoted the Brazilian liberation theologian Archbishop Halder Camera, saying: “When I am concerned for the poor, they call me a saint; but when I keep asking why such great poverty exists, they call me a communist.”
Pope Francis has been the subject of frequent criticism in the past two years for the Vatican’s secret accord with the communist government of the People’s Republic of China, and his silence in the face of abuse by the Chinese communists of Christians and other religious minorities in China.
However, the pontiff once again underscored that nobody should speak up against such novelties, saying “Let no one wilfully hinder the work that the Lord is accomplishing at this moment, and let us ask for the gift to serve in humility, so that He can increase and we decrease (cf.Jn 3:30).”
As an afterthought, he told members of the Curia that he was going to give them two books, one by Charles de la Foucauld (1858-1916) and another by a “disciple of Cardinal Martini.”
Cardinal Martini, who died in 2012, was a former Archbishop of Milan and a darling of liberal Catholics. In an interview he gave shortly before he died, he stated that the Church was “200 years out of date.”
“Our culture has aged, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our rituals and our cassocks are pompous,” Martini said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Citing the criminal abuse of children by priests to further his agenda, Martini said that “the Church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change, starting from the pope and the bishops.”
“The pedophilia scandals oblige us to take a journey of transformation.”
Pope Francis’ annual Christmas greetings to the Curia has been the subject of mingled amusement and chagrin since 2014, when he first used the festive event as a platform to berate the assembled Vatican bureaucrats for their sins.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-21--UK announces yet another lockdown, citing new strain of COVID-19

WESTMINSTER , U.K , December 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Christmas has been cancelled for millions of people in the U.K , as Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new lockdown for parts of the country , which has been threatened to last until millions are vaccinated .
The rules were announced on Saturday afternoon and took effect from Sunday morning .
The new Tier 4 , the highest level of restrictions in the U.K currently , is very similar to the conditions endured during the most recent national lockdown .
In making the announcement , Johnson said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to prevent the newly identified strain of COVID-19 , which he claimed “ may be up to 70 % more transmissible than the old variant.
” He did admit , however , that there was no data to “ suggest ” that the new strain of the virus is “ more lethal or causes more severe illness.
” At the supposed conclusion of the last national lockdown London had been placed into “ Tier 3 ” , previously the highest restriction level in the country .
But the capital city has now been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a new restriction category , along with much of the South East and will affect nearly 17 million people .
The new rules are summarised by the title “ Stay at Home , ” and order people not to leave their homes unless they qualify due to a “ reasonable excuse.
” All non-essential retail , along with indoor gyms , hospitality venues and leisure centres , are to close .
Previously , the 5 days around Christmas were to have a relaxation of restrictions , during which people could form a household @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has now been reduced to one day only , and people living in the Tier 4 area are not permitted to leave it , except for certain limited reasons .
“ When the virus changes its method of attack , we must change our method of defence , ” Johnson declared , justifying the measures which he admitted would be “ disappointing , ” and which have been dubbed as cancelling Christmas .
However in a press conference on Wednesday , Johnson had ruled out the cancellation of Christmas saying : “ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or cancel it , and I think frankly that would be inhuman , and against the instincts of many people in this country.
” Defending the Prime Minister , the Health Secretary Matthew Hancock , claimed that “ Well we don ’ t want to do any of this , but it ’ s necessary.
” A formal review of the measures is due to take place on December 30 , but Hancock has suggested that the measure could stay in place for some months , even until “ Easter , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination .
“ The new variant is out of control and we need to bring it under control , ” he said .
“ We don ’ t know how long these measures are going to be in place .
It may be for some time until we can get the vaccine going…It is going to be very difficult to keep it [ the virus ] under control until we have the vaccine rolled out.
” “ We ’ ve got a long way to go to sort this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we ’ ve got to get that vaccine rolled out to get people safe.
” Johnson had dispersed Parliament on Thursday , two days before his announcement , and so MP ’ s have not had the opportunity to vote on the new restrictions .
Unless the statutory instrument , made hastily on Sunday morning , is approved within 28 days , then the law would be reversed automatically .
However , some MP ’ s are accusing Johnson of deliberately waiting to announce the restrictions , until after Parliament had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sir Charles Walker MP , who is the vice-chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs , said ministers “ knew on Thursday , possibly even Wednesday , that they were going to pull the plug on Christmas , but they waited till Parliament had gone.
” Other areas of the U.K are following suit , with restrictions coming into force in Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland .
Wales has entered another national lockdown , after having only recently exited a lockdown in November .
The new lockdown had been due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was brought forward to start on Sunday morning , with people ordered to stay at home , and Christmas meet ups are now limited to the day itself , instead of the original relaxation of rules planned between December 23 through 27 .
Travel is prohibited unless it is deemed “ essential.
” The country has again adopted the draconian measure of blocking off aisles in supermarkets , which contain goods considered non-essential .
Scotland has raised its alert level to the highest level 4 , meaning that from December 26 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown rules , ” apart from a few western and highland isles .
Similar to Wales and the Tier 4 regions in England , all non-essential shops , hospitality and any “ non-essential ” services have been ordered to close .
Schools are also to remain shut past their normal return date after Christmas , only opening on January 18 at the earliest .
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has followed the Welsh move in prohibiting all non-essential cross border travel , promising to have much more frequent and visible police border patrols @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lockdown from December 26 , which is to last six weeks .
In all of the national lockdown ’ s and the new Tier 4 areas , public worship has been permitted to continue , unlike the recent November lockdown .
Reactions to the new restrictions Commenting on Hancock ’ s warning of the new , more infectious strain of COVID-19 , former Vice President of Pfizer Dr. Michael Yeadon wrote : “ I regret to say that , once again , we are being lied to .
As usual , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ idea.
” Yeadon “ spent over 30 years leading new [ allergy and respiratory ] medicines research in some of the world ’ s largest pharmaceutical companies , ” and retired from Pfizerwith “ the most senior research position in this field.
” After Johnson ’ s announcement of the new restrictions , Yeadon took to Twitter once more to outline the flaws in the Prime Minister ’ s plan : “ These measures : -won ’ t save a single life -will throttle the life out of any business on the edge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the end of democracy .
These people have no right to decide our choices.
” Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage commented in a brief message : “ Christmas cancelled .
Thank you , China.
” Meanwhile , anti-lockdown campaigner Simon Dolan , who has been challenging the U.K ’ s lockdown policy in courts , noted that it “ Feels like the modern day equivalent of the Berlin Wall going up doesn ’ t it ?
” “ We are living in the biggest lie ever perpetrated by a UK Govt on its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is no conspiracy theory .
This is stone cold fact.
” Even U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on the issue , commenting on news of the restrictions and saying that “ We don ’ t want to have lockdowns .
The cure can not be worse than the problem itself !
” Any evidence of a new strain of COVID ?
Despite the much-touted danger of the new variation of COVID-19 , which is being used as the justification for the new lockdowns , evidence about the new strain has yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University ’ s Nuffield Department of Primary Care , cast doubt on the claim of it being 70 % more transmissable .
“ I ’ ve been doing this job for 25 years and I can tell you can ’ t establish a quantifiable number in such a short time frame , ” he said , adding that “ every expert is saying it 's too early to draw such an inference.
” Heneghan continued by accusing the government of “ fitting the data to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are looking for evidence to explain it , ” he said .
“ I would want to have very clear evidence rather than ‘ we think it ’ s more transmissible ’ so we can see if it is or not.
” Taking to Twitter , Heneghan asked for evidence to defend the claim of the new strain being more transmissible , to which Yeadon responded by saying it was invented .
“ I suspect it ’ s invented , ” he said .
“ It ’ s one of around 40,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ replication .
It would be funny if it weren ’ t so serious if it turns out to be an asymptomatic variant : easy to catch & pass on but doesn ’ t make you ill. ” Minutes from the meeting of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group ( NERVTAG ) , who advised Johnson regarding the lockdown , seem to support Heneghan ’ s suspicions .
The document shows that NERVTAG could only offer “ moderate confidence ” that the novel strain “ demonstrates a substantial increase in transmissibility @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highlighted that the new strain “ has demonstrated exponential growth during a period when national lockdown measures were in place , ” throwing yet more doubt on the effectiveness of lockdowns .

'we don’t want to do any of this, but it’s necessary' Health Secretary Matthew Hancock claimed
WESTMINSTER, U.K, December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Christmas has been cancelled for millions of people in the U.K, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new lockdown for parts of the country, which has been threatened to last until millions are vaccinated.
The rules were announced on Saturday afternoon and took effect from Sunday morning. The new Tier 4, the highest level of restrictions in the U.K currently, is very similar to the conditions endured during the most recent national lockdown. In making the announcement, Johnson said that the purpose of the rules is to prevent the newly identified strain of COVID-19, which he claimed “may be up to 70% more transmissible than the old variant.”
He did admit, however, that there was no data to “suggest” that the new strain of the virus is “more lethal or causes more severe illness.”
At the supposed conclusion of the last national lockdown London had been placed into “Tier 3”, previously the highest restriction level in the country. But the capital city has now been placed in “Tier 4,” a new restriction category, along with much of the South East and will affect nearly 17 million people.
The new rules are summarised by the title “Stay at Home,” and order people not to leave their homes unless they qualify due to a “reasonable excuse.” All non-essential retail, along with indoor gyms, hospitality venues and leisure centres, are to close.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: No to government and corporate penalties for refusing COVID-19 vaccine Show Petition Text 103183 have signed the petition. Let's get to 125000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition **Photo credit: Shutterstock.com Mainstream media sources are promoting offensive suggestions by some doctors that people who refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 should be "punished" by the government and by business - effectively coercing them into taking the vaccine. One group of doctors writing in 'USA Today' suggested that the government impose special taxes (i.e., fines) on people who refuse the vaccination and that business simply refuse to serve them. [see story below]
Another doctor writing in an online publication called 'The Conversation' shamelessly suggested that people who refuse a vaccine should be given a psychoactive drug to induce compliance. [see story below] But, these suggestions are plain political posturing, and have nothing to do with science or with the recent trends of the disease. And, in case they haven't noticed, we live in a democracy not a medical dictatorship! Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks policy-makers and business people, at all levels, to pledge to respect the rights of those who, in good conscience, decide not to vaccinate themselves or their children. People should not have to live in fear of governmental or corporate retribution for refusing a vaccine which is being rushed to market by Big Pharma and their fellow-travelers in NGOs, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It would be intolerable and immoral for the government or business to coerce someone, and their family, to take a COVID vaccine against their will to avoid a fine, or just so they can do their weekly grocery shopping. Medical freedom must be respected in principle and also in practice. So, it is now time that our policy-makers listen to all voices involved in this vital conversation, and start to represent those who will not tolerate being punished for refusing a vaccine. Simply put, legislatures must begin to act as legislatures again. Questions must be asked. Hearings and investigations must be held. And, the legislatures of each state and country must return to the business of representing the people who voted for them, assuming their rightful place as the originator of legislation. We can no longer accept the dictates of executive branches without question, especially now that, statistically speaking, the initial brunt of the COVID crisis has passed. Neither can we accept the dictates of doctors who seem detached from reality and from science, and who only seem to be attached to the idea of promoting ideas which contribute to the agrandizement of power and control of political interests, and wealth of those who stand to make a lot of money from the sale of a COVID vaccine. Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks government and business leaders to pledge to respect the rights of those who refuse a COVID vaccine, and not seek to punish them for doing so. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 'Doctors lay out plan to ‘punish’ people who refuse coronavirus vaccine: ‘There is no alternative’' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctors-lay-out-plan-to-punish-people-who-refuse-coronavirus-vaccine-there-is-no-alternative 'US professor: ‘Psychoactive pill’ should be covertly administered to ensure lockdown compliance' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-professor-ensure-lockdown-compliance-by-drugging-dissenters-with-psychoactive-pill Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
Previously, the 5 days around Christmas were to have a relaxation of restrictions, during which people could form a household “bubble” with others. That has now been reduced to one day only, and people living in the Tier 4 area are not permitted to leave it, except for certain limited reasons.
“When the virus changes its method of attack, we must change our method of defence,” Johnson declared, justifying the measures which he admitted would be “disappointing,” and which have been dubbed as cancelling Christmas.
However in a press conference on Wednesday, Johnson had ruled out the cancellation of Christmas saying: “We don’t want to ban Christmas, or cancel it, and I think frankly that would be inhuman, and against the instincts of many people in this country.”
Defending the Prime Minister, the Health Secretary Matthew Hancock, claimed that “Well we don’t want to do any of this, but it’s necessary.”
A formal review of the measures is due to take place on December 30, but Hancock has suggested that the measure could stay in place for some months, even until “Easter,” linking the easing of restrictions to the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination. “The new variant is out of control and we need to bring it under control,” he said. “We don’t know how long these measures are going to be in place. It may be for some time until we can get the vaccine going…It is going to be very difficult to keep it [the virus] under control until we have the vaccine rolled out.”
“We’ve got a long way to go to sort this,” Hancock continued. “Essentially, we’ve got to get that vaccine rolled out to get people safe.”
Johnson had dispersed Parliament on Thursday, two days before his announcement, and so MP’s have not had the opportunity to vote on the new restrictions. Unless the statutory instrument, made hastily on Sunday morning, is approved within 28 days, then the law would be reversed automatically. However, some MP’s are accusing Johnson of deliberately waiting to announce the restrictions, until after Parliament had been sent home.
Vocal lockdown critic, Sir Charles Walker MP, who is the vice-chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs, said ministers “knew on Thursday, possibly even Wednesday, that they were going to pull the plug on Christmas, but they waited till Parliament had gone.”
Lockdowns around the UK
Other areas of the U.K are following suit, with restrictions coming into force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wales has entered another national lockdown, after having only recently exited a lockdown in November. The new lockdown had been due to start on December 28, but was brought forward to start on Sunday morning, with people ordered to stay at home, and Christmas meet ups are now limited to the day itself, instead of the original relaxation of rules planned between December 23 through 27. Travel is prohibited unless it is deemed “essential.”
The country has again adopted the draconian measure of blocking off aisles in supermarkets, which contain goods considered non-essential.
Scotland has raised its alert level to the highest level 4, meaning that from December 26, the whole country will be living under “lockdown rules,” apart from a few western and highland isles. Similar to Wales and the Tier 4 regions in England, all non-essential shops, hospitality and any “non-essential” services have been ordered to close. Schools are also to remain shut past their normal return date after Christmas, only opening on January 18 at the earliest.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has followed the Welsh move in prohibiting all non-essential cross border travel, promising to have much more frequent and visible police border patrols.
Northern Ireland is also to enter a lockdown from December 26, which is to last six weeks.
In all of the national lockdown’s and the new Tier 4 areas, public worship has been permitted to continue, unlike the recent November lockdown.
Reactions to the new restrictions
Commenting on Hancock’s warning of the new, more infectious strain of COVID-19, former Vice President of Pfizer Dr. Michael Yeadon wrote: “I regret to say that, once again, we are being lied to. As usual, I offer no motive because I have no idea.” Yeadon “spent over 30 years leading new [allergy and respiratory] medicines research in some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies,” and retired from Pfizerwith “the most senior research position in this field.”
I regret to say that, once again, we are being lied to.
As usual, I offer no motive because I have no idea. https://t.co/xbUGI8paI5 — Yardley Yeadon (@MichaelYeadon3) December 19, 2020
After Johnson’s announcement of the new restrictions, Yeadon took to Twitter once more to outline the flaws in the Prime Minister’s plan: “These measures: -won’t save a single life -will throttle the life out of any business on the edge -will increase illness & deaths -acceptance marks the end of democracy. These people have no right to decide our choices.”
I’m echoing Lord Jonathan Sumption.
These measures:
-won’t save a single life
-will throttle the life out of any business on the edge
-will increase illness & deaths
-acceptance marks the end of democracy.
These people have no right to decide our choices. https://t.co/rZpw3C3pXY — Yardley Yeadon (@MichaelYeadon3) December 19, 2020
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage commented in a brief message: “Christmas cancelled. Thank you, China.”
Christmas cancelled. Thank you, China. — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) December 19, 2020
Meanwhile, anti-lockdown campaigner Simon Dolan, who has been challenging the U.K’s lockdown policy in courts, noted that it “Feels like the modern day equivalent of the Berlin Wall going up doesn’t it?”
“We are living in the biggest lie ever perpetrated by a UK Govt on its citizens,” Dolan stated, “This is no conspiracy theory. This is stone cold fact.”
We are living in the biggest lie ever perpetrated by a UK Govt on its citizens. This is no conspiracy theory. This is stone cold fact — Simon Dolan #KBF (@simondolan) December 21, 2020
Even U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on the issue, commenting on news of the restrictions and saying that “We don’t want to have lockdowns. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself!”
We don’t want to have lockdowns. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself! https://t.co/sHBJfG9T8X — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2020
Any evidence of a new strain of COVID?
Despite the much-touted danger of the new variation of COVID-19, which is being used as the justification for the new lockdowns, evidence about the new strain has yet to be presented. Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care, cast doubt on the claim of it being 70% more transmissable. “I’ve been doing this job for 25 years and I can tell you can’t establish a quantifiable number in such a short time frame,” he said, adding that “every expert is saying it's too early to draw such an inference.”
Heneghan continued by accusing the government of “fitting the data to the evidence.”
They see cases rising and they are looking for evidence to explain it,” he said.
“I would want to have very clear evidence rather than ‘we think it’s more transmissible’ so we can see if it is or not.”
Taking to Twitter, Heneghan asked for evidence to defend the claim of the new strain being more transmissible, to which Yeadon responded by saying it was invented. “I suspect it’s invented,” he said. “It’s one of around 40,000 variants, typically emerging from error prone replication. It would be funny if it weren’t so serious if it turns out to be an asymptomatic variant: easy to catch & pass on but doesn’t make you ill.”
Minutes from the meeting of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), who advised Johnson regarding the lockdown, seem to support Heneghan’s suspicions. The document shows that NERVTAG could only offer “moderate confidence” that the novel strain “demonstrates a substantial increase in transmissibility compared to other variants.”
They also highlighted that the new strain “has demonstrated exponential growth during a period when national lockdown measures were in place,” throwing yet more doubt on the effectiveness of lockdowns.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-21--How LGBT agenda offers perfect cover for predators to groom children

December 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – I have recently written on LifeSiteNews two articles about how people in positions of authority and trust have failed children and young people .
The first was about a clinic belonging to the UK ’ s National Health Service ( NHS ) adopted a policy of “ affirming ” the expressed desires of young people and children to “ change sex ” , prescribing them powerful drugs , whose long-term effects remain little-known , to “ block puberty.
” The courts have now determined that this policy was wrong , because younger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treatment , and even the consent of older children must be treated with great caution .
The second was about the author of a Catholic Sex Education course promoted to “ introduce ” children as young as nine to the “ gift ” of “ sexuality ” .
This man , a priest called Joseph Quigley , has now been convicted of pedophilia .
What has been happening in each case is that people in authority have been manipulating children and young adults to bring about something those in authority want .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trust and openness which would facilitate abuse .
In the NHS case it was the promotion of an agenda regarded as politically urgent .
Those involved were desperate to show that they were on the right side of the debate about gender , even though this meant sacrificing the mental and physical health of children .
Quigley also was riding a wave of fashion which suited his twisted ends .
Something similar is happening with the homosexual ( “ LGBT ” ) agenda .
Joseph Sciambra , a victim of clerical sexual abuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are being told is that this is the compassionate thing : that any other approach is judgmental and wrong .
But what Sciambra found is that the “ born that way ” message is a gift to abusers , because it imprisons young people not only in a category of person , but in a pattern of behavior .
Those told they are gay are then told , by many Catholic priests , along with much or all of the medical and cultural establishment , that they should be acting out in certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of loneliness and self-loathing to fulfilment .
Much of Sciambra ’ s experience of Catholic priests was to be bounced between two kinds .
There were the priests who told him that because of his nature , which he couldn ’ t change , behavior objectively contrary to the moral law was appropriate , and that he shouldn ’ t struggle against this .
And then there were the priests who took advantage of his vulnerability actually to abuse him .
The first thing an abuser needs to do is to undermine his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abuse , and the “ gay affirming ” ideology does exactly that .
It prepares young people for abuse .
Exactly the same pattern can be seen with the “ grooming gang ” scandal in the UK which I have also written about .
Vulnerable girls , often in the care of the state , were told incessantly by teachers and social workers that nothing in the sexual domain can be described as wrong or bad , as long as they consent to it .
Abusers agreed entirely , and proceeded to manipulate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them .
This was not legal consent : under-age victims are incapable of giving it .
But it was enough for the social workers and , for that matter , the police , who regarded the victims as autonomous people who had chosen a perhaps unfortunate path , and declined to enforce the law .
As a society we must free ourselves of the idea that following moral rules hinders healthy psychological development .
If the rules are reasonable interpretations of the objective moral law which , as Catholics , we believe God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pagans , they are not oppressive , but rather preserve and foster the deepest instincts of children and young people and protect them from exploitation .
They help potential victims articulate what is wrong with what they may be asked to do , and allow us to set objective limits to acceptable behavior , as a matter of professional expectations , and as a matter of law .
The testimony of the victims in all these cases is unbearably sad .
They were let down by nearly all the people charged with their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or wittingly or not handed them over for abuse by others : and this is still going on .
It is time the Church played her part in opposing this evil , instead of facilitating it .
LifeSiteNews is facing increasing censorship .
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December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – I have recently written on LifeSiteNews two articles about how people in positions of authority and trust have failed children and young people.
The first was about a clinic belonging to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) adopted a policy of “affirming” the expressed desires of young people and children to “change sex”, prescribing them powerful drugs, whose long-term effects remain little-known, to “block puberty.” The courts have now determined that this policy was wrong, because younger children are incapable of consenting to this treatment, and even the consent of older children must be treated with great caution.
The second was about the author of a Catholic Sex Education course promoted to “introduce” children as young as nine to the “gift” of “sexuality”. This man, a priest called Joseph Quigley, has now been convicted of pedophilia.
What has been happening in each case is that people in authority have been manipulating children and young adults to bring about something those in authority want.
In Quigley’s case it was the trust and openness which would facilitate abuse. In the NHS case it was the promotion of an agenda regarded as politically urgent. Those involved were desperate to show that they were on the right side of the debate about gender, even though this meant sacrificing the mental and physical health of children. Quigley also was riding a wave of fashion which suited his twisted ends.
Something similar is happening with the homosexual (“LGBT”) agenda. Joseph Sciambra, a victim of clerical sexual abuse, has recently written:
At a recent Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, I squirmed in my seat as some third-rate gay activist priest persuaded a group of gap-mouthed and wholly impressed Catholic religious and educators to recognize vulnerable children, befriend and gain their trust, and to then impose upon them an LGBT identity. It’s as if my abuser rose among the ranks in the Church and became the voice of reason on this issue. After the presentation, I ran to the public restroom and vomited.
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What we are being told is that this is the compassionate thing: that any other approach is judgmental and wrong. But what Sciambra found is that the “born that way” message is a gift to abusers, because it imprisons young people not only in a category of person, but in a pattern of behavior. Those told they are gay are then told, by many Catholic priests, along with much or all of the medical and cultural establishment, that they should be acting out in certain ways, as their only path out of loneliness and self-loathing to fulfilment.
Much of Sciambra’s experience of Catholic priests was to be bounced between two kinds. There were the priests who told him that because of his nature, which he couldn’t change, behavior objectively contrary to the moral law was appropriate, and that he shouldn’t struggle against this. And then there were the priests who took advantage of his vulnerability actually to abuse him.
The first thing an abuser needs to do is to undermine his victim’s resistance to the proposed abuse, and the “gay affirming” ideology does exactly that. It prepares young people for abuse.
Exactly the same pattern can be seen with the “grooming gang” scandal in the UK which I have also written about. Vulnerable girls, often in the care of the state, were told incessantly by teachers and social workers that nothing in the sexual domain can be described as wrong or bad, as long as they consent to it. Abusers agreed entirely, and proceeded to manipulate the necessary “consent” out of them. This was not legal consent: under-age victims are incapable of giving it. But it was enough for the social workers and, for that matter, the police, who regarded the victims as autonomous people who had chosen a perhaps unfortunate path, and declined to enforce the law.
As a society we must free ourselves of the idea that following moral rules hinders healthy psychological development. If the rules are reasonable interpretations of the objective moral law which, as Catholics, we believe God has inscribed on the hearts even of pagans, they are not oppressive, but rather preserve and foster the deepest instincts of children and young people and protect them from exploitation. They help potential victims articulate what is wrong with what they may be asked to do, and allow us to set objective limits to acceptable behavior, as a matter of professional expectations, and as a matter of law.
The testimony of the victims in all these cases is unbearably sad. They were let down by nearly all the people charged with their care, who either abused them, or wittingly or not handed them over for abuse by others: and this is still going on. It is time the Church played her part in opposing this evil, instead of facilitating it.
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