lifesitenews--2020-05-21--Pro-life leaders deny documentary’s claim that ‘Roe v. Wade’ plaintiff faked pro-life conversion

May 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A documentary that will be released on Friday claims that Norma McCorvey faked at least some of her famous conversion from pro-abortion to pro-life and admitted as much on camera .
McCorvey was the “ Jane Roe ” in Roe v. Wade , the case that imposed abortion on demand across America in 1973 , McCorvey died in 2017 at age 69 .
She never aborted the child with whom she was pregnant when her lawyers challenged Texas ’ s abortion law ; by the time her case made it to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already been born .
McCorvey went on to become an abortion activist and live as a lesbian before becoming a pro-life Christian in 1995 — which the FX documentary AKA Jane Roe now claims was done for money .
McCorvey was baptized by Flip Benham , father of the now famous brothers Jason and David , and ultimately became Catholic .
She was confirmed by Father Frank Pavone , national director of Priests for Life .
Other titles by AKA Jane Roe ’ s filmmaker , Nick Sweeney , include My Transgender Kid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Transgender Summer Camp ( the “ Born in the Wrong Body ” series ) , along with Secrets of the Living Dolls .
Abortion activists immediately pounced on Sweeney ’ s claim that his upcoming documentary shows McCorvey saying at the end of her life , “ If a young woman wants to have an abortion , that ’ s no skin off my a -- .
That ’ s why they call it choice.
” Sweeney also says McCorvey supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election .
Pro-life leaders responded with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who they say was colorful and complicated .
In the words of pro-life leader and filmmaker Jason Jones , McCorvey was a “ thoughtful , decent , beautiful woman who wrestled some powerful demons.
” “ Norma was a very unfiltered person , ” veteran pro-life activist Rev .
Patrick Mahoney told LifeSiteNews .
“ No one paid her ” to convert .
Mahoney noted that McCorvey had requested that pro-life leaders , not abortion activists , speak at her memorial service .
“ For any person to say that the [ pro-life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about that is simply untrue and flies in the face of objective facts.
” “ She was loved by me and our entire community , ” he added .
“ No documentary can ever take that away.
” Filmmaker ‘ took advantage of Norma in the vulnerable last days of her life ’ A 2013 Vanity Fair article about McCorvey describes her as similarly complex and having endured abuse and many hardships .
“ Norma McCorvey , now 65 , has presented a version of her life in two autobiographies , I Am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) and Won by Love ( with Gary Thomas , 1997 ) , ” wrote Joshua Prager .
“ In McCorvey ’ s telling , the story is a morality tale with a simple arc : An unwanted pregnancy .
A lawsuit .
Pro-choice .
Born-again .
Pro-life .
Peace .
The truth is sadder and less tidy.
” Prager interviewed McCorvey ’ s then-79-year-old former lesbian partner , who called her a “ phony ” ; her mother , who spoke about how she “ beat the f -- - ” out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; her I Am Roe co-author , who recalled McCorvey ’ s financial situation as sparse ( “ When I knew her , she was cashing checks at the 7-Eleven ” ) ; and even Flip Benham , who baptized her as she joined the pro-life movement , who said McCorvey “ just fishes for money.
” “ I knew Norma well , and at one time , she lived with my family in the Wichita , Kansas , area for several months , ” commented Operation Rescue president Troy Newman .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , down-to-earth woman who was witty and kind .
She loved children and adored my own five children.
” “ There is no way her Christian faith or her pro-life beliefs were false .
The makers of ‘ AKA Jane Roe ’ should be ashamed that they took advantage of Norma in the vulnerable last days of her life , then released their spurious movie after she passed away when she could not defend herself.
” In a press release , Operation Rescue also addressed the appearance in the documentary of Rev .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ who now supports abortion and “ accused Operation Rescue of paying Norma McCorvey to say she was pro-life and taking advantage of her.
” “ Nothing could be further from the truth .
Operation Rescue loved , respected , and protected Norma , even taking her in to our own families , ” responded Newman .
“ Rob has turned on those he once called friends and is now trying to hurt us .
It is very sad that his bitterness and confusion were also exploited by the filmmakers.
” Operation Rescue ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is no surprise that Director Nick Sweeney would come out with outrageous falsehoods about Norma and Operation Rescue to advance his own depraved , leftist , pro-abortion agenda .
Because of that , he simply has no credibility.
” Father Frank Pavone , national director of Priests for Life , released screenshots of a text message he says McCorvey sent him on May 24 , 2016 about her work with the documentarian .
In those messages , McCorvey apparently said Sweeney was paying her for her interviews .
Pavone said McCorvey was sincere @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spiritual guide for 22 years , ” spoke with her the day she died , and officiated at her funeral .
Janet Morana , executive director of Priests for Life , tweeted that McCorvey , with whom she was friends for 25 years , was not paid to be pro-life and “ how some documentary filmmakers got her to say so is suspicious , at the very least.
” Yesterday , Morana and Pavone released a video over an hour-long discussing the claims of the documentary .
‘ The last couple of years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jason Jones , whose works include the famous pro-life films Bella and Crescendo , said he thinks the pro-life movement used McCorvey “ unintentionally ” but that the pro-abortion movement used her “ intentionally.
” He also said he ’ d helped McCorvey pay her electric and water bills a few times over the years , but there was no “ quid pro quo.
” “ Norma McCorvey did not use Christians and the pro-life movement for money , ” said Jones .
“ If she did , she got a really bad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was paid $ 500,000 over the course of 25 years — $ 20,000 a year , presumably for things like honorariums or help on projects .
“ She ’ s somebody who had a lot of sorrow .
You could see it in her eyes .
You could see how painful her life was , ” said Jones .
“ There ’ s a lot that ’ s public about how hard her childhood was , and then there ’ s a lot that ’ s not public about the challenges she faced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot of things that aren ’ t true , especially under duress , when they ’ re sick , when they ’ re dying , when they suffer from depression , which is what Norma was going through , ” he continued .
“ The last couple of years of her life were very hard.
” Jones said that in 2008 , McCorvey was giving a speech to pro-lifers in Chicago when she told the crowd , after staring at them for two minutes , “ All of you hate me .
All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re judging me .
I can feel it .
You hate me.
” The rest of her speech was “ incoherent , ” according to Jones , and he felt after that that she should focus on taking care of herself first .
“ She was used by the abortion industry .
And the pro-life movement – we were probably not as thoughtful about the challenges she was facing as we should have been , and now even in her death , she ’ s being used again by the advocates of abortion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in her death , ” he said .
“ So , what I say is , those of us who knew her should tell the truth about her : that she was fun .
She was spirited .
She had a great sense of humor , as all people who ’ ve suffered a lot in life do .
She had that very special sense of humor that was birthed in pain .
She is a woman that carried the most divisive Supreme Court decision in the history of this republic on her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for her .
When she was advocating for abortion for the first half of her public life , she made more money than when she was advocating for life .
So if you ’ re picking a side , and you wan na make money , go work for Planned Parenthood.
” Jones concluded : “ Norma did struggle with mental illness , especially towards the end of her life .
Norma and I had conversations , and I know that some of her struggles went to deep and dark places.
” McCorvey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” pro-life activist Rebecca Kiessling wrote on Facebook .
“ Norma had serious mental health issues and lots of people in the pro-life movement knew it.
” Some on Twitter asked why Sweeney held onto the footage of such a bombshell claim for several years .
Abby Johnson , a former Planned Parenthood director who is now a pro-life activist , posted a lengthy statement about the FX documentary on her Facebook page .
Johnson urged people to listen to Father Pavone : Of all of the people who claimed to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I saw who loved her completely was Fr .
Frank Pavone .
Listen to his opinion of this nonsense .
Listen to his perspective .
I have a personal and private story of a time I saw Fr .
Frank put his life on hold to care for Norma in her time of need .
He journeyed with her into the Catholic Church .
He watched her place all of her faith into the loving arms of Christ .
He truly saw her as Norma McCorvey , not Jane Roe .
He loved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that HE was not asked to be in this recent documentary .
If he would have been involved , the entire thing would have crumbled .
He knew the real Norma .
And he knew the sincerity of her conversion .
Attorney Allan Parker of the Justice Foundation said , “ In view of my many conversations with Norma and considering the sworn testimony she provided to the Supreme Court , I believe the producers of the newly-released FX documentary ‘ AKA Jane Roe ’ paid Norma , befriended her and then betrayed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trusted and the perception it attempts to create around my friend and former client , Norma , is patently false .
”

Describing Norma McCorvey — 'Jane Roe' of the infamous Roe v. Wade — as colorful, 'rough around the edges,' and deeply hurting, pro-life leaders who were friends with McCorvey weighed in on the shocking new claims, which the filmmaker held onto for several years.
May 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A documentary that will be released on Friday claims that Norma McCorvey faked at least some of her famous conversion from pro-abortion to pro-life and admitted as much on camera. McCorvey was the “Jane Roe” in Roe v. Wade, the case that imposed abortion on demand across America in 1973,
McCorvey died in 2017 at age 69. She never aborted the child with whom she was pregnant when her lawyers challenged Texas’s abortion law; by the time her case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, her daughter had already been born. McCorvey went on to become an abortion activist and live as a lesbian before becoming a pro-life Christian in 1995 — which the FX documentary AKA Jane Roe now claims was done for money.
McCorvey was baptized by Flip Benham, father of the now famous brothers Jason and David, and ultimately became Catholic. She was confirmed by Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life.
Other titles by AKA Jane Roe’s filmmaker, Nick Sweeney, include My Transgender Kid, Girls to Men, and My Transgender Summer Camp (the “Born in the Wrong Body” series), along with Secrets of the Living Dolls.
Abortion activists immediately pounced on Sweeney’s claim that his upcoming documentary shows McCorvey saying at the end of her life, “If a young woman wants to have an abortion, that’s no skin off my a–. That’s why they call it choice.”
Sweeney also says McCorvey supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
Pro-life leaders responded with stories of their friendships with McCorvey, who they say was colorful and complicated. In the words of pro-life leader and filmmaker Jason Jones, McCorvey was a “thoughtful, decent, beautiful woman who wrestled some powerful demons.”
“Norma was a very unfiltered person,” veteran pro-life activist Rev. Patrick Mahoney told LifeSiteNews. “No one paid her” to convert.
Mahoney noted that McCorvey had requested that pro-life leaders, not abortion activists, speak at her memorial service.
“For any person to say that the [pro-life] movement used Norma and felt guilty about that is simply untrue and flies in the face of objective facts.”
“She was loved by me and our entire community,” he added. “No documentary can ever take that away.”
Filmmaker ‘took advantage of Norma in the vulnerable last days of her life’
A 2013 Vanity Fair article about McCorvey describes her as similarly complex and having endured abuse and many hardships.
“Norma McCorvey, now 65, has presented a version of her life in two autobiographies, I Am Roe (with Andy Meisler, 1994) and Won by Love (with Gary Thomas, 1997),” wrote Joshua Prager. “In McCorvey’s telling, the story is a morality tale with a simple arc: An unwanted pregnancy. A lawsuit. Pro-choice. Born-again. Pro-life. Peace. The truth is sadder and less tidy.”
Prager interviewed McCorvey’s then-79-year-old former lesbian partner, who called her a “phony”; her mother, who spoke about how she “beat the f—” out of Norma when she was a child; her I Am Roe co-author, who recalled McCorvey’s financial situation as sparse (“When I knew her, she was cashing checks at the 7-Eleven”); and even Flip Benham, who baptized her as she joined the pro-life movement, who said McCorvey “just fishes for money.”
“I knew Norma well, and at one time, she lived with my family in the Wichita, Kansas, area for several months,” commented Operation Rescue president Troy Newman. “I knew her to be a straightforward, down-to-earth woman who was witty and kind. She loved children and adored my own five children.”
“There is no way her Christian faith or her pro-life beliefs were false. The makers of ‘AKA Jane Roe’ should be ashamed that they took advantage of Norma in the vulnerable last days of her life, then released their spurious movie after she passed away when she could not defend herself.”
In a press release, Operation Rescue also addressed the appearance in the documentary of Rev. Rob Schenck, a former pro-life activist who now supports abortion and “accused Operation Rescue of paying Norma McCorvey to say she was pro-life and taking advantage of her.”
“Nothing could be further from the truth. Operation Rescue loved, respected, and protected Norma, even taking her in to our own families,” responded Newman. “Rob has turned on those he once called friends and is now trying to hurt us. It is very sad that his bitterness and confusion were also exploited by the filmmakers.”
Operation Rescue’s press release added, “It is no surprise that Director Nick Sweeney would come out with outrageous falsehoods about Norma and Operation Rescue to advance his own depraved, leftist, pro-abortion agenda. Because of that, he simply has no credibility.”
Father Pavone: Norma’s conversion was real
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, released screenshots of a text message he says McCorvey sent him on May 24, 2016 about her work with the documentarian. In those messages, McCorvey apparently said Sweeney was paying her for her interviews.
On May 24, 2016, 8:50pm, my friend of 22 yrs, #NormaMcCorvey texted me the message below. She's referring to Nick Sweeney, of Australia via NY, who filmed the documentary.
Prior to these sentences she said, “I sitting here broke and extremely upset”
She was paid by him.#prolife pic.twitter.com/7blL2ay3Sv — Fr. Frank Pavone ���� (Text LIFE to 88022) (@frfrankpavone) May 20, 2020
Pavone said McCorvey was sincere, noting that he was her “spiritual guide for 22 years,” spoke with her the day she died, and officiated at her funeral.
So #abortion supporters are claiming Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of Roe v Wade, wasn't sincere in her conversion.
She was
I was her spiritual guide for 22 years, received her into the #Catholic Church, kept regular contact, spoke w her the day she died, & conducted her funeral. — Fr. Frank Pavone ���� (Text LIFE to 88022) (@frfrankpavone) May 19, 2020
Janet Morana, executive director of Priests for Life, tweeted that McCorvey, with whom she was friends for 25 years, was not paid to be pro-life and “how some documentary filmmakers got her to say so is suspicious, at the very least.”
#NormaMcCorvey was my friend. She was not paid to be #prolife – how some documentary filmmakers got her to say so is suspicious, at the very least. Here's a story I wrote when she died.https://t.co/UglUvXDF9L#RoevWade #LiesLiesLies #TuesdayThoughts — Janet Morana (@JanetMorana) May 19, 2020
Once when he visited #NormaMcCorvey in the last years of her life, @frfrankpavone found her making rosaries by hand. #AKAJaneRoe — Janet Morana (@JanetMorana) May 19, 2020
Lots of mainstream media reporters interviewed #NormaMcCorvey over the years – did she hoodwink all of them? Something’s rotten in this #AKAJaneRoe “documentary” — Janet Morana (@JanetMorana) May 19, 2020
Yesterday, Morana and Pavone released a video over an hour-long discussing the claims of the documentary.
‘The last couple of years of her life were very hard’
Jason Jones, whose works include the famous pro-life films Bella and Crescendo, said he thinks the pro-life movement used McCorvey “unintentionally” but that the pro-abortion movement used her “intentionally.” He also said he’d helped McCorvey pay her electric and water bills a few times over the years, but there was no “quid pro quo.”
“Norma McCorvey did not use Christians and the pro-life movement for money,” said Jones. “If she did, she got a really bad deal.”
The documentary claims that McCorvey was paid $500,000 over the course of 25 years — $20,000 a year, presumably for things like honorariums or help on projects.
“She’s somebody who had a lot of sorrow. You could see it in her eyes. You could see how painful her life was,” said Jones. “There’s a lot that’s public about how hard her childhood was, and then there’s a lot that’s not public about the challenges she faced in life.”
“People say a lot of things that aren’t true, especially under duress, when they’re sick, when they’re dying, when they suffer from depression, which is what Norma was going through,” he continued. “The last couple of years of her life were very hard.”
Jones said that in 2008, McCorvey was giving a speech to pro-lifers in Chicago when she told the crowd, after staring at them for two minutes, “All of you hate me. All of you hate me. You’re judging me. I can feel it. You hate me.” The rest of her speech was “incoherent,” according to Jones, and he felt after that that she should focus on taking care of herself first.
“She was used by the abortion industry. And the pro-life movement – we were probably not as thoughtful about the challenges she was facing as we should have been, and now even in her death, she’s being used again by the advocates of abortion. Can you imagine that? Even in her death,” he said.
“So, what I say is, those of us who knew her should tell the truth about her: that she was fun. She was spirited. She had a great sense of humor, as all people who’ve suffered a lot in life do. She had that very special sense of humor that was birthed in pain. She is a woman that carried the most divisive Supreme Court decision in the history of this republic on her shoulders. And both sides were fighting for her. When she was advocating for abortion for the first half of her public life, she made more money than when she was advocating for life. So if you’re picking a side, and you wanna make money, go work for Planned Parenthood.”
Jones concluded: “Norma did struggle with mental illness, especially towards the end of her life. Norma and I had conversations, and I know that some of her struggles went to deep and dark places.”
McCorvey was “very rough around the edges,” pro-life activist Rebecca Kiessling wrote on Facebook. “Norma had serious mental health issues and lots of people in the pro-life movement knew it.”
Other questions about AKA Jane Roe documentary
Some on Twitter asked why Sweeney held onto the footage of such a bombshell claim for several years.
It doesn't add up. *If* #NormaMcCorvey was recorded saying her #ProLife conversion was a fraud, why didn't the pro-abortion people share this immediately afterward she died on 28 February 2017? Unless unedited video is provided for analysis I suspect the edited video is a fraud. — #ChoiceIsAPerson ن (@ljsylvain) May 20, 2020
So there’s a new FX documentary about #NormaMcCorvey disclaiming her #prolife views. Documentary themes don’t hold up well when the main character is no longer alive to defend herself on their account. — Julie (Wilkerson) Klose (@JulieKlose3) May 20, 2020
I'm also going to go ahead and speculate that she did not talk to a priest on the day of her death and choose to have a Catholic funeral for the money. #NormaMcCorvey https://t.co/N3q2vMdZRL — Charlie Camosy (@CCamosy) May 20, 2020
Here's one of the programs I did w #NormaMcCorvey, this one just two years after her conversion. Some, like Nick Sweeney, “interviewed” her in the last year of her life. I walked her journey with her, in public and private, for 22 years.https://t.co/11eRua70qH#ProLife — Fr. Frank Pavone ���� (Text LIFE to 88022) (@frfrankpavone) May 20, 2020
After #NormaMcCorvey died, I assisted the family w this public statement, which reaffirms her unwavering opposition to #RoeVWade. Did any of them say anything about a deathbed retraction? Gee, I wonder why. Statement of Norma McCorvey's Family https://t.co/bBWs3p51gj — Fr. Frank Pavone ���� (Text LIFE to 88022) (@frfrankpavone) May 20, 2020
Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director who is now a pro-life activist, posted a lengthy statement about the FX documentary on her Facebook page. Johnson urged people to listen to Father Pavone:
Of all of the people who claimed to be friends with Norma McCorvey, the one I saw who loved her completely was Fr. Frank Pavone. Listen to his opinion of this nonsense. Listen to his perspective. I have a personal and private story of a time I saw Fr. Frank put his life on hold to care for Norma in her time of need. He journeyed with her into the Catholic Church. He watched her place all of her faith into the loving arms of Christ. He truly saw her as Norma McCorvey, not Jane Roe. He loved her well. There is a reason that HE was not asked to be in this recent documentary. If he would have been involved, the entire thing would have crumbled. He knew the real Norma. And he knew the sincerity of her conversion.
Attorney Allan Parker of the Justice Foundation said, “In view of my many conversations with Norma and considering the sworn testimony she provided to the Supreme Court, I believe the producers of the newly-released FX documentary ‘AKA Jane Roe’ paid Norma, befriended her and then betrayed her. This documentary cannot be trusted and the perception it attempts to create around my friend and former client, Norma, is patently false.”
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lifesitenews--2020-05-21--Pro-lifers plan protest Friday against new Chicago-area Planned Parenthood

CHICAGO , May 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Pro-life advocates will hold a protest outside of Illinois ’ s newest Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Waukegan on Friday , May 22 , at 12 p.m. Central Time .
The event , coordinated by the Pro-Life Action League , will “ expose Planned Parenthood ’ s true agenda and call on City officials to investigate how they deceptively opened the Waukegan facility , ” according to Eric Scheidler , Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League .
Scheidler noted that Planned Parenthood has a history of using deception to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Aurora , Flossmoor , and Fairview Heights were all developed through shell companies , deceiving both local governments and the public about what business was really coming to town .
“ Planned Parenthood has already cornered 40 % of the American abortion market , ” said Scheidler .
“ That they 're celebrating the opening of a new abortion facility even in the midst of an international pandemic shows that Planned Parenthood is really all about abortion.
” Scheidler emphasized that protesters will wear masks and observe social distancing guidelines , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their plans .
Scheidler ’ s Pro-Life Action League is joined by a coalition of pro-life groups in protesting the Waukegan Planned Parenthood center .
Coalition leaders have issued the following statements : • Mary Kate Knorr , Illinois Right to Life : “ Governor Pritzker has closed churches , schools , and businesses in the name of protecting human life , but has allowed a new abortion clinic to open , where the lives of thousands of human children will be violently ended .
He says that he is 'listening to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that clearly shows abortion takes a human life ?
” • Steve Karlen , 40 Days for Life : “ Illinois has become the Wild West of abortion .
In openly working to lure Wisconsin women across the border to a state lacking even the most basic abortion safety regulations , Planned Parenthood reveals it has never been interested in women ’ s health , but in financial gain.
” • Sarah Minnich , Students for Life : “ The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that Americans are willing to sacrifice nearly everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that must extend to unborn human beings to ensure justice for all.
” • Shawna Weber , Young Americans for Freedom ( College of Lake County Chapter ) : “ Our chapter is proud to stand against this atrocity that has just come about in our area , and we will fight against the disgusting practice of abortion on our campus and in the world , no matter what .
Life is life at conception , and we want to show these women that there are far better options.
” • Bonnie Quirke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Lake County is the third largest county in Illinois , which up to this time had no abortion clinics .
Planned Parenthood needs to know that Lake County will continue to mobilize all aspects of the right to life movement to oppose their efforts , because societal problems are never solved by killing .
”

Pro-Life Action League president Eric Scheidler noted that Planned Parenthood has a history of using deception to sneak into Illinois communities.
CHICAGO, May 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life advocates will hold a protest outside of Illinois’s newest Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Waukegan on Friday, May 22, at 12 p.m. Central Time. The event, coordinated by the Pro-Life Action League, will “expose Planned Parenthood’s true agenda and call on City officials to investigate how they deceptively opened the Waukegan facility,” according to Eric Scheidler, Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League.
Scheidler noted that Planned Parenthood has a history of using deception to sneak into Illinois communities. Their facilities in Aurora, Flossmoor, and Fairview Heights were all developed through shell companies, deceiving both local governments and the public about what business was really coming to town.
“Planned Parenthood has already cornered 40% of the American abortion market,” said Scheidler. “That they're celebrating the opening of a new abortion facility even in the midst of an international pandemic shows that Planned Parenthood is really all about abortion.”
Scheidler emphasized that protesters will wear masks and observe social distancing guidelines, and the Waukegan police are being informed of their plans.
Scheidler’s Pro-Life Action League is joined by a coalition of pro-life groups in protesting the Waukegan Planned Parenthood center. Coalition leaders have issued the following statements:
Mary Kate Knorr, Illinois Right to Life: “Governor Pritzker has closed churches, schools, and businesses in the name of protecting human life, but has allowed a new abortion clinic to open, where the lives of thousands of human children will be violently ended. He says that he is 'listening to the scientists’ — what about the science that clearly shows abortion takes a human life?”
Steve Karlen, 40 Days for Life: “Illinois has become the Wild West of abortion. In openly working to lure Wisconsin women across the border to a state lacking even the most basic abortion safety regulations, Planned Parenthood reveals it has never been interested in women’s health, but in financial gain.”
Sarah Minnich, Students for Life: “The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that Americans are willing to sacrifice nearly everything to protect vulnerable human life, and that must extend to unborn human beings to ensure justice for all.”
Shawna Weber, Young Americans for Freedom (College of Lake County Chapter): “Our chapter is proud to stand against this atrocity that has just come about in our area, and we will fight against the disgusting practice of abortion on our campus and in the world, no matter what. Life is life at conception, and we want to show these women that there are far better options.”
Bonnie Quirke, Lake County Right to Life: “Lake County is the third largest county in Illinois, which up to this time had no abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood needs to know that Lake County will continue to mobilize all aspects of the right to life movement to oppose their efforts, because societal problems are never solved by killing.”
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lifesitenews--2020-05-21--Northern Ireland govt plans to exert more power to enforce extreme new abortion law

May 20 , 2020 ( Society for the Protection of Unborn Children ) — The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has declared that more power will be exerted onto Northern Ireland in order to ensure that the Westminster abortion regime is fully enforced in the region .
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children says that the Government ’ s regulations are so extreme that they go far beyond any abortion legislation in Europe .
During a set of Parliamentary questions which were answered this week , the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , Robin Walker , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MP Stella Creasy .
Creasy asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he would “ direct the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to commission services to comply with section 9 of the Northern Ireland Executive Formation Act 2019.
” Mr Walker responded by stating that the Government would provide whatever support possible to ensure full abortion services are commissioned in Northern Ireland .
He stated : “ I am pleased that some service provision has commenced on the ground in Northern Ireland through existing sexual and reproductive health services during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the strain on the Northern Ireland health system at present .
The Government stands ready to provide whatever support we can to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to commission full abortion services , in line with the new legislative framework , as soon as possible.
” Anti-democratic and an abuse of power The new regulations came into effect on 14 May .
Earlier this month the Government was forced to withdraw its previous draft when it was found to be defective .
Liam Gibson , SPUC Northern Ireland Political Officer said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State if he will bypass the Northern Ireland Assembly to accelerate access to abortion , Stella Creasy has acknowledged that there is significant opposition to Downing Street ’ s abortion agenda in the Province .
“ It seems that she is eager to maintain pressure on the Government but her intervention is largely irrelevant .
While Stella Creasy has served as the figurehead of the Westminster abortion lobby , the legislation she proposed was so badly drafted that it was considered to be legally unworkable .
Section 9 of the Northern Ireland ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ created the most extreme abortion regime in Europe , was drafted by a Conservative Government and is being implemented by Conservative Ministers .
“ Stella Creasy is little more than a sock-puppet .
She could have done nothing without the cooperation of the Government .
Her continued attempts to undermine devolution allows Downing Street to deny responsibility for the extremist abortion agenda it is pursuing .
Pro-life politicians in the Conservative Party need to hold the Prime Minister accountable for this abuse of power and reject the Northern Ireland Abortion Regulations when they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abortion law to the people of Northern Ireland 79 % of the people in Northern Ireland who responded to the public consultation rejected the Government ’ s proposals regarding the abortion regime .
SPUC Northern Ireland have stated that in forcing abortion onto the region , Westminster have torn up the devolution settlement and are treating Northern Ireland as a colony .
If you would like to help SPUC repeal Westminster ’ s abortion regime , sign the petition here to Repeal Section 9 .
Politicians vow to exert more power onto Northern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Published with permission from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children .

'The Government stands ready to provide whatever support we can to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to commission full abortion services,' Northern Ireland's secretary of state declared.
May 20, 2020 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) — The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has declared that more power will be exerted onto Northern Ireland in order to ensure that the Westminster abortion regime is fully enforced in the region.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children says that the Government’s regulations are so extreme that they go far beyond any abortion legislation in Europe.
During a set of Parliamentary questions which were answered this week, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Robin Walker, responded to a question from pro-abortion Labour MP Stella Creasy.
Creasy asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he would “direct the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to commission services to comply with section 9 of the Northern Ireland Executive Formation Act 2019.”
Mr Walker responded by stating that the Government would provide whatever support possible to ensure full abortion services are commissioned in Northern Ireland.
He stated: “I am pleased that some service provision has commenced on the ground in Northern Ireland through existing sexual and reproductive health services during this uncertain time.
“I recognise the strain on the Northern Ireland health system at present. The Government stands ready to provide whatever support we can to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to commission full abortion services, in line with the new legislative framework, as soon as possible.”
Anti-democratic and an abuse of power
The new regulations came into effect on 14 May. Earlier this month the Government was forced to withdraw its previous draft when it was found to be defective.
Liam Gibson, SPUC Northern Ireland Political Officer said: “By asking the Secretary of State if he will bypass the Northern Ireland Assembly to accelerate access to abortion, Stella Creasy has acknowledged that there is significant opposition to Downing Street’s abortion agenda in the Province.
“It seems that she is eager to maintain pressure on the Government but her intervention is largely irrelevant. While Stella Creasy has served as the figurehead of the Westminster abortion lobby, the legislation she proposed was so badly drafted that it was considered to be legally unworkable. Section 9 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act, which has created the most extreme abortion regime in Europe, was drafted by a Conservative Government and is being implemented by Conservative Ministers.
“Stella Creasy is little more than a sock-puppet. She could have done nothing without the cooperation of the Government. Her continued attempts to undermine devolution allows Downing Street to deny responsibility for the extremist abortion agenda it is pursuing. Pro-life politicians in the Conservative Party need to hold the Prime Minister accountable for this abuse of power and reject the Northern Ireland Abortion Regulations when they come before Parliament.”
Return authority for abortion law to the people of Northern Ireland
79% of the people in Northern Ireland who responded to the public consultation rejected the Government’s proposals regarding the abortion regime.
SPUC Northern Ireland have stated that in forcing abortion onto the region, Westminster have torn up the devolution settlement and are treating Northern Ireland as a colony.
If you would like to help SPUC repeal Westminster’s abortion regime, sign the petition here to Repeal Section 9.
Politicians vow to exert more power onto Northern Ireland to ensure abortion regime is enforced.
Published with permission from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
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lifesitenews--2020-05-21--Mary’s Fatima plea to save souls from Hell ‘urgent and for today’: priest

May 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Hell is “ not closed or empty , ” and Our Lady ’ s plea at Fatima for prayers and sacrifice to save souls from eternal damnation remains “ urgent and for today , ” Fr .
Serafino Lanzetta told the Rome Life Forum .
A parish priest of St. Mary ’ s , Gosport , in the diocese of Portsmouth , U.K. , where he is a member of a Marian Franciscan community , Fr .
Lanzetta gave an address on “ co-redemption and Marian consecration in the light of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the 7th annual Rome Life Forum .
The forum is cosponsored by LifeSiteNews and the Voice of the Family and moved online this year because of the coronavirus pandemic .
If the Church would declare Mary as co-redemptrix as the fifth Marian dogma , that would “ weld together ” co-redemption and Marian consecration “ as the identity of each Christian in this world , ” said Fr .
Lanzetta , who earned a habilitation , the equivalent of a doctorate , in theology from the Theology Faculty of Lugano in Switzerland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officially gather that special Marian army needed in the latter times , marked by a special presence of our Mother and Queen , the Immaculate Conception ” and “ prepare for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , so dear to each one of us.
” Mary is co-redemptrix because she “ cooperated actively with Christ in carrying out the redemption of mankind , ” and “ her maternal contribution , though subordinate to the one of Christ , was by the will of God deemed ... necessary in relation to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As the first Eve had an influential role in the ruin of mankind , so the new Eve , Mary , with her obedience to God , with her fiat to God ’ s plan of salvation caused , in Christ and through Christ , the restoration of humankind.
” Mary ’ s role as co-redemptrix was “ consummated ” on Calvary when she consented to the “ immolation ” of her Son , and where the two offerings — “ one is the body of Christ , one is the heart of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he said .
At Calvary , Mary also fulfils her role as the woman in St. John ’ s vision in Revelation 16:21 who cries out in the pain of childbirth .
“ As the true mother of the living , the new Eve , Our Lady really gives birth to us .
She on Calvary once again generates Christ for us in a bloody redeemer , so to speak , ” Fr .
Lanzetta said .
“ And in Him and for Him she generates us to supernatural life .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and is offered only in Christ so as to prepare the cooperation of us in our own salvation.
” Fr .
Lanzetta emphasized that popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI have reiterated the doctrine of Mary as co-redemptrix as part of the Church ’ s ordinary magisterium .
Vatican II avoided the term to appease Protestants and further ecumenical dialogue , but the doctrine is present in paragraph 58 of Lumen Gentium , which describes Mary as “ consenting to the immolation of her Son , ” he said .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doctrine since Vatican II , “ prudent theologians ” have affirmed that it “ has been proved to be part of the revelation of God ” and is “ mature enough to be solemnly proclaimed as a dogma of faith ” if a pope wants to do so , Fr .
Lanzetta said .
Mary ’ s request to the children at Fatima that Russia , all nations , and each single soul be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart must be seen in the light of her role as co-redemptrix , Fr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ this request to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart is understandable in the framework of the theology of Marian consecration , whose foundation is the soteriological contribution of Our Lady to our own salvation.
” Mary told Lucia at Fatima in June 1917 that “ my heart will be your refuge and the way to lead you to God.
” The next month she revealed to the three children a vision of Hell and told them many people would go there because no one was praying or making sacrifices for them , Fr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Catholics make the five first Saturdays devotion , which along with the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart are the efficacious means to prevent Russia spreading its errors around the world .
However , because the consecration to Russia was delayed , and then made not as “ precisely ” as Mary had asked , Marxist ideology has been able to “ triumph over the ruins of a collapsed communism , ” Fr .
Lanzetta said .
Marxism has been “ transformed ” into a “ worldwide petition for an equal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the likeness of man with his instincts and desires , with not even a gender-based difference , ” he said .
“ This is our world today , ” and this ideology is even “ embraced within the Church , ” resulting in a crisis of faith and a “ creeping apostasy.
” Marian consecration is an essential and efficacious remedy to this , Fr .
Lanzetta said .
Consecration is “ perfect ” when one makes a sacrificial offering of oneself to God through the mediation of His Mother , he said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ respond to the call of the Fatima message : to offer everything to God in order to cooperate with Him for the salvation of mankind , as Our Lady did in a very unique manner.
” However , consecration is not the same as “ entrustment.
” Entrustment describes an “ easier ” commitment , one which avoids sacrifice in favor of a “ mere pastoral and existential approach to faith , ” and which derives from a “ minimalist , shallow consideration of Mary in our salvation , ” he said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ live in full the mystery of Marian co-redemption as asked by Our Lady of Fatima , ” Fr .
Lanzetta said .
“ In this way we can truly respond to Our Lady ’ s request to offer sacrifices so that many souls might be saved from an easy fall , so to speak , into eternal perdition .
This appeal is urgent and it is for today.
” To see the video of Fr .
Lanzetta ’ s talk , go here .

Hell is 'not closed or empty,' said Fr. Serafino Lanzetta told the Rome Life Forum, and Our Lady's plea at Fatima for prayers and sacrifice remains.
May 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Hell is “not closed or empty,” and Our Lady’s plea at Fatima for prayers and sacrifice to save souls from eternal damnation remains “urgent and for today,” Fr. Serafino Lanzetta told the Rome Life Forum.
A parish priest of St. Mary’s, Gosport, in the diocese of Portsmouth, U.K., where he is a member of a Marian Franciscan community, Fr. Lanzetta gave an address on “co-redemption and Marian consecration in the light of the Fatima message for our times,” for the 7th annual Rome Life Forum.
The forum is cosponsored by LifeSiteNews and the Voice of the Family and moved online this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
If the Church would declare Mary as co-redemptrix as the fifth Marian dogma, that would “weld together” co-redemption and Marian consecration “as the identity of each Christian in this world,” said Fr. Lanzetta, who earned a habilitation, the equivalent of a doctorate, in theology from the Theology Faculty of Lugano in Switzerland.
“This would be propitious to officially gather that special Marian army needed in the latter times, marked by a special presence of our Mother and Queen, the Immaculate Conception” and “prepare for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so dear to each one of us.”
Mary is co-redemptrix because she “cooperated actively with Christ in carrying out the redemption of mankind,” and “her maternal contribution, though subordinate to the one of Christ, was by the will of God deemed … necessary in relation to us,” he explained.
“As the first Eve had an influential role in the ruin of mankind, so the new Eve, Mary, with her obedience to God, with her fiat to God’s plan of salvation caused, in Christ and through Christ, the restoration of humankind.”
Mary’s role as co-redemptrix was “consummated” on Calvary when she consented to the “immolation” of her Son, and where the two offerings — “one is the body of Christ, one is the heart of Mary,” became “one sacrifice,” he said.
At Calvary, Mary also fulfils her role as the woman in St. John’s vision in Revelation 16:21 who cries out in the pain of childbirth.
“As the true mother of the living, the new Eve, Our Lady really gives birth to us. She on Calvary once again generates Christ for us in a bloody redeemer, so to speak,” Fr. Lanzetta said.
“And in Him and for Him she generates us to supernatural life. Her contribution is made possible by Christ, and is offered only in Christ so as to prepare the cooperation of us in our own salvation.”
Fr. Lanzetta emphasized that popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI have reiterated the doctrine of Mary as co-redemptrix as part of the Church’s ordinary magisterium.
Vatican II avoided the term to appease Protestants and further ecumenical dialogue, but the doctrine is present in paragraph 58 of Lumen Gentium, which describes Mary as “consenting to the immolation of her Son,” he said.
While there have been difficulties in accepting the doctrine since Vatican II, “prudent theologians” have affirmed that it “has been proved to be part of the revelation of God” and is “mature enough to be solemnly proclaimed as a dogma of faith” if a pope wants to do so, Fr. Lanzetta said.
Mary’s request to the children at Fatima that Russia, all nations, and each single soul be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart must be seen in the light of her role as co-redemptrix, Fr. Lanzetta said.
“The logic of this request to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart is understandable in the framework of the theology of Marian consecration, whose foundation is the soteriological contribution of Our Lady to our own salvation.”
Mary told Lucia at Fatima in June 1917 that “my heart will be your refuge and the way to lead you to God.” The next month she revealed to the three children a vision of Hell and told them many people would go there because no one was praying or making sacrifices for them, Fr. Lanzetta said.
She also requested that Catholics make the five first Saturdays devotion, which along with the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart are the efficacious means to prevent Russia spreading its errors around the world.
However, because the consecration to Russia was delayed, and then made not as “precisely” as Mary had asked, Marxist ideology has been able to “triumph over the ruins of a collapsed communism,” Fr. Lanzetta said.
Marxism has been “transformed” into a “worldwide petition for an equal society shaping a new man made in the likeness of man with his instincts and desires, with not even a gender-based difference,” he said.
“This is our world today,” and this ideology is even “embraced within the Church,” resulting in a crisis of faith and a “creeping apostasy.”
Marian consecration is an essential and efficacious remedy to this, Fr. Lanzetta said.
Consecration is “perfect” when one makes a sacrificial offering of oneself to God through the mediation of His Mother, he said.
“This is the way to respond to the call of the Fatima message: to offer everything to God in order to cooperate with Him for the salvation of mankind, as Our Lady did in a very unique manner.”
However, consecration is not the same as “entrustment.”
Entrustment describes an “easier” commitment, one which avoids sacrifice in favor of a “mere pastoral and existential approach to faith,” and which derives from a “minimalist, shallow consideration of Mary in our salvation,” he said.
“Our Consecration to Mary lets us live in full the mystery of Marian co-redemption as asked by Our Lady of Fatima,” Fr. Lanzetta said.
“In this way we can truly respond to Our Lady’s request to offer sacrifices so that many souls might be saved from an easy fall, so to speak, into eternal perdition. This appeal is urgent and it is for today.”
To see the video of Fr. Lanzetta’s talk, go here.
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lifesitenews--2020-05-21--America’s worst crisis is not coronavirus. It’s liberal media doomsaying

May 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Until recently , being a doomsayer was a conservative privilege .
Conservatives are the ones who uphold a Christian moral code and thus feel entitled to denounce its very real neglect .
They have always been accused of seeing divine punishment on the horizon .
Liberals generally ridiculed their warnings .
However , the coronavirus crisis has changed the script .
Along with facial masks , liberals have now donned the role of doomsayers .
They are decrying with indignation every detail of the handling of the crisis .
They are waxing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ventilator .
Unfortunately , the object of this new gloom and doom is not the very real danger of the COVID-19 crisis .
Everyone should be concerned about it .
Everyone should lament the tragic deaths .
That is not to say that liberals have no feelings about those who have died .
However , the focus of their gloom is what they feel is a wrong vision of America and , therefore , the cause of our doom .
They insinuate that this vision is much more deadly than the virus we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservative policies are misdirected .
It does no good to argue about the facts involved in the debate .
They do not want to hear about exaggerated projections , misleading numbers , or the Chinese lab origin of the virus .
For the new doomsayers , the issue is not the crisis , but America .
It should be pitied , not admired .
America is not great .
It is wrong and has lost its way .
Three elements make up this gloom-and-doom mentality .
The first is that the media present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ darker than reality .
Every White House press conference is now a gloom-fest .
The press corps ’ s questions imply a desire to find the darkest data .
There is an unwillingness to admit the slightest victories .
There is forgetfulness of heroic actions ( like the solved ventilator crisis ) that saved countless lives .
Besides , these media naysayers assume the worst possible outcome .
Thus , anyone who forgets to follow a protocol is condemned as a potential killer .
The most casual contact is automatically imagined to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have created a climate of alarm , fear , and mistrust that prevents effective action and creates gloom everywhere .
PETITION : No to mandatory contact tracing and government surveillance for the coronavirus !
Sign the petition here .
The second source of liberal gloom is the climate created by those who are using the crisis to extend the polarizing debate caused by the 2016 election .
They concentrate on the person of the president and carry on a private war against him with provocations , vitriol , and political intrigue .
Such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at a time of high tension .
This is no time to carry out private wars .
The issues should be set aside .
The times call for sacrificing pet projects and personal prestige , not excoriating and impeding the direction of the war effort against the virus .
However , this confused state of a war within a war can not fail to drag down the nation when unity is needed .
A Vision that Is Not American Finally , liberal doomsayers reject one vision of America just so that they may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the methods being used in most Western countries to fight the coronavirus .
They claim that it must be accepted unconditionally , or untold thousands will die .
Parts of this vision are now being implemented in America .
It is based on faulty models like the now discredited Imperial College London study .
More liberal governors are particularly active in putting this vision in place .
Liberal commentators and analysts ( like former secretary of state Henry Kissinger ) further claim that there will be no return to normal , alluding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ run by more enlightened spirits .
This new vision is perplexing and frightening to countless Americans across the country because it is not an American vision of life .
The methods of this new vision for America are brutal and unfamiliar .
They follow the Chinese communist lockdown model of coronavirus suppression that disregards individual rights and even the integrity of scientific data .
Suddenly , a global template for lockdown is imposed on us .
It is not our own .
The liberal naysayers condemn anyone who questions this template or proposes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tradition .
Our tradition calls for solving problems with American ingenuity .
America has always held that all Americans are essential .
Instead of finding a way to preserve health and wealth , our “ non-essential ” industries are locked down , denying millions the opportunity of mobilizing and participating in the total fight against the virus .
We like to face challenges by stepping up to the plate .
However , the liberal template imposes massive one-size-fits-all plans that empty all the nation ’ s hospitals , for example , to treat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ costly miscalculation leads to the deaths of those needing other treatments and the laying off of health workers who have nothing to do .
It is nonsensical .
It is not the American way of doing things .
It violates every healthy business practice and rule of accountability .
We have always called upon God to help us in our trials , yet our churches are closed and sacraments denied .
God is excluded and quarantined in this crisis when He should be at its center .
Meanwhile , the nation suffers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ deplorable America for every problem that surfaces .
They claim almost in triumph that the America we know has failed .
Indeed , America has refused to embrace the brutal global standards that prevail .
Cold secular models do not inspire us .
However , America has not failed .
We see the heroic actions of health workers who give all to help others .
We see countless acts of kindness and self-sacrifice by many seeking to ease the burdens of the crisis .
We see others bombarding Heaven with their prayers for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always fail when forced to implement a totalizing Chinese communist model that does not respect God , freedom , and fundamental individual rights .
If we are to survive this crisis , we must be faithful to ourselves and , above all , beseech God to help America .
John Horvat II is a scholar , researcher , educator , international speaker , and author of the book Return to Order , as well as the author of hundreds of published articles .
He lives in Spring Grove , Pennsylvania , where he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Society for the Defense of Tradition , Family and Property .

For the new doomsayers, the issue is not the coronavirus, but America. It should be pitied, not admired. America is not great. It is wrong and has lost its way.
May 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Until recently, being a doomsayer was a conservative privilege. Conservatives are the ones who uphold a Christian moral code and thus feel entitled to denounce its very real neglect. They have always been accused of seeing divine punishment on the horizon. Liberals generally ridiculed their warnings.
However, the coronavirus crisis has changed the script. Along with facial masks, liberals have now donned the role of doomsayers. They are decrying with indignation every detail of the handling of the crisis. They are waxing increasingly apocalyptical, seeing calamity under every ventilator.
A Vision of America Targeted
Unfortunately, the object of this new gloom and doom is not the very real danger of the COVID-19 crisis. Everyone should be concerned about it. Everyone should lament the tragic deaths.
That is not to say that liberals have no feelings about those who have died. However, the focus of their gloom is what they feel is a wrong vision of America and, therefore, the cause of our doom. They insinuate that this vision is much more deadly than the virus we all combat. They are convinced that conservative policies are misdirected.
It does no good to argue about the facts involved in the debate. They do not want to hear about exaggerated projections, misleading numbers, or the Chinese lab origin of the virus.
For the new doomsayers, the issue is not the crisis, but America. It should be pitied, not admired. America is not great. It is wrong and has lost its way.
A Darker Reality
Three elements make up this gloom-and-doom mentality.
The first is that the media present a picture of America that is much darker than reality. Every White House press conference is now a gloom-fest. The press corps’s questions imply a desire to find the darkest data. There is an unwillingness to admit the slightest victories. There is forgetfulness of heroic actions (like the solved ventilator crisis) that saved countless lives.
Besides, these media naysayers assume the worst possible outcome. Thus, anyone who forgets to follow a protocol is condemned as a potential killer. The most casual contact is automatically imagined to be lethal.
All these liberal media attitudes have created a climate of alarm, fear, and mistrust that prevents effective action and creates gloom everywhere.
PETITION: No to mandatory contact tracing and government surveillance for the coronavirus! Sign the petition here.
A Private War amid a Public Crisis
The second source of liberal gloom is the climate created by those who are using the crisis to extend the polarizing debate caused by the 2016 election. They concentrate on the person of the president and carry on a private war against him with provocations, vitriol, and political intrigue. Such caustic and abrasive attitudes exhaust the nation at a time of high tension.
This is no time to carry out private wars. The issues should be set aside. The times call for sacrificing pet projects and personal prestige, not excoriating and impeding the direction of the war effort against the virus. However, this confused state of a war within a war cannot fail to drag down the nation when unity is needed.
A Vision that Is Not American
Finally, liberal doomsayers reject one vision of America just so that they may impose another. Their vision finds expression in the methods being used in most Western countries to fight the coronavirus. They claim that it must be accepted unconditionally, or untold thousands will die.
Parts of this vision are now being implemented in America. It is based on faulty models like the now discredited Imperial College London study. More liberal governors are particularly active in putting this vision in place. Liberal commentators and analysts (like former secretary of state Henry Kissinger) further claim that there will be no return to normal, alluding to an unrevealed future that will be run by more enlightened spirits.
This new vision is perplexing and frightening to countless Americans across the country because it is not an American vision of life.
The methods of this new vision for America are brutal and unfamiliar. They follow the Chinese communist lockdown model of coronavirus suppression that disregards individual rights and even the integrity of scientific data.
Suddenly, a global template for lockdown is imposed on us. It is not our own. The liberal naysayers condemn anyone who questions this template or proposes solutions more in line with our American tradition.
An American Vision
Our tradition calls for solving problems with American ingenuity. America has always held that all Americans are essential. Instead of finding a way to preserve health and wealth, our “non-essential” industries are locked down, denying millions the opportunity of mobilizing and participating in the total fight against the virus.
We like to face challenges by stepping up to the plate. However, the liberal template imposes massive one-size-fits-all plans that empty all the nation’s hospitals, for example, to treat COVID-19 patients who never come. This costly miscalculation leads to the deaths of those needing other treatments and the laying off of health workers who have nothing to do. It is nonsensical. It is not the American way of doing things. It violates every healthy business practice and rule of accountability.
We have always called upon God to help us in our trials, yet our churches are closed and sacraments denied. God is excluded and quarantined in this crisis when He should be at its center.
Meanwhile, the nation suffers. The liberal doomsayers blame a backward and deplorable America for every problem that surfaces. They claim almost in triumph that the America we know has failed. Indeed, America has refused to embrace the brutal global standards that prevail. Cold secular models do not inspire us.
However, America has not failed. We see the heroic actions of health workers who give all to help others. We see countless acts of kindness and self-sacrifice by many seeking to ease the burdens of the crisis. We see others bombarding Heaven with their prayers for those who are suffering.
We will always fail when forced to implement a totalizing Chinese communist model that does not respect God, freedom, and fundamental individual rights. If we are to survive this crisis, we must be faithful to ourselves and, above all, beseech God to help America.
John Horvat II is a scholar, researcher, educator, international speaker, and author of the book Return to Order, as well as the author of hundreds of published articles. He lives in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, where he is the vice president of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property.
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lifesitenews--2020-05-21--‘Dangerous’: Ontario doctor sounds alarm over Canada’s coronavirus vaccine deal with China

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May 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – An Ontario doctor is warning that the Canadian government ’ s new deal with China to produce a coronavirus vaccine is a “ dangerous endeavour ” and that Canada should instead fund vaccine trials with allied nations .
“ The role of our governments is to build trust through transparency and accountability , ” said Dr. Kulvinder Gill , the president and co-founder of Concerned Ontario Doctors , a grassroots , non-profit organization advocating for healthcare issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report published May 19 .
“ The role of our governments is to build trust through transparency and accountability , ” said Gill , a frontline physician in the Toronto area .
“ If the Trudeau government wants Canadians to trust and buy into a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine , partnering with the Chinese Communist Party ’ s military is ( … ) the most counterproductive and dangerous thing it could do.
” Last week , Canada ’ s National Research Council ( NRC ) announced a collaboration with the Chinese firm CanSino Biologics Inc. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus vaccine , known as Ad5-nCoV , in Canada .
LifeSiteNews reported last week that the vaccine candidate Ad5-nCoV uses the HEK293 cell line , which is made from fetal cells harvested from an aborted baby decades ago , and is the property of the NRC .
Pro-abortion Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday that Health Canada approved the coronavirus vaccine Ad5-nCoV to be used in human clinical trials .
The trial vaccine Ad5-nCoV was co-developed by the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology , Academy of Military Medical Sciences , and CanSinoBIO .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trials since mid-March in China .
In the ThinkPol report , Gill said Canada should not be working with the Chinese Communist Party ’ s military and “ abandon this illogical and dangerous endeavour , and instead fund vaccine trials with our allied nations who understand the critical importance of trust , ethics , safety , transparency , and collaboration.
” Gill said on her Twitter account that Canadians should “ fight against ” what she calls a “ hijacking ” of medicine and science by politicians .
She also noted on Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying it is “ illogical ” Canada is the only nation to sign an agreement with China to develop a coronavirus vaccine .
In the ThinkPol report , Gill noted that as coronaviruses are part of a large family of RNA viruses , which includes the common cold , the fact is no such vaccines exist for use in humans .
“ We must not lose sight of the fact that coronaviruses are a large family of RNA viruses , which include the common cold .
No approved human coronavirus vaccines exist , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The ThinkPol report also noted that Gill says both SARS and MERS went away on their own without the need for a vaccine , adding that one 's immune systems seem to be a person ’ s best defense .
“ There are no confirmed cases of reinfection or reactivation , strong T-cell responses bode well for long-term immunity , and there is residual immunity to common cold coronaviruses that offers some cross-protection against COVID-19 , ” Gill said in the ThinkPol report .
“ The normal vaccine development cycle is 10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ The shortest vaccine development cycle on record is for the mumps vaccine at four years .
This human clinical trial with China ’ s Communist Party ’ s vaccine is proceeding at an alarmingly dangerous rate without adherence to research ethics and transparency.
” In the ThinkPol report , Gill noted that another reason to be cautious about working with China is the warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance consisting of Canada , the United States , the United Kingdom , Australia , and New Zealand .
Gill said a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ significant concerns regarding China ’ s handling of the novel coronavirus calling it an ‘ assault on international transparency.
’ ” Ted Kuntz , president of Vaccine Choice Canada ( VCC ) , a not-for-profit society founded by families who have suffered from vaccine reactions or injuries , told LifeSiteNews that he is concerned about the safety of the coronavirus trial vaccine .
“ Will those volunteering as human test subjects be fully informed that this vaccine has not undergone standard safety testing ?
” Kuntz said .
“ Will healthy human test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harm to them significantly outweighs any potential benefit ?
Are human subjects being made fully aware that many of the adverse effects of vaccination , especially on the neurological and immunological systems , may not be evident for years if not decades ?
” Kuntz also told LifeSiteNews that he hopes “ saner heads will prevail ” when it comes to risks associated with a coronavirus vaccine .
“ Is Health Canada and the vaccine industry willing to put the entire vaccine program at risk to potentially alleviate the risk of mortality in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The clinical trials for Ad5-nCoV will be taking place at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University in Halifax .
A total of 600 people will be needed for the trial , according to a CBC report , that will be done in phases .
Dr. Scott Halperin , director of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University , told CTV that because of the scale of the coronavirus , his team will not wait for full results from one stage to the next , but rather conduct the tests `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sacrificing any safety.
” In April , Trudeau said he needed time to “ reflect ” about the possibility of making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory in Canada if and when it becomes available .
Yesterday , the Premier of Alberta said on a Facebook live event ( 26-minute mark ) that he has no intention of making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory in Alberta , despite the fact an Alberta law exists to allow for this .
Canada ’ s collaboration with China to test Ad5-nCoV comes despite growing evidence and calls from many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus .
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China ’ s only level four biosafety lab , and there has been speculation that the coronavirus somehow escaped from its doors .
In April , it was reported that Trudeau gave close to $ 1 million of taxpayer money to help fund “ research ” for new COVID-19 “ screening and diagnosis ” tools at the Chinese lab where the virus is suspected to have originated .
In the past , Trudeau has openly spoken about his admiration for China .
He famously praised @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in speaking at a Liberal Party fundraising event in 2013 after a reporter asked him which country besides Canada he most admires .

Dr. Kulvinder Gill of Concerned Ontario Doctors called the govt's partnership with the Communist Party 'the most counterproductive and dangerous thing it could do.'
PETITION: No to mandatory vaccination for the coronavirus! Sign the petition here.
May 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – An Ontario doctor is warning that the Canadian government’s new deal with China to produce a coronavirus vaccine is a “dangerous endeavour” and that Canada should instead fund vaccine trials with allied nations.
“The role of our governments is to build trust through transparency and accountability,” said Dr. Kulvinder Gill, the president and co-founder of Concerned Ontario Doctors, a grassroots, non-profit organization advocating for healthcare issues affecting frontline doctors, in a ThinkPol report published May 19.
“The role of our governments is to build trust through transparency and accountability,” said Gill, a frontline physician in the Toronto area. “If the Trudeau government wants Canadians to trust and buy into a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, partnering with the Chinese Communist Party’s military is (…) the most counterproductive and dangerous thing it could do.”
Last week, Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) announced a collaboration with the Chinese firm CanSino Biologics Inc. (CanSinoBIO) to test its trial coronavirus vaccine, known as Ad5-nCoV, in Canada.
LifeSiteNews reported last week that the vaccine candidate Ad5-nCoV uses the HEK293 cell line, which is made from fetal cells harvested from an aborted baby decades ago, and is the property of the NRC.
Pro-abortion Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday that Health Canada approved the coronavirus vaccine Ad5-nCoV to be used in human clinical trials.
The trial vaccine Ad5-nCoV was co-developed by the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and CanSinoBIO. It has already been used in initial human trials since mid-March in China.
In the ThinkPol report, Gill said Canada should not be working with the Chinese Communist Party’s military and “abandon this illogical and dangerous endeavour, and instead fund vaccine trials with our allied nations who understand the critical importance of trust, ethics, safety, transparency, and collaboration.”
Gill said on her Twitter account that Canadians should “fight against” what she calls a “hijacking” of medicine and science by politicians. She also noted on Twitter that she is “pro-vaccine,” saying it is “illogical” Canada is the only nation to sign an agreement with China to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
In the ThinkPol report, Gill noted that as coronaviruses are part of a large family of RNA viruses, which includes the common cold, the fact is no such vaccines exist for use in humans.
“We must not lose sight of the fact that coronaviruses are a large family of RNA viruses, which include the common cold. No approved human coronavirus vaccines exist,” said Gill in the ThinkPol report.
The ThinkPol report also noted that Gill says both SARS and MERS went away on their own without the need for a vaccine, adding that one's immune systems seem to be a person’s best defense.
“There are no confirmed cases of reinfection or reactivation, strong T-cell responses bode well for long-term immunity, and there is residual immunity to common cold coronaviruses that offers some cross-protection against COVID-19,” Gill said in the ThinkPol report.
“The normal vaccine development cycle is 10 to 15 years,” said Gill. “The shortest vaccine development cycle on record is for the mumps vaccine at four years. This human clinical trial with China’s Communist Party’s vaccine is proceeding at an alarmingly dangerous rate without adherence to research ethics and transparency.”
In the ThinkPol report, Gill noted that another reason to be cautious about working with China is the warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance consisting of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
Gill said a recent Five Eyes alliance report “raised significant concerns regarding China’s handling of the novel coronavirus calling it an ‘assault on international transparency.’”
Ted Kuntz, president of Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC), a not-for-profit society founded by families who have suffered from vaccine reactions or injuries, told LifeSiteNews that he is concerned about the safety of the coronavirus trial vaccine.
“Will those volunteering as human test subjects be fully informed that this vaccine has not undergone standard safety testing?” Kuntz said.
“Will healthy human test subject be told that the risk of harm to them significantly outweighs any potential benefit? Are human subjects being made fully aware that many of the adverse effects of vaccination, especially on the neurological and immunological systems, may not be evident for years if not decades?”
Kuntz also told LifeSiteNews that he hopes “saner heads will prevail” when it comes to risks associated with a coronavirus vaccine.
“Is Health Canada and the vaccine industry willing to put the entire vaccine program at risk to potentially alleviate the risk of mortality in 0.1 percent of the population?”
The clinical trials for Ad5-nCoV will be taking place at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University in Halifax. A total of 600 people will be needed for the trial, according to a CBC report, that will be done in phases.
Dr. Scott Halperin, director of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University, told CTV that because of the scale of the coronavirus, his team will not wait for full results from one stage to the next, but rather conduct the tests “in a more accelerated fashion, without sacrificing any safety.”
In April, Trudeau said he needed time to “reflect” about the possibility of making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory in Canada if and when it becomes available.
Yesterday, the Premier of Alberta said on a Facebook live event (26-minute mark) that he has no intention of making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory in Alberta, despite the fact an Alberta law exists to allow for this.
Canada’s collaboration with China to test Ad5-nCoV comes despite growing evidence and calls from many that China is ground zero for the coronavirus. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China’s only level four biosafety lab, and there has been speculation that the coronavirus somehow escaped from its doors.
In April, it was reported that Trudeau gave close to $1 million of taxpayer money to help fund “research” for new COVID-19 “screening and diagnosis” tools at the Chinese lab where the virus is suspected to have originated.
In the past, Trudeau has openly spoken about his admiration for China. He famously praised China’s “basic dictatorship” in speaking at a Liberal Party fundraising event in 2013 after a reporter asked him which country besides Canada he most admires.
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lifesitenews--2020-05-21--Whose side was Norma McCorvey on? What we do know is Roe v Wade has led to millions of abortions

May 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The internet is ablaze with reports that Norma McCorvey , who claimed to convert to Christianity and worked for years as a pro-life activist , was actually a paid puppet of the right , putting on an act all these years .
So states a forthcoming FX documentary to be aired on Hulu .
Yes , we are told that “ Jane Roe ’ s Deathbed Confession : Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘ All an Act ’ Paid for by the Christian Right.
” Pro-lifers who knew her for years , to the point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , categorically reject these claims .
( See here and here and here and here . )
How do we sort this out ?
Let ’ s start with what we do know .
First , regarding the Roe v. Wade case , which began in 1971 , McCorvey was used by the pro-abortion side for their purposes .
Jacqulyne Anton , writing in History in the Making , Volume 11 , described McCorvey as “ a poor , working-class woman from Louisiana , burdened with the psychological pain of an unplanned pregnancy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ catalyst in the fight for the legalization of abortion.
” After suffering years of physical and emotional abuse , including numerous sexual assaults , and while frequenting gay bars and struggling with substance abuse , she slept with a friend and became pregnant for a third time .
“ Nervous and afraid , Norma claimed that she was raped and that that was how she became pregnant.
” She was just 21 at the time .
However , Anton explained , “ Norma was not looking to become the protagonist in the legal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legalizing abortion for women across the United States .
Rather , she was simply looking for the right to safely and legally end her own unwanted pregnancy.
” So this young woman , the victim of all kinds of abuse , became the anonymous poster girl for the pro-abortion cause , the “ Roe ” of Roe v. Wade .
And note carefully the claim that she was raped was an outright lie .
( For the record , she did not have an abortion but rather gave up her child for adoption @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while employed by an abortion clinic and involved in a committed lesbian relationship , she professed to have a conversion experience and made an open , uncoerced profession of faith in Jesus and was baptized .
Multiple witnesses attest to this , and at no point in time was she ever offered money to convert or be baptized .
There is not one ounce of proof to support this wild allegation .
To watch the story for yourself , which involved pro-life activist Flip Benham , go here .
This was documented in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she was fired from her job in an abortion clinic , she and her partner were loved and embraced by the local pro-life community , which helped them in many ways .
But that is called Christian love .
Just think of the scorn we would have received for not helping a woman like this , left out in the cold by the pro-abortion side .
Third , the producer of the new documentary is Nick Sweeney .
His website features some of his other projects , including My Transgender Summer Camp ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; The Sex Robots Are Coming ; and Secrets of the Living Dolls .
While this does not speak to the quality or veracity of his work , it does point to his social views , which are clearly far left .
Fourth , Sweeney has interviews with McCorvey , filmed in her nursing home before she died in 2017 , where she claimed that her conversion and pro-life work were all an act and that she was paid by the right for her activism .
Unfortunately , she is not here to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story we should believe , and there are other examples of her reversing part of her story in the past ( specifically , her claim of being raped in 1971 , a claim she reiterated in 1983 but then denied in 1987 , well before her conversion ; see here ) .
Should we believe what she consistently said , without contradiction , for over 20 years ?
Or should we believe a “ death-bed confession ” made in a nursing home ?
Ultimately , only God knows the truth , but David @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who knew McCorvey as a close friend of the family for years and who witnessed her baptism , spoke with her not long before her passing .
There was not the slightest indication that she had changed her views .
I encourage you to take the time to listen to my interview with David and you can hear the passion in his voice , coupled with the indignation he and his family now feel , as if their dear friend has been used and abused once again .
As for the idea that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her previous 20+ years had been a sham , it is possible that this is no different than a husband who leaves his wife of 30 years , telling her , “ I never loved you.
” What he really means is , “ I ’ m attracted to someone else now.
” His memory of the past is distorted .
Again , only God knows the truth about Norma McCorvey , but what we do know is that : 1 ) the very foundations of Roe v. Wade included a lie ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ germane to the decision ) .
2 ) Norma McCorvey was used by the pro-abortion movement for their purposes .
3 ) She professed to have a radical conversion and seemed the better for it for more than two decades .
4 ) The documentary was produced by a filmmaker with a clear social agenda .
5 ) The documentary is only being released three years after her death .
In the end , even if she was acting all this time , which I seriously doubt , as a result of Roe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ babies have been slaughtered and abortion remains evil and wrong .
Nothing will ever change that .

The supposed 'deathbed confession' by 'Jane Roe' that she was paid to be pro-life is disputed by many who knew her.
May 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The internet is ablaze with reports that Norma McCorvey, who claimed to convert to Christianity and worked for years as a pro-life activist, was actually a paid puppet of the right, putting on an act all these years. So states a forthcoming FX documentary to be aired on Hulu. Yes, we are told that “Jane Roe’s Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right.”
Pro-lifers who knew her for years, to the point of becoming her family and close friends, categorically reject these claims. (See here and here and here and here.) How do we sort this out?
Let’s start with what we do know.
First, regarding the Roe v. Wade case, which began in 1971, McCorvey was used by the pro-abortion side for their purposes.
Jacqulyne Anton, writing in History in the Making, Volume 11, described McCorvey as “a poor, working-class woman from Louisiana, burdened with the psychological pain of an unplanned pregnancy, (who) unwittingly became the catalyst in the fight for the legalization of abortion.”
After suffering years of physical and emotional abuse, including numerous sexual assaults, and while frequenting gay bars and struggling with substance abuse, she slept with a friend and became pregnant for a third time.
“Nervous and afraid, Norma claimed that she was raped and that that was how she became pregnant.”
She was just 21 at the time.
However, Anton explained, “Norma was not looking to become the protagonist in the legal case that would become a landmark in legalizing abortion for women across the United States. Rather, she was simply looking for the right to safely and legally end her own unwanted pregnancy.”
So this young woman, the victim of all kinds of abuse, became the anonymous poster girl for the pro-abortion cause, the “Roe” of Roe v. Wade. And note carefully the claim that she was raped was an outright lie. (For the record, she did not have an abortion but rather gave up her child for adoption.)
Second, in 1995, while employed by an abortion clinic and involved in a committed lesbian relationship, she professed to have a conversion experience and made an open, uncoerced profession of faith in Jesus and was baptized.
Multiple witnesses attest to this, and at no point in time was she ever offered money to convert or be baptized. There is not one ounce of proof to support this wild allegation. To watch the story for yourself, which involved pro-life activist Flip Benham, go here. This was documented in her book Won by Love.
Once she was fired from her job in an abortion clinic, she and her partner were loved and embraced by the local pro-life community, which helped them in many ways.
But that is called Christian love. Just think of the scorn we would have received for not helping a woman like this, left out in the cold by the pro-abortion side.
Third, the producer of the new documentary is Nick Sweeney. His website features some of his other projects, including My Transgender Summer Camp; Girls to Men; My Transgender Kid; The Sex Robots Are Coming; and Secrets of the Living Dolls.
While this does not speak to the quality or veracity of his work, it does point to his social views, which are clearly far left.
Fourth, Sweeney has interviews with McCorvey, filmed in her nursing home before she died in 2017, where she claimed that her conversion and pro-life work were all an act and that she was paid by the right for her activism.
Unfortunately, she is not here to tell us which version of her life story we should believe, and there are other examples of her reversing part of her story in the past (specifically, her claim of being raped in 1971, a claim she reiterated in 1983 but then denied in 1987, well before her conversion; see here).
Should we believe what she consistently said, without contradiction, for over 20 years? Or should we believe a “death-bed confession” made in a nursing home?
Ultimately, only God knows the truth, but David Benham, Flip’s son, who knew McCorvey as a close friend of the family for years and who witnessed her baptism, spoke with her not long before her passing. There was not the slightest indication that she had changed her views.
I encourage you to take the time to listen to my interview with David and you can hear the passion in his voice, coupled with the indignation he and his family now feel, as if their dear friend has been used and abused once again.
As for the idea that she might have come to believe that her previous 20+ years had been a sham, it is possible that this is no different than a husband who leaves his wife of 30 years, telling her, “I never loved you.”
What he really means is, “I’m attracted to someone else now.” His memory of the past is distorted.
Again, only God knows the truth about Norma McCorvey, but what we do know is that: 1) the very foundations of Roe v. Wade included a lie (although the rape issue was not directly germane to the decision). 2) Norma McCorvey was used by the pro-abortion movement for their purposes. 3) She professed to have a radical conversion and seemed the better for it for more than two decades. 4) The documentary was produced by a filmmaker with a clear social agenda. 5) The documentary is only being released three years after her death.
In the end, even if she was acting all this time, which I seriously doubt, as a result of Roe v. Wade, more than 65 million babies have been slaughtered and abortion remains evil and wrong.
Nothing will ever change that.
Follow Michael Dr. Brown is the author of more than 35 books, including Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the “Church” and the Jewish People, which has been translated into more than twelve languages, the highly acclaimed five-volume series, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, a commentary on Jeremiah (part of the revised edition of the Expositor’s Bible Commentary), and several books on revival and the Jesus revolution. His most recent book is Evangelicals at the Crossroads: Will We Pass the Trump Test?
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lifesitenews--2020-05-21--Pope calling proposed development of Marian doctrine ‘nonsense’ doesn’t change truth: theologian

May 21 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Pope Francis describing requests to declare Our Lady Co-redemptrix as “ nonsense ” is a reflection of his “ personal taste ” and not a statement on the validity of the doctrine , a Franciscan theologian told the Rome Life Forum yesterday .
Fr .
Serafino Lanzetta delved into the six-month-old controversy during an question-and-answer session on the first day of the seventh annual forum , which was moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic , and is on the theme “ Coronavirus in the Light of Fatima : a tragedy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ referred to the pope ’ s December 12 , 2019 , homily in which he said Mary “ never wanted to take anything from her Son .
She never presented herself as Co-redemptrix , ” and added , “ When they come to us with stories saying we have to declare this , or make this or that other dogma , let us not get lost in nonsense.
” “ We can not dismiss the word ‘ Co-redemptrix ’ … only because Pope Francis said we don ’ t need it , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the diocese of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom .
Lanzetta contends that the doctrine , which Mary made a unique contribution to our salvation as Co-redemptrix , is part of the ordinary magisterium of the Church , and has been reiterated by many popes for the last 100 years .
“ A single pope can never say something contrasting such a long reiteration , magisterial reiteration .
I would say Pope Francis maybe said that because of more a personal taste , ” he said .
“ But the doctrine of the faith @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taste , it is what God has revealed , what the Church has received.
” Lanzetta was also asked what most hinders the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary .
Our Lady promised her Immaculate Heart would triumph “ regardless of human events , ” so this “ triumph is connected directly with God ’ s will ” and will take place even despite today ’ s minimal response to her message at Fatima , he replied .
But certain events , such as the “ loss of faith , ” will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
These events were to some extent foretold by Our Lady when she appeared to the three children at Fatima , said Lanzetta , adding that there is “ something missing , something lacking ” between the second and third parts of the secret she gave to them .
The second part of the secret ends with the words : “ In Portugal , the dogma of the faith will be kept.
” The third part of the secret describes the “ desolate scenario ” of a city on a hill , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , through which walks a man in white .
“ This is the situation within the Church .
We are affected unfortunately by a tremendous loss of faith , ” said Lanzetta .
Sr. Lucia also mentioned in her diary that there will be chastisements before the triumph of Mary ’ s Immaculate Heart , he added .
Pandemics , pestilence , illness , social problems are “ always permitted by God ’ s providence in order to purify us from all our sins , to teach us how to be obedient to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also part of the Q & A , agreed that the coronavirus pandemic is a chastisement and “ the fruit of the disorder we have introduced into this world by sin.
” If people restore the respect for human life , the respect for marriage , and for true religion , “ things will get better , ” he said .
“ If we don ’ t repent , I don ’ t see how God can stay His hand from us who would be so rebellious against Him , and against His @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Burke .
“ All it requires from us is the opening to His merciful grace , and He will not fail to provide us with graces in abundance to transform ourselves and to transform the world.
” The coronavirus crisis has also made clear the urgent need “ to define clearly the relationship between the Church and the state , ” said Burke , noting he has heard personally and on social media from Catholics denied access to the sacraments .
“ The Church needs to see her sacred duty to provide the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” He did not have the answer to the question why popes so far have not consecrated Russia to Mary ’ s Immaculate Heart as she requested , Burke said .
“ The point is that Our Lady ’ s request stands , and it is more timely than ever because the great evil of atheistic materialism , of communism , which began in Russia , spreads now in a very dramatic way , especially through the influence of the government of China , ” observed the cardinal .
“ So we must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will fulfill the request of Our Lady.
” All the bishops in the world in their dioceses must unite with the Holy Father in making the consecration , he said .
Asked what is the first step families can take to reform their lives according to Our Lady of Fatima ’ s call , Fr .
Lanzetta said they should pray the rosary together .
“ The more we pray the rosary , the more we appreciate how beautiful it is to be in communion with Our Lady , because we pray these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the words of the angel to bring this great news of the Incarnation of God , ” he said .
The rosary “ is also very , very important to keep the true faith.
” St. Louis de Montfort said that “ heretics normally don ’ t pray the Hail Mary , ” and in refusing to do so , “ in fact they refuse to acknowledge , to profess the very first mystery of our faith , the Incarnation of the Word.
” A daily rosary is “ also a bit penitential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this commitment every day ” and “ be strong enough to keep going on despite possible distractions , ” Lanzetta said .
Families should also read True Devotion to Our Lady by St. Louis de Montfort .
It includes a consecration to Mary , which “ is the best way to live out those vows that we took in the moment of our baptism.
” To watch the video of the Q & A , go here .

'I would say Pope Francis maybe said that because of more a personal taste. But the doctrine of the faith … is what God has revealed, what the Church has received.'
May 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis describing requests to declare Our Lady Co-redemptrix as “nonsense” is a reflection of his “personal taste” and not a statement on the validity of the doctrine, a Franciscan theologian told the Rome Life Forum yesterday.
Fr. Serafino Lanzetta delved into the six-month-old controversy during an question-and-answer session on the first day of the seventh annual forum, which was moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic, and is on the theme “Coronavirus in the Light of Fatima: a tragedy and a source of hope.”
The question referred to the pope’s December 12, 2019, homily in which he said Mary “never wanted to take anything from her Son. She never presented herself as Co-redemptrix,” and added, “When they come to us with stories saying we have to declare this, or make this or that other dogma, let us not get lost in nonsense.”
“We cannot dismiss the word ‘Co-redemptrix’ … only because Pope Francis said we don’t need it,” said Lanzetta, a Marian Franciscan from the diocese of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.
Lanzetta contends that the doctrine that Mary made a unique contribution to our salvation as Co-redemptrix is part of the ordinary magisterium of the Church, and has been reiterated by many popes for the last 100 years.
“A single pope can never say something contrasting such a long reiteration, magisterial reiteration. I would say Pope Francis maybe said that because of more a personal taste,” he said.
“But the doctrine of the faith … is not the object of personal taste, it is what God has revealed, what the Church has received.”
Lanzetta was also asked what most hinders the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Our Lady promised her Immaculate Heart would triumph “regardless of human events,” so this “triumph is connected directly with God’s will” and will take place even despite today’s minimal response to her message at Fatima, he replied.
But certain events, such as the “loss of faith,” will take place before this triumph, he said.
These events were to some extent foretold by Our Lady when she appeared to the three children at Fatima, said Lanzetta, adding that there is “something missing, something lacking” between the second and third parts of the secret she gave to them.
The second part of the secret ends with the words: “In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will be kept.” The third part of the secret describes the “desolate scenario” of a city on a hill, half in ruins and strewn with corpses, through which walks a man in white.
“This is the situation within the Church. We are affected unfortunately by a tremendous loss of faith,” said Lanzetta.
Sr. Lucia also mentioned in her diary that there will be chastisements before the triumph of Mary’s Immaculate Heart, he added.
Pandemics, pestilence, illness, social problems are “always permitted by God’s providence in order to purify us from all our sins, to teach us how to be obedient to His will.”
Cardinal Raymond Burke, also part of the Q&A, agreed that the coronavirus pandemic is a chastisement and “the fruit of the disorder we have introduced into this world by sin.”
If people restore the respect for human life, the respect for marriage, and for true religion, “things will get better,” he said.
“If we don’t repent, I don’t see how God can stay His hand from us who would be so rebellious against Him, and against His great love for us,” added Burke.
“All it requires from us is the opening to His merciful grace, and He will not fail to provide us with graces in abundance to transform ourselves and to transform the world.”
The coronavirus crisis has also made clear the urgent need “to define clearly the relationship between the Church and the state,” said Burke, noting he has heard personally and on social media from Catholics denied access to the sacraments.
“The Church needs to see her sacred duty to provide the sacraments to the faithful at all times.”
He did not have the answer to the question why popes so far have not consecrated Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart as she requested, Burke said.
“The point is that Our Lady’s request stands, and it is more timely than ever because the great evil of atheistic materialism, of communism, which began in Russia, spreads now in a very dramatic way, especially through the influence of the government of China,” observed the cardinal.
“So we must pray for our Holy Father that he will fulfill the request of Our Lady.”
All the bishops in the world in their dioceses must unite with the Holy Father in making the consecration, he said.
Asked what is the first step families can take to reform their lives according to Our Lady of Fatima’s call, Fr. Lanzetta said they should pray the rosary together.
“The more we pray the rosary, the more we appreciate how beautiful it is to be in communion with Our Lady, because we pray these Hail Marys in a way to echo the words of the angel to bring this great news of the Incarnation of God,” he said.
The rosary “is also very, very important to keep the true faith.”
St. Louis de Montfort said that “heretics normally don’t pray the Hail Mary,” and in refusing to do so, “in fact they refuse to acknowledge, to profess the very first mystery of our faith, the Incarnation of the Word.”
A daily rosary is “also a bit penitential because we have to be faithful to this commitment every day” and “be strong enough to keep going on despite possible distractions,” Lanzetta said.
Families should also read True Devotion to Our Lady by St. Louis de Montfort. It includes a consecration to Mary, which “is the best way to live out those vows that we took in the moment of our baptism.”
To watch the video of the Q&A, go here.
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