lifesitenews--2020-09-26--Members of Congress ask DOJ to investigate ‘anti-Catholic hate crimes’ sweeping the nation

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WASHINGTON , D.C. , September 26 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Sixteen members of Congress have asked Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the perpetrators of “ anti-Catholic hate crimes ” in the United States , including “ any organizational or ideological connections between them.
” Their letter was sent to Barr , himself a Catholic , on September 25 .
Led by Rep. Jim Banks ( R-IN ) , the legislators voiced their concern over “ an unusual number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Church properties , ” and listed a number of examples of violence against Catholic Church property .
“ On July 12 , an arsonist set a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary on fire at the historic Saint Peters [ sic ] Parish Church in Boston .
The day before a man in Florida drove a van into the side of a Catholic Church while parishioners were inside , then spilled gasoline onto the Church ’ s foyer and attempted to ignite it.
” “ Also , on July 11 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the ground , ” the letter continued .
“ In the weeks prior , local activists had denounced the Mission ’ s founder , Father Junipero Serra , so the Mission removed his statue to mollify potential attackers—apparently to no avail.
” “ That same weekend , outside of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Chattanooga , unknown vandals beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary .
And these attacks are ongoing.
” Most recently , on September 11 , a man was videotaped in the Diocese of Brooklyn , New York , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guadalupe , “ an iconic image of the Virgin Mary often venerated by Hispanics.
” “ To attack the Blessed Mother on the day of 9/11 , in the morning , in broad daylight is not only brazen , it is a direct assault on the faith of the people who were walking by that day who wanted to have a moment of prayer , ” said John Quaglione , a representative of the Diocese of Brooklyn in an interview with CBS New York .
In the video , a man can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ front of the Coney Island church in broad daylight , tearing down the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe , and tossing it onto the sidewalk below .
The statue ’ s face was smashed and her hands were broken off .
On September 16 , a 30-year-old man toppled and destroyed a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus located on the high altar of the cathedral in El Paso , Texas .
“ A suspect came into the sanctuary at St. Patrick Cathedral and destroyed the almost 90-year-old statue of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ located in the center behind the main altar of the church , ” the diocese stated on Instagram .
“ The church was open and available for prayer.
” Two photos published by the diocese show the statue , lying flat on the floor , with Christ ’ s head smashed in , and only the neck and part of the beard still connected to the statue .
One of his outstretched arms is broken off and can be seen several feet away from the statue on the floor .
The base is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The 16 Congressmen said they were “ not the only ones who have noticed this trend , ” but also many media outlets .
“ By some estimates , there have been 70 such incidents in North America this year with the vast majority occurring in just the past four months , ” they wrote .
“ Since May of 2020 , there have been 57 reported instances of anti-Catholic hate crimes in the United States alone .
In comparison , the FBI reported just 53 instances of anti-Catholic hate crimes in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , this “ suggests that anti-Catholic hate crimes are occurring at around a four times greater frequency than two years ago .
As in any other instance of a rapid spike in hate crimes targeted at a specific group , the Justice Department ’ s Civil Rights Division has an obligation to investigate the perpetrators of this violence and any organizational or ideological connections between them.
” Another statue toppled , cathedral set on fire as desecration continues Anarchists are attacking churches because they represent order , morality , stability

They voiced concern over ‘an unusual number of horrific and brutal attacks on Catholic and Church properties.’
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WASHINGTON, D.C., September 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Sixteen members of Congress have asked Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the perpetrators of “anti-Catholic hate crimes” in the United States, including “any organizational or ideological connections between them.”
Their letter was sent to Barr, himself a Catholic, on September 25.
Led by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), the legislators voiced their concern over “an unusual number of horrific and brutal attacks on Catholic and Church properties,” and listed a number of examples of violence against Catholic Church property.
“On July 12, an arsonist set a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary on fire at the historic Saint Peters [sic] Parish Church in Boston. The day before a man in Florida drove a van into the side of a Catholic Church while parishioners were inside, then spilled gasoline onto the Church’s foyer and attempted to ignite it.”
“Also, on July 11, the San Gabriel Mission in California was burned to the ground,” the letter continued. “In the weeks prior, local activists had denounced the Mission’s founder, Father Junipero Serra, so the Mission removed his statue to mollify potential attackers—apparently to no avail.”
“That same weekend, outside of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Chattanooga, unknown vandals beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary. And these attacks are ongoing.”
Most recently, on September 11, a man was videotaped in the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, toppling a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, “an iconic image of the Virgin Mary often venerated by Hispanics.”
“To attack the Blessed Mother on the day of 9/11, in the morning, in broad daylight is not only brazen, it is a direct assault on the faith of the people who were walking by that day who wanted to have a moment of prayer,” said John Quaglione, a representative of the Diocese of Brooklyn in an interview with CBS New York.
In the video, a man can be seen climbing behind a fence at the front of the Coney Island church in broad daylight, tearing down the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and tossing it onto the sidewalk below. The statue’s face was smashed and her hands were broken off.
On September 16, a 30-year-old man toppled and destroyed a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus located on the high altar of the cathedral in El Paso, Texas.
“A suspect came into the sanctuary at St. Patrick Cathedral and destroyed the almost 90-year-old statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was located in the center behind the main altar of the church,” the diocese stated on Instagram. “The church was open and available for prayer.”
Two photos published by the diocese show the statue, lying flat on the floor, with Christ’s head smashed in, and only the neck and part of the beard still connected to the statue. One of his outstretched arms is broken off and can be seen several feet away from the statue on the floor. The base is detached from the statue, as well.
The 16 Congressmen said they were “not the only ones who have noticed this trend,” but also many media outlets.
“By some estimates, there have been 70 such incidents in North America this year with the vast majority occurring in just the past four months,” they wrote. “Since May of 2020, there have been 57 reported instances of anti-Catholic hate crimes in the United States alone. In comparison, the FBI reported just 53 instances of anti-Catholic hate crimes in all of 2018.”
For the legislators, this “suggests that anti-Catholic hate crimes are occurring at around a four times greater frequency than two years ago. As in any other instance of a rapid spike in hate crimes targeted at a specific group, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has an obligation to investigate the perpetrators of this violence and any organizational or ideological connections between them.”
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lifesitenews--2020-09-26--Twitter ignores violent threats ahead of ‘Burn Louisville’ riots

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LOUISVILLE , Kentucky , September 26 , 2020 ( ) – In an apparent conflict with Twitter ’ s terms of use , a spokesperson for the social media giant said that calls for violence in Louisville , Kentucky , do “ not violate Twitter Rules.
” Riots had broken out in the city when a grand jury decided on Wednesday not to pursue murder charges against three police officers involved in the shooting death of 26-year-old black woman Breonna @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to trend on Twitter , but the social media giant stated that such incendiary remarks do not violate their terms of use .
that as early as September 22 , a Twitter user calling himself Lee G News , posted a photo of two young people with their fists in the air and wearing masks reading “ Breonna Taylor.
” This was introduced with the caption “ Louisville , KY will burn tonight !
” The tweet was removed from Twitter but can be found archived A spokesperson for Twitter told Breitbart that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rules.
” However , the forbid threatening violence against groups of people , promoting terrorism , and “ wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm ” : You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people .
We also prohibit the glorification of violence .
Learn more about our violent threat and glorification of violence policies .
You may not threaten or promote terrorism or violent extremism .
Learn more .
You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone , or incite other people to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that someone experiences physical harm .
Learn more .
posted messages expressing hope that arsonists would set fire to the Kentucky city both before and after the grand jury charged none of the police officers implicated in the shooting Breonna Taylor with murder , and only one office , Brett Hankison , with “ wanton endangerment ” for firing into a neighboring apartment .
When the grand jury ’ s decision was announced , the city of Louisville and Taylor ’ s family had already agreed to “ a record-breaking $ 12 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ host of police reforms , ” according to .
“ With the exception of anything involving [ the late resident ] Mohammed Ali , burn Louisville to the ground , ” a Twitter user calling himself posted .
A user calling herself , “ I ’ m all for nonviolent protesting but burn Louisville to the ground .
maybe then they ’ ll feel the ounce of pain the black community feels everyday.
” “ Burn Louisville down along with that [ ... ] attorney general , ” wrote a woman calling herself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ General , Daniel Cameron , with a racial slight .
Some users protested the trend , pointing out that they themselves live in the city .
One suggested that those outraged by the decision sign a petition instead .
The death of Breonna Taylor in March as part of a drug raid has become a symbol of police brutality to Black Lives Matter activists .
, “ Taylor , a 26-year-old Black emergency medical worker , was shot five times by officers who entered her home using a no-knock warrant during a drug @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Daniel Cameron clarified Wednesday that the officers did knock and announce themselves before entering .
The use of no-knock warrants is now banned in the city .
No drugs were found during the search.
” In anticipation of public outrage when the Grand Jury announced the charges , the City of Louisville declared a state of emergency before the rioting commenced , cancelling police officers ’ leave and scheduling them for 12 hour shifts .
After the announcement was made at 1:15 PM EDT Wednesday , protests broke out across the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of people in that city began to march in protest .
Some protesters chanted , “ We didn ’ t get it : burn it down.
” Some demonstrators attempted to bully spectators into joining in the march .
The violence of the demonstrations was not limited to threats .
Two Louisville police officers were shot , traffic was impeded by barricades , multiple vehicles were vandalized , windows were broken , fires were set , and a total of 127 people were arrested .
A series of videos of the Louisville @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Daily Caller ’ s Shelby Talcott .
President Trump tweeted that he was praying for the wounded police officers .
“ Praying for the two police officers that were shot tonight in Louisville , Kentucky , ” he “ The Federal Government stands behind you and is ready to help .
Spoke to [ Kentucky governor ] Andy Beshear and we are prepared to work together , immediately upon request !
” were also disseminated on Twitter after Trump announced his intention to nominate a successor to the late pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reza Aslan , who worked with CNN and HBO , , “ If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f -- -ing thing down.
” He later , “ Been a few days since I tweeted that if GOP try to jam a SCOTUS thru B4 election we burn the f -- -ing thing down & since the death threats & Breitbart headlines about my tweet have now stopped let me just say that if GOP try to jam SCOTUS through we burn the f -- -ing thing down @ @

Riots broke out in Louisville, Kentucky, but Twitter refused to delete calls for violence.
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, September 26, 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In an apparent conflict with Twitter’s terms of use, a spokesperson for the social media giant said that calls for violence in Louisville, Kentucky, do “not violate Twitter Rules.” Riots had broken out in the city when a grand jury decided on Wednesday not to pursue murder charges against three police officers involved in the shooting death of 26-year-old black woman Breonna Taylor.
The instruction “ Burn Louisville” was apparently allowed to trend on Twitter, but the social media giant stated that such incendiary remarks do not violate their terms of use.
Breitbart reported that as early as September 22, a Twitter user calling himself Lee G News, posted a photo of two young people with their fists in the air and wearing masks reading “Breonna Taylor.” This was introduced with the caption “Louisville, KY will burn tonight!” The tweet was removed from Twitter but can be found archived here.
A spokesperson for Twitter told Breitbart that the tweet “does not violate Twitter Rules.” However, the Twitter Rules forbid threatening violence against groups of people, promoting terrorism, and “wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm”:
Violence: You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence. Learn more about our violent threat and glorification of violence policies. Terrorism/violent extremism: You may not threaten or promote terrorism or violent extremism. Learn more. […] Abuse/harassment: You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. This includes wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm. Learn more.
Dozens of other Twitter users posted messages expressing hope that arsonists would set fire to the Kentucky city both before and after the grand jury charged none of the police officers implicated in the shooting Breonna Taylor with murder, and only one office, Brett Hankison, with “wanton endangerment” for firing into a neighboring apartment.
When the grand jury’s decision was announced, the city of Louisville and Taylor’s family had already agreed to “a record-breaking $12 million settlement for her family that includes a host of police reforms,” according to Courier-Journal .
“With the exception of anything involving [the late resident] Mohammed Ali, burn Louisville to the ground,” a Twitter user calling himself Danny X posted.
A user calling herself Caley wrote , “I’m all for nonviolent protesting but burn Louisville to the ground. maybe then they’ll feel the ounce of pain the black community feels everyday.”
“Burn Louisville down along with that […] attorney general,” wrote a woman calling herself JaTeezy , referring to Kentucky’s Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, with a racial slight.
Some users protested the trend, pointing out that they themselves live in the city. One suggested that those outraged by the decision sign a petition instead.
The death of Breonna Taylor in March as part of a drug raid has become a symbol of police brutality to Black Lives Matter activists.
Fox News reported , “Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency medical worker, was shot five times by officers who entered her home using a no-knock warrant during a drug investigation March 13. State Attorney General Daniel Cameron clarified Wednesday that the officers did knock and announce themselves before entering. The use of no-knock warrants is now banned in the city. No drugs were found during the search.”
In anticipation of public outrage when the Grand Jury announced the charges, the City of Louisville declared a state of emergency before the rioting commenced, cancelling police officers’ leave and scheduling them for 12 hour shifts.
After the announcement was made at 1:15 PM EDT Wednesday, protests broke out across the United States. According to Louisville’s Courier-Journal , hundreds of people in that city began to march in protest. Some protesters chanted, “ We didn’t get it: burn it down.” Some demonstrators attempted to bully spectators into joining in the march.
The violence of the demonstrations was not limited to threats. Two Louisville police officers were shot, traffic was impeded by barricades, multiple vehicles were vandalized, windows were broken, fires were set, and a total of 127 people were arrested.
A series of videos of the Louisville protests were uploaded to Twitter by the Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott.
President Trump tweeted that he was praying for the wounded police officers.
“Praying for the two police officers that were shot tonight in Louisville, Kentucky,” he stated over Twitter.
“The Federal Government stands behind you and is ready to help. Spoke to [Kentucky governor] Andy Beshear and we are prepared to work together, immediately upon request!”
Subsequently the president added , “LAW & ORDER!”
Calls for violence were also disseminated on Twitter after Trump announced his intention to nominate a successor to the late pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Former television host Reza Aslan, who worked with CNN and HBO, tweeted , “If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f—ing thing down.”
He later doubled down , “Been a few days since I tweeted that if GOP try to jam a SCOTUS thru B4 election we burn the f—ing thing down & since the death threats & Breitbart headlines about my tweet have now stopped let me just say that if GOP try to jam SCOTUS through we burn the f—ing thing down.”
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lifesitenews--2020-09-26--Liberal magazine discovers federal intelligence officials tracing BLM, Antifa organizers

September 26 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — Is an unexpected October Surprise on the way ?
They think it 's a bad thing , but I give The Nation credit for reportorial digging .
The hard-left magazine has discovered that federal law enforcement agencies ( though not the FBI ) have been tracing whom the mobs in Portland have been communicating with .
The apparent lead role in utilizing hi tech and classified electronic means is being played by the Department of Homeland Security 's Office of Intelligence and Analysis ( I & A ) , while the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personnel .
This bypasses the FBI , whose director , Christopher Wray , is on the record in sworn testimony , dismissing any such superstructure : A current DHS official described a colleague with expertise in electronic surveillance who was being deployed to Portland .
But for what purpose ?
`` Extracting information from protester 's phones , '' the DHS official said .
While in Portland , an interagency task force involving DHS and the Justice Department used a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack — the details of which remain classified — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to two former intelligence officers familiar with the matter .
Cell phone cloning involves stealing a phone 's unique identifiers and copying them to another device in order to intercept the communications received by the original device .
The former intelligence officials described it as part of a `` Low Level Voice Intercept '' operation , declining to go into further detail — one of them citing the sensitive nature of the surveillance tool and the other an ongoing leak investigation within I & A .
`` You 're getting an inside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are , who they 're talking to — the hierarchy , '' the former intelligence officer said , explaining that many within the DHS believe that antifa is an organized group — as opposed to the largely spontaneous , decentralized ideological tendency that most experts , including Trump 's own FBI director , believe it is .
DHS intelligence has even found some limited evidence , which he considered thin , of foreign sponsorship .
Attorney General William Barr , however , recently claimed that antifa is receiving foreign sponsorship — a necessary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ organization , which President Trump vowed to do in July .
( The Nation recently reported on DHS intelligence 's attempts to tie antifa to Kurdish militant groups in Syria . )
`` Signals intelligence collection would not be useful for preventing opportunistic looting or violent confrontations .
It presumes the existence of coordinated , purposeful , and unlawful activity that is conducted through electronic means , '' said Steven Aftergood , who heads the Federation of American Scientists ' Project on Government Secrecy .
`` The general concern is that DHS treated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ individuals — as suspicious and targets of investigation , or worse . ''
( snip ) In addition to signals intelligence collection , the Portland operation involved clandestine aspects , according to the former intelligence officer .
This appears consistent with a tip received this summer .
Several members of the US Marshals Service ( USMS ) — part of the Justice Department — sent to Portland claimed to be affiliated with a private firm called `` Strategic Oil , '' according to travel records obtained by The Nation .
While they did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the travel records contain information indicating that they were marshals , including that they were given a special discount for federal government employees .
Clandestine methods tend to be used only for the most sensitive operations , more commonly overseas than domestically .
( The Justice Department did not respond to multiple requests for comment . )
News Thud , from which I learned of The Nation 's reporting , suspects that an October Surprise is on the way .
So the DHS and the FBI have been listening to Antifa and they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politics they have been talking to .
You can tell by reading the report from The Nation , the left is getting real nervous about this because it is the number one report on their website as of the writing of this post .
Last May , Posobiec ( of OAN ) warned that media ties to Antifa would be exposed : I have been saying for years that President Trump understands better than anyone else that in this age , politics is a reality TV show for most people and that a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Well , we are in Act Three , folks , when questions and conflicts raised in Acts One and Two are answered and dramatic conflicts start to be resolved .
To put it differently , Rush Limbaugh correctly predicted some weeks ago that the real issues that would affect the election were not yet on the table .
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the media obsession with her successor may be considered the first of such issues and the beginning of Act Three .
The activities of John Durham and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the act .
But if the activities of the DHS and U.S .
Marshals Service lead to indictments or at least the exposure of the ties behind the rioters , that could provide even more factual basis for voters to reconsider assumptions that the media have foisted on the public .
Published with permission from the American Thinker .

September 26, 2020 (American Thinker) — Is an unexpected October Surprise on the way?
They think it's a bad thing, but I give The Nation credit for reportorial digging. The hard-left magazine has discovered that federal law enforcement agencies (though not the FBI) have been tracing whom the mobs in Portland have been communicating with. The apparent lead role in utilizing hi tech and classified electronic means is being played by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), while the U.S. Marshals Service is dispatching street-level personnel. This bypasses the FBI, whose director, Christopher Wray, is on the record in sworn testimony, dismissing any such superstructure:
“It's not a group or an organization. It's a movement or an ideology,” he said, explaining that “folks who subscribe or identify” with antifa do not operate at a national level, but instead organize “regionally into small groups or nodes.”
The Nation reports:
A current DHS official described a colleague with expertise in electronic surveillance who was being deployed to Portland. But for what purpose? “Extracting information from protester's phones,” the DHS official said. While in Portland, an interagency task force involving DHS and the Justice Department used a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack — the details of which remain classified — to intercept protesters' phone communications, according to two former intelligence officers familiar with the matter. Cell phone cloning involves stealing a phone's unique identifiers and copying them to another device in order to intercept the communications received by the original device. The former intelligence officials described it as part of a “Low Level Voice Intercept” operation, declining to go into further detail — one of them citing the sensitive nature of the surveillance tool and the other an ongoing leak investigation within I&A. “You're getting an inside view into your targets, who they are, who they're talking to — the hierarchy,” the former intelligence officer said, explaining that many within the DHS believe that antifa is an organized group — as opposed to the largely spontaneous, decentralized ideological tendency that most experts, including Trump's own FBI director, believe it is. DHS intelligence has even found some limited evidence, which he considered thin, of foreign sponsorship. Attorney General William Barr, however, recently claimed that antifa is receiving foreign sponsorship — a necessary criterion to formally designating it a terror organization, which President Trump vowed to do in July. (The Nation recently reported on DHS intelligence's attempts to tie antifa to Kurdish militant groups in Syria.) “Signals intelligence collection would not be useful for preventing opportunistic looting or violent confrontations. It presumes the existence of coordinated, purposeful, and unlawful activity that is conducted through electronic means,” said Steven Aftergood, who heads the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. “The general concern is that DHS treated mass public protests — not just violent individuals — as suspicious and targets of investigation, or worse.” (snip) In addition to signals intelligence collection, the Portland operation involved clandestine aspects, according to the former intelligence officer. This appears consistent with a tip received this summer. Several members of the US Marshals Service (USMS) — part of the Justice Department — sent to Portland claimed to be affiliated with a private firm called “Strategic Oil,” according to travel records obtained by The Nation. While they did not identify themselves as law enforcement, the travel records contain information indicating that they were marshals, including that they were given a special discount for federal government employees. Clandestine methods tend to be used only for the most sensitive operations, more commonly overseas than domestically. (The Justice Department did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
News Thud, from which I learned of The Nation's reporting, suspects that an October Surprise is on the way.
So the DHS and the FBI have been listening to Antifa and they know who in the media and in politics they have been talking to. You can tell by reading the report from The Nation, the left is getting real nervous about this because it is the number one report on their website as of the writing of this post.
I warned them this would happen when Barr activated the JTTFs but oh well Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland https://t.co/muMOWqYf3q — Jack Posobiec ���� (@JackPosobiec) September 23, 2020
Last May, Posobiec (of OAN) warned that media ties to Antifa would be exposed:
Barr about to unmask all of Antifa's communications with their media and political allies Now you know why so many people are freaking out today — Jack Posobiec ���� (@JackPosobiec) May 31, 2020
I have been saying for years that President Trump understands better than anyone else that in this age, politics is a reality TV show for most people and that a three-act structure has the greatest impact. Well, we are in Act Three, folks, when questions and conflicts raised in Acts One and Two are answered and dramatic conflicts start to be resolved.
To put it differently, Rush Limbaugh correctly predicted some weeks ago that the real issues that would affect the election were not yet on the table. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the media obsession with her successor may be considered the first of such issues and the beginning of Act Three. The activities of John Durham and the other federal prosecutors may also figure in the act. But if the activities of the DHS and U.S. Marshals Service lead to indictments or at least the exposure of the ties behind the rioters, that could provide even more factual basis for voters to reconsider assumptions that the media have foisted on the public.
Hat tip: J.J. Sefton.
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
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lifesitenews--2020-09-26--Report: Other countries faring better against COVID due to hydroxychloroquine, not lockdowns

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September 26 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – While Democrats and the mainstream media routinely attribute the United States ’ relatively high number COVID-19 deaths to Americans ’ failure to uniformly wear masks or “ socially distance , ” a new report suggests the true culprit may be the country ’ s unwillingness to embrace the drug hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ ) .
The United States is estimated to have seen 7.1 million COVID-19 cases as of September 25 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million recoveries .
Officially it has the most cases in the world ( though that ranking is likely due in part to the authoritarian government of China ’ s refusal to share accurate numbers ) .
HCQ has long been approved for use in treating malaria , arthritis , and certain autoimmune conditions , but its potential applications to the coronavirus became a political lightning rod after President Donald Trump first called attention to early studies indicating its potential .
The FDA initially issued an Emergency Use Authorization ( EUA ) allowing it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stockpile ( SNS ) but revoked that authorization in June , claiming “ new information ” indicated the potential dangers outweighed any potential effectiveness .
However , a white paper published this month by the Economic Standard argues that the primary roadblocks to HCQ are political rather than scientific .
“ The U.S. is an international outlier on HCQ , ” the paper says .
“ Right now , doctors around the world are prescribing HCQ to treat COVID-19 outside of hospitals , as well as prophylactically to prevent infection among healthcare workers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that HCQ has met the appropriate burden of proof and urges members of the U.S. news media , public health community , and regulatory agencies to stop politicizing the use of this medicine .
Tens of thousands of lives still hang in the balance.
” The paper lists more than two dozen medical conditions for which HCQ is an established treatment , which it says “ reflect a general medical consensus , long predating the COVID-19 pandemic , that HCQ is a safe , well-tolerated drug.
” “ In the U.S. alone from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prescriptions for HCQ , ” the paper explains .
“ In over seven decades of use , there have been a handful of reports of fatal arrhythmias due to torsades de pointes from all drug causes , and zero reports of fatal arrhythmias with HCQ use .
Most cases of arrhythmia involved extraordinary circumstances , including overdoses and patients with end-stage liver failure .
Other side effects , such as retinopathy and kidney damage , result only from years of long-term use and have been described as ‘ rare.
’ ” HCQ was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early in the outbreak , and has been used in China , South Korea , France , Spain , Italy , Turkey , Malaysia , Bahrain , Poland , Russia , Iran , Egypt , Pakistan , India , and the Philippines , “ among many others , ” the report says .
Yet the United States remains an “ international outlier on HCQ , as one of just a handful of countries that have moved to limit – rather than expand – patient access to the drug.
” This , it continues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American news media focusing on “ low-quality or botched RTCs [ randomized controlled trials ] – misrepresenting these as the ‘ gold standard ’ – while dismissing observational studies as irrelevant due to supposed biases ...
This narrative was sustained and amplified by scientists , academics , and government agency staff , ” with possibly the most egregious example being a notorious study published in The Lancet that the esteemed medical journal was forced to retract after the data sources turned out to be fraudulent .
“ A Google News search for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ in reports published in April and May returned over 160 results , with most of these articles managing to work the adjective into headlines or opening sentences , ” the paper goes on .
“ None of these reports mentioned that observational trials had discovered useful drugs in the past .
Nor did they clarify that many observational studies in aggregate can yield more meaningful results than any one single study , RCTs included.
” Last month , three Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Food & Drug Administration ( FDA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an explanation as to why the agency revoked its approval of HCQ against the wishes of American doctors and the experiences of other countries .
LifeSiteNews ’ petition calling on the FDA to drop its hostility to hydroxychloroquine has so far collected more than 49,000 signatures .
Readers can click here to read , sign , and share the petition .

'The U.S. is an international outlier on HCQ. Right now, doctors around the world are prescribing HCQ to treat COVID-19 outside of hospitals, as well as prophylactically to prevent infection among healthcare workers and vulnerable populations.'
PETITION: Tell the FDA to reverse its opposition to Hydroxychloroquine and help save lives! Sign the petition here.
September 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – While Democrats and the mainstream media routinely attribute the United States’ relatively high number COVID-19 deaths to Americans’ failure to uniformly wear masks or “socially distance,” a new report suggests the true culprit may be the country’s unwillingness to embrace the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).
The United States is estimated to have seen 7.1 million COVID-19 cases as of September 25, with more than 200,000 deaths and 4.4 million recoveries. Officially it has the most cases in the world (though that ranking is likely due in part to the authoritarian government of China’s refusal to share accurate numbers).
HCQ has long been approved for use in treating malaria, arthritis, and certain autoimmune conditions, but its potential applications to the coronavirus became a political lightning rod after President Donald Trump first called attention to early studies indicating its potential. The FDA initially issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) allowing it to be distributed from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) but revoked that authorization in June, claiming “new information” indicated the potential dangers outweighed any potential effectiveness.
However, a white paper published this month by the Economic Standard argues that the primary roadblocks to HCQ are political rather than scientific.
“The U.S. is an international outlier on HCQ,” the paper says. “Right now, doctors around the world are prescribing HCQ to treat COVID-19 outside of hospitals, as well as prophylactically to prevent infection among healthcare workers and vulnerable populations. This paper argues that HCQ has met the appropriate burden of proof and urges members of the U.S. news media, public health community, and regulatory agencies to stop politicizing the use of this medicine. Tens of thousands of lives still hang in the balance.”
The paper lists more than two dozen medical conditions for which HCQ is an established treatment, which it says “reflect a general medical consensus, long predating the COVID-19 pandemic, that HCQ is a safe, well-tolerated drug.”
“In the U.S. alone from 2007-2017, patients received around 59 million prescriptions for HCQ,” the paper explains. “In over seven decades of use, there have been a handful of reports of fatal arrhythmias due to torsades de pointes from all drug causes, and zero reports of fatal arrhythmias with HCQ use. Most cases of arrhythmia involved extraordinary circumstances, including overdoses and patients with end-stage liver failure. Other side effects, such as retinopathy and kidney damage, result only from years of long-term use and have been described as ‘rare.’”
HCQ was identified as a potential COVID-19 treatment relatively early in the outbreak, and has been used in China, South Korea, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Malaysia, Bahrain, Poland, Russia, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines, “among many others,” the report says. Yet the United States remains an “international outlier on HCQ, as one of just a handful of countries that have moved to limit – rather than expand – patient access to the drug.”
This, it continues, was due in part to the American news media focusing on “low-quality or botched RTCs [randomized controlled trials] – misrepresenting these as the ‘gold standard’ – while dismissing observational studies as irrelevant due to supposed biases…This narrative was sustained and amplified by scientists, academics, and government agency staff,” with possibly the most egregious example being a notorious study published in The Lancet that the esteemed medical journal was forced to retract after the data sources turned out to be fraudulent.
“A Google News search for the words ‘unproven’ and ‘hydroxychloroquine’ in reports published in April and May returned over 160 results, with most of these articles managing to work the adjective into headlines or opening sentences,” the paper goes on. “None of these reports mentioned that observational trials had discovered useful drugs in the past. Nor did they clarify that many observational studies in aggregate can yield more meaningful results than any one single study, RCTs included.”
Last month, three Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Alex Azar this month demanding an explanation as to why the agency revoked its approval of HCQ against the wishes of American doctors and the experiences of other countries.
LifeSiteNews’ petition calling on the FDA to drop its hostility to hydroxychloroquine has so far collected more than 49,000 signatures. Readers can click here to read, sign, and share the petition.
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lifesitenews--2020-09-26--YouTube, Facebook, Twitter adopt uniform ‘hate speech’ standards for censoring content

PETITION : Break up Big Tech tyrants and defend free speech !
Sign the petition here .
September 26 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – With the next presidential election less than two months away , the world ’ s largest internet and information companies have reached an agreement to adopt a single set of criteria for identifying and removing supposedly “ hateful ” or “ bullying ” content from their platforms .
On Wednesday the World Federation of Advertisers ( WFA ) announced that the online giants “ have agreed to adopt a common set of definitions for hate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collaborate with a view to monitoring industry efforts to improve in this critical area.
” The agreement , which follows months of advertisers pressuring Facebook to take an even more aggressive role in suppressing “ hate , ” encompasses uniform definitions and reporting standards as well as commitments to independent oversight and advertising management .
“ The issue of harmful content online has become one of the challenges of our generation , ” WFA CEO Stephan Loerke said .
“ As funders of the online ecosystem , advertisers have a critical role to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are pleased to have reached agreement with the platforms on an action plan and timeline in order to make the necessary improvements .
A safer social media environment will provide huge benefits not just for advertisers and society but also to the platforms themselves.
” While the definitions themselves ( available via downloadable PDF ) address various straightforward types of material such as piracy , violence , or nudity , they also include subjective language prone to abuse .
The agreement ’ s definition of “ hate speech , ” for instance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or individuals ” on the basis of “ race , ethnicity , gender , sexual orientation , gender identity , age , ability , nationality , religion , caste , victims and survivors of violent acts and their kin , immigration status , or serious disease sufferers ” ( emphasis added ) , which could be interpreted to stifle mainstream positions on hot-button societal or policy issues ( as Twitter already does for “ misgendering ” ) .
Under “ Debated Sensitive Social Issue [ s ] , ” the agreement identifies “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ debated social issues and related acts that demean a particular group or incite greater conflict.
” Conservatives fear such language is a pretext to further censor mainstream right-of-center views , in light of a body of evidence accumulated in recent years regarding Big Tech ’ s anti-conservative bias .
From Facebook , two whistleblowers came forward recently to attest that the platform aggressively discriminates against conservatives on a global scale for the purpose of influencing election outcomes .
One provided footage of content moderators openly discussing how they would like to delete “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the timeline ” and “ delete all Republicans ... for terrorism ” if they so much as post a photo “ wearing a MAGA hat.
” Cognizant service delivery manager Demian Gordon can also be seen saying he would not hold staff accountable for taking down Trump posts on the grounds that they “ got ta get the Cheeto [ Trump ] out of the office.
” The other described witnessing moderators “ deleting on average 300 posts or actioning 300 posts a day ” in a way “ that just targeted conservatives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equating Trump supporters with violent hate groups , while expressly making an exception for overtly-hateful posts by the moderators ’ LGBT allies in the name of supporting so-called “ pride ” month .
Twitter set off a firestorm in May when it placed a “ fact-check ” on a Trump tweet pertaining to the fraud potential of mail-in voting , then censored another Trump tweet warning that “ when the looting starts , the shooting starts , ” pertaining to the Minneapolis riots , for supposedly “ glorifying violence.
” As for YouTube @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaked private conversations shows that Google is willing to enforce its far-left ideology through its ostensibly neutral services and platforms .
Psychologist and technology researcher Dr. Robert Epstein warns that Google could use its vast power over search results for news and video to shift as much as a tenth of the vote toward former vice president Joe Biden in the fall ’ s presidential election .

Is this a pretext to further censor mainstream right-of-center views, in light of a body of evidence accumulated in recent years regarding Big Tech’s anti-conservative bias?
PETITION: Break up Big Tech tyrants and defend free speech! Sign the petition here.
September 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – With the next presidential election less than two months away, the world’s largest internet and information companies have reached an agreement to adopt a single set of criteria for identifying and removing supposedly “hateful” or “bullying” content from their platforms.
On Wednesday the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) announced that the online giants “have agreed to adopt a common set of definitions for hate speech and other harmful content and to collaborate with a view to monitoring industry efforts to improve in this critical area.”
The agreement, which follows months of advertisers pressuring Facebook to take an even more aggressive role in suppressing “hate,” encompasses uniform definitions and reporting standards as well as commitments to independent oversight and advertising management.
“The issue of harmful content online has become one of the challenges of our generation,” WFA CEO Stephan Loerke said. “As funders of the online ecosystem, advertisers have a critical role to play in driving positive change and we are pleased to have reached agreement with the platforms on an action plan and timeline in order to make the necessary improvements. A safer social media environment will provide huge benefits not just for advertisers and society but also to the platforms themselves.”
While the definitions themselves (available via downloadable PDF) address various straightforward types of material such as piracy, violence, or nudity, they also include subjective language prone to abuse.
The agreement’s definition of “hate speech,” for instance, includes content that “vilifies…groups or individuals” on the basis of “race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ability, nationality, religion, caste, victims and survivors of violent acts and their kin, immigration status, or serious disease sufferers” (emphasis added), which could be interpreted to stifle mainstream positions on hot-button societal or policy issues (as Twitter already does for “misgendering”).
Under “Debated Sensitive Social Issue[s],” the agreement identifies “insensitive, irresponsible and harmful treatment of debated social issues and related acts that demean a particular group or incite greater conflict.”
Conservatives fear such language is a pretext to further censor mainstream right-of-center views, in light of a body of evidence accumulated in recent years regarding Big Tech’s anti-conservative bias.
From Facebook, two whistleblowers came forward recently to attest that the platform aggressively discriminates against conservatives on a global scale for the purpose of influencing election outcomes.
One provided footage of content moderators openly discussing how they would like to delete “every Donald Trump post I see on the timeline” and “delete all Republicans … for terrorism” if they so much as post a photo “wearing a MAGA hat.” Cognizant service delivery manager Demian Gordon can also be seen saying he would not hold staff accountable for taking down Trump posts on the grounds that they “gotta get the Cheeto [Trump] out of the office.”
The other described witnessing moderators “deleting on average 300 posts or actioning 300 posts a day” in a way “that just targeted conservatives or favored liberals,” with personnel equating Trump supporters with violent hate groups, while expressly making an exception for overtly-hateful posts by the moderators’ LGBT allies in the name of supporting so-called “pride” month.
Twitter set off a firestorm in May when it placed a “fact-check” on a Trump tweet pertaining to the fraud potential of mail-in voting, then censored another Trump tweet warning that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” pertaining to the Minneapolis riots, for supposedly “glorifying violence.”
As for YouTube and its parent company Google, numerous leaked private conversations shows that Google is willing to enforce its far-left ideology through its ostensibly neutral services and platforms. Psychologist and technology researcher Dr. Robert Epstein warns that Google could use its vast power over search results for news and video to shift as much as a tenth of the vote toward former vice president Joe Biden in the fall’s presidential election.
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lifesitenews--2020-09-26--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

September 26 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
Join us today !
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this rosary , you can access them via this PDF .
This document also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the daily rosary on LifeSite led by Fr .
Pillari .

(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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lifesitenews--2020-09-25--Cardinal analyzes why Netherlands lost Catholic faith in few short decades

September 25 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Why are the tiny Netherlands , whose missionaries represented over 12 percent of Roman Catholic priests and religious bringing the faith to foreign countries around 1960 , today one of the most secularized countries in the world ?
Of all the questions addressed by Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk in his recent book of dialogues with Italian journalist Andrea Galli , this was the one that struck commentators most .
The Cardinal borrowed his answer from a book written in 1947 after a meeting of nine laymen and priests in his own diocese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hit Dutch Catholicism .
In the 1947 book Ferment in the care of souls , these concerned Catholics , he said , “ saw that the bond between Catholics and the Church was no longer based on the contents of the faith.
” “ Membership in the Church was essentially a community factor : one went to Catholic primary school , then to Catholic secondary school , and was a member of Catholic associations , especially in the sports and scouting fields .
One was Catholic for reasons of social belonging , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not on the basis of a lived faith , ” Cardinal Eijk remarks .
It was a faith that “ could not withstand such radical culture changes as those of the 1960 ’ s. ” That time of prosperity and growing individualism gradually led to the “ hyper-individualism ” that Cardinal Eijk has more than once pointed out as being at the root of modern-day Holland ’ s rejection of God – as in this interview with LifeSite in May 2019 , many of whose themes are present in his new book , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives in Holland ” ) .
Revealingly , the subtitle of his book is a quote from Saint Luke : “ When the Son of man comes , will He find faith on earth ?
” Prosperity and individualism , planted in a society whose faith was not profound , is certainly part of the story .
It was in the Netherlands that the “ New Catechism ” first took hold , and that a mass exodus of priests took place after 1965 – many left the priesthood to get married , while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ embraced Modernism .
Cardinal Eijk describes the process with striking examples : while he himself received “ an explicit Catechism about Heaven , Hell and Purgatory ” while preparing First Communion at the end of the 1950s , he witnessed how in his last years in High School , in 1967 and 1968 , “ religion class became different , losing all religious content ” – but the classes were given by priests .
“ Everything was discussed : politics , abortion , free love , and people smoked during classes , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ priesthood but continued to teach , and the students would simply be asked no longer to address them as “ Father ” but “ Sir ” when they came back from holidays .
At the beginning of his High School years all the students would go to church on Sundays : “ At the end there were two of us.
” Later on in the book , Cardinal Eijk notes that 385,000 Catholics – a fraction of the 5,000,000 Catholics in the Netherlands at the time – went to church every week in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 186,000 , that is 52 percent less ” – for 3,882,000 Catholics in total .
“ Less than 50 percent of Catholics have their children baptized.
” No wonder that when Cardinal Eijk took possession of his diocese of Utrecht in 2007 , his first concerns were with financial matters : the Catholic Church relies only on the donations of the faithful and these are dwindling .
Closing churches and parishes that are too expensive to keep up , asking salaried workers to leave , these were the issues that were at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ avoid bankruptcy .
Many of the Catholics who do practice the faith regularly in Utrecht today are immigrants both from inside and outside of Europe .
Cardinal Eijk ’ s story , as his book clearly shows , is that of a seemingly failing church where a mere “ remnant ” of convinced believers is left of a once flourishing community .
In his own diocese , he was compelled to close six out of seven churches .
Sandro Magister quoted Cardinal Eijk ’ s remarks above on the meeting that led to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of souls .
But he stops before this remarkable phrase : “ The group that met in Utrecht in 1947 had very clearly foreseen the collapse that would take place in the middle of the 1960s .
One of them wrote about the Catholics of the time : ‘ There are powerful armies that are preparing the great apostasy of the near future , it is a slow and unobserved process.
’ ” One would have liked the journalist of Avvenire , Andrea Galli , who penned the book with Cardinal Eijk , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It goes far beyond the complaint and the claim that Catholicism was too “ social ” and not centered enough on personal faith in Jesus-Christ .
It suggests that the Modernism and the “ progressivism ” that the Cardinal identifies in the book — in which he affirms that “ the true crisis of the Church in the western world is a crisis of the faith ” — were in fact imposed by distinct driving forces on the Catholic population .
As a Dutch national born and raised in foreign lands to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Catholics , I often heard my father describe that collective apostasy in our home country .
I was born in the beginning of the 60s , when both my parents were already over 40 , as the little one of a family of five children .
I would return to the Netherlands with them roughly every two years , and each time it would be clear that the situation had worsened : ordinary , faithful Catholics , often with large families , were going to churches where their priests preached new , un-Catholic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that could but diminish the belief in the True Presence of Christ in the consecrated Host .
Humanae vitae was institutionally ridiculed by the hierarchy .
I remember a girl cousin , ten years older than myself , coming home to my aunt ’ s house from a parish youth meeting saying that the priest said that it was all right to sleep around .
At eight , I had no idea what she meant , but I realized it was something that was not good , and her words stuck with me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I also remember my father ’ s anger , and his frequent pleading with priests and family to open their eyes to the revolution to which they were blindly submitting .
If truth be told , it seems to me with hindsight that , while perhaps being mere “ social ” Catholics who had but a mechanical knowledge of the faith , many of the Dutch people we knew at the time were so used to following and believing the clergy that they swallowed all the innovations presented by priests who had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ easily that the innovations were less demanding on the moral plane .
Perhaps the new ideas fell on the soil of badly instructed Catholics , of a new generation that had already not been properly catechized – and whose parents were unable to keep them from joining the collective march towards apostasy .
Most of my ( innumerable ) cousins were ten to fifteen years older than myself : it was this set of young adults who were swallowing the poison of heterodoxy , but the poison was distilled by unfaithful priests .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the revolution brought about in the Church at the time of , or because of Vatican II ; nor of the liturgical revolution that ransacked our common treasure of worship that was still filling churches when my own parents were young before World War Two , and that sent thousands of Dutch ( and Flemish ) priests and religious to the ends of the earth as missionaries until the 60s .
These remarks by Cardinal Eijk deserve a mention , however : “ One of the intentions of the Vatican Council II @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to society , which it did , but society for its part has not opened up to the Church .
On the contrary , it has expelled it from public life .
The Church then fell into one of the deepest faith crises in its history and today is not in the best position to transmit the faith to society .
Many lay people and pastors are confused about the contents of the faith .
Only after putting its own house in order will the Church once again be truly capable of evangelizing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to think that such a flourishing Christendom with its generous vocations was a special target for Modernism , a hunting ground for the Devil who wanted to strike hard where he could cause most damage ?
Wim Eijk , born to a Catholic mother and a Baptist father in 1953 , appears not to have been hit by this crisis of the faith .
His touching story of his youth and his fight to defend his faith and even more his priestly vocation within his own family gives rise to beautiful passages in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ embarked in medical studies before he finally entered the seminary – the “ classical ” seminary of Rolduc in the Catholic southern province of Limburg – Eijk was ordained a priest in 1983 , after the worst of the Modernist and liturgical revolution had been fought .
He shows how he is a member of a new , more traditional generation of priests , and how he was lucky to have one of the rare traditional parish priests in his hometown when he was young .
It is his serene and steadfast faith @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clearly at the core of his priestly life , that stands out most in the pages of Dio vive in Olanda .
Cardinal Eijk describes with passion his love of the Church ’ s daily prayer of the Psalms , that give words to all man ’ s joys , sorrows and interrogations in his relation to God , and that God the Son Himself , Jesus-Christ , prayed when walking on the Holy Land .
Another striking aspect of his book is his knowledge of bioethics and the culture of death .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ promise of a good university career before he entered the seminary , and already he was confronted with euthanasia and abortion requests that he consistently rejected .
He later specialized in bioethics and has fought to defend the Church ’ s stance on abortion and euthanasia , founded on the commandment : “ Thou shalt not kill.
” He also tells how he upheld the Church ’ s teachings against contraception and artificial procreation , even when married couples only use their own reproductive cells .
To Cardinal Eijk , it is clear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the realm of medical professions – face a kind of “ persecution ” when countering euthanasia and abortion , having to be careful “ not to lose their jobs , ” and he also laments that both these practices have become very widely accepted by doctors of every persuasion .
Cardinal Eijk has closely followed the euthanasia debate that in the Netherlands , dates back to the end of the 1960s , and he is very aware of the “ slippery slope ” that was engaged upon .
But he also shows how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certain traditionally-minded Protestants can put a brake on this regressive evolution .
“ The Netherlands now has a government consisting of a right-wing liberal party , a left-wing liberal party — advocate of the 2002 euthanasia law and the legalization of so-called same-sex marriage in 2001 — and also the CDA and the CU .
These last two Christian parties stood in the way of the previous government ’ s plan to pass a law on so-called `` complete life , '' to allow assisted suicide for people who say they are suffering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ account of non-medical causes like loneliness , bereavement , advanced age .
[ … ] Although the liberals in government said they were in favor of approving this legislative proposal , the two Christian parties were able to block it , ” Cardinal Eijk wrote in a passage quoted by Sandro Magister .
He went further , explaining the profound unacceptability of euthanasia : “ Putting an end to life by our own initiative means refusing this most precious gift and is therefore a sign of ingratitude .
Certainly we can and must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but in a very different manner , by imitating Jesus who accepted suffering and death on the Cross .
We can give our life back to God by uniting ourselves to the sacrifice of Jesus.
” This is “ realized most highly in the celebration of the Eucharist , with the sacrifice of the Cross that renews itself in an unbloody but real way , ” he recalled , using the traditional language of the Church regarding the Holy Mass .
Interestingly , when speaking of the Neogothic church of Saint Willibrord that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Fraternity of Saint Pius Xth , Cardinal Eijk said he had “ good relations ” with its clergy .
“ We should not have too high expectations regarding the timing , but I think that at a certain point full and visible union with the Fraternity of Saint Pius Xth will be arrived at , ” he said .
In the same way that he pleads for courageous witness to the truth , even to difficult truths – something “ even some bishops and some priests back away from ” – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which he himself embraced primarily as a “ sign of the Kingdom of Heaven ” where there will be no marriage .
As a conclusion to these dialogues , Galli asked Cardinal Eijk whether he thought there is not enough mention of eternal life today .
The Cardinal had already said , regarding the COVID-19 pandemic : “ At the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis I wrote in a message to the community that we were obliged to face an illness for which we had no therapy and no vaccine : the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that our life is in the hands of God , of Divine Providence .
Let us hope that many will have been able to think about the main questions of life and that they have started to pray again.
” Answering the question about the “ last things , ” Cardinal Eijk was even more explicit .
Recognizing that the theme tends to cause “ a certain embarrassment , ” he added : “ In our sermons , in our catechesis , we must talk about Paradise , about our destiny of glory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those who are saved .
Seeing God face to face .
On the other hand , there is Purgatory , and also Hell where one is separated from God – a source of infinite suffering .
“ Our duty is to do everything so that people may not end up in Hell , ” Cardinal Eijk said .
His book is not one of despair despite the many difficulties facing the Church and in particular the Church in the Netherlands where so many have abandoned the faith .
Eijk makes clear that in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Church accept all her traditional teachings and have a real prayer life : “ Many speak of the danger of a schism , but I think not .
I rather think that what has already happened with us in Holland will happen in many parts of the world .
There has been a silent healing through the turnover of generations .
[ … ] Because who will ultimately remain in the Church ?
The priests and laity of '68 , of those years of disarray , with ultra-progressive ideas , are almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those who believe , who pray , who have a personal relationship with Christ.
” But what will be the fate of those who have fallen away ?

Revealingly, the subtitle of his book is a quote from Saint Luke: 'When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on earth?'
September 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Why are the tiny Netherlands, whose missionaries represented over 12 percent of Roman Catholic priests and religious bringing the faith to foreign countries around 1960, today one of the most secularized countries in the world? Of all the questions addressed by Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk in his recent book of dialogues with Italian journalist Andrea Galli, this was the one that struck commentators most.
The Cardinal borrowed his answer from a book written in 1947 after a meeting of nine laymen and priests in his own diocese of Utrecht years before a major crisis hit Dutch Catholicism. In the 1947 book Ferment in the care of souls, these concerned Catholics, he said, “saw that the bond between Catholics and the Church was no longer based on the contents of the faith.”
“Membership in the Church was essentially a community factor: one went to Catholic primary school, then to Catholic secondary school, and was a member of Catholic associations, especially in the sports and scouting fields. One was Catholic for reasons of social belonging, because one grew up in Catholic structures, not on the basis of a lived faith,” Cardinal Eijk remarks. It was a faith that “could not withstand such radical culture changes as those of the 1960’s.”
That time of prosperity and growing individualism gradually led to the “hyper-individualism” that Cardinal Eijk has more than once pointed out as being at the root of modern-day Holland’s rejection of God – as in this interview with LifeSite in May 2019, many of whose themes are present in his new book, Dio viva in Olanda (“God lives in Holland”). Revealingly, the subtitle of his book is a quote from Saint Luke: “When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on earth?”
Prosperity and individualism, planted in a society whose faith was not profound, is certainly part of the story. It was in the Netherlands that the “New Catechism” first took hold, and that a mass exodus of priests took place after 1965 – many left the priesthood to get married, while a large proportion of the remaining priests embraced Modernism. Cardinal Eijk describes the process with striking examples: while he himself received “an explicit Catechism about Heaven, Hell and Purgatory” while preparing First Communion at the end of the 1950s, he witnessed how in his last years in High School, in 1967 and 1968, “religion class became different, losing all religious content” – but the classes were given by priests.
“Everything was discussed: politics, abortion, free love, and people smoked during classes,” Cardinal Eijk recalled. Professors left the priesthood but continued to teach, and the students would simply be asked no longer to address them as “Father” but “Sir” when they came back from holidays. At the beginning of his High School years all the students would go to church on Sundays: “At the end there were two of us.”
Later on in the book, Cardinal Eijk notes that 385,000 Catholics – a fraction of the 5,000,000 Catholics in the Netherlands at the time – went to church every week in 2003. “In 2015 there were 186,000, that is 52 percent less” – for 3,882,000 Catholics in total. “Less than 50 percent of Catholics have their children baptized.”
No wonder that when Cardinal Eijk took possession of his diocese of Utrecht in 2007, his first concerns were with financial matters: the Catholic Church relies only on the donations of the faithful and these are dwindling. Closing churches and parishes that are too expensive to keep up, asking salaried workers to leave, these were the issues that were at the top of his agenda in order to avoid bankruptcy. Many of the Catholics who do practice the faith regularly in Utrecht today are immigrants both from inside and outside of Europe. Cardinal Eijk’s story, as his book clearly shows, is that of a seemingly failing church where a mere “remnant” of convinced believers is left of a once flourishing community. In his own diocese, he was compelled to close six out of seven churches.
Sandro Magister quoted Cardinal Eijk’s remarks above on the meeting that led to the publication of Ferment in the care of souls. But he stops before this remarkable phrase:
“The group that met in Utrecht in 1947 had very clearly foreseen the collapse that would take place in the middle of the 1960s. One of them wrote about the Catholics of the time: ‘There are powerful armies that are preparing the great apostasy of the near future, it is a slow and unobserved process.’”
One would have liked the journalist of Avvenire, Andrea Galli, who penned the book with Cardinal Eijk, to ask him to expand on this. It goes far beyond the complaint and the claim that Catholicism was too “social” and not centered enough on personal faith in Jesus-Christ. It suggests that the Modernism and the “progressivism” that the Cardinal identifies in the book — in which he affirms that “the true crisis of the Church in the western world is a crisis of the faith” — were in fact imposed by distinct driving forces on the Catholic population.
As a Dutch national born and raised in foreign lands to a couple of convinced, profoundly faithful Catholics, I often heard my father describe that collective apostasy in our home country. I was born in the beginning of the 60s, when both my parents were already over 40, as the little one of a family of five children. I would return to the Netherlands with them roughly every two years, and each time it would be clear that the situation had worsened: ordinary, faithful Catholics, often with large families, were going to churches where their priests preached new, un-Catholic ideas, and introduced novel liturgical practices that could but diminish the belief in the True Presence of Christ in the consecrated Host. Humanae vitae was institutionally ridiculed by the hierarchy. I remember a girl cousin, ten years older than myself, coming home to my aunt’s house from a parish youth meeting saying that the priest said that it was all right to sleep around. At eight, I had no idea what she meant, but I realized it was something that was not good, and her words stuck with me until I was able to understand them. I also remember my father’s anger, and his frequent pleading with priests and family to open their eyes to the revolution to which they were blindly submitting.
If truth be told, it seems to me with hindsight that, while perhaps being mere “social” Catholics who had but a mechanical knowledge of the faith, many of the Dutch people we knew at the time were so used to following and believing the clergy that they swallowed all the innovations presented by priests who had been revolutionized first – all the more easily that the innovations were less demanding on the moral plane. Perhaps the new ideas fell on the soil of badly instructed Catholics, of a new generation that had already not been properly catechized – and whose parents were unable to keep them from joining the collective march towards apostasy. Most of my (innumerable) cousins were ten to fifteen years older than myself: it was this set of young adults who were swallowing the poison of heterodoxy, but the poison was distilled by unfaithful priests.
Cardinal Eijk speaks little in his book of the revolution brought about in the Church at the time of, or because of Vatican II; nor of the liturgical revolution that ransacked our common treasure of worship that was still filling churches when my own parents were young before World War Two, and that sent thousands of Dutch (and Flemish) priests and religious to the ends of the earth as missionaries until the 60s.
These remarks by Cardinal Eijk deserve a mention, however: “One of the intentions of the Vatican Council II was for the Church to open up to society, which it did, but society for its part has not opened up to the Church. On the contrary, it has expelled it from public life. The Church then fell into one of the deepest faith crises in its history and today is not in the best position to transmit the faith to society. Many lay people and pastors are confused about the contents of the faith. Only after putting its own house in order will the Church once again be truly capable of evangelizing the world.”
But is it absurd to think that such a flourishing Christendom with its generous vocations was a special target for Modernism, a hunting ground for the Devil who wanted to strike hard where he could cause most damage?
Wim Eijk, born to a Catholic mother and a Baptist father in 1953, appears not to have been hit by this crisis of the faith. His touching story of his youth and his fight to defend his faith and even more his priestly vocation within his own family gives rise to beautiful passages in his talks with Galli. Having first embarked in medical studies before he finally entered the seminary – the “classical” seminary of Rolduc in the Catholic southern province of Limburg – Eijk was ordained a priest in 1983, after the worst of the Modernist and liturgical revolution had been fought. He shows how he is a member of a new, more traditional generation of priests, and how he was lucky to have one of the rare traditional parish priests in his hometown when he was young.
It is his serene and steadfast faith, especially in the Eucharist that is clearly at the core of his priestly life, that stands out most in the pages of Dio vive in Olanda. Cardinal Eijk describes with passion his love of the Church’s daily prayer of the Psalms, that give words to all man’s joys, sorrows and interrogations in his relation to God, and that God the Son Himself, Jesus-Christ, prayed when walking on the Holy Land.
Another striking aspect of his book is his knowledge of bioethics and the culture of death. Cardinal Eijk was a doctor with the promise of a good university career before he entered the seminary, and already he was confronted with euthanasia and abortion requests that he consistently rejected. He later specialized in bioethics and has fought to defend the Church’s stance on abortion and euthanasia, founded on the commandment: “Thou shalt not kill.” He also tells how he upheld the Church’s teachings against contraception and artificial procreation, even when married couples only use their own reproductive cells. To Cardinal Eijk, it is clear that today, Catholics – especially in the realm of medical professions – face a kind of “persecution” when countering euthanasia and abortion, having to be careful “not to lose their jobs,” and he also laments that both these practices have become very widely accepted by doctors of every persuasion.
Cardinal Eijk has closely followed the euthanasia debate that in the Netherlands, dates back to the end of the 1960s, and he is very aware of the “slippery slope” that was engaged upon. But he also shows how in politics, collaboration of Catholics with certain traditionally-minded Protestants can put a brake on this regressive evolution.
“The Netherlands now has a government consisting of a right-wing liberal party, a left-wing liberal party — advocate of the 2002 euthanasia law and the legalization of so-called same-sex marriage in 2001 — and also the CDA and the CU. These last two Christian parties stood in the way of the previous government’s plan to pass a law on so-called “complete life,” to allow assisted suicide for people who say they are suffering unbearably and without hope of improvement on account of non-medical causes like loneliness, bereavement, advanced age. […] Although the liberals in government said they were in favor of approving this legislative proposal, the two Christian parties were able to block it,” Cardinal Eijk wrote in a passage quoted by Sandro Magister.
He went further, explaining the profound unacceptability of euthanasia: “Putting an end to life by our own initiative means refusing this most precious gift and is therefore a sign of ingratitude. Certainly we can and must give our life back to God, but in a very different manner, by imitating Jesus who accepted suffering and death on the Cross. We can give our life back to God by uniting ourselves to the sacrifice of Jesus.” This is “realized most highly in the celebration of the Eucharist, with the sacrifice of the Cross that renews itself in an unbloody but real way,” he recalled, using the traditional language of the Church regarding the Holy Mass.
Interestingly, when speaking of the Neogothic church of Saint Willibrord that was closed in Utrecht and later bought by the Fraternity of Saint Pius Xth, Cardinal Eijk said he had “good relations” with its clergy. “We should not have too high expectations regarding the timing, but I think that at a certain point full and visible union with the Fraternity of Saint Pius Xth will be arrived at,” he said.
In the same way that he pleads for courageous witness to the truth, even to difficult truths – something “even some bishops and some priests back away from” – Cardinal Eijk steadfastly speaks for priestly celibacy, which he himself embraced primarily as a “sign of the Kingdom of Heaven” where there will be no marriage.
As a conclusion to these dialogues, Galli asked Cardinal Eijk whether he thought there is not enough mention of eternal life today.
The Cardinal had already said, regarding the COVID-19 pandemic:
“At the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis I wrote in a message to the community that we were obliged to face an illness for which we had no therapy and no vaccine: the opportunity to realize once again the fact that our life is in the hands of God, of Divine Providence. Let us hope that many will have been able to think about the main questions of life and that they have started to pray again.”
Answering the question about the “last things,” Cardinal Eijk was even more explicit. Recognizing that the theme tends to cause “a certain embarrassment,” he added:
“In our sermons, in our catechesis, we must talk about Paradise, about our destiny of glory, of the beatific vision that awaits those who are saved. Seeing God face to face. On the other hand, there is Purgatory, and also Hell where one is separated from God – a source of infinite suffering.
“Our duty is to do everything so that people may not end up in Hell,” Cardinal Eijk said.
His book is not one of despair despite the many difficulties facing the Church and in particular the Church in the Netherlands where so many have abandoned the faith. Eijk makes clear that in the younger generation, those who come to Church accept all her traditional teachings and have a real prayer life: “Many speak of the danger of a schism, but I think not. I rather think that what has already happened with us in Holland will happen in many parts of the world. There has been a silent healing through the turnover of generations. […] Because who will ultimately remain in the Church? The priests and laity of '68, of those years of disarray, with ultra-progressive ideas, are almost gone. In Holland there are still those who believe, who pray, who have a personal relationship with Christ.”
But what will be the fate of those who have fallen away?
Follow Jeanne Jeanne Smits has worked as a journalist in France since 1987 after obtaining a Master of Arts in Law. She formerly directed the French daily Présent and was editor-in-chief of an all-internet French-speaking news site called reinformation.tv. She writes regularly for a number of Catholic journals (Monde & vie, L’Homme nouveau, Reconquête…) and runs a personal pro-life blog. In addition, she is often invited to radio and TV shows on alternative media. She is vice-president of the Christian and French defense association “AGRIF.” She is the French translator of The Dictator Pope by Henry Sire and Christus Vincit by Bishop Schneider, and recently contributed to the Bref examen critique de la communion dans la main about Communion in the hand. She is married and has three children, and lives near Paris.
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lifesitenews--2020-09-27--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

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September 27 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
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lifesitenews--2020-09-28--Bishop Schneider: Coronavirus response ‘has signs of a world government’

September 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In a new interview , Bishop Athanasius Schneider discusses the response to the coronavirus and sees in the global response to it “ signs of a world government.
” He also points to the plans of Freemasonic groups which work for “ equality , liberty , and fraternity , ” adding that with the wearing of the face masks , “ we now all look alike in the whole world.
” Speaking on September 20 with Gloria.tv ’ s Eva Doppelbauer , Bishop Schneider covered several important topics , among them the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under Pope John Paul II , Schneider 's own experiences in the Soviet Union in comparison with today , and the current Protestantization and adaptation of the Catholic faith to the world .
Asked about his warnings against a world dictatorship in light of the measures against the coronavirus , and whether there are proofs for such , Bishop Schneider explained that “ there are no concrete proofs for it , because , if there is developing a world dictatorship , they will be clever enough that they wo n't provide any proofs.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ dictatorship must be “ geniuses , ” who “ are hiding as much as they can their plans.
” Otherwise , the Kazakh bishop of German descent continued , “ one would expose them ahead of time.
” However , the prelate went on to say , there do exist “ firm hints that it goes into the direction of a world government.
” For example , the words of a prominent personality who said five years ago that an epidemic would be needed in order to establish a new world government .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ said by “ some influential people , ” Schneider added .
As another hint , one could look at how “ the whole world now is being treated and reprimanded , in a unified manner , like little children – up to the smallest details on how to dress , that is , with the face mask , how one may move about , how much distance to keep , on the entire globe , and in a unified manner !
” “ In front of our very own eyes , ” Bishop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a scenario which has clear traits of a world government.
” And “ these are clear hints that one can not deny , ” he concluded .
Otherwise , “ we would just bury our heads in the sand.
” Here , Bishop Schneider recalled that Freemasonry in general has always worked so that “ the entire mankind becomes unified , with the help of the three slogans – fraternité , liberté , égalité , that is : fraternity , liberty , and equality.
” And this is to be “ global , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When further looking at the goal of all men being equal , the Kazakh prelate said : “ Now at least externally , all men look alike , with the face mask , in the whole world.
” “ This at least , ” he continued , “ is an external sign.
” Further expounding on the Freemasonic concepts , Schneider explains that “ liberty ” means for them “ freedom from God and his Commandments , that we are completely free and can rule over ourselves.
” That is exactly what is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bishop , who pointed to the “ complete abandonment of the natural moral law ” and finally also “ of God 's Commandments.
” “ Fraternity ” means for the Freemasons that we are “ all brothers , ” and most importantly , “ the equality of all religions.
” Here , Bishop Schneider sees that Freemasonry tries to reduce mankind to a “ mere natural level , ” “ that we are brothers only according to the flesh ” and “ according to the blood , ” and not anymore , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Christ , children in God.
” Thus , Bishop Schneider concluded , we “ are coming into a situation where we , as Christians , will be a minority and where we have also to pass on to others our conviction , to proclaim it , to confess it.
” Bishop Schneider is an expert in Freemasonry ; not long ago , LifeSite published a 2017 speech he gave on the 300th anniversary of the founding of Freemasonry .
In this speech , the prelate explained how Freemasons had leading roles in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the promotion of same-sex “ marriage , ” abortion , and euthanasia , for example in France , thus promoting the de-Christianization of the West .
He said : In light of this specific evidence of the Freemasonic influence upon modern society , it will be important for us also to listen to Bishop Schneider 's warnings about a developing world government that is being established with the help of the coronavirus crisis .

‘The whole world now is being treated and reprimanded, in a unified manner, like little children – up to the smallest details on how to dress, that is, with the face mask, how one may move about, how much distance to keep, on the entire globe, and in a unified manner!'
September 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In a new interview, Bishop Athanasius Schneider discusses the response to the coronavirus and sees in the global response to it “signs of a world government.” He also points to the plans of Freemasonic groups which work for “equality, liberty, and fraternity,” adding that with the wearing of the face masks, “we now all look alike in the whole world.”
Speaking on September 20 with Gloria.tv’s Eva Doppelbauer, Bishop Schneider covered several important topics, among them the consequences of the interreligious meetings in Assisi under Pope John Paul II, Schneider’s own experiences in the Soviet Union in comparison with today, and the current Protestantization and adaptation of the Catholic faith to the world.
Asked about his warnings against a world dictatorship in light of the measures against the coronavirus, and whether there are proofs for such, Bishop Schneider explained that “there are no concrete proofs for it, because, if there is developing a world dictatorship, they will be clever enough that they won’t provide any proofs.” People who are planning a world dictatorship must be “geniuses,” who “are hiding as much as they can their plans.” Otherwise, the Kazakh bishop of German descent continued, “one would expose them ahead of time.”
However, the prelate went on to say, there do exist “firm hints that it goes into the direction of a world government.” For example, the words of a prominent personality who said five years ago that an epidemic would be needed in order to establish a new world government. This is significant, since this was said by “some influential people,” Schneider added.
As another hint, one could look at how “the whole world now is being treated and reprimanded, in a unified manner, like little children – up to the smallest details on how to dress, that is, with the face mask, how one may move about, how much distance to keep, on the entire globe, and in a unified manner!”
“In front of our very own eyes,” Bishop Schneider stated, “there is developing a scenario which has clear traits of a world government.” And “these are clear hints that one cannot deny,” he concluded. Otherwise, “we would just bury our heads in the sand.”
Here, Bishop Schneider recalled that Freemasonry in general has always worked so that “the entire mankind becomes unified, with the help of the three slogans – fraternité, liberté, égalité, that is: fraternity, liberty, and equality.” And this is to be “global,” not only limited to France. When further looking at the goal of all men being equal, the Kazakh prelate said: “Now at least externally, all men look alike, with the face mask, in the whole world.”
“This at least,” he continued, “is an external sign.”
Further expounding on the Freemasonic concepts, Schneider explains that “liberty” means for them “freedom from God and his Commandments, that we are completely free and can rule over ourselves.” That is exactly what is taking place today, according to the bishop, who pointed to the “complete abandonment of the natural moral law” and finally also “of God’s Commandments.”
“Fraternity” means for the Freemasons that we are “all brothers,” and most importantly, “the equality of all religions.”
Here, Bishop Schneider sees that Freemasonry tries to reduce mankind to a “mere natural level,” “that we are brothers only according to the flesh” and “according to the blood,” and not anymore, “what Christianity had brought us, brothers in Christ, children in God.”
Thus, Bishop Schneider concluded, we “are coming into a situation where we, as Christians, will be a minority and where we have also to pass on to others our conviction, to proclaim it, to confess it.”
Bishop Schneider is an expert in Freemasonry; not long ago, LifeSite published a 2017 speech he gave on the 300th anniversary of the founding of Freemasonry. In this speech, the prelate explained how Freemasons had leading roles in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and the promotion of same-sex “marriage,” abortion, and euthanasia, for example in France, thus promoting the de-Christianization of the West. He said:
Freemasonry supported also the so-called “Sexual Revolution” of 1968. The two Grand Masters of the two largest Masonic organizations in France, Frédéric Zeller and Pierre Simon, were actively engaged with some of their members in the Paris student revolts of May 1968. The said Grand Master Pierre Simon became then assessor of the minister Simone Veil, who legalized abortion in France. In 2012 the Parish Newspaper Le Figaro published a comprehensive dossier about Freemasonry, and Le Figaro let top members of Freemasonry speak in its newspaper forum. One of these Masonic officials openly stated that the laws legalizing abortion, the so-called “same-sex marriage” or “marriage for all,” and euthanasia were prepared in the idealistic Masonic “laboratories” and then, with the help of lobbying and through their members in parliament and in the government, pushed through the legislation.
In light of this specific evidence of the Freemasonic influence upon modern society, it will be important for us also to listen to Bishop Schneider’s warnings about a developing world government that is being established with the help of the coronavirus crisis.
Follow Maike Dr. Maike Hickson was born and raised in Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Hannover, Germany, after having written in Switzerland her doctoral dissertation on the history of Swiss intellectuals before and during World War II. She now lives in the U.S. and is married to Dr. Robert Hickson, and they have been blessed with two beautiful children. She is a happy housewife who likes to write articles when time permits. Dr. Hickson published in 2014 a Festschrift, a collection of some thirty essays written by thoughtful authors in honor of her husband upon his 70th birthday, which is entitled A Catholic Witness in Our Time. Hickson has closely followed the papacy of Pope Francis and the developments in the Catholic Church in Germany, and she has been writing articles on religion and politics for U.S. and European publications and websites such as LifeSiteNews, OnePeterFive, The Wanderer, Rorate Caeli, Catholicism.org, Catholic Family News, Christian Order, Notizie Pro-Vita, Corrispondenza Romana, Katholisches.info, Der Dreizehnte, Zeit-Fragen, and Westfalen-Blatt.
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