lifesitenews--2020-10-29--Catholics have pledged over 5,700 Masses for President Trump’s ‘spiritual support’

October 29 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A Catholic group that called for thousands of Masses to be celebrated for pro-life President Donald Trump ’ s “ spiritual support ” this election season has smashed its goal of reaching 5400 Mass pledges in less than two months .
“ By the Grace of God , through the intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God and the wonderful response of Her children , on Monday , October 19th we achieved our 5,400 Holy Mass Novena being said for President Donald J. Trump , 2,700 Masses in petition and 2,700 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Manougian , founder and coordinator of the group .
Manougian told LifeSiteNews via email that despite reaching their goal of 5,400 Masses ahead of schedule , they will continue accepting Mass pledges until the November 3 election on the official website .
“ Rest assured , if you recently registered a Mass it will be posted in the coming days as we catch up with the backlog .
If you haven ’ t yet registered a Holy Mass , now is the time , ” he added .
“ Every Holy Mass pledged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ battle for the very soul of our Nation.
” Manougian thanked LifeSiteNews and its readers for the overwhelming support which he credits in helping them achieve their goal .
“ Thank You , to those who pledged one Holy Mass of infinite value , to those who were able to pledge 100 Holy Masses , and everyone in between , and especially those who spread the word far and wide , handing out cards , brochures , using email , text and social media , ” he said , before talking about “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our call and promoted this 5,400 Mass Novena in the USA and abroad , thank you to all LifeSiteNews followers who made this possible !
” As of this writing , a total of 5,714 Masses have been pledged in all 50 States , as well as U.S. territories Guam and Puerto Rico .
Internationally , Masses have been pledged in 17 countries , including African countries , Australia , Canada , China , France , India , Ireland , Israel , Italy , Mexico , the Philippines , Poland , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the group had a total of just over 1,000 novena Masses pledged for Trump , and had completed 900 novena Masses in support of Trump on the feast of the Assumption ( August 15 ) .
On September 2 , LifeSiteNews reported on the project , highlighting the initiative and the organizers ’ call for an additional 5,400 Masses to be said “ during this time of unprecedented evil.
” Soon after , the number of Masses pledged skyrocketed to over 3,400 Masses .
Manougian told LifeSiteNews on September 24 that the response @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ nothing short of miraculous , ” and credited LifeSiteNews readers for the overwhelming response .
Now , Manougian mentioned he is also asking everyone to join in prayer and fasting “ for the United States of America , ” including Eucharistic adoration and reciting the rosary , on the first three days of November .
“ Plan to pray and fast with church groups on November 1st , 2nd , and 3rd , as we come upon Election Day , ” Manougian said .
“ Now is the time to put frivolity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and US citizen and pray that the evil of a godless government will pass over our beloved nation.
” Manougian ’ s website lists in real-time the names and places of those who have registered Masses for Trump and also highlights supporters of the group .
Registrants have to provide their contact information , which includes where the Masses will be said , and are then asked to answer a question as to how they learned about the novena Masses for Trump campaign .
The group lists two ways to register a Mass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for individuals to have Mass for Trump said at their local church and then register that Mass online .
Another option is to donate a $ 20 Mass stipend at the group ’ s GoFundMe page .
The money is then used by the group to have a Mass said .

PETITION UPDATE (3/15/21) -
Reports suggest that the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference (USCCB) is preparing a vote on what to do about pro-abortion Joe Biden (and, presumably, other abortion-promoting politicians) who continues to present himself (themselves) for Holy Communion.
Public excommunication would be a suitable response for Biden's obstinate, public and grave sin of scandalously promoting abortion.
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this important petition.
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PETITION UPDATE (2/4/20)
Since Joe Biden was sworn-in on the 20th of January, he has wasted no time in signing Executive Orders to destroy the protections which former President Trump offered to the unborn and to the innocence and modesty of children of the United States.
In one executive order, Biden rescinded the Mexico City Policy prohibiting the federal government from spending taxpayer monies on abortion and the promotion of abortion.
And, in another executive order, Biden seeks to force girls' athletic programs, restrooms, and locker rooms to accept gender-confused males.
Since the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was shamefully silent throughout the presidential campaign on the pre-eminent issues of abortion and gender ideology, and what Biden vowed he would do as president, it is cold comfort that their pro-life office is now speaking up about this Administration's wilful disregard for human life and for God's design of human nature (i.e., two biological sexes).
Stated plainly, Joe Biden is as bad as he said he would be, and the bishop, acting in unison (as the USCCB) have an obligation to the Lord (first) and to the faithful (second) to refuse Holy Communion to this grave public sinner.
With all due respect to these bishops, they diminish the Holy Eucharist and their high office, as well as cause grave scandal to the faithful, by dialoguing with a man who is promoting mass murder of the unborn against the constant teaching of the Church.
A man who continues to use the church as a backdrop for statements about how "Catholic/religious" he is, but, at the same time, is now doing everything in his power to protect the murder of the innocent, needs to publicly repent before dialogue can begin.
The bishops should not dialogue with or congratulate someone who has publicly betrayed the Church's teaching and who is leading others astray.
It's an embarrassment and a scandal for the bishops to continue to allow him to receive Holy Communion.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
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PETITION UPDATE (12/10/20)
Prior to the election on November 3, the U.S. bishops did not address Joe Biden’s anti-Catholic position regarding faith and morals as a unified body.
The USCCB, the organization to which every U.S. bishop belongs and which is staffed and led by bishops, remained disgracefully silent in the run-up to the election.
What were the bishops afraid of, losing their charitable tax status with the IRS, or being deprived of fat checks from the HHS (immigration programs) and USAID (foreign aid programs)?
Or, were they just too cowardly to clearly declare Christ's law to be above man's law and risk the ire of a Joe Biden as president?
Either way, the bishops’ lack of clarity in this regard is a terrible scandal in itself and probably greatly contributed to the possible election of a pro-abortion, anti-Catholic Catholic to the presidency.
Given the fact that exit polling shows Catholics split their vote 50-50 for Trump and Biden, even a slight deviation in the heavily-Catholic swing-states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania could have produced different results.
The bishops could have spoken out against Biden’s pro-abortion stance collectively, but, again, they were overwhelmingly and shamefully silent.
Because of this, they will be at least partly responsible for the policies advanced by a Biden administration, in the event that Biden is sworn into office.
However, the bishops can, even now, mitigate the damage done by their inaction by taking the following steps: 1) Speak with one voice, as the USCCB, and plainly condemn Biden's pro-abortion stance; 2) Publicly advise Biden not to present himself for Holy Communion because of his scandalous position on abortion and homosexual "marriage;" and, 3) Tell Biden to publicly repent of publicly promoting the wilfull murder of the preborn, sins against nature, and diminishing the natural family.
Thankfully, some individual bishops have spoken out forcefully on Biden's scandalous behavior, and his standing in the Church.
On November 9, Archbishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas tweeted: “A dark cloud has descended on this nation when the USCCB and Planned Parenthood speak in unison in support of a Biden-Harris administration that supports the slaughter of innocents by abortion for all 9 months of pregnancy.”
Additionally, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver, Colorado and Archbishop Charles Chaput have both declared publicly that Joe Biden “should not receive Holy Communion."
But, to add insult to injury, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C. has said that he will give Holy Communion to Biden because “it’s a matter of the responsibility that I have as the archbishop to be engaged and to be in dialogue with him, even in those areas where we obviously have some differences.”
And, Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington, Delaware and Bishop McElroy of San Diego also congratulated Biden in statements, but they have not indicated whether or not they would administer Holy Communion to him.
With all due respect to these bishops, they diminish the Holy Eucharist and their high office, as well as cause grave scandal to the faithful, by dialoguing with a man who is promoting mass murder of the unborn against the constant teaching of the Church.
A man who uses the church as a backdrop to make sickening political advertisements about how "Catholic/religious" he is, but, at the same time, says that he will do everything in his power to protect the murder of the innocent, needs to publicly repent before dialogue can begin.
The bishops should not dialogue with or congratulate someone who has publicly betrayed the Church's teaching and who is leading others astray.
It's an embarrassment and a scandal for the bishops to continue to allow him to receive Holy Communion.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-bishops-concerned-about-pro-abortion-biden-previously-hailed-him-as-second-catholic-president
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-aquila-backs-call-for-pro-abortion-catholic-joe-biden-to-be-denied-holy-communion?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=standard
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-philly-archbishop-biden-not-in-full-communion-with-the-catholic-church
https://www.thesoutherncross.org/news/bishop-mcelroy-offers-prayers-and-congratulations-to-president-elect-biden/
https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/us-catholics-weigh-mixed-reaction-biden-win
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PETITION UPDATE (9/29/20)
Cardinal Raymond Burke has stated that Democratic candidate Joe Biden should not receive Holy Communion because of his support for abortion.
In an interview for Thomas McKenna's Catholic Action for Faith and Family podcast, Cardinal Burke states the following (starting around 5:00):
First of all, I would tell him [Biden] not to approach to receive Holy Communion, out of charity toward him, because that would be a sacrilege and endanger the salvation of his own soul.
But, also, he should not approach to receive Holy Communion because he gives scandal to everyone, because if someone says, 'I'm a devout Catholic," and, at the same time is promoting abortion, it gives the impression to others that it's acceptable for a Catholic to be in favor of abortion.
Of course, it's absolutely not acceptable, and never has been, and never will be.
We give thanks for Cardinal Burke's frankness and clarity. And, we call on every U.S. Catholic bishop to follow Cardinal Burke's lead and call out Joe Biden for his bloody-minded hypocrisy on the issue of abortion.
To reiterate: You cannot be a Catholic and support abortion.
Thank you for continuing to sign this urgent petition.
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PETITION UPDATE (8/17/20)
The Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, keeps claiming to be Catholic but has said he will do everything in his power to support abortion.
And, with his pick of California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, Biden has just cemented abortion into the Democrats' 2020 presidential ticket.
Indeed, Harris is vehemently pro-abortion.
During her time as attorney general of California, Harris played a key role in defending Planned Parenthood over its sale of aborted baby parts (which violated multiple federal laws, according to undercover video of abortion industry personnel).
And, last year, Harris unveiled a plan to essentially force pro-life states to seek permission from the federal government before pro-life laws can take effect.
Additionally, Harris has dangerous views on religious liberty and freedom of speech.
Harris displayed anti-Catholic bigotry in the confirmation hearings of Judge Brian Buescher. Harris cited his membership in the “all-male society” the Knights of Columbus and its stances against abortion and same-sex “marriage” as grounds for rejecting Buescher for a federal district court in Nebraska.
And, David Daleiden, head of the pro-life investigative group Center for Medical Progress, wrote that from his firsthand experience, he considers Harris the “greatest threat to First Amendment civil rights our country has ever seen.”
Joe Biden has seriously erred by taking on Kamala Harris as his running mate, further distancing himself from the truths of the Catholic Faith, especially that every life is sacred from conception till natural death.
Please CLICK HERE to read an article which details one U.S. bishop's warning about the Biden-Harris ticket.
And, please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition.
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Of course, these two things are incompatible: you cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion.
And, a "Catholic" politician's responsibility in this regard is absolute: On pain of serious sin, he or she can never promote abortion because abortion is the wilful murder of innocent preborn human beings, and also because doing so causes grave scandal to the Church and the faithful.
Please SIGN this urgent petition asking the bishops of the United States to refuse to give Holy Communion to Joe Biden until he publicly repents from his scandalous promotion of abortion.
Biden recently promised to “codify Roe v. Wade” as president, adding, "my Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate a woman’s protected, constitutional right to choose."
And, since starting his latest run for the presidency, Biden also flip-flopped against the Hyde Amendment, saying that he would allow federal funds to be spent on abortion - a position he claimed to be against for more than 40 years.
In short, Joe Biden will do everything in his power to enable and defend the wilful murder of innocent preborn human beings.
So, this should not be a hard decision for our U.S. bishops. In fact, in another circumstance, it was already done by an Illinois bishop.
Indeed, Bishop Paprocki, of Springfield, Illinois, invoked Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law to withdraw Holy Communion from two Illinois state politicians who had worked to enact radical new abortion legislation in 2019.
Canon 915 states: "Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."
Of course, no-one, least of all the bishops, wants anyone to be deprived of Holy Communion.
A politician who publicly and obstinately advocates for the murder of innocent preborn babies puts himself out-of-communion with the Church and her teaching.
Pro-abortion politicians should not think that they can advocate for the murder of the unborn and receive the Body of Christ at the same time. This would be to defile the Eucharist while giving scandal to the faithful.
Depriving politicians of Holy Communion is not just meant to prevent scandal; it is also designed to bring a grave public sinner to repentance. In this way, such an action is meant to be for the good of their souls, too.
Thank you for SIGNING this urgent petition which calls on the U.S. Catholic bishops to refuse to admit Joe Biden to Holy Communion until he publicly repents from his scandalous promotion of abortion.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Joe Biden: I support abortion ‘under any circumstance’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/joe-biden-i-support-abortion-under-any-circumstance
Catholic priest denies Joe Biden Holy Communion for pro-abortion stance - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-priest-denies-joe-biden-holy-communion-for-pro-abortion-stance
Cardinal McCarrick and the Concealing of Rome’s Position on Denying Communion - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-mccarrick-and-the-concealing-of-romes-position-on-denying-communio
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lifesitenews--2020-10-29--Young Australian Catholic women lead backlash against Satanic black Mass

AUSTRALIA , October 29 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Two university students have stepped into the breach , launching an international prayer campaign against the Satanic black Mass to be said in Noosa , Queensland ( QLD ) on Friday 30 October .
LifeSiteNews reported on the details of the sacrilegious event on 27 October .
Sophia Shogren and Bethany Marsh , both 22 , were made aware of the event by the American Society for the defense of Tradition , Family and Property ’ s Return to Order petition .
“ It was quite shocking to find out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own country , especially since we only made this discovery through the activism of an American organisation , ” they said .
Noosa is located within the Archdiocese of Brisbane , where Sophia grew up .
“ When I first heard about the black Mass it hit pretty close to home .
Bethany and I were chatting one day and realised how few people knew this event was going on .
The sacrilege of the black Mass - especially one hosted in a council venue - demands a response from the faithful , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get the word out into the community about this , ” she said .
Bethany added that the idea to launch a prayer campaign came to them on the feast of Blessed Bartolo Longo , a former Satanic priest who later converted and dedicated his life to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the promotion of the holy rosary .
“ If that wasn ’ t a prompting to do something , I don ’ t know what is !
” Bethany said .
Sophia and Bethany created a Facebook group – now containing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as many people as possible praying a novena to St. Michael the Archangel leading up to the day of the black Mass .
“ St .
Michael has always been understood as our strongest defence against the Devil and diabolical forces .
His , and the Blessed Virgin ’ s intercessions , are our greatest weapons , ” Bethany said .
Through the Facebook group numerous priests and prayer groups have been prompted to expand upon the prayer campaign locally and internationally .
“ Across Australia we know of many Masses being offered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black Mass , all night adoration vigils being held in communities , as well as holy hours and rosaries being offered for these intentions , ” they said .
The young women informed all of the Australian bishops of the event , receiving “ mixed responses.
” Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge chose not to comment publicly on the sold out event , which sent invitations to celebrities and politicians .
But Sydney ’ s Archbishop Anthony Fisher has publicly endorsed the prayer campaign , encouraging his flock to join in the novena to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Evil is real and it is not something that should be played with or underestimated , ” Fisher commented while promoting the novena .
Within the Archdiocese of Brisbane , the priests of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation have been particularly vocal in the prayer campaign , adding a rosary novena for the parish as well as holy hours of reparation on the day .
While some may be discouraged that local clergy are not at the forefront of this spiritual battle , Bethany and Sophia are deeply encouraged by the amount @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eager to pray and invite others to join the prayer campaign even in the midst of what many call a post-Christian society .
“ Australia is becoming an increasingly secular nation , and unfortunately the Church in Australia is suffering accordingly .
The moral depravity of the world has dulled the senses of so many when it comes to recognising the very real presence of evil surrounding us , ” they said .
“ In light of this , we felt a very strong conviction to do what we can to make people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and to publicly respond to something that is so blatantly an attack against the Church .
So much of the support we have received is from the young faithful of Australia , so this is really a testament to the fire and zeal for Christ that exists in our generation.
” Although the publication of this article falls at the end of the novena to St Michael , the students are encouraging Catholics worldwide to offer prayers and penances in reparation for the gravely sacrilegious act that will occur this week .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pray and make spiritual reparations for this and all sins against Christ and His Church…we would encourage everyone to make spiritual amends , such as an extra rosary , an extra holy hour of Eucharistic adoration , or encouraging your priests to offer a Mass specifically in reparation .
Above all , those involved in organising the black Mass are spiritually desolate .
We must pray for a change of heart and mind , for their redemption and conversion .
‘ Our fight is not with flesh and blood , but with principalities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
6:12 ) Unfortunately due to COVID-19 restrictions from the Queensland State Government , as well as the presence of another event happening directly outside the council venue where the black mass will occur , it has not been possible to organize a peaceful prayer protest outside the venue .


lifesitenews--2020-10-29--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

October 29 , 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--2020-10-29--Reformed architect of legal abortion in America describes how it all happened

October 29 , 2020 ( Inside the Vatican ) — At a prayer vigil in November 2009 , I discerned the Lord asking me to interview Dr. Bernard Nathanson , the last surviving co-founder of NARAL — the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws ( later renamed NARAL Pro-Choice America ) .
In the late 1960 ’ s , Bernard Nathanson and Lawrence Lader crafted what they called the “ Catholic Strategy , ” later called “ the most brilliant political strategy of all time.
” It was a stealthy and effective scheme to destroy America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the spiritual authority of Divine Law and marginalizing the moral authority of the Catholic Church .
As co-founders of NARAL , these two atheists deployed their Catholic Strategy with tactical precision and great efficacy .
They were the pioneers of the sinister industry of abortion , which depended on political victory to deceive and destroy .
And then a miracle of sorts happened , and Bernard Nathanson became immovably pro-life .
I was daunted by the prospect of interviewing Dr. Nathanson , and even doubted its possibility , but I felt I was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phone number via a pro-life attorney , I dialed with trepidation .
His wife answered and explained that her 83-year-old husband was very frail from terminal cancer and had not granted an interview in over a year .
But she instructed me to fax my letter of request , and promised to present it to her husband .
A few days later she called to inform me that , much to her surprise , Dr. Nathanson had agreed to my request .
On December 1 , 2009 , I flew to New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Planned Parenthood how to kill children in the womb and who worked as Medical Director for the largest abortion center in the world , the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health ( CRASH ) .
These credentials earned him the title “ The Abortion King.
” Yet , he was the same man who spent his final 35 years working tirelessly to undo what he had regrettably unleashed upon America : deceiving the courts , maligning clergy , manipulating the media , training doctors and crushing the souls of millions of mothers and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their unborn children .
In 1973 , just a few months after celebrating the Roe v Wade decision , Dr. Nathanson witnessed for the first time a new technology : real-time ultrasound .
He observed an unborn child in the womb — smiling , stretching , and wiggling her toes .
He told me , “ Real-time ultrasound was the bomb .
It made everything come alive.
” Science revealed the beauty , goodness and truth of life in this sacred space , demanding intellectual honesty from Dr. Nathanson ; he had to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life , and admit that what he had been doing was morally wrong .
In that moment , he realized he had two patients : the mother and her child .
His job was to protect and save them both .
In that moment , Dr. Nathanson ’ s pro-life journey began .
He spent two years persuading NARAL that real-time ultrasound exposed a major ethical and moral dilemma , but the organization cared little and would not alter its position .
Dr. Nathanson resigned from NARAL on the second anniversary of Roe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , addressed to Lawrence Lader , he wrote : “ The judgments of the Supreme Court were never meant to be infallible or eternal .
And what if we ’ ve been wrong — if the Court should soon reverse itself on the abortion issue in the light of changing times and/or new scientific evidence ?
What an incalculable injustice will have been perpetrated .
What an immeasurable , irretrievable loss will have been suffered .
The annual dues to NARAL are ten dollars a year and the hubris of certainty .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ By 1979 , the father of America ’ s abortion industry had become 100 % pro-life — without exceptions .
The industry , in his words , grew “ fecklessly out of control.
” And fueling it was NARAL ’ s Catholic Strategy .
Following his defection from the abortion industry , Dr. Nathanson suffered nearly a decade of depression , frequently contemplating suicide , until he crossed paths with a priest who introduced him to the love and mercy of Jesus Christ .
On December 8 , 1996 , America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ St. Patrick ’ s Cathedral in New York City , and was made new in Christ as a Child of Light .
As I sat beside Dr. Bernard Nathanson in the interview he had granted me , listening to his great remorse for orchestrating and leading the war on America ’ s unborn children , I felt a deep sense of empathy .
He was too ill to get his message out anymore , which compelled me to make him an offer : if he had a message for America , I would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ became common knowledge — or until Roe v Wade was overturned .
In a thin , raspy voice weakened by his illness , but coupled with a slight twinkle of hope in his eyes , he responded , “ Yes , yes…Continue teaching about the strategy I used to deceive America , but also deliver this special message .
Tell America that the co-founder of NARAL says to ‘ Love one another .
Abortion is not love .
Stop the killing .
The world needs more love .
I ’ m all about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and shook his feeble hand , promising that one day America would hear his story — and his important message .
The non-profit pro-life organization I founded , named Hosea Initiative , is committed to revealing this vital piece of American history to the public .
Our informal polling shows that more than 90 % of our predominantly pro-life , Catholic audience lacks awareness of Bernard N. Nathanson ’ s “ Saul-to-Paul ” conversion or NARAL ’ s Catholic Strategy .
This is essential information for Catholics walking into the voting booth this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fractured pro-abortion movement and aggressively lobbied for the overturn of a 140-year-old New York law which protected infants from abortion .
When Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed liberal pro-abortion legislation into law in April 1970 , New York City became the nation ’ s abortion epicenter .
Only nine months later , NARAL ’ s Executive Committee assembled for an emergency meeting to discuss a grave risk to their blossoming abortion crusade .
An increasing number of infants were born alive following second-trimester saline abortions .
Executive Director Lawrence Lader showed no empathy for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the opposite .
Dr. Nathanson described Lader ’ s response in his post-conversion book , The Abortion Papers : Inside the Abortion Mentality ( 1983 ) : “ [ He ] saw these abortion survivors as an embarrassment to NARAL and was concerned that the press had made much of them and that the opposition elements were seizing upon them as a tactic in the abortion wars.
” ( p. 177 ) Who Was the Most Feared “ Opposition Element ” ?
The Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church was NARAL ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uncompromising doctrine regarding the sanctity of human life .
While the Anglican Church reversed its position on contraception at the 1930 Lambeth Conference and other Protestant denominations followed , Rome held its position against contraception and abortion as destructive moral evils against God ’ s gift of life .
For a deeper understanding of the genesis of NARAL ’ s response to Catholic opposition , look to Lawrence Lader ’ s 1966 book Abortion , where he identifies the Catholic hierarchy as “ a force inimical ” to what he called “ legalized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says Lader shows his true colors and the level of his vitriol against the Catholic Church in the sequel , Abortion II : Making the Revolution .
In it , Lader names individuals with their religious affiliation ( most Catholic ) only if they did not support his agenda .
( Interestingly , the current “ cancel culture ” phenomenon mirrors tactics from NARAL ’ s playbook . )
Together , Lader and Nathanson executed an all-out , anti-Catholic religious war : Anti-Catholic warp was a central strategy , a keystone of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a sense , the self-fulfilling prophecy : knowing that the Catholic Church would vigorously oppose abortion , we laced the campaign with generous dollops of anti-Catholicism , and once the monster was lured out of the cave in response to the abortion challenge and the nakedly biased line , we could make the Catholic Church the point man of the opposition .
The more vigorously the church opposed , the stronger the appeal of the anti-Catholic line became to the liberal media , to the northeastern political establishment , to the leftist elements @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Catholic intellectuals themselves .
( The Abortion Papers , p.196 ) Lader also modeled his anti-Catholic bigotry after the queen of racism and eugenics , Margaret Sanger , the founder of the Birth Control Federation of America ( later renamed Planned Parenthood ) .
She started her dirty deeds in 1916 as a fallen-away Catholic whose socialist father taught her to despise the Church .
In the early 1920s , she strategically pitted Protestants against Catholics over the issue of contraception .
By 1939 , she launched the “ Negro Project , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black race by pushing birth control and sterilization onto minority communities under the guise of women ’ s healthcare .
In the late 1950s , she led the charge for a little white pill which fueled an era of unfettered promiscuity and out-of-wedlock births .
Then , she passed the baton of abhorrence of the Catholic Church to Lader , her biographer and admirer , who soon thereafter partnered with Nathanson to form NARAL .
Dr. Nathanson explained that NARAL braced itself for a response , especially from the Catholic hierarchy .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NARAL ’ s confidence and purpose .
“ What continually surprised us in the planning sessions and strategy meetings at NARAL was not only the comparatively mild quality of the organized Catholic opposition , but also the virtual absence of response to what was blatantly an anti-Catholic campaign.
” ( Ibid.
, p.190 ) Later , writing with a heavy heart , Nathanson described the tactics as morally detestable , with no modern parallel .
He was convinced that “ there has been , then , no social change in American history as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life , or as heavily dependent upon an anti-religious bias for its success as the abortion movement.
” ( Ibid.
, p. 197 ) The efficacy of NARAL ’ s Catholic Strategy helps explain why the vast majority of current U.S .
Senators who identify as Roman Catholics consider themselves “ pro-choice ” and voted against the “ Twenty-week Fetal Pain Bill , ” which would have banned abortions from 20 weeks gestation onward , as well as the “ Abortion Survivor Infant Protection Act , ” which would have guaranteed , by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempted abortion .
Like wartime strategists , NARAL ’ s Executive Committee stealthily devised four primary points of attack against their leading opposition , the Catholic Church .
First : Blame and Accuse the Hierarchy Cardinals , bishops and clergymen were targeted relentlessly by the NARAL team .
Every time a woman was maimed or died from complications of illegal abortion , NARAL never accused the physician of malpractice , but blamed the hierarchy and Church opposition to legal abortion .
Every press conference , editorial , or published article linked the name @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women ’ s woes .
The blame game included an endless indictment of Church leaders for starting a religious war , abusing tax-exempt status and even attempting to overturn the Bill of Rights !
Nathanson explained : “ The anti-Catholic tactic was… central to the maintenance of unity within the High Command of the movement .
In providing a palpable , visible opposition it allowed those of us setting policy and devising a strategy to occupy ourselves with the enemy .
We were kept too busy to contemplate in any critical way the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was always another bishop to denounce , another pastoral letter to be rebutted , another cardinal to excoriate.
” ( Ibid.
, p. 197 ) Second : Support and Campaign for Catholic Pro-abortion Candidates NARAL recognized and praised Catholic politicians who publicly expressed a softened stance on abortion .
It assisted legislators with election campaigns , grassroots efforts , and financial support , regardless of party affiliation .
As long as the candidate embraced legalized abortion , s/he was a candidate for NARAL ’ s backing .
Using the complicit media , NARAL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and “ pro-choice ” politicians were the new majority .
NARAL understood the power of perception .
Third : Split and Set Catholics Against Each Other NARAL recognized that John and Jacqueline Kennedy were models of the modern , enlightened twentieth-century Catholic , thinking for themselves “ without obeisance to church dogma.
” NARAL ’ s strategists recognized two categories of Catholic faithful : the well-educated , fashionable “ Kennedy Catholics , ” and blue-collar , conservative Catholics , only one generation removed from immigration .
NARAL fueled divisiveness within the Catholic Church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As Dr. Nathanson recounted it , everything was in place “ for the portrayal of the Catholic Church as a political force , for the use of anti-Catholicism as a political instrument , and for the manipulation of Catholics themselves by splitting them and setting them against each other.
” ( Ibid.
, p. 181 ) Let it be said : The Church helped us in NARAL .
The papal encyclical of 1968 [ Humane Vitae ] denying both abortion and contraception to Catholics was a bonanza for us at NARAL at precisely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ linking abortion and contraception in the encyclical , the Vatican made it impossible for those Catholics who were using birth control to split off the abortion issue , therefore leaving them to pick their own way through the confusing ethical and theological landscape.
” ( Ibid.
, p. 189 ) The leap from practicing contraception to supporting legalized abortion proved an easy one .
Perhaps the most common and effective tool in the NARAL strategy toolbox was ‘ the Straddle ’ : a separation of religious conviction from legislative judgment .
Nathanson wrote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Board by “ such notables as Robert Drinan , SJ , and Richard Cardinal Cushing.
” ( Ibid.
, p. 177 ) “ To maintain their appearance as enlightened and progressive while still retaining their bona fides as Catholics , we provided [ Kennedy Catholics ] with the now classic ‘ straddle ’ for Catholics in public positions : abortion is personally abhorrent , but everyone must be free to make their own choice .
Now we were ready to use them to call over the more traditional , less trendy Catholics to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) Of course , substitute “ slavery ” for “ abortion ” and few would agree that one person can find slavery personally abhorrent while others are free to choose whether or not to own slaves .
Yet , it ’ s a refrain we ’ ve heard for decades in politics .
Dr. Nathanson prophetically warned that , as long as abortion is legal , there would be increased violence , increased public turmoil and the disintegration of the American family .
These bitter fruits are everywhere apparent .
I believe the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the immorality of the means of its victory .
A political victory achieved by such odious tactics is at best an unstable tyranny spawned by an unscrupulous and unprincipled minority .
At the very least this disclosure of those odious tactics should compel those who are uneasy with permissive abortion to re-examine the issue .
I believe that an America which permits a junta of moral thugs to foist an evil of incalculable dimensions upon it , and continues to permit that evil to flower , creates for itself a deadly legacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ibid.
, p. 209 ) This powerful quote of Dr. Nathanson ’ s is one of my favorites .
It reveals how intimately he understood the diabolic industry .
Abortion does not simply “ happen ” as civilizations evolve ; it is created with evil intent .
Dr. Nathanson wanted every bishop , priest and Catholic layperson to know how they were deliberately exploited , and be motivated to act in defense of their Faith and the sanctity of every human life .
It ’ s time to challenge the anti-Catholic bias which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Pivotal in this effort is the courage to elect pro-life leaders with the power to reverse the ebbing tide of pro-life legislation .
It ’ s time to abort our “ millennium of shame.
” Published with permission from Inside the Vatican .

October 29, 2020 (Inside the Vatican) — At a prayer vigil in November 2009, I discerned the Lord asking me to interview Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the last surviving co-founder of NARAL — the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (later renamed NARAL Pro-Choice America). In the late 1960’s, Bernard Nathanson and Lawrence Lader crafted what they called the “Catholic Strategy,” later called “the most brilliant political strategy of all time.” It was a stealthy and effective scheme to destroy America’s historical protection of unborn life by undermining the spiritual authority of Divine Law and marginalizing the moral authority of the Catholic Church. As co-founders of NARAL, these two atheists deployed their Catholic Strategy with tactical precision and great efficacy. They were the pioneers of the sinister industry of abortion, which depended on political victory to deceive and destroy. And then a miracle of sorts happened, and Bernard Nathanson became immovably pro-life.
I was daunted by the prospect of interviewing Dr. Nathanson, and even doubted its possibility, but I felt I was supposed to try. Tracking down his phone number via a pro-life attorney, I dialed with trepidation. His wife answered and explained that her 83-year-old husband was very frail from terminal cancer and had not granted an interview in over a year. But she instructed me to fax my letter of request, and promised to present it to her husband.
A few days later she called to inform me that, much to her surprise, Dr. Nathanson had agreed to my request. On December 1, 2009, I flew to New York City to interview the man who trained Planned Parenthood how to kill children in the womb and who worked as Medical Director for the largest abortion center in the world, the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH). These credentials earned him the title “The Abortion King.” Yet, he was the same man who spent his final 35 years working tirelessly to undo what he had regrettably unleashed upon America: deceiving the courts, maligning clergy, manipulating the media, training doctors and crushing the souls of millions of mothers and fathers by stopping the beating hearts of their unborn children.
What Changed?
In 1973, just a few months after celebrating the Roe v Wade decision, Dr. Nathanson witnessed for the first time a new technology: real-time ultrasound. He observed an unborn child in the womb — smiling, stretching, and wiggling her toes. He told me, “Real-time ultrasound was the bomb. It made everything come alive.” Science revealed the beauty, goodness and truth of life in this sacred space, demanding intellectual honesty from Dr. Nathanson; he had to acknowledge that abortion kills an existing human life, and admit that what he had been doing was morally wrong. In that moment, he realized he had two patients: the mother and her child. His job was to protect and save them both. In that moment, Dr. Nathanson’s pro-life journey began.
He spent two years persuading NARAL that real-time ultrasound exposed a major ethical and moral dilemma, but the organization cared little and would not alter its position.
Dr. Nathanson resigned from NARAL on the second anniversary of Roe v Wade. In his resignation letter, addressed to Lawrence Lader, he wrote: “The judgments of the Supreme Court were never meant to be infallible or eternal. And what if we’ve been wrong — if the Court should soon reverse itself on the abortion issue in the light of changing times and/or new scientific evidence? What an incalculable injustice will have been perpetrated. What an immeasurable, irretrievable loss will have been suffered. The annual dues to NARAL are ten dollars a year and the hubris of certainty. I can no longer afford those dues.”
By 1979, the father of America’s abortion industry had become 100% pro-life — without exceptions. The industry, in his words, grew “fecklessly out of control.” And fueling it was NARAL’s Catholic Strategy.
Following his defection from the abortion industry, Dr. Nathanson suffered nearly a decade of depression, frequently contemplating suicide, until he crossed paths with a priest who introduced him to the love and mercy of Jesus Christ. On December 8, 1996, America’s “Abortion King” was baptized at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, and was made new in Christ as a Child of Light.
Background: My Promise
As I sat beside Dr. Bernard Nathanson in the interview he had granted me, listening to his great remorse for orchestrating and leading the war on America’s unborn children, I felt a deep sense of empathy. He was too ill to get his message out anymore, which compelled me to make him an offer: if he had a message for America, I would deliver it across the country until it became common knowledge — or until Roe v Wade was overturned.
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In a thin, raspy voice weakened by his illness, but coupled with a slight twinkle of hope in his eyes, he responded, “Yes, yes…Continue teaching about the strategy I used to deceive America, but also deliver this special message. Tell America that the co-founder of NARAL says to ‘Love one another. Abortion is not love. Stop the killing. The world needs more love. I’m all about love now.’” I reached over and shook his feeble hand, promising that one day America would hear his story — and his important message.
The non-profit pro-life organization I founded, named Hosea Initiative, is committed to revealing this vital piece of American history to the public. Our informal polling shows that more than 90% of our predominantly pro-life, Catholic audience lacks awareness of Bernard N. Nathanson’s “Saul-to-Paul” conversion or NARAL’s Catholic Strategy. This is essential information for Catholics walking into the voting booth this November 3.
The “Opposition Element”
NARAL successfully united a fractured pro-abortion movement and aggressively lobbied for the overturn of a 140-year-old New York law which protected infants from abortion. When Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed liberal pro-abortion legislation into law in April 1970, New York City became the nation’s abortion epicenter. Only nine months later, NARAL’s Executive Committee assembled for an emergency meeting to discuss a grave risk to their blossoming abortion crusade. An increasing number of infants were born alive following second-trimester saline abortions.
Executive Director Lawrence Lader showed no empathy for these salt-burned infants. He expressed just the opposite. Dr. Nathanson described Lader’s response in his post-conversion book, The Abortion Papers: Inside the Abortion Mentality (1983): “[He] saw these abortion survivors as an embarrassment to NARAL and was concerned that the press had made much of them and that the opposition elements were seizing upon them as a tactic in the abortion wars.”(p. 177)
Who Was the Most Feared “Opposition Element”? The Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church was NARAL’s primary opposition due to its long-standing, uncompromising doctrine regarding the sanctity of human life. While the Anglican Church reversed its position on contraception at the 1930 Lambeth Conference and other Protestant denominations followed, Rome held its position against contraception and abortion as destructive moral evils against God’s gift of life.
For a deeper understanding of the genesis of NARAL’s response to Catholic opposition, look to Lawrence Lader’s 1966 book Abortion, where he identifies the Catholic hierarchy as “a force inimical” to what he called “legalized abortion — the final freedom.”
Nathanson says Lader shows his true colors and the level of his vitriol against the Catholic Church in the sequel, Abortion II: Making the Revolution. In it, Lader names individuals with their religious affiliation (most Catholic) only if they did not support his agenda. (Interestingly, the current “cancel culture” phenomenon mirrors tactics from NARAL’s playbook.)
Naral’s Religious War
Together, Lader and Nathanson executed an all-out, anti-Catholic religious war: Anti-Catholic warp was a central strategy, a keystone of the abortion movement. It was, in a sense, the self-fulfilling prophecy: knowing that the Catholic Church would vigorously oppose abortion, we laced the campaign with generous dollops of anti-Catholicism, and once the monster was lured out of the cave in response to the abortion challenge and the nakedly biased line, we could make the Catholic Church the point man of the opposition. The more vigorously the church opposed, the stronger the appeal of the anti-Catholic line became to the liberal media, to the northeastern political establishment, to the leftist elements of the Protestant Church, and to the Catholic intellectuals themselves. (The Abortion Papers, p.196)
Lader also modeled his anti-Catholic bigotry after the queen of racism and eugenics, Margaret Sanger, the founder of the Birth Control Federation of America (later renamed Planned Parenthood).
She started her dirty deeds in 1916 as a fallen-away Catholic whose socialist father taught her to despise the Church. In the early 1920s, she strategically pitted Protestants against Catholics over the issue of contraception.
By 1939, she launched the “Negro Project,” an aggressive plan to reduce the black race by pushing birth control and sterilization onto minority communities under the guise of women’s healthcare. In the late 1950s, she led the charge for a little white pill which fueled an era of unfettered promiscuity and out-of-wedlock births. Then, she passed the baton of abhorrence of the Catholic Church to Lader, her biographer and admirer, who soon thereafter partnered with Nathanson to form NARAL.
Dr. Nathanson explained that NARAL braced itself for a response, especially from the Catholic hierarchy. But none came. And it only fueled NARAL’s confidence and purpose. “What continually surprised us in the planning sessions and strategy meetings at NARAL was not only the comparatively mild quality of the organized Catholic opposition, but also the virtual absence of response to what was blatantly an anti-Catholic campaign.” (Ibid., p.190)
Later, writing with a heavy heart, Nathanson described the tactics as morally detestable, with no modern parallel. He was convinced that “there has been, then, no social change in American history as sweeping, as potent in American family life, or as heavily dependent upon an anti-religious bias for its success as the abortion movement.” (Ibid., p. 197)
The efficacy of NARAL’s Catholic Strategy helps explain why the vast majority of current U.S. Senators who identify as Roman Catholics consider themselves “pro-choice” and voted against the “Twenty-week Fetal Pain Bill,” which would have banned abortions from 20 weeks gestation onward, as well as the “Abortion Survivor Infant Protection Act,” which would have guaranteed, by law, healthcare to babies who survive attempted abortion.
The Catholic Strategy
Like wartime strategists, NARAL’s Executive Committee stealthily devised four primary points of attack against their leading opposition, the Catholic Church.
First: Blame and Accuse the Hierarchy
Cardinals, bishops and clergymen were targeted relentlessly by the NARAL team. Every time a woman was maimed or died from complications of illegal abortion, NARAL never accused the physician of malpractice, but blamed the hierarchy and Church opposition to legal abortion. Every press conference, editorial, or published article linked the name of a clergyman with social ills or women’s woes.
The blame game included an endless indictment of Church leaders for starting a religious war, abusing tax-exempt status and even attempting to overturn the Bill of Rights!
Nathanson explained: “The anti-Catholic tactic was… central to the maintenance of unity within the High Command of the movement. In providing a palpable, visible opposition it allowed those of us setting policy and devising a strategy to occupy ourselves with the enemy. We were kept too busy to contemplate in any critical way the quintessential brutality of permissive abortion. There was always another bishop to denounce, another pastoral letter to be rebutted, another cardinal to excoriate.” (Ibid., p. 197)
Second: Support and Campaign for Catholic Pro-abortion Candidates
NARAL recognized and praised Catholic politicians who publicly expressed a softened stance on abortion. It assisted legislators with election campaigns, grassroots efforts, and financial support, regardless of party affiliation. As long as the candidate embraced legalized abortion, s/he was a candidate for NARAL’s backing. Using the complicit media, NARAL made it appear times were changing, and “pro-choice” politicians were the new majority. NARAL understood the power of perception.
Third: Split and Set Catholics Against Each Other
NARAL recognized that John and Jacqueline Kennedy were models of the modern, enlightened twentieth-century Catholic, thinking for themselves “without obeisance to church dogma.” NARAL’s strategists recognized two categories of Catholic faithful: the well-educated, fashionable “Kennedy Catholics,” and blue-collar, conservative Catholics, only one generation removed from immigration. NARAL fueled divisiveness within the Catholic Church, pitting liberal against conservative Catholics. As Dr. Nathanson recounted it, everything was in place “for the portrayal of the Catholic Church as a political force, for the use of anti-Catholicism as a political instrument, and for the manipulation of Catholics themselves by splitting them and setting them against each other.” (Ibid., p. 181)
Let it be said: The Church helped us in NARAL. The papal encyclical of 1968 [Humane Vitae] denying both abortion and contraception to Catholics was a bonanza for us at NARAL at precisely the correct moment in history. By linking abortion and contraception in the encyclical, the Vatican made it impossible for those Catholics who were using birth control to split off the abortion issue, therefore leaving them to pick their own way through the confusing ethical and theological landscape.” (Ibid., p. 189)
The leap from practicing contraception to supporting legalized abortion proved an easy one.
Fourth: Execute the Straddle
Perhaps the most common and effective tool in the NARAL strategy toolbox was ‘the Straddle’: a separation of religious conviction from legislative judgment. Nathanson wrote that it was first proposed to the Board by “such notables as Robert Drinan, SJ, and Richard Cardinal Cushing.” (Ibid., p. 177)
“To maintain their appearance as enlightened and progressive while still retaining their bona fides as Catholics, we provided [Kennedy Catholics] with the now classic ‘straddle’ for Catholics in public positions: abortion is personally abhorrent, but everyone must be free to make their own choice. Now we were ready to use them to call over the more traditional, less trendy Catholics to our cause.” (Ibid., p.181)
Of course, substitute “slavery” for “abortion” and few would agree that one person can find slavery personally abhorrent while others are free to choose whether or not to own slaves. Yet, it’s a refrain we’ve heard for decades in politics. Dr. Nathanson prophetically warned that, as long as abortion is legal, there would be increased violence, increased public turmoil and the disintegration of the American family. These bitter fruits are everywhere apparent.
I believe the abortion ethic is fatally and forever flawed by the immorality of the means of its victory. A political victory achieved by such odious tactics is at best an unstable tyranny spawned by an unscrupulous and unprincipled minority. At the very least this disclosure of those odious tactics should compel those who are uneasy with permissive abortion to re-examine the issue. I believe that an America which permits a junta of moral thugs to foist an evil of incalculable dimensions upon it, and continues to permit that evil to flower, creates for itself a deadly legacy: a millennium of shame. (Ibid., p. 209)
This powerful quote of Dr. Nathanson’s is one of my favorites. It reveals how intimately he understood the diabolic industry. Abortion does not simply “happen” as civilizations evolve; it is created with evil intent. Dr. Nathanson wanted every bishop, priest and Catholic layperson to know how they were deliberately exploited, and be motivated to act in defense of their Faith and the sanctity of every human life. It’s time to challenge the anti-Catholic bias which marginalizes the prophetic voice of the Church. Pivotal in this effort is the courage to elect pro-life leaders with the power to reverse the ebbing tide of pro-life legislation. It’s time to abort our “millennium of shame.”
Published with permission from Inside the Vatican.
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October 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The Social Media Marketing Coordinator will assist in all of LifeSiteNews’ marketing activities: including managing our large social media properties, implementing strategies to grow our social media, designing digital marketing campaigns aimed at raising awareness about LifeSite’s main issues, and helping to run our quarterly fundraising campaigns on social media platforms. We are looking for candidates who, in addition to the non-negotiable nuts and bolts digital marketing experience, also have some graphic design experience.
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lifesitenews--2020-10-30--Abp. Viganò warns Trump about ‘Great Reset’ plot to ‘subdue humanity,’ destroy freedom

October 30 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written yet another open letter to President Donald J. Trump .
Read it in its entirety below .
It is available in PDF by clicking here .
Read it in Italian here .
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity .
I write to you as an Archbishop , as a Successor of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the United States of America .
I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities .
May you accept these words of mine as the “ voice of one crying out in the desert ” ( Jn 1:23 ) .
As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June , this historical moment sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of Good ; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disoriented and disorganized , abandoned by their temporal and spiritual leaders .
Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society : the natural family , respect for human life , love of country , freedom of education and business .
We see heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul , while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an inhuman faceless tyranny A global plan called the Great Reset is underway .
Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity , imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations .
In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed ; in others it is still in an early stage .
Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project , there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures , hidden behind tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt .
The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adherence to a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups .
Beyond the enormous economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset , the imposition of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a health passport and a digital ID , with the consequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world .
Those who do not accept these measures will be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest , and all their assets will be confiscated .
Mr. President , I imagine that you are already aware that in some countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of this year and the first trimester of 2021 .
For this purpose , further lockdowns are planned , which will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and third wave of the pandemic .
You are well aware of the means that have been deployed to sow panic and legitimize draconian limitations on individual liberties , artfully provoking a world-wide economic crisis .
In the intentions of its architects , this crisis will serve to make the recourse of nations to the Great Reset irreversible , thereby giving the final blow to a world whose existence and very memory they want to completely cancel .
But this world , Mr. President , includes people , affections , institutions , faith @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : people and values that do not act like automatons , who do not obey like machines , because they are endowed with a soul and a heart , because they are tied together by a spiritual bond that draws its strength from above , from that God that our adversaries want to challenge , just as Lucifer did at the beginning of time with his “ non serviam.
” Many people – as we well know – are annoyed by this reference to the clash between Good and Evil and the use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to them exasperates spirits and sharpens divisions .
It is not surprising that the enemy is angered at being discovered just when he believes he has reached the citadel he seeks to conquer undisturbed .
What is surprising , however , is that there is no one to sound the alarm .
The reaction of the deep state to those who denounce its plan is broken and incoherent , but understandable .
Just when the complicity of the mainstream media had succeeded in making the transition to the New World Order almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deceptions , scandals and crimes are coming to light .
Until a few months ago , it was easy to smear as “ conspiracy theorists ” those who denounced these terrible plans , which we now see being carried out down to the smallest detail .
No one , up until last February , would ever have thought that , in all of our cities , citizens would be arrested simply for wanting to walk down the street , to breathe , to want to keep their business open , to want to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now it is happening all over the world , even in picture-postcard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small enchanted country , with its ancient monuments , its churches , its charming cities , its characteristic villages .
And while the politicians are barricaded inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps , businesses are failing , shops are closing , and people are prevented from living , traveling , working , and praying .
The disastrous psychological consequences of this operation are already being seen , beginning with the suicides @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , segregated from friends and classmates , told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer .
In Sacred Scripture , Saint Paul speaks to us of “ the one who opposes ” the manifestation of the mystery of iniquity , the kathèkon ( 2 Thess 2:6-7 ) .
In the religious sphere , this obstacle to evil is the Church , and in particular the papacy ; in the political sphere , it is those who impede the establishment of the New World Order .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occupies the Chair of Peter has betrayed his role from the very beginning in order to defend and promote the globalist ideology , supporting the agenda of the deep church , who chose him from its ranks .
Mr. President , you have clearly stated that you want to defend the nation – One Nation under God , fundamental liberties , and non-negotiable values that are denied and fought against today .
It is you , dear President , who are “ the one who opposes ” the deep state , the final @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For this reason , it is necessary that all people of good will be persuaded of the epochal importance of the imminent election : not so much for the sake of this or that political program , but because of the general inspiration of your action that best embodies – in this particular historical context – that world , our world , which they want to cancel by means of the lockdown .
Your adversary is also our adversary : it is the Enemy of the human race , He who is “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jn 8:44 ) .
Around you are gathered with faith and courage those who consider you the final garrison against the world dictatorship .
The alternative is to vote for a person who is manipulated by the deep state , gravely compromised by scandals and corruption , who will do to the United States what Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing to the Church , Prime Minister Conte to Italy , President Macron to France , Prime Minster Sanchez to Spain , and so on .
The blackmailable nature of Joe Biden – just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vatican ’ s “ magic circle ” – will exposehim to be used unscrupulously , allowing illegitimate powers to interfere in both domestic politics as well as international balances .
It is obvious that those who manipulate him already have someone worse than him ready , with whom they will replace him as soon as the opportunity arises .
And yet , in the midst of this bleak picture , this apparently unstoppable advance of the “ Invisible Enemy , ” an element of hope emerges .
The adversary does not know how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ understand that it is not enough to assure a universal income or to cancel mortgages in order to subjugate the masses and convince them to be branded like cattle .
This people , which for too long has endured the abuses of a hateful and tyrannical power , is rediscovering that it has a soul ; it is understanding that it is not willing to exchange its freedom for the homogenization and cancellation of its identity ; it is beginning to understand the value of familial and social ties , of the bonds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people .
This Great Reset is destined to fail because those who planned it do not understand that there are still people ready to take to the streets to defend their rights , to protect their loved ones , to give a future to their childrenand grandchildren .
The leveling inhumanity of the globalist project will shatter miserably in the face of the firm and courageous opposition of the children of Light .
The enemy has Satan on its side , He who only knows how to hate .
But on our side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the God of armies arrayed for battle , and the Most Holy Virgin , who will crush the headof the ancient Serpent .
“ If God is for us , who can be against us ?
” ( Rom 8:31 ) .
Mr. President , you are well aware that , in this crucial hour , the United States of America is considered the defending wall against which the war declared by the advocates of globalism has been unleashed .
Place your trust in the Lord , strengthened by the words of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all things in Him who strengthens me ” ( Phil 4:13 ) .
To be an instrument of Divine Providence is a great responsibility , for which you will certainly receive all the graces of state that you need , since they are being fervently implored for you by the many people who support you with their prayers .
With this heavenly hope and the assurance of my prayer for you , for the First Lady , and for your collaborators , with all my heart I send you my blessing .
Former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America

'It is you, dear President, who are 'the one who opposes' the deep state, the final assault of the children of darkness,' His Excellency wrote. 'Place your trust in the Lord.'
October 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has written yet another open letter to President Donald J. Trump. Read it in its entirety below. It is available in PDF by clicking here. Read it in Italian here.
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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DONALD J. TRUMP
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Solemnity of Christ the King
Mr. President,
Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in the desert” (Jn 1:23).
As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June, this historical moment sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of Good; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose the children of Light, who are disoriented and disorganized, abandoned by their temporal and spiritual leaders.
Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of education and business. We see heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as instrumental to the establishment of an inhuman faceless tyranny.
A global plan called the Great Reset is underway. Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations. In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.
The purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures, hidden behind tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt. The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adherence to a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups. Beyond the enormous economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset, the imposition of the vaccination will be accompanied by the requirement of a health passport and a digital ID, with the consequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world. Those who do not accept these measures will be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest, and all their assets will be confiscated.
Mr. President, I imagine that you are already aware that in some countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of this year and the first trimester of 2021. For this purpose, further lockdowns are planned, which will be officially justified by a supposed second and third wave of the pandemic. You are well aware of the means that have been deployed to sow panic and legitimize draconian limitations on individual liberties, artfully provoking a world-wide economic crisis. In the intentions of its architects, this crisis will serve to make the recourse of nations to the Great Reset irreversible, thereby giving the final blow to a world whose existence and very memory they want to completely cancel. But this world, Mr. President, includes people, affections, institutions, faith, culture, traditions, and ideals: people and values that do not act like automatons, who do not obey like machines, because they are endowed with a soul and a heart, because they are tied together by a spiritual bond that draws its strength from above, from that God that our adversaries want to challenge, just as Lucifer did at the beginning of time with his “non serviam.”
Many people – as we well know – are annoyed by this reference to the clash between Good and Evil and the use of “apocalyptic” overtones, which according to them exasperates spirits and sharpens divisions. It is not surprising that the enemy is angered at being discovered just when he believes he has reached the citadel he seeks to conquer undisturbed. What is surprising, however, is that there is no one to sound the alarm. The reaction of the deep state to those who denounce its plan is broken and incoherent, but understandable. Just when the complicity of the mainstream media had succeeded in making the transition to the New World Order almost painless and unnoticed, all sorts of deceptions, scandals and crimes are coming to light.
Until a few months ago, it was easy to smear as “conspiracy theorists” those who denounced these terrible plans, which we now see being carried out down to the smallest detail. No one, up until last February, would ever have thought that, in all of our cities, citizens would be arrested simply for wanting to walk down the street, to breathe, to want to keep their business open, to want to go to church on Sunday. Yet now it is happening all over the world, even in picture-postcard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small enchanted country, with its ancient monuments, its churches, its charming cities, its characteristic villages. And while the politicians are barricaded inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps, businesses are failing, shops are closing, and people are prevented from living, traveling, working, and praying. The disastrous psychological consequences of this operation are already being seen, beginning with the suicides of desperate entrepreneurs and of our children, segregated from friends and classmates, told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer.
In Sacred Scripture, Saint Paul speaks to us of “the one who opposes” the manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, the kathèkon (2 Thess 2:6-7). In the religious sphere, this obstacle to evil is the Church, and in particular the papacy; in the political sphere, it is those who impede the establishment of the New World Order.
As is now clear, the one who occupies the Chair of Peter has betrayed his role from the very beginning in order to defend and promote the globalist ideology, supporting the agenda of the deep church, who chose him from its ranks.
Mr. President, you have clearly stated that you want to defend the nation – One Nation under God, fundamental liberties, and non-negotiable values that are denied and fought against today. It is you, dear President, who are “the one who opposes” the deep state, the final assault of the children of darkness.
For this reason, it is necessary that all people of good will be persuaded of the epochal importance of the imminent election: not so much for the sake of this or that political program, but because of the general inspiration of your action that best embodies – in this particular historical context – that world, our world, which they want to cancel by means of the lockdown. Your adversary is also our adversary: it is the Enemy of the human race, He who is “a murderer from the beginning” (Jn 8:44).
Around you are gathered with faith and courage those who consider you the final garrison against the world dictatorship. The alternative is to vote for a person who is manipulated by the deep state, gravely compromised by scandals and corruption, who will do to the United States what Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing to the Church, Prime Minister Conte to Italy, President Macron to France, Prime Minster Sanchez to Spain, and so on. The blackmailable nature of Joe Biden – just like that of the prelates of the Vatican’s “magic circle” – will expose him to be used unscrupulously, allowing illegitimate powers to interfere in both domestic politics as well as international balances. It is obvious that those who manipulate him already have someone worse than him ready, with whom they will replace him as soon as the opportunity arises.
And yet, in the midst of this bleak picture, this apparently unstoppable advance of the “Invisible Enemy,” an element of hope emerges. The adversary does not know how to love, and it does not understand that it is not enough to assure a universal income or to cancel mortgages in order to subjugate the masses and convince them to be branded like cattle. This people, which for too long has endured the abuses of a hateful and tyrannical power, is rediscovering that it has a soul; it is understanding that it is not willing to exchange its freedom for the homogenization and cancellation of its identity; it is beginning to understand the value of familial and social ties, of the bonds of faith and culture that unite honest people. This Great Reset is destined to fail because those who planned it do not understand that there are still people ready to take to the streets to defend their rights, to protect their loved ones, to give a future to their children and grandchildren. The leveling inhumanity of the globalist project will shatter miserably in the face of the firm and courageous opposition of the children of Light. The enemy has Satan on its side, He who only knows how to hate. But on our side, we have the Lord Almighty, the God of armies arrayed for battle, and the Most Holy Virgin, who will crush the head of the ancient Serpent. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31).
Mr. President, you are well aware that, in this crucial hour, the United States of America is considered the defending wall against which the war declared by the advocates of globalism has been unleashed. Place your trust in the Lord, strengthened by the words of the Apostle Paul: “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13). To be an instrument of Divine Providence is a great responsibility, for which you will certainly receive all the graces of state that you need, since they are being fervently implored for you by the many people who support you with their prayers.
With this heavenly hope and the assurance of my prayer for you, for the First Lady, and for your collaborators, with all my heart I send you my blessing.
God bless the United States of America!
+ Carlo Maria Viganò
Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana
Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America
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