lifesitenews--2020-10-09--Another Irish priest allows Muslim to lead prayers in Catholic Church, calls Jesus ‘prophet’

DUBLIN , Ireland , October 9 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A Catholic school in Dublin invited a Muslim leader to issue a blessing to the students , as well as to offer a prayer in which he referenced Christ as a mere “ prophet.
” A local imam joined Fr .
Fergal MacDonagh at Our Lady of Dolours Church , Dolphin ’ s Barn , in a prayer service to mark the commencement of the new school year .
The Muslim leader said : “ We ask the almighty to send salutations on all his beloved servants , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Fr .
MacDonagh stood nearby , with arms extended during the proclamation .
The imam continued by ending with a prayer taken directly from the Koran .
After reading the Arabic text , he offered the English translation which referred directly to Christ being only one of the prophets .
“ O Lord all praises to you , and we ask you to send your salutations and peace to all your beloved servants , the prophets , Jesus Christ , Abraham , Muhammad , and all of them.
” There was no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fr .
MacDonagh .
The recent joint prayer service is not the first time that Fr .
MacDonagh has promoted Islam during his services .
In an interview given in April of this year , Imam Ismail Kotwal told the Dublin InQuirer that Fr .
MacDonagh had previously invited him to speak at one of his sermons on fasting .
Through accepting the invitation , the imam credited Fr .
MacDonagh with informing him about the concept of moving his prayer services online .
“ A great blessing happened to me .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to me that he has a system where they can do live broadcasting.
” A similar occurrence was seen in April of this year , as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Tuam , Ireland , invited local Muslims to offer an Islamic prayer during a Mass .
On that occasion , two Muslims sung an Islamic call to prayer , which as noted at the time by Church Militant , “ categorically proclaims Islam ’ s supremacy over its forebears — Judaism and Christianity.
” Cardinal Burke stated in a 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t believe it ’ s true that we ’ re all worshipping the same God , because the God of Islam is a governor.
” Warning of the dangers of viewing Catholics and Muslims as worshiping the same god , Burke said “ this is not helpful and ultimately it will be the end of Christianity.
” His teaching was echoed by Bishop Schneider in a recent statement he issued in reference to the Abu Dhabi Document promulgated by Pope Francis in June of this year .
Schneider said : “ That we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ God is not true .
We do not adore with them.
” Schneider also warned that Muslims view Christ as a prophet , not as the Second Person of the Trinity .
“ the Muslim conception of Jesus is a rejection of the Christian idea : for the Koran states that God can not have a Son , and so they reject the Incarnation even if they accept the Virgin Birth.
” In his book-length interview , Christus Vincit , Schneider categorically taught that “ Islam in itself is not faith…Faith is applicable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ - Father , Son , and Holy Spirit.
” Passages from the Koran itself support this .
One section of text reads : “ The Messiah , Jesus , the son of Mary , was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [ created at a command ] from Him .
So believe in Allah and His messengers .
And do not say , ‘ Three ’ ; desist - it is better for you .
Indeed , Allah is but one God .
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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--2020-10-09--Pro-life leader: Catholic bishops must oppose Vatican policy on relationships, sex education to prot

Pro-life leader: Catholic bishops must oppose Vatican policy on relationships, sex education to protect our children’s purity

Editor ’ s note : The following talk was given as part of an online conference title “ Fathers ’ Call to Bishops : Help us to defend our children ’ s purity.
” The virtual event was organized by Voice of the Family and made available via LifeSiteNews on October 9 , 2020 .
October 9 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A new coalition , Parents in Defence of Primary Educators , has been established in the UK , comprising Catholic Man UK , the Latin Mass Society and the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and grandchildren from the British Government ’ s pro-LGBT , pro-contraception and pro-abortion relationships and sex education policy – now enshrined in law .
Tragically , the Catholic Bishops ’ Conference of England and Wales ( CBCEW ) has repeatedly welcomed and expressed their support for this terrible law , due to come into force in September 2020 .
It ’ s our conviction , in the Coalition , that , in the terrible crisis we face today not least in our Catholic schools because of the false teaching of our bishops , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time for natural fathers to step forward , and to protect our children by imploring Our Lady ’ s help , and by correcting our bishops and by urging them to lead the public and parents in resisting legislation which threatens the immortal souls of our children .
Yes , Catholic parents are praying that our bishops change direction and that they begin to lead Catholic resistance to the British Government ’ s wicked legislation which makes relationships education compulsory at primary school and Relationships and Sex Education compulsory at Secondary School .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of parents of all faiths , who want to protect their children ’ s purity , can be clearly seen in statements made by British government ministers .
For example Nick Gibb , Minister of State for School Standards , speaking in the House of Commons debate on 25th June 2019 , dismissed objecting parents saying “ I am afraid that it is unlikely that we will bring those extreme ends of the debate into that consensus , but I am very content that we have secured the support of the Catholic Church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as Stonewall for the guidance we have created.
” Stonewall is a militant homosexual organisation which campaigns against Catholic teaching .
On 12th September 2020 , my fellow Coalition leaders in Parents in Defence of Primary Educators and I delivered a letter to H.E .
Vincent Cardinal Nichols , the Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops ’ Conference of England and Wales .
Our letter expressed our deep concern about the bishops ’ position .
If you want to get involved in our coalition , you can go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hear about our future events .
You will find there our letter to Cardinal Nichols – and you may wish to write yourself to your local bishop to express your concerns , respectfully but firmly , or raise the matter with your local clergy .
In the next presentation in this conference , Dr Tom Rogers will be going into distressing detail of the extent of the betrayal of the Catholic Bishops ’ Conference of England and Wales and you will find Dr Rogers ’ s full article on the topic on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I want to put the terrible situation in Britain into global ecclesiastical context .
On 24th October 2015 94 % of the bishops and cardinals attending the Ordinary Synod of the Family in Rome voted to approve a paragraph in the Final report which rejects the right of parents to choose to be the sole educators of their children in sexual matters .
The sentence , in paragraph 58 of the document , reads : “ The family , while maintaining its primary space in education ( cf .
Gravissimum Educationis , 3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place for teaching sexuality.
” This paragraph is directly contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church .
In his Encyclical Sapientiae Christianae ( 10th January 1890 ) , on the chief duties of Christians as citizens , Pope Leo XIII teaches : “ By nature parents have a right to the training of their children , but with this added duty that the education and instruction of the child be in accord with the end for which by God 's blessing it was begotten .
Therefore it is the duty of parents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invasion of their rights in this matter , and to make absolutely sure that the education of their children remain under their own control in keeping with their Christian duty , and above all to refuse to send them to those schools in which there is danger of imbibing the deadly poison of impiety .
`` [ 26 ] ” Pope Leo XIII ’ s words are given greater weight by virtue of their being cited by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri on Christian Education ( 31 December 1929 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ XI goes on to say : The teaching of Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI was also upheld by Pope Pius XII in an address to French fathers on 18th September 1951 .
The words of these Popes are steeped in Divine Law , in apostolic teaching and the tradition of the Church , as well as in a sensitive and holy knowledge of the reality of the constant battle between good and evil in the soul of every human being .
Catholic parents today have an obligation to compare and contrast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sex education to the following words from Pope John Paul II in Familiaris Consortio , his apostolic exhortation on the family in 1981 , which very much fail to convey the full teaching of the Church on the sacred obligations of parents to guard their children from temptation : “ Sex education , which is a basic right and duty of parents , must always be carried out under their attentive guidance , whether at home or in educational centres chosen and controlled by them .
In this regard , the Church reaffirms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ school is bound to observe when it cooperates in sex education , by entering into the same spirit that animates the parents.
” ( No .
37 ) .
Pope John Paul II ’ s instruction appears simply to take for granted the teaching of sex education in schools , falling into the very error described by Pope Pius XI fifty-two years earlier “ the error of those who with dangerous assurance and under an ugly term propagate a so-called sex-education ” Anyone familiar with what was happening in practice in Catholic schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more so today – as I am , having taught in a respected Catholic grammar school in London in the mid-70s and as chief executive of SPUC with reports from throughout Britain of appalling abuses of children ’ s innocence taking place in Catholic schools–would understand how Pope John Paul II ’ s teaching , departing from the teaching of previous popes , has catastrophically failed to protect our children from evil .
Even more so , Catholic parents today have an obligation to compare and contrast the teaching of Pope Leo XIII @ @ @ @ @ @ @ XII to the position now adopted by the Vatican and Pope Francis : A few months after the promulgation of Amoris Laetitia , an apostolic exhortation in which Pope Francis called for sex education in educational institutions , the Pontifical Council for the Family published a sex education programme called The Meeting Point at the World Youth Day in Poland in July 2016 .
This programme , which is intended to be taught in schools , in mixed classrooms , adopts a secularised and secularising approach , and exposes children to obscene and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the teaching of Pope Leo XIII , Pope Pius XI , Pope Pius XII to the teaching of the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales who in a training document for teachers say that an “ exalted form of love exists just as powerfully in relationships between people of the same sex as it does in heterosexual relationships ” Returning to the synods on the family which took place in Rome in 2015 , and in the previous year : In the interim report [ the Relatio post discepatationem ] of the Extraordinary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ document , the Instrumentum Laboris , of the Ordinary Synod in 2015 there were passages that suggested that homosexual unions , while not equal to marriage , nonetheless have some degree of legitimacy .
The synod fathers , bishops from around the world , rejected this approach : no such passages are found in the final reports of either synod .
The rejected approach however was reintroduced in Amoris Laetitia , The Joy of Love , Pope Francis ’ s post synodal apostolic exhortation , which states , in paragraph 52 , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great variety of family situations that can offer a certain stability , but de facto or same-sex unions , may not simply be equated with marriage.
” ( i ) that “ same-sex unions ” are one of the “ great variety of family situations ” ( iii ) that “ same-sex unions ” can be “ equated ” with marriage on some level , albeit not “ simply ” .
Furthermore paragraph 52 of Amoris Laetitia states that “ only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.
” To state that only marriage has a “ plenary role ” essentially means that other forms of union do have some role to play in society .
On 19th September 2016 , four cardinals , the Italian Carlo Caffarra , American Raymond Burke and Germans Walter Brandmüller and Joachim Meisner — sent five questions , called dubia ( Latin for “ doubts ” ) to Pope Francis and to Cardinal Gerhard Müller , prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 19 , along with an accompanying letter .
The cardinals said their aim was to clarify “ contrasting interpretations ” of Paragraphs 300-305 in Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia , relating to admission of remarried divorcees to the sacraments , and the Church ’ s moral teaching .
Dubia are formal questions brought before the Pope and the CDF aimed at eliciting a “ Yes ” or “ No ” response , “ without theological argumentation.
” The practice is a long-standing way of addressing the Apostolic See , geared towards achieving clarity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ delivered in 2017 Professor Roberto De Mattei , the distinguished Italian historian , commented powerfully on Pope Francis ’ s Amoris Laetitia and the dubia issued by the four cardinals the previous year : “ At Fatima , Our Lady showed the three little shepherds the terrifying vision of hell where the souls of poor sinners go , and it was revealed to Jacinta that it was sins against purity that lead most souls to hell .
Who could possibly have imagined one hundred years later that the public profession of impurity would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of impure sins that are committed , under the form of sexual liberation and the introduction of extramatiral unions , even homosexual , into the laws of the most important nations of the West ?
“ And who could have ever imagined that a pontifical document – Pope Francis ’ s Postsynodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia , issued on April 8 , 2016 – would endorse adultery ?
The divine and natural law does not admit exceptions .
Those who allow the exception destroy the rule .
In one of the dubia addressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ read : “ After Amoris Laetitia n. 301 , is it still possible to affirm that a person who habitually lives in contradiction to a commandment of God ’ s law , as for instance the one that prohibits adultery ( cf .
Mt 19:3 – 9 ) , finds him or herself in an objective situation of grave habitual sin ?
” The fact that today a doubt of this sort can be presented to the pope and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith indicates how very grave and deep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is immersed.
” What do Catholic parents do when Popes disagree on sex education , on adultery , on homosexual relationships ?
The answer must surely be that parents must reflect on Catholic doctrine on faith and morals , as revealed in the scriptures , particularly in the Gospel , and as revealed by sacred tradition , that is the teachings of the Apostles , as transmitted faithfully from one generation to the next , at times infallibly , from the time of Christ .
What a blessing it is for parents , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Christ in St Matthew ’ s Gospel ( Chapter 11 , verses 25 and 26 ) : “ At that time Jesus answered and said : I confess to thee , O Father , Lord of Heaven and Earth , because thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones .
Yea , Father : for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.
” Parents today are not for the most part theological scholars – and they never have been since the time of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but faithful Catholic parents both know and can confidently affirm , without fear of being contradicted by any authority in this world or the next , that God ’ s commandment “ Honour thy Father and thy Mother ” , reaffirmed by God the Son during his life on earth , establishes for all time that parents are the primary educators and protectors of their children .
Faithful , unlearned , Catholic parents are also fully capable of understanding Christ ’ s words concerning giving scandal to children : “ … he that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that believe in me , it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck , and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea ” .
Catholic parents know , and Catholic fathers in particular must remind their bishops that these words provide a terrible warning to those , including Catholic bishops , who promote the showing of pornographic images in the classroom to children young and old and who allow false ideas about human sexuality , including homosexuality , to be taught in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this weekend , let me conclude by recalling once more the teaching of the archbishops and bishops of England and Wales in their pastoral letter to be read out in all churches and chapels of England and Wales on the third Sunday after Easter , in 1944 : “ To the question whether the method called ‘ sexual education ’ or even ‘ sexual initiation ’ could be approved , the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office , on 21st March , 1931 , replied ‘ in the negative ’ , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ youth employed by the Church and holy men in the past , and commended by Pope Pius XI in the encyclical on ‘ The Christian Education of Youth ’ , 31st December 1929 , must be preserved ’ .
The method commended by the Pope , in the encyclical referred to , is clear .
In this extremely delicate matter ’ says the Holy Father , ‘ if all things considered , some individual instruction is found necessary and opportune from those who hold from God the commission to educate and who the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be taken .
Such precautions are well known in traditional Christian education.
’ These words , taken in conjunction with the decree of the Holy Office , leave no room to doubt that the Church is opposed to collective or public sex education with or without supposed ‘ safeguards ’ .
She teaches that , in place of such methods , of sex education , ‘ care must be taken , in the first place , to give a full , firm , and uninterrupted religious instruction to youth of both sexes ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ love of the angelic virtue be instilled into them ; that they shall be urged , especially , to be instant in prayer , assiduous in the reception of the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist ; that they shall cultivate a filial devotion to the Blessed Virgin , Mother of holy purity , and place themselves under her protection ; and that they shall carefully avoid dangerous reading , immodest shows , bad company , and all occasions of sin ’ .
I ’ m pleased to tell you that Voice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ challenge to which the Catholic bishops of England and Wales referred in 1944 .
Voice of the Family aims to help parents “ to give a full , firm , and uninterrupted religious instruction to youth of both sexes ” .
Next month , 13th October , sees the launch of an entire video catechism course filled with sacred art and music so that your family can have the opportunity to be formed by the timeless truths of the Catholic faith .

Editor’s note: The following talk was given as part of an online conference title “Fathers’ Call to Bishops: Help us to defend our children’s purity.” The virtual event was organized by Voice of the Family and made available via LifeSiteNews on October 9, 2020.
October 9, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A new coalition, Parents in Defence of Primary Educators, has been established in the UK, comprising Catholic Man UK, the Latin Mass Society and the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Our coalition wants to protect our children and grandchildren from the British Government’s pro-LGBT, pro-contraception and pro-abortion relationships and sex education policy – now enshrined in law.
Tragically, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW) has repeatedly welcomed and expressed their support for this terrible law, due to come into force in September 2020.
It’s our conviction, in the Coalition, that, in the terrible crisis we face today not least in our Catholic schools because of the false teaching of our bishops, our spiritual fathers, it’s time for natural fathers to step forward, and to protect our children by imploring Our Lady’s help, and by correcting our bishops and by urging them to lead the public and parents in resisting legislation which threatens the immortal souls of our children.
Yes, Catholic parents are praying that our bishops change direction and that they begin to lead Catholic resistance to the British Government’s wicked legislation which makes relationships education compulsory at primary school and Relationships and Sex Education compulsory at Secondary School.
The significance of the bishops’ betrayal of parents of all faiths, who want to protect their children’s purity, can be clearly seen in statements made by British government ministers. For example Nick Gibb, Minister of State for School Standards, speaking in the House of Commons debate on 25th June 2019, dismissed objecting parents saying “I am afraid that it is unlikely that we will bring those extreme ends of the debate into that consensus, but I am very content that we have secured the support of the Catholic Church, the Church of England and organisations such as Stonewall for the guidance we have created.”
Stonewall is a militant homosexual organisation which campaigns against Catholic teaching.
On 12th September 2020, my fellow Coalition leaders in Parents in Defence of Primary Educators and I delivered a letter to H.E. Vincent Cardinal Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. Our letter expressed our deep concern about the bishops’ position.
If you want to get involved in our coalition, you can go to our website primaryeducators.org.uk and sign up to hear about our future events. You will find there our letter to Cardinal Nichols – and you may wish to write yourself to your local bishop to express your concerns, respectfully but firmly, or raise the matter with your local clergy.
In the next presentation in this conference, Dr Tom Rogers will be going into distressing detail of the extent of the betrayal of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and you will find Dr Rogers’s full article on the topic on the Coalition website.
For my part, I want to put the terrible situation in Britain into global ecclesiastical context.
On 24th October 2015 94% of the bishops and cardinals attending the Ordinary Synod of the Family in Rome voted to approve a paragraph in the Final report which rejects the right of parents to choose to be the sole educators of their children in sexual matters.
The sentence, in paragraph 58 of the document, reads:
“The family, while maintaining its primary space in education (cf. Gravissimum Educationis, 3), cannot be the only place for teaching sexuality.”
This paragraph is directly contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church.
In his Encyclical Sapientiae Christianae (10th January 1890), on the chief duties of Christians as citizens, Pope Leo XIII teaches:
“By nature parents have a right to the training of their children, but with this added duty that the education and instruction of the child be in accord with the end for which by God's blessing it was begotten. Therefore it is the duty of parents to make every effort to prevent any invasion of their rights in this matter, and to make absolutely sure that the education of their children remain under their own control in keeping with their Christian duty, and above all to refuse to send them to those schools in which there is danger of imbibing the deadly poison of impiety.”[26]”
Pope Leo XIII’s words are given greater weight by virtue of their being cited by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri on Christian Education (31 December 1929) In this encyclical, Pope Pius XI goes on to say:
65. Another very grave danger is that naturalism which nowadays invades the field of education in that most delicate matter of purity of morals. Far too common is the error of those who with dangerous assurance and under an ugly term propagate a so-called sex-education, falsely imagining they can forearm youths against the dangers of sensuality by means purely natural, such as a foolhardy initiation and precautionary instruction for all indiscriminately, even in public; and, worse still, by exposing them at an early age to the occasions, in order to accustom them, so it is argued, and as it were to harden them against such dangers. 66. Such persons grievously err in refusing to recognize the inborn weakness of human nature, and the law of which the Apostle speaks, fighting against the law of the mind;[43] and also in ignoring the experience of facts, from which it is clear that, particularly in young people, evil practices are the effect not so much of ignorance of intellect as of weakness of a will exposed to dangerous occasions, and unsupported by the means of grace.
The teaching of Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI was also upheld by Pope Pius XII in an address to French fathers on 18th September 1951. The words of these Popes are steeped in Divine Law, in apostolic teaching and the tradition of the Church, as well as in a sensitive and holy knowledge of the reality of the constant battle between good and evil in the soul of every human being.
Catholic parents today have an obligation to compare and contrast the teaching of these three Popes on sex education to the following words from Pope John Paul II in Familiaris Consortio, his apostolic exhortation on the family in 1981, which very much fail to convey the full teaching of the Church on the sacred obligations of parents to guard their children from temptation:
“Sex education, which is a basic right and duty of parents, must always be carried out under their attentive guidance, whether at home or in educational centres chosen and controlled by them. In this regard, the Church reaffirms the law of subsidiarity, which the school is bound to observe when it cooperates in sex education, by entering into the same spirit that animates the parents.” (No. 37).
Pope John Paul II’s instruction appears simply to take for granted the teaching of sex education in schools, falling into the very error described by Pope Pius XI fifty-two years earlier “the error of those who with dangerous assurance and under an ugly term propagate a so-called sex-education”
Anyone familiar with what was happening in practice in Catholic schools in the 70s and 80s and even more so today – as I am, having taught in a respected Catholic grammar school in London in the mid-70s and as chief executive of SPUC with reports from throughout Britain of appalling abuses of children’s innocence taking place in Catholic schools–would understand how Pope John Paul II’s teaching, departing from the teaching of previous popes, has catastrophically failed to protect our children from evil.
Even more so, Catholic parents today have an obligation to compare and contrast the teaching of Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII to the position now adopted by the Vatican and Pope Francis: A few months after the promulgation of Amoris Laetitia, an apostolic exhortation in which Pope Francis called for sex education in educational institutions, the Pontifical Council for the Family published a sex education programme called The Meeting Point at the World Youth Day in Poland in July 2016.
This programme, which is intended to be taught in schools, in mixed classrooms, adopts a secularised and secularising approach, and exposes children to obscene and pornographic images.
Finally compare and contrast the teaching of Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII to the teaching of the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales who in a training document for teachers say that an “exalted form of love exists just as powerfully in relationships between people of the same sex as it does in heterosexual relationships”
Returning to the synods on the family which took place in Rome in 2015, and in the previous year:
In the interim report [the Relatio post discepatationem] of the Extraordinary Synod of 2014 and in the preparatory document, the Instrumentum Laboris, of the Ordinary Synod in 2015 there were passages that suggested that homosexual unions, while not equal to marriage, nonetheless have some degree of legitimacy. The synod fathers, bishops from around the world, rejected this approach: no such passages are found in the final reports of either synod.
The rejected approach however was reintroduced in Amoris Laetitia, The Joy of Love, Pope Francis’s post synodal apostolic exhortation, which states, in paragraph 52, that:
“We need to acknowledge the great variety of family situations that can offer a certain stability, but de facto or same-sex unions, may not simply be equated with marriage.”
This implies:
(i) that “same-sex unions” are one of the “great variety of family situations”
(ii) that “same-sex unions” offer a “certain stability” and
(iii) that “same-sex unions” can be “equated” with marriage on some level, albeit not “simply”.
Furthermore paragraph 52 of Amoris Laetitia states that “only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.” To state that only marriage has a “plenary role” essentially means that other forms of union do have some role to play in society.
On 19th September 2016, four cardinals, the Italian Carlo Caffarra, American Raymond Burke and Germans Walter Brandmüller and Joachim Meisner — sent five questions, called dubia (Latin for “doubts”) to Pope Francis and to Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), on Sept. 19, along with an accompanying letter. The cardinals said their aim was to clarify “contrasting interpretations” of Paragraphs 300-305 in Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia, relating to admission of remarried divorcees to the sacraments, and the Church’s moral teaching.
Dubia are formal questions brought before the Pope and the CDF aimed at eliciting a “Yes” or “No” response, “without theological argumentation.” The practice is a long-standing way of addressing the Apostolic See, geared towards achieving clarity on Church teaching.
In a lecture delivered in 2017 Professor Roberto De Mattei, the distinguished Italian historian, commented powerfully on Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and the dubia issued by the four cardinals the previous year:
“At Fatima, Our Lady showed the three little shepherds the terrifying vision of hell where the souls of poor sinners go, and it was revealed to Jacinta that it was sins against purity that lead most souls to hell. Who could possibly have imagined one hundred years later that the public profession of impurity would have been added to the immense number of impure sins that are committed, under the form of sexual liberation and the introduction of extramatiral unions, even homosexual, into the laws of the most important nations of the West?
“And who could have ever imagined that a pontifical document – Pope Francis’s Postsynodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, issued on April 8, 2016 – would endorse adultery? The divine and natural law does not admit exceptions. Those who allow the exception destroy the rule. In one of the dubia addressed by the cardinals to the pope we read: “After Amoris Laetitia n. 301, is it still possible to affirm that a person who habitually lives in contradiction to a commandment of God’s law, as for instance the one that prohibits adultery (cf. Mt 19:3 – 9), finds him or herself in an objective situation of grave habitual sin?” The fact that today a doubt of this sort can be presented to the pope and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith indicates how very grave and deep is the crisis in which the Church is immersed.”
What do Catholic parents do when Popes disagree on sex education, on adultery, on homosexual relationships?
The answer must surely be that parents must reflect on Catholic doctrine on faith and morals, as revealed in the scriptures, particularly in the Gospel, and as revealed by sacred tradition, that is the teachings of the Apostles, as transmitted faithfully from one generation to the next, at times infallibly, from the time of Christ.
What a blessing it is for parents, then, to hear the words of Christ in St Matthew’s Gospel (Chapter 11, verses 25 and 26): “At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.”
Parents today are not for the most part theological scholars – and they never have been since the time of Christ. However, countless unlearned, but faithful Catholic parents both know and can confidently affirm, without fear of being contradicted by any authority in this world or the next, that God’s commandment “Honour thy Father and thy Mother”, reaffirmed by God the Son during his life on earth, establishes for all time that parents are the primary educators and protectors of their children.
Faithful, unlearned, Catholic parents are also fully capable of understanding Christ’s words concerning giving scandal to children: “ … he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea”. Catholic parents know, and Catholic fathers in particular must remind their bishops that these words provide a terrible warning to those, including Catholic bishops, who promote the showing of pornographic images in the classroom to children young and old and who allow false ideas about human sexuality, including homosexuality, to be taught in the classroom.
In praying for our bishops this weekend, let me conclude by recalling once more the teaching of the archbishops and bishops of England and Wales in their pastoral letter to be read out in all churches and chapels of England and Wales on the third Sunday after Easter, in 1944:
“To the question whether the method called ‘sexual education’ or even ‘sexual initiation’ could be approved, the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, on 21st March, 1931, replied ‘in the negative’, and directed that ‘the method of educating youth employed by the Church and holy men in the past, and commended by Pope Pius XI in the encyclical on ‘The Christian Education of Youth’, 31st December 1929, must be preserved’. The method commended by the Pope, in the encyclical referred to, is clear. In this extremely delicate matter’ says the Holy Father, ‘if all things considered, some individual instruction is found necessary and opportune from those who hold from God the commission to educate and who the grace of state, every precaution must be taken. Such precautions are well known in traditional Christian education.’ These words, taken in conjunction with the decree of the Holy Office, leave no room to doubt that the Church is opposed to collective or public sex education with or without supposed ‘safeguards’. She teaches that, in place of such methods, of sex education, ‘care must be taken, in the first place, to give a full, firm, and uninterrupted religious instruction to youth of both sexes; that an esteem and desire for and love of the angelic virtue be instilled into them; that they shall be urged, especially, to be instant in prayer, assiduous in the reception of the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist; that they shall cultivate a filial devotion to the Blessed Virgin, Mother of holy purity, and place themselves under her protection; and that they shall carefully avoid dangerous reading, immodest shows, bad company, and all occasions of sin’.
I’m pleased to tell you that Voice of the Family has taken up the challenge to which the Catholic bishops of England and Wales referred in 1944. Voice of the Family aims to help parents “to give a full, firm, and uninterrupted religious instruction to youth of both sexes”. Next month, 13th October, sees the launch of an entire video catechism course filled with sacred art and music so that your family can have the opportunity to be formed by the timeless truths of the Catholic faith.
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lifesitenews--2020-10-09--Ted Cruz: Big Tech censorship is ‘greatest threat to freedom of speech’

October 9 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Senator Ted Cruz ( R-TX ) has identified Big Tech ’ s “ brazen ” manipulation and censorship of information as “ the single greatest threat to free speech and democracy ” in the United States today .
“ There are a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires who have amassed more power than ever seen before over information , over the public square , over discourse , and Big Tech is brazen , ” Cruz said .
“ [ It ] is shamelessly silencing and censoring conservatives , censoring libertarians , censoring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ censoring pro-life supporters , censoring any views that they disagree with.
” Cruz made his remarks during an interview with Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Wednesday .
The senator reminded Breitbart that he had chaired committees tasked with examining Big Tech censorship in a series of hearings .
One of the witnesses was Dr. Robert Epstein , who earned a PhD in psychology at Harvard and is the founder of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Massachusetts .
“ [ Epstein ] did an empirical analysis of Google in 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concluded that manipulated and biased search results on Google shifted 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton .
[ Epstein was ] a liberal Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton and openly supported her , but he nonetheless was outraged that a giant Silicon Valley company was putting their finger on the scale , and actively manipulating the election outcome.
” Cruz added that Epstein has warned that in 2020 Google could shift 10 to 15 million votes to Joe Biden .
“ That ’ s what we ’ re facing , and they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their might , ” the senator said .
“ Silicon Valley is mad that Trump was elected , and so , yes , they are silencing us right now and that means we have to work harder.
” But as there is less than a month until the election “ a three year study project ain ’ t gon na do it , ” he said .
Cruz believes that the Republican campaign has to “ mobilize and communicate ” despite Big Tech manipulation of information , and that the White House and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tech to court to protect Americans ’ freedom of speech .
“ We ’ ve got to mobilize and communicate , despite their power and lies and manipulations , and then we need the seriousness of purpose within the administration to bring enforcement actions and prosecution actions , which I have been urging the president [ and ] the attorney general of the administration to do for four years , ” he said .
Earlier in the interview Cruz said the Republicans are now expected to warn Americans about the dangers of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and full of hate .
“ The defining characteristic of the Left today is hatred of Donald Trump , ” he stated .
“ That is the unifying thread on the Democrat side.
” LifeSiteNews recently interviewed Allum Bokhari , Breitbart ’ s senior technology correspondent , about his book # Deleted : Big Tech ’ s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election .
There Bokhari had amassed 16 chapters of evidence that Google and social media companies are hiding and banning conservative content , hell-bent on getting Donald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ November .
LifeSiteNews also launched a video series on Big Tech and free speech , featuring , among others , Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center , Alison Centofante of pro-life group Live Action , and Prudence Robertson of the Susan B. Anthony List , another pro-life organization .
In recent weeks , Facebook has removed an ad by the conservative American Principles Project ( APP ) that calls out former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democrats for supporting policies that allow men who claim to be women to compete in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is part of Facebook , removed a LifeSiteNews post for allegedly going “ against our Community Guidelines ” and containing “ harmful false information.
” The post referred to an article on renowned Yale professor Harvey A. Risch praising the benefits of using hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ ) in treating COVID-19 patients .
YouTube , a Google brand , deleted a June interview with Dr. Scott Atlas , who has since taken on a role advising the administration of President Donald Trump on its response to COVID-19 , arguing his views conflict with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( WHO ) .
See also LifeSite ’ s page dedicated to Big Tech and free speech HERE .
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PETITION UPDATE (12/11/2020)
Right before Thanksgiving, YouTube deleted a LifeSite video of a distinguished Canadian physician protesting the "unfounded public hysteria" over COVID-19 and accused us of spreading "medical misinformation."
Our account was suspended, and we were prohibited from posting videos on our YouTube channel for one week. And, while that may not seem like a big deal, it's a huge deal for a news organization like LifeSite.
Then, earlier this week, YouTube again suspended our account – this time for two weeks – over an episode of The Bishop Strickland Show wherein Bishop Strickland said he would not take an unethical COVID-19 vaccine.
We were able to appeal the suspension, and our request was granted.
This means that in YouTube's three-strikes-and-you're-out content-policing, idea-cleansing scheme, we are back down to one strike. But, we still face the threat of losing our account permanently.
And, we're not the only ones.
In a recent turn of events, YouTube just announced that it will remove videos alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
But, what is YouTube afraid of? The truth???
Thankfully, however, there is a one, big bright spot on the horizon: 48 states filed suit against Facebook just this week.
And, although this seems like a step in the right direction, the draconian measures which YouTube just rolled out, which are already wielded by Twitter, are an assault against free speech.
So, the fight for freedom of speech against Big Tech goes on. And, we must do everything we can to protect it!
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-youtube-reverses-ban-on-lifesitenews?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-bans-lifesite-over-video-of-bp-strickland-refusing-to-take-corona-vaccine
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lifesites-channel-was-suspended-by-youtube-heres-how-you-can-still-watch-our-videos
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-starts-removing-videos-that-contain-allegations-of-mass-voter-fraud
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/12/10/facebook-sued-by-48-states-federal-trade-commission-over-allegations-of-monopolistic-practices/
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PETITION UPDATE (11/18/2020)
Everyone thought the censorship by Big Tech corporations would decrease after the 2020 election, but the truth is that censorship is being felt just as much as it was before the election.
And, given the election outcome, perhaps Big Tech censorship now is even more consequential than it was before the election!
The two biggest social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and other Big Tech companies, are still censoring and suppressing stories and posts favorable to conservatives, and especially anything that has to do with election fraud.
Here are a few recent examples:
Women for America First organized the March for Trump on November 14, which was shut down by Facebook, MailChimp and Eventbrite. Despite Big Tech’s best efforts to cancel the event, the march went on and gathered a huge crowd.
Twitter has been suppressing a large number of President Trump’s Tweets. Most of his Tweets have been flagged arbitrarily with a warning stating: “This claim about election fraud is disputed."
Please READ this recent article about Big Tech's attempt to choke information conerning the recent Million MAGA March in Washington, DC: '5 things mainstream media won’t tell you about massive DC ‘Stop the Steal’ rally'
Then, please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
PETITION UPDATE (10/15/2020)
In a remarkable development, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham have announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas to Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg for their company's suppression of two critical expose news stories about how Hunter Biden and the Biden Family allegedly profited from business deals made because of Joe Biden's position as Vice President.
Please WATCH LifeSite's exclusive video of the announcement by Senator Ted Cruz below.
According to the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham, the subpoenas will be issued next Tuesday, for hearings to be held on Friday of next week.
This is a MASSIVE development, and should be welcomed by those who champion freedom of speech.
Again, this is all happening because Twitter and Facebook refuse to allow their members to share stories which would be favorable to conservatives.
Here's the timeline:
Yesterday, Twitter and Facebook suppressed a NY Post story about how Hunter Biden allegedly profited from introducing a Ukrainian businessman to his then-Vice President father, Joe Biden. The story also alleges that Vice President Biden then subsequently pressured Ukrainian authorities to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the businessman's company.
And, just this morning, Twitter suppressed another expose by the NY Post alleging that the Biden Family improperly profitted from deals made with one of the largest Chinese energy companies because of Vice President Biden's position in government.
But, right after the story broke, Senator Cruz tried to share the latest story on Twitter and was blocked. Twitter says that they are blocking the stories because they claim that the information was obtained illegally. However, Twitter showed no problem allowing illegally obtained information about President Trump's tax returns to be shared.
Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'GOP senators decry Big Tech censorship of NY Post story exposing Biden corruption' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gop-senators-decry-big-tech-censorship-of-ny-post-story-exposing-biden-corruption
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PETITION UPDATE (9/17/2020)
Big Tech is out to kill free speech. LifeSite is out to protect it!
LifeSite has been digging deep into the many claims of liberal bias and selective censorship of pro-life, pro-family, and conservative voices on social media.
And, we are now launching our new series 'Uncensored: Big Tech vs. Free Speech', which will unpack how the actions of Big Tech censors actually affect conservative and Christian organization and individuals.
Please WATCH the first video in our series featuring Brigitte Gabriel, the Founder of ACT For America, one of the nation's premier national security grassroots organizations.
Ms. Gabriel's organization, ACT For America, has been targeted by Big Tech especially in the manipulation of search results.
Big Tech “think[s] they are God and they are exercising their godly power over everybody else,” Gabriel explained. "Because in today's world, anytime you want to find out any information about somebody, what do you do? Google. You go to the internet to find out some information about them. When you research anything about somebody, the first thing that comes up [in the search results] is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labeling of ‘hate groups.’”
“And who are the ‘hate groups’? Family Research Council is a hate group because they are pro-family. American Family Radio is a hate group…LifeSiteNews is a hate group. My organization is a hate group because we sound the alarm about terrorism and protecting our constitutional freedom. And so they try to character assassinate you. And they control the language.”
LifeSite's research shows that Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and others have become far too dangerous for democracy.
They can and do sway elections and public opinion in whatever direction they want, primarily by manipulating search results, tracking our online behavior, and by blocking truthful content from their platforms.
Today, LifeSite is starting to fight back, with facts and with stories of conservatives and Christians who are being negatively impacted by Big Tech's liberal bias.
Please continue to follow our 'Big Tech vs. Free Speech' series which aims to launch a new video each week for the next eight weeks.
And, please sign our petition demanding that Big Tech monopolies are broken up. Thank you!
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ORIGINAL PETITION BACKGROUND TEXT:
The outrageous erasing of the White Coat Summit from the internet is only the latest in a long series of brazen acts of censorship against conservatives and all those who support legitimate free speech.
You may agree or disagree with the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, but everyone should agree on this point:
No Big Tech company should have the power to erase from the internet the medical opinions of licensed practicing doctors simply because they do not like what they have to say about the coronavirus or their experience treating it. Americans and other free peoples do not need leftist computer programmers deciding what the best course of medical treatment is for them.
Google/Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and their Big Tech friends want to control what you see, what you read, what you think, and ultimately, how you vote. Not only do they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying congress and buttering up big Washington DC think tanks, but now they brazenly and directly censor any content they don't want you to see.
Big Tech, like other interest groups, aggressively lobby to help their businesses thrive, but increasingly, Big Tech is using blatant internet censorship to impose its radical world view over those they consider to be "deplorables."
This must stop, but it won't unless we demand it as forcefully as legally possible. We believe that we have reached the point were Big Tech must be broken up if legitimate free speech is going to survive and continue to thrive on the internet.
Please sign our petition to demand real consequences for Big Tech's suppression of legitimate free speech.
In 2016, emails revealed by Fox News' Tucker Carlson proved that Google tried to influence the election by affecting voter turnout. Thankfully they failed. But they didn't give up. Instead, they have been preparing and testing how to manipulate information to continue to abuse their monopolistic power.
In 2018, Google/Youtube et. al. succeeded in manipulating the Irish abortion referendum by blacklisting pro-life videos, manipulating pro-life search terms and results and intentionally withholding pro-life information. Again, this is not an opinion or a conspiracy theory, Project Veritas obtained first hand information proving the intentional censorship by Big Tech.
And the Coronavirus has just made things worse. You see, scared people are more easily manipulated into giving up their freedom of speech. Children are being kept from going to school, tens of millions of Americans are out of work, and rioting has broken out in most major American cities.
Now, more than ever, freedom of speech is necessary to secure all of our freedoms. Freedom of speech is crucial to truly exercise the freedom to vote for the person that best represents one's own views, or the freedom to decide what course of medical treatment to accept - especially the decision to control what vaccines are administered to our children.
Some experts, like Dr. Robert Epstein, a behavioral psychologist who has testified before congress against Big Tech believes that we may already be too late to control Big Tech's tyrannical control over information.
President Trump took a step in the right direction with his Executive Order calling for increased regulation of Big Tech. But much more can be done and needs to be done right now.
In an era where almost everything is polarized, there is an overwhelming support for breaking up the Big Tech monopolies. A recent Pew poll found that 75% of Americans believe that Big Tech companies have too much influence.
It is time to bring serious accountability to Big Tech for their attempts to use their monopolies to kill free speech.
It is time to break up Big Tech.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Google, Facebook, Twitter shut down ‘frontline’ US doctors who promote ‘cure for COVID’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/google-facebook-twitter-shut-down-frontline-us-doctors-who-promote-cure-for-covid?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard
Americans overwhelmingly agree Big Tech has too much power: Pew poll - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll
Leaked Google employee's email reveals effort to boost Latino vote, surprise that some voted for Trump - https://www.foxnews.com/tech/leaked-google-employees-email-reveals-effort-to-boost-latino-vote-surprise-that-some-voted-for-trump
Undercover video proves Google interfered in Irish abortion referendum - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll


lifesitenews--2020-10-09--Biden redobla su compromiso de hacer del aborto a pedido la ‘ley de la tierra’

Read this article in English here .
Read this article in English here .

PETITION UPDATE (9/26/2020):
With President Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we are closer than we have been in decades to seeing Roe vs. Wade overturned.
We now encourage the Senate to confirm Barrett as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Judge Barrett has a fantastic track recond on sanctity of life issues, has seven children, and is a devout believer. She is the perfect remedy for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's radical pro-abortionism.
Please READ the full story here: 'BREAKING: Trump nominates Catholic mom of 7 Judge Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court'
And then, please SIGN this petition telling the High Court that it's now time to end the activist Roe vs. Wade judgment. Thank you!
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PETITION UPDATE (6/29/2020):
In a decision which has imperiled more abortion-minded women, sentenced more preborn to death, and upset pro-lifers across the nation,the United States Supreme Court decided 5-4 to strike down a Louisiana law requiring basic medical precautions in the event of abortion complications, with Chief Justice John Roberts reversing his own past decision to uphold a similar Texas law.
Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion, which held that the Louisiana law was unconstitutional for the simple fact that it was “almost word-for-word identical” to the Texas one the court already struck down in 2016.
In his concurring opinion, Chief Justice Roberts acknowledged that he had “joined the dissent in Whole Woman’s Health and continue to believe that the case was wrongly decided. The question today however is not whether Whole Woman’s Health was right or wrong, but whether to adhere to it in deciding the present case.”
We call on the Supreme Court to stop supporting the culture of death and overturn Roe vs Wade, now.
PETITION UPDATE (1/20/2020):
Hundreds of thousands of people will gather in Washington, D.C., this coming Friday, January 24th, for the March for Life. They will be praying for an end to Roe vs Wade, as the Supreme Court will hear a crucial, abortion-related case later this year in March. United our voices can change the course of history. Sign this petition TODAY! (LEARN MORE BELOW)
PETITION UPDATE (1/3/2020):
In advance of the Supreme Court's hearing arguments in an important abortion case later this year in March, 207 U.S. Senators and Representatives have signed amicus briefs supporting a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital nearby an abortion center.
Some of these supporting briefs also suggest that now is the time to reconsider Roe vs Wade as sound law.
Please SIGN this petition, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Roe vs Wade.
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More than 60 million Americans have been slaughtered in their mother's wombs as a result of Roe v. Wade. This activist, unconstitutional ruling in 1973 has left countless women emotionally and psychologically scarred.
It was believed by many that Roe would be overturned in 1992 with Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Despite having eight Republican-appointed judges at the time, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold it.
Since then, major gains have been made in the fight for life, and many lives have been saved.
However, Roe v. Wade remains the law of the land, leaving millions of defenseless pre-born children vulnerable to murder.
According to a 2016 study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 35% of aborted babies are African American, despite black women only making up six percent of the U.S. population. 19% of aborted babies are Hispanic.
We thus again call on the court to do everything they can to end Roe vs Wade.
Now is the time for pro-lifers to join together and ensure that all of God's children have a right to life.
Roe v. Wade must come to an end!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-abortion-regulations
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/over-200-congressmen-as-us-supreme-court-to-reconsider-roe-v-wade
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/congress-members-file-competing-legal-briefs-in-key-scotus-abortion-case