lifesitenews--2020-08-28--Archbishop Viganò: Moms must protect children from the state

ITALY , August 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a letter to mothers in Italy , warning them that they must protect their children from corruption by the state .
In his impassioned address , written on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , the archbishop endorsed an upcoming parents ’ protest in September against the security measures and secular values being imposed on Italian schools .
Viganò reminded mothers that parents have an “ inalienable right ” and duty to educate their children .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , much less corrupt children and indoctrinate them in the perverse principles that are so widespread today , ” he wrote ( full letter translated and published below ) .
The Archbishop warned that usurpation of the parents ’ role is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes , “ not of a civil and Christian nation ” and stressed that if they permit this , their own values will be rejected .
“ It is your duty to raise your voice so that these attempts to steal the education of your children may be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be able to do very little for them if your faith , ideas , and culture are judged incompatible with those of an impious and materialistic state.
” He later added that the “ idea that children are the property of the state repulses every human person.
” Viganò asserted that the family is the foundation of society and that attempts to demolish it must be denounced .
He stressed that the presence of both a mother and a father is “ fundamental ” to children ’ s upbringing and decried the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ otherwise .
“ You can easily understand the impact of the destruction of the family on the civil consortium , ” he added .
“ Today we have right before our eyes the results of decades of unfortunate policies that inevitably lead to the dissolution of society.
” The archbishop also condemned abortion and the Italian government ’ s recent decision to remove safeguards on the use of abortion pills in the country and suggested that Italy can not hope for God ’ s blessing when “ human sacrifices are being made in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reflect on the use of material from aborted fetuses to create vaccines and the threat of vaccines that may be dangerous .
He deplored the possibility that children with the coronavirus may be taken from their parents and the more immediate problem of children having to wear masks and being forced into “ social distancing ” at school .
“ It seems that the very notion of common sense that ought to govern choices fraught with consequences in social life has been lost , ” Viganò remarked .
The archbishop also took @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appointing former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti , who belongs to such international NGOs as the Bilderberg Club , as the new President of the European Commision for Health and Development “ This mixing of private interests in public affairs , inspired by the dictates of Masonic and globalist thought , should be vigorously denounced by those who are representatives of the citizens , and by those who see their legitimate powers usurped by an elite that has never made a mystery of its true intentions , ” Viganò wrote .
The Archbishop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may not be the best way to stop the Covid-19 pandemic , and accused the WHO of being in league with pharmaceutical companies to transform “ citizens into chronically ill people.
” “ How can we think that the search for cures and therapies is being promoted in a disinterested way if those who finance the search profit disproportionately from the persistence of pathologies ?
” he asked .
Calling upon Catholic doctors to be faithful to their vocation , Viganò mourned the “ new orientation ” of the Pontifical Academy for Life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hopes for mass vaccination .
The archbishop declared that “ it is absolutely inadmissible to accept a vaccination that utilizes material coming from human fetuses in its process of production.
” The archbishop also condemned any state attempt to impose vaccination on citizens and the ideology of those who would like to use nanotechnologies to control their fellow man .
Disclaimer : Some of the claims in Archbishop Viganò ’ s letter do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews and are presented only for your information .
Two notes of clarification have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provided by the Archbishop after a request made by LifeSite .
“ Let ’ s save our children from the health dictatorship !
Let ’ s save Italy from the ferocious global tyranny !
” I have received your kind email , in which you inform me of the initiative you have scheduled for this coming September 5 for the protection of the physical , moral , and spiritual health of your children .
In responding to you , I address all the mothers of Italy .
The demonstration you are promoting intends @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in particular of parents against the norms that the government , abusing its power , is preparing to issue in view of the new school year ; norms that will have very grave repercussions on the health and psychosomatic equilibrium of students , as authoritative experts have rightly demonstrated .
First of all , the systematic effort to demolish the family , the foundation of society , must be denounced , with the multiplication of ferocious attacks not only against conjugal life , which Christ has elevated to a Sacrament , but also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fact that marriage is by nature constituted between a man and a woman in an indissoluble bond of fidelity and reciprocal assistance .
The presence of a father and a mother is fundamental in the upbringing of children , who need a male and female figure as a reference for their integral and harmonious development ; nor can it be permitted that children , during the most delicate phase of their infancy and adolescence , be used to advance partisan ideological claims , with serious damage for their psychosomatic equilibrium , by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reject the very idea of nature .
You can easily understand the impact of the destruction of the family on the civil consortium : today we have right before our eyes the results of decades of unfortunate policies that inevitably lead to the dissolution of society .
These policies , inspired by principles that are repugnant both to the Law of nature inscribed in man by the Creator as well as to the positive Law of God given in the Commandments , combine to permit children to be placed at the mercy of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sacredness of life and conception become objects of commerce , humiliating motherhood and the dignity of woman .
Sons can not be bred by mares for a fee , because they are the fruit of a love that Providence has ordained must always be an enduring love , even in the natural order .
Parents have the responsibility , as a primary and inalienable right , to educate their children : the State can not arrogate this right , much less corrupt children and indoctrinate them in the perverse principles that are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , dear mothers , that this is the distinctive sign of totalitarian regimes , not of a civil and Christian nation .
It is your duty to raise your voice so that these attempts to steal the education of your children may be denounced and rejected with force , because you will be able to do very little for them if your faith , ideas , and culture are judged incompatible with those of an impious and materialistic state .
And it is not just a matter of imposing a vaccine on your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corrupting their souls with perverse doctrines , with gender ideology , with the acceptance of vice and the practice of sinful behaviors .
No law can ever legitimately make the affirmation of the truth a crime , because the authority of the law ultimately comes from God , who is himself the highest Truth .
The heroic testimony of the martyrs and saints responded to the oppression of tyrants : may you too today be courageous witnesses of Christ against a world that would like to subject us to the unleashed forces of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ battle for the family is the defense of life from conception to natural death .
The crime of abortion , which has claimed millions of innocent victims and that cries out for vengeance from heaven , is today considered as a normal health service , and just in recent days the Italian government has authorized the more widespread use of the abortion pill , encouraging an abominable crime and keeping silent about the terrible consequences on the psychological and physical health of the mother .
If you think about how during the lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and yet abortions continued , you can understand what the priorities of those who govern us are : the culture of death !
What progress can be invoked when society kills its own children , when motherhood is horribly violated in the name of a choice that can not be free , since it involves the ending of an innocent life and violates one of God ’ s Commandments ?
What prosperity can our country expect , what blessings from God can it hope for , if human sacrifices are being made in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the most bloody barbarism ?
The idea that children are the property of the state repulses every human person .
In the Christian social order , the civil authority exercises its power to guarantee its citizens that the natural well-being is ordered towards the spiritual good .
The common good pursued by the state in temporal things therefore has a well-defined object that can not and must not be in conflict with the Law of God , the Supreme Legislator .
Every time that the State infringes on this eternal and immutable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and its citizens ought to refuse to obey it .
This certainly applies to the hateful law on abortion , but it should also be applied to other cases , in which the abuse of authority regards the imposition of vaccines whose danger is unknown or that , by their very composition , are ethically problematic .
I am referring to the case in which a vaccine would contain fetal material coming from the bodies of aborted children .
But there are other disturbing aspects now envisaged , which regard not only the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of participation in the lessons : social distancing , the use of masks and other forms of presumed prevention of contagion in classrooms and school environments cause serious damage to the mental and physical equilibrium of children and young people , compromising their ability to learn , the interpersonal relations between pupils and teachers , and reducing them to automatons that are not only ordered what to think but also how to move and even how to breathe .
It seems that the very notion of common sense that ought to govern choices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been lost , and it seems that an inhumane world is being heralded in which parents have their children taken away from them if they test positive for an influenza virus , with mandatory health treatment protocols applied as in the most ferocious dictatorships .
It is also very perplexing to learn that the WHO has chosen Mario Monti as the President of the European Commission for Health and Development , who has distinguished himself by draconian measures imposed on Italy , among which , it must not be forgotten , is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These perplexities are confirmed by Monti ’ s membership in supranational organisms like the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Club , whose aims are in clear contrast to the inalienable values protected by the Italian Constitution itself , which are binding on the Government .
This mixing of private interests in public affairs , inspired by the dictates of Masonic and globalist thought , should be vigorously denounced by those who are representatives of the citizens , and by those who see their legitimate powers usurped by an elite that has never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We should not lose sight of a fundamental element : the pursuit of ideologically perverse goals is invariably accompanied by an interest of an economic nature , like a parallel track .
It is easy to agree on the fact that there is no profit in the voluntary donation of umbilical cords , just as there is no profit in the donation of hyper-immune plasma for the treatment of Covid .
Conversely , it is extremely profitable for abortion clinics to provide fetal tissue and for pharmaceutical companies to produce monoclonal antibodies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not surprising that , following a logic of mere profit , the most reasonable and ethically sustainable solutions are the object of a deliberate campaign to discredit them : we have heard self-styled experts make themselves promoters of cures offered by companies in which they themselves – in a clear conflict of interest – hold shares or are well paid consultants .
Having said this , it is necessary to understand whether the solution of a vaccine is always and everywhere the best health response to a virus .
In the case of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the scientific community agree in affirming that it is more useful to develop a natural immunity rather than inoculate the depowered virus .
But also in this case , as we know , herd immunity is attained without any costs , while vaccination campaigns involve enormous investments and guarantee equally large profits for those who patent and produce them .
And it should also be verified – but in this the experts will certainly be able to speak with greater confidence – whether it is possible to produce a vaccine for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been isolated according to the protocols of science-based medicine , and what potential consequences may come from using newly generated genetically modified vaccines .
The world health industry , led by the WHO , has become a true multinational corporation that has as its primary end the profit of shareholders ( pharmaceutical companies and so-called philanthropic foundations ) , and its means of pursuing it is the transformation of citizens into chronically ill people .
And it is obvious : the pharmaceutical companies want to make money by selling drugs and vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drugs leads to a reduction in the number of sick people and thus of profits , it will only be logical to expect that the drugs they make will be ineffective and that the vaccines they promote will be the instrument of spreading diseases rather than eradicating them .
And this is precisely what is happening .
How can we think that the search for cures and therapies is being promoted in a disinterested way if those who finance the search profit disproportionately from the persistence of pathologies ?
It may seem difficult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be protecting health instead wish to ensure the continuation of illnesses : such cynicism repulses – and rightly so – those who are strangers to the mentality that has been established in healthcare .
And yet this is what is happening right under our eyes , and it involves not only the emergence of Covid and vaccines – in particular anti-influenza vaccines , which were widely distributed in 2019 right in those areas where Covid has had the highest number of victims [ in 2020 ] – but all treatments and therapies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the sick .
Such cynicism , which is repugnant to the ethical code , sees in each of us a potential source of profit , while instead what should be seen in every patient is the face of the suffering Christ .
We therefore appeal to the many , many Catholic doctors and all doctors of good will , asking you not to betray the Hippocratic oath and the very heart of your profession , which is mercy and compassion , love for those who suffer , and selfless service to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Our Lord : “ As often as you did these things for the least of my brothers , you did it for me ” ( Mt 25:40 ) .
[ The Archbishop clarified to LifeSite : “ All the therapies , in the WHO ’ s plan , must lead to rendering the patients chronically ill .
In the case of births , the so-called “ Kristeller maneuver ” ( Fundal Pressure ) is used ; this causes a very high percentage of maternal and neonatal death , and an equally high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ psychological ) to the delivering mother and baby .
This leads to a hospitalization with intensive therapy and thus money for the clinics who are reimbursed by the National Health Service . ]
The Catholic Church , especially in recent decades , has intervened authoritatively in this debate , thanks also to the Pontifical Academy for Life founded by John Paul II .
Its members , up until a few years ago , gave medical-scientific directives that did not conflict with the inviolable moral principles of any Catholic person .
But just as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ progressive loss of responsibility of individuals as well as those who govern in the various spheres of public life , including health care , so also in the “ Church of Mercy ” that was born in 2013 it is preferred to adapt the commitment of the Pontifical Dicasteries and the Academy for Life to a liquid vision – and I dare say a perverse vision because it denies the truth – which embraces the demands of environmentalism with connotations of Malthusianism .
The fight against abortion , which opposes the reduction of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , is no longer the priority of many pastors .
During the various pro-life demonstrations – such as those held in Rome in recent years – the silence and absence of the Holy See and the hierarchy has been shameful !
Obviously the moral principles which form the basis for norms to be adopted in the medical field remain perennially valid , nor could it be otherwise .
The Church is the guardian of the teaching of Christ and she has no authority to modify or adapt it to her own liking .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ we witness the silence of Rome , which appears to be more concerned with promoting recycling – to the point of writing an encyclical about it – rather than the lives of the unborn , the health of the weakest , and the assistance of the terminally ill .
This is only one aspect of a much wider problem , a much greater crisis , which as I have said many times stems from the moment in which the deviant part of the Church , led by what was once the Society of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a slave to the mentality of the world .
When we consider the new orientation of the Pontifical Academy for Life ( whose presidency has been entrusted to a person who is well-known for having shown the best of himself when he was bishop of Terni ) , we can not expect any condemnation of those who use fetal tissue from voluntarily aborted children .
Its present members hope for mass vaccination and the universal brotherhood of the New World Order , contradicting previous pronouncements of the same Pontifical Academy .
[ 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conference of England and Wales [ 2 ] has entered this anomalous wave .
On the one hand it recognizes that “ The Church is opposed to the production of vaccines using tissue derived from aborted fetuses , and we acknowledge the distress many Catholics experience when faced with a choice of not vaccinating their child or seeming to be complicit in abortion , ” but it then affirms , in very grave contradiction with the stated unchanging principles of Catholic morality , [ 3 ] that “ the Church teaches that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ child and other vulnerable persons could permit parents to use a vaccine which was in the past developed using these diploid cell lines.
” This statement lacks any doctrinal authority and instead aligns itself with the dominant ideology promoted by the WHO , its principal sponsor Bill Gates , and pharmaceutical companies .
From a moral point of view , for every Catholic who intends to remain faithful to his or her Baptism , it is absolutely inadmissible to accept a vaccination that utilizes material coming from human fetuses in its process of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authoritatively recently by the American Bishop Joseph E. Strickland in his April 27 Pastoral Letter [ 4 ] and in his August 1 tweet .
[ 5 ] We must therefore pray to the Lord , asking him to give Pastors a voice , in such a way as to create a united front that opposes the excessive power of the globalist elite which would like to subjugate us all .
It should be recalled that while the pharmaceutical companies are proceeding on the plane of economic interests only , there are people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ using the opportunity of the vaccine , would also like to implant devices for identifying people , and that these nanotechnologies – I am referring to project ID2020 , “ quantum dots ” and other similar initiatives – are being patented by the same individuals who patented the viruses as well as their vaccine .
Furthermore , a cryptocurrency project has been patented to allow not only health identification but also personal and banking information to be monitored , in a delirium of omnipotence that up until yesterday could have been dismissed as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that today has already been initiated in several countries , including for example Sweden and Germany .
We see the words of Saint John taking shape right before our eyes : “ It forced all the people , small and great , rich and poor , free and slave , to be given a mark on the right hand and the forehead ; so that no one could buy or sell without having the mark ” ( Rev 13:16-17 ) .
[ The Archbishop clarified to LifeSite : The virus , as such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not yet been isolated by anyone ( and this makes it impossible to produce a vaccine , within which there must necessarily be the disabled virus ) .
Instead , segments of the virus have been patented , for clinical use ( they produce these viral parts with the excuse of being able then to study the cure ) .
Of course the company to which a laboratory that studies Covid belongs counts among its shareholders the same businesses and the same individuals that produce the vaccine .
Thus they create the disease @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have the pretext to insert the chip or quantum dots into people , officially to track the ( non-existent ) contagion but in fact to make us all controllable . ]
Given the gravity of the situation , we must also speak out with regard to these aspects : we can not remain silent if the public authority would make vaccines obligatory that pose serious ethical and moral problems , or that more prosaically do not give any guarantee of obtaining the promised effects and that are limited to promising benefits that from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questionable .
May the pastors of the Church finally raise their voice to defend the flock entrusted to their care in this systematic attack against God and man !
Do not forget , dear Mothers , that this is a spiritual battle – even a war – in which powers that no one has ever elected and that do not have any authority other than that of force and the violent imposition of their own will seek to demolish all that evokes , even only remotely , the divine Paternity of God over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over society and the Virginal Motherhood of Mary Most Holy .
This is why they hate to mention the words father and mother ; this is why they want an irreligious society that is rebellious against the Law of God ; this is why they promote vice and detest virtue .
This is also why they want to corrupt children and young people , securing hosts of obedient servants for the foreseeable future in which the name of God is being cancelled and the Redemptive Sacrifice of his Son on the Cross is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to banish because it reminds man that the purpose of his life is the glory of God , obedience to His Commandments and the exercise of Christian charity : not pleasure , self-exaltation , or the arrogant overpowering of the weak .
The innocence of children and their trusting recourse to Mary Most Holy , our Heavenly Mother , can truly save the world : for this reason the Enemy aims to corrupt them in order to distance them from the Lord and to sow the seed of evil and sin in them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your duty to protect your children not only in the material order but also , even more importantly , in the spiritual order .
Cultivate in them the life of grace , with constant prayer , especially through the recitation of the Holy Rosary , with penance and fasting , with the practice of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy , assiduously and devotedly frequenting the Sacraments and Holy Mass .
Nourish them with the Bread of Angels , the true food of eternal life and our defense from the assaults of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be honest citizens , responsible parents , and protagonists of the restoration of the Christian society that the world would like to cancel .
And please also pray , dear mothers , because prayer is a truly fearful weapon and an infallible vaccine against the perverse dictatorship that is about to be imposed on us .
I take this occasion to assure you of my prayer and to impart my Blessing to all of you : to you , dear mothers , and to your children , and to all those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ each one of us from this ferocious global tyranny that is striking our beloved Italy .
1 Cf .
Pontifical Academy for Life , Note on the Nature of Vaccination , 31 July 2017 .
2 Cf .
Bishops ’ Conference of England and Wales , The Catholic position on vaccination .
3 Cf .
Pontifical Academy for Life , Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Human Fetuses , 5 June 2005 .
4 Bishop Joseph E. Strickland , Pastoral Letter from Bishop Joseph E. Strickland On the Ethical Development @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
5 Tweet of August 1 , 2020 : “ I renew my call that we reject any vaccine that is developed using aborted children .
Even if it originated decades ago it still means a child ’ s life was ended before it was born & then their body was used as spare parts .
We will never end abortion if we do not END THIS EVIL !
”

ITALY, August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a letter to mothers in Italy, warning them that they must protect their children from corruption by the state.
In his impassioned address, written on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the archbishop endorsed an upcoming parents’ protest in September against the security measures and secular values being imposed on Italian schools.
Viganò reminded mothers that parents have an “inalienable right” and duty to educate their children.
“The State cannot arrogate this right, much less corrupt children and indoctrinate them in the perverse principles that are so widespread today,” he wrote (full letter translated and published below).
The Archbishop warned that usurpation of the parents’ role is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes, “not of a civil and Christian nation” and stressed that if they permit this, their own values will be rejected.
“It is your duty to raise your voice so that these attempts to steal the education of your children may be denounced and rejected with force because you will be able to do very little for them if your faith, ideas, and culture are judged incompatible with those of an impious and materialistic state.”
He later added that the “idea that children are the property of the state repulses every human person.”
Viganò asserted that the family is the foundation of society and that attempts to demolish it must be denounced. He stressed that the presence of both a mother and a father is “fundamental” to children’s upbringing and decried the exploitation of children by those who assert otherwise.
“You can easily understand the impact of the destruction of the family on the civil consortium,” he added.
“Today we have right before our eyes the results of decades of unfortunate policies that inevitably lead to the dissolution of society.”
The archbishop also condemned abortion and the Italian government’s recent decision to remove safeguards on the use of abortion pills in the country and suggested that Italy cannot hope for God’s blessing when “human sacrifices are being made in our clinics.”
This point led him to reflect on the use of material from aborted fetuses to create vaccines and the threat of vaccines that may be dangerous. He deplored the possibility that children with the coronavirus may be taken from their parents and the more immediate problem of children having to wear masks and being forced into “social distancing” at school.
“It seems that the very notion of common sense that ought to govern choices fraught with consequences in social life has been lost,” Viganò remarked.
The archbishop also took aim at the World Health Organization for appointing former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who belongs to such international NGOs as the Bilderberg Club, as the new President of the European Commision for Health and Development
“This mixing of private interests in public affairs, inspired by the dictates of Masonic and globalist thought, should be vigorously denounced by those who are representatives of the citizens, and by those who see their legitimate powers usurped by an elite that has never made a mystery of its true intentions,” Viganò wrote.
The Archbishop explained why he believes that a vaccine may not be the best way to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, and accused the WHO of being in league with pharmaceutical companies to transform “citizens into chronically ill people.”
“How can we think that the search for cures and therapies is being promoted in a disinterested way if those who finance the search profit disproportionately from the persistence of pathologies?” he asked.
Calling upon Catholic doctors to be faithful to their vocation, Viganò mourned the “new orientation” of the Pontifical Academy for Life away from concern for the unborn towards hopes for mass vaccination. The archbishop declared that “it is absolutely inadmissible to accept a vaccination that utilizes material coming from human fetuses in its process of production.”
The archbishop also condemned any state attempt to impose vaccination on citizens and the ideology of those who would like to use nanotechnologies to control their fellow man.
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Disclaimer: Some of the claims in Archbishop Viganò’s letter do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews and are presented only for your information. Two notes of clarification have been inserted into the text that were provided by the Archbishop after a request made by LifeSite.
LETTER TO MOTHERS
“Let’s save our children from the health dictatorship! Let’s save Italy from the ferocious global tyranny!”
Dearest Mothers,
Dear Sirs,
I have received your kind email, in which you inform me of the initiative you have scheduled for this coming September 5 for the protection of the physical, moral, and spiritual health of your children. In responding to you, I address all the mothers of Italy.
The demonstration you are promoting intends to express the dissent of citizens and in particular of parents against the norms that the government, abusing its power, is preparing to issue in view of the new school year; norms that will have very grave repercussions on the health and psychosomatic equilibrium of students, as authoritative experts have rightly demonstrated.
First of all, the systematic effort to demolish the family, the foundation of society, must be denounced, with the multiplication of ferocious attacks not only against conjugal life, which Christ has elevated to a Sacrament, but also against its very natural essence, against the fact that marriage is by nature constituted between a man and a woman in an indissoluble bond of fidelity and reciprocal assistance. The presence of a father and a mother is fundamental in the upbringing of children, who need a male and female figure as a reference for their integral and harmonious development; nor can it be permitted that children, during the most delicate phase of their infancy and adolescence, be used to advance partisan ideological claims, with serious damage for their psychosomatic equilibrium, by those who with their own rebellious behavior reject the very idea of nature. You can easily understand the impact of the destruction of the family on the civil consortium: today we have right before our eyes the results of decades of unfortunate policies that inevitably lead to the dissolution of society.
These policies, inspired by principles that are repugnant both to the Law of nature inscribed in man by the Creator as well as to the positive Law of God given in the Commandments, combine to permit children to be placed at the mercy of the whims of individuals, and that the sacredness of life and conception become objects of commerce, humiliating motherhood and the dignity of woman. Sons cannot be bred by mares for a fee, because they are the fruit of a love that Providence has ordained must always be an enduring love, even in the natural order.
Parents have the responsibility, as a primary and inalienable right, to educate their children: the State cannot arrogate this right, much less corrupt children and indoctrinate them in the perverse principles that are so widespread today. Do not forget, dear mothers, that this is the distinctive sign of totalitarian regimes, not of a civil and Christian nation. It is your duty to raise your voice so that these attempts to steal the education of your children may be denounced and rejected with force, because you will be able to do very little for them if your faith, ideas, and culture are judged incompatible with those of an impious and materialistic state. And it is not just a matter of imposing a vaccine on your children and teenagers, but also of corrupting their souls with perverse doctrines, with gender ideology, with the acceptance of vice and the practice of sinful behaviors. No law can ever legitimately make the affirmation of the truth a crime, because the authority of the law ultimately comes from God, who is himself the highest Truth. The heroic testimony of the martyrs and saints responded to the oppression of tyrants: may you too today be courageous witnesses of Christ against a world that would like to subject us to the unleashed forces of hell!
Another crucial aspect in this battle for the family is the defense of life from conception to natural death. The crime of abortion, which has claimed millions of innocent victims and that cries out for vengeance from heaven, is today considered as a normal health service, and just in recent days the Italian government has authorized the more widespread use of the abortion pill, encouraging an abominable crime and keeping silent about the terrible consequences on the psychological and physical health of the mother. If you think about how during the lockdown all care of the sick was suspended and yet abortions continued, you can understand what the priorities of those who govern us are: the culture of death! What progress can be invoked when society kills its own children, when motherhood is horribly violated in the name of a choice that cannot be free, since it involves the ending of an innocent life and violates one of God’s Commandments? What prosperity can our country expect, what blessings from God can it hope for, if human sacrifices are being made in our clinics just as in the times of the most bloody barbarism?
The idea that children are the property of the state repulses every human person. In the Christian social order, the civil authority exercises its power to guarantee its citizens that the natural well-being is ordered towards the spiritual good. The common good pursued by the state in temporal things therefore has a well-defined object that cannot and must not be in conflict with the Law of God, the Supreme Legislator. Every time that the State infringes on this eternal and immutable Law, its authority is diminished, and its citizens ought to refuse to obey it. This certainly applies to the hateful law on abortion, but it should also be applied to other cases, in which the abuse of authority regards the imposition of vaccines whose danger is unknown or that, by their very composition, are ethically problematic. I am referring to the case in which a vaccine would contain fetal material coming from the bodies of aborted children.
But there are other disturbing aspects now envisaged, which regard not only the content of instruction but also the method of participation in the lessons: social distancing, the use of masks and other forms of presumed prevention of contagion in classrooms and school environments cause serious damage to the mental and physical equilibrium of children and young people, compromising their ability to learn, the interpersonal relations between pupils and teachers, and reducing them to automatons that are not only ordered what to think but also how to move and even how to breathe. It seems that the very notion of common sense that ought to govern choices fraught with consequences in social life has been lost, and it seems that an inhumane world is being heralded in which parents have their children taken away from them if they test positive for an influenza virus, with mandatory health treatment protocols applied as in the most ferocious dictatorships.
It is also very perplexing to learn that the WHO has chosen Mario Monti as the President of the European Commission for Health and Development, who has distinguished himself by draconian measures imposed on Italy, among which, it must not be forgotten, is the drastic reduction of public appropriations for hospitals. These perplexities are confirmed by Monti’s membership in supranational organisms like the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Club, whose aims are in clear contrast to the inalienable values protected by the Italian Constitution itself, which are binding on the Government. This mixing of private interests in public affairs, inspired by the dictates of Masonic and globalist thought, should be vigorously denounced by those who are representatives of the citizens, and by those who see their legitimate powers usurped by an elite that has never made a mystery of its true intentions.
We should not lose sight of a fundamental element: the pursuit of ideologically perverse goals is invariably accompanied by an interest of an economic nature, like a parallel track. It is easy to agree on the fact that there is no profit in the voluntary donation of umbilical cords, just as there is no profit in the donation of hyper-immune plasma for the treatment of Covid. Conversely, it is extremely profitable for abortion clinics to provide fetal tissue and for pharmaceutical companies to produce monoclonal antibodies or artificial plasma. Thus it is not surprising that, following a logic of mere profit, the most reasonable and ethically sustainable solutions are the object of a deliberate campaign to discredit them: we have heard self-styled experts make themselves promoters of cures offered by companies in which they themselves – in a clear conflict of interest – hold shares or are well paid consultants.
Having said this, it is necessary to understand whether the solution of a vaccine is always and everywhere the best health response to a virus. In the case of Covid, for example, many exponents of the scientific community agree in affirming that it is more useful to develop a natural immunity rather than inoculate the depowered virus. But also in this case, as we know, herd immunity is attained without any costs, while vaccination campaigns involve enormous investments and guarantee equally large profits for those who patent and produce them. And it should also be verified – but in this the experts will certainly be able to speak with greater confidence – whether it is possible to produce a vaccine for a virus that does not yet seem to have been isolated according to the protocols of science-based medicine, and what potential consequences may come from using newly generated genetically modified vaccines.
The world health industry, led by the WHO, has become a true multinational corporation that has as its primary end the profit of shareholders (pharmaceutical companies and so-called philanthropic foundations), and its means of pursuing it is the transformation of citizens into chronically ill people. And it is obvious: the pharmaceutical companies want to make money by selling drugs and vaccines; if eliminating diseases and producing effective drugs leads to a reduction in the number of sick people and thus of profits, it will only be logical to expect that the drugs they make will be ineffective and that the vaccines they promote will be the instrument of spreading diseases rather than eradicating them. And this is precisely what is happening. How can we think that the search for cures and therapies is being promoted in a disinterested way if those who finance the search profit disproportionately from the persistence of pathologies?
It may seem difficult to persuade ourselves that those who ought to be protecting health instead wish to ensure the continuation of illnesses: such cynicism repulses – and rightly so – those who are strangers to the mentality that has been established in healthcare. And yet this is what is happening right under our eyes, and it involves not only the emergence of Covid and vaccines – in particular anti-influenza vaccines, which were widely distributed in 2019 right in those areas where Covid has had the highest number of victims [in 2020] – but all treatments and therapies, as well as childbirth and care for the sick. Such cynicism, which is repugnant to the ethical code, sees in each of us a potential source of profit, while instead what should be seen in every patient is the face of the suffering Christ. We therefore appeal to the many, many Catholic doctors and all doctors of good will, asking you not to betray the Hippocratic oath and the very heart of your profession, which is mercy and compassion, love for those who suffer, and selfless service to the weakest among us, recalling the words of Our Lord: “As often as you did these things for the least of my brothers, you did it for me” (Mt 25:40).
[The Archbishop clarified to LifeSite: “All the therapies, in the WHO’s plan, must lead to rendering the patients chronically ill. In the case of births, the so-called “Kristeller maneuver” (Fundal Pressure) is used; this causes a very high percentage of maternal and neonatal death, and an equally high percentage of serious injuries (physical and psychological) to the delivering mother and baby. This leads to a hospitalization with intensive therapy and thus money for the clinics who are reimbursed by the National Health Service.]
The Catholic Church, especially in recent decades, has intervened authoritatively in this debate, thanks also to the Pontifical Academy for Life founded by John Paul II. Its members, up until a few years ago, gave medical-scientific directives that did not conflict with the inviolable moral principles of any Catholic person.
But just as in civil society we have witnessed a progressive loss of responsibility of individuals as well as those who govern in the various spheres of public life, including health care, so also in the “Church of Mercy” that was born in 2013 it is preferred to adapt the commitment of the Pontifical Dicasteries and the Academy for Life to a liquid vision – and I dare say a perverse vision because it denies the truth – which embraces the demands of environmentalism with connotations of Malthusianism. The fight against abortion, which opposes the reduction of births desired by the New World Order, is no longer the priority of many pastors. During the various pro-life demonstrations – such as those held in Rome in recent years – the silence and absence of the Holy See and the hierarchy has been shameful!
Obviously the moral principles which form the basis for norms to be adopted in the medical field remain perennially valid, nor could it be otherwise. The Church is the guardian of the teaching of Christ and she has no authority to modify or adapt it to her own liking. We remain bewildered, however, as we witness the silence of Rome, which appears to be more concerned with promoting recycling – to the point of writing an encyclical about it – rather than the lives of the unborn, the health of the weakest, and the assistance of the terminally ill. This is only one aspect of a much wider problem, a much greater crisis, which as I have said many times stems from the moment in which the deviant part of the Church, led by what was once the Society of Jesus, seized power and made her a slave to the mentality of the world.
When we consider the new orientation of the Pontifical Academy for Life (whose presidency has been entrusted to a person who is well-known for having shown the best of himself when he was bishop of Terni), we cannot expect any condemnation of those who use fetal tissue from voluntarily aborted children. Its present members hope for mass vaccination and the universal brotherhood of the New World Order, contradicting previous pronouncements of the same Pontifical Academy. [1] In recent days the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales [2] has entered this anomalous wave. On the one hand it recognizes that “The Church is opposed to the production of vaccines using tissue derived from aborted fetuses, and we acknowledge the distress many Catholics experience when faced with a choice of not vaccinating their child or seeming to be complicit in abortion,” but it then affirms, in very grave contradiction with the stated unchanging principles of Catholic morality, [3] that “the Church teaches that the paramount importance of the health of a child and other vulnerable persons could permit parents to use a vaccine which was in the past developed using these diploid cell lines.” This statement lacks any doctrinal authority and instead aligns itself with the dominant ideology promoted by the WHO, its principal sponsor Bill Gates, and pharmaceutical companies.
From a moral point of view, for every Catholic who intends to remain faithful to his or her Baptism, it is absolutely inadmissible to accept a vaccination that utilizes material coming from human fetuses in its process of production. This has also been restated authoritatively recently by the American Bishop Joseph E. Strickland in his April 27 Pastoral Letter[4] and in his August 1 tweet.[5]
We must therefore pray to the Lord, asking him to give Pastors a voice, in such a way as to create a united front that opposes the excessive power of the globalist elite which would like to subjugate us all. It should be recalled that while the pharmaceutical companies are proceeding on the plane of economic interests only, there are people operating on the ideological plane who, using the opportunity of the vaccine, would also like to implant devices for identifying people, and that these nanotechnologies – I am referring to project ID2020, “quantum dots” and other similar initiatives – are being patented by the same individuals who patented the viruses as well as their vaccine. Furthermore, a cryptocurrency project has been patented to allow not only health identification but also personal and banking information to be monitored, in a delirium of omnipotence that up until yesterday could have been dismissed as the ranting of conspiracy theorists, but that today has already been initiated in several countries, including for example Sweden and Germany. We see the words of Saint John taking shape right before our eyes: “It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a mark on the right hand and the forehead; so that no one could buy or sell without having the mark” (Rev 13:16-17).
[The Archbishop clarified to LifeSite: The virus, as such, is not patented because it has not yet been isolated by anyone (and this makes it impossible to produce a vaccine, within which there must necessarily be the disabled virus). Instead, segments of the virus have been patented, for clinical use (they produce these viral parts with the excuse of being able then to study the cure). Of course the company to which a laboratory that studies Covid belongs counts among its shareholders the same businesses and the same individuals that produce the vaccine. Thus they create the disease and the fake cure, and they have the pretext to insert the chip or quantum dots into people, officially to track the (non-existent) contagion but in fact to make us all controllable.]
Given the gravity of the situation, we must also speak out with regard to these aspects: we cannot remain silent if the public authority would make vaccines obligatory that pose serious ethical and moral problems, or that more prosaically do not give any guarantee of obtaining the promised effects and that are limited to promising benefits that from a scientific point of view are absolutely questionable. May the pastors of the Church finally raise their voice to defend the flock entrusted to their care in this systematic attack against God and man!
Do not forget, dear Mothers, that this is a spiritual battle – even a war – in which powers that no one has ever elected and that do not have any authority other than that of force and the violent imposition of their own will seek to demolish all that evokes, even only remotely, the divine Paternity of God over His children, the Kingship of Christ over society and the Virginal Motherhood of Mary Most Holy. This is why they hate to mention the words father and mother; this is why they want an irreligious society that is rebellious against the Law of God; this is why they promote vice and detest virtue. This is also why they want to corrupt children and young people, securing hosts of obedient servants for the foreseeable future in which the name of God is being cancelled and the Redemptive Sacrifice of his Son on the Cross is blasphemed; a Cross that they want to banish because it reminds man that the purpose of his life is the glory of God, obedience to His Commandments and the exercise of Christian charity: not pleasure, self-exaltation, or the arrogant overpowering of the weak.
The innocence of children and their trusting recourse to Mary Most Holy, our Heavenly Mother, can truly save the world: for this reason the Enemy aims to corrupt them in order to distance them from the Lord and to sow the seed of evil and sin in them.
Dear mothers, never fail in your duty to protect your children not only in the material order but also, even more importantly, in the spiritual order. Cultivate in them the life of grace, with constant prayer, especially through the recitation of the Holy Rosary, with penance and fasting, with the practice of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, assiduously and devotedly frequenting the Sacraments and Holy Mass. Nourish them with the Bread of Angels, the true food of eternal life and our defense from the assaults of the Evil One. Tomorrow, they will be honest citizens, responsible parents, and protagonists of the restoration of the Christian society that the world would like to cancel. And please also pray, dear mothers, because prayer is a truly fearful weapon and an infallible vaccine against the perverse dictatorship that is about to be imposed on us.
I take this occasion to assure you of my prayer and to impart my Blessing to all of you: to you, dear mothers, and to your children, and to all those who are fighting to save our children and each one of us from this ferocious global tyranny that is striking our beloved Italy.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
15 August 2020
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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1 Cf. Pontifical Academy for Life, Note on the Nature of Vaccination, 31 July 2017.
2 Cf. Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, The Catholic position on vaccination.
3 Cf. Pontifical Academy for Life, Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Human Fetuses, 5 June 2005.
4 Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Pastoral Letter from Bishop Joseph E. Strickland On the Ethical Development of COVID-19 Vaccine, 23 April 2020.
5 Tweet of August 1, 2020: “I renew my call that we reject any vaccine that is developed using aborted children. Even if it originated decades ago it still means a child’s life was ended before it was born & then their body was used as spare parts. We will never end abortion if we do not END THIS EVIL!”
Translated from Italian by Giuseppe Pellegrino
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lifesitenews--2020-08-28--GOP senators demand answers about FDA’s war on hydroxychloroquine

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WASHINGTON , D.C. , August 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Three Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Food & Drug Administration ( FDA ) Commissioner Alex Azar this month demanding an explanation as to why the agency revoked its approval of hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ ) , a drug that has shown promise in treating COVID-19 .
HCQ has long been approved for use in treating malaria , arthritis , and certain autoimmune conditions , but its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lightning rod after President Donald Trump first called attention to early studies indicating its potential .
The FDA initially issued an Emergency Use Authorization ( EUA ) allowing it to be distributed from the Strategic National Stockpile ( SNS ) but revoked that authorization in June , claiming “ new information ” indicated the potential dangers outweighed any potential effectiveness .
“ We have heard from licensed physicians ” who have detailed “ how this decision has affected their ability to treat patients ” and “ led to misinformation and confusion across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ letter by Sens .
Ron Johnson of Wisconsin , Mike Lee of Utah , and Ted Cruz of Texas .
Some states , the letter warned , have used the FDA ’ s decision as justification to ban doctors from prescribing HCQ off-label with patients ’ informed consent , which was a “ longstanding and established authority ” they previously enjoyed .
“ The licensed physicians we have heard from stressed the potential benefits of early outpatient treatment of HCQ for individuals infected with COVID-19 , ” the letter continued .
These physicians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in other countries — like India , Turkey , South Korea , and Morocco — that are using HCQ widely on outpatient populations before the disease progresses to more lethal stages of the virus that require hospitalization .
“ However , the physicians are concerned that the FDA ’ s actions regarding HCQ may be directly costing lives by limiting outpatient access to this potentially beneficial treatment , ” the senators warned .
The letter asks the FDA to provide the Senate with the studies influencing its decision , detail what steps it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make available in the United States other COVID-19 treatments currently being used internationally , and any public statements the agency has made “ to clarify that the FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine and that state governments may not regulate the sale or prohibit the sale of prescription drugs.
” In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak , scientists began researching HCQ ’ s potential applications in treating the new virus .
But after Trump started promoting it , partisans in media and government began a push to discredit the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man who died after drinking fish tank cleaner to a junk study falsely claiming HCQ killed Veterans Administration patients .
One influential study published by The Lancet in May purported to not only find “ no benefit ” to using HCQ , but instead finding “ decreased in-hospital survival and an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias , ” leading several countries to ban it .
However , that study was retracted upon the discovery that the company that provided its data was very likely fraudulent .
“ There ’ s no question that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treated , and are treated early , ( hydroxychloroquine ) has a very substantial benefit in reducing risk of hospitalization or mortality , ” Yale School of Public Health epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch told conservative radio host Mark Levin last week .
“ People need to be writing or calling their congressmen and senators and complaining that this is not the way the country should work , ” Risch added .
“ A bureaucracy that ’ s in bed with other forces that are causing them to make decisions that are not based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans.
” LifeSiteNews ’ petition calling on the FDA to drop its hostility to hydroxychloroquine has so far collected more than 43,000 signatures .
Readers can click here to read , sign , and share the petition .

'The physicians are concerned that the FDA’s actions regarding HCQ may be directly costing lives,' the senators said in a letter.
PETITION: Tell the FDA to reverse its opposition to Hydroxychloroquine and help save lives! Sign the petition here.
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Three Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Alex Azar this month demanding an explanation as to why the agency revoked its approval of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a drug that has shown promise in treating COVID-19.
HCQ has long been approved for use in treating malaria, arthritis, and certain autoimmune conditions, but its potential applications to COVID-19 became a political lightning rod after President Donald Trump first called attention to early studies indicating its potential. The FDA initially issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) allowing it to be distributed from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) but revoked that authorization in June, claiming “new information” indicated the potential dangers outweighed any potential effectiveness.
“We have heard from licensed physicians” who have detailed “how this decision has affected their ability to treat patients” and “led to misinformation and confusion across the country,” read the August 18 letter by Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, and Ted Cruz of Texas. Some states, the letter warned, have used the FDA’s decision as justification to ban doctors from prescribing HCQ off-label with patients’ informed consent, which was a “longstanding and established authority” they previously enjoyed.
“The licensed physicians we have heard from stressed the potential benefits of early outpatient treatment of HCQ for individuals infected with COVID-19,” the letter continued. These physicians have pointed to the low mortality rates in other countries — like India, Turkey, South Korea, and Morocco — that are using HCQ widely on outpatient populations before the disease progresses to more lethal stages of the virus that require hospitalization.
“However, the physicians are concerned that the FDA’s actions regarding HCQ may be directly costing lives by limiting outpatient access to this potentially beneficial treatment,” the senators warned.
The letter asks the FDA to provide the Senate with the studies influencing its decision, detail what steps it has taken (if any) to make available in the United States other COVID-19 treatments currently being used internationally, and any public statements the agency has made “to clarify that the FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine and that state governments may not regulate the sale or prohibit the sale of prescription drugs.”
In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists began researching HCQ’s potential applications in treating the new virus. But after Trump started promoting it, partisans in media and government began a push to discredit the drug, from outlandish stories about a man who died after drinking fish tank cleaner to a junk study falsely claiming HCQ killed Veterans Administration patients.
One influential study published by The Lancet in May purported to not only find “no benefit” to using HCQ, but instead finding “decreased in-hospital survival and an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias,” leading several countries to ban it. However, that study was retracted upon the discovery that the company that provided its data was very likely fraudulent.
“There’s no question that in the people who need to be treated, and are treated early, (hydroxychloroquine) has a very substantial benefit in reducing risk of hospitalization or mortality,” Yale School of Public Health epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch told conservative radio host Mark Levin last week.
“People need to be writing or calling their congressmen and senators and complaining that this is not the way the country should work,” Risch added. “A bureaucracy that’s in bed with other forces that are causing them to make decisions that are not based on the science — that is killing Americans.”
LifeSiteNews’ petition calling on the FDA to drop its hostility to hydroxychloroquine has so far collected more than 43,000 signatures. Readers can click here to read, sign, and share the petition.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-28--The Biblical roots of worshipping God on the Sabbath

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lifesitenews--2020-08-28--How ‘pro-life’ politicians helped a pro-abortion candidate lead Canada’s Conservative Party

August 28 , 2020 ( Campaign Life Coalition ) — The socially conservative Leslyn Lewis , who had promised pro-life government legislation and the repeal of transgender ideology Bill C-16 , if elected Prime Minister , found herself within reach of a Conservative Leadership victory on the 2nd ballot .
She was so close in fact that it bears scrutinizing what went wrong for her not to win .
After the pro-life Derek Sloan was eliminated in the first round , which resulted in two-thirds of his # 2 choice votes being transferred to Lewis , she ended up with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to MacKay ’ s 34.8 % and O ’ Toole ’ s 35.2 % .
In terms of popular vote , she was actually first , almost 4,000 votes ahead of O ’ Toole , with 60,316 votes out of the total 171,388 cast in the second round .
It should really stand out to social conservatives as a regrettable shame that many pro-lifers voted for Erin O ’ Toole , and some , even Peter MacKay , as their # 1 choice , and that had they voted for Leslyn or Derek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would likely be Leader of her Majesty ’ s Loyal Opposition .
We know that O ’ Toole got # 1 votes from pro-lifers , both anecdotally and by inference from the fact that nine pro-life MPs actually endorsed the abortion-loving O ’ Toole .
Another sixteen pro-life MPs also endorsed the pro-abortion Peter MacKay .
The most strident of these MPs selling O ’ Toole as a good choice for social conservatives was Garnett Genuis ( Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan ) .
Genuis has a sizable following amongst pro-lifers and considerable influence in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least three email blasts on behalf of the O ’ Toole Campaign , pumping up the pro-abortion , anti-family candidate to socon voters .
Unfortunately , we believe this had an impact in pushing many socons to vote for O ’ Toole as their # 1 choice .
Had this not happened , even if the impact was only 5 % , Leslyn would probably have won .
Likewise , had the 16 pro-life MPs not endorsed MacKay , but Lewis or Sloan instead , Lewis would probably have received more votes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the opinion of their MP .
Another frustrating example of this likely effect of pro-life MPs like Genuis having persuaded social conservatives to give O ’ Toole ( and others , MacKay ) a high ranking , was the shocking percentage of # 2 choices by Derek Sloan supporters who put the pro-abortion O ’ Toole and MacKay ahead of the pro-life Lewis .
I mentioned already that a huge majority of Derek ’ s supporters ranked Leslyn # 2 .
It was 63 % by votes and 66 % by points .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ considerable solidarity of purpose amongst social conservatives .
However , a whopping 21 % of Derek ’ s supporters ranked O ’ Toole as their # 2 choice , which translated to 25 % of Derek ’ s points , or 1,222 total points .
Another 9 % of Derek ’ s supporters ranked MacKay # 2 , amounting to 427 points .
Why do I share these figure with you ?
If those 1,222 points had all gone to the only other pro-life candidate in the race , instead of to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possibly have won .
After the first ballot , Leslyn would have had a total of 11,363 points vs. O ’ Toole ’ s 10,681 .
Therefore , O ’ Toole would have been eliminated , and Leslyn could potentially have beaten MacKay on the third ballot .
What this speaks to is a serious crisis of judgement amongst pro-life leaders who put politics and “ winnability ” ahead of principle in this leadership race .
There 's no reason good enough to justify why MPs who believe that the right to life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , should ever endorse an abortion advocate , when a pro-life candidate exists .
Let alone when two of them exist !
CLC ran into this same , disastrous spirit of compromise during the 2017 Leadership race when we were working our tails off to elect Brad Trost and Pierre Lemieux as leader .
All the MPs we approached about endorsing the pro-life contenders told us , “ Yes , Brad and Pierre have got the right values , but no chance of winning , so I ’ ve got to endorse someone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brad and Pierre received no MP endorsements at all .
Well , the MPs were proven wrong about socons ' electoral chances in 2017 , just like they were again in 2020 with Leslyn 's underdog run .
Brad finished an incredible fourth out of fourteen candidates , and was actually in third place , ahead of O ’ Toole , on one of the final ballots before elimination .
That was with no money , a tiny team , and no large machine ( aside from CLC ) .
Just imagine if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ muscle of 25 pro-life MPs !
He would have definitely beaten O ’ Toole and placed at least third .
Could Trost have placed second ?
Or even first ?
We ’ ll never know .
But we do know that supporting him would have been the right thing to do , and having Trost place at least third would have advanced the pro-life/family cause by leaps and bounds , just as it would have if Leslyn Lewis had won , or even if she had placed second .
Don ’ t get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questioning the integrity of the socon MPs who endorsed O ’ Toole or MacKay .
Many of them we know very well , and they ’ re rock solid on the issues .
MP Michael Barret endorsed O ’ Toole , but I know he has courageously stood by his pro-life convictions when he and his family were relentlessly attacked by the MSM and by vile , left-wing activists on social media .
MP Cheryl Gallant endorsed Peter MacKay , but I know she has courageously stood up in the House of Commons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is abortion .
She suffered slander and persecution for her troubles .
So we love and appreciate her too .
What I am saying however , is that when it comes to future Leadership elections , we hope that all pro-life MPs will finally put principle before pragmatic politics , and only support pro-life , pro-family candidates so that this kind of unnecessary , narrow-miss never happens again .
Jack Fonseca is Campaign Life Coalition ’ s director of political operations .
This article is published with permission from Campaign Life Coalition .

What this speaks to was a very serious crisis of judgement amongst pro-life leaders who put politics and 'winnability' ahead of principles in this leadership race.
August 28, 2020 (Campaign Life Coalition) — The socially conservative Leslyn Lewis, who had promised pro-life government legislation and the repeal of transgender ideology Bill C-16, if elected Prime Minister, found herself within reach of a Conservative Leadership victory on the 2nd ballot.
She was so close in fact that it bears scrutinizing what went wrong for her not to win.
After the pro-life Derek Sloan was eliminated in the first round, which resulted in two-thirds of his #2 choice votes being transferred to Lewis, she ended up with 30% of the points, compared to MacKay’s 34.8% and O’Toole’s 35.2%.
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Points after 1st Round Leslyn Lewis: 10,140 Erin O'Toole: 11,904 Peter MacKay: 11,756 33,800
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In terms of popular vote, she was actually first, almost 4,000 votes ahead of O’Toole, with 60,316 votes out of the total 171,388 cast in the second round.
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Votes after 1st Round Leslyn Lewis: 60,316 Erin O'Toole: 56,907 Peter MacKay: 54,165 171,388
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It should really stand out to social conservatives as a regrettable shame that many pro-lifers voted for Erin O’Toole, and some, even Peter MacKay, as their #1 choice, and that had they voted for Leslyn or Derek instead, today, Dr. Leslyn Lewis would likely be Leader of her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
We know that O’Toole got #1 votes from pro-lifers, both anecdotally and by inference from the fact that nine pro-life MPs actually endorsed the abortion-loving O’Toole. Another sixteen pro-life MPs also endorsed the pro-abortion Peter MacKay.
The most strident of these MPs selling O’Toole as a good choice for social conservatives was Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan). Genuis has a sizable following amongst pro-lifers and considerable influence in the parliamentary pro-life caucus.
Genuis sent at least three email blasts on behalf of the O’Toole Campaign, pumping up the pro-abortion, anti-family candidate to socon voters.
Unfortunately, we believe this had an impact in pushing many socons to vote for O’Toole as their #1 choice. Had this not happened, even if the impact was only 5%, Leslyn would probably have won. Likewise, had the 16 pro-life MPs not endorsed MacKay, but Lewis or Sloan instead, Lewis would probably have received more votes from socon members who were influenced by the opinion of their MP.
Another frustrating example of this likely effect of pro-life MPs like Genuis having persuaded social conservatives to give O’Toole (and others, MacKay) a high ranking, was the shocking percentage of #2 choices by Derek Sloan supporters who put the pro-abortion O’Toole and MacKay ahead of the pro-life Lewis.
I mentioned already that a huge majority of Derek’s supporters ranked Leslyn #2. It was 63% by votes and 66% by points. That is very good and it shows considerable solidarity of purpose amongst social conservatives.
However, a whopping 21% of Derek’s supporters ranked O’Toole as their #2 choice, which translated to 25% of Derek’s points, or 1,222 total points. Another 9% of Derek’s supporters ranked MacKay #2, amounting to 427 points.
Why do I share these figure with you?
If those 1,222 points had all gone to the only other pro-life candidate in the race, instead of to the pro-abortion O’Toole, Leslyn would possibly have won. After the first ballot, Leslyn would have had a total of 11,363 points vs. O’Toole’s 10,681. Therefore, O’Toole would have been eliminated, and Leslyn could potentially have beaten MacKay on the third ballot.
What this speaks to is a serious crisis of judgement amongst pro-life leaders who put politics and “winnability” ahead of principle in this leadership race. There's no reason good enough to justify why MPs who believe that the right to life is an inviolable, non-negotiable human right, should ever endorse an abortion advocate, when a pro-life candidate exists. Let alone when two of them exist!
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Points in Round 1 Points in Round 2 Lewis: 6,925 Lewis: 10,140 (+63%) O'Toole: 10,681 O'Toole: 11,904 (+21%) MacKay: 11,328 MacKay: 11,756 (+9%) Sloan: 4,865 33,800 33,800
CLC ran into this same, disastrous spirit of compromise during the 2017 Leadership race when we were working our tails off to elect Brad Trost and Pierre Lemieux as leader. All the MPs we approached about endorsing the pro-life contenders told us, “Yes, Brad and Pierre have got the right values, but no chance of winning, so I’ve got to endorse someone who can win”. Thus, Brad and Pierre received no MP endorsements at all.
Well, the MPs were proven wrong about socons' electoral chances in 2017, just like they were again in 2020 with Leslyn's underdog run. Brad finished an incredible fourth out of fourteen candidates, and was actually in third place, ahead of O’Toole, on one of the final ballots before elimination. That was with no money, a tiny team, and no large machine (aside from CLC).
Just imagine if Trost had had the endorsement and organizational muscle of 25 pro-life MPs! He would have definitely beaten O’Toole and placed at least third. Could Trost have placed second? Or even first? We’ll never know. But we do know that supporting him would have been the right thing to do, and having Trost place at least third would have advanced the pro-life/family cause by leaps and bounds, just as it would have if Leslyn Lewis had won, or even if she had placed second.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not questioning the integrity of the socon MPs who endorsed O’Toole or MacKay. Many of them we know very well, and they’re rock solid on the issues.
MP Michael Barret endorsed O’Toole, but I know he has courageously stood by his pro-life convictions when he and his family were relentlessly attacked by the MSM and by vile, left-wing activists on social media.
MP Cheryl Gallant endorsed Peter MacKay, but I know she has courageously stood up in the House of Commons to decry the human rights abuse that is abortion. She suffered slander and persecution for her troubles. So we love and appreciate her too.
What I am saying however, is that when it comes to future Leadership elections, we hope that all pro-life MPs will finally put principle before pragmatic politics, and only support pro-life, pro-family candidates so that this kind of unnecessary, narrow-miss never happens again.
Jack Fonseca is Campaign Life Coalition’s director of political operations. This article is published with permission from Campaign Life Coalition.
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lifesitenews--2020-08-28--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

August 28 , 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 .
Send photos or videos of you and your family praying the rosary with Father Pillari to [ email protected ]

(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--2020-08-28--Canada nixes COVID-19 deal with China, won’t receive vaccine from baby aborted in ’70s

ONTARIO , August 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Canada ’ s deal with China for a Canadian human trial of a coronavirus vaccine derived from fetal cells gathered from a baby aborted decades ago , which one M.P .
called “ a big red flag , ” has been scrapped by Canada ’ s National Research Council ( NRC ) .
The Chinese manufacturer of the vaccine , CanSino Biologics Inc. ( CanSinoBIO ) , cited a lack of authority to ship the vaccine known as Ad5-nCoV to Canada to explain the deal falling through , according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported that Ad5-nCoV uses the HEK293 cell line , made from fetal cells harvested from an aborted baby , and was co-developed by the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology and the Chinese firm CanSinoBIO .
According to the Reuters report , the NRC said its agreement with CanSinoBIO was reviewed “ by the company ’ s Chinese government collaborators ” and that it was after the agreement was signed when the Chinese government “ changed the process required to ship vaccines to other countries.
” According to a Reuters report from today , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with CanSinoBIO was not “ necessarily ” due to the increased political tension between Canada and China because of the extradition case of Meng Wanzhou .
Wanzhou is an executive from the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei and is under house arrest in British Columbia .
A few days ago , a federal court judge refused to release to Wanzhou ’ s legal team confidential documents regarding her arrest .
In May , prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau announced that Health Canada had approved the coronavirus vaccine Ad5-nCoV to be used in human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China falling through , Trudeau told reporters Wednesday that his government has “ signed a number of deals with potential vaccine producers around the world.
” “ The issue is nobody yet has a vaccine and nobody knows who ’ s going to develop the vaccine so like many , many countries around the world , we ’ re working with a range of partners to ensure that when someone does find a vaccine Canadians will have access to it , ” Trudeau told reporters .
The NRC was to work in collaboration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Ad5-nCoV would have taken place at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University in Halifax .
In July , it was reported that there was a delay in beginning the vaccine trials because of Chinese customs delaying its shipment to Canada .
Ted Kuntz , president of Vaccine Choice Canada ( VCC ) , a not-for-profit society founded by families who have suffered from vaccine reactions and injuries , told LifeSiteNews that the NRC ’ s decision to end the vaccine trial brings little comfort , as the decision was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety .
“ The decision to end the agreement with China on a ‘ made in China ’ vaccine brings little comfort to those concerned about the regulatory oversight of Health Canada , given the decision was based on ‘ bureaucratic indecision ’ rather than real concern about vaccine safety , ” Kuntz told LifeSiteNews .
Kuntz said that there is “ no justification to bypass important safety protocols ” in the name of rushing a “ vaccine to market.
” “ Those partaking in this human experiment ought to understand that vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any injury or death caused by their product .
This alone should be cause for concern , ” Kuntz told LifeSiteNews .
Pro-life Conservative Party of Canada ( CPC ) Ontario M.P .
Derek Sloan , who was unsuccessful in his bid to become party leader , told LifeSiteNews in June that it ’ s “ a big red flag ” that the NRC chose to work with China on a coronavirus vaccine .
“ China concealed the seriousness of the pandemic in its early stages by repressing doctors and denying knowledge of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Why would Canada now work with China to develop a vaccine for that same virus ?
” Sloan , along with the only other pro-life candidate who ran for the CPC leadership , Leslyn Lewis , told LifeSiteNews in June that he had concerns regarding the ethics behind a vaccine derived from aborted baby cells .
“ China has proven they do not communicate fairly or honestly .
We should hold everything they do in regards to COVID-19 with the highest amount of suspicion , ” Lewis told LifeSiteNews .
Sloan , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that unethical vaccines such as Ad5-nCoV are “ reckless and irresponsible ” and that “ Canadians should not have to choose between their health and their conscience.
” Trudeau said in April that he needed “ time ” to reflect upon whether or not a coronavirus vaccine would be made mandatory in Canada .
In July , VCC launched a lawsuit against Trudeau ’ s government and the Doug Ford government of Ontario to hold them “ accountable ” for their “ overreach and the draconian and unjustifiable measures taken in response to @ @ @

Speculation is rife that the deal fell through in part due to increasing tensions between Canada and China over the arrest of a Chinese national in British Columbia.
ONTARIO, August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Canada’s deal with China for a Canadian human trial of a coronavirus vaccine derived from fetal cells gathered from a baby aborted decades ago, which one M.P. called “a big red flag,” has been scrapped by Canada’s National Research Council (NRC).
The Chinese manufacturer of the vaccine, CanSino Biologics Inc. (CanSinoBIO), cited a lack of authority to ship the vaccine known as Ad5-nCoV to Canada to explain the deal falling through, according to a Reuters report released Wednesday.
LifeSiteNews reported that Ad5-nCoV uses the HEK293 cell line, made from fetal cells harvested from an aborted baby, and was co-developed by the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology and the Chinese firm CanSinoBIO.
According to the Reuters report, the NRC said its agreement with CanSinoBIO was reviewed “by the company’s Chinese government collaborators” and that it was after the agreement was signed when the Chinese government “changed the process required to ship vaccines to other countries.”
According to a Reuters report from today, the end of the NRC’s partnership with CanSinoBIO was not “necessarily” due to the increased political tension between Canada and China because of the extradition case of Meng Wanzhou.
Wanzhou is an executive from the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei and is under house arrest in British Columbia. A few days ago, a federal court judge refused to release to Wanzhou’s legal team confidential documents regarding her arrest.
In May, prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau announced that Health Canada had approved the coronavirus vaccine Ad5-nCoV to be used in human clinical trials.
Despite the deal with China falling through, Trudeau told reporters Wednesday that his government has “signed a number of deals with potential vaccine producers around the world.”
“The issue is nobody yet has a vaccine and nobody knows who’s going to develop the vaccine so like many, many countries around the world, we’re working with a range of partners to ensure that when someone does find a vaccine Canadians will have access to it,” Trudeau told reporters.
The NRC was to work in collaboration with CanSinoBIO, and the clinical trials for Ad5-nCoV would have taken place at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
In July, it was reported that there was a delay in beginning the vaccine trials because of Chinese customs delaying its shipment to Canada.
Ted Kuntz, president of Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC), a not-for-profit society founded by families who have suffered from vaccine reactions and injuries, told LifeSiteNews that the NRC’s decision to end the vaccine trial brings little comfort, as the decision was a “bureaucratic” one and not about safety.
“The decision to end the agreement with China on a ‘made in China’ vaccine brings little comfort to those concerned about the regulatory oversight of Health Canada, given the decision was based on ‘bureaucratic indecision’ rather than real concern about vaccine safety,” Kuntz told LifeSiteNews.
Kuntz said that there is “no justification to bypass important safety protocols” in the name of rushing a “vaccine to market.”
“Those partaking in this human experiment ought to understand that vaccine manufacturers have been granted legal immunity for any injury or death caused by their product. This alone should be cause for concern,” Kuntz told LifeSiteNews.
Pro-life Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Ontario M.P. Derek Sloan, who was unsuccessful in his bid to become party leader, told LifeSiteNews in June that it’s “a big red flag” that the NRC chose to work with China on a coronavirus vaccine.
“China concealed the seriousness of the pandemic in its early stages by repressing doctors and denying knowledge of human-to-human transmission,” Sloan told LifeSiteNews. Why would Canada now work with China to develop a vaccine for that same virus?”
Sloan, along with the only other pro-life candidate who ran for the CPC leadership, Leslyn Lewis, told LifeSiteNews in June that he had concerns regarding the ethics behind a vaccine derived from aborted baby cells.
“China has proven they do not communicate fairly or honestly. We should hold everything they do in regards to COVID-19 with the highest amount of suspicion,” Lewis told LifeSiteNews.
Sloan, who opposes mandatory vaccinations, told LifeSiteNews that unethical vaccines such as Ad5-nCoV are “reckless and irresponsible” and that “Canadians should not have to choose between their health and their conscience.”
Trudeau said in April that he needed “time” to reflect upon whether or not a coronavirus vaccine would be made mandatory in Canada.
In July, VCC launched a lawsuit against Trudeau’s government and the Doug Ford government of Ontario to hold them “accountable” for their “overreach and the draconian and unjustifiable measures taken in response to COVID-19.”
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lifesitenews--2020-08-28--‘Ave Maria’ caps Republican National Convention: ‘Most Catholic moment in American history’

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WASHINGTON , D.C. , August 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The Republican National Convention concluded with what one commentator has called “ the most Catholic moment in American history ” : the performance of “ Ave Maria ” – the “ Hail Mary ” prayer , put to music .
Opera singer Christopher Macchio offered a beautiful rendition of the song , cherished by Catholics , from the Blue Room balcony of the White House after President Donald Trump ’ s speech officially accepting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for reelection .
After the sung prayer to Our Lady , Macchio invited the Trump family and guests gathered on the south lawn of the White House to join in singing “ God Bless America ” and “ America the Beautiful.
” “ God will honor those who honor Him ( and those who honor the Mother of God the Son ) , ” proclaimed Dr. Taylor Marshall , Catholic author and a member of Catholics for Trump advisory board .
“ Ave Maria !
!
!
!
” “ This is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” declared conservative Catholic commentator John Zmirak .
“ Thank New York City , a once great Catholic city , for making potus possible.
” “ By all means let 's invoke the help of Jesus ' mother in protecting our nation & our descendants from those who consider abortion ‘ sacred ’ and our physical , sexual natures as the tools of fetishists , quack doctors , and pornographers , ” continued Zmirak in a subsequent Tweet .
“ The stakes could not be clearer this election , ” he added .

'The stakes could not be clearer in this election.'
PETITION: No to radical mandatory mask mandates! Sign the petition here.
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The Republican National Convention concluded with what one commentator has called “the most Catholic moment in American history”: the performance of “Ave Maria” – the “Hail Mary” prayer, put to music.
Opera singer Christopher Macchio offered a beautiful rendition of the song, cherished by Catholics, from the Blue Room balcony of the White House after President Donald Trump’s speech officially accepting his party’s nomination to run for reelection.
After the sung prayer to Our Lady, Macchio invited the Trump family and guests gathered on the south lawn of the White House to join in singing “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful.”
“God will honor those who honor Him (and those who honor the Mother of God the Son),” proclaimed Dr. Taylor Marshall, Catholic author and a member of Catholics for Trump advisory board. “Ave Maria!!!!”
God will honor those who honor Him (and those who honor the Mother of God the Son). Ave Maria!!!!���� https://t.co/lYzt3TIcFi — Dr Taylor Marshall ������ (@TaylorRMarshall) August 28, 2020
“This is the most Catholic moment in American history,” declared conservative Catholic commentator John Zmirak. “Thank New York City, a once great Catholic city, for making potus possible.”
This is the most Catholic moment in American history. Thank New York City, a once great Catholic city, for making @potus possible. — John Zmirak (@JZmirak) August 28, 2020
“By all means let's invoke the help of Jesus' mother in protecting our nation & our descendants from those who consider abortion ‘sacred’ and our physical, sexual natures as the tools of fetishists, quack doctors, and pornographers,” continued Zmirak in a subsequent Tweet.
“The stakes could not be clearer this election,” he added.
By all means let's invoke the help of Jesus' mother in protecting our nation & our descendants from those who consider abortion “sacred” and our physical, sexual natures as the tools of fetishists, quack doctors, and pornographers. The stakes could not be clearer this election. — John Zmirak (@JZmirak) August 28, 2020
The Ave Maria was sung from the balcony of the White House tonight This is a Key Moment Only a very few saw the strands that have been working over the past year that led to this crescendo — Jack Posobiec ���� (@JackPosobiec) August 28, 2020
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lifesitenews--2020-08-29--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

August 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 .
Send photos or videos of you and your family praying the rosary with Father Pillari to [ email protected ]