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| Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange: Excerpts from 'Three Ages of the Interior LIfe' |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-07-2022, 07:20 AM - Forum: Articles by Catholic authors
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Mortification According to the Blessed Apostle
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Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. [adapted] | March 4, 2022
[Listen to the audio here]
The doctrine of the Gospel on the necessity of mortification is explained at considerable length by St. Paul in his epistles. Frequent quotation is made of his words: “I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway” (I Cor. 9:27). Likewise he says to the Galatians: “They that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Gal. 5:24).
Not only does St. Paul affirm the necessity of mortification, but he gives reasons for it which may be reduced to four; they are precisely those which are disregarded by practical naturalism. The mortification of all that is inordinate in us is necessary: (1) because of the consequences of original sin;(2) because of the results of our personal sins;(3) because of the infinite elevation of our supernatural end;(4) because we must imitate our crucified Lord.
Considering these different motives, we shall see what interior and exterior mortification is for St. Paul. It is attached to many of the virtues, since each one excludes the contrary vices, and particularly to the virtue of penance, which ought to be inspired by love of God, and which has for its end the destruction in us of the consequences of sin as an offense against God.[1]
The Consequences of Original Sin
First of all, St. Paul draws a parallel between Christ the Author of our salvation and Adam the author of our ruin, and notes the consequences of original sin. To the Romans he says: “By one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death” (Rom. 5:12). And again: “By the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners. . . . Where sin abounded, grace did more abound . . . through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Ibid. 19-21). With infirmities and maladies, death is one of the results of original sin, but there is also concupiscence, of which St. Paul speaks when he says: “Walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit” (Gal. 5:16).
According to the Apostle, this is the condition of the “old man,” that is, of man such as he is born of Adam, with a fallen and wounded nature. We read in the Epistle to the Ephesians: “You have heard Him, and have been taught in Him . . . to put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind: and put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth” (Eph. 4:21-24). St. Paul writes in the same vein to the Colossians: “Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds, and putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of Him that created him” (Col. 3:9).
Again, he writes to the Romans: “For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man: but I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Rom. 7:22-24).[2]
The old man, such as he is born of Adam, has a certain lack of balance in his wounded nature. This will be evident if we recall the nature of original justice. In it there was perfect harmony between God and the soul, made to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him; and also between the soul and the body. In fact, as long as the soul was subject to God, the passions or sensible emotions were obedient to right reason enlightened by faith, and to the will vivified by charity. The body itself shared this harmony by privilege, in the sense that it was not subject to sickness or death.
Original sin destroyed this harmony. The first man, by his sin, as the Council of Trent says, “lost for himself and for us sanctity and original justice,” and transmitted to us a fallen nature, deprived of grace and wounded.[3] Without falling into the exaggerations of the Jansenists, we must admit, with St. Thomas, that we are born with our will turned away from God, inclined to evil, weak in regard to the good,[4] with our reason prone to error,[5] our sensitive appetites strongly disposed to inordinate pleasure and to anger, source of every type of injustice.[6] Whence come pride, forgetfulness of God, egoism under all its forms, often a gross almost unconscious egoism, which wishes at any cost to find happiness on earth without aspiring any higher. In this sense, we can truly say with the author of The Imitation: “Nature proposes self as her end, but grace does all things purely out of love for God.”[7] St. Thomas speaks in the same way: “Inordinate love of self is the cause of every sin.”[8]
The fathers, in particular Venerable Bede, state in their explanation of the parable of the Good Samaritan that fallen man is not only stripped of grace and of the privileges of the state of original justice, but is even wounded in his nature. “By the sin of the first parent, man was despoiled of grace and wounded in nature.” This is explained especially by the fact that we are born with our will turned away from God, directly averted from our supernatural last end, and indirectly from our natural last end; for every sin against the supernatural law is indirectly contrary to the natural law which obliges us to obey whatever God may command.[9]
This disorder and weakness of the will in fallen man are shown by the fact that we cannot, without healing grace, love God, the Author of our nature, efficaciously and more than ourselves.[10] There is also the disorder of concupiscence, which is visible enough for St. Thomas to see in it “a quite probable sign of original sin,” a sign which adds its confirmation to what revelation says about the sin of the first man.[11] In place of the original triple harmony (between God and the soul, between the soul and the body, between the body and exterior things), appears the triple disorder which St. John speaks of when he writes: “For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world” (I Jn. 2:16).
Undoubtedly baptism cleanses us from original sin by applying Christ’s merits to us, by giving us sanctifying grace and the infused virtues. Thus, by the virtue of faith our reason is supernaturally enlightened, and by the virtues of hope and charity our will is turned to God. We also receive the infused virtues which rectify the sensible appetites. However, there remains in the baptized who continue in the state of grace an original weakness, wounds in the process of healing, which sometimes cause us to suffer, and which are left to us, says St. Thomas, as an occasion for struggle and merit.[12]
This is what St. Paul says to the Romans: “Our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. . . . Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof” (Rom. 6:6). Not only must this “old man” be moderated, regulated; he must be mortified or made to die. Otherwise we shall never succeed in obtaining the mastery over our passions and we shall remain more or less their slaves. This will mean opposition, perpetual struggle between nature and grace. If unmortified souls do not perceive this struggle, it is because grace is scarcely alive in them; egoistic nature has free play, with some virtues of temperament, natural happy inclinations that are judged to be true virtues.
Mortification is, therefore, imposed upon us because of the consequences of original sin, which remain even in the baptized as an occasion of struggle, and of struggle indispensable in order not to fall into actual and personal sin. We do not repent of original sin, which is a “sin of nature,” which was voluntary only in the first man; but we must labor to rid ourselves of the withering effects of original sin, in particular concupiscence, which inclines us to sin. By so doing, the wounds of which we spoke above are healed more and more with the increase of the grace which heals and which, at the same time, raises us up to a new life (gratia sanans et elevans). Far from destroying nature by the practice of mortification, grace restores it, heals it, and renders it increasingly pliable or docile in the hands of God.
From Three Ages of the Interior Life.
Original French edition © The Dominican Province, France.
English translation © Baronius Press Ltd
[1] St. Thomas, in IlIa, q. 85, a. 2 f., says that penance is a special virtue which labors to efface sin and its consequences, inasmuch as sin is an offense against God. Wherefore penance is a part of justice, and, inspired by charity, it commands other subordinate virtues, in particular temperance, as exemplified in fasting, abstinence, vigils. A distinction may be made between mortification, properly so called, which depends on the virtue of penance, and mortification in the broad sense, which depends on each virtue, inasmuch as each one rejects the vices that are contrary to it. Correctly speaking, we cannot repent of original sin, but we should labor to diminish those of its results which incline us to personal sin.
[2] The meaning is: who will deliver me from the law of sin which is in my members, and consequently from spiritual or eternal death. As has often been pointed out, the idea of deliverance by physical death is foreign to the context.
[3] Council of Trent (Denzinger, no. 789): “Adam acceptam a Deo sanctatem et jusam non sibi soli sed eam nobis perdidit.”
[4] St. Thomas, Ia IIae, q.83, a.3: “Two things must be considered in the infection of original sin. First, its inherence to its subject; and in this respect it regards first the essence of the soul. . . . In the second place, we must consider its inclination to act; and in this way it regards the powers of the soul. It must therefore regard first of all that power in which is seated the first inclination to commit a sin, and this is the will.” Ia IIae, q.85, a.3: “In so far as the will is deprived of its order to the good, there is the wound of malice.” Ibid., ad 2um: “Malice is not to be taken here as a sin, but as a certain proneness of the will to evil, according to Gen. 8:21: ‘Man’s senses are prone to evil from his youth.’” (Vulg.: The imaginaon and thought of man’s heart are prone to evil from his youth.)
[5] Ibid.: “Hence, in so far as the reason is deprived of its order to the true, there is the wound of ignorance.”
[6] Ibid.: “In so far as the irascible (appetite) is deprived of its order to the arduous, there is the wound of weakness; and in so far as the concupiscible (appeitte) is deprived of its order to the delectable, moderated by reason, here is the wound of concupiscence. Accordingly, these are the four wounds inflicted on the whole of human nature as a result of our first parent’s sin.”
[7] The Imitaon, Bk. III, chap. 54.
[8] See Ia IIae, q.77, a.4: “Inordinate love of self is the cause of every sin.” We explained elsewhere at greater length the Thomisc doctrine of the consequences of original sin in relation to the spiritual life. Cf. L’amour de Dieu et la croix de Jesus, I, 292 ff.
[9] If man had been created in a purely natural state (or of pure nature), he would be born with a will not turned away from God, but capable of turning freely toward Him (Author of our nature and of the natural moral law) or of turning away from Him. There is, therefore, a notable difference between this state and that in which man is actually born. As a result of original sin, our powers to observe the natural moral law are less than they would have been in a state of pure nature. This is why, without the aid of healing grace, we cannot succeed in efficaciously loving God, the Author of our nature, more than ourselves.
[10] St. Thomas, Ia IIae, q.109, a. 3: “In the state of corrupt nature man falls short of this (of the efficacious love of God, the Author of nature) in the appetite of his rational will, which, unless it is cured by God’s grace, follows its private good, on account of the corruption of nature.” See also, De malo, q.4, a.2; q.5, a.2; De veritate, q.24, a.I2 ad 2um.
[11] St. Thomas, Contra Gentes, Bk. IV, chap. 42, no. 3: “Considering divine providence and the dignity of the superior part of human nature, it can with sufficient probability be proved that defects of this kind are penalties; and thus it can be concluded that the human race is somewhat infected by original sin.”
[12] Cf. IIIa, q.69, a.3 ad 3um: “Original sin spread in this way, that at first the person infected the nature, and afterward the nature infected the person. Whereas Christ in reverse order at first repairs what regards the person, and afterward will simultaneously repair what pertains to the nature in all men. Consequently, by baptism He takes away from man forthwith the guilt of original sin and the punishment of being deprived of the heavenly vision. But the penalties of the present life, such as death, hunger, thirst, and the like, pertain to the nature, from the principles of which they arise, inasmuch as it is deprived of original justice. Therefore these defects will not be taken away until the ultimate restoration of nature through the glorious resurrection.” Ibid., in corp. a. 3: “Wherefore a Chrisan receives grace in baptism, as to his soul; but he retains a passible body, so that he may suffer for Christ therein (Rom. 7: II, 17). . . . Secondly, this is suitable for our spiritual training: namely, in order that, by fighting against concupiscence and other defects to which he is subject, man may receive the crown of victory” (Rom. 6:6)The Council of Trent (Denzinger, no. 792) says that baptism remits original sin perfectly by giving us habitual grace and the infused virtues, but that in the bapzed the “coal of concupiscence” remains, which is left ad agonem (for the struggle) and which cannot harm those who do not consent to it and who struggle manfully by the grace of Christ.
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP (1877–1964) was a professor of metaphysics and theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome from 1909 until 1960. A faithful Thomist, standing squarely within the Dominican tradition of Thomist commentary, he penned many articles and books through the course of his very active career. Although best known for his masterpiece in spiritual theology, The Three Ages of the Interior Life, he wrote extensive commentaries on St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, a massive two-volume work devoted to the topic of apologetic theology, multiple philosophical texts defending Thomistic metaphysics and epistemology, and a number of studies dedicated to particular theological topics such as Providence, Predestination, and the problem of theological modernism. Through his many years of activity, he defended the truths of the faith, as well as the theological positions of the Thomist school, doing so with a charitable but firm tone. A man of apostolic zeal, when not teaching and writing, he dedicated much time to the vocation of preaching that is eponymous for his religious order, in particular in the form of retreats for religious and laity alike. Through this teaching and writing, he influenced countless souls and left a mark upon Thomism which remains to this day and, in fact, is finding new appreciation among readers seeking to understand the great principles of Thomist thought. English translations of his works can be found at St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and Cluny Media.
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| Pentagon Says Russia-Ukraine War Likely to Last For Years |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-07-2022, 07:09 AM - Forum: Global News
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Pentagon Says Russia-Ukraine War Likely to Last For Years
Weapons contractors will be delighted.
Summit News | 7 April, 2022
The Pentagon believes that the Russia-Ukraine war will turn out to be a “very protracted conflict” that is likely to go on for “years.”
The prediction was made during a House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday which was attended by General Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
I do think this is a very protracted conflict, and I think it’s at least measured in years. I don’t know about decade, but at least years, for sure, Gen. Milley told Congressional leaders.
“This is a very extended conflict that Russia has initiated, and I think that NATO, the United States, Ukraine and all of the allies and partners that are supporting Ukraine are going to be involved in this for quite some time,” he added.
The Pentagon continues to insist, although it may well be propaganda, that the Russians expected Ukraine to be mopped up in a matter of weeks if not months, but unexpected fierce resistance and western support has forced them to scale down their ambitions to taking Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions.
During his testimony, Milley also suggested that the proxy war between NATO and Russia will escalate as a result of what is happening in Ukraine.
“We are entering a world that is becoming more unstable. The potential for significant international conflict between great powers is increasing, not decreasing,” he said.
The news that the war is likely to last for years is guaranteed to be music to the ears of weapons contractors, as well as many within NATO itself.
As we previously highlighted, a report by the Washington Post confirmed that some prominent individuals within NATO want the war to be prolonged so as to weaken Russia.
“Even a Ukrainian vow not to join NATO — a concession that Zelensky has floated publicly — could be a concern to some neighbors. That leads to an awkward reality: For some in NATO, it’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting, and dying, than to achieve a peace that comes too early or at too high a cost to Kyiv and the rest of Europe,” stated the article.
“There is an unfortunate dilemma. The problem is that if it ends now, there is a kind of time for Russia to regroup, and it will restart, under this or another pretext.”
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| Sacred Triduum Schedule 2022 |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-07-2022, 06:30 AM - Forum: Event Schedule
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Holy Week - Sacred Triduum
April 14th - 16th
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✠ ✠ ✠ Holy Thursday ✠ ✠ ✠
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2:15 PM Confessions
3:00 PM High Mass / Procession
6:00 PM Conference
6:45 PM Holy Hour of Reparation
7:45 PM Private Adoration to Midnight
✠ ✠ ✠ Good Friday ✠ ✠ ✠
9:45 AM Confessions
10:30 AM +Mass of the Presanctified+ (Faithful Abstain from Communion)
1:30 PM Stations of the Cross
2:15 PM Conference on the Passion
3:00 PM Devotions to the Sorrowful Mother (Mater Dolorosa)
✠ ✠ ✠ Holy Saturday ✠ ✠ ✠
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10:30 AM Easter Vigil Ceremonies and Mass (Faithful May Receive Communion / End of the Lenten Fast)
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| Bill Introducing 'Mandatory Vaccination' For All Germans Over 60 Expected To Pass |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-07-2022, 06:22 AM - Forum: Global News
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Bill Introducing 'Mandatory Vaccination' For All Germans Over 60 Expected To Pass
ZH | APR 07, 2022
The COVID pandemic has largely subsided in Europe (although health authorities have warned about an uptick in cases caused by subvariants and hybrid variants of the omicron strain). But this hasn't stopped German lawmakers from pushing for a new law that would legally require people age 60 and older to be vaccinated.
But that's not all. The deal struck by members of Germany's ruling "stop sign" coalition, which includes Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party, the Greens and the 'classical liberal' Free Democrats, also includes an option for making COVID shots mandatory for everybody age 18 and older.
That second provision will depend on how the next wave of the pandemic develops during the fall, according to Bloomberg, which cited a local report.
According to other provisions in the proposed law, the government would initially try to "encourage" the unvaccinated to voluntary submit to inoculation (Germany still has millions of unvaccinated citizens, not unlike the US). Fortunately, even if the proposal becomes a law (it's due for a vote on Thursday), it will also include provisions that would reverse the situation if enough people receive their COVID shots voluntarily before the summer.
Lawmakers told Bloomberg that the goal of the proposal is "effective prevention."
Quote:"We are united by the goal of effective prevention through the highest possible level of basic immunity for all adults for the fall, because in this way we can prevent the health system from being overwhelmed," they added.
Germany is still recording more than 200,000 cases and more than 300 deaths from the virus on most days. But with more than 75% of its population vaccinated, the pressure on the country's health-care system has significantly lessened since the depths of the pandemic.
Most western countries have strongly opposed mandatory vaccination requirements (although the Biden Administration in the US has attempted to force millions of workers to either get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs before the Supreme Court to declare Biden's executive orders unconstitutional). But Chancellor Scholz has decided that mandatory vaccination is permissible, so long as the Bundestag grants its blessing.
Another lawmaker said compulsory vaccination for all Germans over 60 will help the German economy remain "free" during the fall wave. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen.
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| Washington Post Admits NATO Wants to Prolong War in Ukraine |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-06-2022, 09:11 AM - Forum: Global News
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Washington Post Admits NATO Wants to Prolong War in Ukraine
“It’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting.”
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Summit News | 6 April, 2022
In an article about the potential for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, the Washington Post admits that some within NATO want to prolong the war for as long as possible.
The admission is contained in a piece titled ‘NATO says Ukraine to decide on peace deal with Russia — within limits’.
“Even a Ukrainian vow not to join NATO — a concession that Zelensky has floated publicly — could be a concern to some neighbors. That leads to an awkward reality: For some in NATO, it’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting, and dying, than to achieve a peace that comes too early or at too high a cost to Kyiv and the rest of Europe,” states the article.
“There is an unfortunate dilemma. The problem is that if it ends now, there is a kind of time for Russia to regroup, and it will restart, under this or another pretext.”
And there you have it.
Now we know why the NATO-aligned legacy media and journalists are constantly lobbying for an escalation that could spark World War III.
NATO wants the war to continue for as long as possible so Russia can be drained and isolated, while the media is addicted to the clicks and ratings it brings.
The article also reveals how Zelensky wants a “legally binding security guarantees from the United States and others to defend it if it were attacked,” something that is totally delusional.
As Chris Menahan notes, a peace deal looked possible around a month ago when Vladimir Putin vowed to end the war “if Ukraine agreed to recognize Crimea, accept Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, swear off joining NATO and disarm.”
However, despite being told by Israel to accept the deal, President Zelensky refrained from doing so immediately after the U.S. decided to sent $14 billion dollars in aid, an act that prolonged the war.
“(Zelensky) should have taken Putin’s deal as Bennet told him to four weeks ago,” writes Menahan. “Instead, he has insisted on sticking with his strategy of forcing all men aged 18 to 60 to take up arms and become enemy combatants so he could use their deaths as atrocity propaganda to con NATO into the war.”
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| President Macron Says He is “Opposed to Self-Defense” After Farmer Shoots One of Four Burglars |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-06-2022, 09:08 AM - Forum: Global News
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President Macron Says He is “Opposed to Self-Defense” After Farmer Shoots One of Four Burglars Who Broke Into His Home
Tone deaf comments hurt presidential hopes just days away from first round.
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Summit News | 6 April, 2022
After a farmer was charged with murder for shooting a man after four burglars broke into his home, French President Emmanuel Macron said people should not have the right to self-defense.
Yes, really.
“According to the initial investigation, the farmer fired twice with a large caliber rifle at a group of four burglars, killing one of them. The self-defense shooting took place last Friday, between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., and the man was alone with his 3-year-old daughter at the time,” reports Remix News.
However, Macron responded to the story by asserting that the 35-year-old farmer had no right to defend himself or his daughter in such a manner.
“Everyone must be safe, and the public authorities have to ensure it,” Macron told Europe 1.
“But I am opposed to self-defense. It’s very clear and undisputable because otherwise the country becomes the Wild West. And I don’t want a country where weapons proliferate and where we consider that it’s up to the citizens to defend themselves,” said Macron.
Presumably, the farmer should have just allowed the four burglars to ransack his home and potentially harm his young daughter without doing anything to intervene.
Macron insisted that the farmer should have called the police, who in many areas of France are already stretched to the limit thanks to criminal gangs of migrants youths being in a perpetual state of war with them.
“I’m not going to judge this news. I convey the rules,” said Macron, whose weak record on security and crime is under scrutiny.
With the first round of the French election just days away and polls tightening in the race between Macron and his likely final round challenger Marine Le Pen, the comments will do his chances little good.
After being charged with murder, the farmer was released but will remain under judicial supervision.
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| Saskatchewan pauses rollout of digital ID system after public backlash |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-06-2022, 07:23 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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Saskatchewan pauses rollout of digital ID system after public backlash
' ... people want to know who the government is working with to implement an actual mass digital ID system ... ' one politician stated.
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Apr 5, 2022
REGINA, Saskatchewan (LifeSiteNews) — The province of Saskatchewan will hold off on implementing a digital identification system for the time being.
The Saskatchewan government announced that, at least temporarily, they will halt the rollout of a digital identification system in the conservative stronghold province. While there were reportedly multiple reasons for axing the system, two of the factors were unfavorable polling and pushback from both the public and provincial legislators.
“We just thought we’ve got an opportunity here to review what other governments are doing with this, and so we decided not to proceed right now,” said MLA Jim Reiter, the minister responsible for SaskBuilds, the division behind the digital ID.
“There [were] enough people raising concerns that obviously you have to make that a factor,” Reiter added. “But it certainly wasn’t the only one.”
In addition to concerns about how the system would impact personal privacy, there were also concerns that the system was actually part of a larger agenda that did not originate or was not contained to those within the Saskatchewan government.
“Mr. Speaker, people want to know who the government is working with to implement an actual mass digital ID system that will link all of our personal information to one source,” MLA Nadine Rivers asked during the Question Period in the legislature.
According to a government-commissioned poll, just 42 percent of respondents in the province were even “somewhat comfortable” with a digital “photo ID verification,” with only 25 percent saying they were “extremely comfortable” with the idea.
The topic of digital IDs has become a hot-button issue in Canada over the past few months, with the heavily populated provinces of Ontario and Alberta having already rolled out their systems to varying degrees.
According to the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC), the group Saskatchewan joined to push the system, “Saskatchewan joined the DIACC because we recognize that if we are going to realize the potential of digital ID, we need to define and govern digital identity nationally, with private and public sector collaboration,” the council said.
The council also says the digital ID will “enable Canadians” to “participate in the global digital economy” while further outlining that the program has the stated goal of becoming “ubiquitous.”
Other partners include major banks, Canada’s postal service, and large telecommunication networks such as TELUS, with the Canadian Bankers Association having already openly talked about the need for Canada’s financial institutions, under the guidance of the World Economic Forum (WEF), to push for adoption of the digital ID regime in order for the transition to be successful.
The WEF is the globalist organization behind the widely criticized “Great Reset” agenda. The Great Reset is a radical plan designed by global elites that “seeks to ‘push the reset button’ on the global economy” and establish a New World Order that seems to closely emulate many aspects of the Chinese Social Credit System.
According to the WEF, under the “Great Reset,” by the year 2030, “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
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| Interview w/ Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò - April 3, 2022 |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-06-2022, 07:03 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Interview w/ Carlo Maria Viganò: "React and oppose the dictatorship, before being deprived of other fundamental rights"
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Aldo Maria Valli | April 3, 2022
Dear friends of [i]Duc in altum, I am pleased to propose this interview that was granted to me by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Many topics were touched upon, from national politics to the world situation, from the pandemic to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, from the pontificate of Bergoglio to the next conclave. The guiding thread is the battle for the Truth, in constant listening to the Word of God: "Truth is not a club with which to strike those who ignore it, but a light that cannot be hidden under a bushel, and that may perhaps dazzle everyone. beginning, but it cannot be ignored by people of good will and a good conscience. Who does not want to see that light - which is always a ray of the only Light in the world which is Christ - takes sides with the darkness, and must be helped to come out of it with Charity.”[/i]
by Aldo Maria Valli
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Your Excellency, a political vacuum is increasingly evident in our country. A growing portion of Italians does not feel represented by the current alignments. On the other hand, there are sectors that are gearing up in different ways to fill this void. The question also and perhaps above all concerns Catholics, as emerged during the first public meeting of the Liberi in Veritate Committee, born in adherence to the anti-globalist appeal that you launched starting from the consideration that for two years now we have been living at all. the effects of a world coup. There are two questions in this regard. The first: Do you actually see a political margin for maneuver for those who intend to oppose the single dominant thought and fight for the freedom of man as God created him? The second:
Catholics, as citizens, have the right and the duty to influence society with a civil and political commitment. To let others participate in the political life of the nation, especially at a time when the principles of natural law and morality are ignored or openly opposed, would be irresponsible. Of course, the democratic system has shown its critical points, because it assigns the government to the numerical majority, and not to what is just and good. However, we must recognize that with the pandemic farce before and now with the Russian-Ukrainian crisis we have understood that the will of the majority, despite all the manipulations of the mainstream, is less and less convinced of the official narrative. This shows a rift between the political and ruling class of the country and the citizens, who are realizing the global coup d'état carried out against them by a mafia of bureaucrats and rulers enslaved by the globalist elite.
Once the white coup is understood, the people will have to react and oppose the dictatorship, before being deprived of other fundamental rights.
In your Call for an anti-globalist alliance, you have called together rulers, political and religious leaders, intellectuals and people of good will, inviting all to come together to launch an anti-globalist manifesto. Can you update us on the developments, not only in Italy, of this initiative?
I have launched an appeal to respond to the globalist tyranny, and I see the interest and support of many forces in various nations growing. However, I believe that the evidence of the responsibility of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and the folly of insisting on provocations rather than seeking peace will make many people understand the danger to which they expose themselves if they do not organize themselves to firmly resist the deep state coup. . I know that in the United States the initiative is well received not only by Republicans, but also by many Democratic voters, disgusted by the scandals and corruption of Obama, the Clintons and the Bidens.
His appeal speaks of real "popular resistance movements and national liberation committees" for a radical reform of politics. In the opinion of some, however, in the current situation there would be no suitable moral tension, given that public opinion is largely addicted and asleep. How do you respond to this objection, who have contacts with the whole world?
The masses are unwilling to mobilize, especially if they are manipulated and drugged by experts in social psychology. The real resistance and the establishment of National Liberation Committees will be successful if they are coordinated by intellectuals and politicians who know how to put the common good and the defense of justice before their own electoral advantage. We need courageous leaders, with a sense of honor, animated by sound moral principles: their example, together with an awakening of consciences and a surge of dignity of the magistrates, the police, public officials could really prevent the advent of the New World Order.
Social and political commitment must obviously be combined with a supernatural gaze, combining action with prayer confident in the help of divine Providence. Priests, religious and all the faithful are therefore called to spiritually accompany their brothers in the good fight not only with prayer, but also with penance, fasting and the frequency of the sacraments. The Mercy of God and the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin await our concrete gesture and of true conversion to pour out a torrent of Graces on this poor humanity. Thus, our numerical inferiority and our lack of means in front of the enemy will allow the Lord to show how true his words are: Sine me nihil potestis facere (Jn 15: 5).
The globalist coup took place, and continues to take place, also because the leaders of the Catholic Church are no longer the guarantors of freedom in respect of human dignity but have enslaved themselves to the New World Order, speak the same language as the globalists and pursue the same interests as the ruling elites. This enslavement, a source of great suffering for so many Catholics, seems to extinguish all hope in a Christian rebirth. The time factor has its own importance. The longer this pontificate lasts, the more homogeneous the Church is to the overall project, up to self-cancellation. Do you think that a recovery will be possible after Bergoglio's reign? What do you see on the horizon?
The complicity of the Bergoglian church and of the entire world episcopate in the psychopandemic farce has marked one of the lowest points reached by the Hierarchy in history. But this is the logical consequence of a corrupt and corrupting ideology that finds its basis in Vatican II, as its own architects are proud to reiterate. Just last March 25 other conspirators gathered in Chicago to coordinate a marketing operation with which to underline that those who oppose Bergoglio are opposed to the Council. Beyond the low reputation of these conspirators - among them the minions stand out McCarrick's with their courtiers - we cannot disagree with them on the intrinsic relationship between conciliar cancer and Bergoglian metastasis. It is evident that the apostasy of the Catholic Hierarchy is the punishment with which the divine Majesty afflicts rebellious and sinful humanity, so that it recognizes the sovereign rights of God, is converted and finally returns under the gentle yoke of Christ. And until the bishops recognize their betrayal and repent of it, no hope is possible for the world, since salvation can only be had in the one fold and under the one shepherd.
Recently a memorandum was shot among the members of the Sacred College, signed with the pseudonym Demos, which lists the disasters caused at every level (doctrinal, pastoral, managerial, economic, legislative) by the pontificate of Bergoglio. "Better late than never", commented some, while others said: "It is useless to close the barn when the oxen have already escaped". What do you think of that memorandum? Do you think it was the work of a cardinal? Is it the symptom of a belated awareness?
The memorandum lists the horrors of the Bergoglian "pontificate", and this certainly is already progress compared to magnifying it. But the horrors and errors of the Argentine and his court did not appear out of nowhere, as if in the previous pontificates everything was perfect and wonderful. The crisis begins with Vatican II: deploring the symptoms of an illness without understanding its causes is a useless and harmful operation. If the College of Cardinals is not persuaded that it is necessary to return to what the Church believed, taught and celebrated until Pius XII, any opposition to the current regime will be doomed to certain failure.
Within the College of Cardinals, in your opinion, is there a credible, authentically Catholic figure on which the cardinals, in the event of a conclave, could make the votes converge for a total change of register compared to the current pontificate?
Certain Popes, let us not forget, are granted ; others are inflicted . But before discussing the next conclave, it is necessary to shed light on the abdication of Benedict XVI and on the question of the frauds of the 2013 Conclave, which sooner or later will have to give rise to an official investigation. If there were to be proofs of irregularity, the conclave would be null, the election of Bergoglio null, just as all his appointments, acts of government and magisterium would be null. A reset that would providentially bring us back to the status quo ante, with a College of Cardinals composed only of cardinals appointed up to Benedict XVI, ousting all those created since 2013, notoriously ultra-progressive. Certainly the current situation, with all the rumors about Ratzinger's resignation and Bergoglio's election, does not help the ecclesial body and creates confusion and disorientation in the faithful.
Here too, Catholics can implore the divine Majesty to spare further humiliations to His Church, by granting her a good Pope. If there is a cardinal who really wants "a change of register", that he comes forward, and that - for the sake of love of God - stop referring to Vatican II and think about the sanctification of the clergy and the faithful.
In the United States, the Biden administration is increasingly in difficulty and the president is increasingly showing his inadequacy; yet, by virtue of alliances and intersections of interests at the highest level, it seems impossible to bring down this house of cards. How is Trump doing? Can he help us to better read the American situation, of which you are an expert?
The Biden administration is the mirror of the corruption that prevails in public affairs, regardless of the immutable moral principles of the Gospel. And if a politician in favor of abortion, euthanasia, gender and all the worst deviations dares to call himself a Catholic, we should ask ourselves what is the responsibility of the teachers, educators and priests with whom this politician was trained. What did the parish priest teach in the catechism? what the professor in the Catholic University? what the spiritual director of the future political leader? And we are back to the starting point: Vatican II, which instead of converting the world to the Church, converted the Church to the world, making her evangelization useless. There was a lot of talk about the "missionary Church", but at the same time the preaching has become the propaganda of fatuous philanthropic ideals, of old leftist ideologies, of empty pacifist slogans. And behold, from those Jesuit schools, thecrème of Vatican II: characters like Pelosi or Biden, who have nothing Catholic but who present themselves with impunity to receive Communion with the applause of the bishops and of Bergoglio himself.
The American episcopate, too careful to please Bergoglio, has indeed been careful not to condemn the electoral program of the Dems, while it has not hesitated to lash out against President Trump who, despite all his contradictions, certainly defends more effectively and convinced the principles of the natural law and the sanctity of life.
The Russian-Ukrainian crisis shows us a Biden, a deep state puppet , obstinate in preventing peace in the ongoing conflict because he is too worried about covering up his scandals and that of his son Hunter: I am thinking, for example, of the Burisma case and the interests in bio-laboratories in Ukraine. If the evidence leads to the indictment of Hunter Biden and the involvement of his father Joe, impeachment will be inevitable and amply justified, and this could lead Trump back to power. If, in the meantime, the ongoing trials prove electoral fraud, he could be proclaimed president. And that would be a fatal blow to the deep state and the Great Reset .
The Covid affair and that of the war in Ukraine have brought to light the existence of profound differences - we could say anthropological even before cultural and political ones - between those who feel the problem of the conditioning to which we are subjected by the constant and coordinated action of the "bosses of thought ”and those who accept the dominant narrative and align themselves with the imposed dogmas. Faced with such differences, which are also dividing people united by family ties and friendship, how should we move, as believers, to witness the Truth without giving in to the temptation of "militarization" of consciences?
The manipulation of consciences constitutes a real violation of the freedom of the individual, leading him to a dulling of his faculties which can undermine moralityof his actions. Social psychology teaches that those who are subjected to mental conditioning according to specific techniques end up acting by staggering their judgment or even refraining from formulating a moral evaluation of their actions: let's think of the driving force of the example of the mass, of the power that social judgment exercises. on our behavior, to the force of the threat of sanctions to induce us to "respect the rules", and vice versa to the seduction of prizes and rewards for our "socially responsible" action. On this, for example, the pandemic farce was built, in which all the principles of mass manipulation were implemented with great success, without there being an equally mass reaction on the part of those who have been deprived of rights, of work. , salary,
The faithful, as part of society, have suffered the regime propaganda also with Covid, with the aggravating circumstance that the delusions of the civil authorities have been ratified and supported by the ecclesiastical authority, which has therefore induced Catholics to obey uncritically the lockdown , the use of masks, the administration of a morally unacceptable experimental gene therapy. It must therefore be recognized that the responsibility for accepting the psychopandemic and the vaccination campaign falls almost entirely on the Pastors, and especially on Bergoglio, who makes no secret of his unconditional support for the NWO, the WEF and the globalist ideology.
You talk to me about the "militarization" of consciences, as if this were a deplorable thing. Our Lord said: «From now on in a house of five people they will divide three against two and two against three; father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law "(Lk 12: 52-53). And again: «The brother will give the brother to death and the father the child, and the children will rise up against the parents and they will make them die. And you will be hated by all on account of my name; but whoever perseveres to the end will be saved "(Mt 10, 21-22). How can we think that in the face of the deployment of the forces of evil, in the face of the attack of the New World Order against society and against Christ, it is possible to avoid the "militarization" of consciences,
The truth is not a club with which to strike those who ignore it, but a light which cannot be hidden under a bushel, and which may perhaps dazzle at first, but which cannot be ignored by people of good will and a good conscience. Who does not want to see that light - which is always a ray of the only Light in the world which is Christ - takes sides with the darkness, and must be helped to come out of it with Charity. This is all the more true for our loved ones: their erroneous beliefs, in the face of our patient response without animosity, often crack and over time they understand that our "conspiracy" was only an anticipation with reason and insight into what from there it would soon be in the public domain. Of course it is easier to understand the deception of the psychopandemic than the much worse one hatched by the Modernists with the Council.
Among some Catholics there is an objection, addressed to you, which goes more or less like this: "Monsignor Viganò is now too busy with politics and economics, moving away from his field of action, which should be the most strictly religious and therefore theological , doctrinal and pastoral ". How do you respond to this criticism?
But what do these know of my pastoral activity? With the strength that the Lord grants me, I carry out an intense pastoral and doctrinal activity, which represents my main commitment; together with the spiritual and material support of priests and faithful from all over the world - a priestly action that does not make the news, also because I am not in the habit of taking the troupe with me ... On the other hand, those who attack me today because I speak of political or health emergency, yesterday attacked me because I denounced the corruption in the Church, the deviations of the Council and the reformed liturgy.
The "sectoralization" of skills is an excellent tool with which the opponent decides, motu proprio , what his interlocutor is authorized to say, when he can do it, what qualifications he must have in order to pronounce. Who has decided that a bishop cannot intervene in politics? The secularists and, among Catholics, those who curiously let bishops and ultra-progressive clerics rant, who swoon if Bergoglio speaks against Trump or in favor of Trudeau, but they tear their clothes if a bishop does not please the system or does not follow the narrative to unified networks of single thinking.
I do not think that Saint Ambrose - who also came from the public administration and who was acclaimed bishop when he was still a layman - ever had any qualms about intervening in political matters. Because a bishop is a shepherd, and among the sheep of the flock that the Lord has assigned to him are humble and powerful people, there are subjects and rulers, men and women, honest citizens and criminals: they are all sheep to be led in the pastures and from protect from wolves.
It seems to me that in my interventions I have always and only pursued the mission that the Lord has entrusted to me as Successor of the Apostles, working for the salvation of souls in an hour in which humanity is falling into the abyss without anyone launching it. alarm for imminent danger.
We are preparing to enter Holy Week. Your Excellency, would you like to say a word to help us live it well, in an authentically Catholic way?
With the Fifth Sunday of Lent we have entered the time of Passion, which will culminate in the celebration of the Sacred Triduum: the beauty and profound spirituality of the rites of these days are a precious opportunity to worthily complete Holy Lent in preparation for the Resurrection of Our Lord. .
We contemplate the Hosanna of the crowd who triumphantly receives the Son of David in Jerusalem, and who shortly afterwards allow themselves to be manipulated by the Sanhedrin and invokes Pilate for the crucifixion of the King of Israel: may there be a warning to keep us away from bad advisers and authorities. corrupt, following the Lord with courage along the way of the Cross.
Let us contemplate the painful scourging, the crowning with thorns, the ascent to Calvary and the crucifixion of Our Lord, after an unjust and unjust sentence, carried out by the civil authority to please the interests of the high priests: spiritually uniting ourselves to the Passion of our Most Holy Redeemer, let us not be deceived by those who, using their authority, would still like to send Our Lord Jesus Christ to death, repeating the words of that time: non habemus regem, nisi Cæsarem, we have no other king but Caesar (Jn 19:15).
Videbunt in quem transfixerunt , They will look to Him whom they have pierced (Jn 19:37), says the Scripture. Let us also look to the Savior disfigured by the torments of the Passion, considering how much part each of us had in the pains of Our Lord. Let us repent of our sins, our infidelities, our human respects, our silences. Let us shake ourselves from our mediocrity and stand up courageously under the banner of the King of kings, starting with a life in the grace of God, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, assistance at Holy Mass, frequent Confession and Communion. And let us remember that there is no Resurrection without the Cross, and that the instrument of death has become, through the Most Precious Blood shed by the Lord, an emblem of life and victory.
April 3, 2022
Passion Sunday
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| Sermons of St. Vincent Ferrer |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-05-2022, 09:34 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Sermons of St. Vincent Ferrer
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Sermon on the Last Judgment – Mt 25:33 Sheep and goats
First Sunday of Advent. Sermon 1 – Part one -The theme
Second Sunday of Advent- Sermon on the Last Judgment
Third Sunday of Advent — The Voice of One Crying Out in the Wilderness
Sermon on the Incarnation
Sermon for Christmas Eve
On Christmas — “This day is born to you a Savior,” (Lk 2:11)
On Epiphany — “And falling down they adored him,” (Mt 2:11)
On the Baptism of Christ — “I ought to be baptized by you,” (Mt 3:14)
On the Six Jugs of Cana — “Now there were set there six…” (Jn 2:6)
On the Conversion of St. Paul — “…a vessel of election,” (Acts 9:15)
On the Purification of the BVM (Presentation of the Lord) — (Lk 2:22)
On St. Blaise (Feb. 3) — (Jn 12:24)
On the Cure of the Centurion’s Servant — (Mt 8:7)
Ash Wednesday (Mt 6:16-18)
On Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving (Mt 6)
1st Sunday of Lent: Jesus is Tempted in the Desert (Mt 4:1-11)
2nd Sunday of Lent: The Transfiguration (Mt 17:1-9)
3rd Sunday of Lent: The Samaritan Woman at the Well (Jn 14:5-42)
4th Sunday of Lent: The Cure of the Man Born Blind (Jn 9:1-38)
5th Sunday of Lent: The Raising of Lazarus (Jn 11:1-46)
Palm Sunday (Mt 21:1-9)
Holy Thursday: The Lord’s Supper
Good Friday: The Passion of the Lord (Jn 18-19)
Holy Saturday (Col 3)
Easter Sunday: Sermon 1
Easter Sunday: Sermon 2
Easter Octave (Jn 20:26-29)
The Good Shepherd (Jn 10:12-16)
The Ascension (Acts 1:9-11)
Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4)
Pentecost 2 (Jn 14:27-29)
Holy Trinity 1 (Jn 3:9-11, 1 Jn 5:7)
Holy Trinity 2 (Jn 3:1-3)
Corpus Christi 1 (1 Cor 11:23-27)
Corpus Christi 2 (1 Cor 11:24)
Ninth Sunday in OT (Mt 7:21)
Tenth Sunday in OT (Mt 9:9-13, The call of Matthew)
Eleventh Sunday in OT (Mt 9:18-26, Daughter is raised, woman healed)
June 24 On St. John the Baptist 3 (Lk 1:66)
June 29 On St. Peter (Mt 16:17)
On St. James, Apostle (Eph 2:1)
On St. Ann, Mother of the BVM (Rom 6:22)
On St. Dominic (Mt 5:13)
On the Assumption of the BVM Sermon I (Lk 10:38-42)
On Perseverance (Mt 10:22)
On Predestination (Jn 15:4)
On Aging (Eph 4:23)
Sept. 14 Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Letter to Benedict XIII on the Last Judgment
Treatise on the Spiritual Life: Chapters 1-3
The Life of Christ As Seen in the Parts of the Mass
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| Colorado legalizes abortion until the moment of birth |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-05-2022, 09:13 AM - Forum: Abortion
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Colorado legalizes abortion until the moment of birth
'A fertilized egg, embryo or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state,' states Colorado's new bill.
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Gov. Jared Polis, Colorado's Democrat governor, in a December 2021 interview with NBC.
Apr 4, 2022
DENVER (LifeSiteNews) — Democrat Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado signed a bill into law on Monday that allows babies to be killed in the womb up until the moment of birth.
“No matter what the Supreme Court does in the future, people in Colorado will be able to choose when and if they have children,” Polis said at the signing ceremony in downtown Denver, referencing the possible reversal of Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks.
“We want to make sure that our state is a place where everyone can live and work and thrive and raise a family on their own terms,” the pro-abortion politician added.
The bill itself states that it will be illegal in Colorado to “deny, restrict, interfere with or discriminate against an individual’s fundamental right to use or refuse contraception or to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion,” while adding that “a fertilized egg, embryo or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state.”
“Besides the all-out war against children in-utero, because it defines abortion as a right, the law could also be used to attempt to force medical professionals to commit or participate in abortions. There are zero conscience protections in the law,” reacted pro-life advocate Lila Rose on social media.
“Abortion at 9 months?!” added musician Flint Bedrock, “That’s murder!”
The signing of the bill comes just ahead of the highly anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization expected in June, which pro-lifers hope could reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade precedent that legalized abortion countrywide.
While many Republican states such as Wyoming, Arizona, and Florida are seeking to ban or limit abortion following a possible reversal of Roe v. Wade, Democrats have also gone on the offensive, seeking to radically expand abortion.
AB 2223, for example, a gruesome pro-abortion bill proposed in California in February, could legalize infanticide for weeks, months, or even years after a child is born, an attorney with the Thomas More Society told LifeSiteNews.
Under AB 2223’s language, a “person shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or penalty, or otherwise deprived of their rights, based on their actions or omissions with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death.”
According to Thomas More Society special counsel Charles LiMandri, the proposal “exposes the false narrative that the abortion lobby has been peddling for over half a century: That no one knows when life begins, and babies in their mothers’ wombs feel no pain. No sane person can deny that a newborn infant is a fully developed human being, one that is capable of feeling intense pain. Yet, by including ‘perinatal’ in its provisions, [the bill] would authorize the brutal murder of these infants even after they are born.”
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| World Government Summit pushes for digital ‘financial system’ to underpin ‘world order’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 04-03-2022, 02:38 PM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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World Government Summit pushes for digital ‘financial system’ to underpin ‘world order’
The implementation of a digital currency and digital identity is not a conspiracy theory, these 'global leaders' are explaining it to us out loud.
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Dr. Malmgren at the World Government Summit, 2022.
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Fri Apr 1, 2022
(Conservative Treehouse) – The World Government Summit 2022 took place on March 29 and 30 in Dubai, hosting more than 4,000 individuals from 190 countries, including senior government officials, heads of international organizations, and global “experts.”
The invited participants presented ideas and worldviews from within their various fields of specialty.
One presentation that needs to be highlighted was from Dr. Pippa Malmgren, an American economist who served as special advisor on Economic Policy to President George W. Bush. Her father, Harald Malmgren, served as a senior aide to U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.
In this segment, Mrs. Malmgren says the quiet part out loud. Yes, they are no longer hiding the construct; indeed, as you will hear they are saying quite openly what the future will look like.
[Full six hour video found here, with the internal segment at 18:30.]
Quote:Transcript – Dr. Malmgren: “What underpins a world order is always the financial system. I was very privileged. My father was an adviser to Nixon when they came off the gold standard in 71. And so, I was brought up with a kind of inside view of how very important the financial structure is to absolutely everything else.
And what we’re seeing in the world today, I think, is we are on the brink of a dramatic change where we are about to, and I’ll say this boldly, we’re about to abandon the traditional system of money and accounting and introduce a new one. And the new one. The new accounting is what we call blockchain.
It means digital, it means having a almost perfect record of every single transaction that happens in the economy, which will give us far greater clarity over what’s going on. It also raises huge dangers in terms of the balance of power between states and citizens.
In my opinion, we’re going to need a digital constitution of human rights if we’re going to have digital money. But also this new money will be sovereign in nature. Most people think that digital money is crypto, and private. But what I see our superpowers introducing digital currency, the Chinese were the first the US is on the brink, I think of moving in the same direction the Europeans have committed to that as well.
And the question is, will that new system of digital money and digital accounting accommodate the competing needs of the citizens of all these locations, so that every human being has a chance to have a better life? Because that’s the only measure of whether a world order really serves!”
The entry into a digital currency, needs a digital identity.
The end goal of a digital currency is why western political leaders have not been worried about following the COVID-19 spending demands from the World Economic Forum.
When the global trade currency does not need to be pegged to anything to determine value, it is completely fiat. This is the current problem with global trade and transactions taking place in U.S. dollars, which arbitrarily lifts the standard of life for Americans while providing no similar benefit to other nations.
A digital currency allows ultimate control on a global basis by a one world government, or western system of collective governments, that can assign value. No other mechanism will have as much control over the life of a person than a digital currency that will create a system of transactional credits and debits, perhaps also influenced by your social credit score.
The digital currency requires a digital identity in order for apportionment based on your value to society. This is essentially an extension of the Fabian mindset into the world of financial transactions and monetary evaluations.
Fabians believed that some form of socioeconomic tribunal would be needed in order for each citizen to be quantified according to their “worth” to society. The Chinese social credit score is a variant of that same concept.
The phrase “you didn’t build that,” when espoused by former President Obama and current Senator Elizabeth Warren is also based on this collective worldview. Both believe that individuals do not succeed independently, but rather gain their ability to grow wealth by using the resources of the larger society, infrastructure, labor and education.
The phrase “it takes a village” to raise a child, as espoused by Hillary Clinton is another variant of the same collective advocacy.
The implementation of a digital currency and digital identity is not a conspiracy theory, these “global leaders” are explaining it to us out loud. However, I am concerned that most will not hear it, or understand it, until it is too late.
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