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| St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Our Lady is the Universal Mediatrix |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-17-2023, 07:00 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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Our Lady Is the Universal Mediatrix
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In the name of ecumenism, many Marian devotions, especially the doctrine of the universal mediation of Mary, have been put aside and silenced. It is good for us, therefore, to show how the opposite should be practiced and stressed by true Catholics, following the example of the great Saints of the past.
In his sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent, St. Bernard instructs the people “to go up to Jesus by Mary for Jesus came down to us by her.” It is the age-old doctrine of the Church, which has always honored the Virgin Mary as the Universal Mediatrix of all Graces.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son (Is &:14). ... It is now surely clear how the Virgin is the royal way by which the Savior has drawn near to us, coming forth from her virginal womb as a Bridegroom from His bridal chamber. Let us endeavor, therefore, to go up to Jesus by Mary, for Jesus came down to us by her. Let us seek His grace through her by whom He came to succor our need.
O blessed Finder of grace! O Mother of life! O Mother of salvation! May we through thee have access to thy Son. May He, who was given to us by thee, receive us by thee. May He admit thy purity and, for its sake, forgive our impurities. May He give us the pardon of our pride, because of the pleasure He took in thy humility. May thy abundant charity cover the multitude of our sins. May thy glorious fruitfulness get for us fruitfulness of merit.
Our Lady, our Mediatrix, our Advocate, reconcile us to thy Son, commend us to thy Son, present us to thy Son. O blessed Lady, through the grace thou hast found, through the prerogatives thou hast merited, through the mercy thou didst bring forth, grant us that by thy intercession, Jesus Who deigned to become, through thy maternity, partaker of our weakness and misery, may, through thy intercession, make us partakers of His glory and bliss.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Vol 1, Second Sunday after Advent, p 156
TIA | December 16, 2023
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| Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - Advent 2023 |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-15-2023, 01:53 PM - Forum: Sorrowful Heart of Mary
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Advent 2023
Dear Friends of Those Who Seek Our Lord’s Face, as the Shepherds and Magi did so eagerly,
Greetings and blessings in this holy Advent!
Once again, let us turn to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to clarify more ongoing drizzles of
confusion.
1. Error: “It’s time to give a green (or yellow) light to the Thuc line.”
Truth: Here’s Abp. Lefebvre’s answer about priests seeking consecration from the Thuc line: “Archbishop Lefebvre totally condemned their actions and warned all Catholics to have nothing to do with them. ‘They will bring ruination and scandal on the Church,’ the Archbishop replied, when asked his opinion of the scandal-ridden ‘consecrations’. Archbishop Lefebvre also stated the the actions of Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, the former Vietnamese Bishop who participated in the so-called ‘consecrations’ are quite questionable in view of the fact that he is the same individual responsible for the Palmar de Troya fiasco… Soon after the questionable ordinations, Bishop Ngo-Dinh-Thuc renounced his actions and published a letter saying that the ‘orders’ he had conferred were null and void because he had withheld his intention of conveying orders to the Palmar de Troya sect. Given his past performances, there is no reason to believe that his present fiasco is any more credible… Referring to Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, Archbishop Lefebvre said, ‘He seems to have lost all reason’.” (The Angelus, June, 1982. See also: thecatacombs.org).
2. Error: “It’s not 1988, so it’s time for seeking a canonical solution, a personal prelature, or unilateral recognition from Modernist Rome and we approved this by signing six conditions for the agreement, in 2012.”
Truth: To this illusion, Abp. Lefebvre said: “We must not be under any illusions. We are in the thick of a great fight, a great fight! We are fighting a fight guaranteed by a whole line of Popes. Hence, we should have no hesitation or fear, hesitation such as, ‘Why should we be going on our own? After all, why not join Rome, why not join the Pope?’ Yes, if Rome and the Pope were in line with Tradition, if they were carrying on the work of all the Popes of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, of course! But they themselves admit that they have set out on a new path. They themselves admit that a new era began with Vatican II. They admit that it is a new stage in the Church’s life, wholly new, based on new principles. We need not argue the point, they say it themselves. It is clear, we must drive this point home with our people, in such a way that they realize their oneness with the Church’s whole history, going back well beyond the Revolution. Of course. It is the Fight of the City-of-Satan against the City-of-God! Clearly! So we do not have to worry. We must after all trust in the grace of God.” (Abp. Lefebvre, September 6, 1990 Conference in Econe, Switzerland).
3. Error: “The New Mass gives grace. The New Mass can nourish your faith.”
Truth: Abp. Lefebvre answers in no uncertain terms: “These New Masses are not only incapable of fulfilling our Sunday obligation, but are such that we may apply to them the canonical rules which the Church customarily applies to [i]‘communicatio in sacris’ with Orthodox and Protestant sects.”[/i] (Conference, November 8, 1979). “It is all wasted because the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, desecrated as it is, no longer confers grace and no longer transmits it.” (Abp. Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics, ch. 3).
4. Error: “We cannot reject the scientific evidence for the New Mass Eucharistic miracles.”
Truth: But Our Divine Lord Himself warns: “For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, and they shall show signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect.” (St. Mark 14:22). “It must be understood immediately that we do not hold to the absurd idea that if the New Mass is valid, we are free to assist at it. The Church has always forbidden the faithful to assist at the Masses of heretics and schismatics even when they are valid. It is clear that no one can assist at sacrilegious Masses or at Masses which endanger our Faith. All these innovations are authorized. One can fairly say without exaggeration that most of these [New] Masses are sacrilegious acts which pervert the Faith by diminishing it.” (Abp. Lefebvre, November 8, 1979).
5. Error: “This is not the time for seminaries. This is not the time for structure and organization.”
Truth: Abp. Lefebvre thought diametrically the opposite: “Our Lord wants Catholic priests, such as He Himself made! The pope cannot not want Catholic priests! The Church cannot not want Catholic priests!…Hence, it is wholly untrue to say that we are in danger of becoming a sect or schismatics. It is far otherwise. It is we who are most nearly in union with our Holy Father the Pope and with the Catholic Church!” (Sermon of Abp. Lefebvre, September 8, 1975 in Mariazell, Austria). “It is our bounden duty, though all unworthy, to fight for the honor of God, the Catholic Faith, and priestly renewal as integral and as vital for Holy Church.” (Abp. Lefebvre, Letter to Libre Belgique, August 21, 1975).
6. Error: “Batten down the hatches!”
Truth: “As for me, I will not resign; I will not content myself with being present, my arms dangling, at the death-throes of my Mother the Church ... .We have to fight more than ever for the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ! In this battle we are not alone: we have with us all the Popes up to Pius XII, inclusively. All of them combatted Liberalism in order to deliver the Church from it. God did not grant that they succeed, but this is no reason to lay down our weapons! We have to hold on. We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of the Faith to be reconstructed: firstly, the holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then, our chapels, which are our true parishes; our monasteries; our large families; our enterprises faithful to the social doctrine of the Church; our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ!" ( Abp. Lefebvre, They Have Uncrowned Him, ch. 34, p.250-251).
Abp. Lefebvre believed in the Catholic Resistance as a true movement of Catholics, faithful to Tradition and determined to rebuild from the ground up, relying totally on the grace of God and Our Lady of the Rosary! Despite the chaos of our times, we resist and fight in the line of all the great Popes, Bishops, priests and laymen who would not mix Liberalism with Catholicism!
“The Revolution is the legal negation of the Kingship of Christ on earth, it is the social destruction of the Church,” said Msgr. De Segura. The conniving of the enemies of Christ prevailed at the Second Vatican Council. It is the Revolution! The Catholic Resistance is chiefly to proclaim the Kingship of Christ, working for the re-construction of the Church at every level and tirelessly resist the Modernist errors destroying her! Fight on, little flock! Great will be your crown in Heaven!
“Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for My sake: be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in Heaven!” (St. Matthew 5:11).
In Christ the King,
Fr. David Hewko
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| Retired Navy Pilot Beheads Satanic Idol on 'Christmas Display' in Iowa State Capital Building |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-15-2023, 06:49 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Man Beheads Satan Statue in Iowa Capitol: ‘Not All Heroes Wear Capes’
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Catholic Vote [Emphasis mine] | December 14, 2023
A retired military officer and former congressional candidate destroyed a “holiday Satanic display” at the Iowa State Capitol Thursday.
According to the Republic Sentinel, Michael Cassidy of Mississippi “turned himself into police officers present in the Iowa Capitol, who confirmed that the Satanic Temple of Iowa desires to press charges.”
The Sentinel clarified that “Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief.”
Cassidy, a Christian, said that he took action to tear down the display in order to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.”
“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” he told the Sentinel.
“Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water,” Cassidy said.
“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” he added. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”
Shortly after the news of his actions broke, Cassidy took to X (formerly Twitter) to quote the Bible verse 1 Peter 5:8: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote on X that his organization “stand[s] with Satan Slayer [Cassidy], and is “proud to pledge $10,000 to his legal defense fund.”
“Not all heroes wear capes,” commented the popular X account End Wokeness.
“Death to Satan,” wrote conservative Catholic political commentator Jack Posobiec in a post featuring a picture of the fallen idol.
Cassidy is a Harvard graduate and retired pilot for the Navy. He ran for Congress last year, losing in the Republican primary to incumbent Rep. Michael Guest, R-MS.
He also ran for the Mississippi State House this year, winning the Republican primary, but losing to a Democrat in the general election.
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| Holy Mass in North Dakota [Fargo area] - January 2, 2023 |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-15-2023, 06:29 AM - Forum: January 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
Date: Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Time: Confessions - 12:30 PM
Holy Mass - 1:00 PM
Location: Fargo area [contact coordinator below for details]
Contact: Bernie 701-526-8767
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| Holy Mass in Minnesota [Long Prairie area] - January 2, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-15-2023, 06:27 AM - Forum: January 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
Date: Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Time: Confessions - 7:30 AM
Holy Mass - 8:00 AM
Location: Long Prairie area [contact coordinator below for details]
Contact: Mike 320-760-8060
Priest: Rev. Fr. David Hewko
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| Holy Mass in Minnesota [Long Prairie area] - January 1, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-15-2023, 06:23 AM - Forum: January 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of the Circumcision
Date: Monday, January 1, 2024
Time: Confessions - 5:30 PM
Holy Mass - 6:00 PM
Location: Long Prairie area [contact coordinator below for details]
Contact: Mike 320-760-8060
Priest: Rev. Fr. David Hewko
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| Obamas’ Netflix movie preps nation for massive, incapacitating cyberattack, societal breakdown |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-14-2023, 07:33 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Obamas’ Netflix movie preps nation for massive, incapacitating cyberattack, societal breakdown
Last January, global elites issued an alarming report: ‘Geopolitical Instability Raises Threat of Catastrophic Cyberattack in Next Two Years.’ One year is nearly up, so that leaves 2024 — the year of a critical U.S. presidential election — for the predicted cyberattack to occur, ‘placing every individual, organization and nation at risk.’
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Massive cyberattacks begin in Obama-produced Netflix movie, Leave the World Behind.
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Doug Mainwaring
Dec 13, 2023 -
(LifeSiteNews - adapted: not all hyperlinks included) — While delivering a look into the angst-filled, hopeless, joyless inhumanity of the urban woke, a new movie executive-produced by Barack and Michelle Obama is likely meant to serve as a form of conditioning — grooming if you will — of the population of the United States to accept what the World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned is a virtually inevitable, paralyzing cyberattack that will bring the nation and every American family to its knees.
It’s not just the United States that is vulnerable to such an attack: It’s the entire western world.
“‘Leave The World Behind’ is a new Netflix special produced by the Obamas about cyberattacks and a ‘global communications breakdown,’” Dutch conservative commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek wrote on X.
“Watch this, then watch the video the WEF posted a few years ago warning about a future ‘cyber pandemic’ and tell me we’re not being programmed,” she urged.
Leave The World Behind is a disturbing apocalyptic drama, purportedly crafted with no particular moral or message.
“It’s not that kind of story,” explained Rumaan Alam, author of the book upon which the film is based, in a Variety interview. “I have no problem with like a big disaster movie that saves the six or eight principals and reunites them in the aftermath of a disaster and allows you to be like, ‘Well, everything’s gonna be okay.’ I just don’t think this is that kind of film.”
But the movie does in fact deliver a message and does so loud and clear: Human beings are terrible people, and we’re headed toward a just-around-the-corner future of societal chaos and despair. Its message stands in stark contrast with that of the Gospel and 2,000 years of lived experience of the Christian world.
The film’s message is in keeping with the despair-inducing actions of the Obamas while they occupied the White House: Race relations took a nosedive during the Obama administration, leaving a weakened and more divided America; the unraveling of the nuclear family and marriage accelerated, rolling out the red carpet for the plague of transgenderism; and via “The Life of Julia” citizens were nudged to entrust every aspect of their lives to the government rather than to strong, loving families.
In the movie, the lead female protagonist played by Julia Roberts experiences a woke epiphany [...]
Her pathetic husband, played by Ethan Hawke, later declares:
Quote:Without my cellphone and GPS, I am a useless man.
Libs of TikTok pointed out that the Obamas’ movie includes a scene demonizing the entire white race.
“I’m asking for you to remember that if the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people,” says a young black woman played by actress Myha’la in the film.
And while critics seem to adore the film, viewers do not share their enthusiasm.
End Wokeness posted on X:
Obama just produced his first fiction film for Netflix called “Leave the World Behind.”
The critics absolutely loved it.
The audiences think it sucks.
What a shocker.
This is not a future audiences enjoy envisioning, but it’s one we are being told in no uncertain terms to prepare for.
In January, global elites gathered in Davos issued an alarming report: Geopolitical Instability Raises Threat of ‘Catastrophic Cyberattack in Next Two Years.
One year is nearly up, so that leaves 2024, the year of a critical U.S. presidential election, for the predicted cyberattack to occur.
“The disruption of operations or services and the compromise of data due to cyberattacks … places every individual, organization and even nation at risk,” the WEF report warns.
A whopping 93% of cybersecurity experts and 86% of business leaders surveyed by the WEF have, ostensibly, said this will happen in 2024.
With those expressed levels of confidence, the WEF seems to be guaranteeing that a globe-changing cyberattack will occur in 2024.
Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and author of The Great Reset, has described a scenario of a “comprehensive cyberattack which will bring to a complete halt … the power supply, transportation, hospital services — our society as a whole.”
“The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyberattack,” Schwab said.
We have been warned.
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| Dom Marmion: Sponsa Verbi - The Virgin Consecrated to Christ |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-14-2023, 06:17 AM - Forum: Church Doctrine & Teaching
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SPONSA VERBI - THE VIRGIN CONSECRATED TO CHRIST
SPIRITUAL CONFERENCES by The Right Rev. Dom. Columba Marmion, O.S.B., Abbot of Maredsous Abbey.
Translated from the French by Dom. Francis Izard, O.S.B.
Nihil obstat: Patricius Can. McGettigan. Censor Deputatus.
Imprimatur: + Henricus Epûs Tipasit. Edimburgi. die 5 Jan. 1925.
ALMAE DEIPARAE VIRGINI SEMPER INTACTAE
EDITOR’S PREFACE
These pages resemble a wreath laid on a tomb, for Dom Columba Marmion gave up his soul to God on January 30th, 1923, in admirable sentiments of devotion and with utter abandonment to the divine mercy.
A biographical notice is in preparation which will reveal the main characteristics of theologian, monk and apostle combined in his taking personality.
The same spiritual doctrine will be found here, as was revealed in his previous works; teaching impregnated with a living theology, profound knowledge of scripture, penetrating piety, and a profound knowledge of souls. For souls he had a great passion. He gave himself entirely for them that they should be all for Christ.
But if his affection embraced all, like his Divine Master, he was specially attracted by two classes: the sinners, and those consecrated by vows of chastity. One day his zeal for his erring brethren will be known and with what tender compassion his eyes rested on countenances seared with the leprosy of sin.
The following pages show to what heights of perfection he urged the spouses of Christ, who form, as it were, the elite of the flock of the Good Shepherd.
For purposes of health Dom Columba was ordered by the doctors to take some weeks of rest during the summer of 1918, at the time that the chronic trouble which gradually undermined his constitution began to manifest itself. He went into Luxembourg to recruit his strength, and there he enjoyed to the full the beauties of nature by which he was surrounded. As a companion for his long, solitary walks in the forests of the Ardennes, he took the Commentary of St. Bernard upon the Canticle of Canticles." In spite of its length and digressions he was captivated by the subject: its sublimity, the abundant citations from Scripture, the enthusiasm of the holy Doctor narrating the examples of Divine Love: all these were well calculated to move a soul as supernaturally disposed as that of Dom Columba’s. But more than the beauties of nature, more than the flowing style of the Doctor Mellifluous, Dom Marmion admired the marvels worked by God in these souls.
His lively and penetrating faith showed him during the contemplation in which his reading plunged him, the marvellous condescension of the Word toward his privileged creatures: the theme of the Canticle itself.
Dom Columba generously communicated the spiritual lights he received to souls that were eager for them; consequently, on his return he gave a series of conferences to the nuns at the Abbey of St. Scholastica at Maredret, commenting on a text of St. Bernard that had specially struck him; in this passage the great Doctor indicates the conditions necessary for the soul aspiring to become the spouse of the Word.
Although these conferences were given to Benedictine Nuns, they are not specifically monastic; there is hardly an allusion to the rule of the great Patriarch of the West.
Dom Marmion has outlined his subject in its widest and most exalted aspect, prescinding from any special rule or constitutions; his theme being: The soul consecrated by the vows, becomes by virtue of that consecration the spouse of Christ.
Despite its title, there is nothing here that is essentially mystic in nature. However advanced the union which the Word wishes to contract with the dedicated soul, that union is derived essentially from the consecration and apostolate, the state of perfection which springs from it; there is no necessity that phenomena of an extraordinary nature shall be added to complete it.
The conferences we publish here were carefully collected and noted down by their hearers. We believe that these pages reproducing their delicacy of expression and depth of thought will be well received.
May their perusal by the virginal souls for whom they were intended arouse in them an ardent thanksgiving for the great graces they have received, for is it not a sublime privilege to have been chosen quite gratuitously by Christ to be espoused to Him? May these instructions, whilst they inspire gratitude, at the same time enkindle more intensely in souls the knowledge of their pre-eminent dignity, inspiring them in their daily efforts to attain the high perfection to which they are called.
This was surely the lofty aim which Dom Marmion had in view when he gave these conferences, and poured out into them his priestly and apostolic soul.
Before his death these conferences received his approbation, and now that they are published, we trust that they will prolong the beneficent and supernatural effects of his apostolate.
In attaining a larger circle of influence, may they reach not only the large number of Religious already consecrated to Christ, but also reveal to those still in the world the high ideal they inwardly aspire after.
EDITOR.
Maredsous Abbey,
October 15th, 1924.
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| Major Pharmacies Release Customer Medical Records to Police Without Warrants. |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-13-2023, 06:59 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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Major Pharmacies Release Customer Medical Records to Police Without Warrants. Here Are Some of Them.
ResisttheMainstream | December 12, 2023
The pharmaceutical industry is held in low esteem by most Americans.
Complaints of releasing customer’s medical records to police and government agencies without warrants are now added to accusations of gross price gouging.
According to the Washington Examiner, which cited the Monday release of a Congressional Investigative Report, “Several major pharmacies” have released confidential medical information to “local law enforcement and federal investigators without warrants.”
Disclosed information includes prescription history and medical records. Additionally, the report revealed that pharmacies released this information without notifying the customer before or after the fact.
Offending companies include RiteAid, CVS Pharmacy, Kroger, Walgreens, Boots Alliance, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart, and Amazon Pharmacy.
Several government leaders have pledged to enact policies to prevent this practice in the future. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Sara Jacobs (D-CA) reportedly sent a complaint letter to the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
An excerpt from the letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, read: “Through briefings with the major pharmacies, we learned that each year law enforcement agencies secretly obtain the prescription records of thousands of Americans without a warrant.”
The letter continued: “In many cases, pharmacies are handing over sensitive medical records without review by a legal professional. Although pharmacies are legally permitted to tell their customers about government demands for their data, most don’t.”
Pushing back, a CVS Health spokeswoman said the company’s processes are consistent with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law designed to protect patient privacy.
CVS Health spokeswoman Amy Thibault told the Washington Examiner in a statement that “The Office for Civil Rights, the agency that enforces HIPAA, has reviewed our processes on multiple occasions and deemed them to be compliant. Additionally, our processes are consistent with industry practices.”
Thibault, however, suggested a process review and recommended a judge-issued subpoena be requirement before medical information is released to third parties in the future.
Concerned lawmakers concur. Their letter to Becerra read: “Pharmacies can and should insist on a warrant, and invite law enforcement agencies that insist on demanding patient medical records with solely a subpoena to go to court to enforce that demand. The requirement for a warrant is exactly the approach taken by tech companies to protect customer privacy.”
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