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Posted by: Stone - 12-23-2023, 06:22 AM - Forum: Health
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80% of receipts at major store chains contain "toxic" chemicals, report says
CBS News | March 24, 2023
The majority of receipts at the nation's biggest store and restaurant chains contain "toxic chemicals" such as bisphenol A, or BPA, according to new research.
About 80% of receipts from 144 major chain stores in 22 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., contained bisphenols, the analysis from the Ecology Center, a nonprofit environmental health organization. BPA, a chemical used in the production of polycarbonate plastics, as well as bisphenol S, or BPS, were detected on receipts from retailers such as Walmart and restaurants including McDonald's, the study found.
"Receipts are a common exposure route for hormone-disrupting bisphenols which readily absorb through the skin. Our studies show most retailers use bisphenol-coated receipt paper," Melissa Cooper Sargent, environmental health advocate at the Ecology Center, said in a statement. "Switching to non-toxic paper is an easy shift."
Health risks unclear
BPA is known to affect the reproductive systems of laboratory animals, but the impact on human health requires more research, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The chemical has been found in the urine of almost all people who were tested by the CDC, with the agency noting that this indicates "widespread exposure to BPA" among Americans.
Some retailers have pledged to switch to receipt paper that is made without the chemicals, with Walgreens earlier this month announcing that it plans to switch to phenol-free paper receipts — paper made without phenol-based chemicals like BPA or BPS — at its 9,000 locations by the end of 2023.
Walmart and McDonald's didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
The study noted that the share of retailers and other chains that are using receipts that contain BPA or BPS has declined since it last tested for the chemicals, decreasing from 93% in 2017 to 80% now.
Some retailers' receipts didn't include the chemicals in the latest round of testing, including those used at Best Buy, Costco, Culver's, CVS, H&M, Starbucks and Target, among others.
Don't ask for a receipt, if possible
The Ecology Center recommends that consumers decline printed receipts when possible, or wash their hands after taking a receipt. It also said shoppers can fold the receipt with the printed side in, since the backside of the paper typically isn't coated with the chemicals.
It also recommended that babies and children should not touch receipts.
Workers should wear disposable gloves while handling receipts, and wash and dry their hands before eating or changing the receipt rolls, the group recommended.
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| Bill Gates Issues Predictions About 2024 Elections, Next Pandemic, AI |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-22-2023, 07:37 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Bill Gates Issues Predictions About 2024 Elections, Next Pandemic, Artificial Intelligence
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resistthemainstream.com | December 21, 2023
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates published a blog post on Tuesday sharing his predictions for 2024, paying special regard to the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and the pivotal role of the 2024 elections in shaping health and climate policies.
Gates emphasized the significant advancements in AI this year, highlighting its increasing application across various sectors. He stressed that AI’s role is becoming clearer in improving access to education, mental health and more.
Gates expressed concern about ensuring that AI contributes to reducing global inequities rather than exacerbating them. He noted the rapid development of AI in creating new medicines, significantly speeding up drug discovery processes. Experts are currently exploring AI’s potential in combating antibiotic resistance, managing high-risk pregnancies, assessing HIV risk and making medical information more accessible to health workers.
“This is an exciting and confusing time, and if you haven’t figured out how to make the best use of AI yet, you are not alone,” Gates wrote. “I thought I would use AI tools for the foundation’s strategy reviews this year, which require reading hundreds of pages of briefing materials that an AI could accurately summarize for me. But old habits are hard to break, and I ended up preparing for them the same way I always do.”
Gates also provided extensive coverage of the purportedly humanitarian efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address malnutrition and provide vaccines to the third world, among other public health initiatives.
Regarding the 2024 elections, Gates predicted they would mark a turning point for health and climate. He warned that the decisions of elected leaders would critically determine progress in these areas. Gates also highlighted the importance of national elections in countries like the United States, India and South Africa, emphasizing their significant impact on the world’s future.
“Citizens from nearly 60 countries will head to the polls next year to elect leaders at all levels of government,” Gates said. “Those countries are home to more than 4 billion people — or more than half of the world’s population. It’s staggering to think about.”
Without endorsing particular candidates or parties in these upcoming elections, Gates espoused a cosmopolitan message, encouraging voters to elect candidates who have an international approach to the issues of the day.
“If I could make one wish for all the people headed to the polls next year — no matter where they live — it would be for them to consider electing leaders who understand the importance of investing in human development around the world,” he added. “History has proven time and time again that, when governments choose to engage with and help people outside their borders, the entire world benefits.”
Gates also touched on the advancements in energy production, particularly in nuclear power, despite environmental objections. He mentioned a recent pledge by the United States and other countries to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Gates argued that nuclear power is likely necessary to meet the world’s growing energy needs while eliminating carbon emissions. He emphasized the next decade as crucial for upgrading electric grids and improving power transmission, calling the next five years critical for realizing the full potential of clean electricity generation.
Concluding his predictions, Gates expressed disappointment that the world is not as prepared for the next pandemic as he had hoped, despite the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. He urged policymakers to prioritize pandemic preparedness before it’s too late.
“Now is the time for policymakers to prioritize pandemic preparedness before it is too late,” Gates concluded.
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| "It's Like Martial Law" – Poland's Pro-EU Govt Seizes Public News Channels |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-22-2023, 07:30 AM - Forum: Global News
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NB: Interesting as one week ago the Poles elected a new pro-EU Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and the nationalist party in power for the last eight years was voted out.
"It's Like Martial Law" – Poland's Pro-EU Govt Seizes Public News Channels In Massive Police Raid
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ZH [adapted] | DEC 22, 2023 - 05:00 AM
Authored by Grzegorz Adamczyk via ReMix News,
Poland’s public television news stations went off the air yesterday as police conducted massive raids to seize public news station TVP, with fears becoming realized that Prime Minister Donald Tusk would move quickly to crack down on press freedoms once he assumed power.
A group of senior Law and Justice (PiS) politicians, including party leader Jarosław Kaczyński and former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, arrived at the headquarters of state-run TV broadcaster TVP on Wednesday afternoon as the new pro-EU government moved to seize control of state-run press in dramatic authoritarian fashion.
Both Morawiecki and Kaczyński said the government’s decision to replace public media chiefs resembled a “coup d’état” and an illegal “takeover by force.”
Kaczyński told reporters that the Law and Justice (PiS) party stood in defense of democracy and a “pluralistic media.”
PiS politicians compared the action to the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981 in the sense that the government then also shut down TV programs and dismissed scores of journalists.
There was outrage too at an incident in which a female MP from PiS was assaulted by one of the bodyguards who assisted the new chairman of the TVP Board in taking over an office at TVP.
Former Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek said that “this is the most brutal taking of power ever in the EU, with the government using force, assaulting MPs and shutting down media they do not like.”
Meanwhile, Culture Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz told the left-liberal Gazeta Wyborcza paper that the protest “will achieve nothing.”
Earlier in the day, the government informed that the culture minister had relieved the CEOs of TVP, Polish Radio and the Polish Press Agency (PAP) of their duties, and also dismissed the boards of directors of these outlets. Sienkiewicz has appointed new boards of directors for TVP, Polish Radio and PAP, which in turn have appointed new executive boards, the Ministry of Culture added in its statement.
It also said that the “necessity and justification” for the move flowed from Tuesday’s resolution by the Polish parliament, which called on the government to “restore the impartiality and credibility of public media.”
Protests continued outside TVP’s headquarters in Warsaw throughout Wednesday.
The journalists stopped from having their programs broadcast have been hosted by the independent channel TV Republika, and they are planning to start broadcasting from there starting Thursday.
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| Denouncements of Fiducia Supplicans |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-22-2023, 05:10 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Abp. Viganò: Bergoglio’s approval of blessings for homosexual ‘couples’ shows he is a servant of Satan
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has stated the Vatican’s newly approved blessings for homosexuals ‘couples’ shows that the ‘Bergoglian hierarchy’ are ‘servants of Satan and his most zealous allies.’
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
don Elvir Tabaković, Can.Reg
Dec 21, 2023
(LifeSiteNews [emphasis mine]) — When the devil tries to persuade us to sin, he emphasizes the supposed good of the evil action he wants us to do, while overshadowing the aspects that are necessarily contrary to God’s commandments. He does not say to us: Sin and offend the Lord who died for you on the Cross, because he knows that a normal person does not want evil in itself, but that he usually does evil under the appearance of good.
This strategy of deception invariably recurs. To induce a mother to have an abortion, Satan does not ask her to be pleased with the killing of the child she is carrying, but to think about the consequences of pregnancy, the fact that she will lose her job, or that she is too young and inexperienced to raise and educate a child; and it almost seems that that mother, by making herself a murderer through infanticide, shows a sense of responsibility in wanting to spare the innocent creature a life without love. In order to convince a man into adultery, the tempting spirit shows him the supposed advantages of finding an outlet in an extramarital affair, all to the benefit of peace in the family. To urge a priest to accept the heretical deviations of his superiors, he emphasizes obedience to authority and the preservation of ecclesial communion.
These deceptions obviously serve to drag souls away from God, to erase grace in them, to stain them with sin, to obscure their conscience in such a way that the next fall is all the more casual the more serious it is. In a way, the action of the devil is expressed as the “Overton window,” making the offense against God less horrible, making us believe that the punishment that awaits us is less terrible, and the consequences of our guilt more acceptable.
The Lord is good: He forgives everyone, He whispers to us, taking care to keep us away from the thought of Christ’s Passion, from the fact that every blow of the scourge, every slap, every thorn stuck in His head, every nail driven into His flesh is the fruit of our sins. And then, if you give in to temptation, it’s not your fault, it’s your frailty. And once sunk, sin after sin, in the habit of evil and vice, the soul allows itself to be dragged lower and lower, until the devil’s request presents itself in all its horror: Rebel against God, reject Him, blaspheme Him, hate Him because He has deprived you of your right to happiness with oppressive precepts.
This, on closer inspection, is the recurring element in temptation, ever since Adam’s sin: to show evil under false appearances of good, and good as an annoying obstacle to the fulfillment of one’s rebellious will.
The Church, who is our Mother, knows well how dangerous it is for a Christian soul to ignore this infernal strategy. Confessors, spiritual directors, and preachers considered it essential to explain to the faithful how the devil acts, so that they might understand with their intellect the fraud of the evil one, so as to be able to oppose it with their will, aided in this by assiduity in prayer and frequent use of the sacraments. On the other hand, how could we imagine a mother who encourages her child not to progress in God’s love, and who reassures him that the Lord will grant him salvation unconditionally? What mother would witness the ruin of her child, without trying to warn him and even punish him, so that he understands the gravity of his actions and does not harm himself for eternity?
The delirious Declaration Fiducia Supplicans, recently published by the parody of the former Holy Office renamed the Dicastery, definitively pierces the veil of hypocrisy and deception of the Bergoglian hierarchy, showing these false shepherds for what they really are: servants of Satan and his most zealous allies, beginning with the usurper who sits – an abomination of desolation – on the Throne of Peter. The very incipit of the document sounds, like all those issued by Bergoglio, mocking and deceptive: because trust in God’s forgiveness without repentance is called the presumption of salvation without merit and is a sin against the Holy Spirit.
The false pastoral solicitude of Bergoglio and his courtiers with regard to adulterers, concubinaries, and sodomites should be denounced first of all by the presumed beneficiaries of the Vatican document, who are the first victims of sulphureous conciliar and synodal pharisaism. It is their immortal soul that is sacrificed to the woke idol, because on the day of the Particular Judgment they will discover that they have been deceived and betrayed by those who on Earth hold the authority of Christ. The fault that the Lord will accuse these unfortunate people of will not only concern the sins committed, but also and above all in having wanted to believe in a diabolical lie, in a fraud of false pastors – starting with Bergoglio and Tucho – that conscience had shown them as such. A lie that many members of the hierarchy want to believe, who hope sooner or later to be able to receive the same blessing together with their accomplices in vice, ratifying that sacrilegious and sinful lifestyle that they already practice, and with the ostentatious consent of Bergoglio.
The fact that Tucho Fernández’s declaration approved by Bergoglio reiterates that blessing an irregular couple ought not to seem like a form of wedding rite, and that marriage is only between a man and a woman, is part of the strategy of deception. For what is at issue here is not whether marriage can be contracted by two men or two women, but whether persons living in a gravely sinful state can merit, as an irregular couple, a blessing imparted by a deacon or a priest, with the sole precaution that it is not to give the impression of being a liturgical celebration.
The attention of the Vatican Sanhedrin is entirely directed to reassuring the Christian people that they have no intention of formalizing new forms of marriage, while the state of mortal sin and grave scandal of those who would receive such a blessing, and the danger of eternal damnation that weighs on those poor souls, is totally overlooked. Not to mention the social impact that this declaration will have on those who are not Catholic, and who thanks to it will consider themselves entitled to much worse excesses. One wonders whether, in this race to legitimize sodomy – obtained without going so far as to celebrate marriages between sodomites – there is a conflict of interest in those who propose it so insistently: it is as if rulers protected themselves with a legal shield against liability before imposing on the population an experimental gene serum about whose adverse effects they are not unaware.
There is no doubt about it: it is a rude awakening for the so-called conservatives, who find themselves blatantly mocked by Prefect Tucho, who worries that the blessing of a couple should not look like a marriage but has nothing to say about the intrinsic sinfulness of public concubinage and sodomy. The important thing is that the moderates – defenders of Vatican II – can consider themselves satisfied with that Jesuitical apostille (in this case that these spontaneous and non-ritual blessings are not a marriage) that is supposed to save the doctrine on the papacy while pushing souls to damn themselves.
For priests who do not agree to bless these unfortunate people, two paths are being prepared: the first, to be expelled from the parish or from the diocese ad nutum Pontificis; the second, to resign themselves to bartering their right to dissent in exchange for the recognition of the right of other confreres to approve; something already seen in the liturgical field with Summorum Pontificum. In short, Bergoglio’s operation is an outlet of the Faith, where you can find everything from the rites of pre-1955 Holy Week to LGBT “Eucharists,” as long as nothing is called into question about his “pontificate.”
Added to this is the scandal for Catholics, who, in the face of the horrors of the sect of Santa Marta, are tempted to embrace schism, or to abandon the Church. And again: with what bitterness and sense of disillusionment will those people regard Rome who, aware of their situation of objective irregularity, have sought and still seek with all their strength and with the grace of God not to sin and to live in conformity with the Commandments? How can those people feel who ask for a paternal voice that exhorts them to continue on the path of holiness, and not the ideological recognition of their vices that they know to be incompatible with natural morality?
Let us ask ourselves: what does Bergoglio want to achieve? Nothing good, nothing true, nothing holy. He does not want souls to be saved; he does not proclaim the Gospel opportunely, importunately to call souls to Christ; he does not show them the scourged and bloodied Savior to spur them on to change their lives. No. Bergoglio wants their damnation, as an infernal tribute to Satan and a brazen challenge to God.
But there is a more immediate and simple purpose to be achieved: to provoke Catholics to turn away from his church and leave him free to turn it into the concubine of the New World Order. Women priests, gay blessings, sexual and financial scandals, the immigration business, forced vaccination campaigns, gender ideology, neo-Malthusian environmentalism, the tyrannical management of power are the tools with which to scandalize the faithful, to disgust those who do not believe, to discredit the Church and the papacy. Whatever happens, Bergoglio has already achieved his goal, which is the premise for securing the consent of heretics and fornicators who recognize him as Pope, ousting any critical voice.
If this document, together with other more or less official pronouncements, really had as its purpose the good of adulterers, concubinaries, and sodomites, it should have pointed out to them the heroism of Christian witness, reminded them of the self-sacrifice that Our Lord asks of each one of us, and taught them to put their trust in God’s grace in order to overcome trials and live in conformity with His Will. On the contrary, he encourages them, blesses them as irregular, as if they were not; but at the same time he deprives them of marriage, and in this way admits that they are irregular. Bergoglio does not ask them to change their lives, but authorizes a grotesque farce in which two men or two women will be able to appear before a minister of God to be blessed, together with their relatives and friends, and then celebrate this sinful union with a banquet, the cutting of the cake, and gifts. But it’s not a wedding, let’s be clear…
I wonder what’s going to prevent this blessing from being imparted not to a couple, but to several people, in the name of polyamory; or to minors, in the name of the sexual freedom that the globalist elite is introducing through the U.N. and other subversive international organizations. Will it suffice to point out that the Church does not approve of polygamous unions and pedophilia to allow polygamists and pedophiles to be blessed? And why not extend this gimmick to those who practice bestiality? It would always be in the name of welcoming, integration, inclusiveness.
The same diabolical falsification is taking place for women priests. If, on the one hand, the Synod on Synodality did not address the ordination of women, on the other hand, a form of “non-ordained ministry” is already being planned that would allow them to preside over spurious celebrations under the pretext that there are no more priests and deacons. Also in this case, the faithful see on the altar a woman in an alb reading the Gospel, preaching, distributing Communion, just as a priest would do, but without being one. It is done with the Vatican footnote that it is a ministry that does not call into question the Catholic priesthood.
The hallmark of the conciliar and synodal church, of this sect of rebels and perverts, is falsehood and hypocrisy. Its purpose is intrinsically evil, because it takes away God’s honor, exposes souls to the danger of damnation, prevents them from doing good, and encourages them to do evil. Those in the Bergoglian church who continue to follow the doctrine and precepts of the Catholic Church are out of place and sooner or later will end up separating themselves from it or giving in.
The Catholic Church is the only ark through which the Lord has ordained the salvation and sanctification of mankind. Wherever what appears to be the church acts and works for mankind’s damnation, it is not the Church, but rather her blasphemous counterfeit. The same is true of the papacy, which providence willed as a bond of charity in truth, and not as an instrument to divide, scandalize, and damn souls.
Quote:[This is what Archbishop Lefebvre said many times, for example:
“What could be clearer? We must henceforth obey and be faithful to the Conciliar Church, no longer to the Catholic Church. Right there is our whole problem: we are suspended a divinis by the Conciliar Church, the Conciliar Church, to which we have no wish to belong! That Conciliar Church is a schismatic church because it breaks with the Catholic Church that has always been. It has its new dogmas, its new priesthood, its new institutions, its new worship… The Church that affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. This Conciliar Church is, therefore, not Catholic. To whatever extent Pope, Bishops, priests, or the faithful adhere to this new church, they separate themselves from the Catholic Church.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Reflections on his suspension a divinis, July 29, 1976) - The Catacombs]
I exhort all those who have been awarded the dignity of cardinal, my brothers in the episcopate, priests, clerics, and faithful to oppose most firmly this mad race towards the abyss to which a sect of renegade apostates would like to force us. I implore the bishops and ministers of God – by the Most Holy Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ – not only to raise their voices to defend the immutable teaching of the Church and to condemn deviations and heresies, under whatever appearance they may appear; but also to warn the faithful and prevent these sacrilegious blessings in their dioceses. The Lord will judge us on the basis of His holy law, and not on the pharisaic seductions of those who serve the enemy.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
December 20, 2023
Feria IV Quattuor Temporum Adventus
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| Another historic Catholic church in Canada burned down in ‘suspicious’ fire |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-19-2023, 06:43 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Another historic Catholic church in Canada burned down in ‘suspicious’ fire
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are searching for a suspect in the fire that destroyed St. Gabriel Catholic Mission in northern Alberta.
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St. Gabriel Catholic Mission in northern Alberta was burned to the ground.
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Dec 18, 2023
(LifeSiteNews - adapted/not all hyperlinks included) – Yet another historic Catholic church in northern Canada has been reduced to ashes in an “suspicious” case of suspected arson, with police confirming they are actively looking for suspects seen fleeing the scene.
On December 15, members of the Wood Buffalo Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said they responded to a fire call in the community of Janvier, which is about 400 kilometers northeast of Alberta’s capital, Edmonton, and is located on the Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation.
Upon arrival, police said per a press release sent out Sunday that St. Gabriel Catholic Mission in Janvier was “fully engulfed in flames.”
Although the fire was eventually put out, the church was reduced to a pile of ashes.
RCMP says it’s looking for suspects seen fleeing in a silver sedan around the time the blaze started. No injuries were reported.
St. Gabriel Catholic Mission is in the Diocese of St. Paul, which is administered by Bishop Gary Franken, who told LifeSiteNews that the church destroyed was the original St. Gabriel Catholic Mission but that the newer church next to it was unharmed.
“The fire is considered suspicious,” Franken confirmed to LifeSiteNews.
“The church building destroyed by fire in Janvier was the unused ‘old’ church, which happens to be right beside the ‘new’ church that has been in use for a number of years. I was informed that the newer church was not damaged.”
Franken noted that there was talk that the “old” church was going to be used as a museum, but nothing was finalized. The church buildings belong to First Nations, Franken noted.
St. Gabriel is administered by St. John the Baptist parish of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
The St. John the Baptist pastor would say Mass once a month at the Janvier mission. LifeSiteNews contacted the St. John the Baptist pastor for comment about the fire but has not received a reply.
‘Enough is enough’ with church burnings, says First Nations councillor
According to councillor Shane Janvier of the Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation, the church burning is a suspected arson attack, and the fire is being investigated. He condemned the burnings, saying “Enough is enough.”
“The significance of this old church in the community, lots of celebrations at this church over the years, lots of weddings, lots of baptisms, this is a place where we’ve come to say our last respects to our loved ones and our ancestors. You know, myself personally, my first Holy Communion was at this church … enough’s enough,” Janvier said in a video posted to his Facebook page.
“We’ve gotta start looking out for one another as a community.”
Janvier said that if the community is “going to make statements that this is our land and we’re going to fight for this land, then we damn well better learn to respect our land.”
“That’s not respecting our community,” he stressed.
Janvier urged anyone with information about the fire to contact the RCMP.
The incident was also condemned by Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre.
“Saddened to hear of the loss of St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Janvier, Alberta in a suspicious fire. There is no place in Canada for acts of religious hatred or violence of any kind,” Poilievre posted Sunday on X (formerly Twitter).
The Janvier church burning is just the latest in a string of church burnings in Alberta and in Canada. Last week, LifeSiteNews reported on two historic Christian churches in Barrhead, Alberta, intentionally set on fire in what police said were suspected acts of arson.
Since the spring of 2021, well over 100 churches, most of them Catholic but all Christian, have been burned or vandalized across Canada. The attacks on the churches came shortly after the unconfirmed discovery of “unmarked graves” at now-closed residential schools once run by the Church in parts of the country.
In 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools.
Despite the church burnings, the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has done nothing substantial to bring those responsible to justice or to stem the root cause of the burnings.
Instead, a little over a month ago, Liberal and NDP Members of Parliament (MPs) struck down a Conservative Party of Canada motion that would have condemned incidents of church burnings and acts of vandalism.
In August 2022, LifeSiteNews reported about the destruction by fire of one of the oldest standing Catholic churches in Alberta. Police at the time said the fire was a “suspicious” incident.
Despite the massive number of church fires, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez in May made a brazen suggestion that the recent slew of anti-Christian church burnings could be remedied through further “online” internet regulation.
RCMP are asking for anyone with information on the fires to call the Wood Buffalo RCMP at 780-788-4000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS). Crime Stoppers tips are anonymous and can also be sent online at tipsubmit.com.
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| Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2023, 12:02 PM - Forum: Pope Francis
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NB: Deliberate or not, this document was released on the Feast of Our Lady's Expectation, which honors the fruitfulness of the Divine Maternity, and yet the Conciliar Church has chosen this date to celebrate instead the sterility associated with 'same-sex couples.'
“How can one avoid the conclusion: there where the Faith of the Church is, there also is Her sanctity, and there where the sanctity of the Church is, there is the Catholic Church. A Church which no longer brings forth good fruits, a Church which is sterile, is not the Catholic Church.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Letter to Friends and Benefactors, September 8, 1978)
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Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples if they don’t resemble marriage
December 18, 2023
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.
The document from the Vatican’s doctrine office, released Monday, elaborates on a letter Francis sent to two conservative cardinals that was published in October. In that preliminary response, Francis suggested such blessings could be offered under some circumstances if they didn’t confuse the ritual with the sacrament of marriage.
The new document repeats that condition and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong sacrament between a man and a woman. And it stresses that blessings in question must be non-liturgical in nature and should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union, using set rituals or even with the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding.
But it says requests for such blessings for same-sex couples should not be denied full stop. It offers an extensive and broad definition of the term “blessing” in Scripture to insist that people seeking a transcendent relationship with God and looking for his love and mercy should not be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” as a precondition for receiving it.
“Ultimately, a blessing offers people a means to increase their trust in God,” the document said. “The request for a blessing, thus, expresses and nurtures openness to the transcendence, mercy, and closeness to God in a thousand concrete circumstances of life, which is no small thing in the world in which we live.”
He added: “It is a seed of the Holy Spirit that must be nurtured, not hindered.”
The Vatican holds that marriage is an indissoluble union between man and woman. As a result, it has long opposed same-sex marriage.
And in 2021, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said flat-out that the church couldn’t bless the unions of two men or two women because “God cannot bless sin.”
That document created an outcry, one it appeared even Francis was blindsided by even though he had technically approved its publication. Soon after it was published, he removed the official responsible for it and set about laying the groundwork for a reversal.
In the new document, the Vatican said the church must shy away from “doctrinal or disciplinary schemes, especially when they lead to a narcissistic and authoritarian elitism whereby instead of evangelizing, one analyzes and classifies others, and instead of opening the door to grace, one exhausts his or her energies in inspecting and verifying.”
It stressed that people in “irregular” unions — gay or straight — are in a state of sin. But it said that shouldn’t deprive them of God’s love or mercy.
“Thus, when people ask for a blessing, an exhaustive moral analysis should not be placed as a precondition for conferring it,” the document said.
The Rev. James Martin, who advocates for greater welcome for LGBTQ+ Catholics, praised the new document as a “huge step forward” and a “dramatic shift” from the Vatican’s 2021 policy.
The new document “recognizes the deep desire in many Catholic same-sex couples for God’s presence and help in their committed relationships,” he said in an email. “Along with many Catholic priests, I will now be delighted to bless my friends in same-sex marriages.”
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| Masonic cremation advances in the Conciliar Church |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2023, 08:39 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Masonic cremation advances in the Conciliar Church
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TIA [slightly adapted, emphasis in the original]| December 17, 2023
On May 8, 1963, Paul VI revoked Canon 1203 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which denied Catholic burial to those who would cremate their bodies. On July 5, 1963, he approved the Instruction Piam et constantem, which allowed Catholics to be cremated. Afterwards, it was rumored that he had been blackmailed by Freemasonry. According to that rumor, if he had not approved cremation, his homosexual past would have been revealed.
Real or not, what counts is that 1) he established cremation going against the entire tradition of the Catholic Church, and 2) his action strongly pleased Freemasonry.
In 1983, that wrong doctrine entered the New Code of Canon Law (canon 1176 § 3) promulgated by John Paul II.
For 33 years no other document was issued by the Vatican, and cremation was encouraged everywhere by progressivist local Bishops.
On October 25, 2016, Francis approved Ad resurgendum, a document by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith reaffirming that cremation can be chosen for "sanitary, economic or social considerations." (§ 4) That is, it opened the door wide for all Catholics to use one or another of these excuses. Some restrictions remained such as the stipulation that the ashes should be deposited in a cemetery.
This week, on December 12, 2023, Francis took another step and gave his approval for the ashes – but "just a small portion" – to be deposited in "a place of significance" dear to deceased where he lived; the greater part should be laid to rest in "a sacred place."
Card. Victor Fernandez, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who signed the document, stipulates some restrictions: The ashes cannot be scattered "in the air, on land, at sea or in other way, nor may they be preserved in mementos, pieces of jewelry or other objects."
Seven years ago, Card. Muller, who wrote Ad resurgendum, also made restrictions on "Catholic cremation" that have been almost completely disregarded by Fernandez today. Why should those of Fernandez be taken more seriously than Muller's?
Who cannot see that the Conciliar Church is moving toward adopting the same tenets held by Freemasonry on cremation?
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| Fr. Chazal implies Archbishop Viganò has been conditionally re-consecrated |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-18-2023, 07:15 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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In Father Hewko's Sermon for December 16, 2023, he notes that a rumor has been started through a recent conference given by Fr. Chazal in the UK in November of 2023 that Archbishop Viganò has been conditionally re-consecrated (sub conditione), presumably by Bishop Williamson.
If this indeed did happen, it has still yet to be officially announced or confirmed by Archbishop Viganò or Bishop Williamson, which is interesting since it supposedly happened at least a month or more ago. Though arguably, that fact that Fr. Chazal gives this announcement in the UK, in Bishop Williamson's 'territory' if you will, it would seem as if Fr. Chazal spoke with Bishop Williamson's approval to announce this?
Thus, for now, it is simply a rumor. We await official confirmation.
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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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