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| Anti-Catholic Attacks in Ireland |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-18-2023, 06:39 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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SKELETONS SMASHED, STATUES DECAPITATED IN ANTI CATHOLIC ATTACKS IN IRELAND
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Catholic Arena | May 13, 2023
Ireland’s politicians have remained completely silent this week as anti Catholic terrorists struck a number of locations with Satanic intent.
In one demonic attack, thugs invaded the crypt at the deconsecrated grounds of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Elphin, Co. Roscommon.
The sick weirdos were reported to have grabbed the skeletons of those inside and left ‘trampled, broken and thrown about the floor’ with alcohol bottles thrown on top of them.
In the parish of Springfield in Tallaght, thugs decapitated a statue of our lady and smashed up the head that had been removed.
The attacks come as part of two broader cultural trends.
One is the rampant anti Catholicism peddled by Irish politicians and journalists. One left wing politician even foamed at the mouth to his followers as he screamed ‘Get them out!’ regarding Catholics. The vitriol levelled at Catholics cannot be underestimated.
The second is a widening deGaelicisation in the wider culture, which regards any aspect of Ireland’s past as defective.
This particular narrative has led to not just attacks on churches, including a recent attempted arson attack on an altar in Kerry, but also on ancient pre Christian sites such as the 1,500 year old stone at the Hill of Tara, which was daubed with the word ‘fake’.
One monuments expert was quoted in Irish media recently as saying:
Quote:It’s already infesting our towns and cities, but this is attacking a monument of huge historical and mythological significance to one of the things that unify us – our ancient Irish culture that is part of our national identity
We’re seeing it’s an absolute scourge in our cities and larger towns on historic things, particularly when you get a stone like granite – once it’s sprayed with these horrible aerosols, it’s much more difficult to remove.
Most interestingly, he stated:
Quote:It’s not just archaeological, historic monuments being targeted, there’s increasing concern about graveyards and cemeteries.
There been some very unpleasant cases of gravestones; these would be tombs in graveyards in active use by their family members.
This isn’t just about Tara, Ireland is blessed and enriched with a great legacy of monuments, from ancient tombs to medieval churches
With emigration climbing to new heights, homelessness increasing and now street battles between far left militants in shanty towns with young locals, there is a very bleak darkness being cast over post Catholic Ireland.
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| Another possible Eucharistic 'miracle' at the hands of a lay Eucharistic 'minister' |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-17-2023, 09:21 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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So many of the 'modern Eucharistic miracles' are witnessed by lay ministers or occur after a Host is dropped (objectively, a sacrilege).
As Archbishop Sheen said, 'Satan is the ape of God.' Would Our Lord use a doubtful odious Mass and lay Eucharistic ministers to create supposed miracles? Or would it be yet another parody by Hell that an lay person, handing out Holy Communion in the hand - even supposing it was validly consecrated - would be the vehicle through which a Eucharistic miracle is worked?
Interestingly, the local pastor plainly links this 'miracle' with the last miracle needed to canonize Fr. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus...
Possible Eucharistic Miracle In Connecticut Under Vatican Investigation
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St. Thomas Church in Thomaston, Conn., is pictured in this photo from November 1991. The Archdiocese of Hartford has asked the Vatican to investigate a possible Eucharistic miracle that occurred March 5, 2023. (OSV News photo/courtesy Knights of Columbus)
Catholic News | May 8, 2023
(OSV News) — A possible Eucharistic miracle in Connecticut is now under investigation by the Vatican.
Archbishop Leonard P. Blair told a Hartford television news station May 2 that the Dicastery (formerly Congregation) for the Doctrine of the Faith will examine whether an apparent multiplication of Communion hosts during a March 5 liturgy at St. Thomas Church in Thomaston, Connecticut, was supernatural. The church, along with Immaculate Conception Church and St. Casimir Church, both in Terryville, Connecticut, is part of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish.
St. Maximilian Kolbe pastor Father Joseph Crowley said in a YouTube livestream of his March 12 homily that an unnamed extraordinary minister of holy Communion at the previous week’s liturgy had begun to run out of hosts — only to find that “all of a sudden there (were) more hosts in the ciborium.”
The minister continued to distribute the hosts to some “100, 150 people in the congregation,” after which “there was the same amount, if not more hosts” in the ciborium, said Father Crowley in his March 12 homily. “What happened is Our Lord multiplied himself. … I have no doubt. I know what I gave the person. I know what (was) returned (to the tabernacle). It was just very obvious and plain to me as to what happened.” [Notice the priest does NOT wait for the authority of the Church to declare whether it is supernatural or not, he himself declares it be the case. - The Catacombs]
In a livestream video of his post-Communion remarks at the March 5 liturgy at St. Thomas Church, a visibly struck Father Crowley said the experience was “very powerful, very awesome, very real, very shocking.”
A local saint in the making also may have played a role, Father Crowley said in his March 12 homily, since Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, served as pastor of St. Thomas Church from 1884 until his death in 1890.
“I think in a very profound way that … because of Blessed McGivney’s life here … it shows that this is a very special place. And it’s important to God,” said Father Crowley in that reflection. “And I think good things are coming. I think great things are coming.”
David Elliott, associate director of communications for the Archdiocese of Hartford, told OSV News at the time that the archdiocesan judicial vicar, Father George S. Mukuka, was “looking into the possibility of a Eucharistic miracle” at the parish.
Speaking to media May 2, Archbishop Blair said he had “(sent) out an experienced priest who has knowledge of church law, canon law, to follow procedure, (and) to just examine exactly what happened and under what circumstances.”
He noted that “the guidelines for these kinds of situations do call for me to notify the (Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome.”
The Vatican’s investigation is expected to take approximately two weeks.
In the 21st century, only four Eucharistic miracles have been recognized throughout the world, according to the Magis Center, which, under the leadership of scholar and Jesuit Father Robert J. Spitzer, promotes dialogue between faith and science.
The last recognized miracle occurred in 2013 in Legnica, Poland, where a consecrated host, left to dissolve in water after it was accidentally dropped, formed red stains that under scientific analysis were found to contain fragmented parts of cross-striated muscle resembling that of heart muscle. The host was approved for veneration in April 2016 by then-Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Legnica.
OSV News has contacted both the Archdiocese of Hartford and Father Crowley for comment.
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| Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-17-2023, 07:00 AM - Forum: Health
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Dirty-bomb antidote: Drug trial begins in US
BBC | May 16, 2023
The first human trial of a new type of dirty-bomb-antidote pill, designed to remove harmful radioactive contamination from the body, is starting in the US.
The drug, HOPO 14-1, is thought to work against several materials that might be used in weapons, including uranium.
If it proves safe and effective it could guard against potential harm from nuclear accidents or terrorist attacks.
About 42 volunteers will try different doses, checking for side effects.
There will be "intensive safety monitoring", with results from the phase one study expected in 2024, say the trial leaders from SRI International of Menlo Park, California, who are receiving funding from US government agency the National Institutes of Health.
What is a dirty bomb?
Also known as a radiological dispersal device or RDD, a dirty bomb is an explosive that has been mixed with radioactive material so that when it goes off there will be contamination of the blast zone.
A dirty bomb is not a nuclear bomb - it is "weapon of mass disruption" rather than "mass destruction", says the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The cloud of radiation from a dirty bomb could be dispersed within a few blocks or miles of the explosion, whereas a nuclear bomb could spread thousands of square miles.
Exposure to radiation can damage a person's DNA, tissues and organs, leading to illnesses, including cancer, which is why an oral drug that could counteract some of the effects would be useful.
There are already two different drug injections that can be used to treat people who have been exposed to radioactive plutonium, americium or curium.
For decades, experts have also known that iodine tablets can be deployed to help protect people if radioactive iodine has been released into the environment; it was given to people in 1986 when a nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl power plant.
Another pill, Prussian blue (potassium ferric hexacyanoferrate), can help remove radioactive caesium and thallium.
If HOPO 14-1 works, it would be another to add to the stockpile, offering protection against uranium and neptunium in addition to plutonium, americium and curium.
There has not yet been a successful dirty-bomb attack anywhere in the world.
However, there have been attempts.
In 1996, rebels from Chechnya planted a bomb containing dynamite and radioactive caesium-137 in Moscow's Izmailovo Park.
Security services discovered its location and it was defused.
In 1998, Chechnya's intelligence service found and defused a dirty bomb that had been placed near a railway line in Chechnya.
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| Canada: Rosary Stops Blasphemy In Church |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-17-2023, 06:58 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Rosary Stops Blasphemy In Church
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gloria.tv | May 17, 2023
Father Dominique le Quernec of Saint Cornely Church, Vannes Diocese, France, "allowed" a May 13 blasphemy entitled “Profaning the Sacred” to take place in his church (Riposte-Catholique.fr).
In the afternoon, bleachers, risers, loudspeakers and lighting devices were installed in the House of God. But in the evening, young Catholics from @civitas Institute turned up and prayed the rosary inside and outside the church, blocking the entrance in the presence of the organisers, the mayor, the police, and paid journalists.
Some angry haters shouted and called on the police to use tear gas and to check the identity of those praying the rosary.
Father Quernec, the main responsible for the uproar and profanation, accused the Catholics of nocturnal "uproar" and "profanation”.
The Catholics explained that a church is a sacred place and that this kind of event should not take place at all, let alone in a church. At around 11.15pm, the mayor decided to cancel the blasphemy.
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| Ascension Thursday |
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Posted by: Ruthy - 05-15-2023, 11:32 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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It's that time of year again, Ascension Thursday, a holy day of obligation in the US. At least that is what my Baltimore Catechism number 3 reads.
Here in St. Marys, KS, the Immaculata church bulletin reads, "Ascension Thursday is not a holy day of obligation for most dioceses in the U.S. including the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas; however, we encourage everyone to sanctify the day". (Why sanctify the day?)
Most of the Catholic businesses in St. Marys still give the day off, paid, to their employees, because they say it is a holy day. Why would they do that, if the day is not a Holy Day of Obligation according to the church they attend? Are they choosing their own church commandments?
One business took the holy day away, as a paid day off, because they actually follow the church they attend. (Immaculata, St. Marys, KS)
What betrayers to Our Lord, Our Lady, and Archbishop Lefebvre.+
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| Free-Standing Altars |
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Posted by: Ruthy - 05-15-2023, 10:05 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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Concerning the free-standing altar, in the new church in St. Marys, KS, the below article, the author gives reasons for the free-standing altar. All highlighting is the authors, except for the red, which is mine.
The author wrote -
"a free-standing altar is ideal",
- an old 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia explains, "Hence it [the high altar] must stand free on all sides,
- and a priest will now be able to incense all sides.
Since when is a free-standing altar ideal? If it was ideal, why have the churches from old, never made that their norm?
About the incensing of all sides of the altar, "not just the front" - Has God been short changed for all of these years with the altar only being incensed from the front and sides only?
“The Sanctuary” - link to article
By Fr. Joseph Wood
he sanctuary is the most sacred part of the church, home to the altar and, thus, the tabernacle where Our Lord dwells among us. In the Immaculata, we will have a more noble sanctuary, befitting the worship of Almighty God. The Latin word for "sanctuary" implies a place that is set apart, a place that is limited to certain people or events. We see this boundary in the altar rail; in the liturgy, only certain people can pass beyond it. This should teach us that the sanctuary is not like the rest of a church. It hearkens back to the Holy Holies of the Old Testament Temple.
The altar is obviously the focal point, not just of the sanctuary, but of the whole church. It is, in a way, the very reason the church exists. On the altar, every day, the Sacrifice is offered so that each of us may partake of the graces Our Lord intended for us when He died on the Cross. The altar itself is another sign of Our Lord. As we priests approach the altar for the first time at Mass, we pray: "Take away from us our iniquities, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that we may be worthy to enter with pure minds into the Holy of Holies, through Christ our Lord. Amen."
One difference in the Immaculata will be a free-standing altar. For many of us, it may be foreign or even a novelty. In fact, for the full solemnity of the liturgy, a free-standing altar is ideal(as one can witness if you visit the main churches of Rome.) [/color]As the Old Catholic Encyclopedia from 1910 explains: "Hence it [the high altar] must stand free on all sides, allowing ample room for the consecrator to move around it. As its name indicates, the high altar, being the chief place for the enactment of the sacrificial function, is to be prominent not only by its position but also by the richness of its material and ornamentation." As a practical example, the priest, during a High Mass, [/color][/color]will now be able to incense around the entire altar, not simply the front.
In the rendering, many of you also noticed a kind of "crown" hanging from the ceiling above the altar. Traditionally there was some covering above every altar, though the forms varied: you might be familiar with various canopies or baldachinos from Roman churches. A tester is a form of this covering that hangs from the ceiling to symbolically crown the altar and draw attention to the dignity of the place.
What you see around the sanctuary is a colonnaded ambulatory: a place where sacristans and ministers can circulate with ease and dignity. This is another traditional or classical architectural element that makes the sanctuary stand out. May all these details provide a more worthy home for Our Lord, under Our Lady's mantle, to help you participate more deeply in the liturgy and thus save your souls.
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| After-school Satan Clubs have big expansion plans |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-14-2023, 07:15 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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After-School Satan Clubs Are Hot, Hot, Hot!
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ZH | MAY 13, 2023
Following a major legal victory in the free speech department, after school Satan Clubs are picking up steam.
Launched in 2020 and promptly opposed by most parents, the clubs, associated with the Satanic Temple, are being pitched as an alternative to Christian after-school groups for those who identify as agnostics, atheists and religious minorities, such as pagans.
Last Monday, the Satanic Temple and the ACLU scored a legal victory after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled against the Northampton County school district, which banned the club from meeting on its grounds.
"In a victory for free speech and religious freedom, a federal court has ruled that the Saucon Valley School District must allow the After School Satan Club to meet in district facilities," the ACLU said in a statement.
Totally not Satanic?
The PR campaign behind the Satanic Temple is a sight to behold. Founded in 2014, the organization claims to "encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority," and says that members should use "practical common sense" and stand up for justice.
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Kid-friendly!
Congregations tell those interested that if they're trying to "sell my soul, get rich, join the Illuminati, etc.," that they should look elsewhere.
"We’re definitely not interested in having children identify as satanists," said satanist Rose Bastet, who has been involved in the Satanic Temple for four years, and is one of the After School Satan Club volunteers at B.M. Williams Primary in Chesapeake, VA. Bastet spearheaded the effort to get the club into the school in October 2020 - a process which took a long time because the school was "giving us the runaround," she said, adding that "they were in the background looking for any way that they could prevent us from meeting."
Ya think?
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The Baphomet statue is seen at the Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass., on Oct. 8, 2019. Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
Just nature stuff!
According to Bastet, Satan Club is just teaching kids about nature and whatnot.
"One of our meetings a couple of months ago, we learned about Virginia native bats," she said, adding "This last meeting, we had one of the parents in the club volunteer to bring in a bunch of bones and fossils that she and her husband have found in Virginia."
Neat!
That said, the 'curriculum' could change this fall as the club seeks to integrate the seven tenets of the Satanic Temple, which include "compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason," and that "beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs."
"We just came out with a book that is like the children’s version — or I should say a very sweet way to interpret — the tenets in a very understanding way that children could understand. So we might start actually using this book to talk to the kids about our seven tenets," said Everett, adding "We have a lot of big plans for next school year."
We bet they do...
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| Australian Hospital taken over by state after refusing abortions? |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-12-2023, 10:57 AM - Forum: Global News
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Australia's Regime Seizes Catholic Hospital
gloria.tv [slightly adapted]| May 11, 2023
Canberra Archbishop Christopher Prowse is “stunned and shocked” at the regim's decision to forcibly take over the 1,800-staff Catholic Calvary Hospital run by sisters.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr, the first homosexual head of a state in Australia, led the takeover after demanding abortions be carried out in line with "human rights" - as he sarcastically put it.
The hospital refused to perform abortions and opposed the introduction of assisted suicide.
Archbishop Prowse wrote on May 9 that the state "compulsorily acquires" the hospital without warning or discussion. This intervention by the regime could set the stage for future “acquisitions” of any religious institution, he added.
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| Fr. Dennis Fahey: Mexico during the Cristero War |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-11-2023, 05:11 AM - Forum: Articles by Catholic authors
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Mexico during the Cristero War
Part I. The Masonic Agenda against the Church
by Fr. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp.
TIA| July 6, 2012
Fr. Fahey was writing 'Secret Societies and the Kingship of Christ' in 1927, while the Calles government was striving to wipe out the Catholic Church and her influence from Mexico. He recorded the important role of Freemasonry in generating this Revolution, citing original documents from Masonic journals.
Given the new momentum of the Cristeros War (1926-1929) acquired today, we selected some excerpts from chapter V of Fr. Fahey’s book focusing on how Freemasonry was operating in Catholic countries. We took the liberty to slightly adapt the text by including some of Fahey’s footnotes in the article. - TIA
The forces that control Masonry proceed slowly and cautiously, resulting in the acceptance of the so-called "progressivist" ideas. At a point when the people are completely blinded and powerless, those leaders considered to be moderate and who figured on the stage during the period of preparation disappear. More fanatically progressivist leaders replace them to serve their turn. …
During the years of preparation, Masonry aims at getting a hold on key governmental staff positions. Thus, even the good men who become ministers find themselves very frequently powerless. Needless to say, divisions among Catholics who should stand for the Kingship of Christ permit this staffing process to go on unheeded and unchecked.
Masonic Decisions of 1906
At the 1906 General Convention of Latin-American Lodges, held in Buenos Aires, it was resolved, among other things, that religious persecution should be initiated and carried out zealously by every possible means. The following Articles, taken from the minutes of the Convention in question, embody the program of action:
“Art. 5. Latin-American Masonry shall oppose by every possible means clerical propaganda as well as the establishment and development of religious communities. It shall, in addition, do all in its power to get these communities banished from the different countries under its jurisdiction. Accordingly, Masons shall not send their children to be educated in Catholic educational establishments, and shall use their influence over their wives and children to keep them from going to confession;
“Art. 6. Masons shall try to stir up the zeal of the members of the different political parties for Masonic ideals: the separation of Church and State, the expulsion of religious communities; civil marriage and divorce, purely secular education, the exclusion of religious from hospitals, the suppression of military chaplains.”
“Art. 10. Masonry shall strive to get the representative at the Vatican withdrawn, thus showing that the Papacy is no longer considered an International power.”
The Example of Mexico
Mexico is a typical example of the rapidity with which the closing stages of the process of disruption may be carried through.
Mexico was ripening for the Masonic harvest, according to A. Preuss in his October 15, 1913, article in Fortnightly Review. The distinguished writer, in describing the state of religion in Mexico, pointed out that the Indians never lost the faith taught them by the first Spanish missionaries. Similarly, the Mexican women were devout and pious. Mexican men of the so-called educated classes, in contrast, were mostly Masons.
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President Plutarco Calles, center, came to power to execute the Masonic plan to destroy the Church
Preuss added that he had often assisted on Sundays at the sad spectacle of men accompanying women to the door of the church, but then lighting a cigar and sitting down outside until the end of Mass. Doubtless, he commented, it would be wrong to say that all the men behave in this way, but the number of those who did so was considerable. They were the “liberal” as opposed to the “fanatical” Catholics. In its August 1926 issue Masonic Tidings those men and their works were extolled in flattering terms were described as having a “strong character.”
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The world ignored the Calles' government massacre of Mexican Catholics
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According to the English review, The Patriot (November 25, 1926), Masonry in Mexico is particularly under Jewish control. The R.I.S.S. (Revue Internationale des Societés Secretes - International Review of Secret Societies) always speaks of [Mexican President] Plutarco Elias Calles as a half-Jew.
The press of the world, after having made no attempt to inform its readers of the real causes of the events chronicled about Mexico, nor of the lengthy preparations for them, discreetly lets the curtain fall on yet another country from which Our Lord has been expelled, at least so far as human legislation can do it. ...
The majority of Mexican Catholics would have laughed incredulously a century or so ago if told that such a state of affairs was coming in their country. There were clouds on the horizon even then, for anti-clericalism was rife; but the present-day systematic uprooting of the Catholic Faith and the cutting off of the minds of the coming generations from all contact with it would have then seemed impossible. Could we not say that the lack of Catholic understanding by Catholics of the aim and methods of Masonry has contributed greatly to the present cataclysm?
As the final stage in the attack on the Kingship of Christ in Mexico was accelerated by the Masonic Convention of Buenos Aires in 1906, it may be of interest to note that an International Convention of delegates of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite was announced for the same city in 1927. Representatives from the Supreme Councils of the following countries would be in attendance: England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Low Countries, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Poland, Serbia, Rumania, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, San Domingo, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chili, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and Venezuela.
What fresh advances in the path of progress had the representatives of Ireland the happiness of decreeing there?
[Note: Ireland was the only country that broke diplomatic relations with Mexico in response to the atrocities committed by the Calles’ government against Catholics.]
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| FDA: People can eat THESE Gene-Edited Pigs |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-09-2023, 07:13 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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It's a-comin' ...
FDA: PEOPLE CAN EAT THESE GENE-EDITED PIGS
futurity.org | May 8, 2023
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
The United States Food and Drug Administration has authorized gene-edited pigs entrance into the food chain for human consumption—as German-style sausages.
Gene-editing can make changes in an organism’s DNA that could occur in nature or through selective breeding but would take much longer without a tool like CRISPR.
The FDA authorization is investigational, and limited to these particular pigs, but shows that gene-editing livestock to quickly produce desirable traits for improved food production is a viable strategy for helping feed the planet’s growing population.
“It’s important for a university to set the precedent by working with federal regulators to get these animals introduced into the food supply,” says Jon Oatley, a professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences in Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. “If we don’t go through that process, all of the research we’re doing is for naught because it will never make it out into the public.”
Oatley uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR to improve genetic traits in livestock and is working toward an FDA approval for a line of gene-edited pigs. He undertook the investigational food use authorization process for five gene-edited pigs to demonstrate that food made from the animals is safe to eat and that it is possible for an academic institution to achieve this type of FDA authorization.
The two-year-old pigs were processed at the university’s Meat Lab, and the US Department of Agriculture inspected the meat, as it does with all meat products. Working with the Meat Lab, meat scientist Blake Foraker made some of the pork into sausages, which will be used in catering services that raise travel funds for the student members of the university’s Meat Judging team.
The pigs were originally gene-edited in a way that would enable researchers to use them to sire offspring with traits from another male pig. Known as surrogate sires, this technology first gene-edits male animals to be sterile by knocking out a gene called NANOS2 that is specific to male fertility. These animals can then be implanted with another male’s stem cells that create sperm with that male’s desired traits to be passed on to the next generation.
Essentially a high-tech form of selective breeding, surrogate sire technology can greatly expand dissemination of valuable genetics in livestock. It has the potential to not just improve meat quality but also the health and resilience of livestock in the face of changing environmental conditions, a critical goal for increasing protein sources in developing nations.
The surrogate sires’ progeny, which are themselves not gene-edited, have not yet been reviewed by the FDA for possible inclusion in the food chain. Securing the investigational approval for these five pigs required clearing a number of hurdles. The FDA waives some fees for nonprofits like universities, but by the time the process was completed, Oatley’s team had spent two years and approximately $200,000 collecting data for this authorization.
“The original intent in making these animals was to try to improve the way that we feed people,” he says. “And we can’t do that unless we can work with the FDA system to get these animals actually into the food chain.”
Only one other organization, a company by the name of Acceligen, has had a gene-edited animal receive the FDA ok to enter the food supply. In 2020, the FDA made a low-risk determination for products made from “Slick-Haired Cattle,” which are gene-edited to have coats that increase the animals’ resilience to higher temperatures.
Other companies have had genetically modified animals approved by the FDA, but the approach was transgenic which is a different technology involving inserting DNA from outside species into the genome of an organism. Gene-editing is a modern, cutting-edge technology that works only within a species’ DNA and can make changes that could come about naturally or through traditional breeding practices.
The public often holds many misconceptions about gene-editing, Oatley says. He hopes this example will help dispel misinformation and improve perceptions of this technology.
“There’s a trust that comes with university-based research,” he says. “We just want to make sure the research is valid, and the animals we produce are healthy.”
Source: Washington State University
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Posted by: Stone - 05-09-2023, 06:52 AM - Forum: Global News
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Trudeau Liberals declare support for ‘mandatory vaccination’ to ‘finish the fight’ against COVID
‘The totalitarian policies passed at a Liberal convention today will re-emerge as the Trudeau government legislation and regulations of tomorrow,’ said Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonesca.
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May 8, 2023
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews - adapted) — Canada’s Liberal Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, officially added support of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination to its platform after members voted in favor of it at the 2023 Liberal National Convention, which took place from May 4 to May 6 in Ottawa.
The mandate would force all travelers on interprovincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, and other federally regulated vessels be COVID-jabbed. It would also mandate COVID injections for federal employees.
Furthermore, the new platform promises that a “re-elected Liberal government will”:
- Launch a $1 billion COVID-19 Proof of Vaccination Fund to support provinces and territories who implement a requirement for proof of vaccine credentials in their jurisdiction for non-essential businesses and public spaces.
- Table legislation to ensure that every business and organization that decides to require a proof of vaccination from employees and customers can do so without fear of a legal challenge.
“To finish the fight against COVID-19, protect people at work, ensure businesses can get back up to speed, and, most importantly, make sure our kids can safely return to school, we need to do everything we can to keep public spaces safe,” the Liberal Party’s website says.
“This is a rather frightening development,” Campaign Life’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews, adding that the decision likely came from Trudeau since “everything which comes out of the Liberal Party is top-down.”
“The totalitarian policies passed at a Liberal convention today will re-emerge as the Trudeau government legislation and regulations of tomorrow,” he continued. Fonseca saw the decision as an attempt to revive past COVID-19 regulations, including masks and “segregation policies” between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
“We can’t return to these draconian policies, but it seems the Trudeau Liberals intend to drag us there,” he stated. “His vision of the future is the same as that Big Brother and ‘the party’ in George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984: ‘A boot stomping on a human face, forever!'”
Fonseca believed it was no coincidence that the Trudeau government passed the vaccine policy on the heels the internet censorship Bill C-11 allowing for government censorship of media, which Fonseca says could be “looked back upon in history as Trudeau’s Hitlerian moment.”
The proposed COVID policies would largely be a revival of some of Canada’s draconian vaccine mandates of 2021, when Trudeau’s government fired unvaccinated federal workers and barred unvaccinated citizens from domestic plane and train travel.
Coronavirus vaccines do not stop transmission of the virus, notably demonstrated by prominent COVID-vaccinated people contracting the virus. There is strong evidence that the “vaccinated” are just as likely to carry and transmit the virus as the unvaccinated.
Nevertheless the Trudeau Liberals’ platform also calls for encouraging “non-essential” businesses to mandate COVID jab passports.
“Proof of vaccination systems give people the confidence of knowing that others around them are fully vaccinated. They also help drive increased vaccination rates and give Canadians confidence that it’s safe to go to restaurants, shops, and out into their communities,” the new platform says.
The pro-mandatory injection Liberal platform comes weeks after Trudeau was slammed on social media after claiming he did not “force” anyone to take the COVID-19 shots, despite his government firing unvaccinated federal workers from their jobs and even barring unvaccinated citizens from domestic plane and train travel. Trudeau himself made a number of disparaging comments about unvaccinated Canadians.
Trudeau also finally recently acknowledged that there are “potential side effects in vaccinations,” but he insisted that such side effects are “rare” – despite the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showing over 30,000 reported deaths after COVID vaccinations, in addition to over 65,000 permanent disabilities. [...]
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