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| UK gov’t backtracks on jab mandate for health workers amid fears of massive staff shortages |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-31-2022, 02:02 PM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Secular]
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UK gov’t backtracks on jab mandate for health workers amid fears of massive staff shortages
UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid is expected to announce the government's plan to drop the jab requirement on Monday evening.
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Sajid Javid arrives at Downing Street on January 25, 2022
Mon Jan 31, 2022 - 12:52 pm EST
LONDON (LifeSiteNews) – The U.K. government is set to overturn a mandate for all frontline healthcare workers to get COVID-19 inoculations before April 1 amid fears this would lead to massive staff shortages.
Approximately 80,000 healthcare workers would lose their jobs if such a mandate went into effect.
The Telegraph reported Sunday that indications of “crippling” losses of staff led ministers to consider ending the requirement, with Health Secretary Sajid Javid expected to “rubber stamp” the decision later today.
The government announced mandatory COVID inoculations for frontline workers in November, confirming plans this month that it would require National Health Service (NHS) staff who come into contact with patients to have received a full regimen of COVID shots before April 1, making February 3 the latest date to have taken the first shot.
Before Sunday, Javid had vehemently defended the unforgiving “no jab, no job” policy, telling the Health and Social Care Committee on Wednesday that “it is the professional duty of every NHS worker to get vaccinated.”
He is now expected to deliver a statement at around 12:30PM EST, detailing the government’s plan to drop the requirement, but at what point and for how long remains unknown. A spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to confirm the contents of Javid’s statement earlier Monday, saying that he could not “pre-empt what the Health and Care Secretary is going to say.”
As things stand, around 80,000 NHS staff have not received their first jab, and a further 40,000 have still to receive their second.
Professional bodies representing British doctors, nurses, and midwives have called for a delay in implementing the April jab mandate, recognizing the huge losses in staffing at a time when the NHS is already suffering a vacancy crisis to the tune of some 100,000 jobs.
The Royal College of Nurses described the jab mandate as “an act of self-sabotage,” and the Royal College of Midwives warned of the “catastrophic” effect it would have on maternity services across the country.
However, the groups are still encouraging uptake of the shots among healthcare staff, though by choice rather than force.
The care sector, which was subject to a mandatory COVID shot rule in November, lost around 40,000 staff following its implementation, but overturning the mandate is expected to permit the un-jabbed to take up work in care homes once again.
The Telegraph reported that furious care home representatives criticized the government’s handling of the jab mandates, accusing ministers of having “devastated our workforce and brought providers to their knees.”
According to the same report, a senior government official said that the omicron variant played a crucial role in the health department’s consideration of overturning the requirement.
After stating that the delta variant is “very high risk in terms of how severe it was,” the source told The Telegraph that “[f]or omicron, while it is more transmissible, all the studies have shown it is less severe. That has changed the conversation about whether mandatory jabs are still proportionate.”
In contrast with widespread government advice to receive the jabs in order to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, the jabbed have come to dominate COVID hospitalizations and deaths in the U.K. and other highly vaccinated European nations, as well as parts of the United States.
Leading medical experts have also warned of serious injuries linked to the injections. The spike proteins in mRNA COVID shots, like those produced by Moderna and Pfizer, are “pathogenic” and “lethal to some,” Texas cardiologist and COVID-19 expert Dr. Peter McCullough lamented last fall.
The move to overturn comes just a week after hundreds of NHS staff marched through the streets of London in protest of the jab mandate, organized by NHS 100K, a group representing “over 100K NHS staff who stand in favour of freedom of choice, bodily autonomy and informed consent.”
Earlier in the month a group protested the mandate outside a hospital in Sheffield, England, with many staff and citizen supporters expressing their opinions that forcing inoculation is “wrong” and tantamount to “losing our medical freedom.”
Outspoken NHS consultant anaesthetist Dr. Steve James, who confronted Javid on Sky News over the impending mandate at the beginning of January, told TalkRadio host Julia Hartley-Brewer Monday that he was “ecstatic” about the decision to overturn the mandate, especially since the walk-back is likely to include the requirement for care home workers, which will enable the ones who refused the jabs to return to work.
NHS consultant Dr Steve James is “ecstatic” about an expected ‘U-turn’ on mandatory jabs for NHS staff and care home workers.
“That’s a recognition that the mandate is wrong and was wrong. It was wrong to apply it care home staff when delta was predominant ,and it’s even more wrong to apply it now with omicron,” James said.
“They absolutely need to reinstate all those care home workers, and there also needs to be work done now to look at the harm caused by this policy.”
“We’ve got to move away from this ‘Vaccinate the entire population is the best thing’ … the public knows this just doesn’t make sense anymore.”
James chalked up the government U-turn to the pressures mounted through the “collective effort” of medical staff, alternative media sources, lawyers, and members of the public “who stood up against this.”
“It’s a real sign of the power people have when they feel things aren’t right,” he said.
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| Journal of Medical Ethics: '... ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible...' |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-29-2022, 10:11 AM - Forum: Abortion
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Journal of Medical Ethics Article: After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?
Abstract
Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus' health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
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| “Good Housekeeping” Article Urges People Not to Have Children for Climate’s Sake |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-29-2022, 10:06 AM - Forum: Against the Children
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“Good Housekeeping” Article Urges People Not to Have Children for Climate’s Sake
New American | January 27, 2022
If you’re still under the delusion that the climate-change movement is not an anti-human, Malthusian religion whose tenets include that far fewer people on the Earth would be a good thing, consider a recent article in Good Housekeeping magazine entitled “The Biggest Thing Holding Me Back From Having Kids Is Climate Change.”
Written by Good Housekeeping senior editor Lizz Schumer, the article touches on Schumer’s and her husband’s anxiety about having children in what she termed “our rapidly warming planet.”
According to Schumer, after marriage, having children was once a foregone conclusion in her mind, even discussing how her husband purchased books about deciding when to have children. Like most young couples, having children just seemed a normal part of life — not a necessity, perhaps, but, certainly, something that most people did: create a family of their own.
Schumer explained, “When the decision felt mostly theoretical, I looked at kids the same way I did any other milestone: just another box I was expected to check along the path toward adulthood. But once it became a real possibility, I began to take stock of my place in the world and my responsibility to it.”
But the never-ending, ongoing, ubiquitous climate propaganda that we are all exposed to began to gnaw at the author and, supposedly, her husband as well.
“As we discussed having kids, Nick and I looked around at our overcrowded world and didn’t see a compelling argument to add to the population,” Schumer wrote.
Certainly, there are places on Earth that can be considered “overcrowded” — urban India; Mexico City; and Dhaka, Bangladesh, spring to mind. But is the world itself actually overcrowded? It’s one of those eye-of-the-beholder things, although the climate propagandists declare it a fact.
The article goes on to discuss climate anxiety — a malady that Psychology Today calls “an understandable reaction to one’s growing awareness of climate change and the global problems that result from damage to the ecosystem.”
It’s only “understandable” if one falls victim to the hype surrounding the issue.
Schumer discusses her own climate anxiety in vivid terms.
“For me, it’s a gathering dread as hurricane season grows longer and more intense, a pit of despair in my gut that yawns wider with every second the doomsday clock ticks down and a sense of foreboding that tells me bringing a child into this world would doom them to an existence that looks more like Mad Max: Fury Road than Sesame Street,” she writes.
“To us, it felt cruel to subject a child to what feels like a worsening world,” Schumer concluded.
Schumer’s fears are not due to reality. They are a product of believing climate propaganda. Hurricane seasons have not become longer or more intense. And the Doomsday Clock is nothing but the opinion of a fringe group of scientists struggling to maintain relevance in a post-Cold War world.
Good Housekeeping was once an American institution — seen in homes, doctors’ offices, and pretty much anywhere with a waiting room. It was a reliable source for household tips, recipes, and information on the latest diet fads. With this offering from Lizz Schumer, it has become yet another source of climate propaganda.
Articles such as this are especially troubling since we know that Schumer is not alone in her fear that mankind is destroying the climate. Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg has created her own cottage industry based on climate anxiety. Hollywood’s Leonardo DiCaprio makes ham-fisted metaphorical movies about it. Failed presidential candidate Al Gore has even won a Nobel Prize for his own contribution to the lie of impending climate disaster.
The fear of man-made climate change is pervasive and is preached from every public-school science class and every mainstream news source. It’s impossible to get away from it unless you do your own research and come to the realization that the climate change emperor has no clothes.
Schumer’s doubts about procreating are exactly what the climatistas are hoping for — a world full of anxious young people, ready to give up nearly every freedom, even having their own children, in exchange for a clean, livable planet where everyone’s needs can be met and everyone can be happy.
The sad thing for young people such as Schumer and her husband is that such a world will never exist whether they have children or not.
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| Deaf community continues to be hindered by COVID policies |
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Posted by: SAguide - 01-27-2022, 08:07 PM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Secular]
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Deaf community continues to be hindered by COVID policies
In order to gain more insight and understanding, in this interview I
feature the lived experience of a deaf man named Patrizio Precenza
Early on the in knee-jerk, unbalanced approach to the pandemic pandemonium, the mainstream media was acknowledging how inaccessible verbal interaction was for those already facing communication barriers.
In the wake of unprecedented messaging to stay home, self-isolate and socially distance (despite being healthy), the public communication of the deaf and hard of hearing community was hindered the most. They could no longer depend on facial cues, touch, and lip reading to communicate while Plexiglas muffled sound even further.
In order to gain more insight and understanding, in this interview I feature the lived experience of a deaf man named Patrizio Precenza.
As I was unable to provide him with an interpreter, his brother, Alessandro Precenza, who acts as his support person, helped me get creative with how we could get Patrizio’s story out.
Patrizio mentions how the additional barriers of masking and social distancing have further interfered and disregarded people who rely heavily on American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate, which is 70% facial cues. Hindering this form of communication has magnified the deaf community’s inability to partake in society.
Referring to the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Patrizio points out that a barrier is defined as, “anything that prevents a person with a disability from fully participating in all aspects of society because of his or her disability.”
He is not fully participating in society and neither are all of his deaf friends.
Becoming increasingly isolated, Patrizio and Alessandro have taken it upon themselves to try to address this inequality. By bringing awareness and education to the community, they are hoping to facilitate change and have started ASL classes to do just that.
The brothers are offering a free, Introductory Sign Language Workshop.
It will be live and interactive, as well as mostly silent for a real deaf experience. You can visit their website at www.al-marsolutions.com to find out more. |
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| Legal loophole in [New Code of] Canon Law protects pedophiles |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-27-2022, 11:09 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Legal loophole in [1983 Code of] Canon Law protects pedophiles
If there is to be an end to the sexual abuse crisis in the Church, it has to begin with a revision of canon law, re-enacting C. 2359 § 2 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law,
ith the added provision that those ordained ministers who are guilty of sexual abuse or sins against nature should be laicized.
Michael Hichborn
Wed Jan 26, 2022
(Lepanto Institute) – Ever since the 2002 revelations of deep-seated problems of child sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy, the most common question among the faithful remains unanswered: “How could this have happened?”
Since then, scores of reports related to ongoing patterns of sexual abuse and cover-up by the episcopacy have shown that not only has this crisis not been resolved, it isn’t likely to end any time soon. And while many rightfully point the finger at wicked bishops, homosexual networks in the clergy, and the fetid rot in seminaries, the fact of the matter is that all of these are mere symptoms of the issue.
One major source of the problem is a legal loophole contained within the Code of Canon Law itself which directly protects pedophile priests. Simply put, canon law prevents criminal perverts in the clergy from being properly prosecuted and punished. Not only does canon law make it impossible to reveal the homosexual and pederast networks existing among the clergy, but the nature of their perversion prevents punishment.
In 1917, the Code of Canon Law stood as a bulwark against clergymen who engaged in various forms of sexual perversion by publicly proclaiming their infamy. In essence, those priests caught engaging in sexual abuse of minors, sodomy, incest, and a host of other sexually deviant behaviors were to be “declared infamous,” meaning their crimes were to be revealed publicly so as to protect future victims, much like the sex-offender registry currently in force in civil law.
C. 2359 § 2 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law states:
Quote:“If [clerics] engage in a delict against the sixth precept of the Decalogue with a minor below the age of sixteen, or engage in adultery, debauchery, bestiality, sodomy, pandering, [or] incest with blood-relatives or affines in the first degree, they are suspended, declared infamous, and are deprived of any office, benefice, dignity, responsibility, if they have such, whatsoever, and in more serious cases, they are to be deposed.”
By immediately depriving such perverts of their faculties and their office, and publicly identifying them for their crimes, the Church provided a clear and rigorous defense of vulnerable members of the Church and maintained the purity of the priesthood. However, just five years later, the law was secretly changed so as to conceal these same criminal offenses.
But in 1922, a secret Vatican document titled Crimen Sollicitationis was published and later republished in 1962, making it an excommunicable offense for any bishop to reveal the criminal offenses of pedophiles, homosexuals, and zoophiles. The document primarily deals with priests who solicit the penitent to engage in illicit or immoral acts, and in dealing with such cases, paragraph 11 of the document says:
Quote:11.Since, however, in dealing with these causes, more than usual care and concern must be shown that they be treated with the utmost confidentiality, and that, once decided and the decision executed, they are covered by permanent silence (Instruction of the Holy Office, 20 February 1867, No. 14), all those persons in any way associated with the tribunal, or knowledgeable of these matters by reason of their office, are bound to observe inviolably the strictest confidentiality, commonly known as the secret of the Holy Office, in all things and with all persons, under pain of incurring automatic excommunication, ipso facto and undeclared, reserved to the sole person of the Supreme Pontiff, excluding even the Sacred Penitentiary. Ordinaries are bound by this same law, that is, in virtue of their own office; other personnel are bound in virtue of the oath which they are always to swear before assuming their duties; and, finally, those delegated, questioned or informed [outside the tribunal], are bound in virtue of the precept to be imposed on them in the letters of delegation, inquiry or information, with express mention of the secret of the Holy Office and of the aforementioned censure.
Toward the end of the document, the entire procedure in dealing with priests accused of solicitation is extended to clerics accused of homosexuality, pederasty, pedophilia and bestiality.
Quote:71. The term crimen pessimum [“the foulest crime”] is here understood to mean any external obscene act, gravely sinful, perpetrated or attempted by a cleric in any way whatsoever with a person of his own sex.
72. Everything laid down up to this point concerning the crime of solicitation is also valid, with the change only of those things which the nature of the matter necessarily requires, for the crimen pessimum, should some cleric (God forbid) happen to be accused of it before the local Ordinary, except that the obligation of denunciation [imposed] by the positive law of the Church [does not apply] unless perhaps it was joined with the crime of solicitation in sacramental confession. In determining penalties against delinquents of this type, in addition to what has been stated above, Canon 2359, §2 is also to be taken into consideration.
73. Equated with the crimen pessimum, with regard to penal effects, is any external obscene act, gravely sinful, perpetrated or attempted by a cleric in any way with pre-adolescent children [impuberes] of either sex or with brute animals (bestialitas).
This document made it impossible for any bishop, priest or even victims to report such grave sexual abuses to civil authorities or even to warn others of the criminal behavior of these priests, even after the priest had been found guilty.
And so, what was once a law to declare priests who committed these abysmal crimes “infamous,” became an impenetrable secret just five years later. To make matters worse, this particular document was to be kept in the “secret archive” and never written about or spoken of publicly, including in canon law commentaries, thereby making the secret concealing of perverse crimes a secret in and of itself.
Over the course of the last sixty years, this secret change in the code of Canon Law has slowly been made known, and while certain restrictions were lifted, the central problem persisted.
- In 1962, Crimens Solicitationis was reissued, and it was later reintroduced under Secretaire Continaire in 1982.
- In 2001, Pope John Paul II lifted some of the restrictions on strict secrecy for bishops in the U.S. and Europe, allowing them to report to law enforcement “if required” by law.
- In 2019, Pope Francis somewhat lifted this requirement so that bishops could report to law enforcement anywhere in the world “if required.” However, secret agreements may remain as have for the last 100 years.
- In 2021 – canon law has changed once again – but problems remain.
But the change in law forcing secrecy regarding the sexually perverse crimes of clerics is only part of the problem. In addition to the change of making such criminals “infamous” to then holding the crimes of the criminals in secret, further developments in canon law made it impossible to actually punish those who sexually abused children.
The [New Code] 1983 Code of Canon Law inserted this new canon:
Quote:Can. 1321 §1: “No one can be punished for the commission of an external violation of a law or precept unless it is gravely imputable by reason of malice or of culpability.”
The importance of this insertion into the Code of Canon Law, with regard to our current circumstance, cannot be overstated. What this means is that if there is any indication that a crime against the laws of the Church was committed as a result of a psychological compulsion and not out of malice, then the offender can NOT be punished. This is what the most respected Commentary on the Code of Canon Law says of Canon 1321 §1 in relation to child abuse:
Quote:“The matter of imputability is of fundamental importance in considering each of these offences, and not least the third mentioned above [c. 1395-2, child abuse]. Before imposing any penalty for such an offence, the ecclesiastical authority must be morally certain that there has been an external violation of the law which is gravely imputable in the sense explained above at Can. 1321 §1. Among the factors which may seriously diminish imputability in such cases is paedophilia. This is described as ‘the act or fantasy of engaging in sexual activity with pre-pubertal children as a repeatedly preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement’. Those who have studied this matter in detail have concluded that proven paedophiles are often subject to urges and impulses which are in effect beyond their control.”
“When the facts of a particular case are examined carefully, it may well emerge that the cleric did indeed commit a sexual offence, or a number of them, with a minor; as such, he may be liable to punishment by the criminal law of the State; nevertheless, because of the influence of paedophilia, he may not be liable, by reason of at least diminished imputability, to any canonical penalty, or perhaps to only a mild penalty, to a formal warning or reproof, or to a penal remedy.” (Canon Law: Letter and Spirit by the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, pg. 805) [emphasis added]
Although imputability had been well established within Catholic doctrine as a theological basis for understanding the spiritual culpability of sinners, the concept had never been used as a basis to exempt diagnosed pedophiles from punishment for offenses of child rape until the 20th century. In short, the two sections of canon law, 1321 and 1395-2 create a legal loophole which actually forbids canonical punishment, or at least severely reduces the scope of punishment, for those convicted of the crime of pedophilia.
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This admission in the most highly regarded commentary on canon law is shocking! It also explains why so many priests accused of raping children are immediately sent to psychiatric facilities for evaluation.
Even if a priest is caught in the act of raping a child, if he is evaluated by a psychiatrist and found to be “subject to urges and impulses which are in effect beyond their control,” then as Canon 1321 §1 states, such a priest cannot be “punished for the commission of an external violation of a law or precept.”
But even if a priest is found to be guilty of sexually assaulting children, it is unlikely that the bishop will impose any penalties upon the priest due to the requirements under Canon 1341, which states:
Quote:Can. 1341: “The Ordinary is to start a judicial or an administrative procedure for the imposition or the declaration of penalties only when he perceives that neither by fraternal correction nor reproof, nor by any method of pastoral care, can the scandal be sufficiently repaired, justice restored and the offender reformed.”
Again, from the Commentary on Canon Law:
Quote:“This opening canon voices an essential element in the philosophy of the Church concerning the application of penalties – a philosophy given its initial thrust by Pope Pius XII, and subsequently endorsed by Vat. II which itself introduced a new outlook and a new spirit into the penal law of the Church. This canon stresses two major principles of the revised penal law: restraint in the use of penalties, and discretion in their application.
In a situation where a person has behaved in a reprehensible fashion, the law urges caution: penalties are to be imposed only as a last resort. When the Ordinary is made aware of such behaviour, he is to seek to redress the situation by fraternal correction or by a more formal reproof, or by some other means of pastoral care. He is obliged to explore every reasonable measure whereby, without having recourse to penal action, a satisfactory pastoral resolution may be found. To ignore this obligation would in many cases be to run the risk of achieving none of the three objectives listed in the closing words of this canon.
Should all other efforts to repair scandal, restore justice and reform the offender fail to produce the desired effect, then and only then may the Ordinary institute a formal procedure (judicial or administrative) for the imposition or declaration of the appropriate penalty.
It is also to be noted that, should a formal judicial penal procedure be selected – as indeed, on occasion, it may have to be – the outcome will no longer be within the control of the Ordinary: it automatically transfers to the (normally) collegiate tribunal entrusted with the case. (see Can. 1425 §1 2°, §2) (Canon Law: Letter and Spirit by the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, pg. 770)
This aspect of the [New] Code of Canon Law sheds new light to the revolving door at Catholic psychiatric hospitals for sexually abusive priests, and why bishops defend the shuffling of priests (after psychiatric “treatment”) to other parishes or even other dioceses as “pastoral care” of such priests. Many times, when a priest’s long history of sexual abuse comes to light, it is very often found that the priest spent time in and out of psychiatric hospitals, and following each interval, the priest is reassigned to another parish. And what we have just explored regarding canon law provides the reason this happens:
- Bishops had been forced to maintain silence regarding a priest accused of abuse, according to the document Crimen Sollicitations. While many of the restrictions have been lifted in this regard, there is still enough room for manipulation within the law to maintain silence, even after a priest is found to be guilty.
- Canon 1321 §1 makes it nearly impossible to punish or remove from ministry a priest who abuses a child, but is found to be under the uncontrollable impulses of pedophilia.
- This is reinforced by Can. 1341, which stresses the importance of “rehabilitation” over punishment for those who commit deeds as wicked as the rape of children.
The crisis of clerical sexual abuse of minors is firmly rooted in the 1922 revision of Canon Law, not only reversing the requirement to make infamous those clerics found guilty of sexual perversion, but to place such findings under the Pontifical Secret. The current Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, while an improvement over protecting such priests with the Pontifical Secret, is still woefully inadequate for the following reasons:
- Guilty & admitted child abusers can and do remain in “private ministry” and in charge of children within the United States (see case of Fr. Jim Holtz, 2002-2019 here and here).
- The Charter does not require United States dioceses to conduct criminal background checks of foreign priests, allowing sex abusers to be imported.
- The Charter does not require United States dioceses to require that clerics use their true names when in ministry (see case of Arackal, 2018).
- The Charter only applies to the United States, so convicted sex abuser clerics can simply be transferred to a new diocese globally to offend again (see case of Fr. Luk Delft here and here).
- The Charter does not eliminate the explicit protections that protect pedophiles and other perverts from laicization (removal from the priesthood).
- The Charter excludes sexual abuse against adults. Even abusers of priests can remain priests and in “private” ministry (see case of Inglot).
- The review board is unable to investigate or verify if the information provided to them is complete or true, making their rulings entirely dependent on what the diocesan attorney provides them. (Example)
- The Bishop can disregard the advice of the review board or direct it not to review a particular case, as it is only a consultative body and serves at the leisure of the bishop. (Example)
If there is to be an end to the sexual abuse crisis in the Church, it has to begin with a revision of canon law, re-enacting [reinstating] C. 2359 § 2 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, with the added provision that those ordained ministers who are guilty of sexual abuse or sins against nature should be laicized.
Without the force of law, all talk of processes, review boards, charters, and hand-wringing apologies from bishops who are “saddened” by such wicked acts are nothing but bureaucratic facades to cover the rotten edifice of the modern Church.
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| Canadian truckers’ ‘Freedom Convoy’ lists demands to Trudeau: end COVID mandates now |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-27-2022, 10:15 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Canadian truckers’ ‘Freedom Convoy’ lists demands to Trudeau: end COVID mandates now
The pro-freedom activists want an end to 'all vaccine passports, including inter-Canada passport systems,' and the elimination of all 'mandatory programs of vaccination and contact tracing.'
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Canadian Freedom Convoy
Rebel News / screenshot
Wed Jan 26, 2022 - 7:21 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The Freedom Convoy has released a list of demands – including removing COVID jab mandates for all Canadians – it says it is hoping will be met by the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after it arrives in Ottawa this weekend.
According to a Western Standard report, demands from the group to the Trudeau government include terminating “all vaccine passports, including inter-Canada passport systems,” along with eliminating all “mandatory programs of vaccination and contact tracing.”
The group also wants the rights of those who are vaccine-free to be respected, and wants “divisive rhetoric attacking Canadians who disagree with government mandates” to be stopped at once.
Additionally, the group wants an end to censorship of those with opinions contrary to the government.
The Freedom Convoy began its “slow roll” to Ottawa this past weekend, and once in Ottawa, many in the convoy plan to stay there until the government of Trudeau meets the group demands to remove all COVID restrictions and mandates.
While the convoy has no official leader as it is a grassroots movement, the “Freedom Convoy 2022” Facebook and GoFundMe group has raised over $5.5 million in under two weeks.
A website called Canada Unity has a webpage that goes over the routes the convoy is taking.
The convoy has gained support from law enforcement, such as Durham Police Constable Erin Howard, along with many Conservative Party of Canada politicians.
Convoy will be peaceful and follow all laws
Tamara Lich, the main organizer behind the “Freedom Convoy 2022” group, says the convoy is a peaceful protest, pointing out she has been working with law enforcement to ensure that it is done in accordance with all local laws.
Lich noted that if anyone in the convoy sees someone acting outside the law, that person is to be reported to the police at once as he or she is “not part” of the official convoy.
“We are not here to create more division. We are here to stand up together and we are here to love one another and forgive one another,” Lich said in a Facebook message over the weekend.
Lich has come under attack from Trudeau’s former advisor and friend Gerald Butts, who said this past weekend that Lich is a “separatist” and questioned what she would do with the “money.”
However, Lich was unfazed by Butts, and sent him an open invitation to meet her to have a coffee when she arrives in Ottawa.
Chris Barber of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, a trucker driving in the convoy and is also one of the “Freedom Convoy 2022” organizers, said in an online video posted Monday that the group is not “anti-vaccination” but rather “anti-government mandates.”
The group has also said that claims they are some sort of “terrorist” organization are “categorically false and an attempt to smear” the freedom convoy.
Video from Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy shows just how big the protest is
Video and images on social media show the sheer scale of just how large the Freedom Convoy is.
Some estimates put the convoy at over 100 kilometers in length as it passed through Winnipeg, Manitoba yesterday.
Aerial video posted by Rebel News shows the massive caravan, which might well be the longest in history making its way into Winnipeg.
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As the caravan entered Winnipeg, thousands of people braved the extreme cold to greet the convoy with many holding signs of support and waving flags of all kinds.
“INSANE: Winnipeg has come out in force! This ain’t Trudeau’s town,” tweeted Keean Bexte from the Counter Signal.
Another video posted by the Shaun Newman Podcast shows just how many vehicles were part of the convoy as it entered Winnipeg.
Earlier in the day as the convoy was making its way through the province of Saskatchewan, thousands came out to support the truckers, also braving the cold.
An aerial view of the convoy between Whitewood and Moosomin, Saskatchewan gives scope as to what awaits Trudeau and his cabinet this coming weekend.
Some estimates put the total amount of truckers who will take part in the caravan at well over 50,000 trucks and more than half a million people.
The jab mandate for truckers was first announced on November 19, 2021, by the federal government and took effect on January 15.
The U.S. government has enacted a mandate like Canada’s that took effect on January 22.
Some Canadian trucking companies have already reported driver shortages as a direct result of the COVID jab mandate for all haulers crossing the border.
And the new policy has already caused food supply issues as well, hitting eastern Canada hard.
Pictures of empty shelves in grocery stores, especially in Ontario, are becoming common.
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| Requiescat in pace: Fr. Epiney |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-26-2022, 09:08 AM - Forum: Appeals for Prayer
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Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
Excerpt from here [computer translated]:
Quote:Father Epiney passed away quietly in his house in Riddes [Switzerland] on January 15, 2022. He is a priest who has just left this vale of tears to join his Master. The world without God will ignore it, but it was great in the history of the last fight that the militant Church is now waging; his vocation was revealed to him mysteriously by a Capuchin priest when he was only a child. He was the savior of many priestly souls in danger but above all the faithful friend of Archbishop Lefebvre ... He went through and endured all the storms, vexations, vicissitudes and betrayals. He also refused to be silent in the face of the rallying of the SSPX and the spirit of compromise which was that of a large number of priests of this work.
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A sermon of Archbishop Lefebvre's on the Occasion of Fr. Epiney's 25th Ordination Anniversary
Taken from the LaPorteLatine.org website [also computer translated]:
Dear Father,
It is to you first of all that my first words will go, to congratulate you and to make myself the interpreter of all those who have come here, doubtless for Corpus Christi and to honor Our Lord Jesus Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist today, but also by a delicacy of Providence, they can at the same time celebrate you and with you, during Holy Mass, give thanks to God for your priesthood, for all the graces you have received and all the graces you have given.
It would be up to you, dear M. le Curé, to say, to express all these graces that you have received during your life, all this past, from your birth to this day, is better known to you than to me. . And so you could do it with much more precision than I can do, but nevertheless, I would like to say briefly, to say what the Good Lord has done for you and for us since you are very close and very attached to us: Sed ego elegi vos ( Jn 15,16): “But I chose you”. Elegit Deus sacerdotem suum. “God has chosen his priest”. I think we can say it in a very special way for you, dear M. le Curé, truly the Good Lord has chosen you. Everything proves it to us, everything indicates it to us. He chose you by having you born into a deeply Christian family. Your mother, present here, gave you, with your father now in Heaven, a true Catholic formation, a profound Christian formation, in a mountain setting which also expresses in a very particular way, the greatness of the Good God, the beauty of God, who gave you the opportunity to be formed in a harsh way in the true Christian virtues, in this country with a difficult climate. What memories all this must bring back to you. And then, the Good Lord chose you to be his priest.
This year of the priesthood in 1961, was the year of the eve of the council preparing upheavals, great changes in our Holy Church. And by a particular grace of the Good Lord, you knew how to keep the sense of faith, the sense of what was given to you in the seminary. And, still a young vicar, then a young parish priest, on the occasion of priestly meetings, you did not hesitate to express your disapproval of the changes that you saw coming and which seemed to you – rightly – contrary to the good of the Church. , contrary to the good of souls. So you said it bluntly. And, to show your attachment to the Church as always, you also kept your cassock, your ecclesiastical habit, convinced that this was a manifestation of your attachment to the faith and to the priesthood.
And then, Providence wanted your bishop to appoint you to Riddes, knowing perfectly well that it was a particularly difficult ministry – Riddes was not known for her Christian fervor – and therefore in an environment where there was a lot to do. and where your zeal could have been exercised, that your bishop has sent you. And not only to evangelize, but also to build a new church, just as you had, ultimately, to build the spiritual Church, you also had to build the material Church. And that's what you did. You have done both, dear Father, you have given Riddes his faith of yesteryear, you have given Riddes a church, a new church. But now, being at Riddes, you were at the same time the parish priest of Econe. And again by a particular grace of Holy Providence, Écône became what we know today: the Séminaire d'Écône, with the authorization of the Bishop of Sion. And therefore there was no difficulty, on the contrary, in the seminary being very united with the parish of Riddes, which was our parish. And we found precisely the priest that the Good Lord had prepared for us. Firm in the faith, attached to Tradition, ready to fight if necessary to keep his faith, to keep his priesthood in an integral way.
So, from now on, Ecône and the parish priest of Riddes have known ties that have remained in admirable fidelity. And this is where a choice, dear Mr. le Curé, had to be made by you, despite the pain of apparently breaking with the diocese, you preferred to keep Tradition, keep the faith, rather than see disaster. enter your church, your parish as well as other parishes, to see the parishes deserted; like the Séminaire de Sion which closed its doors to send the few remaining subjects to Fribourg. You preferred to continue your priestly ministry as you had received it from the hands of your bishop and as you had been taught in the seminary.
You didn't want to change and you remained the priest, the Catholic priest forever. For this we heartily congratulate you. Despite the trials you had to endure, you remained faithful.
And now, twenty-five years of priesthood have passed. And thanks to you, dear M. le Curé, Valais still remains Catholic. I believe we can say it and we must say it. No doubt you will say to me: But Ecône has also become the symbol of catholicity, the symbol of fidelity to the Church for all time. But it was not Ecône who maintained the faith in dear Valais, it was you, dear M. le Curé, it was through you. If you hadn't been there, we wouldn't have experienced this influx of Valaisans. We would not have known this maintenance of the Catholic faith in the hearts of the Valaisans.
Also, I think that the people here present, who are moreover a small number among those represented by all the Catholic centers in Valais, thank you very much for having helped them to keep the faith, for having been the priest, the priest Catholic who maintains the Christian education of children; who maintains the sanctification of families; which maintains the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of always. What graces for the faithful of Valais. And if we can say that Ecône is also surrounded by these dear faithful, well, we owe it to you, dear M. le Curé.
And if this fidelity to Ecône, despite the hardships that we too have undergone over the past fifteen years, is always manifested in a permanent, flawless way, it is indeed to you that we owe it too. , because, in the midst of these trials, you have always been present. You have never changed; you never hesitated. You have remained as a rock, faithful to Ecône and faithful to the faith, faithful to the Church. That's what we want to be, that's what we have to be.
So for all this we thank God and we thank you, dear Father, wishing you on the occasion of these twenty-five years of priesthood, many more years of ministry, to continue to maintain and develop the true faith, the Catholic faith in this country which has been the source of so many vocations, vocations in the diocese, vocations outside the diocese, so many missionaries, so many men and women religious have come from these families Valais. What is the family that did not count among its members or relatives, monks, nuns, priests. So by your action, by your zeal, you are rebuilding and maintaining what can still be maintained in Christian families. And from there also come the vocations 728
This year we will have the joy of ordaining five new Swiss priests. This is truly a great grace. And it is indeed to your example and your prayer that we owe these vocations, dear M. le Curé.
May the Good God bless you, may the Good God continue to give you strong health and give you all the graces you need, to continue your magnificent apostolate for the glory of the Good God and for the salvation of souls.
My very dear brothers, I would not like to prolong this sermon too long since we have a rather long ceremony today with the procession of the Blessed Sacrament which will follow this mass, but thank God, my very dear brothers, that this feast of the priesthood takes place precisely on the day of Corpus Christi, the day of the Eucharist, the day of the Mass in the end, since the Eucharist is the marvelous, miraculous fruit of the Holy Mass, of the Sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus -Christ. It is therefore also the feast of the priesthood and the feast of the Eucharist.
Let us thank the Good Lord and let us understand, let us keep this conviction that without the priesthood there is no longer any Christian life. Without the priesthood there are no more Christian families, without the priesthood there is no Christian City. Everything is attached to the priest. The Good Lord wanted it that way. Our Lord willed it: Do this in memory of me. He said to his priests: Do this in memory of me. It is to them that He entrusted the Sacrifice of the Mass. It is to them that he entrusted the Eucharist. It is to them that he entrusted the teaching of Christian doctrine; that he entrusted the sanctification of souls and the guidance of souls. Here is the priest. What an extraordinary gift: a holy priest is a marvelous gift.
I am sure that you are praying, my very dear brothers, with all your heart, with all your soul so that the Good Lord may multiply the holy Priests. Holy Priests like the dear M. le Curé de Riddes, entirely devoted, zealous, for the good of souls, for the good of families, for the good of the City.
The priest is at the origin of all Christian civilization, with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, by Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are going to sing later, the praises to Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. We can't do better; that Jesus reigns over us; that he reigns in us, in our souls; may he reign in our families; that he reigns in our villages; may he reign in our Valais. May this Valais once again become a Catholic Valais, honoring Our Lord Jesus Christ, respecting the laws of Our Lord Jesus Christ; putting nothing above Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Benedict gave as a motto to his minuses: Christo omninum nihi preponant: Let the monks place nothing above Our Lord Jesus Christ; may Our Lord truly be the first served, the first honored, the first loved.
Well, let it also be here today, on the occasion of the feast of the priesthood of M. le Curé and the feast of the Holy Eucharist, our motto: Put nothing above Our Lord Jesus Christ . May Jesus reign in us, in our homes, in our cities, through the intermediary and intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. So be it.
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| Pope Francis tells parents to support their gay children |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-26-2022, 07:56 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Support your children if they are gay, pope tells parents
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Pope Francis attends the weekly general audience at the Vatican, January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
VATICAN CITY, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday that parents of gay children should not condemn them but offer them support.
He spoke in unscripted comments at his weekly audience in reference to difficulties that parents can face in raising offspring.
Those issues included "parents who see different sexual orientations in their children and how to handle this, how to accompany their children, and not hide behind an attitude of condemnation," Francis said.
He has previously said that gays have a right to be accepted by their families as children and siblings.
He has also said that while the Church cannot accept same-sex marriage it can support civil union laws aimed at giving gay partners joint rights in areas of pensions and health care and inheritance issues.
Last year, the Vatican's doctrinal office issued a document saying that Catholic priests cannot bless same-sex unions, a ruling that greatly disappointed gay Catholics.
In some countries, such as the United States and Germany, parishes and ministers had begun blessing same-sex unions in lieu of marriage, and there have been calls for bishops to de facto institutionalise these.
Conservatives in the 1.3 billion-member Church have said the pope - who has sent notes of appreciation to priests and nuns who minister to gay Catholics - is giving mixed signals on homosexuality, confusing some of the faithful.
Last month, a Vatican department apologised for "causing pain to the entire LGBTQ community" by removing from its website a link to resource material from a Catholic gay rights advocacy group in preparation for a Vatican meeting in 2023 on the Church's future direction.
The Church teaches that gays should be treated with respect and that, while same-sex acts are sinful, same-sex tendencies are not.
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