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| Vatican officials deny involvement in rumored Latin Mass crackdown |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2024, 05:26 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican officials deny involvement in rumored Latin Mass crackdown
The papal nuncio to France, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, and Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti have both denied to this correspondent that they are involved in fresh efforts to restrict the Traditional Latin Mass.
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Abp. Migliore (L), Cdl. Gugerotti ®
Nanovic Institute for European Studies/Mazur/cbcew.org.uk
Aug 9, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included]) — Two of the four Vatican officials reported to be aiding efforts to restrict the traditional Mass have denied any such involvement, whilst rumors not always in accord with evidence continue to stoke fears of upcoming restrictions.
The papal nuncio to France, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, and the prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, have both denied to this correspondent that they are involved in fresh efforts to restrict the traditional Mass.
Both Migliore and Gugerotti had been named in a June report by The Remnant, along with Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, as being the three key aides in a move to compile a new document ushering in restrictions on the traditional Mass.
The document is believed to be being written by Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, who serves as the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW), and who – according to some reports – is drawing up a text restricting the traditional Mass which he will present to Pope Francis for approval.
But when questioned by this correspondent, Migliore and Gugerotti denied that they were supporting or encouraging Viola in his project. Full details are provided below, but first some background and context is necessary.
Background to rumors
On June 17, the traditional blog Rorate Caeli issued a report suggesting that the Vatican is set to publish new measures restricting the traditional Mass even further than it already is. Rorate wrote that there is an attempt to implement a “stringent, radical, and final solution banning the Traditional Latin Mass.”
Describing their sources as “credible,” Rorate stated that the sources for the information were
Quote:the very same sources that revealed to Rorate that the Vatican had sent out a survey to bishops on Summorum Pontificum (in preparation for what would become Traditionis Custodes), and Rorate was the first source to post this; and the very same sources who first revealed that a document like Traditionis Custodes would come (and Rorate was also the first to reveal it at the time). [Emphasis original]
Rorate’s report was published by one of the site’s editors known as “New Catholic”: this correspondent understands that “New Catholic” has kept information about his sources strictly to himself.
Where would it come from?
No information was given by Rorate as to which body of the Roman Curia would be leading operations in issuing any new document. Were it to affect the former Ecclesia Dei traditional Mass communities, then it would have to also involve the Congregation (now Dicastery) for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL).
However, with Pope Francis having just recently met with, and affirmed the charism of, the two most notable ex-Ecclesia Dei communities offering the traditional Mass – the FSSP and the ICKSP – it is therefore unlikely that restrictions would be ushered in against them via CICLSAL, and would therefore be issued via the CDW.
Indeed when this correspondent questioned the notoriously anti-traditional prefect of CICLSAL – Cardinal João Braz de Aviz – if his dicastery had any document restricting the traditional Mass, his secretary issued a reply July 4, stating:
Quote:We cannot answer your question because the topic is not our responsibility but that of the Dicastery for Divine Worship. [Emphasis original]
Such would correspond with the information reported by The Remnant, which cited “well-informed sources” as stating that the rumored document “would prohibit all priests other than those belonging to approved ex-Ecclesia Dei institutes from offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Vetus Ordo, or old rite as it is commonly called.” This would involved the CDW, rather than CICLSAL.
It appears from these two aspects that the rumored document would originate from the offices of the CDW, and chiefly by the hand of Archbishop Viola.
Disagreement over existence of document
But sources disagree on the existence of the document. Rorate was the first to report that it existed and has maintained that position, with The Remnant following suit in supporting the argument some days later.
“I have been informed by reliable sources that a new Vatican document more restrictive than Traditionis Custodes does indeed exist, is backed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and has been presented to Pope Francis,” wrote Diane Montagna for The Remmant.
Well-placed Vatican sources close to Pope Francis questioned by this correspondent could not attest to the existence of the document. They highlighted the confusion emanating from the Vatican about the current state of affairs regarding the future of the traditional Mass, though none of the sources consulted denied that such a document might exist.
Nor has The Pillar been able to confirm existence of the rumored document, despite its record of having talkative and apparently well-placed sources throughout the Vatican and especially in the Secretariat of State – the office led by Cardinal Parolin, who is reportedly a key advocate of measures to restrict the traditional Mass.
Cardinal Arthur Roche – prefect of the CDW – and Parolin have not replied to email questions by this correspondent about the rumored document. Roche has, in the meantime, blocked this correspondent on a social media platform.
A source previously informed LifeSiteNews’ John-Henry Westen that the rumored document was likely to be published on July 16, the third anniversary of Traditionis Custodes, the 2021 motu proprio through which Francis ushered in sweeping restrictions on the traditional Mass. The date swiftly became the international focus of much hype, both in the media and for Catholics outside of the media bubble.
The reports – by Rorate and The Remnant – which attested to the existence of the document did not give any details about such a date. Nothing was issued by the Vatican on July 16, with the month officially being a quieter holiday period for Pope Francis.
Vatican officials deny involvement
While Rorate’s original reports had been sparse in providing details of any fresh restrictions, The Remnant’s report provided names of its alleged proponents and details of its alleged contents.
As noted above, papal nuncio Migliore – who is noted for his stance opposing the traditional Mass in France – was listed as a key supporter, along with the prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches Cardinal Gugerotti and Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin.
After 21 years as a nuncio, Gugerotti returned to the Dicastery for Eastern Church in 2022 as its prefect, having served as an official in the Dicastery for 16 years prior to his diplomatic service. He was raised to the cardinalate last September.
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Cardinal Parolin (center) with Abp Gugerotti ® in 2015. Credit: Paval Hadsinzki/Flickr
Following The Remnant’s June 25 report, this correspondent contacted both Migliore and Gugerotti on July 19 asking if they would comment on the report and if they were giving “support or assistance or encouragement to an attempt by Archbishop Vittoria Viola, who is preparing a new document on the ‘Latin Mass.’”
Migliore swiftly replied by saying:
Quote:Short question, short answer: these are conjectures, to say the least, fanciful.
Gugerotti’s private secretary replied August 6 with a less direct statement, which nevertheless appeared to distance the cardinal from the rumored document. The reply read:
Quote:Thank you for your kind request, of which His Eminence Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches, has taken careful note. In this regard, I would like to inform you that no information appears on the subject to which you refer.
Parolin has yet to reply to the same question posed to Migliore and Gugerotti.
Denials and confusion
In early 2023, similar rumors abounded that Cardinal de Aviz was set to issue issue a document which would usher in hefty restrictions on the former Ecclesia Dei communities. This correspondent managed to meet with de Aviz on April 5 last year, and the cardinal firmly denied that his dicastery was going to issue any such document and that he was not aware of any such document.
READ: EXCLUSIVE: Vatican dicastery denies involvement with rumored document crushing traditional seminaries
The rumored text never emerged, though the strong body of evidence from multiple sources speaking to multiple news outlets and journalists indicated that the document did indeed exist, despite Cdl. de Aviz’s denial. This correspondent’s own Vatican sources also attested to the fact that the document did exist, with the sources adding that the only question was whether it might be published or not.
With the official denials of Migliore and Gugerotti about their involvement in the rumored 2024 document, in the face of reports which named them as specifically involved, the confusion over the entire case appears to grow.
The Remnant places faith in its sources which name the pair amongst the three key supporters of Archbishop Viola; should a document soon emerge and Migliore and Gugerotti be found to have been supporting it, then they would have lied on record to a journalist.
In the meantime, Argentine Catholic blog Caminante Wanderer (CW) published a July 22 report (translated and republished by Rorate) which attested that Francis had actually received a copy of the rumored document but had not signed it. CW suggested that this was partly due to Francis not being as devoted to attacking the Latin Mass as Abp. Viola is – as highlighted already – but partly due to the outpouring of petitions and vocal calls defending the Mass made in recent weeks.
However, in an apparent discrepancy with official details, CW stated that Cardinal Roche had fallen out of favor with Francis – an aspect which sources for multiple outlets do confirm – and that he had not been received in papal audience since February 2022.
Official records of the Pope’s audiences show that Roche was received by Francis in June 2022 with the leadership of the CDW. Roche was then received again in January 2023, in February 2023, and (with the CDW leadership) in September 2023.
Either the Holy See’s records are not accurate or the sources for that aspect of CW’s report were not informed correctly.
Whatever the case, it serves to highlight the immense confusion and lack of clarity surrounding the entire affair, with numerous Catholics concerned over the future of the traditional Mass. With denials, contradictory evidence and rumors circulating, the truth of the affair appears elusive in many respects.
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| Holy Mass in Montana - August 18, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-09-2024, 12:26 PM - Forum: August 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, August 18, 2024
Time: Confessions - 9:30 AM
Holy Mass - 10:00 AM
Location: Montana [call for directions]
Contact: Ben 406-471-0164
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Please note: There will be no livestream for this Sunday Mass as the remote location does not have reliable internet.
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| Holy Mass in Montana - August 11, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-09-2024, 12:23 PM - Forum: August 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, August 11, 2024
Time: Confessions - 9:30 AM
Holy Mass - 10:00 AM
Location: Montana [call for directions]
Contact: Ben 406-471-0164
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Please note: There will be no livestream for this Sunday Mass as the remote location does not have reliable internet.
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| Vatican’s Response to the Olympic Scandal Rewards the Mental Gymnastics of Conservative Catholics |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-06-2024, 06:53 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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The Vatican’s Response to the Olympic Scandal Rewards the Mental Gymnastics of Conservative Catholics
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Robert Morrison, Remnant Columnist | August 5, 2024
The recent scandal of the Paris Olympics has brought all of this together in a blasphemous tableau. In it, we saw not only the LGBQT+ portrayal of the Last Supper but also the celebration of the French Revolution, complete with the decapitated head of Queen Marie-Antoinette singing along to a heavy metal song. But the most anti-Catholic touch of all has now been delivered by Francis’s Vatican, with its Communiqué about the opening ceremony.
In his Principles of Catholic Theology, Cardinal Ratzinger compared Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, Dignitatis Humanae, and Nostra Aetate to the French Revolution of 1789:
Quote:“If it is desirable to offer a diagnosis of the text [Gaudium et Spes] as a whole, we might say that (in conjunction with the texts on religious liberty [Dignitatis Humanae] and world religions [Nostra Aetate]) it is a revision of the Syllabus of Pius IX, a kind of countersyllabus. . . Let us be content to say that the text serves as a countersyllabus and, as such, represents, on the part of the Church, an attempt at an official reconciliation with the new era inaugurated in 1789.” (Principles of Catholic Theology, 1987, pp. 381-2)
The future Benedict XVI was not mistaken in suggesting that Vatican II was an attempt at official reconciliation of Catholicism with the ideas of the French Revolution. The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX, to which Ratzinger alluded, specifically condemned the Liberal ideas which resonated with the revolutionary ideas of 1789, and which eventually worked their way into Vatican II’s documents. We can see this clearly if we merely consider five statements condemned by the Syllabus of Errors, which were at least implicitly promoted by Vatican II:
Quote:* 15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
* 16. Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.
* 17. Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.
* 79. Moreover, it is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism.
* 80. The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.
From the time of the French Revolution until Vatican II, the popes consistently condemned Liberal errors such as these because they threatened the Catholic Faith. Pope Pius VI was the first to condemn the French Revolution, and in his Quod Aliquantum from 1791 he wrote that the revolution sought to abolish the Catholic Religion:
Quote:“. . . this National Assembly has arrogated to itself the power of the Church, going so far as to establish so many strange things, which are contrary both to the Dogma and to ecclesiastical discipline, forcing the Bishops and all the Ecclesiastics to swear to carry out what it has decreed. Furthermore, anyone who notes from the Constitution of the Assembly itself should not be surprised by this fact that it aims at nothing else and seeks nothing else other than the abolition of the Catholic Religion and, with this, also of the obedience due to Kings. With this plan precisely establishes as a principle of natural law that man living in Society must be fully free, that is to say that in matters of Religion he must not be disturbed by anyone, and can freely think as he pleases, and write and even publish by means of print anything related to Religion.”
This last sentence surely seems correct to many Catholics today who champion the “freedom of expression,” but it was universally condemned by the popes prior to Vatican II. Pope Pius VI continued by explaining why such ideas were dangerous and absurd:
Quote:“The Assembly itself has declared that these statements . . . derive from the equality of men among themselves and from natural freedom. But what greater foolishness can be imagined than to consider all men equal and free in such a way that nothing is accorded to reason, with which man has mainly been provided by nature and by which he distinguishes himself from beasts? When God created the first man and placed him in the earthly Paradise, did he not at the same time impose the death penalty on him if he tasted the fruits of the tree of the science of good and evil? Didn't he immediately put a brake on his freedom with this first precept? And after man had made himself guilty by his disobedience, did not God add many other precepts, which were promulgated by Moses? . . . Where then is that freedom to think and act, which the decrees of the Assembly attribute to man living in society as an immutable right of nature? Therefore, for what results from these decrees, according to them it will be necessary to contradict the right of the Creator, through whom we exist, and from whose liberality everything that we are and that we have must be recognized.”
Liberals clamor for the “rights of man,” but the Catholic Church reminds us that the infinitely superior “rights of the Creator” must be respected if ever the two sets of rights conflict. The pre-Vatican II popes warned against the errors of Liberalism because these popes sought both to honor the “rights of the Creator” as well as to safeguard Catholics from the great evils that result from asserting “rights of man” that deviate from God’s law.
As we can see from the 1876 letter of Pope Pius IX to the editors of a Catholic newspaper of Rodez, the pre-Vatican II popes condemned these errors under the heading of “Catholic Liberalism” (promoted by “Liberal Catholics”):
Quote:“We certainly do approve your endeavor to defend and explain the decisions of our Syllabus, especially those points which condemn the so-called ‘Catholic Liberalism,’ which has a large number of adherents among honest men. This error seems to be close to the truth and thus becomes very dangerous since it so easily deceives those who are not on their guard, and, because it unperceivebly and secretly destroys the Catholic mind, it greatly reduces Catholic strength while increasing that of the enemy’s.” (quoted by Fr. A. Roussel in Liberalism & Catholicism, p. 122)
So those who opposed Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors were proponents of “Catholic Liberalism,” which “secretly destroys the Catholic mind.” Because Vatican II opposed and contradicted the Syllabus of Errors, the heirs of Catholic Liberalism became those “Conservative Catholics” who defend Vatican II’s efforts to reconcile Catholicism with the ideas of the French Revolution. As honest and devout as they may be, these Conservative Catholics have been deceived by the revolutionaries who convinced them that the Church could legitimately contradict what it had consistently taught.
As a result, these “Conservative Catholics” have spent the past sixty years questioning the horrendous fruits of Vatican II but consoling themselves with the thought that they were on the side of John XXIII and his successors. In recent years, Francis has made many of these Conservative Catholics far less secure in their convictions. Rather than realizing that the pre-Vatican II popes were correct — which might lead them to reject the novelties of the Vatican II revolution — these Conservative Catholics have generally tended to believe that Francis must be deviating from Vatican II, even though he continually reminds us that the Council is the entire theological foundation of his religious beliefs.
The recent scandal of the Paris Olympics has brought all of this together in a blasphemous tableau. In it, we saw not only the LGBQT+ portrayal of the Last Supper but also the celebration of the French Revolution, complete with the decapitated head of Queen Marie-Antoinette singing along to a heavy metal song. But the most anti-Catholic touch of all has now been delivered by Francis’s Vatican, with its Communiqué about the opening ceremony:
Quote:“The Holy See was saddened by certain scenes during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and can only join the voices that have been raised in recent days to deplore the offence caused to many Christians and believers of other religions. At a prestigious event where the whole world comes together to share common values, there should be no allusions ridiculing the religious convictions of many people. The freedom of expression, which is clearly not called into question here, is limited by respect for others.”
According to the Vatican, it was the “religious convictions of many people” that was offended, not God and His Holy Catholic Church. And, justifiably, the Conservative Catholics are appalled at the Vatican's lukewarm condemnation of the opening ceremony’s grotesque blasphemy. Will they awaken to the reality that Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae — which Cardinal Ratzinger said was part of the Council’s embrace of the ideas of 1789 — contradicted the Syllabus of Errors when it asserted the rights of man demand freedom of religious expression, such as what we saw at the Olympics?:
Quote:“The social nature of man, however, itself requires that he should give external expression to his internal acts of religion: that he should share with others in matters religious; that he should profess his religion in community. Injury therefore is done to the human person and to the very order established by God for human life, if the free exercise of religion is denied in society, provided just public order is observed.”
So, according to Vatican II, the “social nature of man” requires that everyone should be able to freely express his or her religious beliefs (which obviously includes hatred for established religion) in community, limited solely by “just public order.” With this in mind, we can read again the last sentence of the Vatican’s Communiqué on the blasphemous Paris Olympics opening ceremony:
Quote:"The freedom of expression, which is clearly not called into question here, is limited by respect for others.”
The Vatican could not have issued a more forceful “condemnation” of the Olympic blasphemies without running afoul of the teaching of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae. Some may wonder, though, why the Vatican did not condemn the Paris Olympics for banning various expressions of Christianity (and other religions). We have the ultimate explanation if we simply recall that Pope Pius VI told us that the French Revolution, which inspired the Vatican II revolution, “seeks nothing else other than the abolition of the Catholic Religion.” Thus, it should be obvious that we are all reaping what the proponents of Vatican II’s revolutionary ideas have sowed. The Conservative Catholics who have perfected their mental gymnastics over the decades by defending the Council’s novelties now have their filthy reward in the Olympic blasphemy and the Vatican’s faux condemnation of it.
Tolerating and promoting errors has brought us to this state of grave crisis in the Church and throughout the world, but all is not lost. As the Conservative Catholics were promoting the Vatican II’s embrace of the ideas of the French Revolution, they were also denouncing Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who left us with these words of holy inspiration in his They Have Uncrowned Him:
Quote:“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 Holy Church. . . If this is how things are, you will understand that, in spite of everything, I am not a pessimist. The Holy Virgin will have the victory. She will triumph over the great apostasy, the fruit of Liberalism. One more reason not to twiddle our thumbs! 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 through 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.” (pp. 250-251)
With every passing day, Francis and his fellow revolutionaries give us further proof that the pre-Vatican II popes were correct in denouncing the Liberal errors that animated the Council’s unholy revolution. The fight of those pre-Vatican II popes, and all of the saints, is our fight, and we are assured of participating in God’s victory if we hold on while Satan and his minions insist that now is the time to give up.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
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| Nicaragua Escalates Repression Against Catholic Clergy |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-06-2024, 06:43 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Nicaragua Escalates Repression Against Catholic Clergy
The Tico Times | August 4, 2024
At least 12 priests have been arrested in recent days in a new wave of detentions targeting Catholic Church clergy in Nicaragua, according to a human rights NGO operating from exile in Costa Rica.
“In the last 48 hours, there has been a repressive escalation against priests of the Catholic Church” in the Matagalpa department, in the northern part of the country, stated the Colectivo Nicaragua Nunca Más in a communiqué.
“Several parishes have been besieged, and at least 12 priests have been arbitrarily detained, some of whom are now missing and in a state of enforced disappearance,” the organization specified.
On Thursday and Friday, Nicaraguan police carried out operations in parishes of the dioceses of Matagalpa and Estelí (north), reported Martha Patricia Molina, a lawyer and researcher on church-related issues, currently exiled in the United States, via social media platform X.
Nicaraguan human rights activist Haydee Castillo, also exiled in the United States, stated on X that “last night Matagalpa was besieged by police and paramilitary forces.” The Nicaraguan government has not commented on these reports.
President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, claim that the Church supported the 2018 protests against the government, which resulted in over 300 deaths according to the UN, and which Managua considers an attempted coup sponsored by Washington.
Murillo has described the clergy as “children of the devil” or “agents of evil” who engage in “spiritual terrorism.” “This is the largest crackdown since December 2023,” when another dozen priests were detained, the collective stated. In January, about thirty religious figures were released and sent to the Vatican.
A week ago, a group of United Nations experts denounced that the Nicaraguan government has maintained “systematic” attacks against the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations since the 2018 protests.
From April 2018 to March 2024, the group documented “73 cases of arbitrary detentions of members of the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations,” although they noted that “the total number could be higher.”
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| Hotez Calls For Police Deployment Against "Anti-Vaxxers" |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-04-2024, 06:16 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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Hotez Calls For Police Deployment Against "Anti-Vaxxers"
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ZH | Aug 03, 2024
Authored by Paul Thacker via The Brownstone Institute,
Social media went a little bonkers last week when an interview of Texas Children’s Hospital’s Dr. Peter Hotez began circulating with the Big Pharma insider calling for the United Nations and NATO to deploy security forces against “anti-vaxxers” in the United States. Dr. Hotez’s statements first appeared on the YouTube channel of an international pediatric conference that took place in Colombia, but the interview then jumped onto X.
The Simposio Internacional de Actualización en Pediatría (International Symposium of Pediatric Updates) later removed the interview from YouTube although photos can still be found on Facebook.
In clips of Hotez’s interview that continue to circulate on X, he claims “anti-vaxxers” caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States. I uploaded one clip to my YouTube channel which you can watch here:
Quote:What I’ve said to the Biden administration is, the health sector can’t solve this on its own. We’re going to have to bring in Homeland Security, the Commerce Department, Justice Department to help us understand how to do this.
I’ve said the same with…I met with [WHO general director] Dr. Tedros last month…to say, I don’t know that the World Health Organization can solve this on our own. We need the other United Nations agencies—NATO. This is a security problem, because it’s no longer a theoretical construct or some arcane academic exercise. Two hundred thousand Americans died because of anti-vaccine aggression, anti-science aggression.
And so, this is now a lethal force…and now I feel as a pediatric vaccine scientist…it’s important, just as important for me to make new vaccines, to save lives. The other side of saving lives is countering this anti-vaccine aggression.
Hotez has long been noted for promoting controversial and sometimes false statements about the Covid pandemic and then accusing his critics of “anti-science.”
But this is not the first time Hotez has called for police to deploy against those who disagree with his views on science. Last October, Scientific American platformed Hotez as an expert on “anti-science” and didn’t bat an eyelid when he said support for scientists would require intervention by the Department of Homeland Security and the creation of a federal interagency task force.
Dr. Hotez again called for deploying federal police to support science during a grand rounds lecture he gave in August 2021. A whistleblower at Texas Children’s Hospital sent me the lecture where Hotez said the “disinformation empire” threatened America and would need to be dealt with by the Department of Homeland Security:
Quote:The problem is the disinformation empire is so vast and pervasive that until we do something more definitive to get to the source of the disinformation and stop it, it’s not going to have that much of an impact. And that’s where everybody moves away from me.
And I tend to be out on a…out on my own here.
Earlier this year, Time Magazine named Hotez a “Science Warrior” and one of the 100 most influential people in global health.
Republished from the author’s Substack
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| Eight days too late: Vatican Condemns Olympic Opening Ceremonies |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-04-2024, 06:06 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Vatican 'saddened' by 'certain scenes' at Olympics' opening ceremony
The ceremony depicted a mock Last Supper with drag queens
Fox News | August 3, 2024
The opening ceremony of the Olympics was immediately under criticism, and it "saddened" Pope Francis.
A statement released by the Vatican Saturday evening said there should be "no allusions ridiculing the religious convictions of many people."
"The Holy See was saddened by certain scenes during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and can only join the voices that have been raised in recent days to deplore the offence caused to many Christians and believers of other religions," the statement said.
"At a prestigious event where the whole world comes together to share common values, there should be no allusions ridiculing the religious convictions of many people. The freedom of expression, which is clearly not called into question here, is limited by respect for others."
The ceremony turned heads when it included a headless Marie Antoinette early on, then a ménage à trois.
However, what made critics most angry was when the ceremony appeared to depict a mock Last Supper with people dressed in drag.
The performance took place during a floating parade on the Seine River last week and featured drag queens seated around a table with one person, painted blue, sitting atop the table. Many argue the display resembled the Da Vinci painting depicting a scene from the Gospel of John when Jesus announces that one of his apostles would betray him.
There's been mixed messaging from Olympic organizers over what was behind the drag scene. One spokesperson reportedly admitted to the New York Post that creative director Thomas Jolly took inspiration from da Vinci's painting, "The Last Supper." Others have claimed no offense was intended, and it was merely a nod to Greek mythology.
Many Christian faith leaders and celebrities, like Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, fitness guru Jillian Michaels, Elon Musk, actress Candace Cameron Bure and ex-transgender influencer Oli London, expressed disappointment in the depiction.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.; Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene; Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini; conservative French politician and European Parliament member Marion Maréchal; and Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican, Eduard Habsburg, are among officials who condemned the presentation.
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