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| 200 masked cyclists attack March for Life in Switzerland |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-23-2026, 07:30 AM - Forum: Global News
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200 masked cyclists attack March for Life in Switzerland
Far-left agitators tried to disrupt the pro-life event with firecrackers, knocking over trash bins,
and blocking the route at multiple points, in the latest example of pro-abortion violence.
Sep 22, 2026
OERLIKON, Zurich (LifeSiteNews) – More than 2,200 pro-lifers gathered on Saturday for the Swiss March for Life, defying hostility from local officials as well as an estimated 200 masked cyclists who attempted to disrupt and terrorize the event.
EWTN News reports that an estimated 2,200 pro-lifers, accompanied by a police presence to ensure security, rallied under the theme of “Together for Life,” advocating legal protection for the voiceless preborn as well as for fathers to step up to their responsibilities both to their children and the babies’ mothers.
Lamenting the abortions of 200,000 preborn babies since 2002, Swiss March for Life president Beatrice Gall said the March is an effort to help counteract the fact that “there is no public debate and no objective examination of the facts; instead, people remain silent about the high abortion rates, the suffering this causes many people, and the consequences thereof.”
“Advocating for human life is not backward — it’s forward-looking!” she added, taking a “new wave of interest and strong commitment” from young people as a hopeful sign for the future.
Far-left saboteurs attempted to undermine the demonstration with firecrackers, knocking over trash bins, and otherwise blocking the route at multiple points. “The police repeatedly asked them to leave before resorting to the water cannons,” SWI adds. “However, the counter-demonstrators reappeared at several points along the route.”
For years, Zurich officials have kept the event out of the city center, relegating it to the outer commercial and residential district of Oerlikon. Officials have claimed this is to minimize such disruptions, but pro-lifers argue they are held to a double-standard that effectively gives violent agitators power to decide who is welcome in the public square. Pro-lifers argued that the authorities’ success in managing the counter-protestors undermined the case for keeping the march out of the city center.
“Abortion is a severe matter, and it deserves to be touched face to face, in a loving way,” ProLife Europe’s regional director for Switzerland, Jonas Streule, told the crowd. “We rarely leave a conversation without having made someone think about an opinion they simply adopted from the dominant culture.”
This is far from the first year Swiss pro-lifers have had to worry about pro-abortion violence for merely speaking out. As LifeSiteNews reported at the time, the 2020 March for Life was canceled after police warned that up to 1,000 counter-protesters planned to block the March. Earlier that year, a partner organization found an animal carcass and maggots in its mailbox, and the year before counter-protestors had gone so far as to light barrels on fire.
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| Gay Jewish convert wrote first draft of Nostra Aetate, later left priesthood |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-18-2026, 09:28 AM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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Gay Jewish convert wrote first draft of Nostra Aetate, later left priesthood
A primary drafter of Nostra Aetate, Jewish convert Gregory Baum later admitted concealing his homosexual life
while serving as a Catholic priest and Vatican II 'theological expert.'
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Sep 17, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [Slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — In the immediate wake of a controversial new document proceeding from the Vatican on the 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate, some voices on social media have found it appropriate to remind the public that one of the primary contributors to the conciliar document’s drafting was Jewish convert Gregory Baum, who was a homosexual and later left the Catholic priesthood.
Baum was born in 1923 to a Jewish mother and Protestant father who emigrated from England to Canada during World War II. He reportedly converted to Catholicism after reading St. Augustine’s Confessions in 1946 and then entered the Augustinian order — the same order as Pope Leo XIV — just one year later in 1947, being ordained a priest in 1954.
Gaining access to the role of a peritus (theological expert) at the Second Vatican Council, Baum authored the first draft of Nostra Aetate on the Church’s relation to non-Christian religions, including Judaism.
Baum later recalled that when Cardinal Augustin Bea sought a volunteer, “I came forward after everyone left and said I had some experience in this area” and was given the job.
Nostra Aetate, Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, has been criticized for its ambiguity regarding important concepts such as it lacking a clear definition of “antisemitism” as well as initiating a trajectory of religious indifferentism that was condemned by all the popes from Pius IX to Pius XII.
First Catholic theologian to publicly defend ‘ethical status of homosexual love’
In his 2016 memoir The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum wrote that he was 40 years old when he had his first sexual encounter with a man in a London restaurant in 1963 during the period of the Council.
He said he kept his mortally sinful homosexual activity private because “such an act of honesty would have reduced my influence as a critical theologian.” He added that he wanted to be heard as a theologian “committed to social justice, liberation theology, and global solidarity.”
Baum left the priesthood in 1974 and was laicized. In 1978, he married former nun Shirley Flynn, who died in 2007. After moving to Montreal in 1986, he began a relationship with a former priest named Normand, who, Baum wrote, “is gay and welcomed my sexual embrace.”
Dubbed a prominent “voice for modernity in the Catholic Church,” Baum called himself “the first Catholic theologian who publicly defended the ethical status of homosexual love.”
‘Black shadow’ behind Canadian bishops rejecting Humanae Vitae
Additionally, he was one of the most outspoken critics of Pope Paul VI’s 1968 seminal affirmation of the Church’s constant condemnation of contraception in the encyclical Humanae Vitae, even to the point of rallying opposition to this teaching based on God’s natural law.
In this regard, Baum played no small part in the outcome of the Canadian bishops adopting a position of open dissent from Humanae Vitae two months after its release.
In their September 27, 1968, revolutionary “Winnipeg Statement,” the bishops opened a door for couples to use contraception, stating that if a couple has “tried sincerely but without success to pursue a line of conduct in keeping with the given directives, they may be safely assured that, whoever honestly chooses that course which seems right to him does so in good conscience.”
Monsignor Vincent Foy, who was known until his death as the foremost expert on the Canadian bishops’ dissent in Winnipeg, wrote that Baum’s influence over the bishops’ proceedings at that time cast a “black shadow.”
“If it had not been for the black shadow of Baum over Winnipeg, his influence over some Bishops, the Canadian theological establishment and pressure groups, the Winnipeg Statement of the Canadian Bishops on Humanae Vitae would not have refused to endorse the teaching of the encyclical as it did,” he wrote.
Incalculable negative impacts of dissent on Humanae Vitae
The negative impacts of the broad use of contraceptives in modern societies cannot be overstated. Discussing these dynamics, Pope St. John Paul II demonstrated how a society that normalizes the use of contraception will naturally be inclined to demand legal abortion as a backup.
When such illicit methods are employed, “the life which could result from a sexual encounter thus becomes an enemy to be avoided at all costs, and abortion becomes the only possible decisive response to failed contraception,” the pope wrote in Evangelium Vitae.
In Donum Vitae (1987), Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) applied the same logic to in vitro fertilization and embryo research. Dissociating the conjugal act from its natural end of openness to life serves to rationalize scientific means of procreation apart from the marital embrace, leading to in vitro fertilization and embryo research.
Techniques that produce and discard “spare embryos” treat nascent life as an object rather than a gift, violating the dignity of the human person and procreation.
Other gravely negative effects include impacts on women’s health, disruptions in relationships increasing the divorce rate, negative outcomes for children raised in broken homes, the abortifacient results of hormonal contraceptives, and even pollution of the environment which mutilates and otherwise wreaks havoc on wildlife.
Given the extremely high numbers of destroyed human lives from the “contraceptive mentality,” the negative consequences of this major dissent from natural law, fostered by Baum, remains incalculable.
Advocate of liberation theology, ecumenism, devolved power from Rome
Touted by some as a theologian “who let the Holy Spirit – rather than the institutional church – direct his restless, curious mind,” the homosexual author was cheered for his acceptance “of liberation theology in the face of condemnation from the Vatican,” for his strong support for Vatican II’s endorsement of ecumenism, and his campaign to change the Catholic Church and “let power devolve from Rome.”
In 2017, Baum died at age 94, an occasion for which LifeSiteNews encouraged prayers for the repose of his soul.
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