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EU Parliament backs resolution demanding ‘full recognition of trans women as women’

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:04:23 +0000

EU Parliament backs resolution demanding ‘full recognition of trans women as women’
The European Parliament passed a non-binding text in a 340–141 promoting transgender ideology

and labeling the pro-life position against abortion as ‘gender-based violence.’

Headquarters of the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
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Feb 13, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — The European Parliament has voted in favor of a resolution that calls for the “full recognition of trans women as women.”

On February 12, the EU body adopted the non-binding text that outlines the EU priorities for the upcoming session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. It was approved by 340 votes in favor, 141 against, and 68 abstentions.

The resolution is not legally binding for member states, but will be part of the EU’s official negotiating position as a bloc at the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, taking place in New York next month.

The text calls for “the full recognition of trans women as women, noting that their inclusion is essential for the effectiveness of any gender-equality and anti-violence policies.”

The document also claims that denying someone an abortion constitutes “gender-based violence.”

The resolution further states that “violations of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including the denial of safe and legal abortion services and all forms of obstetric and gynaecological violence, constitute gender-based violence and breaches of fundamental human rights.”

German MEP Tomasz Froelich from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) told LifeSiteNews that on Friday, the Parliament voted on an amendment to the resolution stating that “only biological women can become pregnant.” The amendment was rejected with 200 votes in favor, 233 against, and 107 abstentions.

In a blatant contradiction, the text called denial of abortion “gender-based violence” while at the same time denying that only women can become pregnant.

Froelich called the European Parliament a “madhouse.”

The pro-life and pro-family advocacy group CitizenGO slammed the resolution, saying it was part of the “pro-abortion” and gender ideology agenda, and announced that the group would continue to campaign against the adopted text at the upcoming U.N. meeting.

UK concludes biggest pandemic simulation with virus targeting children

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:20:45 +0000

Summary from disclose.tv:

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UK concludes biggest pandemic simulation with virus targeting children

This autumn, the UK conducted Exercise Pegasus, the country’s biggest pandemic simulation in nearly a decade and its first Tier 1 national emergency exercise since Covid-19. Concluding last month, it involved ministers, all devolved nations, COBRA activation and every major government department. Participants faced a fictional novel strain of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) that originated on the imaginary southeast Asian island of Musiyana after a food festival.

Unlike Covid-19, the simulated virus primarily killed infants, children and teenagers, causing respiratory failure, brain swelling and occasional paralysis. The three-phase drill began in September with regional spread in Asia, progressed in October to a WHO-declared pandemic with school closures, hospital strain and street protests over social distancing, then escalated in November to national lockdown, non-essential business shutdowns, travel bans and fears of food shortages from potential pig herd infection.

Sir Peter Horby, Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University said:

Quote:“The choice of an enterovirus is a good choice because it is a real possibility with real risks but is different from what we have seen before,”

Ministers tested both containment and mitigation decisions, including whether early travel restrictions could keep the virus out of Britain. The exercise followed Covid Inquiry findings that pre-2020 plans focused only on coping with high deaths rather than prevention, and that school closures “brought ordinary childhood to a halt”.

Lessons from Pegasus will be published next year.

Full article here:

Schools locked down again in secret pandemic drills
Exclusive: Exercise Pegasus imagined a virus deadly to children spreading around the world from an island in southeast Asia

News of the drill comes a week after the Covid Inquiry found the UK did ‘too little, too late’ to contain and mitigate the virus Credit: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images

telegraph.co.uk [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original] | 25 November 2025

Schools across the UK were locked down this autumn as part of a state drill to tackle the threat of a new deadly virus.

Exercise Pegasus, which concluded last month and involved all major government departments, was the biggest pandemic simulation exercise the country has ever held.

Those participating in the drill were told a novel enterovirus had broken out on a fictional Island in southeast Asia before spreading across the world.

Unlike Covid-19, which disproportionately affected older age groups, the new virus was most lethal in the young. The virus, “EV-D68”, was said to cause respiratory failure, brain swelling and – in rare cases – paralysis in infants, children and teenagers.

The spread of the imagined virus resulted in travel restrictions, school and business closures and mask wearing in the UK and around the world.

Ministers involved in the drill also had to “wargame” dealing with fictional street protests over social distancing, the Telegraph understands.

News of the drill comes a week after the second module of the Covid Inquiry found the UK did “too little, too late” to contain and mitigate Covid-19 in the early part of 2020 and prevent a series of ruinous national lockdowns.

Closing schools “brought ordinary childhood to a halt” and the decision to shut them had a “profound consequence” on children, it said.

‘A realistic pandemic scenario’

Exercise Pegasus was designated a “Tier 1” national emergency exercise, meaning it involved ministerial participation, all devolved nations and activation of COBRA, the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.

It ran in three parts in September, October and November this year and imagined a novel version of EV-D68 had triggered a pandemic.

It’s key purpose was “to simulate a realistic pandemic scenario, and is the first of its kind in nearly a decade,” according to a NHS briefing document.

The real EV-D68 is a respiratory virus first isolated in California in 1962, which has gained global traction. As well as respiratory disease and meningitis, it can cause a polio-like paralysis in children known as acute flaccid paralysis.

“The choice of an enterovirus is a good choice because it is a real possibility with real risks but is different from what we have seen before,” said Sir Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute.

“The big question for me would be, has anything really changed since Covid?” added Sir Peter, who was not involved in the exercise. “Have the systems changed and were the responses different?”

In Phase 1 of the Exercise Pegasus, participants were told an outbreak of a novel enterovirus had occurred on the fictional Island of “Musiyana” in southeast Asia and that it had already spread to Malaysia and Singapore.

The outbreak followed a local “food festival”, a child had died on 17 September and the virus was “considered to have pandemic potential”.

It is not clear if travel restrictions were recommended by UK ministers at this point in an attempt to prevent the virus getting to Britain, but the Telegraph understands a range of travel restrictions were in place by the end of the exercise.

In Phase 2 of the simulation, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally declared a pandemic, schools were closed and hospitals started to come under pressure. Protests over social distancing also broke out.

COBRA was told that, like Covid, the virus can be spread through respiratory aerosols and droplets and that “asymptomatic spread cannot be excluded”.

In Phase 3, a national lockdown was declared and non-essential businesses ordered to close. There were also fears that the virus – thought to be carried in pigs – could also cause food shortages if UK herds became infected.

The first part of the Covid Inquiry found the UK’s pandemic plan ahead of that outbreak was flawed in that it failed to consider preventing a novel virus sweeping across Britain in the first place.

“It focused on only one type of pandemic, failed adequately to consider prevention or proportionality of response, and paid insufficient attention to the economic and social consequences of pandemic response,” said the Inquiry.

“When it was said that the UK was well prepared before the Covid-19 pandemic, this meant at the time that the UK should have been able to manage the deaths of [837,500] people – not that it was prepared to prevent them,” it added.

It is not clear what measures ministers ordered during the Exercise Pegasus to try and prevent the virus getting to the UK, but the exercise was designed to test government decision making around “containment” as well as “mitigation”, say government documents.

Closing schools during the Covid-19 lockdowns “brought ordinary childhood to a halt,” the second part of the Covid Inquiry found. No plans had been made ahead of the pandemic that would have allowed for a quick switch to remote learning.

“The decisions to close schools and early years provision to most children and to implement a lockdown were steps taken to protect the adult population. They brought ordinary childhood to a halt,” concluded the Inquiry.

In Exercise Pegasus, the imagined virus was most lethal to children – presenting ministers with a different challenge around schools.

It is not thought that any ministers walked out during the exercise as happened during Exercise Cygnus in 2016, when the then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt downed tools when it became clear hospitals would be overrun and he was asked to decide who should get care and who should not.

“The hospitals were full and Hunt was asked to make the call as part of the exercise. But instead of doing so he basically said ‘I’m not playing any more’. People were very cross as it mucked up the exercise,” recalled one observer.

Mr Hunt said he had paused the exercise to argue that such decisions indicated insufficient planning and maintains that his action prompted improvements in the UK’s pandemic planning protocols ahead of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Department of Health and Social Care is expected to publish a report about the drill next year.

A Government spokesperson emphasised for the avoidance of doubt that the lockdowns were not real but a table to exercise, and said: “Exercise Pegasus concluded this autumn and was the largest simulation of a pandemic in UK history, involving every government department, all four nations, and many government agencies.

“A fictional scenario was designed to test participants and improve public bodies’ ability to respond to a pandemic.

“Learnings will be taken to strengthen the UK’s ability to protect the public, and findings will be published as part of the Government’s commitment to transparency.”

Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research at The University of Oxford, said pandemic drills like Exercise Pegasus were now being held around the world and that there was a need to better share the results and findings.

“These exercises are really important as they throw up barriers and innovations you might not have foreseen but they should be made open and shared internationally in a curateable form,” she said.

Heir to Louis XVI denounces France’s euthanasia plan: ‘I’m pro-life. At all stages’

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:06:47 +0000

Heir to Louis XVI denounces France’s euthanasia plan: ‘I’m pro-life. At all stages’
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon also affirmed his willingness to serve as king if the French people desire it.

Louis Alphonse de Bourbon
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Oct 17, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — The heir to the line of French kings which reaches back to Saint Louis IX has declared his commitment to life and announced that he is ready to serve France in a re-established monarchy, if the French people desire it. The news comes amid political chaos and the government’s third collapse since the 2024 elections – in a scenario mainstream speculation suggests could entail the end of the French Fifth Republic.

Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou and Legitimist claimant to the French throne as Louis XX, warned in an October 8 Journal du Dimanche column that “the Fifth Republic, like its sisters before it, seems to be on the verge of collapse.” This follows the disintegration of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government on October 6, after 27 days, intensifying fears of the Fifth Republic’s demise under President Emmanuel Macron.

In the same October 11 Canal News interview where he affirmed his willingness to serve as king if needed, Bourbon, a pro-life traditional Catholic, condemned France’s proposed euthanasia law, declaring, “I have always spoken in favor of life — and I’m pro-life. At all stages: from birth to the end.”

When asked about the possibility of the monarchy’s re-establishment in such circumstances he stated: “My family have served France for centuries. And if France asks for it, I will be at her service.”

The latest crisis began with Macron’s June 2024 snap elections. The vote produced a hung National Assembly. It split among the left-wing New Popular Front, Macron’s centrists, and the far-right National Rally. No bloc secured a majority. Macron has since cycled through five prime ministers. Lecornu’s cabinet, a reshuffle of prior figures, resigned under no-confidence threats.

France’s 5.4 percent GDP deficit and €3 trillion debt sparked market volatility. The euro dipped and bond yields spiked. The Telegraph has warned of “regime change.” Politico described unprecedented convulsion. Macron tasked Lecornu with caretaker duties until October 15, after which the future remains unclear. New elections or a sixth prime minister loom as Macron is under mounting pressure to resign – though he has repeatedly refused to do this.

In his Journal du Dimanche column, Bourbon wrote, “The political, institutional, and social state of our country continues to worsen.” He decried “a political crisis that is becoming more insoluble every day.” Parties, he said, “play their own game” rather than serve “the higher interests of France and therefore of the French.” He criticized the Republic’s “partisan logic” and “total absence of questioning.”

The system, he argued, is “a space of immobility and powerlessness.”

On Canal News, he stated, “I’m not in a position to remain silent…. At the moment I see France in an absolutely blocked situation, and I am filled with concern.” He added, “The tone of my discourse has never changed, but the situation has never been so grave. The French need hope.”

READ: UN warns France’s euthanasia plan undermines ‘right to life of persons with disabilities’

Bourbon envisions the monarchy as “above party quarrels, pacifying, unifying, to the defense of the common good.”

In his column, he praised monarchy’s “stability, the long term, a vision over several generations.” Leaders, he said, should “not transmit chaos to their successor.” He urged the people of France to “not forget that it was in the shade of the lilies that your freedoms flourished and that France reached its peak.” He hopes “monarchical heritage” is “sufficiently alive in the hearts” of the French to inspire “hope.”

On Canal News, he clarified, “The indispensable condition would be that France wants the return of the monarchy.”

Bourbon’s faith shapes his stance. A Traditional Latin Mass devotee, he is a member of the Order of Malta. He has long opposed same-sex marriage and adoption, arguing they undermine natural family structures. At the 2019 World Congress of Families, he urged a return to a “Christian society.” His views resonate with traditionalists who see the crisis as a chance for restoration.

Bourbon’s conservative ties extend abroad. He is close to Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s Vox party. He serves as honorary president of the Francisco Franco National Foundation (Franco is his maternal great-grandfather). In 2018, he led protests against Franco’s exhumation. He also demanded Spain’s Socialist prime minister’s resignation. These stances align with his vision for France.

Bourbon, 51, lives in Madrid, where a branch of the Bourbon family ascended to the Spanish throne. He is married to María Margarita Vargas Santaella and have five children. He is descended from Louis XIV – the fondly-remembered Roi Soleil (Sun King) – to Hugh Capet in 987 A.D.

Bourbon calls himself a monarchist “but not anti-republican.” He envisions a constitutional monarch who would act as moral authority and national unifier. However, before a near decade of political crisis, a 2016 poll found support for monarchical re-establishment was low – only 17 percent.

Bourbon often attends ceremonial public events alongside the military and other institutions in France. In 2021 France – a nation with a history of coups d’etat – was on the verge of a constitutional crisis after an open letter was signed by former generals and military leaders which warned of civil war and demanded the government clamp down on excessive “anti-racism” measures.

The Fifth Republic, designed by Charles de Gaulle for stability, continues to falter without a parliamentary majority. Bourbon’s call for a monarchy offers an alternative which promises stability over chaos. His pro-life stance and Christian vision appeal to conservatives who are moving quickly rightwards amidst a national revival in Catholicism and traditional Catholicism.

As Bourbon’s words gained national attention, France continues to weigh fragile coalitions against a return to its roots.

Spanish priest found guilty of ‘hate crime’ after criticizing Muslim persecution of Christians

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:55:36 +0000

Spanish priest found guilty of ‘hate crime’ after criticizing Muslim persecution of Christians
Barcelona priest Fr. Custodio Ballester was found guilty and now faces prison time for warning that ‘Islam does not allow dialogue’ with Christianity.

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Oct 6, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Sentencing for a Spanish priest who this past week was found guilty of making “Islamophobic” comments more than seven years ago has Catholics as well as free speech advocates concerned.

In February, Father Custodio Ballester was summoned by a regional court in Spain to respond to charges that he had committed a “hate crime” for calling attention to the unjust treatment Christians receive in Islamic majority countries.

Ballester, who serves as a parish priest in Barcelona, was charged with violating Spanish law in 2020 when the state prosecutor in Catalonia claimed that an article Ballester wrote in 2016 titled “The Impossible Dialogue with Islam” met the criteria of a “hate crime.”

Ballester wrote his essay in response to a pastoral letter by his superior, the archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Juan José Omella, titled “The Necessary Dialogue with Islam.” In his rebuttal, Ballester wrote: “This new reactivation of Christian-Muslim dialogue, paralyzed by the alleged ‘imprudences’ on the part of the late Pope Benedict XVI, is very far from becoming a reality. Islam does not allow dialogue. For Islam, either you believe, or you are an infidel who must be subdued one way or another.”

Ballester has also previously made remarks critical of LGBT ideology.

Ballester’s case involves Father Jesús Calvo and journalist Armando Robles. They had been accused of making “Islamophobic” remarks on a 2017 podcast by the Association of Spanish Muslims Against Islamophobia. The Málaga Provincial Court handed down its ruling earlier this week.

Ballester told Catholic News Agency that his statements “have never been discriminatory or hateful.” He also said, “they want to use me as an example so that others censor themselves.”

Violating Spain’s hate crime law carries a penalty of anywhere from one to four years in prison with additional financial penalties. Ballester says that he expects his sentencing may be delayed due to political pressure, and that he will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights if he is sentenced with jail time.

Several dozen supporters held signs at the courthouse when the decision was handed down. Law firm Abogados Cristiano has collected nearly 30,000 signatures on a petition supporting Ballester’s innocence. Clergy in Spain have largely remained silent, however. CNA reports that Cardinal Omella “has only offered private words of support, without issuing a public statement.”

“People are very angry about the excessive sentences being sought for ‘hate crimes,’ which are comparable to those sought for sexual assault or leaving someone paralyzed in a fight,” Ballester told CNA.

When previously asked whether he was prepared to spend three years in prison if convicted, Ballester said: “It doesn’t seem right to be convicted for something I’ve said, but in Spain anything is possible. But if I am convicted, this will no longer be Spain but Pakistan, where you can be killed for blaspheming the Koran or Mohammed.”

“There is no longer any true right to free speech in Spain,” he added.

According to Islamic Sharia law, Christians and Jews who refuse to convert to Islam are not recognized as full citizens but considered semi-slaves called “dhimmi” who have to pay a special tax called “jizyah.” The OpenDoors “Word Watch List” shows that the majority of the top 50 countries in which Christians are most persecuted are Islamic states.

Italy restores October 4 as national public holiday in honor of St. Francis of Assisi

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:34:46 +0000

Italy restores October 4 as national public holiday in honor of St. Francis of Assisi
‘The national holiday will be an opportunity to celebrate an extraordinary man and remind us, every year, who we are and what unites us profoundly,’

Italy's prime minister said.

'St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata' by Salvador Maella

Oct 3, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Italy will reinstate October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, as a national holiday.

“I welcome with joy and satisfaction the news of the Senate’s final approval of the parliamentary bill reintroducing, after 50 years, Oct. 4, the day on which we celebrate St. Francis, the patron saint of Italy, as a national holiday,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni commented.

Next year, 2026, will be the first year since 1976 that St. Francis’ feast day is honored as a national holiday in Italy. The holiday was scrapped in 1977 to boost the country’s productivity during a time of economic crisis.

Italy’s lower house overwhelmingly supported the measure by a 247-2 vote, and the Senate Constitutional Affairs Committee approved the bill on October 1.

Stefania Proietti, president of the Umbria Region, told 24 Ore that it is “very rare, perhaps unique, to have the unanimity of all the political forces for a law.”

“Saint Francis embodies those values in which our country says it recognizes itself,” she added.

Meloni said the unanimous support for the bill is “an important sign” that political unity in Italy can be found in “one of the most representative and distinctive figures of (our) national identity.”

“A saint beloved by the entire Italian people and in whom all Italians identify. The national holiday will be an opportunity to celebrate an extraordinary man and remind us, every year, who we are and what unites us profoundly,” Meloni said.

The reinstated holiday was reportedly petitioned by poet and writer Davide Rondoni, president of the national committee for the celebrations of the eighth centenary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.

“St. Francis makes everyone want to live more,” Rondoni told 24 Ore. The national holiday in his honor “is a sign to call everyone to give the best of themselves,” because St. Francis “is a great witness to life.”

“Having patron saints in heaven reminds everyone that there are no patron saints on earth and there must not be,” Rondoni stressed.

Lay and religious figures, such as Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, are invoking St. Francis in support of a “love for creation” and a “fraternal, unarmed world,” which are goods when rightly ordered. However, these ideas are often exploited to further a disordered “theology” or political ideology in which the primacy of God is downplayed or ignored, or individual human rights are subordinated to ecological concerns or a vaguely defined “common good.”

In fact, Zuppi specifically invoked this idea of the common good, writing that St. Francis’ “life and work can inspire political love and love for creation, so that the common good prevails over speculative logic and the logic of the strongest, over partisan interests and polarization.”

St. Francis of Assisi was a model of a true and deep love of neighbor that desired the best possible good for him: Living in the fullness of the truth so that he may have eternal life with God.

Thus, he was not a “Birkenstock-clad hippie, a Peace Corps social worker, or an effeminate tofu-eating Green Party activist,” as he is portrayed by the secular, Dr. Philip Blosser noted. He was not about dialogue for “the sake of mutual understanding” but sought to convert others to Christ, including Muslims.

As Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò put it in a sermon on St. Francis’ feast day in 2023:

Quote:He was a young runaway who understood how the goods of this world were a hindrance toward holiness, and who chose to unite himself to Lady Poverty … living the evangelical counsels in the Rule of the Seraphic Order. Francis was thus poor, of that holy poverty which is neither miserable nor abject, but noble and proud, because it is confident of the help of Providence.

He was a tireless preacher of the Gospel. In 1219 he went as far as Cairo, to the court of al-Malik al-Kamil: on that occasion he wished to face the trial by fire to demonstrate the truth of the Catholic Faith and persuade the Sultan to convert and desist from fighting the Christians engaged in the Fifth Crusade.

St. Francis was a promoter of the decorum and dignity of the Liturgy. In his writings we read a thousand recommendations on the respect and adoration due to the Blessed Sacrament, and we know that he spared nothing to purchase pyxes and sacred vessels to donate to poor churches…His veneration for the Ministers of the Most High was such that it led him to refuse to receive the Priesthood considering himself unworthy of it.

In short, Francis was the heroic example of those virtues that in an age of crisis and war would reform the Holy Church.

Viganò continued:

Quote:In what, then, was St. Francis “the most Italian of Saints, the holiest of Italians”? We can say that he was the most Italian of Saints, because in him was shown that temperament proper to our people, made up of serene charity towards the poorest and the needy, that charity that so many Orders and Congregations have seen born over the centuries under the breath of the Holy Spirit.

A character made up of charity and love for God, of solid and unblemished Faith, of daily witness by example. In Francis we also find that unshakable certainty in the eternal Truths, of that Rome where Christ is Roman (Par XXXII, 102) that still survives in our people despite the devastating action of the modernist hierarchy.

He was also the holiest of Italians, for his life was an example and model of true humility, of holy poverty, of total abandonment to God and in God, to the point of receiving the Sacred Stigmata that assimilated him even in the flesh to the Passion of the Lord. He bore on himself the signs of the infinite Charity of Christ, before which every earthly good, every wealth, every pleasure disappears and is annihilated, and has a meaning only if oriented to the Good and to eternal salvation.

New Canadian bill would empower government to ban anyone’s internet access

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:46:01 +0000

New Canadian bill would empower government to ban anyone’s internet access
Bill C-8 has a provision in which the federal government could block 'any specified person' from using the internet.
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Oct 2, 2025
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews [Slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks from original included below]) — A new Canadian bill introduced by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has raised privacy concerns as it appears that, should it become law, it would give officials the power to ban anyone deemed a dissident from accessing the internet.

Bill C-8, which is now in its second reading in the House of Commons, was introduced in June by Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree and has a provision in which the federal government could stop “any specified person” from accessing the internet.

All that would be needed is the O.K. from Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly for an individual to be denied internet service.

The bill is titled “An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts,” and it contains a clause that mandates all internet providers to pull internet services from anyone whom the government demands.

The bill would allow the industry minister to “prohibit a telecommunications service provider from providing any service to any specified person,” all without a warrant. The only recourse a banned person would have is after the order is given. They would have to get a federal court to look at the ban order for a judicial review.

The federal government under Carney claims that the bill is a way to stop “unprecedented cyber-threats.”

The bill as written claims that the government would need the power to cut someone off from the internet, as it could be “necessary to do so to secure the Canadian telecommunications system against any threat, including that of interference, manipulation, disruption, or degradation.”

Experts warn that the flaws must be fixed
Many are speaking out against the bill, warning of its Orwellian-like powers.

“The Liberal government is giving itself power to ban dissidents from the internet!” People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier wrote on X regarding the bill.

“Bill C-8, which is undergoing second reading in the HofC, includes a provision under which Ottawa can pull internet services from “any specified person,” a power that currently doesn’t exist.”

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) blasted the bill as troublesome, saying it needs to “fix” the “dangerous flaws” in the bill before it becomes law.

“Experts and civil society have warned that the legislation would confer ministerial powers that could be used to deliberately or inadvertently compromise the security of encryption standards within telecommunications networks that people, governments, and businesses across Canada rely upon, every day,” the CCLA wrote in a recent press release.

CCL Director of Privacy, Surveillance & Technology Program Tamir Israel said the government must fix the bill’s “flaws” at once.

“By failing to guarantee critical end-to-end encryption protocols will not be undermined, Bill C-8 risks doing more harm than good to cybersecurity,” Israel said.

“Its ongoing inclusion of warrantless data access mechanisms and use of a secrecy by default approach poses an additional threat to privacy and other civil liberties. We urge the government and parliamentarians to adopt important fixes to address these flaws.”

Canada’s own intelligence commissioner has warned that the bill, if passed as is, would potentially not be constitutionally justified, as it would allow for warrantless seizure of a person’s sensitive information.

Since taking power in 2015, the Liberal government has brought forth many new bills that, in effect, censor internet content as well as go after people’s ability to speak their minds.

Recently, Canadian Conservative Party MP Leslyn Lewis blasted a new Liberal “hate crime” bill, calling it a “dangerous” piece of legislation that she says will open the door for authorities to possibly prosecute Canadians’ speech deemed “hateful.”

Global elites insisting on digital currency to phase out cash

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:14:00 +0000

Global elites insisting on digital currency to phase out cash
The aim is to have the digital euro fully in place by 2030 in order to move Europe fully into the United Nations' post-capitalist system described in Agenda 2030.

President of European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde during the Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on September 26, 2022
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Sep 15, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included below]) — It always pays to scrutinize closely the comments of financial elites because they are rarely honest about their intentions. An instance is the comments of Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB) who said there will be a vote next month in the European Union parliament on the next step toward creating a digital euro, which would be a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

A central bank digital currency is money issued by the central bank in digital form as opposed to digital credit issued by banks, which is the dominant form of money in Western societies. She claims that it will mean more freedom for Europeans and that there is nothing to fear.

Lagarde anticipates launching the digital euro in about 18 months. The aim is to have it fully in place by 2030 in order to move Europe fully into the United Nations’ post-capitalist system that is described in Agenda 2030.

Lagarde’s blandishments about what the digital euro represents do not survive close examination. She acknowledged that the main concern of the population is the privacy implications, claiming the ECB is looking at a technology that will offer protections. The private banks, she said, will apply the “rules of scrutiny” that already have access to the transactions. “We are not interested in the data. The private banks are interested in the data.”

Lagarde also said that the “people have dictated” the transition to a digital euro. This looks dubious. Neither the EU Commission nor the ECB is democratically elected. And if the main concern people have with a CBDC is privacy, then why would people prefer it over cash, which is immune to scrutiny? It is not as if a digital euro would satisfy an unmet need. Digital money – credit and online transactions – is already freely available in the banking system.

The ECB is also speaking out of both sides of its mouth, saying on one hand that the digital euro will only complement cash and on the other that cash will be eliminated.

Lagarde made it clear that the aim is to phase out cash completely. Agenda 2030, she claims, “can only be enforced in a cashless economy.” Why? What is it about cash that makes environmental policies impossible to implement? The answer is surely that a digital euro is needed to control people’s behavior, forcing them to comply with environmental rules.

Previous comments by central bankers suggest there is good reason for Europeans to be extremely suspicious. In 2021, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, Agustín Carstens, said: “We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000-peso bill today. The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that.”

The pretext for the financial power play is climate change and the push toward net zero. A European CBDC is not, as implied by Lagarde, the creation of a new digital monetary mechanism. As economist Richard Werner points out, that already exists – credit and debit cards, for example. The significance of a digital euro is that it threatens the banking system.

A CBDC, like cash, has no interest rate on it. So why would people continue to use credit produced by private entities such as banks or credit card companies – currently over 95 percent of the money supply – on which they have to pay interest? As the Reserve Bank of New Zealand noted, CBDCs have the potential to destroy private banks.

That problem does not seem to concern the ECB, however. Indeed, fundamentally altering the banking system may be what they are aiming for. Lagarde said “climate compliance” will become a core element of bank supervision, not a separate initiative, “because climate change presents significant, material financial risks to banks and the entire financial system.”

The ECB’s supervision will mandate that banks integrate the management of climate-related and environmental risks into their existing risk management processes, particularly through new prudential transition planning requirements under what is called CRD VI. European banking, it seems, will no longer be defined by profitability and fiscal soundness but also by the politics of climate change.

The slipperiness of the ECB‘s arguments point to a much darker ambition. Werner says when CBDCs are connected to digital IDs “we are talking about the most totalitarian control system in human history … it gives you as a controller complete visibility on what everyone is doing, every transaction.

“The monitoring is only one aspect. These CBDCs are programmable and you can use big data algorithms, which they sell to us as artificial intelligence, in order to have rules about who can buy what and for what purpose, at what time and at what place – and therefore control all your movement. In the history of dictatorships, there never has been such a powerful control tool.”

There is a flaw, though, in the ECB’s push to change Europe’s financial architecture that may prove fatal to its ambitions. The EU and ECB do not have genuine central control. When the euro was established in 1998, the only way Germany was able to join was on the condition there was no consolidation of the government debt. So, although the ECB notionally sets interest rates for the zone, government debt is held at the national level and each country’s interest rate differs.

The ECB is thus a central bank in name only, unlike the U.S. Federal Reserve, or for that matter most country’s central banks, that oversee their national government debt. A European nation can choose to exit the EU, and each has to have its own monetary policy in spite of the ECB setting a uniform rate.

The push to create a digital euro is most likely an attempt to deal with these contradictions, but at best it will be a makeshift solution and it will take very little for it to fall apart. Disintegration of the European Union, and the common currency, is not out of the question.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is going in the opposite direction. In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which prevents the Federal Reserve from issuing a retail CBDC directly to individuals.

European debt is becoming increasingly parlous, especially in France where there have even been suggestions that there might need to be assistance from the International Monetary Fund. Italy’s debt, which is 138 percent of GDP, is also problematic. Lagarde is hoping for a rollout of the digital euro in 2027 and completion in 2030. But the Euro zone, and the ECB that oversees it, may not last that long.

Hungary celebrates 1,000+ years of being Christian with giant cross in the sky

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:32:50 +0000

Hungary celebrates 1,000+ years of being Christian with giant cross in the sky
A huge cross in light, relic procession, and public prayer celebrated the sainted monarch who consecrated Hungary to Mary the Mother of God over 1,000 years ago.

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Aug 21, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Hungary celebrated its Christian heritage on St. Stephen’s Day with fireworks and a giant cross formed in the sky by drones.

On August 20, Hungary celebrated its national holiday, the feast of Saint Stephen I, the first King of Hungary. During the festivities, drones with lights formed a giant cross above the Danube River, close to the Parliament building. Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Szijjarto, shared a picture of the floating cross with the caption “Another thousand years,” in reference to Hungary having been a Christian nation for a millennium.

The show also featured fireworks, a marching band, and a procession with the relics of St. Stephen.

“On St. Stephen’s Day, we celebrate our thousand-year-old Christian Hungarian state, the foundation of our nation – a pillar of Christian Europe,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote on X. “Proud to carry forward this legacy of faith, strength, and independence.”

During his first reign as prime minister (1998-2002), Orbán played a key role in moving the crown of St. Stephen from a museum to the center of the Parliament building, a symbolic act that stressed the importance of Hungary’s Christian heritage.

“Today, 20th of August, feast of St. Stephen: Celebrations all over the world wherever Hungarians are,” Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, Archduke Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, said. “We celebrate over 1,000 years of being a Christian nation.”

Hungary held a similar light show on St. Stephen’s Day in 2023, when drones formed a giant floating cross and a giant crown.

During the Soviet reign, the feast of St. Stephen was suppressed. The communist regime deliberately chose August 20, 1949, as the day to ratify their new Stalinist constitution in an apparent attempt to replace the feast and promote atheistic communism. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the 40-year communist occupation of Hungary ended, and the Feast Day of St. Stephen became Hungary’s new national holiday.

King St. Stephen I was a zealous Catholic and Hungary’s first Christian King. Pope Sylvester II crowned him in the year 1000. He died on the feast of Assumption in 1038, and on his deathbed he dedicated the country to Mary. He and his son Emeric were canonized by Pope St. Gregory VII in 1083.

The truth is out about Israel. It can no longer be ignored

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:10:35 +0000

The truth is out about Israel. It can no longer

be ignored

Now the world is seeing what we have tried to show. The world was not ready to see, but what does it see now? It sees what is there: the leveled cities, the starvation, the killing.

LifeSiteNews) — For almost two years LifeSiteNews has tried to bring you the truth about Israel’s actions at home and abroad. Our coverage has been attacked, our journalists and editors smeared, and our stories framed as a form of hateful misinformation.

Now the world sees what we tried to show. The world was not ready to see. What does it see now? It sees what is there. (link)

The Israelis tell you what is happening. “Gaza will be entirely destroyed,” Bezalel Smotrich said in May. He wrote a “Decisive Plan” in 2017 laying all this out. It was reported in May 2023 by the Jerusalem Post as an extremist messianic vision, warning, “Annexation-apartheid will spell the end of Israel as a democratic society. In a word, it would be suicide.”

Written by a retired IDF officer, the report said, “Deliberately and fully aware, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leading Israel into the abyss, all to avoid facing justice for his actions.”
We were told what was going to happen six years – and again six months – before October 7, 2023. No one was listening.

See the full, 1 hr. 25 min. Part 1 interview with Aguilar below.

Announcing the genocide

LifeSiteNews reported that the Israelis announced their intentions to expel the Palestinians in January 2024.

In the aftermath of October 7 there were no other voices than LifeSiteNews on the right who told you the truth about Israel. There was the heroic journalism of leftwing Jews, such as The GrayZone’s Max Blumenthal, Kit Klarenberg and Aaron Mate. The discourse was policed in many ways. If you spotted Israel’s lies about burned babies and mass rapes – repeated by Biden and Blinken – you were on the side of the terrorists.

The poison machine of Zionist propaganda tried to contain outrage at Israel’s horrific actions within the left, seeking to isolate and neutralize basic human decency as some personality defect of progressive lunatics.

It has failed. Israel’s actions are an insult to God and man. No one can see what they are doing and not despise the Zionist project it is openly pursuing – to destroy and/or expel the non-Jewish population. The sides here are not right and left. The sides are right or wrong. To those of us who recognize the source of all justice in God, this means good versus evil.

Zionism: total corruption

If this seems dramatic, consider that whether you like some people or not, all human life has an essential value given by God. The corruption which flows from a state which spits on human dignity destroys everything it touches, including the truth and the meaning of words themselves.
The armed thieves who come in the night to steal your house at gunpoint are called “settlers,” as if they are taming virgin land, like the frontiersmen of a young America.
These people have been attacking Christians, burning the crops and shooting the windows out of the houses in Taybeh – the last Christian town in the West Bank.

For full article click the link at the top of this article for LifeSiteNews.

Head of Irish bishops to consecrate country to Sacred Heart for first time in over 150 years

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:08:20 +0000

Head of Irish bishops to consecrate country to Sacred Heart for first time in over 150 years
The consecration comes at a time when Ireland, once a devout Catholic country, has become increasingly secularized.

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June 21, 2025
KNOCK, Ireland (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Eamon Martin, the archbishop of Armagh and president of the Irish Episcopal Conference, will consecrate the entire country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the first time in over 150 years this Sunday.

Martin, who also holds the title Primate of All Ireland, will consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart during a Sunday Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Knock on June 22, the Sunday of Corpus Christi, according to the archdiocese. The archbishop emphasized that the consecration is necessary in this age that presents “many challenges to our faith, to our families and indeed to the deepest core of our humanity.”

“We are living in a time of great need for God – for faith, for hope and for love. Our age presents many challenges to our faith, to our families and indeed to the deepest core of our humanity,” Martin said.

“But as a pilgrim people filled with great love and hope in this jubilee year of graces, while recalling the promises of the Sacred Heart made known 350 years ago to Saint Margaret Mary, we have chosen to renew the consecration of our country to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus as its secure refuge from all dangers – visible and invisible,” the bishop added. “All are welcome to our Mass this Sunday in Knock.”

June is traditionally dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The origins of this devotion come from an apparition of Christ to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in Paris in the 1670s, when He revealed the love of His Sacred Heart for the world and asked for reparation for the sins of sacrilege and blasphemy.

READ: Fatima and St. Margaret Mary’s visions of the Sacred Heart providentially connected

Prior to the consecration, the basilica will host the relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, St. Claude La Colombiere – the confessor of St. Margaret Mary – and Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart, who influenced Pope Leo XIII to consecrate the world to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart- for the faithful to venerate.

Ireland was previously consecrated to the Sacred Heart on Passion Sunday in 1873, becoming the first country to consecrate itself as a nation to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart.

The consecration comes at a time when Ireland, once a devout Catholic country, has become increasingly secularized. According to the country’s 2022 census, 69 percent of the Irish identify as Catholic, a 10 percent drop from the previous census in 2016. Mass attendance has also declined dramatically, dropping from 93 percent in 1973 to just 43 percent in 2008.

In 2015, 62 percent of the Irish people voted in favor of a referendum to legalize same-sex “marriage,” becoming the first nation to legalize it by popular vote.

READ: Abortions climb to record levels in Ireland with over 10,000 in 2023

Just three years later, in 2018, abortion was legalized by another referendum in which 66 percent of the Irish people voted to repeal an amendment protecting the equal right to life of the mother and unborn child. Abortion numbers have since dramatically increased in the country, with over 10,000 unborn Irish babies being murdered in 2023, a record.

Macron endorses Freemasonry’s anti-Christian ideology as guide for French society

Wed, 28 May 2025 12:42:33 +0000

Macron endorses Freemasonry’s anti-Christian ideology as guide for French society
French president calls Freemasonry a ‘spiritual family’ and thanks it for shaping euthanasia policy,
embracing a worldview long condemned by the Catholic Church.

TIRANA, ALBANIA - MAY 16: French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the 6th European Political Community summit

on May 16, 2025 at Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania
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May 27, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) –– French President Emmanuel Macron has publicly embraced Freemasonry’s worldview, declaring its anti-Christian vision of man to be foundational to the Republic—and praising it for its involvement in recent euthanasia legislation.

“Freemasons are taking up this fundamental debate regarding the end of life,” Macron said during a May 5 visit to the Grande Loge de France. “Be proud of it.”

Macron praised the Lodge’s framing of end of life issues not as “good on one side and evil on the other,” but as “simply a choice to be made in concrete situations.”

The president went beyond policy, endorsing what some have called the cult of man that underlies Masonry and his new law:

Quote:‘That Freemasons should have this ambition to make man the measure of the world, the free actor of his own life, from birth to death, should come as no surprise,’ he said. ‘I welcome it.’

‘The Republic is more than at home in Freemasonry, it is in its heart and soul,’ he said, and affirmed that ‘Freemasonry is at the forefront of the crucial battle we must fight if we want to mold the times for the good of humanity.’

The Catholic Church has always been the foremost critic of Freemasonry, condemning its rejection of divine law, religious truth, and the supernatural order.

In Humanum Genus, Pope Leo XIII warned that Freemasonry aims at “the utter overthrow of the whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced,” replacing it with a system “drawn from mere naturalism.”

Masonry was also condemned by many other popes, and membership of such organizations carries penalties including automatic excommunication.

Macron’s speech praised this ideology of naturalism and humanism, calling Freemasonry a guardian of France’s “project of revolution and emancipation.” He dismissed its critics as “conspiracy theorists and obscurantists, who attribute to it an influence that actually does it credit” – even as he confirmed the Masons’ active role in shaping national policy.

‘No exceptions’: UK moves to crush sacred seal of confession in abuse cases

Thu, 22 May 2025 09:49:38 +0000

‘No exceptions’: UK moves to crush sacred seal of confession in abuse cases
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, told the IICSA that the seal is 'an essential part of the exercise of priesthood.'

Priest holding a rosary during Confession
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May 21, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Under proposed new legislation, Catholic priests in England and Wales would be required to report child sexual abuse heard in confession under a new government policy—despite Church law imposing automatic excommunication for breaking the sacramental seal.

Jess Phillips, Labour’s safeguarding minister, confirmed the Crime and Policing Bill will include no religious exemptions.

In a May 13 letter to the National Secular Society (NSS), the Home Office said it was not considering “any kind of exception” and that “there are no exceptions on the basis of where disclosures are received, including confessionals.”

“The duty will apply to all individuals undertaking relevant activity with children, including within religious and faith-based settings,” Phillips wrote.

The NSS had urged the government to adopt the recommendations made by the 2022 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) for mandatory reporting without exceptions for confidential or religious settings. “Safeguarding children must take precedence over religious interests,” said NSS spokesperson Alejandro Sanchez.

Catholic teaching holds the seal of confession to be absolute. Canon 983 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states: “The sacramental seal is inviolable.” Canon 1388 imposes automatic excommunication on any priest who directly violates it.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, told the IICSA that the seal is “an essential part of the exercise of priesthood.”

READ: Washington bishops say priests won’t comply with new law requiring them to break Seal of Confession

David Paton, a Catholic academic who submitted evidence to Parliament, said the policy could backfire. “There is no evidence that mandatory reporting by priests would reduce abuse,” he told The Pillar. “Priests will still be forbidden by canon law from breaking the seal, so there could be no practical benefit.”

He warned the policy would expose clergy to malicious accusations without any possibility of defence.

The Crime and Policing Bill, now at Report Stage in the House of Commons, does not include criminal penalties for failure to report. Instead, it allows for professional sanctions or disqualification from working with children—effectively ending the ministry of accused priests.

This move comes at the same time of similar attempts elsewhere, including the USA’s Washington state and Hong Kong.

The Church has long held that no earthly authority may compel a priest to violate the confessional seal.

The Roman Catechism teaches that priests must observe “a perpetual and religious silence concerning all the sins confessed to them” and that penitents should never fear that their sins will be revealed.

Catholic teaching insists the integrity of the sacrament depends entirely on its absolute and inviolable confidentiality. Meanwhile, Catholics in England and Wales were subject to at least some form of legal harassment and exclusion from public life from 1534 until the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.

READ: Trump DOJ investigating Washington for new law forcing priests to break Seal of Confession

Mark Carney wins Canadian election as Liberals secure fourth term: reports

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:01:59 +0000

Mark Carney wins Canadian election as Liberals secure fourth term: reports
According to CTV News and other outlets, the Liberals are slated to form a minority government with Mark Carney

continuing on in the role as prime minister.

Mark Carney addresses the media after being sworn in as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister at Rideau Hall on March 14, 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Apr 28, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) — The Liberal Party of Canada under leader Mark Carney will form a minority government, continuing the Liberals’ nearly decade-long reign, according to CTV News and other outlets.

According to Monday’s ongoing election results, the Liberals are slated to form a minority government with Carney continuing on in the role as prime minister. The victory comes after Carney took over for Justin Trudeau as party leader earlier this year. The Liberals have been in power since 2015, with today’s results securing the party a fourth consecutive term.

Under Carney, the Liberals are expected to continue much of what they did under Trudeau, including the party’s zealous push in favor of abortion, euthanasia, radical gender ideology, internet regulation and so-called “climate change” policies. Indeed, Carney, like Trudeau, seems to have extensive ties to both China and the globalist World Economic Forum, connections which were brought up routinely by conservatives in the lead-up to the election.

Poilievre’s defeat comes as many social conservatives felt betrayed by the leader, who more than once on the campaign trail promised to maintain the status quo on abortion – which is permitted through all nine months of pregnancy – and euthanasia, and who failed to directly address a number of moral issues like the LGBT agenda.

As always, LifeSiteNews encourages all readers to pray for the conversion of their political leaders to the Catholic faith.

This story is developing…

UK To Greenlight Experiments To "Dim The Sun" In Bid To Stop Global Warming

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:32:57 +0000

UK To Greenlight Experiments To "Dim The Sun" In Bid To Stop Global Warming

ZH [adapted and reformatted] | Apr 24, 2025

It's a project reminiscent of the movie Snowpiercer, in which governments institute a global experiment to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to stop global warming and end up creating a new ice age instead. Once again reality is downstream from fiction as the UK is set to bankroll an experiment to "dim the sun". This goal will be pursued in field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine.

The project is being considered by scientists as a way to prevent "runaway climate change", despite the fact that there is zero evidence to support the claim of runaway climate change.

Aria, the Government’s advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks.

Prof Mark Symes, the program director for Aria (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), said there would be “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches”.

“We will be announcing who we have given funding to in a few weeks and when we do so we will be making clear when any outdoor experiments might be taking place,” he said.

“One of the missing pieces in this debate was physical data from the real world. Models can only tell us so much. Everything we do is going to be safe by design. We’re absolutely committed to responsible research, including responsible outdoor research. We have strong requirements around the length of time experiments can run for and their reversibility and we won’t be funding the release of any toxic substances to the environment.”

One major area of research is Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which includes Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) whereby tiny particles are released into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight. Another potential project is Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) in which ships would spray sea-salt particles into the sky to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds.

Climate scientists say efforts to reduce carbon emissions are not working fast enough and that levels are "too high", leading to irregular weather patterns and eventually the temperature "tipping point" in which an exponential crisis is created by heat creating carbon and then carbon creating more heat.

The problem is that nothing in this theory is backed by causational evidence or the climate history of the Earth. In other words, climate scientists are siphoning up government grant money to create solutions to a problem that doesn't exist. The vast majority of climate change theories are based on data collected since the 1880s - 140 years of data is a insignificant window of time in the long lifespan of the Earth's climate.

When we look at the temperature data over millions of years, we find that today's temps are near the lowest in our planet's history (we just exited an Ice Age not long ago and climate scientists want us to believe it's too hot)

When comparing millions of years of carbon data to parallel temperature data, it becomes clear that there is no correlation between carbon levels and global warming. This graph also proves that carbon and temperature levels can rise and fall independently of human industry and human industry's effects on these patterns is negligible or non-existent.

There is also no data to prove correlation or causation between carbon emissions and extreme weather patterns. The entirety of the climate change theory is based on lab models with no corresponding examples in nature. It is pure hysteria.

This makes the use of atmospheric manipulation by governments all the more disturbing. If they truly are trying to "dim the sun" for the sake of preventing global warming, then they are doing so based on a delusion. There is also the possibility that they know man-made climate change is nonsense and these experiments serve another purpose. In either case, they should be stopped. No one voted for politicians to blot out the sun (or to find a way to blot out the sun). No one gave them permission to pump particulates or chemicals into the sky. Their actions constitute a radical violation of the public trust.

Spanish priest could face criminal charges for denying Communion to homosexual politician

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:29:45 +0000

Spanish priest could face criminal charges for denying Communion to homosexual politician
The openly homosexual mayor of a town in Segovia, Spain, claims he was denied Holy Communion due to his same-sex relationship.

The Diocese of Segovia insists the decision was in line with Church discipline while the priest stands accused of ‘discrimination.’

Feb 5, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic priest in Spain could face criminal charges for denying the Eucharist to an openly homosexual politician.

“[Denying Communion] is contrary to the Spanish constitution,” socialist Equality Minister Ana Redondo said in an interview in January, the Pillar reports.

She claimed that the Catholic Church “cannot, even if there is no specific law, be subtracted from the constitutional rules, the principle of equality and non-discrimination of Article 14.”

“You can not discriminate against an LGTBI citizen and require him to choose either his faith or his sexual condition,” she added. “This is clearly discriminatory and I hope there will be a [legal] challenge.”

Redondo responded to a statement from the socialist mayor of the small town of Torrecaballeros in the province of Segovia. On January 11, Ruben Garcia wrote on X that his parish priest had denied him Holy Communion because of his public homosexual relationship.

Garcia said he had been denied the Eucharist “because of my sexual condition and living with my partner.”

He accused parts of the Catholic Church in Segovia of “homophobia” and lamented that “to the Church of Segovia, the spring of Francis has not arrived.”

Garcia implied that Pope Francis would disapprove of the denial of the Holy Eucharist in this case, given his past support for the LGBT agenda, including allowing the “blessing” of same-sex couples.

The Pillar reports that another homosexual couple has alleged that they were denied Holy Communion by the same priest, Father Felicien Malanza Munganga, from the Congo.

In a statement published by the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE) on January 12, they asked the incoming bishop of Segovia to “end sexual orientation-based discrimination in the Segovian Church.”

The PSOE hinted at possible legal action, stating that “legislation in our country has typified hate crimes based on sexual orientation and we are convinced that this situation will end at the root, since no one wants to walk down that path.”

The Diocese of Segovia published a statement in response to the PSOE, saying that the priest did not act in a “homophobic and discriminatory way.”

“In compliance with his ministry and following the rules of the universal Church on the reception of Holy Communion, [the priest] was forced to deny Communion of same-sex people who live in a matrimonial way, which can also happen between heterosexual people without a matrimonial bond.”

“This is not homophobia or discrimination, as Communion is not being denied because of the homosexual condition, but to defend the sacred character of the Eucharist,” the statement continues.

The diocese said that Segovia PSOE’s demand is a “defamatory judgment” and an “inadmissible interference in internal matters of the Church, and an attack against religious freedom as guaranteed in the Constitution.”

“Catholics know that, to receive the Eucharist, whether they are homosexuals or heterosexual, some objective conditions of morality are required, and the Church has the authority to deny Communion when they are not followed, especially if it causes a scandal among the faithful, as it happened in the Segovia cases.”

The Catholic Church has always forbidden individuals who are unrepentant of mortal sins to receive Communion, in accordance with the words of St. Paul, who writes in the first letter to the Corinthians: “Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.”

Paragraph 915 of the Code of Canon Law states: “Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”

Spanish church under attack for ‘conversion therapy’

The Church in Spain could face legal persecution due to its apostolic teaching and practice on marriage and the family on other accounts as well.

Spain’s Minister of Equality Redondo also said in the interview that she would meet the Spanish bishop to discuss the issue of seven Spanish dioceses being accused of supporting “conversion therapy” for homosexuals, which is illegal and punishable by a fine in Spain. Many dioceses have denied that charge and said that they merely held talks with people previously engaged in homosexual activities.

Redondo said she expects Spain’s Constitutional Court to “clarify in a ruling to what extent this affects the principle of equality and non-discrimination.”

“There is no law that forbids ecclesiastical rules, but these ecclesiastical rules must be interpreted under the Constitution and under the principle of equality,” she stated.