Only a false Christ would ban healthy unvaccinated people from churches
Summary
A Catholic bishop in Moncton, New Brunswick banned non-vaccinated Catholics from attending Mass. Then, a few days later, that ban was rescinded. What was the real cause of this latest manifestation of insanity?
Transcript
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Come to me, all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you, said the Lord, as recorded
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Notice he did not say, come to me if you have been vaccinated.
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And yet healthy people who don't want the abortion-tainted so-called vaccine are being
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banned from churches by government and saddest by church leaders themselves.
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There are definite lines being drawn in the proverbial sand.
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And in general, with notable exceptions, these lines, they go along the lines of orthodoxy
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versus modernist type of approaches to the faith.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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Last week, news spread across the world about a tiny Canadian Catholic diocese in eastern
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Archbishop Valéry Vienneux of Moncton, New Brunswick, decreed that anyone over the age of 12 who
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attends a religious gathering in a church in his archdiocese must be doubly vaccinated.
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So, in a letter to Catholics in Moncton, the archdiocese, Vienneux wrote, beginning, and
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this is a quote from the letter, beginning Wednesday, September 22nd, at any gathering
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inside our churches, rectories, or community centers under our supervision, those present
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The archbishop stipulated that such gatherings include religious celebrations, Sunday and
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weekly masses, prayer meetings, baptisms, weddings, and funerals, confirmations, and
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So, Vienneux qualified that children under 12 are not required to take the jab in order
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to participate because, he said, they cannot currently be vaccinated.
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Um, so, of course, Catholics normally have an obligation to attend Mass in person every
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Sunday, and in Canada at Christmas and New Year's Day as well, unless, of course, they're
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ill or caring for a sick child or physically impeded from traveling to get to Mass.
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But not fulfilling that Sunday obligation is considered a serious sin, and participating
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at Mass is considered central to the spiritual life of the faithful Catholic.
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Even Catholics who have incurred excommunication and thus can't receive the sacraments.
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are still encouraged to take part in Sunday worship.
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That means all the pro-abortion politicians and others living in serious sin.
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The bishop attempted, first of all, to excuse his banning of the unvaccinated Catholics from
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Mass by recounting a meeting he had with the New Brunswick Minister of Health, Dorothy
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And, you know, what's interesting about that, even though, yes, he's blaming it on
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this meeting, there is no provincial mandate for proof of vaccination at religious gatherings.
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So there is the, or was the, collusion or who knows what on the part of the bishop.
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Vianneau did say that parents who can't come to their child's first reconciliation, that's
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first confession, they would be barred unless they took the shot.
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And that left many people wondering if the faithful would have actually been denied the
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sacrament of penance or confession, unless they took the abortion-tainted jab.
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Well, the story didn't end there, because days later, that same vaccine mandate in Moncton
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It's not clear exactly why and what caused the walk-back, but I'm sure there was massive
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On September 24th, Archbishop Vianneau updated those guidelines that just went into effect
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two days before, and the ban was partially rescinded.
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The new measures, which were, by the way, agreed on by all four bishops of the province,
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Now, according to the Moncton diocese, the change came about as a result of new directives
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However, those guidelines also include the fact that children's catechesis must be done
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And according to the statement, as well as any adults who wish to attend the classes, they
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But with such mandates, I would never allow my children to attend catechesis there anyway.
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But if I had to guess at the real cause of what happened in this reversal, I'd say that
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the Bishop of St. John's, New Brunswick, who said from the outset that he would not be banning
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non-vaccinated Catholics from Mass, is actually what caused the turnaround.
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But that was only the latest manifestation of this insanity.
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It does seem to line up along the lines of Orthodox versus Modernist Catholicism, at least
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So, back in May, the ultra-modernist Cardinal Blaise Supich of Chicago announced that parishioners
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can return to Mass unmasked, but only if they provide proof of vaccination.
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And even before that, in March, Modernist Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston made the reception of
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the COVID jab a necessary prerequisite to a lady participating in certain ministries at parishes
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The Bishop of the Diocese of Patterson warned that priests who do not accept the abortion-tainted
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COVID-19 injections could face removal from active ministry, though he shied away from actually
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The letter from Bishop Kevin Sweeney stated, that was September 14th, and it stated that
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the, it actually was horrible, it referred to the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross and
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appeared to equate COVID-19 abortion-tainted, mind you, injections with, and I quote, the life-giving
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Well, LifeSite's David McClune provided a roundup of the stances of various U.S. bishops
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on the question, and it was very consistent that left-leaning bishops were much more likely
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to go with the vaccine mandates, while Orthodox-leaning bishops were more likely to be open to medical
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McClune reported that two left-leaning U.S. archbishops have refused to endorse religious
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exemptions for parishioners who wish to forego the abortion-tainted jab.
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Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle and Archbishop Nelson J. Perez of Philadelphia are
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the two Catholic prelates to actively discourage parishioners from seeking exemptions to avoid
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Earlier in August, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan and L.A. Archbishop Jose Gomez instructed
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clergy to refuse to sign exemption letters for parishioners based on the Pope's continued
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support for the moral permissibility of the jabs.
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But Cardinal Dolan was actually joined by Jose Gomez, the current president of the U.S. Catholic
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Bishops' Conference, and also by that hugely left-leaning Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego.
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All three cited the Pope, the Holy See, as having given its approval to the use of the morally
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Now, going one step further, John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, who's probably the most left-leaning
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or unorthodox or whatever modernist bishop in the United States, he's ordered that not only must
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there be no endorsement from the diocese for vaccinating exemptions, but also that before
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September 1st, all diocesan staff will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition
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And this is really unbelievable from a left-leaning Marxist type of bishop.
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So in an August 17th letter, Bishop Stowe insisted that getting the jab, quote, is an urgent matter
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And he said also that there is, quote, no religious exemption for Catholics to being vaccinated,
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and Pope Francis has repeatedly called this a moral obligation, end quote.
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Quote, Stowe actually made the claim that public health systems are overburdened by a crisis
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caused primarily by those who refuse to protect themselves and others by getting vaccinated,
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Where these bishops think they have become medical experts is totally beyond me.
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So what we come to now is this very interesting difference between bishops on the left or modernist
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and those who really find themselves to be orthodox, or at least partially so, or given to orthodoxy in the faith.
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So the bishops of South Dakota and Colorado, also known for their conservatism,
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as well as one bishop in Puerto Rico, have all given their support to those who have decided
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against being injected with the abortion-tainted jabs.
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Also, so South Dakota Bishop Donald DeGrood, he's from Sioux Falls,
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and Bishop Peter Newick, I think it's pronounced, from Rapid City.
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They both signed a letter in which they explained that, quote,
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One may accept COVID-19 vaccines in good conscience if certain conditions are met,
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We echoed the Vatican, they said, which explained in a doctrinal note that
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practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation, end quote.
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The bishops of Colorado also took a similar position, noting that, quote,
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Well-founded convictions inform the choice of many parishioners who forgo the potential life-threatening jabs.
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In the case of the COVID-19 vaccine, we are convicted that the government should not impose
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medical interventions on an individual or group of persons, end quote.
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There is no authoritative church teaching universally obliging Catholics to receive any vaccine.
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An individual Catholic may invoke church teaching to refuse a vaccine
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that used abortion-derived cell lines at any stage of the creation of the vaccine, end quote.
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Also, the Orthodox-leaning National Catholic Bioethics Center
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with the center's president, Joseph Meany, stating that, quote,
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We do not approve of coercive pressure tactics or vaccine mandates,
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particularly ones without generous medical, conscience, and religious mandates, exceptions.
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has also produced a template letter for Catholics who object to vaccine mandates,
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granting individuals an easy way to explain to employers
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the principled religious basis on which a Catholic may determine
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that he or she ought to refuse certain vaccines.
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So really what stands out is the way the fight works.
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The protests of those refusing to abandon their conscience rights will win the day in the end.
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You know, pushing back really does make a difference.
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You know, a very close friend of mine was threatened with removal from his job
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for fighting the vaccines at his place of work.
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and he involved a lawyer, in fact, just a paralegal,
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and sent a letter outlining his rights to his employer,
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I want to leave you with the words of the heroic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano,
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Archbishop Vigano denounced the use of the pandemic by higher powers
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The former apostolic nuncio to the United States
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established the connection between the imposition of the Green Pass in Italy
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And he's warned about this, of course, on many occasions.
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But on Sunday, Vigano began by expressing his support
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for the people gathered and also around the world
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for people who are resisting the narrative of lies,
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Archbishop Vigano then denounced the establishment
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of the health dictatorship in which both laypeople and clerics have taken part.
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It is disconcerting to see how all political forces,
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including the ones you might have expected to oppose
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have become accomplices of an elite of criminal conspirators,
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rulers, magistrates, police forces, doctors and scientists,
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but also bishops and priests and the Vatican leaders themselves.
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that is, to recognize that what we see happening
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but also and above all the salvation of the soul.
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to the rejection or infidelity to God's commandments,
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Divine providence is showing us what the world can become
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I would like to make my own the words of John Paul II,
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who said at the beginning of his pontificate in 1978,