Vatican blocks Biden communion ban in US, pushes vaccine, silent on German schism
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Another unbelievable couple of weeks in the Vatican, with the Pope s vaccine pushing conference featuring Chelsea Clinton and a whole host of pro-abortion bigwigs wrapping up over the weekend, followed by their push to excommunicate all mafia members while simultaneously blocking an effort by many U.S. bishops to refuse Pro-abortion politicians from receiving communion. All the while, Pope Francis has ignored the ardent pleas of a cardinal and bishops and priests to stop the schism in Germany with hundreds of so-called Catholic priests blessing homosexual unions on Monday. All that and more on this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
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Another unbelievable couple of weeks in the Vatican with the Pope's vaccine-pushing conference
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featuring Chelsea Clinton and a whole host of pro-abortion bigwigs wrapping up over the weekend,
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followed by their push to excommunicate all mafia members while simultaneously blocking
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an effort by many U.S. bishops to refuse Biden-Pelosi and many other pro-abortion
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politicians from receiving communion. All the while, Pope Francis has ignored the ardent
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pleas of a cardinal and bishops and priests to stop the schism in Germany with hundreds of so-called
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Catholic priests blessing homosexual unions on Monday. All that and more on this episode
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as we always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
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Ghost. Amen. On May 7th, Chelsea Clinton spoke at the Vatican Conference, ironically dedicated to
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dialogue. She was saying that there must be a global effort to crack down on vaccine-critical
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social media posts. Have a listen for yourself. I personally very strongly believe there has to be
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more intensive and intentional and coordinated global regulation of the content on social media
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platforms. Clinton is the vice president of the Clinton Foundation and the daughter of former
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President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Like her parents,
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she is an outspoken advocate for abortion. She appeared at a pre-recorded online meeting forming
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part of the 5th International Vatican Unite to Prevent and Unite to Cure Conference. Naturally,
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hearing that line at the Vatican Conference stings, especially for LifeSite, since, as I said,
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we were permanently banned from Facebook earlier this month and were kicked off YouTube a couple
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months ago. The news of Facebook banning LifeSite caught the attention of Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
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In 1976, the U.S. government vaccinated 45 million people for the swine flu. A total of 53 people
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reportedly died after getting that shot. And the U.S. government immediately halted the vaccination
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program. Why? Because authorities decided it was too risky. It wasn't worth it.
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Contrast that with what's happening now. This time, our health authorities have reserved their
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energy for anyone who dares to question vaccines. LifeSite News, it's a non-profit news organization,
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just found itself permanently banned from Facebook. Why? Because it reported government numbers from
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the VAERS database, something that we just did on the air. Apart from Clinton, speakers at the
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Vatican Conference included prominent and diverse names such as CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna, the former
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of which produces abortion pills, and also the director of the National Institute of Health,
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Francis Collins, who, by the way, advocates using fetal tissue in research projects. It also included the
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head of Google Health, David Feinberg, and COVID czar, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institute for
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Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and included also Salesforce CEO, Mark Benioff, another speaker, by the
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way, who has a history of promoting the LGBT issues. And he was described by Time Magazine as, quote, one of the
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most outspoken executives for LGBT affairs. Check this out. Here's Fauci at the conference calling on the need
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for Catholic priests to tell Catholics to get the vaccine. Have a look for yourself.
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You've got to match the messenger with the audience. And I think if you do that, you're going to
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overcome a lot of the hesitancy. When you go into the, you know, into the trenches and you have someone
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who's a deeply religious person who will listen to their clergy, that's different than me with a suit
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going into an area, telling people to do something. I guess for him, having the Pope do so wasn't
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enough. You know, pro-life activist Michael Hichborn, in an interview with LifeSite, recalled that other
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sinister figures in history have called on pastors to minister, pastors and ministers to help promote
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intrinsic evils. He told us, and I quote, in 1939, Margaret Sanger wrote to Dr. Clarence Gamble,
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suggesting that they convince Negro doctors and Negro ministers to promote contraception among the
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black population. Mimicking Sanger's approach, Fauci now wants to use Catholic priests to convince
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faithful Catholics to take an unproven shot that has over 3,000 reported deaths and over 100,000
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serious adverse reactions attached to it. Faithful Catholics have every right to reject the shot
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and should tell Fauci and his lackeys to go pound sand, end quote. Believe it or not, at the Vatican
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conference, the Vatican actually announced the granting of a pontifical award to the CEO of a
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pharmaceutical company that makes abortion-tainted experimental coronavirus vaccines.
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Stefan Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, was given a Pontifical Hero Award in recognition of his success
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in convincing the company to focus its energies on developing a vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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Notably, Moderna helped fund the Vatican conference. On May 10th, Vatican News reported a new group in
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the Vatican has been tasked with excommunication of all members of mafia groups. Under the overall
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direction of Cardinal Peter Turkson, who heads the dicastery for promoting integral human development,
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a working group, they said, has been drawn up that reportedly will have as its aim the excommunication
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of members of the mafia and of organized crime groups. Meanwhile, pro-life advocates have noted
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the irony of how similar sanctions are not being placed on abortion supporters, particularly politicians
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who support the killing of the unborn. In fact, while focusing on excommunicating mafia members,
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the Vatican is actually blocking efforts of several U.S. bishops to ban pro-abortion politicians
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from receiving communion. Last week, the Vatican weighed in on discussions currently underway among
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the U.S. bishops regarding the distribution of Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians.
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A letter sent to the U.S. Conference of Bishops, President, by Cardinal Louis Ladaria, who's the
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Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in the Vatican, warned that an upcoming U.S.
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bishops' policy on giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians such as Biden could be,
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and I quote, a source of discord. Cardinal Ladaria said the policy would unfairly concentrate
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on, quote, only one category of Catholics, end quote. Now, one particularly odious part of that
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Vatican letter is that, in what appears to be a first, the Vatican uses language developed by abortion
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advocates, repeatedly using the term pro-choice, describing politicians who support abortion.
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Cardinal Ladaria was writing in response to a letter from Archbishop Jose Gomez to the CDF,
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informing the Vatican that the U.S. bishops were drawing up a policy on the distribution of Holy
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Communion to politicians who support abortion. And so, in his letter admonishing Gomez for such a plan,
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Cardinal Ladaria employed the term pro-choice four times. He referred to pro-choice politicians twice,
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and pro-choice legislation, and a pro-choice position. One such example of the CDF use of this
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term is given noting how local bishops should, and I quote, reach out to and engage in dialogue
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with Catholic politicians within their jurisdiction who adopt a pro-choice position regarding abortion
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legislation, euthanasia, or other moral evils as a means of understanding the nature of their positions
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and their comprehension of Catholic teaching, end quote. Despite this reticence to target this
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one category of Catholics, the new working group on the Mafia looks set to also target one specific
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kind of Catholic. LifeSite contacted the Dicastery for promoting integral human development,
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seeking more information about the working group, but was informed that details would be conveyed in
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the coming weeks. In recent weeks, U.S. bishops have lined up on either side of the debate, the leftists
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among the hierarchy outing themselves for their infidelity, seeing support for their heretical
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position in Pope Francis himself. Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego recently wrote a piece for America
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magazine decrying public calls for pro-abortion politicians to be denied Holy Communion. Cardinal
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Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, and Chicago Cardinal
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Blaise Cupich all are on that side. Among those supporting the constant church teaching, which
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calls for pro-abortion politicians to be denied communion, those bishops include Archbishop
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Salvatore Corleone, who argued recently that such politicians merit a public correction for their
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public rejection of Catholic teaching that he said is not limited to exclusion from the reception of
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communion, but may also include excommunication. Other members of the hierarchy who are on that
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side include Cardinal Raymond Burke, Archbishop Samuel Aquila, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann.
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They've all come out publicly defending the position that pro-abortion Catholic politicians
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must be denied communion to safeguard the sacrament, to avoid scandal, and actually to call the sinner
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to repentance. Meanwhile, in Germany, there is outright schism with hundreds of priests in an act
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of defiance giving sacrilegious blessings to homosexual unions on May 10th. So, while the Vatican is very
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involved in directing the U.S. Church, curbing its efforts at fidelity, it seems to have a hands-off
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approach for the church in Germany, where the country's bishops are currently walking down a
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synodal path that appears to be leading to departure from the church's teaching on priesthood,
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It's in defiance to a decree issued by the Vatican on the 15th of March, reinforcing the church's message
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that God does not and cannot bless sin. The document has pleased conservatives and disheartened advocates
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One cardinal, two bishops, a dozen priests, and more have begged Pope Francis to intervene
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to stop the Catholic Church in Germany from going into schism by continuing down this heretical
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synodal path and thereby separating itself from the one holy Catholic and apostolic church
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founded by Christ. The letter says, and I quote,
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concerned about this sad situation, we pastors of the Catholic Church and faithful laity committed
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to the defense of the true faith, ask the Holy Father to take the necessary measures to put an end
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to these drifts of the German synodal path and, if necessary, to apply the appropriate canonical
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sanctions against the promoters of this tremendous deviation from both doctrine and communion with the
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keys of Peter, end quote. That appeal, released on May 5th, was signed by Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, Kazakhstan Bishop Athanasia Schneider, Switzerland Bishop Marian Alaganti, 12 priests,
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including U.S. canon lawyer Father Gerald Murray, who we all know from EWTN, and more than 50 other
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laymen and women in the various fields of law, teaching, and health. The response from Pope Francis
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has been silence. But there has not been silence from a couple of awesome preleds who have had
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the resistance to the insanity coming from Rome down pat for many, many, many years.
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Kazakhstan Bishop Athanasius Schneider, in addition to the appeal which he signed to Pope Francis,
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gave an interview to LifeSite in which he urged faithful Catholics in Germany, who were actually
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witnessing the schism unfolding right before their eyes, as increasing numbers of clergy there publicly
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defy Catholic moral teaching. He urged the faithful there to pray and continue to remain faithful. He
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said, and I quote, firstly, they should self-assuredly and joyfully confess the fullness of Catholic
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faith, which they know from the catechism, from the ever-valid documents of the Magisterium of the
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Church. Faithful Catholics in Germany must not retreat during these times, but go on the offensive.
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He said, and I quote, they should organize meetings and conferences to explain and to strengthen the
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Catholic faith. He added that they really need to pray in supplication and reparation for the sins
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against the Catholic faith, the sanctity of the sacraments, and the moral life. Faithful Catholics
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must support in many ways, he said, bishops and priests in Germany, who choose to remain true to
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all the teachings of the Catholic faith. All those who still want to live the fullness of the Catholic
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faith should unite together, pushing away some existing differences between them, which are substantially
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of a secondary character in view of the ongoing massive apostasy from the Catholic faith in
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Germany, he said. Asked if there was anything that could be done practically to save the Catholic
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Church in Germany, or if it's already too late, Bishop Snyder told LifeSite News that from the human
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point of view, there is little hope. To save the Catholic Church in Germany, there is first the need of
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prayer and reparation for the sins against the Catholic faith and the sanctity of the sacraments
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committed in the past decades, in the first place, by many representatives of the hierarchy.
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Cardinals, bishops, and priests, there's a need of divine intervention that will raise some new
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apostles of the Catholic faith in Germany, he said. And finally, the heroic Archbishop, Carlo Maria
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Vigano, one of the main voices defending truth in the Church, has given to LifeSite a prayer appeal to
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the Most Holy Virgin Mary, turning to the Mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to appeal for us
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with her Divine Son to bring an end to the current calamity in the world and in the Church. Yesterday
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was Ascension Thursday and also the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady in Fatima in 1917.
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It is also the release date of the following prayer by Archbishop Vigano, which I'm privileged to pray with you
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right now. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Auguste Lady and Queen of Heaven, turn your gaze upon us, your children, in this hour of darkness and
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affliction. Do not disdain to hear and answer our humble and confident prayer at a moment when the
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forces of the enemy are multiplying their infernal assault against God, His Church, and the human family.
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You who are the model and example of humility and obedience to the will of God, enlighten our
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rulers so that they may remember that the authority they exercise comes from the Lord, that they will
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have to answer to Him, the just judge, for both the good they have not done as well as the evil they
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have committed. You who are the virgin most faithful, teach those who administer public affairs to honor
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the moral obligations of their office, refusing any connivance with vice and error. You who by your
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intercession before the throne of God heal the evils of soul and body and are rightfully invoked as
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health of the sick, guide doctors and health care workers in their profession. Help them to care for
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the sick and to give assistance to the weakest among us. Give them the courage to oppose those who would
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force them to cause death or illness with inappropriate treatments or harmful drugs. Invoke the divine
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physician of our souls, our Lord Jesus Christ, asking Him to awaken in their conscience an awareness
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of their role and their duty to promote the life and health of the body. You who during the flight to
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Egypt saved your divine Son from the massacre of Herod, deliver our children from the moral and spiritual
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threats looming over them. Protect our little ones from the true pestilence of sin and vice and from
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the criminal plans of the ideological dictatorship that wants to strike them in body and spirit.
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Strengthen parents and educators to oppose the experimental use of a dangerous and morally illicit
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drug on our children. Thwart the attacks of those who assault their innocence, trying to pervert them
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from an early age by corrupting their morals and warping their intellect. You who were consoled by
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the presence of your Son in your passage to eternal life, be close to the sick, the elderly and the dying,
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especially those who during, due to inhuman regulations, face death alone in a hospital bed,
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deprived of the sacraments. Bring them comfort, inspire in them repentance for the sins they have
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committed, and the desire to offer their sufferings in reparation for these sins, so that they may
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close their eyes with the consolation of the friendship of God. You who are called mother of
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the priesthood, enlighten our shepherds. Open their eyes to see the present threat. Make them consistent
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witnesses to Christ your Son, courageous defenders of the flock that the Lord has entrusted to them,
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and valiant opponents of error and vice. Shake off from them, Virgin Most Holy,
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all human respect, and all connivance with sin. Enflame them with the love for God and their
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neighbor. Enlighten their minds and strengthen their will. You, before whom all the demons of hell take
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flight, defeat the diabolical plans of this hateful tyranny, the deception of the pandemic, the lie of the
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workers of iniquity. Make the light of truth shine upon the lie, just as the light of Christ shines upon
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the darkness of error and sin. Confuse your enemies, humiliate under your foot the proud head of those
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who dare to challenge heaven and want to establish the reign of Antichrist.
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You, who by defined decree, are mediatrix of all graces, our co-redemptrix, obtain for us the grace
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of seeing the triumph of your immaculate heart, to which we consecrate ourselves, our families,
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our communities, the Holy Church, our homeland, and the whole world. So may it be. Amen.
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