Sad, people totally lost their minds over covid compliance. I find it amazing that those who became self appointed members of the "covid police" just moved on with no apologies, as though nothing ever happened. I suspect in some cases, that the pandemic may have given people a convenient reason to sever ties with family members who refused to comply.
May Mary's love touch both you and your brother's heart. My 2nd cousin and his wife (we are roughly the same age) were over for dinner yesterday. They are non-Catholic, but striving to live out their faith. Their children have mostly bought into the leftist agenda which grieves them so much. And they helped put them through Christian colleges! O Mary conceived without sin, pray for the Millers and their children. Bring them into the fullness of Truth that they may treasure your Maternal love!
Well, I don't understand how those who are positively against the Vax can be in favor of Trump at the same time. Trump claimed he "saved 100 MN lives" with the Vax - so that's actually "endangered 100 MN Lives". He also called himself "Father of the Vaccine". https://twitter.com/JosiahMarti76/status/1767255854292537854 "Why is Trump still unrepentant over pushing deadly Covid “vaccine” development? There’s no good answer to that—yet. But start looking beneath the surface, and find much more that’s truly disturbing. ———————————————————— Watch “Exposing Trump—The Father of the Vaccines” and see him bragging relentlessly, to this day, thru the 1st half of this 14:29 video: “The Covid Vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.” “I brought you the vaccines at warp speed… Take Them …They’re safe and 95% effective.” & so forth & so on." And Trump might even lose to Biden anyway. But if he does win, the above stands and he's never recanted it. I think Trump had an anointing and a chance to be a good President. After Covid, J6, Vaxxes etc, he wasted it. No idea if he will be President again, or a good one. Even if he does beat Biden, he won't bring Justice to Fauci etc.
"The amount of anger I have over this can't be quantified in words," Tracy Beanz, editor-in-chief of UncoverDC, wrote on Friday. "Almost everything that makes you angry about the authoritarian government response to the pandemic started with the Trump administration," wrote commentator Matt Kibbe. "Reminder: Biden simply doubled down on the same policies." https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-just-enraged-republicans-one-post-1877476
You are right, Xavier, that Trump rushed out the vaccines to bolster his claim that he was an effective and caring President. However, a significant portion of his current base are anti-vax. It is amazing he doesn't believe such a claim won't carry water now. Very puzzling.
Most believe he panicked with the pandemic. Did all he could to stop the bleeding from the media. It was a no win for Trump. He was being attacked by not doing more. Unfortunately, he should have listened to Navarro.
Trump was promising in promoting the alternative treatment with Hydroxychloroquine ; we always have to remember that too.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/sin-to-vote-for-proabortion-politicians-2739 Sin To Vote For Pro-Abortion Politicians? Author: Fr. Matthew Habiger, HLI SIN TO VOTE FOR PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS? Fr. Matthew Habiger, HLI Can a Catholic in good conscience vote for a politician who has a clear record of supporting abortion? Or is it a sin to vote for a politician who regularly uses his public office to fund or otherwise encourage the killing of unborn children? I take the position that it is clearly a sin to vote for such a politician. Let us examine the issue. I shall appeal to arguments based on authority and to arguments based upon the consequences of such a vote. Every Catholic should know that abortion is a gravely serious evil, and as such is never to be supported. In the Vatican's "Declaration on Procured Abortion" (Cardinal Seper, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1974) there is a discussion of "Morality and Law" (#19-23). "Man may never obey a law which is in itself, immoral and such is the case of a law which would admit in principle, the liceity of abortion. Nor can he take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law or vote for it. Moreover, he may not collaborate in its application. It is, for instance, inadmissible that doctors or nurses should find themselves obligated to cooperate closely in abortions and have to choose between the law of God and their professional situation." (22) Pope John Paul II in "Evangelium Vitae" states "I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. ... No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself and proclaimed by the Church" (EV 62C). "The 1917 Code of Canon Law punished abortion with excommunication. The revised canonical legislation continues this tradition when it decrees that a person who actually procures an abortion incurs automatic (Latae sententiae) excommunication" (Canon 1398) " The excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached and thus includes those accomplices without whose help the crime would not have been committed" (Canon 1329). "By this sanction the Church makes clear that abortion is a most serious and dangerous crime, thereby encouraging those who commit it to seek without delay the path of conversion. In the Church the purpose of the penalty of excommunication is to make an individual fully aware of the gravity of a certain sin and then to foster genuine conversion and repentance"(EV 62B). The argument can be made that voting is a very remote form of cooperation in abortion. But is it all that remote? The legislator who votes for abortion is clearly a formal accomplice, giving formal cooperation with abortion. S/he shares both in the intention of the act, and in supplying material support for the act. If I vote for such a candidate, knowing full well that he will help make available public monies for abortion, or continue it decriminalization, then I am aiding him/her. It is a hard fact that when funding dries up for budgets of abortuaries, the abortion provider lays off staff, making fewer abortions possible. Unlike the pro-life movement, the abortion industry is not staffed with volunteers, who stand to gain no commercial advantage. If budgets are cut, the staff is reduced. If the abortuary is unprofitable, it closes its doors. It is not sufficient to think that, since candidate X takes the 'right position' on other issues such as the economy, foreign relations, defense, etc. but only goes wrong on abortion, one can in good conscience, vote for him/her. Abortion deals with the first and most basic human right, without which there is nothing left to talk about. Is this too stringent a way of thinking? Is it not nuanced enough, or does it do injustice to the complexities of a pluralistic society? Consider this question in light of another issue. Would voters be understanding and nuanced in their toleration of a known racist? Or would that be sufficient reason for everyone to consider him/her unfit for public office? Why should we understand intolerance in the case of racism, but not in the case of murdering unborn babies? Abortion is not just another "issue" - it is a matter of life and death, the great civil rights issue of our time. In his homily delivered at the National Shrine on 21 January, Bernard Cardinal Law said: "We who are here are challenged by the words of the Holy Father who calls us to be aware that we are facing an enormous and dramatic clash between good and evil, death and life, the culture of death and the culture of life. We find ourselves not only face with, but necessarily in the midst of this conflict; we are all involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable responsibility of choosing to be unconditionally pro-life." "That is what Catholics are called to: to be unconditionally pro-life. There is no ambiguity in the words of Peter's successor. To be Catholic is to be unconditionally pro-life. To support abortion, to advocate the right to choose an abortion can in no way be considered a catholic option. ..." "All too many of us, however, have hidden the Gospel of Life under the bushel basket of political expediency. How scandalous it is to see the evidence of Catholic votes supporting those who deny the Gospel of Life! It is easy to criticize Catholic elected representatives who have rejected life. Do we not need to be even more concerned with the far greater number of Catholic voters who fail to challenge those politicians?" "Our task within the household of faith is clear and daunting, my brothers and sisters. It must be made abundantly clear in pulpits, in classrooms, in the lecture halls of our colleges and universities, in the Catholic press, in the way we vote, that to be catholic is to be unconditionally pro-life." It is a scandal that Catholic politicians vote for bills which fund or otherwise advance abortion. They should be named, publicly shamed and admonished so that they can cease their evil and return to God. To vote for such a candidate is to willfully participate in that candidate's choices and deeds. It is a sin, and must be repented. Fr Matthew Habiger, Human Life International 4 Family Life Front Royal VA 22630 (540) 635-7884 www.hli.org
When I was young we were taught that you can never ever do something that is evil or wrong in order to achieve a greater good. So if I were to need to tell one little lie (a sin) in order to gain a greater good (to save the planet) I would be wrong to do so. I haven't voted in many, many, many years. Why? Because were I am there are no pro life candidates to vote for. It there were a single one I would be very,very happy to get out and vote. A politician who supports the mass murder of the unborn will never bring God's Blessing on a Nation , only God's Wrath. To say, 'Oh he/she may be bad on mass baby murder but they're good on other things', is to miss this point. God will never bless evil. God will never bless those who support evil. The Nation who performs such evil lies under God's Wrath. It is hard having no one to vote for. It feels like being left on the political shelf. A kind of political orphan. But there you go, you get used to it after a while. It seems to me the way the World has gone the only right place for a good Catholic to be. 1 John 4:4 …3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time. 4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.…
I think what sets abortion apart from all other evils in the World today is that it is a preeminent evil of our times. There is no greater evil in the World today, or, perhaps at any time. That's what sets it apart. So that's what must set our response to it apart. A truly radical evil requires a truly radical response.
Honestly pretty much no one has been voting only for purely pro-life politicians. They almost don't exist. Even our most "pro-life" politicians have typically always supported abortion in case of rape, incest, and life of the mother. So perhaps Christians shouldn't have been voting for anyone for many, many years now.
May God have mercy on us, for these are terrible times. I believe the Book of the Apocalypse speaks of God's intervention; 'Lest even the saints be lost'
The Trump vax stance is a very heated debate all over Telegram. I don't know what I believe but I will put out the points many make. 1. Operation Warp speed was about getting a vax out to squash the plans of the global elites. They wanted to slow walk the vaccine like normal, have the world locked down for 4 to 5 years to fast track and implement their plan of the great reset that they lost sight of when Hillary lost. The 16 year plan was to have Obama set up the global world and have Hillary take us into war with North Korea and Iran. Since that did not work for them, the pandemic would be the new way to get to their plan. Being locked down for 4 or 5 years would have resulted in the deaths of hundred's of millions of people due to depression, substance abuse, not getting proper medical attention etc. 2. The vax that trump was pushing through with big pharma and on is his own were not the vax that the world ended up taking. This has been well documented in FOIAs from Pfeizer saying that the vax that was approved for emergency use by the FDA was not the one that ever made it to market. The Pfeizer CEO even stated the vax that his employees took versus what was distributed to the world were different. The vax approved was I think called comnerity 12 or something like that. Pfeizer already knew they had this vax and the ones that would be released and they did not reveal publicly until after the election so that this information would hurt Trump before the election vs help him. Also when Pfizer and others finally did put their vaxes out, many were saline only. This was super sketchy. Do you remember when there were recalls for 100% saline vaccines from CVS and Walgreens? 3. Trump always said you had a choice and he even told the world that the what you needed was hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin and zinc sulfate to kill off covid. He would say this all the time and yet was ridiculed and raked through the coals. Dr. Zelenko even adopted this exact treatment method to help thousands. Ivermectin came along later and was also raked through the coals but Trump was out of office by this point. So if all above is what really happened, then yes Trump did indeed save hundreds of millions of people by forcing out the vax early and also revealing the treatment that worked. This spoiled the plan for the time being and look now covid is completely gone and we have not been forced into the great reset....yet. So again, I don't know what I believe but I do know when the world is playing checkers, Trump seems to be playing 5 d chess.
We still have paper ballots here, at least for Federal and Provincial elections. Voting has been a real pretzel turning of emotions, but the last three elections I went and I drew a great big X right thru the whole thing. A vote against, if you will.
These are very,very,very difficult confusing times. I believe God will take this into account at our Judgement....and there will be a Judgement...for us all. But as Jesus said, better to enter by the Narrow Gate. We'll not be sent to hell for being too strict with ourselves.
