I am glad we have men like Dr Taylor Marshall to help fill the void. I also wonder how a policy like this is playing out in China where bishops are chosen by the CCP. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/r...tep-away-from-official-role-in-trump-campaign TITUSVILLE, Florida, July 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — National Director of Priests for Life Fr. Frank Pavone quietly stepped down a month ago from his official roles with two coalitions organized as part of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign at the request of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy. However, even though he is no longer on the advisory board of Catholics for Trump or co-chair of Pro-Life Voices for Trump, Pavone is still wholly, but unofficially, involved in the Trump campaign as a member of both coalitions, and informally advises them, he told LifeSiteNews. “I’m not an official board member. I do not have a title. I’m a citizen and I’m a priest who’s doing what I believe what every Christian needs to do,” he told LifeSiteNews. “Technically, I’m following the letter of the law,” he added. “Morally, there’s only one thing I can do, which is to advocate for the President.” Pavone also took to Twitter on Monday to blast unspecified media for “fake news” two days after Catholic News Agency reported that he had resigned from his advisory roles with the coalitions: SUBSCRIBE to LifeSite's daily headlines U.S. Canada World Catholic So sick of the #fakenews coverage even within #Catholic Media. I help the Trump Campaign in an unofficial capacity. As an obedient priest, I follow Church law not to have an official title in the campaign. But media report on it as if I’m distancing myself from Trump. Unfair — Fr. Frank Pavone ���� (Text LIFE to 88022) (@frfrankpavone) July 27, 2020 Pavone told LifeSiteNews that his official roles in the Trump campaign came up during his discussions with the Congregation for the Clergy about his request to be transferred from the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, to another diocese where the bishop is more sympathetic to his work. That transfer was completed in November, but his new bishop has yet to publicly announce that Pavone, a self-described “hot potato,” is under his authority. The priest’s contentious relationship with Amarillo Bishop Patrick Zurek is well known. In 2005, Pavone moved from New York to be incardinated in the Amarillo diocese, where he planned to start a community of pro-life priests, plans that did not come to fruition, CNA reported. In 2008, Zurek became bishop of Amarillo, and in 2011 he ordered Pavone to return to the diocese and suspended him. Pavone appealed to the Vatican, which in 2012 declared that he was not suspended. Discord between the two men erupted anew in November 2016 when Pavone controversially live-streamed two Facebook videos in which he placed the body of an aborted baby on what appeared to be an altar while urging people to vote for Trump. Zurek condemned Pavone’s action as “against the dignity of human life” and “a desecration of the altar,” and announced he was opening an investigation. The conclusions of the investigation have not been made public and Pavone told CNA he has been “cleared of the past complaints/investigations/disciplinary actions by the bishop of Amarillo. That chapter is closed.” Although Pavone is under the authority of a new bishop, he remains incardinated in Amarillo, and “is a priest in good standing,” he told LifeSiteNews. He said he was not surprised that the Vatican told him to step down from his formal roles in the Trump campaign. “I knew full well the canon law of the Church,” he told LifeSiteNews. “I was taking advantage of the fact that there is an exemption clause.” Pavone was referring to Canon 287(2), which states that priests “are not to play an active role in political parties … unless, in the judgment of the competent ecclesiastical authority, this is required for the defense of the rights of the Church or to promote the common good.” Given that any effort to prevent the Democrats from winning the November election is clearly a case of promoting the common good, Pavone “specifically” asked for an “exemption under that clause,” he said, but the Congregation did not grant it. Dr. Joseph Shaw, philosophy professor at Oxford University and frequent blogger at LifeSiteNews, said the Catholic Church’s thinking is that the “temporal sphere belongs to the laity.” This “does not mean that we should ignore Christian principles, but simply that applying them in the temporal sphere is a lay role. Bishops and priests who do undertake this are not exercising a clerical role when they do so,” he told LifeSiteNews in an email. One of the dangers of allowing priests and bishops to take up political roles in modern times is that “because lay Catholic leadership has been so weakened by the loss of Catholic states and other lay institutions we could end up looking at the clergy as the leaders of the Church. They are not: their authority is only in the spiritual realm,” said Shaw. “Matters of politics, economics, health, education, and military matters all come under moral principles about which the Church has the authority to teach, but these principles don’t get us very far. To achieve the goods proper to those disciplines requires the exercise of prudence about temporal goods which is a lay vocation, even if sometimes exercised by clerics,” he added. “In this context it would have been strange for Fr. Pavone to have been allowed to keep his place on these committees, and it is worth noting that it is clerics sympathetic with the political left who have more often been subject to censure on this matter,” Shaw said. For his part, Pavone says he is focused on preventing Democrat Joe Biden from becoming president, which he regards as a moral obligation. “From when I wake up and when I go to bed in the next 99 days is going to be about this election,” he told LifeSiteNews. “I’m going to be advocating for the President and the Republican ticket.” He is unapologetic about his wholehearted endorsement of Trump in spite of the President’s complicated personal life and support for the LGBTQ agenda, arguing that Trump has “protected our freedom not to be associated with the LGBTQXYZ nonsense.” “There is no such thing where any of your options is a perfect candidate,” he said. “But it would be a moral blindness of the highest degree to somehow think that there’s any other choice than to vote for President Trump.” He noted that the Vatican requested he step down from his official roles a month ago and he complied instantly. Pavone said he “has a theory” about why this has come to the media’s attention now, but he did not elaborate.
Somehow I doubt if this will be enough.....unless there is immediate enforcement when more banning takes place: HUGE! Trump White House Implements Executive Order on Online Censorship: Prevents Tech Giants from Altering Users’ Free Speech – Demands Transparency of Moderation Practices .......... On Wednesday afternoon the Trump White House published their executive order on online censorship. The EO prevents social media giants from altering or editorializing free speech. The executive order also demands the social media giants provide transparency requirements for their moderation practices! Via The Trump White House: On Monday, the Department of Commerce, as directed by President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, filed a petition to clarify the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The petition requests that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clarify that Section 230 does not permit social media companies that alter or editorialize users’ speech to escape civil liability. The petition also requests that the FCC clarify when an online platform curates content in “good faith,” and requests transparency requirements on their moderation practices, similar to requirements imposed on broadband service providers under Title I of the Communications Act. President Trump will continue to fight back against unfair, un-American, and politically biased censorship of Americans online. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ch-demands-transparency-moderation-practices/
President Trump Suggests Delaying Election Until Americans Can Vote in Person Without a clear message for the American public Democrats hope they can swing the 2020 election by other measures. The Democrat Party is pushing mail-in voting knowing it is easier to cheat that way. For them power is everything. On Thursday President Trump suggested in a tweet that the November 3rd election be postponed until Americans can vote in person. President Trump: With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote??? And earlier: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Mail-In Voting is already proving to be a catastrophic disaster. Even testing areas are way off. The Dems talk of foreign influence in voting, but they know that Mail-In Voting is an easy way for foreign countries to enter the race. Even beyond that, there’s no accurate count! Earlier this week a Philly new channel tried to experiment with mail-in voting. 21% of the votes never made it back to the mailbox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=119&v=7OglQyW1L4s&feature=emb_title https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-delaying-election-americans-can-vote-person/
Federal Election Commissioner Says Trump Can't Delay Vote; Pompeo Says Up To DOJ ...... Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · Jul 30, 2020 With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote??? Ellen L Weintraub @EllenLWeintraub No, Mr. President. No. You don't have the power to move the election. Nor should it be moved. States and localities are asking you and Congress for funds so they can properly run the safe and secure elections all Americans want. Why don't you work on that? 9:45 AM · Jul 30, 2020 .......... A poll in late June by The Hill - HarrisX found that 68% of registered voters were either 'somewhat or very concerned about the possibility of tampering with mail-in ballots.' .......... And the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) just released data that more than 28 million ballots by mail went unaccounted for from 2012 to 2018, with more than one million going to the incorrect address in 2018 alone. “Absentee ballot fraud is the most common, the most expensive to investigate, and it can never be reversed after an election,” said the organization’s president J. Christian Adams. “The status quo was already bad for mail balloting. The proposed emergency fix is worse.” More recently, “in a Supreme Court contest in Wisconsin in April, about 1,600 ballots were discovered the morning after Election Day in a mail processing facility in Chicago — 1,600 voters whose ballots did not count,” The Hill reports. “Hundreds more who applied for absentee ballots did not receive them in time, according to a report by the state Board of Elections.” And literally the same day President Trump tweeted that mail-in ballots “would be forged,” the Department of Justice announced a mail carrier in West Virginia was being charged with attempted election fraud by committing forgery on mail-in ballots. * * * Of course it should be noted that the executive branch doesn't have the authority to change the date of presidential elections - rather, it would be in hands of Congress to decide such a drastic measure. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-suggests-election-delay-over-vote-mail-fraud
And just like that Democrats are ready to vote in person at the polls again but they insisted on wearing masks so voter ID was mandatory.
DJT is amazingly strategic. I dont think anyone especially dems realize that. I dont think he was bragging when he said he is a stable genius.
UNBELIEVABLE.....then again, these days of hate have indeed declared evil to be good. Damn the evidence! Delay! Delay! Delay! They are scared to death of what Gen. Flynn has to say once he's free to speak. Lacking spines to do the right thing. Appeals Court Grants Judge Sullivan Request for Rehearing in Flynn Mandamus Case, Vacates Order Dismissing Charges Sidney Powell, attorney for Michael Flynn, announced the D.C. Court of Appeals has accepted the request by Judge Emmet Sullivan for an en banc rehearing of a 2-1 mandamus order by a three judge panel of the court last month to dismiss the federal case against Flynn arising out of the corrupt Mueller probe on the unfounded Trump-Russia collusion hoax. The mandamus order was vacated by the Appeals Court. Oral arguments before the entire 11 judges on Court of Appeals are scheduled for August 11. Powell posted the order from the court: Sidney Powell @SidneyPowell1 #BREAKING: The DC Cir just granted rehearing en banc of the mandamus in the #Flynn case. Oral arguments are 9:30 a.m. August 11. WOW! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-mandamus-case-vacates-order-dismissing-case/
here in Brazil the media has reported the proposal to postpone the elections as a measure by Trump to avoid an imminent defeat as if the vote by post was above suspicion. So I believe that postponing the elections or voting by post will have an election marked by civil unrest, I believe Trump is right about the reliability of the postal vote.
President Trump is right. Here in WA we had a particularly close governors election years back and it took 3 recounts but eventually they found enough democrat votes hidden away to swing it.
I agree, mail in votes will not be reliable. People can get out to go to the market, retail stores, doctor's offices, restaurants, post office, etc., but for some reason going to the polls to vote would be too risky????? It is a totally ridiculous scam cooked up by desperate democrats.
Time to make Election Day a National holiday in the US. At least for the presidential election. We should all be able to go without fear of lost time at work...
Trump is a master chess player. He moved, 'suggested' to delay the vote and the dems went crazy. Hahaha. funny to watch. Trump can't delay, only Congress can but he laid the bait and they took it. I don't think he wants to delay to avoid a loss. I think quite the opposite.
Posted by the White House YT account today in recognition of the 76th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising. A little over three years ago, President Trump delivered one of the most important speeches of his presidency at Krasinski Square in Warsaw, Poland. Standing before a monument to the Warsaw Uprising, he called for defending Western civilization against all enemies who seek to destroy it. In that speech, President Trump honored the heroes of the Warsaw Uprising, who rose up and took arms against their Nazi oppressors 76 years ago on August 1, 1944. In vivid detail, the President recounted the story of the defenders of Jerusalem Avenue and their struggle to hold that vital strip of land in defense of Polish freedom.
I don’t know if I’m traveling too much with this, but there could be some kind of Chinese interference in voting (by postal system) in order to prevent Trump’s victory or just to wreak chaos in the voting system to cause some kind of civil war? I still read the news today about sending mysterious packages of seeds from China to US residents.
They counterfeit our money and send it into the US so why not ballots. They certainly don't want to see another 4 years of president Trump that's for sure.
I wouldnt discount it. The CCP are capable of anything and they have many seditious helpers in high places....lots of prayer needed.
