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| Cardinal Tobin says synodality implements Pope Francis’ ‘program’ for the Church |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2024, 06:35 PM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Cardinal Tobin says synodality implements Pope Francis’ ‘program’ for the Church
With ‘Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, Laudato Si’,’ Pope Francis has ‘distilled wisdom’ from previous synods,
opined Cardinal Joseph Tobin at a Holy See press briefing today.
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Joseph Cardinal Tobin at the Vatican, Oct 2024
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Oct 11, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Newark’s Cardinal Joseph Tobin has linked some of Pope Francis’ more controversial texts, such as Amoris Laetitia, to the Synod, saying that synodality is a key part of Francis’ “program” which makes the Church “live and act” differently.
With “Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis has “distilled wisdom” from previous synods, opined Cardinal Tobin at a Holy See press briefing today.
Tobin drew on his experience as a member of the ordinary council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, which organizes each synod including the current Synod on Synodality.
Appointed as a member to the council in 2018, the Newark cardinal said the first preparatory meeting for the 2021 Synod took place in early 2019.
During the council meeting, they discussed which of the three themes from the 2018 Synod on Young People should be the focus of the 2021 event, choosing from “Immigrants and refugees, life and ministry of priests, synodality.”
According to Tobin today, the members of the council strongly advised the Pope that immigration or priestly life should be the focus, but Francis decided to make the Synod on “synodality,” causing some strong confusion in the council.
Tobin praised Francis’ decision, though remarking that he did not understand it at the time. “My sin was to question wisdom of the Holy Father,” he said. “I’ve been absolving it by trying to understand what he meant and why he values it.”
The 72-year-old cardinal suggested that Francis’ focus on synodality was tying together key themes and documents from his pontificate.
“As he distilled wisdom that was presented in subsequent synods – Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, Laudato Si’, it became clear to me that the Holy Father was not simply proposing a program, but that he was helping me and others to understand that in order to do to this, to respond to the Lord this way, you need to think differently about how the church lives and acts.”
Now, closed Tobin, Francis’ attention to synodality “is a great moment of grace for the Church and the world.”
Tobin’s linking of three key documents written by Francis and the Synod is notable as it posits the Synod on Synodality as a way to fully implement the proposals contained in the previous texts.
Amoris Laetitia is infamously controversial for proposing Holy Communion for the divorced and “re-married.” Fratelli Tutti promoting human fraternity has been widely criticized for promoting fraternity divorced from religion and, as a result, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò condemned the text for promoting a “blasphemous” form of brotherhood without God as well as “religious indifferentism.”
Meanwhile Laudato Si’, and its focus on “climate change” issues, has become the reference text for later Vatican and Papal initiatives focused on the green agenda. In it, Francis spoke about “true ecological approach” which listens to “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”
In contrast, the Synod on Synodality has been promoted as not focused on any one topic in particular – though numerous issues such as “female deacons” and LGBT “inclusion” continue to be raised by individual members. Rather, the Synod on Synodality presents a new manner of ecclesial life and governance, one in which endless questioning, round-table discussions, and joint decision making becomes the norm while the traditional hierarchy and unchanging teachings of the Church are sidelined.
Through the “synodality” process, questions are raised about how aspects of Church teaching, which are already firmly and infallibly decided, can be reimagined or altered.
Indeed many of the issues central to the three texts Tobin mentioned are contained in the Synod, which includes how to “welcome” divorced and re-married individuals as part of the Church’s ostensible new self-understanding.
In April 2021, Tobin highlighted the topic of “synodality” as “a long-established buzzword of this papacy.”
“Francis keeps calling for a more decentralized church, one marked by collaborative and consultative decision-making, a functionality we generally associate more with the horizontal structures of churches of the East as opposed to the top-down Roman hierarchy in the West,” he said.
“Synodality is, in fact, the long-game of Pope Francis,” said Tobin at the time.
READ: Cardinal Tobin: ‘Synodality’ is Pope Francis’ ‘long-game’ plan to change Catholic Church
Tobin also quoted from Amoris Laetitia to shed light on the meaning of synodality. Francis wrote, “[n]ot all discussions of doctrinal, moral, or pastoral issues need to be settled by interventions of the magisterium.” Tobin commented that “what Francis was saying was that the Vatican is not the only part of the body of Christ.”
In contrast to Tobin’s praise for synodality, already back in 2018 Cardinal Raymond Burke remarked that “synodality” has “become like a slogan, meant to suggest some kind of new church which is democratic and in which the authority of the Roman Pontiff is relativized and diminished — if not destroyed.”
He warned that some, “not understanding the notion of a synod correctly[,] could think, for instance, that the Catholic Church has now become some kind of democratic body with some kind of new constitution.”
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| Drythelm Returns from Death |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-13-2024, 04:36 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Drythelm Returns from Death
Fr. Albert J. Hebert, S.M., Raised from Death,
Rockford TAN Books & Publishers, 1986, pp. 96ss.
TIA | October 12, 2024
St. Bede the Venerable (672-735), Doctor of the Church, one of the most respectable historians of ancient Europe and one of the most authoritative of the English History, was the one who narrated this case, which took place around 700 A.D.
The great and learned Cardinal St. Robert Bellarmine accepted as a real fact the report of the Venerable Bede about Drythelm, a man of Northumberland who returned from the world of the dead. This event became known in all of ancient England and from it came many conversions.
Resurrected without any human interference
After leading a Christian life along with his family, Drythelm died of an illness. Immediately before the burial, he returned suddenly to life, and, beginning to rise, stood up.
His family, who had spent the past night keeping vigil together over his coffin, were taken with fear. All fled, except his faithful spouse who, although trembling, remained alone with her resurrected husband.
“Do not be afraid,” he appeased her, “it was God who resurrected me. He desires to show in my person a man who returned from the dead. I must still live for a very long time on earth, but my new life will be very different from that which I have lived until now.”
Drythelm proposed to change his life, despite having always been a very good man. He then arose and went immediately in perfect health to the nearby church and there prayed for a long time.
Resurrected to make penitence
Drythelm said to his family that thenceforth he would live only to prepare himself for death. And he counseled each one to do the same. He divided what he had with his spouse and children and reserved a third for himself, for the purpose of giving alms. Then after having distributed his part to the poor, he went to the Monastery of Melrose, on the slopes of the River Tweed, where he asked the Abbot to receive him as a penitent religious who would be the slave of the others.
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Ruins of Melrose Abbey where Drythelm was received as a monk
Drythelm received a cell for himself, where he lived to make a review of his life – or of the next life. He prayed, worked hard and made extraordinary penances: rigorous fasts and the recitation, while submerged in freezing water, of the entire Psaltery (the 150 Psalms).
He saw Purgatory, Hell & the threshold of Heaven
Drythelm also kept perpetual silence. All his posture, with the eyes downcast and his features ascetic, indicated a soul timorously conscious of the judgment of God. Therefore, he would break his silence in order to relate what he had seen in the other world for the edification and help of others.
The entire story can be read in the History of the Church by Bede, or in a more summarized form in the book Purgatory, by Fr. F. X. Schouppe, S J.
Drythelm said then: “Upon leaving my body, I was received by a benevolent person who took me under his guidance. His face was brilliant and appeared to be surrounded by light. He arrived to a large and deep valley of an immense extension, having in one part only fire and in another, only ice and snow. On one side, braziers and cauldrons in flames, on the other, the most intense cold and gusts of glacial wind."
Drythelm continued to recount how he saw innumerable souls as though launched by a furious tempest from one side of the freezing cold to the side with the ardent heat, from torture to torture, from here to there, continuously seeking refreshment in the extreme opposite.
He thought that this terrible place was Hell, but his guide told him that it was a special place in Purgatory. In this place found themselves the souls who had delayed their repentance until the end of their lives, but who had been saved by the mercy of God in the last instant. There in Purgatory they had to suffer their temporal punishment for the forgotten sins. He understood that the majority of them had to pay the penance there until the Last Judgment.
Drythelm was also shown the terrible scenes of Hell. Immense globes and masses of malodorous fire would issue from the dark crater of that hole full of cacophonous sounds. The souls that found themselves there were expelled in the apex of the flames and then sucked downwards, when the vaporous flames would descend again. Drythelm saw a multitude of sneering spirits dragging toward the hole five souls who moaned and wept, among which one had a [monastic] tonsure, another a layman and yet another a woman.
On the happy side he saw flowered fields, spirits full of happiness, pleasant dwellings, but it was not Heaven. Then he arrived at a place where he heard the sound of sweet songs in the middle of a pleasant fragrance and a splendorous light. His guide told him that Heaven was close, therefore Drythelm did not see it. So his celestial guide told him to return to Earth.
Many sinners converted
When other monks asked Drythelm why he did those great penances, such as that of submerging himself in freezing water, he responded: “I saw penances that are still more extraordinary.” Or, if they made some observation about his austere life, he said “I saw harder things!”
Even prostrated by his advanced age, he continued to punish his body without mercy. And so he produced a great impression on England and many sinners converted through his lively reports and the example of his reparative penances.
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| At Synod ecumenical vigil Pope emphasizes link of ‘unity and synodality’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-13-2024, 04:26 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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At Synod ecumenical vigil Pope emphasizes link of ‘unity and synodality’
Marking the anniversary of Vatican II's opening, Pope Francis led Synod participants and ecumenical delegates in a
prayer vigil at the Vatican, during which the link between Synodality and ecumenism were emphasized.
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Michael Haynes
Oct 11, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted]) — Pope Francis joined with ecumenical delegates and participants of the Synod on Synodality in an ecumenical prayer vigil at the Vatican this evening, during which the link between ecumenism and synodality were once more affirmed.
Closing the full day of Synod meetings Friday, October 11, the participants took part in a highly anticipated ecumenical prayer vigil in the Piazza of the Protomartyrs in the Vatican – the traditional site of St. Peter’s martyrdom.
Joining the Pope and the Synod were a number of ecumenical delegates, escorted by Cardinal Kurt Koch who is the prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
The date was deliberate, as it marked the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, the opening of which “marked the entry of the Catholic Church into the ecumenical movement,” Koch told reporters Thursday.
Exhibiting a sign of fatigue, Francis skipped his scheduled homily during the vigil, though the Holy See press office later published it online.
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Pope Francis Oct 11. Credit: Michael Haynes
In his prepared text, Francis reiterated what has been a consistent and prominent theme throughout the three-year Synod: “Christian unity and synodality are linked.”
“The journey of synodality… is and must be ecumenical, just as the ecumenical journey is synodal,” he said, continuing talking points expounded at length by Cardinal Koch during an October 10 press briefing.
Noting that the Holy Spirit “guides us towards greater communion,” Francis argued that it was not clear what such a unity would resemble:
Quote:Just as we do not know beforehand what the outcome of the Synod will be, neither do we know exactly what the unity to which we are called will be like…As Father Paul Couturier used to say, Christian unity must be implored “as Christ wills” and “by the means he wills.”
Francis also emphasized the Synod’s particular aspect of ecumenical relations, saying that the event “is helping us to rediscover the beauty of the Church in the variety of its faces.”
Echoing a commonly repeated phrase of his, Francis said that “unity is not uniformity, or the result of compromise or counterbalance.”
Instead, he stated that “Christian unity is harmony among the diversity of charisms awakened by the Spirit for the building up of all Christians.”
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Synod and ecumenical attendees at the Oct 11 Vigil. Credit: Michael Haynes
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Synod and ecumenical attendees at the Oct 11 Vigil. Credit: Michael Haynes
Not just the date but also the location for the vigil was pivotal. Francis and the entire ecumenical assembly were seated in the square where Tradition records that St. Peter was martyred, crucified upside down. “In this place, the Roman protomartyrs remind us that today too, in many parts of the world, Christians of different traditions are laying down their lives together for their faith in Jesus Christ, embodying an ecumenism of blood,” commented Francis.
He also spoke of “shame” at the “scandal of division among Christians, the scandal of our failure to bear common witness to the Lord Jesus.”
Francis presented the Synod as a possible solution to this, and as “an opportunity to do better, to overcome the walls that still exist between us.”
Once again employing themes from the Synod, Francis emphasized the “common ground of our shared Baptism, which prompts us to become missionary disciples of Christ, with a common mission. The world needs our common witness; the world needs us to be faithful to our common mission.”
While the “common ground of Baptism” was tonight referenced in an ecumenical endeavor, in the Synod it is also being used to call for increased lay ministry and governance in the Catholic Church.
Ceremony drawing from Vatican II texts
The ceremony itself comprised an opening hymn, followed by a “litany of praise” which was formed of sections read aloud from Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium, each suffixed by a prayer of intercession.
Then came a reading from Isiah (25:6-8) and Psalm 122, before a reading from John’s Gospel (17:20-26). This Gospel text is the Scriptural passage so often used in ecumenical endeavors, and almost always truncated in its use to further aid ecumenical unity. During the vigil the passage was read in full, though in Francis’ prepared homily it was truncated in customary fashion – pointing simply to unity rather than unity in the Catholic Church.
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Credit: Michael Haynes
After abbreviated versions of the Gospel were repeated in Portugese, Chinese, Swahili, Arabic, Malayalam there came another sung chant before the “prayers of intercession,” which consisted of six paragraphs read from Vatican II’s decree on ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio, each suffixed with a prayer of intercession.
In the place of his homily, Francis led a joint recital of the Our Father, before delivering a closing blessing in English.
Catholic ecumenism
In recent years since the Council, Catholic involvement in ecumenism has grown exponentially, while correspondingly the Church’s promotion of the faith has greatly diminished.
As taught by the catechisms, authentic Catholic ecumenism involves enacting the command of Christ to preach the Gospel and bring souls to the Church. (Matt 28:19)
Pope Leo XIII in Libertas, referring to the Church’s relationship with other religions, wrote that the Catholic Church tolerates “certain modern liberties, not because she prefers them in themselves but because she judges it expedient to permit them, she would in happier times exercise her own liberty; and, by persuasion, exhortation, and entreaty would endeavor, as she is bound, to fulfill the duty assigned to her by God of providing for the eternal salvation of mankind.”
Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos also firmly warned against the “false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule.”
In light of the – formerly regularly noted – danger of the consequences of faulty ecumenism, a 1949 Vatican decree from the Holy Office instructed bishops charged with promoting true ecumenism to draw souls to the Church, and that they must always teach the fullness of the Church’s priority. The document read:
Quote:By no means is it permitted to pass over in silence or to veil in ambiguous terms the Catholic truth regarding the nature and way of justification, the constitution of the Church, the primacy of jurisdiction of the Roman Pontiff, and the only true union by the return of the dissidents to the one true Church of Christ.
Current practice from the Vatican is much more conciliatory than in previous decades, prioritizing ecumenical unity over the prior practice of doctrinal integrity.
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| Our Lady of Good Remedy - October 8th |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-08-2024, 08:21 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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Devotion to Our Lady of Good Remedy
For many centuries, Muslim fleets seized Catholic ships and invaded Catholic lands and took away men, women and children into slavery. The Catholic population in many countries, especially in Italy, Spain and Portugal lived in constant fear of being carried off into slavery. France, Britain, Holland, Ireland, and even Iceland suffered similar attacks and some of their population were captured and sold in the Islamic slave market of North Africa and the Middle East.
It was perilous in the extreme to their eternal salvation for Catholics to live as slaves in Muslim society because of their grossly immoral customs. Women were in special danger because they were habitually sold into Muslim harems.
But God did not leave His people unaided. He inspired several religious institutions to work towards the rescue of the Catholic slaves from their Muslim slave masters.
One of these was the Trinitarian Order, which was founded by Saint John Matha in 1198. This Order was founded to redeem Catholic slaves from the Islamic slave markets and to set them free.
However, only by raising large sums of money could the Trinitarians carry out their mission of buying back Catholic slaves. To be successful in raising such huge sums of money, they confided their fundraising efforts to the merciful protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
And She did not let them down. In fact, the Mother of God was so generous in answering their pleas for funds, that they called Her "Our Lady of Good Remedy."
And so, the Trinitarians were able to free many slaves from the bondage of slavery and, above all, to free them from the moral evils of sin that was prevalent in those decadent Muslim societies.
Today, we need Our Lady’s help more than ever in our personal lives, to resolve complicated personal situations and to find solutions for troubles we face in our families.
Above all, we need Our Lady of Remedy's powerful intercession to help us turn back the rising tide of radical Islamic Terrorism that is destabilizing the world. Our country and the world desperately need Our Lady’s powerful and unfailing help.
Our Lady of Good Remedy, Pray for us!
Novena Prayer
Pray for nine consecutive days from September 30 to October 8
O QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, Most Holy Virgin, we venerate thee. Thou art the beloved Daughter of the Most High God, the chosen Mother of the Incarnate Word, the Immaculate Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and the Sacred Vessel of the Most Holy Trinity.
O Mother of the Divine Redeemer, who under the title of Our Lady of Good Remedy comes to the aid of all who call upon thee, extend thy maternal protection to us. We depend on thee, Dear Mother, as helpless and needy children depend on a tender and caring mother.
Hail, Mary....
O LADY OF GOOD REMEDY, source of unfailing help, grant that we may draw from thy treasury of graces in our time of need.
Touch the hearts of sinners, that they may seek reconciliation and forgiveness. Bring comfort to the afflicted and the lonely; help the poor and the hopeless; aid the sick and the suffering. May they be healed in body and strengthened in spirit to endure their sufferings with patient resignation and Christian fortitude.
Hail, Mary....
DEAR LADY OF GOOD REMEDY, source of unfailing help, thy compassionate heart knows a remedy for every affliction and misery we encounter in life. Help me with thy prayers and intercession to find a remedy for my problems and needs, especially for... (Mention your intentions here).
O loving Mother, on my part, I pledge to adopt a more intensely Christian lifestyle, to a more careful observance of the laws of God, to be more conscientious in fulfilling the obligations of my state in life, and to strive to be a source of healing in this broken world of ours.
Dear Lady of Good Remedy, be ever present to me, and through thy intercession, may I enjoy health of body and peace of mind, and grow stronger in the faith and in the love of thy Son, Jesus.
Hail, Mary.....
V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of Good Remedy,
R. That we may deepen our dedication to thy Son, and make the world alive with His Spirit. Amen
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| Infanticide is real, Catholic bioethicist tells Tucker Carlson |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-08-2024, 06:39 AM - Forum: Against the Children
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Infanticide is real, Catholic bioethicist tells Tucker Carlson
Catholic bioethicist Charles Camosy told Tucker Carlson that Donald Trump is right that infanticide is real. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, signed legislation that effectively legalized infanticide in Minnesota.
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Tucker Carlson interviews Charles Camosy
The Tucker Carlson Show
Oct 7, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — “It’s absolutely true” that infanticide happens, a Catholic medical ethicist confirmed to Tucker Carlson recently.
It happens not only in the “abortion context” but with other individuals whom medical professionals deem unworthy of trying to save, Charles Camosy said during an interview posted on October 3. Carlson had asked him in the context of the 2024 presidential election and Donald Trump’s statements that Tim Walz and Kamala Harris support infanticide.
Professor Camosy teaches at Creighton University’s medical school. He frequently writes and comments on bioethical issues.
Doctors will slowly kill off babies, often those who are disabled, through “slow coding” or “show coding,” Camosy said. They ignore the wishes of the parents in doing so.
Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, has signed legislation that allows medical practitioners to deny life-saving care to babies who survive abortions, which is a form of infanticide.
Carlson questioned how it is not a crime to slowly kill off babies.
Camosy said it “should be a crime.”
He distinguished this from an adult making the conscious decision to forego chemotherapy or other extraordinary interventions. With infanticide or “slow coding,” the patient, being a baby, has no say in the matter.
Parents will also be pressured to abort babies who may have Down syndrome, Professor Camosy said.
He told Carlson:
Quote:We call it “comfort care” again. But let me give you another example of how this works. Sometimes, and very often, parents are encouraged to have abortions in these cases where they choose not to, they push back on the medical team, like if there’s a Down syndrome diagnosis, for instance, prenatally. The medical teams, this is well documented, will push them time and time again to have abortions, even very pro-life, very prenatal justice focused parents get bombarded by medical teams again.
Carlson said he has “lived” through that, alluding to a “false diagnosis” in his family.
Doctors have ways to kill off babies even when the parents refuse abortions, Camosy warned.
He shared a story of a baby born with spina bifida. “These teams will get so frustrated that they’ll say, okay, we can’t convince you to have an abortion,” Camosy said. “There’s still things we can do after birth,” under the guise of “comfort care,” according to the medical ethicist, that will lead to death.
“Isn’t that the opposite of your job?” Carlson asked Camosy, wondering how a doctor could remain in the profession if he pushes parents to kill their children.
‘Medical establishment’ embraces ‘Nazi eugenics’
Carlson and Camosy drew parallels between today’s medical practices to not only the pre-Christian west, such as discarding babies in Greece and Rome, but also Nazi Germany.
In fact, while doctors may consider themselves “anti-Nazi,” according to Carlson, they embrace the same eugenics practices of the Nazis.
The conservative commentator said:
Quote:And I just find it so interesting that we spend a lot of time 80 years later talking about the Nazis. And obviously the Nazis are bad. Everyone agrees with that very much, including me. But the one thing that we almost never mention is that before they started rounding up other populations, the Nazis killed hundreds of thousands – about 300,000 – Germans in hospitals. The disabled children, a lot of them had ‘comfort care,’ but it was murder, and we never talk about that for some reason. And it’s sort of weird to see the American medical establishment, which I think thinks of itself as anti-Nazi, it’s weird to see them embrace Nazi eugenics policy, because that’s exactly what they’re doing.
“At the early stages of life, yes,” Camosy confirmed, calling abortion a “sacred cow” to the medical establishment.
However, there is a “little more hope” with “end of life” issue, Camosy said, pointing out that the American Medical Association still opposes assisted suicide. However, as he noted, there are regular efforts to reverse this opposition.
Later, Carlson questioned why Down syndrome advocacy groups don’t say more about the “genocide” against their own people.
“I think they should be ashamed of their cowardice,” Carlson said. “But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t great disability rights groups.”
Camosy said he is hopeful disability rights groups can be brought further into the pro-life movement, as they have been effective opponents of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
‘The idea of fundamental human equality is dying’
Camosy warned “[t]he idea of fundamental human equality is dying.”
He pointed out a variety of troubling trends in how society is moving away from “fundamental human equality.”
He said:
Quote:We’re no longer on the trajectory of trying to live this idea out more consistently. We are now in a very different trajectory. People are losing their fundamental equality. We are thinking less about how to do this and more about, well, is it really being human that matters at the end of the day? Maybe it’s about autonomy, maybe it’s about rationality, maybe it’s about self-awareness. Maybe it’s about IQ. I’ve heard more and more people talking about IQ recently in ways that I find sort of disturbing, especially given what you said about Nazi Germany. And so, once you move away from fundamental human equality, you’re left with these trait x’s, I call them.
Carlson shared his own view of equality.
“God doesn’t care what your IQ is. It has nothing to do with whether or not you have a soul,” he said. “You have a soul because you’re a human being.”
“Your soul is identical in value to mine. You may have an IQ twice mine,” he said. “You may be three times as rich as me. It doesn’t matter. None of that matters. Just to be clear about my view on this.”
‘Brain death’ contributes to dehumanization
Camosy said the concept of “brain death,” which was developed in the 1960s, has contributed to the dehumanization. He referenced a committee from Harvard University that suggested individuals on ventilators have “brain death,” which will allow for organ harvesting.
The Harvard medical school dean opposed this proposal, according to Camosy, pointing out the guidelines were being pushed just to harvest organs. “And so they changed the document. But it’s still, even with the edited document, it’s very clear, and this is historically well known, that this is what happened,” Camosy said.
However, people with “brain death” are clearly alive, since these individuals can still gestate, for example. “They can fight off infections. If you cut into their body, they release adrenaline, and their heart rate speeds up,” Camosy said.
‘We should have reverence for death itself’
Later on in the interview, the pair continued discussing death, particularly in the context of war.
Carlson said:
Quote:I’m probably make myself super unpopular for saying this, but I remember when Osama bin Laden got shot to death and I hated Osama bin Laden. He killed a friend of mine. Actually, I’m not for Osama bin Laden, but I thought…When someone dies, we should have reverence for death itself. I mean, we can be happy that someone who is attacking us is gone and the threat is gone. I think that’s worth celebrating. But we should never feel glee watching a human soul be extinguished. I just don’t. I think that’s a really ugly habit to get into. And it diminishes us and turns us into monsters. It turns us into Osama bin Laden-type people.
Shortly after, Camosy asked if a “revival” could be happening, asking Carlson about his experience traveling around the country recently.
“Do we see other human beings as fellow human beings, as people with souls whose lives inherently matter, whether we like them or the life they’re living or not… how do we see ourselves?” Carlson asked.
“Do you really believe you have the right to kill someone, except in self-defense?… Only God has that power,” Carlson said.
He said “rapid technological advances” in the past 80 years have led to a “hollow culture” where people “think they’re God.” The “recognition” of this problem is leading to a “spiritual yearning” and a “kind of revival,” Carlson said.
Some ethicists gave in to ‘fear’ with the COVID jabs
The pair discussed several other topics at the end of the interview, including bodily autonomy when it comes to refusing the abortion-tainted COVID jabs as well as the cultural harms of contraception.
“Anyone who forces a vaccine on somebody, by definition, is not respecting patient autonomy,” Carlson said. “If I’m telling you you’re required by law to put some drug in your body that you don’t want, how am I treating you as a human being? I’m treating you as my slave, as a subhuman.”
Camosy agreed there is a disconnect between people who support “autonomy” for so-called “reproductive rights” – i.e. the destruction of unborn babies in abortion – but not the jabs.
Asked by Carlson what ethicists said at the time, Camosy said many were taken in “by fear.”
“Don’t we have ethicists precisely for the moments that are ruled by fear?… When we lack a clear consensus on the right direction and when our judgment is muddled by panic, that’s exactly the moment we need clear thinking ethicists, correct?” Carlson asked, laughing at how many were “swept away” during the panic.
Camosy said “conscience is the place where you meet God in the most profound way.”
“We ought to respect people’s conscience rights to choose not to take the vaccine,” Camosy said. “But it’s so interesting that those arguments sort of evaporated in light of all that fear.”
Carlson then shared how he had noticed the supporters of birth control were the same ones pushing other “anti-fertility” positions. He has previously criticized birth control, as reported by LifeSiteNews.
He said:
Quote:The reason I’ve had cause to rethink all this is because I’ve noticed that almost every major push from the public health community and certainly from our politicians is anti-fertility. That’s what they’re focused on. It’s the one right you possess is the ‘right’ to have an abortion. That’s the only. You don’t have the right to speak freely, to have control of your own money, to gather with like-minded people, to protest or petition your government, none of those rights still exist.
“The only right you have is the ‘right’ to end your pregnancy and of course to prevent it in the first place through birth control,” he said rhetorically. “And I just, I’m sensing a theme where I’m not a genius, but I have noticed that the thread that connects all of their main concerns is the same and is they don’t want you to have kids. And why is that?” he asked.
Camosy pointed out that women do want to have more kids but have fewer. There could be economic factors at play, Camosy suggested.
Carlson pointed out that leftist Senator Elizabeth Warren “wrote a wonderful book” about the “two-income trap.” This is the idea that consumerism and women in the workplace has driven up the cost of goods, which means families feel like both parents then have to work, which continues the cycle.
People want to “be with their own children,” Carlson said.
Camosy said the “two-income trap” is embedded in our society.
Carlson denounced it as “so rotten and anti-human,” adding, “It’s denying people the true source of joy.”
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Posted by: Stone - 10-07-2024, 07:13 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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New Cardinals: Mostly Unknown Figures, Some Heretics
gloria.tv | October 6, 2024
Most of the 21 cardinals named by Francis today are unknown, mediocre figures whose main merit is that they have never done anything in their lives that would hinder their careers.
Some of them are known for their homosexual activism (Vesco, Radcliffe, Kikuchi) or anti-Catholic propaganda (Castillo Mattasoglio, Repole).
Ten out of 21 belong to religious orders. Africa has only a single candidate and is punished because the African bishops don't put up with Francis' homosexual propaganda.
They will be made cardinals on 8 December 2024.
Here is a list of the future Cardinals:
1. Angelo Acerbi, 99 (!), Apostolic Nuncio
2. Carlos Gustavo CASTILLO MATTASOGLIO, 74, Archbishop of Lima (Peru)
3. Vicente BOKALIC IGLIC C.M., 72, Archbishop of Santiago del Estero (Primate of Argentina).
4. Luis Gerardo CABRERA HERRERA, O.F.M., 68, Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador).
5. Fernando Natalio CHOMALÍ GARIB, 67, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (Chile).
6. Tarcisio Isao KIKUCHI, S.V.D., 65, Archbishop of Tokyo (Japan).
7. Pablo Virgilio SIONGCO DAVID, 65, Bishop of Kalookan (Philippines).
8. Ladislav NEMET, S.V.D., 68, Archbishop of Beograd -Smederevo, (Serbia).
9. Jaime SPENGLER, O.F.M., 64, Archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brasil).
10. Ignace BESSI DOGBO, 63, Archbishop of Abidjan (Ivory Coast).
11. Jean-Paul VESCO, O.P., 62, Archbishop of Alger (Algeria).
12. Paskalis Bruno SYUKUR, O.F.M., 62, Bishop of Bogor (Indonesia).
13. Dominique Joseph MATHIEU, O.F.M. Conv., 61, Archbishop of Tehran Ispahan (Iran).
14. Roberto REPOLE, 57, Archbishop of Turin (Italy).
15. Baldassare REINA, 53, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome, formerly Vice-gerent and, as of today, Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome.
16. Francis LEO, 53, Archbishop of Toronto (Canada).
17. Monsignor Rolandas MAKRICKAS, 52, Archpriest Coadjutor Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major.
18. Mykola BYCHOK, C.S.R., 44, Bishop of the Eparchy Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne of the Ukrainians
19. Father Timothy Peter Joseph RADCLIFFE, OP, 79.
20. Father Fabio BAGGIO, C.S., 59, Under Secretary of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development
21. Syro Malabar Monsignor George Jacob KOOVAKAD, Official of the Secretary of State, Responsible for Travel (Francis: "Smiling Dictator")
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