”For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Thus St. Paul. But wait, says the archbishop of Moncton, the government has explained to us that we are not all one in Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, but there are vaccinated and unvaccinated. And the latter must be eradicated. Meanwhile, they must stay away from Mass, as from funerals, weddings, and every gathering of the church – even baptisms!
The archdiocese, in other words, has joined the provincial health authorities in pursuit of the preposterous Covid-zero fantasy, and handed over to the Ministry of Health the power to decide who participates in the sacramental life and fellowship of the church:
Can we still accept a person who is not vaccinated or has a single dose inside our facilities for a celebration or a meeting? Even with a mask and social distancing? The minister said “no” unless she had proof of exemption, which is rare. We ask you to implement these new measures in each of your Christian communities not only to respect the government’s request but above all to help stop the spread of the virus among our population. We would not want one of our places of worship to be the location of a Covid exposure due to our negligence. The Minister of Health is counting on our cooperation.
Moncton, for those who don’t know, is in New Brunswick, where Covid has taken less than fifty people to meet their Maker in the past year and a half. That’s a whopping 0.006 percent of the population. So it’s perfectly obvious why the government would ask “faith communities” to ban the unvaccinated from their gatherings and equally obvious why Mgr Valery Vienneau would lend his imprimatur to that.
You don’t think so? Well, let me explain.
On the part of the state, it’s not so puzzling. Yes, we know that from Israel and elsewhere that vaccination is no guarantee at all against infection or transmission or (in those few who by reason of advanced age or multiple co-morbidities are especially vulnerable) even death. So this is not “a pandemic of the unvaccinated” and there’s no good reason to exclude the unvaccinated. Indeed, it’s not a pandemic at all, unless it’s a pandemic of vaccine injuries. Mark my words, of this much more will soon be said and those coercing, including bishops, will be held liable. But we need not speak of it here, for it’s not to the point.
What is to the point? The vaxpass system itself, which (as I have explained in The Emerging Nowa Huta) is laying the foundation for a QR-coded society in which bio-surveillance and bio-tinkering are the norm. And those behind this system can easily see that the churches will either baptize the system or prove a bastion of resistance to it. So after eighteen months of brutal conditioning, they’ve asked nicely that we get on with that baptism and lock out the resisters. The rest, as Archbishop Vienneau informs us, will be able to drop all those onerous conditioning measures.
On the part of the churches, then, it’s not all that complicated either. Saying no is difficult, especially when the government promises it won’t bully you any more so long as you cooperate. And if you buy that, you probably buy also its assurances that the vaccines are safe and effective, together with its lies about the threat posed by the unvaccinated. So it just seems prudent to lock them out. “Unclean! Unclean!”
Enough of this, however. I will say frankly what must be said. By dividing the body of Christ between the vaccinated sheep and the unvaccinated goats, sending the latter away into the desert, the bishop of Moncton has joined the ranks of heretics and schismatics. I do not use those words lightly. Any bishop who does likewise must also be counted among their number….
The above comes from a Sept. 20 story by Douglas Farrow in Catholic World Report.
One cannot attend Mass, even a funeral, even if masked and “socially distancing,” if one is not vaccinated. Yet, one can procure the killing of preborn babies and the violation of their mothers by violent, intentional abortion and may receive the Body of Christ in Holy Communion. This makes no sense; Catholic sense, common sense or otherwise. This seems akin to the Biblical warning, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isa. 5:20.) I am not opposed to vaccinations, but I’m at a loss for words to describe how perverse the “logic” of this seems. Lord, have mercy on us all!
‘…Good morning mr or mrs Mass attendee, may I (greeter/bouncer) see your vaxx card? And, pls put a mask on too”
Mr and Mrs Mass attendee: “Huh?! We have a rigth to worship”.
Greeter/Bouncer: So sorry. It’s da Rules, doncha know?
Mr and Mrs Now Former Catholic attendee: “Well, let’s go see what’s going on over to the local B’nai B’rith / Universalist Church is doing, shall we? I hear they are OPEN to all too!”
You don’t leave the Barque of Peter because of some little authoritarians doing the dirty work for politically motivated leaders. You stay with the Catholic Church through her passion.
Doi…
Are you seriously suggesting that the scenario I outlined will not happen?
I’ll save you the time and answer for you.
“Well, if they leave their faith was never very strong. BAAAAD Catholics”
Mr. Farrow has obviously locked into a crazy conspiracy theory. Don’t you love the right wing nuts who don’t want the government telling you what to do with your body…unless it has something to do with human sexuality and then they are all in!
CCD editor – wise up, that moniker is “Jesus was a gangster”, you are being punked, take it down
The better answer is to require everyone to be masked, and to continue to ventilate the Church as much as possible. Until we nail down exactly how contagious infected but vaccinated people are, I would be opposed to this vaccine mandate. It is different than asking for vaccinations at a bar or restaurant, and it’s even different than requiring vaccinations at work.
I went to Mass on the 4th of July in a very touristy city. Our family and one other were the only one masked and the place was packed. This was right at the low point of cases, and before we knew that delta makes vaccinated people contagious when infected, but you can be sure there was spread happening that day, even though we were in a part of the country where vaccination rates are very high.
Masks are the tip of the iceberg of submission. Wearing one is a sign of submission to the ever evolving “science” which we are now seeing is just made up as the political winds of the day dictate. No mask, no vax, no guilt, and open the churches to everyone.
Notice most of the masks are made in Communist countries, probably by slave labor. I use masks, but I wash and reuse them all to limit my having to buy more of them. Even those little blue one can be washed and dried by hand.
The COVID-19 virus is 0.3 microns (the diameter of the average human hair). Masks do not keep these tiny viruses out. Washing masks further decompensates their already ineffectiveness.
Each time you touch the mask on your face (which is often — just watch people as the mask is always slipping) adds bacteria from your hands to the mask. Each time you breathe or talk you are providing moisture and warmth (incubator conditions) for the bacteria to grow, putting the wearer in danger of infections, such as pneumonia.
Masks are false security. It’s like putting up a chain link fence in your back yard to keep the mosquitoes out. And mask wearers (especially those who drive alone in a car) provide much humor to those of us who actually understand science.
Good masks have an electrostatic layer that shields particles by more than just by size. Besides which, many of the droplets we expel are larger than the virus itself. Sometimes hundreds of times the size of the virus. Masks, especially good ones, fitted well, are proven to reduce the spread of this virus. Yes, they are a false security if we expect them to totally prevent spread. But they help. Please tell the truth. Please save lives.
BTW, I do not wear masks indoors, except around non family members who come to my house masked, or inside churches and stores. I have eaten in restaurants before or after their busiest hours where masks have to be taken off. As I have said before, I do not freak out when someone comes around me without a mask, unless it is a non family member in my home. We have had many masked workers repair our home.
Face masks are the MAGA hats of the left.
Oh so that explains why it is the Republican South and Republican Rural counties are seeing COVID cases spikin’. Y’all wear silly red hats instead of nice blue masks, is that it? And those of y’all claimin’ ta get pneumonia or whatnot from yer masks is ’cause y’all don’t clean ‘m or replace ‘m like y’all are supposed to do, ain’t that right Granny? Oh, and y’all ain’t even followin’ the MAGA mantra, cause y’all ain’t vaccinate’n, like that orange president y’all elected. He got that dern virus afer he took hydroxywhatnot, then afer he got the covid thing, then he took that vaxine he developed, ain’t that right?
Funny moniker fakeYFC: Au contraire, masks are a sign of compassion for your fellow catholic, your fellow human being. Wearing one is an act of love, not one of obligation, unless you want to make public health a partisan political issue.
So weird that you think forcing a toddler to wear a mask is an act of love, looks like child abuse to me.
That toddler is smarter than the adults!! Traumatizing a toddler…does not look like to me.
I’m not talking about toddlers. I’m talking about YOU and ME and people who can walk and talk. We should wear masks to protect toddlers, who, by the way, probably don’t respire enough droplets to cause a serious threat of spreading this virus.
Please tell the truth.
I don’t have compassion for my “fellow Catholic” or anyone else. I’m out of empathy and sympathy. You take care of you and I’ll take care of me. Stop the stupid virtue signaling.
See my comment to Anne TE
http://www.diomoncton.ca/en/news-item/covid-19-green-phase-september-17th-2021-update
It is not the archbishop. It is the minister of health.
Vaccine mandates are not necessary. For those under 65 years of age and healthy, covid is not the spanish flu of a century ago, and has less of a death rate than during a regular flu season. For those over 65, especially those in convalescent homes, or those in poor health, and due to the coerced lack of other medical options, “proportional” moral reasoning could be used to support people to take the vaccine if they feel vulnerable and choose to do so. Thus, it is a private, medical and moral decision, protected by the 1996 federal HIPPA law, that should be made in consultation with one’s doctor, and that doctor should be allowed to utilize other treatments, such as Ivermectin and HCQ (successfully shown in India recently to reduce infection rates and severity of infection by a tremendous amount) and monoclonal antibodies to treat their patient. Also, patients should be able to weigh their decision with their confessor, depending on their circumstance.
Though Pope Francis has spoken about our communal responsibility to get the vaccine in order to stop the spread of the virus, recent studies in Israel and the U.K. published in the highly regarded medical journal Lancet show that those who are vaccinated are more protected from the virus, yet they also carry a higher viral load and thus contribute much more greatly to the spread of the virus than do the unvaccinated. Therefore, we should not scapegoat the unvaccinated, and instead look to how the virus was created, and which political forces are benefitting from the medical tyranny.
Other studies, and just our common experience of the yearly flu, is that natural immunity is more effective. Again, for those healthy and under 65 years old, it would be better for them individually to develop natural immunity, and discuss with their doctor, and for society, it would be better for the virus to die out if most people have natural immunity. Yet, information about how many people have natural immunity is suppressed, or censored.
About the morality of taking the vaccine. Yes, the Pro-Life Committee of the USCCB stated that it is ok to take the vaccine, that the actual vaccine does not have aborted fetus tissue in it, that it has only a “remote” connection to the original cell lines used, yet in their own statement they say that “cell lines derived from aborted fetuses were used in the testing of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine”, which clearly violates what Pope John Paul II said in “The Gospel of Life” n. 62 and 63 about experimentation. Do I need to spell out the obvious that JPII goes on to say, that if we do not protect the dignity of life, it will lead to a darkening of conscience and destruction of society?
As for Biden’s diversionary political tactic of employer mandates, I ask our bishops to refuse to comply with this mandate for diocesan staff in chanceries and parish offices, most of whose employees are seeking to be not coerced. If we do this nationwide, this will give support to employees in private business, or even employees in public institutions, like the Los Angeles Police Officers who are taking this mandate to court, to support them in their personal moral and medical decisions.
Mandates for schools are a more difficult decision because schools rely on tuition and donations. The reality, though, is that many Catholic schools and youth activities have been open since a year ago August, and, without vaccines, we have not seen children, even teenagers or young adults at college, have any severe symptoms, and rare hospitalizations, again, no worse than the flu for this age group. The difficulty is with the adults, teachers who insist on the vaccines, and parents and adult alumni and donors to the school who insist on the vaccines. Yet, the evidence of the past year, when most people were not vaccinated, is that children or adults who participate in schools and youth activities were not affected any worse than the flu. Children and young adults should not be mandated to take this vaccine, especially in light of possible cardiac issues, and in light that natural immunity is better for them individually and for preventing the spread of the virus and allowing the virus to die out.
Finally, what is the morality of vaccine mandates here, not necessary for healthy people under 65, when in many poor countries vaccination rates are only 2% ? In India, which has a major pharmaceutical industry, yet only 20% vaccination rate (thus the turn to Ivermectin recently, which proved to be highly effective). What of all the elderly people and people in poor health in these countries who need it more than people here?
I am highly disappointed in our American and Canadian Bishops for not realizing our mission to help The Church in poorer countries, whether it be about vaccine distribution, or speaking about the human rights abuses in China, the religious persecution, the work camps that make tech products sold here, the organ harvesting, the Big Tech/International Hedge Fund collusion there or funding the blood diamond type of mining of cobalt and lithium used to make tech products sold here and causing militia attacks seeking control of these materials in the Congo region.
Please cite all sources.
Do your own research. You may not be happy with the “sources” if the “sources” have been invalidated by biased fact checkers.
Join planet earth and “DuckDuckGo” your own research. Everything he says is well-documented.
Ivermectin has not been shown to work to treat COVID. Hydroxychloroquine does not work. Both are tested in fetal cell lines.
Public health is not just a private matter. That is why it is called “public”. My choices affect your health, and yours affect mine. Of course, everyone should talk to their doctor about the suitability of any vaccine or medicine.
It is also not true that COVID has a death rate less than flu. Flu does not kill 2/3 of a million people in the US a year and a half, and by the way, our deaths have exceeded that of the flu pandemic of 1918-1920.
HIPAA does not govern the voluntary disclosures of individuals. It only governs what medicial providers disclose.
Please tell the truth.
By your logic, we should all be free to evaluate each others choices, in the name of health. Most don’t want their neighbors monitoring their use of alcohol, tobacco, sugar, recreational drugs, sexual habits, extreme sports etc because privacy matters.
Enjoy your mask and vax, don’t expect others to join your submission to government mandates. If you are scared, stay home, don’t expect the rest of us to follow your timidity.
For the record fYFC you are dead wrong on all counts. I have never once worn a mask out of submission or out of obligation to a mandate. I do it to protect myself, those I live with, and those I come into contact with out of a sense of respect and compassion for our lives.
You are also wrong about monitoring other peoples behaviors. You damn well want someone monitoring the alcohol use of the person driving in the oncoming lane. And I don’t drink and drive, not out of government mandate, but to protect myself, those I drive with and around, out of a sense of respect and compassion for our lives.
YFC, is this what compassion looks like to you? (Video copied from a previous commenter).
Kudos Fr. Jimenez, I couldn’t agree more on all points. God bless you.
Responding to Your Fellow Catholic, The Desert Review and Networth report what India’s Health Department reports about treating the recent upsurge there, and then the dramatic decline that occurred after Ivermectin was used. It was used because they did not have access to enough vaccines.
As to serious symptoms and hospitalizations due to covid being less or equal to the flu, this is true for those who are young adults or younger, whereas the spanish flu a century ago was much more deadly to the young than covid. The death rate and hospitalization rate for covid for those over 65 and for those who have other serious health problems is a little higher than for the flu, and reports do not show whether they died of something serious while having covid or they actually died from covid. I explained above, then, why vaccine mandates are not necessary, and the medical and moral decision options one can discuss with one’s doctor and confessor. I write this analysis for those who have come to me in fear or being intimidated by their work place or being scapegoated by others who project their fear onto them.
Ivermectin was dropped by India’s Health Department on June 7, 2021.
It was started in April as a preventative treatment. What followed was the Delta variant and the biggest surge of Covid cases. Over 10% of the worlds covid deaths have been in India.
Just Google India Covid. See for yourself.
See India Today for the story about Ivermectin being dropped.
The hospital at which I work has cancelled all elective and ‘semi’ elective surgery. Only emergencies and delays that will result in worsening of vital organ system disease are allowed. Non-critical care areas are being converted into ICU’s. Outpatient day surgical centers have been converted to inpatient patient care areas. Operating room nurses have been reassigned to hospital ward duty because of the staffing demands and fall in surgery numbers. We are on track to have no other patient in our hospital than covid-19 infections, from top to bottom. This leaves little to no resources for the routine day to day unforeseen critical illness patients such as those having a heart attack.
Hospitals are calibrated to expect a predictable level of ICU bed/staffing need for a given community over time. Covid throws the calibration off and that level of resource is overwhelmed. While it is a distinct minority that will need such services whether from covid or not, that is the reality. Most people arguing here, vaccinated or not will not need these services and the arguments are really just academic.
I’m against mandatory vaccinations, btw…..but your hospitals are seeing a resource crisis that hasn’t been seen in our lifetime. Think rationing during WW II and your getting close to the idea….
May God heal the sick and grant strength to those who care for them.
Please stop the spread of the coronavirus.
May Your holy Will be done.
Everything is falling apart. Where is God? Even the church is falling apart.
God is everywhere. He loves you. I am sure you have seen the social media post about the 93 year old man in Italy who was charged for being on a ventilator for one day (I think it was 3500 euros). He began to cry. The doctor said please don’t cry over the bill. The 93 year old man said “I am not crying over the bill. It just made me realize that if I owe you 3500 euros to breath your air for one day, how much do I owe God for his letting me breathe his air for 93 years? I will never be able to repay it”
Go watch Fr. Illo’s sermon on this website, and listen to what Padre Pio said.
what the hospitals see are $$$$$$$$$$$ for treating more COVID patients. They are prepping the hospital to get more federal $$$$$$$$$$$. It’s a crisis caused by federal subsidies.
Wrong. This is a crisis caused by a virus that makes people very sick and kills a portion of them. You think federal subsidies killed 700,000 Americans and made tens of millions sick?
Please tell the truth
Here’s the truth: Federal money poured into the Wuhan lab that created and leaked the China virus, so yes, federal subsidies paid for this. And here’s more truth, Fauci invested in the research and has personally profited from this crisis, as have members of congress, look it up for yourself.
More lies. Fauci does not profit from any of this, beyond his salary. Believe me, if he wanted to profit from COVID, he would have left NIH and made millions consulting for pharma companies. If you make accusations against a person, prove your accusations, otherwise you are violating the Commandments.
You all are telling me that 700,000 Americans have died of some other cause than COVID, millions worldwide, because thousands of hospitals falsified their cause of death, that they were all in cahoots to do this, all at the same time in the same region: catholic hospitals, jewish hospitals, county hospitals, for profit hospitals???. That millions of people in the US and worldwide have allowed themselves to be hospitialized, oftentimes on respirators, with some mysterious ailment or no ailment at all, that is not COVID, just so that hospitals might get money? Seriously people? You are Catholics….and you wonder why people are fleeing the Church?
You make up false information about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, about blood clots and miscarriages. You intentionally spread lies – all because you think Donald Trump made all this up, including his own being airlifted from the White House lawn? That Republican Governor and Catholic Chris Christie made up his own disease? That Cardinal Burke was on a respirator….just so that the hospital could get federal aid?
Seriously people?
People have gotten sick and died from the China virus but the numbers are hugely exaggerated due to financial reasons. Reported covid deaths bring higher reimbursement to hospitals than run of the mill deaths, therefore, anyone who dies of, say a knife through the heart, will be classified a covid death if they happen to test positive as they bleed out in the ER.
Naive of you to think hospitals are above the money grubbing fray, they are not, and neither is Fauci. Look it up yourself, if you dare. Seek truth, it shall set you free. Seriously.
By the way, they stopped recommending the vax to pregnant women due to heightened miscarriage risk.
Not safe for mother or baby.
No, Save Pregnant Mothers, they did not stop recommending vaccination for pregnant mothers. Please tell the truth.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0811-vaccine-safe-pregnant.html
“CDC encourages all pregnant people or people who are thinking about becoming pregnant and those breastfeeding to get vaccinated to protect themselves from COVID-19,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “The vaccines are safe and effective, and it has never been more urgent to increase vaccinations as we face the highly transmissible Delta variant and see severe outcomes from COVID-19 among unvaccinated pregnant people.” CDC August 11, 2021
YFC, check out this link (Adverse reactions and deaths from the Covid vaccine from Dec 2020-Sept 10/2021 compared to the same for all other vaccines combined since 1990 – present. This data is from the CDC)
https://vaersanalysis.info/2021/09/17/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-9-10-2021/
High-Level Summary COVID19 vaccines (Dec’2020 – present) All other vaccines 1990-present
Number of Adverse Reactions 701,561 820,671
Number of Life-Threatening Events 15,012 13,587
Number of Deaths 14,925* 9,001
# of Birth Defects after vaccination 430 139
*Note that the total number of deaths associated with the COVID-19 vaccines is greater than the number of deaths associated with all other vaccines combined since the year 1990.
Stop watching CNN, start watching Tucker Carlson and do some of your own research and you can stop embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.
Does Vaers have a verification system?
There numbers seem really high.
I understand it is self-reported. Who is reporting the deaths?
Wrong YFC. Israel, the most highly jabbed nation in the world, is not anti vax, they are protecting pregnant women. Btw, the CDC is politically tainted, they use the term “pregnant people”. Diversify your sources.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/pregnant-women-must-not-get-covid-vaccine-in-first-trimester-health-min-657083
Peggy if you knew as much about science as you claim, you would know that the VAERS system is a surveillance system. It is there to record all events that happen after a vaccination, ALL events, so that signals can be generated in case SOME of the events are caused by the vaccination. Just because X happens after Y does not mean Y caused X.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. It’s basic logical fallacy that you are falling into, and not falling into that trap is one of the foundation of all of science.
For more information about this misuse of VAERS, please see: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-health/dont-fall-vaers-scare-tactic
Where did you dredge up those “statistics”. The lying CDC?
No, you’re wrong. Hospitals have been classifying deaths as Covid in order to get the federal money for treating Covid patients. The numbers have been inflated. All for $.
By the way, 99% of people survive. It’s just a bad flu. Being milked for $.
The vaccines cause blood clots. Guess what? Blood clot treatment medicine us up in sales.
The drug companies are making $ on the vaccines and treating the side effects of the vaccines.
Hospitals make money through their operating rooms, period, end of paragraph. Operating rooms are closing because resources are being consumed and allocated elsewhere. Hospitals are using federal money to hire more staff to meet demand.
My place is paying OR nurses double time to back fill on the hospital wards that lose money where if they were just working straight time in the OR, they’d be helping to generate thousands of dollars per day per RN, being paid a fraction of what they help generate.
Covid is a money pit and if anyone is naïve enough to think hospitals and/or doctors are benefiting from it financially, there’s some swamp ground in Florida they might be very interested in.
Mark, I wonder if you would be willing to speak to the people who survive COVID, but who were hospitalized. What was their life like while they were hospitalized and after? Those who were sick but not sick enough to be hospitalized? What have you experienced?
For a fair minded discussion of vaccine mandates, both pro and con, you might read Bari Weiss’s Substack article today, 9/22/21 (she is a former New York Times journalist who, with Alex Berenson and Glenn Greenwald, have left that group in order to promote independant journalism at Substack). I agree with the science presented by Dr Jay Battachayra, a Stanford professor of medicine, a Dr Prassad, a UCSF epidemioligist, and Glenn Greenwald, who gives Constitutional reasons against these current mandates. Alex Berenson, former New York Times Iraq War reporter, on Substack presents a book called “Unreported Truths” which summarizes many medical studies about the efficacy of these vaccines, and concluding that mandates are not necessary, especially for those young adults and children.
Really? A random Sub stack is a more important source for you, a science teacher, than the CDC, the NIH, the WHO, most every doctor and almost every epidemiologist on the planet? Proples lives depend upon these questions. you would put random bloggers options against epidemiologists who have saved millions of lives over dozens of em decades? seriously you think so highly of yourself?
He switched the subject to mandates.
Fr. John,
You clearly state up to date information. All these people you mentioned (I’m unfamiliar with Dr. Prassad — will have to look him up) have been pilloried to some degree by speaking the truth that doesn’t fit the Leftist narrative. I’ve heard many references to Substack but haven’t used it. It’s interesting how many platforms have been shut down to those who stray from the narrative but good that many are opening up where truth can be told.
Thank you for all your good discussions.
a shepherd who lays down the sheep’s life
for the ecclessial bureaucracy
what a hireling
Let’s see…Dr. Fauci, a medical doctor with expertise in diseases, vaccines and epidemiology who is also a Roman Catholic, has stated the vaccines are safe and effective. President Biden, who has access to the top infectious disease experts in the country, has concluded the vaccines are the best way for the country to restore public health and move forward. President Biden is a practicing Roman Catholic. Finally, Pope Francis has stated that getting vaccinated is “an act of love.” Regardless of Fr. John Jimenez’s opinions or the opinions of the others posting here about all kinds of crazy stuff (ivermectin- a horse dewormer) I think I’ll take my guidance from Dr. Fauci, President Biden and Pope Francis. God Bless them all!
Instead of scapegoating and censoring people that you do not agree with, ask the question, who created this virus, and who has benefitted from the medical and political tyranny that has resulted? For a thorough, concise summary of the medical studies done by major institutions,doctors and research scientists, see Alex Berenson’s articles at Substack, and his online book, “Unreported Truths”. Berenson was an Iraqi War reporter, one who is skeptical of those who are in power, and who left the New York Times, as did Bari Weiss and Glenn Greenwald, because it had become a propaganda machine.
So, too, the need for independent catholic media, websites on independent servers, such as EWTN, Crisis Magazine, National Catholic Register, The Pillar, and locally, CalCatholic.Com (whom I have followed since it’s days as a simple newsletter “View From The Pew”. We are in a weakened position compared with the shapers of opinion and those who censor information at Google/YouTube, Apple, Facebook/Instagram and Amazon (GAFA for short), yet God made us to be seekers of the truth, for God is the source of Truth.
Who created all things?
Nobody is censoring or scapegoating you, Fr. Jimenez, despite your persecution complex. All I and some others are asking you to do is tell the truth and stop pushing false and unproven narratives about how to combat a virus that has been studied by actual scientists and medical professionals all over the world – nearly all of whom advocate for vaccines and masking for prevention, and monoclonal antibodies and dexamethasone for treatment, and nearly all of whom say to leave the nonsense ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to the veterinarians to treat the things they are proven to treat just not COVID. The lies and conspiracy theories you and others spout on here cost people their lives.
Check out these links from LifesiteNews.com:
https://lifefacts.lifesitenews.com/covid-19/
How about checking out links from real medical professionals for a change, Mom.
we should check out your pet website……Because we all should get our medical advice from a right wing conspiracy theory spreading website?
Just go to your Doctor’s website and get your medical advice there. Don’t listen to conspiracy theories. Tell the truth.
OK, so there is no need to get all worked up about Covid, the Alpha or Delta variants, or the Lamda following soon. When a priest tells you that, it must be true. I’m encouraged to go to my confessor to help me decide if I should get vaccinated. Right. Or we can listen to people who have doctorates in the science of viruses, the science of public health, etc. I’m torn. Do I want to listen to someone with a Masters of Divinity or an MD or DPH? Anyone who says that asking you to wear a mask is part of a government cabal to put you down is too much into conspiracy theories. It is a long-used method of keeping one person from infecting another. We know the vaccines work. They are not some crypto science plot to inject computer chips into the body so that the government can track you. 90+% of people dying because of covid are unvaccinated. Three states, already, have declared states of emergency status for their hospitals and begun triage to determine whom they can treat based on the odds of survival. People are dying because the hospitals are full and can’t treat them. This whole pandemic could have been over months ago if people had cared enough for their fellow man/women to follow good public health practices. Is it really your choice not to wear a mask or get vaccinated to help save lives?
That’s right, no need to get all worked up about covid. Get on with your life, get and stay in a state of grace, you will die anyway so live while you can.
And really Bob, silly to say the pandemic continued because we didn’t care enough for each other. The Chinese virus doesn’t care about love or compassion or virtue signaling. That’s for people like you with a political agenda, don’t try to wrap it up with a Catholic bow.
” it really your choice not to wear a mask or get vaccinated to help save lives?” yes Bob One it is what you and the rest of the Left never get is that these mandates will be used to force to do other things for the “common good”. We have given away our freedom without a a fight. Have seen anything that is going on in Austrailia ? it for all intents and purposes a police state. And people like you want that to come here. Any excuse (climate change etc) will now be used to erode our freedom even more while the elites will do what they want. It is time for real resistance, you time to decide do side with elites or the people.
bohemond, though we seldom agree, it is nice to hear from you from time to time. So yes, I do believe that from time to time we have to do something for the common good. I don’t like Mandates any more than you do, but they are being imposed in an effort to get us to do what we should have done on a voluntary basis, but didn’t. I think we can agree that the virus is a real threat to the nation. We have got to stamp it out. Hospitals are triaging sick people on the basis of their odds of living because they are too full to take the normal level of care. I live in an area without mandates, except to wear a mask indoors in stores, etc. Outside, you don’t need them. I know of no one who thinks that is an imposition. At the golf course, everyone wears a mask indoors, but not outside. Not an imposition. In times of war, years ago, we had a draft. No one liked it, but it was what people did for the country. We are at war with a virus, can’t we do something for the common good?
Bob One that you will bow down to whatever the government tells you to do for the common good. You did not answer my point about Austrailia it is a police state for the “common good”. When you make claims like the common good it is open ended and basically any excuse to control us even more. I refuse to wear a mask as it has already been stated by the CDC that they do nothing. One day Bob One you will wake up and realize we are no longer a free country, and you will have gladly given it away for the common good
Fr. Jimenez: have you earned a doctorate in medicine, biochemistry, virology or epidemiology from an accredited college or university that enables you to address these issues with knowledge and confidence? I’ll wait for your answer.
It would be really smart to stop making medical decisions from internet sources.
Please just phone your own personal physician and get the advice from him or her.
Most people are using someone else’s interpretation of someone else’s interpretation of incomplete data.
If anyone has a notion that they can spread the Gospel, that they can bring Christ to others and other so salvation, they must first be trustworthy. They must prove themselves to have true integrity. This cannot happen with people who spread lie after lie about the coronovirus, the vaccines, and fake treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. People who spread lie after lie about this disease is first and foremost unavailable to bring Christ to the world.
Or, those who impute evil intent to others with no proof of that intent. Or, those who won’t allow others to differ based on their own efforts and actions.
No, they can evangelize to others who feel the same way they do.
There is somebody for everybody.
Duly noted. Best to use real name, but as alternative, original pseudonyms ok.
Sacrilegious or obscene names will be removed.