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12 THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS
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31st December 2021
The Feast Of The Holy Innocents John Lacken As we approach the end of another year let us pray earnestly for our bishops. Let us pray for an awakening in their hearts, that they will return to boldly proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to defending the rights of God and the duties of man to worship Almighty God and to love our neighbour as ourselves.
regardless of how remote that cooperation might be, then I will still choose to refuse the vaccine.
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
To put this in its correct context, the year 2020 saw the highest number of abortions on record in England and Wales. The murders of 210,860 innocent human beings in their mothers’ wombs were recorded for that year.
I have been struggling to write my end of year article. Contrary to what some might believe, I do not like to be constantly pointing out the failings of our bishops. As I grow older, I turn sixty next March, I am more and more conscious of my own sinfulness, my own failings, and of the fact that I still have not reached the level of sanctity that God calls me to. At times is seems hypocritical to write about the failings of others and yet, I also realise, that one cannot wait until one reaches perfection in order to challenge others and to call others to personal holiness. What prompted my current line of thought was hearing that the Irish bishops, at their Winter quarterly meeting, once again urged Catholics to remotely co-operate with abortion by taking the abortion tainted vaccines. They, and other ‘pro-life’ Catholics, have gone to great lengths to justify this remote material co-operation with a grave evil. For me the matter is quite simple. The currently available Covid vaccines all have a direct connection with abortion and, as the Irish bishops have admitted, taking these vaccines involves cooperation with the grave evil of abortion. If the choice before me is to die from covid-19 and the only way to avoid it is to co-operate with abortion,
I say this, all too conscious of my own sinfulness and of my own failings, because it is necessary to say it. It is necessary because our bishops are encouraging people to cooperate with the evil of abortion and this fills me with great sadness.
In Scotland, a further 13,815 innocent human beings were wilfully murdered in 2020. In Ireland, 6,577 murders of innocent human beings were recorded for the year 2020. That means that in the year 2020, the official figures for the murder of innocents in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland came to 231,252. Just short of a quarter of a million innocent human beings murdered in their mothers’ wombs. One of the saddest things about this is that, for most people, this is no longer shocking. Another thing that causes me deep sadness is that in the year 2021, the Irish bishops did not mention these murders once, at their quarterly meetings. They mentioned climate change, they mentioned the synodal pathway, they encouraged the abortion tainted vaccines, they mentioned housing and homelessness, they mentioned the humanitarian crisis in East Africa, but for the 231,252 murdered innocent human beings, there was silence. Our bishops pass over in silence, what is probably the greatest crisis in the history of mankind, the murder of millions of innocent human beings in their mothers’ wombs. The bishops encourage us to take an abortion tainted vaccine and to cooperate with a global campaign for ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy
People’, and yet they remain silent on the slaughter of innocents. We will never have a healthy planet or a healthy people until we stop this slaughter of innocents. The Irish bishops do not have a plan to tackle these murders and to bring them to an end. They can spend a whole month celebrating the ‘Season of Creation’ and yet they seemingly ignore the 231,252 innocent human beings, created in the image and likeness of God, who were murdered in 2020 alone. One archbishop wrote a pastoral letter titled ‘The Cry of the Earth, the Cry of the Poor’. In promoting this letter he stated: “Our lifestyles, and the economies which support them are contributing significantly to climate change, and to the crisis it is causing: the many wildfires raging in these days, the melting of the polar caps, the rise of sea levels, the loss of biodiversity, and the depletion of the soil on which life depends. The future of life on this earth, which God created and which “he saw was good” (Genesis 1:21, 25), hangs in the balance. Humans are unequivocally driving global warming. It is beyond doubt that climate change is being caused by what we have done — and continue to do — in upsetting nature’s equilibrium and balance.” Let us not dwell for a moment on whether what the bishop says is true, climate change is far from a settled scientific matter, but let us ask, ‘What about the cry of the 231,252 innocent human beings who were murdered in these islands in 2020? Do they not deserve even a mention at the Irish bishops’ quarterly meetings? What about the sex education programmes in the Catholic schools that drive the sexual promiscuity which in turn drives the abortion industry? I am sad to be able to say once again, that, to date, not one Irish bishop has
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publicly condemned the promotion of the false and dangerous LGBT ideology in Catholic schools. Not one of them. How is it that 231,252 murders can take place in a given year and not be mentioned at the Irish bishops’ quarterly meetings? We have become used to abortion. Abortion is now accepted as an inevitable reality which is tolerated because speaking about abortion makes people uncomfortable and it goes against government policy. Once abortion is tolerated, it is then a small step to accept the products of abortion; the vaccines, the medicines; the cosmetics; that use the cells from these murdered children in their research, development, production and testing. Let me refer once again to a passage from the article we have published by Fr Ambrose Astor. Fr Ambrose writes under this pseudonym because he would most likely be persecuted and prevented from administering the sacraments to the faithful under his care, if his identity were publicly known. Another indication of the times we are living in. “Another misconception is that organs are salvaged after the abortion. Although this is in itself a heinous crime, the harvesting of organs for medical research is far more premeditated. The following is an excerpt from a 2015 publication in a medical journal regarding the development of a new foetal cell line (walvax-2): “The fetal material was provided by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Yunnan Hospital, with legal and ethical agreements from the donator. Before the study, we made strict and comprehensive inclusion criteria in order to guarantee a high-quality cell strain: 1.) gestational age 2 to 4 months; 2.) induction of labour with the water bag method; (this method My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I beg pardon of Thee for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. Amen. Angel to the Children of Fatima 1916
The Massacre of the Innocents - Guido Reni (1575 - 1642)
helps to deliver the baby intact). 3.) the parent’s career should not involve contact with chemicals and radiation; 4.) both parents are in good health without neoplastic and genetic diseases, and with no history of human tissue or organ transplantation in the families traced for 3 generations; and 5.) no infectious diseases. The tissues from the freshly aborted foetuses were immediately sent to the laboratory for the preparation of the cells.” In simple language: several infants of a gestational age of 2-4 months were screened, picked for their
gender, race and pristine medical history. The date of the abortion is chosen, labour is induced, organs are extracted while the child is alive (denoted by the word ‘fresh’), then transported. The cause of death is the removal of the organs by vivisection. The method described above in 2015 is virtually unchanged from the method of organ harvesting in 1952.” What this medical paper from 2015 clearly highlights, is that the Eugenics movement is alive and well and has deep connections to the abortion and pharmaceutical industries.
22 PRUDENCE & VACCINES
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31st December 2021
Prudence And Vaccines - Part 1 Fr Ambrose Astor
Prudence is the mother of all the other virtues. We all need it, but none more than priests, doctors and politicians, especially when it comes to moral questions linked to the COVID-19 ‘vaccines’. Father Ambrose explains. (Fr Ambrose writes under a pseudonym to protect his Catholic ministry)
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ll important decisions in life should be guided by prudence. With it we resolve on a course of action in accordance with our rational nature. Without it we can make some very big, even fatal, mistakes. This is true in questions concerning our state in life, our career, our family, and also our health. At the moment, there is a very serious question concerning whether or not to get vaccinated. Q. Doesn’t prudence demand we do what our government says is the right thing? A. The general narrative created by our governments, thanks to the allpowerful media, goes something like this: 1.) SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that causes a highly transmissible deadly disease known as COVID-19 which has created a state of pandemic throughout the world and already killed millions of people. 2.) Vaccination is the only way of preventing spread of the virus and keeping us all safe. 3.) If we care about saving lives, we have a moral obligation to receive experimental ‘vaccines’ which our governments assure us are safe and effective. 4.) Anyone who rejects or alters these premises is deemed to be dangerous to society, and is liable to prosecution. Q. Is this narrative substantiated by the facts? A. Article 1 in this series “Conscience and vaccines”1 explores the evidence disputing the three key points above which fuel the vaccination drive, namely the median global infection fatality
rate (IFR) of 0.05%2 and the lack of efficacy or safety of current ‘vaccines’.3 The fourth point however remains the most concerning aspect of the ‘pandemic’ with its censorship of debate, even that coming from the most highly qualified in the relevant science, and the swift silencing of any dissenting voices or opposition. This is evidenced by the constant ‘fact checking’ on web browsers/social media, the removal of medical journal articles4 and the character assassination and ‘cancelling’ of prominent medical voices5 who are critics of the COVID-19 vaccine narrative. This unprecedented censorship has led thousands of doctors to urgently form global networks6 which call into question the ethics and the science behind the ‘vaccinations’7, and condemn pharmaceutical influence over politics, the medical profession and good health care. They are also calling out the
suppression of highly safe and effective treatments in Western countries. These networks have proclaimed in unison that ‘these policies may actually constitute crimes against humanity’.8 The particular aspects of the gene therapy9 vaccines that are of concern for high level experts in the fields of virology, immunology and vaccine development are their ability to facilitate : 1.) the spread of disease by highly virulent escape mutant variants causing an increase of cases, and likely leading to ADE (Antibody Dependent Enhancement)10, demonstrated in every past animal study of coronavirus ‘vaccines’.11 2.) general immune suppression12 leading to an increase of autoimmune diseases and cancers13; 3.) an increase in vascular system disorders (heart attacks, strokes, clots) caused by the biologically active spike protein14 lodging in the lining of the blood vessels causing
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micro-clots (endothelial damage15). This is demonstrable with the sharp increase of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in young adults. In older adults, it may manifest as heart attacks, strokes, or even kidney and/or heart failure (caused by accumulation of spike proteins).16 4.) the weaponising of the virus for the realisation of plausible ulterior motives.17 The notion of ulterior motives shall be dealt with in a future article. For the moment, let’s limit ourselves to exploring prudence and its integral parts in relation to the medical aspects of a vaccination with an unknown potential.
complementary acts go into making up a prudential act:
Q. What is the virtue of prudence and its relevance to this situation?
Let’s have a look at them one by one. This will help us come to a prudential decision about vaccination.
A. Prudence is the cardinal virtue by which we discern which things are to be done and which are to be omitted. Three different but
1.) Take counsel and deliberate; 2.) Come to a decision; 3.) Act upon it. When we know something needs to be done, prudence also helps us discern how and when to do it. In the deliberative stage, the virtue of prudence is helped by what we call its ‘integral parts’, which are good habits that allow the virtue to exercise its full potential. The integral parts of prudence are: Memory, Foresight, Caution, Circumspection, Understanding, Shrewdness, Docility, and Reason.
Memory (Memoria) brings to our mind the right things pertaining to
PRUDENCE & VACCINES 23 the action we have to perform and its circumstances. Experience of the past allows us to judge with sufficient probability what we need to do now, and consequently a good memory is a most powerful auxiliary to the virtue of prudence. People with lots of experience tend to be more prudent, for they have seen and heard many things. For medical treatment to be deemed prudential, it is necessary that it be tested over a long period of time to ensure its safety and efficacy. This allows the memory to dig deep into that experience and make judgments that will help do the right thing. A practical exercise in memory would be to recall the infamous Thalidomide Scandal of the 1950s and early 1960s, familiar to medical professionals. Thalidomide was a drug that was hastily rolled out following incomplete observations. It