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 + JMJ     Today we now have empirical evidence that the WHO, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx were all wrong.  They were charlatans.  They lied. The CDC silently updated their numbers this week to show that only 6% of all coronavirus deaths were related to the coronavirus alone.  The rest of the deaths pinned to the China coronavirus are attributed to individuals who had other serious issues going on.  Also, most of the deaths are related to very old Americans. “This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid That’s 9,210 deaths The other 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses & the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age”   So this is both a basic lie and  "lying through statistics".   The data is located here at the CDC website , and what has been adjusted is comorbidities - diseases that the people had in addition to COVID-19. ...

 + JMJ Introduction This is a topic that evokes strong emotions and really needs to be examined rationally in the light of Catholic Doctrine as opposed to emotion or ignorance. Lifesite news has a video by Mother Miriam { Lifesite News: Mother Miriam Pontificating on Morality of Vaccines (Skip to: 2:17) } where she claims that the bishops have compromised and Catholics should not receive the COVID-19 vaccines.  Frankly, I've listened to Mother one time before when she pontificated about the SSPX.  She was objectively wrong, since the situation canonically has change. Her pontifications in this case are simply that, without any basis makes her claims based on her own 'authority'.   As with the crisis of the Catholic Church, the COVID-19 crisis is not a reason to set aside Catholic Principles. Analysis First the facts.  Fact 1: Cell lines derived from aborted babies are used in some vaccine development. At least five of the candidate COVID-19 vaccines use one...

 + JMJ  There's been a lot of talk and confusion about masks and their affect on COVID-19. My first thought is that it was a stupid mistake to recommend against masks in the early months of the pandemic. They basically undermined their credibility with a populace that already has misgivings about its governments and politicians.  So what's the scoop on wearing masks during a disease outbreak?  Well the Asian's do it automatically (read: Taiwan, Japan, etc) and automatically wear masks when there's an outbreak. Compare Japan's cases per million people - less than 500 compared with the USA's 17k+.  Is it the magic bullet? Nope, it's a way to reduce both infection and transmission. Here's a link to an interesting article from the BBC.  Heck, there was evidence that masking helped during the Spanish Flu Epidemic.  Fundamentally, having a mask on - even if it isn't an N95 mask reduces the spreading of the droplets containing the virus particles.  Thi...

 + JMJ    I will be putting together a series of articles on COVID-19 with the goal of helping to understand it in the light of Catholic Truth. Planned topics that I intend to cover include: Background Use of face masks The danger presented by COVID-19 Moral issues with the vaccines being developed History P^3

 + JMJ       "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running." Source Business Insider As noted earlier, Voris et al have now launched a new branch to their campaign.  Interestingly, I was at Francis Palmquist's ordination but that's not the topic of this article.  Here's where Voris' personal belief is coming through: Their members claim to be (or reference) what they call "Eternal Rome." What they mean by that is only  they have kept true to the Church, holding fast to the teachings, Liturgy and so forth. In short, the correct understanding and practice of the Deposit of Faith has been deposited in them; therefore, the society enjoys a certain type of privilege....

+ JMJ Welcome to the Voris where the Vortex's Lies Are Exposed! So, CM/MV/MN obviously decided to switch track as they haven't got the traction they desired with their previous stories provided by unreliable witnesses who have axes to grind and obviously no moral boundaries concerning the truth. ( see this article ). Now the new eye catching headline is that the SSPX knowingly ordains men who are a homosexual. In the twitter feed a number of things have been pointed out and the Voris et al stick to the story. Then a fact checker finds this:   Twitter Link Lesson for Voris et al: A Catholic priest cannot use knowledge gained in confession in any way. Voris et al's level of journalistic integrity and professionalism once again proven to be non-existent.   P^3

+ JMJ   As I was looking at Chris Ferrara's court battle victory against the Governor, I came across this old article. Something to ponder as this crisis comes to what I believe will be its next inflection point: the death of Pope Francis. P^3 https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2009--131-ferrara-neocatholic_sour_grapes.htm Neo-Catholic Sour Grapes SSPX and the 'Full Communion' Canard Christopher A. Ferrara REMNANT COLUMNIST, New Jersey   W hen Gaudium et spes speaks of human freedom, it “falls into ‘downright Pelagian terminology’" ...Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Posted 1/31/09 www.RemnantNewspaper.com ) In my online article on the courageous decision of Pope Benedict XVI to annul the long-contested excommunications of the bishops ...