Monday, December 2, 2024

'Stealth euthanasia'? Catholic nursing home accused of killing a nun

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In a gripping interview, Sister Deirdre “Dede” Byrne, a Catholic nun, surgeon, and pro-life advocate, shares the heart-wrenching story of her friend who allegedly became a victim of “stealth euthanasia” at a Catholic nursing home in Missouri. Sister Philip Marie was allegedly denied food, hydration, and over-sedated at Mount Carmel Senior Living under the guise of “helping her transition,” despite not having a terminal illness. Sister Dede is now on a mission to tell Sister Philip Marie’s story and expose the aggressive practices of some hospice facilities, urging families to advocate for their loved ones and defend the sanctity of life.


View: https://www.lifesitenews.com/episodes/stealth-euthanasia-catholic-nursing-home-accused-of-killing-a-nun/?utm_source=daily-canada-2024-11-15&utm_medium=email

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Argentina Stands Alone at the UN/Hungary Stands with the Left

 By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | November 15, 2024

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, November 15 (C-Fam) Argentina stood alone against censorship in the General Assembly this week. Close to sixty countries opposed transgenderism. And the Hungarian government of Victor Orbán gaslit everyone on behalf of the European Union.

Argentina voted against a resolution on violence against women in digital spaces because it included “broad and undefined terms such as hate speech, misinformation, and disinformation, which are easily abused to restrict free speech.”

“The women’s agenda should not be used to restrict the rights of women or freedom of expression,” said a delegate of Argentina, the lone dissenting vote when countries adopted the resolution in the General Assembly’s third committee.

The resolution, sponsored by France and the Netherlands, calls for censorship of all forms of discrimination on the basis of gender. It supports national and international censorship programs to tackle what is sometimes called “technology facilitated gender based violence.” Such programs are backed by the U.S. State Department. Censorship programs include direct content moderation as well as the design of algorithms that automatically exclude any views deemed discriminatory or demeaning to women based on gender ideology.

Argentina stood alone in voting against the resolution.

However, several countries opposed other elements of the resolution, including controversial language on abortion, sexual and reproductive health, and transgender issues.

Close to sixty traditional countries asked to delete language calling for recognition of women “in all their diversity” and “intersectional forms of discrimination.” These are terms that Western countries and UN agencies use in their programs and policies to promote transgender rights. The amendments failed, but countries maintained their objections.

The delegate from the government of Hungary, speaking on behalf of the entire European Union, scolded Argentina and the traditional countries for objecting to the resolution. She defended the resolution’s importance to global censorship initiatives and downplayed any other concerns about the resolution.

Read the rest: https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/argentina-stands-alone-at-the-un-hungary-stands-with-the-left/

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Education must be controlled by a child’s parents

 By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 12, 2024 

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One of the great things about the growth of home schooling and various cooperative arrangements is that it puts control of education back into the hands of parents. I don’t mean that it is essential for those who are parents to control the education of children generally. I mean that parents must retain control of the education of their own children.

This has been reaffirmed many times by the Church, including in the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Christian Education (Gravissium Educationis).* While the shift of control of education to the State has made it easier for many parents to “send their children to school”, the increasingly ideological character of education in the modern world has created an Orwellian nightmare of totalitarian and semi-totalitarian indoctrination. In schools throughout the West today, children are continuously “carefully taught” the spiritual and moral equivalent of “black is white and white is black.” In fact, ideological “correctness” is now generally prized above academic quality right through college and graduate school.

The problem is so serious that it is relatively easy in most modern communities today for parents to do a better and far more wholesome job of educating their own children or at least retaining control over their education through various kinds of independent cooperative efforts. (I know far more about my own country’s situation, but this is certainly true in other places as well.) In America, some locations and some states make this easier than others, but rarely can it be said any longer that home-schooled and cooperatively-schooled children lag behind their peers in public schools. And by the time these students spend a year or two at independent colleges and universities which are unrestricted by federal and state funds, their average intellectual and moral maturity reveals itself to be far higher than the secular norm.

Through the dominant public methods of education in the United States, in fact, students are most generally taught to think not clearly but ideologically. Both intellectually and morally, such education is a deadly poison.

Responsibilities and charisms

I am writing here of the norm. Obviously, in individual cases some parents will do a very poor job of educating their children, just as they will do a very poor job of raising them well at all. But the biggest impediment is the perceived lack of alternatives to the public schools. Whether in the United States or elsewhere, therefore, the Church must play an important role in education—not perhaps primarily through traditional parish and diocesan schools, but especially by raising awareness of and providing spiritual and even material support for home-schooling and what I call cooperative schooling. It is not too much to say that we also need new religious communities to embrace the very Catholic mission of supporting and enhancing home and cooperative school efforts, offering active involvement in these forms of education as well as other kinds of support to struggling families.

There was a time when it was quite common for new religious communities to devote themselves to the education of orphans and the children of the poor. A revival of authentic religious charisms in the service of enriching home and cooperative educational opportunities may well be just as important now as was the running and staffing of formal parish and diocesan schools just a few generations ago. The Church, of course, has her own obligation to form and educate in the name of Christ Himself, but it is no longer obvious that this obligation is best fulfilled through the restriction of her efforts to Mass, CCD, sacramental formation and formal parochial schools. The time is ripe for each parish to have a Catholic education facilitator on staff who can at the very least orient parishioners to the benefits of home schooling and the possibilities of cooperative schooling in the parish region. Already in the best dioceses of the United States, bishops and Diocesan superintendents of education are becoming engaged with and supporting home schooling and cooperative schooling in their regions.

These efforts need to be mandated by bishops and expanded through our parishes. The Church may well be able to do far more now through facilitation of parents in the education of their own children than she can do, in many places at least, through the establishment of traditional parish and diocesan schools. The Church is indeed both mater et magistra(mother and teacher), but this does not mean heronly or even her best course today is to educate through schools that are simply Catholic versions of the public norms.

Read the rest: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/education-must-be-controlled-by-childs-parents/

Friday, November 29, 2024

‘Dark day’ for Britain, says bishop, as MPs vote in favour of assisted suicide

 Simon Caldwell

MPs today voted for an assisted suicide Bill in an historic moment which was described by a senior Catholic bishop as a “dark day for our country”.

The Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill passed Second Reading by 330 votes to 275, a majority of 55, making extremely likely that assisting in suicides will be lawful for the first time in British history.

At present, assisted suicide is prohibited by up to 14 years in jail under the Suicide Act 1961, though prosecutions are rare.

The Bill will allow medical practitioners to assist in the suicides of terminally ill adults who are deemed to have just six months to live. Two doctors and a High Court judge must approve their deaths.

Read the rest: https://catholicherald.co.uk/breaking-dark-day-for-britain-says-bishop-as-mps-vote-in-favour-of-assisted-suicide/

Oliver Anthony Kingett is a Catholic

 

With my grand-nephew Oliver and, from left, his brother Brendan and his mother and father, Emma and Josh.

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Bishop Strickland: God will punish bishops for their silence while Pope Francis destroys the Church

 Bishop Joseph Strickland strongly rebuked ‘silent’ US bishops in a powerful letter outside the USCCB meeting in Baltimore, warning them that God will punish those who do not speak out against ‘false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican’ under Pope Francis.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Chaos Management: Bergoglio’s Fatal Ties to Madrid

Note bene: The blowback can be nuclear for those who do no little or no homework with regard to personnel appointments.




In mid-October, a video emerged showing a parish priest from Madrid, Spain, in a bar in Chueca - Madrid's gay district - bragging about the size of his friend's private parts.

The priest's name is Rev. José Castro Cea. As a result, Cardinal José Cobo of Madrid recommended that the priest "take some time off". The plan was for Castro to fly to the United States.

But that is only the last part of the story.

Sometime around 2016/2017, Father Elías Royón SJ, Francis's Spanish informant, told Bergoglio that Cardinal Carlos Osoro of Madrid was no longer of sound mind and that the ecclesiastical foundations of the Archdiocese of Madrid could cause legal problems.

The Jesuit suggested that if Francis wanted to know more, he should consult a young priest from Madrid. This priest was José Castro Cea.

Using his notorious private detective methods, Francis had two telephone conversations with the priest: one lasting 24 minutes and the other 12.

Unsurprisingly, when Castro Cea celebrated his 25th anniversary as a priest, Francis, who doesn't have time for his cardinals, received him in the Vatican.

During one of his conversations with Francis, Castro Cea recommended to him that a certain Don José Cobo Cano would be the right man to lead the diocese of Madrid.

The two priests had been close friends for years, sharing similar heterodox views and living in the same building.

Soon after, in December 2017, Francis appointed Cobo Cano as auxiliary bishop of Madrid.

But this is not the end of the story.

InfoVaticana.com (11 November) reports that Rev. José Castro Cea continues to be in Madrid and that has made it clear to Cardinal Cobo that he has no intention of leaving his parish.

The blog asks the question: "What does Rev. Castro know about Cardinal Cobo to challenge him in this way?"

To the surprise of many, the two even met in public last week, chatting amicably at a vicariate meeting attended by Cardinal Cobo and Rev. Castro.

According to InfoVaticana.com, there is certainty among the priests of Madrid that Rev. Castro will do as he pleases unless Cardinal Cobo guarantees him a golden retirement.

It seems that Rev. Castro knows more than Cardinal Cobo would like him to know. "The silence you have to buy is not cheap", comments InfoVaticana.com.

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