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Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life Pushes Child Vaccination Despite Documented Deaths Soon After JabBy Edward PentinThe overall risk of children dying or becoming seriously ill from COVID-19 is extremely low, and yet the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life is lobbying for child vaccination, recently claiming that it is essential to ending the pandemic and “protects children from any, even if less frequent, serious consequence of COVID-19.”Noting that health authorities in the US and Europe have given the go-ahead for inoculating children aged 5-11, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia told Crux Dec. 17 that even if children show no symptoms,...

Now it’s personal…Several of my loved ones have suffered seriously from the so-called ‘vaccines’Mon Jan 3, 2022 - 4:19 am ESTMon Jan 3, 2022 - 6:01 am EST (LifeSiteNews) – We were thrilled five years ago when one of our son’s was admitted to one of our nation’s service academies. He took to the military discipline like a duck to water (his father had trained him well) and had a great first two years.Then COVID hit, and with it interminable lockdowns, masking and social distancing — all of which we know now did little or nothing to stop the spread...

John Paul II would never have accepted abortion-tainted COVID jab. Here’s whyAccepting into one’s own body one of the four most prominent alleged COVID vaccines fails to meet the demands of the personalistic norm, which is the norm of the philosophical foundation of Christ’s commandment to love. (LifeSiteNews) — I have been following the LifeSiteNews stories on the morality of accepting the so-called “vaccines,” and just finished reading this article, posted June 23, 2021, with the following headline and caption: Priest: Using abortion-tainted COVID vaccine is moral complicity in organ harvesting ‘The Nazis were bad? The Chinese were bad? We...

Irish Quandary: Who to Blame When Everyone’s Vaxxed? No one seems curious about the prevalence of the disease in an almost fully vaccinated population.During his Thursday town hall meeting with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, President Joe Biden blithely dismissed the most basic assertion of those who have chosen to resist a COVID-19 vaccination. “Freedom? I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID,” scoffed Biden. “No, I mean come on — freedom.”In his literally mindless way, Biden said out loud what health officials everywhere have been implying since the vaccines became widely available. Those who are not vaccinated are killing...

‘Mass Pass’ for the Faithful?ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Cardinals close to Pope Francis will soon celebrate a High Mass where the faithful will have to present the Italian health passport in order to attend, an arbitrary requirement that ignores the instructions of the Italian bishops' conference and the guidelines of the government. Cdl. Marcello Semeraro and Msgr. Vincenzo Viva The suburbicarian diocese of Albano, currently led by Cdl. Marcello Semeraro, will celebrate both the episcopal ordination of its new bishop, Msgr. Vincenzo Viva, and the golden priestly jubilee of Cdl. Semeraro on the next Feast of the Nativity of Mary. For...

Monterey Bishop Prohibits Religious Exemption from COVID Vaccine Mandates“For these reasons, I will not issue, and I have directed our clergy not to issue, any Letters of Religious exemption because it would contradict the clear objective teaching of the Catholic Church and the Holy See on this matter,” Bishop Garcia wrote.MONTEREY, Calif. — Bishop Daniel Garcia of Monterey on Friday directed clergy not to provide letters of religious exemption for Catholics wishing not to receive a coronavirus vaccine.“Pope Francis has highly encouraged the vaccination as an act of safeguarding one’s own health as well as that of others –...

Vatican Intensifies Crusade on ‘Anti-Vaxxers’Co-opted scientists duck safety concerns, smear studies on jab deathsVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) is stepping up its crusade against so-called vaccine hesitancy by co-opting scientists on globalist bodies to attack "anti-vaxxers," who, they claim, are spreading "misinformation and fake news." Vaccine-promoting WMA chair Prof. Frank Ulrich Montgomery "Misinformation is one of the core reasons to vaccine hesitancy," Prof. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, chair of the council of the pro-abortion World Medical Association (WMA) told a Vatican press conference Friday. Dr. Ramin Parsa-Parsi, head of the international department of the German Medical...

Vatican Official Pleads with Catholic Critics of Covid Vaccines: ‘Listen to What the Church Has Already Said’During a press conference presenting a final statement dedicated to "vaccine equity and confront vaccine hesitancy," Archbishop Paglia took several questions from journalists representing secular and Catholic media highly skeptical of COVID vaccines who pushed back.VATICAN CITY — During a press conference on Friday, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, called Catholics who are reluctant to receive COVID vaccines and oppose their distribution to "listen to what the Church has already said”, implying that all objections against COVID vaccines...

Researcher: Vatican, US bishops uninterested in my moral alternative to COVID jabJune 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Over the past year, as COVID vaccines have been developed and rolled out, and with all of those on the current market being connected in one way or another to abortion, Catholics are very concerned. A pro-life Catholic researcher is now creating an ethical and moral alternative to these stem cell lines, but he’s received no interest or support from U.S. bishops or the Vatican.In this latest episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, I speak with Dr. Alan Moy, the CEO of Cellular Engineering...

Texas Governor Pledges To Sign Law Prohibiting Businesses From Requiring Vaccine PassportsCarnival Cruise Line recently announced that it will resume cruising in Galveston, Texas beginning in July and will require passengers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is disputing Carnival’s vaccine mandate.Abbott announced Monday he would be signing a law that prevents “businesses operating in Texas from requiring vaccine passports any vaccine information.”“Texas is open 100% without any restrictions or limitations or requirements,” Abbott tweeted.I’m signing a law today that prohibits any business operating in Texas from requiring vaccine passports or any vaccine information.Texas is open...

‘It’s evil’: Why we can’t accept vaccine passports'This is unacceptable. It is immoral, and we cannot accept this as the new normal,' the head of Liberty Counsel said today.April 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Mat Staver is a senior pastor, as well as the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a Christian, pro-life organization that seeks to uphold religious freedom and a Biblical worldview. He explains on my podcast today the moral problems with the COVID vaccine and proposed mandatory vaccine passports.“There’s serious concerns, not only with the very essence of some of these experimental vaccines — and they’re still, by...

Vatican Health Conference: A Platform to Combat COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Hesitancy?’The May 6-8 event features the CEOs of Moderna and Pfizer, as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci and an array of other prominent vaccination advocates.VATICAN CITY — An upcoming Vatican health conference, titled “Unite to Prevent & Unite to Cure” and co-hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Cura Foundation, will not only place a significant focus on COVID-19 treatments and prevention but also provide a platform for promoting vaccines produced by large pharmaceutical companies. The advocacy of the anti-COVID vaccines was already evident both by the names...

Abortion-Tainted Vaccines: From Objection to ObligationWhen the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines were first introduced, the initial question rightly raised by Catholics was, “Can I receive this vaccine?”; i.e., is it morally permissible? However, too few Catholics bothered to ask the second important moral question, “Should I receive this vaccine?” After all, we are not called to live a minimal life of the morally permissible; we are called to a life of holiness, which often includes sacrifice and prophetic witness to the world. Even if these vaccines are morally permissible, does taking them advance the common good of justice and holiness?In December...

Thousands of reports of menstrual irregularities, reproductive dysfunction following COVID vaccinesApril 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Thousands of women around the world are reporting disrupted menstrual cycles after receiving injections of COVID-19 vaccines.The U.K.’s government vaccine adverse event system has collected more 2,200 reports of reproductive disorders after coronavirus injections, including excessive or absent menstrual bleeding, delayed menstruation, vaginal hemorrhaging, miscarriages, and stillbirths.In the U.K., the Yellow Card adverse event reporting system includes 2,233 reports of “reproductive and breast disorders” after reception of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines. The U.K. Yellow Card program reports 1,465 reactions involving reproductive systems as well as...

Canadian gym refuses new memberships to those who’ve had COVID jab due to fear over side-effects'To put it simply, the unknown health effects of the mRNA vaccines, as well as reported side effects such as viral shedding, seizures and death following the administration of these vaccines, are not covered by our liability.'KELOWNA, British Columbia, April 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian gym posted a notice to its website that it will refuse new membership applications to those who have received COVID-19 “mRNA vaccines” because the “the unknown health effects” of such jabs are not covered by its “liability” policy. “Please...

18 reasons I won’t be getting a COVID vaccineI don’t know everything, but so far no one has been able to answer the objections below. So here are the reasons I’m opting out of the COVID vaccineLifeSiteNews does not necessarily agree with all the opinions in this article, but believes that it presents a great deal of crucial information and is a valuable contribution to this issue. April 16, 2021 (TRUE Whole Human) – A few friends have asked my thoughts on the COVID jab(s) so I thought it was time to write an article on the topic. Knowing how...

Pro-Lifers Parody State’s COVID Psycho-WarCampaign dignifying 'Johanna' exposes evil of abortion-tainted vaccines WORTHING, England (ChurchMilitant.com) - A pro-life organization is turning the British government's COVID-19 psychological-warfare campaign on its head by using Prime Minister Boris Johnson's fearmongering advertising to raise awareness of Britain's abortion genocide and abortion-contaminated vaccines. An image from the Don't Forget Johanna campaign The Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform U.K.'s graphic "Don't Forget Johanna" campaign uses six images of a baby in the womb at eight and nine weeks with the headline "Look her in the eyes" at the top of each poster.At the bottom of each poster,...

The blood of murdered unborn children cries to God from abortion-tainted vaccines and medicinesBishop Athanasius Schneider on abortion-tainted vaccines and the culture of death. April 1, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Anti-Christian world powers that promote the culture of death are seeking to impose on the world’s population an implicit — though remote and passive — collaboration with abortion. Such remote collaboration, in itself, is also an evil because of the extraordinary historical circumstances in which these same world powers are promoting the murder of unborn children and the exploitation of their remains. When we use vaccines or medicines which utilize cell...