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‘A different Church’: Pope calls for synod on synodality to usher in ‘change’Highlighting the themes of 'unity, communion … fraternity,' the pontiff declared that the synod has 'three key words: communion, participation and mission,' which would enable the Church to undergo a process of 'change' and 'healing.' VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has opened the multi-year Synod on Synodality by calling for the Catholic Church to “encounter, listen and discern,” and to become “a different Church.”The weekend of events, starting the multi-year Synod on Synodality, consisted of a “Moment of Reflection” on Saturday and a Solemn Mass on Sunday,...

OAK PARK, Illinois (LifeSiteNews) — Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) has 17 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of September 9, with 14 cases coming from individuals who have been fully jabbed. The public school, located just outside the city of Chicago, lists on its COVID dashboard 79% of students as fully jabbed and 88% of teachers and staff fully inoculated. At least 11 cases are students and four are employees, but the breakdown of vaccinated individuals is not provided. Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker has mandated all school staff receive the jab as a condition of employment....

July 22, 2021 (Children’s Health Defense) – As cases pile up (445 as of July 9) of the reportedly “rare” neurological disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome in people who received a COVID vaccine — forcing the sluggish U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to add a warning label to the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot — scientists are issuing urgent warnings about a possible tsunami of other types of neurological injuries.Immunologist J. Bart Classen, one-time National Institutes of Health (NIH) contract scientist and proprietor of Classen Immunotherapies, a Maryland biotechnology firm, published a paper in February outlining the potential for messenger RNA...

LONDON, England, June 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The death rate from the Delta COVID variant is six times higher among those who were fully vaccinated for two weeks or longer than among those who never received a shot, according to data published by Public Health England on Friday. Twenty-six people died among 4,087 who were fully vaccinated 14 days or more before testing positive for the Delta COVID variant. This equates to a death rate of 0.00636 percent, which is 6.6 times higher than the rate of 0.000957 deaths – or 34 deaths among 35,521 positive Delta cases among the...