Padraig, Yep, large protests all around the world, many are massive. There are protests in Hong Kong+, Brazil, Albania, Sudan, Kazakhstan, Memphis(TN), Moldova and Venezuela all mentioned in the video. I can't help but wonder if this what Ven. Maria Esperanza meant when she stated that it (civil unrest/protests?) will begin in Venezuela. We also have the "Yellow Vest" protests which are continuing in France for the 32nd(?) week and have spread to other countries too. Now, the Czech Republic and the country of Georgia are experiencing large protests also. Protesters call for Czech premier to resign PRAGUE -- Hundreds of thousands of people rallied Sunday in Prague to urge Prime Minister Andrej Babis to resign, assembling ... Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 6h 200+ Hurt in Republic of Georgia Protests Over Putin Friend’s Parliament Visit More than 240 anti-Russia protesters were hurt, including two people who lost eyes, in violent clashes in Tbilisi, Georgia, ... The Daily Beast 2d Thousands protest in Georgia against Russian politician in parliament Upi.com 3d Georgia police fire rubber bullets on protesters trying to storm parliament Georgian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters attempting to storm parliament Thursday after a Russian ... AFP on MSN.com 3d Putin halts Russian flights to Georgia (CNN)Flights carrying Russians to nearby Georgia will be halted after anti-Russian protests flared in the former Soviet ... CNN 2d Russia Threatens More Economic Pain in Standoff With Georgia TBILISI/MOSCOW — Russia on Monday served notice to ex-Soviet Georgia it faces painful consequences if anti-Russian protests are not brought under control, saying it was tightening controls on wine ... The New York Times 26m *** In addition, there was a 3.7 earthquake near Rome yesterday. *** +Ref: Friday, June 21, 2019 What’s Happening in Hong Kong, 2019 Written by Aurelio Porfiri https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/in.../item/4507-what-s-happening-in-hong-kong-2019
And our own "re-education" systems.....public schools and elitist universities.....have been doing something somewhat similar, but in the guise of our "freedoms", relying on propaganda media to back them to avoid the truthful facts getting to the clueless and compliant public. So now we have young, belligerent, naive products of this system entering into political power to advocate for this more seriously controlled world Commie system by government power alone. And the globalists can't envision that such a welfare system w/ the goal of population control always becomes total control by the tyrannical few. How many decades have our own Presidents contributed to this Chinese system believing that the grant of openness to the world alone would turn them into a completely foreign culture which itself would have to be the biggest threat to their tyrannical leaders? Not that the BBC has figured out their own problems w/ reportage on the EU or globalist goals, but this gives an idea of control by fear....which is probably only going to increase in the world at large. Meanwhile for quite some time the Christians have been all but obliterated in the ME along with their historical presence since times of old....but then there has been no such thing as "radical" Islam permitted within media reports or political speak. Inside China’s 'thought transformation' camps VIDEO https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-48667221/inside-china-s-thought-transformation-camps
It is not just nation's angry with each other but anger within nation's and anger within Churches. For instance the Orthodox have just gone into Schism and there is huge division with we Catholics. Many countries such as Turkey and the USA appear to be on the road to Civil War.
UK court orders forced abortion for disabled woman London, England, Jun 21, 2019 / 11:15 am (CNA).- A British judge has authorized doctors to perform an abortion on a pregnant Catholic woman with developmental disabilities and a mood disorder, despite the objections of the woman’s mother and the woman herself. The woman is 22 weeks pregnant. “I am acutely conscious of the fact that for the State to order a woman to have a termination where it appears that she doesn't want it is an immense intrusion,” said Justice Nathalie Lieven in her ruling in the Court of Protection, June 21. “I have to operate in [her] best interests, not on society's views of termination,” Lieven explained, arguing that her decision is in the best interest of the woman. The Court of Protection handles cases involving individuals judged to lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves. The woman, who cannot been publicly identified, has been described as “in her twenties,” and is under the care of an NHS trust, part of the UK’s National Health Service. Doctors at the trust wished to abort her pregnancy and argued that, due to her diminished mental capacity, the abortion would be less traumatic for the woman than giving birth, especially if the baby would then be placed in foster care. The woman’s mother made clear to doctors and the court that she would assume care of her grandchild. The woman is believed to have the mental capacity of a grade school-age child. She is reportedly Catholic, and her mother is Nigerian. It is unknown if the pregnancy was conceived consensually, and police are investigating the circumstances of conception. The woman’s mother, reported to be a former midwife, registered her absolute opposition to the abortion citing the Catholic faith of herself and her daughter. A social worker who cares for the woman also disagreed that she should be forced to have an abortion. The judge said she did not believe the woman understood what it meant to have a baby. “I think she would like to have a baby in the same way she would like to have a nice doll,” Lieven said. Lieven also said she did not believe the woman's mother, who already helps care for her daughter, would be able to offer care for a grandchild at the same time. Allowing the child to be born and then removed from the woman’s home and placed into foster care or adoption would be against the woman’s own interests, the judge concluded. “I think [the woman] would suffer greater trauma from having a baby removed [from her care],” Lieven said, because “it would at that stage be a real baby.” Lieven clarified that the pregnancy “although real to [the woman], doesn’t have a baby outside her body she can touch.” As a lawyer, Lieven has appeared in court before in cases concerning abortion. In 2011, while representing the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, an abortion provider, she argued that British women should be permitted to medically abort their pregnancies at their own homes instead of in a hospital. Five years later, Lieven argued in court that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws were a violation of the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act. In 2017, she said that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws were akin to torture and were discriminatory. Unrestricted abortion is legal in the UK until 24 weeks of pregnancy, after which doctors must certify that the abortion is in the medical interests of the mother. NHS statistics show babies born at 24 weeks have a 50% chance of survival on average, though the rate depends on the NHS trust providing care. Babies born in a University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust hospital in London at 23 weeks of gestation have a 70% chance of survival. UK court orders forced abortion for disabled Catholic, Nigerian woman
Thanks be to God: BREAKING: UK appeal court stops forced abortion for disabled woman WESTMINSTER, London, England, June 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― Doctors may not forcibly abort the baby of a disabled British woman, appeal court judges have ruled. Today three appeal court judges overturned a decision by Mrs Justice Nathalie Lieven, 55, that doctors should perform an abortion on the woman against her will. The appeal was brought by the unnamed woman’s mother, who is a Nigerian Catholic and a former midwife. Lord Justice McCombe, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Peter Jackson considered the challenge to Lieven’s ruling at a Court of Appeal hearing in London today, according to Press Association. They said they would give reasons for their decision at a later date. The new ruling follows days of protest as even some pro-abortion advocates reeled at the idea of the British state forcing a woman to undergo an abortion against her wishes. On Friday, doctors petitioned the Court of Protection, a legal measure for making decisions on behalf of people believed mentally incapable of them, for permission to perform an abortion on the disabled woman, a black Briton of Nigerian descent, who is said to have the understanding of a ten-year-old child. Mrs Justice Nathalie Lieven, QC, agreed with the doctors that the woman’s unborn child should be killed even though the woman did not want to undergo the procedure. Lieven, who was revealed in a recent article by UK-based Nigerian pro-life activist to have worked for years on behalf of the British abortion lobby, admitted that forced abortion was “an intrusion.” "I am acutely conscious of the fact that for the State to order a woman to have a termination where it appears that she doesn't want it is an immense intrusion," Lieven said. "I have to operate in (her) best interests, not on society's views of termination." Lieven, the descendent of Baltic German nobility and a member of a highly accomplished German-British family of academics and journalists, dismissed the wishes of the pregnant woman, saying, "I think she would like to have a baby in the same way she would like to have a nice doll." The woman is twenty-two weeks pregnant, but Lieven said she believed the woman would suffer more if her baby was taken away than if she underwent an abortion. The judge suggested that the baby wasn’t yet “a real baby.” "I think (she) would suffer greater trauma from having a baby removed,” Lieven stated. “It would at that stage be a real baby." "Pregnancy, although real to her, doesn't have a baby outside her body she can touch," she said. A 22-week old unborn baby is roughly the size of a coconut. Not only do the pregnant woman and her mother oppose the abortion, the social worker caring for her disagreed that an abortion “was in her best interests.” According to the Society for the Protection of Children (SPUC), her legal team said that there was “no proper evidence” to show that this was the case. The mother of the pregnant woman has stated that she is willing to care for her daughter, who is in her twenties, and her grandchild, but Lieven doubted she was capable of it. (cont'd below)
(cont'd from above) Pro-abortion judge's bias In an editorial for First Things, Nigerian pro-life advocate Obianuju “Uju” Ekeocha revealed that Madame Justice Nathalie Lieven, 55, has a long history of supporting Britain’s abortion industry. “Nathalie Lieven was appointed a High Court judge in December 2018, and her appointment took effect on January 11, 2019,” Ekeocha wrote. “Most reports have failed to highlight that in the last fifteen years Lieven has had a prominent place in the British pro-abortion movement. She has been in the forefront of some of the landmark abortion-related cases in the country.” In 2005, Lieven argued in court for an International Planned Parenthood affiliate, the Family Planning Association, that parents, in the words of the Guardian report, “are no longer necessarily the best people to advise a child on contraception, sexually transmitted infections and abortions – and they have no right to know if their children under 16 are seeking treatment.” Then in 2011, Lieven represented Britain’s largest abortion business, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), to argue that pregnant women should be allowed to take the second dose of the two-step chemical abortion at home without medical supervision. Lieven also fought to have Northern Ireland’s stricter abortion law overturned. Ekeocha reported that from 2015 to 2018 Lieven represented the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission from 2015 to 2018 when it took the country’s government to court, arguing that their pro-life law violated the human rights of women and girls. Alone of all the countries in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland forbids abortion unless the mother’s life is endangered. As lead counsel, Lieven said, “The impact of the criminal law in Northern Ireland does amount to inhuman and degrading treatment by the state.” “These important abortion-related cases have laid the foundations for the expansion of legal abortion in the U.K., and Lieven has been deeply involved in the construction of these foundations,” Ekeocha argued. “As a lawyer, she has been the voice of abortion organizations, she has argued to increase abortion access in the U.K., she has fought against the rights of parents with regards to their children, she has claimed that the fetus does not have an autonomous right to life under U.K. law, and she has spoken on panels dedicated to abortion rights-related litigations,” the pro-life leader continued. “In short, throughout her career she has championed the cause of abortion in the U.K. Now, barely six months after being elevated to the [High Court] judge’s bench, she has handed down an outrageous ruling that will lead to terminating a fully formed unborn baby—against the wishes of the mother and grandmother.” Catholic bishops’ responses This morning, the Roman Catholic bishops of England broke their silence on Friday’s ruling. Bishop John Sherrington of the Westminster Diocese issued a statement on their behalf. "Every abortion is a tragedy. This tragedy is compounded in the case of the recent legal decision of the Court of Protection to rule that a mother, who is in her 20s and has a 'moderately severe' learning disability and who wishes to keep her child at 22 weeks, must have an abortion," he wrote. "The natural birth of her child is supported by her mother - who has said she will care for the child - her social worker, and her legal team," Sherrington continued. "Forcing a woman to have an abortion against her will, and that of her close family, infringes her human rights, not to mention the right of her unborn child to life in a family that has committed to caring for this child. In a free society like ours there is a delicate balance between the rights of the individual and the powers of the state." "This is a sad and distressing decision for the whole family whom we keep in our prayers. This case, for which all the information is not available, raises serious questions about the meaning of ‘best interests’ when a patient lacks mental capacity and is subject to the court’s decision against her will," he concluded. The bishops’ statement was criticized by members of the Catholic media in England as being overly meek. Damian Thompson, editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, tweeted that the “Statement from [the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales] on the disgusting forced abortion [was] late, unmemorable, entirely lacking in righteous anger. The bare minimum. Pathetic.” Yesterday Scotland’s Bishop John Keenan of the Diocese of Paisley took a relatively sterner approach by exhorting those who listened to his video message to sign a CitizenGo petition against the forced abortion. “It’s a horrific decision which is ironically uniting pro-lifers and pro-choicers,” he said. “... Sign immediately your strong objection to this decision.” The Paisley bishop also asked England’s Health Secretary to step in to stop the abortion. “Could I also appeal directly to Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, to intervene with your executive powers to stop this wrong decision?” “The decision is wrong on so many levels,” the bishop continued, “and it introduces a dangerous new development in the overreach of the power of the state over its citizens.” “It’s a wrong decision that has to be changed, not just in the interests of this woman and her child, but in the interests of everyone who believes in … the prerogatives of citizens over the state,” he added. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-uk-appeal-court-stops-forced-abortion-for-disabled-woman
An Archbishop Told Jesuit School To Fire Gay Teacher. They Said No https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/jesuit-school-indiana-gay-teacher/ This should start the attacks and lawsuits big time. About this continuing story: Cathedral High School in Indianapolis recognizes archbishop's oversight CNA).- A Catholic high school in the Indianapolis archdiocese has said it will comply with the archbishop’s instructions to stop employing a teacher in a same-sex marriage. The decision comes days after a Jesuit high school in the archdiocese refused to comply with a similar instruction and had its Catholic status stripped by Archbishop Charles Thompson. “It is Archbishop Thompson’s responsibility to oversee faith and morals as related to Catholic identity within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis,” Cathedral High School leaders said in a June 23 letter. “Archbishop Thompson made it clear that Cathedral’s continued employment of a teacher in a public, same-sex marriage would result in our forfeiting our Catholic identity due to our employment of an individual living in contradiction to Catholic teaching on marriage.” “Therefore, in order to remain a Catholic Holy Cross School, Cathedral must follow the direct guidance given to us by Archbishop Thompson and separate from the teacher,” said the letter, signed by Matt Cohoat, chairman of Cathedral High School’s board of directors, and Rob Bridges, the school’s president. There are about 1,000 students grades 9 to 12 at the high school. There are 68 schools recognized as Catholic by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. On June 20 the archdiocese announced that Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School will no longer be recognized as a Catholic school due to a disagreement about the employment of a teacher who attempted to contract a same-sex marriage. “All those who minister in Catholic educational institutions carry out an important ministry in communicating the fullness of Catholic teaching to students both by word and action inside and outside the classroom,” the archdiocese said. Every archdiocesan and Catholic private school has been instructed to clearly state that all such ministers “must convey and be supportive of all teachings of the Catholic Church.” Teachers, the archdiocese said, are classified as ‘ministers’ because “it is their duty and privilege to ensure that students receive instruction in Catholic doctrine and practice. To effectively bear witness to Christ, whether they teach religion or not, all ministers in their professional and private lives must convey and be supportive of Catholic Church teaching.” The June 20 statement noted that the archdiocese “recognizes all teachers, guidance counselors and administrators as ministers.” The 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC established that religious institutions are free to require those it recognizes as ministers to uphold religious teachings as a condition of employment. The letter from Cathedral High School leaders said the “agonizing decision” followed “22 months of earnest discussion and extensive dialogue” with the archdiocese about the high school’s Catholic identity. The teacher concerned was not named in the letter. “Please know that we offer our prayers and love to this teacher, our students and faculty, our archbishop, and all associated with Cathedral as we continue to educate our students in the Catholic Holy Cross tradition,” the school’s letter continued. “We ask that dialogue about this difficult situation be respectful of the dignity of every person and that you continue to pray for our Cathedral family and the wider Indianapolis community.” The letter said that being Catholic can be “challenging” and the high school leaders voiced hope that the action does not dishearten parents, staff, and students. The high school is affiliated with the Brothers of Holy Cross and its bylaws state that its Catholic identity is to be “at all times maintained” and that education in the faith is “a mission priority.” “We are committed to educating our students in the tenets of the Catholic faith with an emphasis on the Holy Cross tradition,” said the school’s letter. The letter voiced respect for the position of those at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School and said there are differences in the schools’ respective situations. “Brebeuf is sponsored by the Jesuits while Cathedral is merely affiliated with the Brothers of Holy Cross. Because Brebeuf is a specific ministry of the Jesuits, their canonical and nonprofit status is different than ours. Therefore, the two schools cannot function the same way if Cathedral were to receive a similar decree as Brebeuf,” the school said. School leaders at Brebeuf had said that despite the archdiocese’s decision “our identity as a Catholic Jesuit institution remains unchanged.” They said that to follow the instruction from the archdiocese “would not only violate our informed conscience on this particular matter, but also set a concerning precedent for future interference in the school’s operations and other governance matters that Brebeuf Jesuit leadership has historically had the sole right and privilege to address and decide.” The archdiocese first made the request to Brebeuf two years before. The Code of Canon Law recognizes the diocesan bishop’s responsibility to ensure that religion teachers are “outstanding in true doctrine, in the witness of their Christian life, and in their teaching ability.” The diocesan bishop has the right to approve religion teachers and, “if religious or moral considerations require it, the right to remove them or to demand that they be removed.” Fr. Brian Paulson, S.J., head of the Jesuits’ Midwest Province, said he recognized the archbishop’s instruction to be “his prudential judgement of the application of canon law” regarding his responsibility for Catholic education and oversight of faith and morals in his archdiocese. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has previously addressed a similar issue at another school. In August 2018, Shelley Fitzgerald, a guidance counselor at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, was placed on paid administrative leave. Fitzgerald, an employee of an archdiocesan school, had attempted to contract a same-sex marriage in 2014. The Indianapolis high school cases drew significant comment from LGBT activists and the prominent Jesuit commentator Father James Martin, editor-at-large of America Magazine, who claimed that the action targets “LGBT people” and not “straight teachers.” Morals clauses at Catholic schools have been a target of some activist groups, including the dissenting Catholic Equally Blessed Coalition. The coalition has received several low-six figure grants from the Arcus Foundation to back LGBT activists and to counter the Catholic Church. One coalition member, New Ways Ministry, gave Martin its Bridge Building Award in 2016. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...apolis-recognizes-archbishops-oversight-80991
Well, this is good news (if it's true)... Acceptance of LGBT Sinking Among the Youth, and It’s Obvious Why Posted at 8:30 pm on June 25, 2019 by Brandon Morse | https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/06/25/acceptance-lgbt-sinking-among-youth-obvious/
"spread of toxicity".....LOL. Love that the ABC club thinks the numbers are declining because of "toxicity". The numbers are declining because you are forcing this on everyone and not allowing any kind of discussion. My 14 year old daughter says she gets into discussions all the time. She states openly to her friends, she doesn't care if someone is LGBT or whatever. But don't expect her to be LGBT . She tells me that the hypocrisy of the LGBT community is annoying and if they want to be accepted try by starting to act equal with everyone and stop trying to be "special". Either you want equality or you don't. Stop lying and forcing everyone to believe as you do. My teenagers, especially my daughter, are a lot smarter than I was at their age. My daughter doesn't care to "fit in" she wants to be smart. Maybe the good God has infused some grace in some of our youth to see through this bs better than we did.
Clearly, some are more "equal" than others. Our police are walking billboards for this movement so make sure that you warn your children that the deck is clearly stacked against them. I think our kids are truly saints in training. Our children regularly exhibit more discipline, courage, and grace than I ever did at their age.
Yikes!! As adults we are supposed to be guiding them into adulthood with a sense of self and some integrity to become functioning members of society. I don't see this happening. Of course, some do, but I see adults acting like children and the children acting and talking more coherently. I actually do see the society at large dividing into 2 camps, goats and sheep thing. It is interesting to experience the actual dividing of the society. I see it in the kids too. My kids friends are in one or the other camp. My daughter has few friends and she is ok with this. She said she doesn't like hanging around people that appear to be going in the wrong direction. I would have chosen to be around friends to be popular. She is choosing differently than I would have and I am grateful. My son is stuck somewhat more with the culture but still is strong in his Faith. God has to be handing out more grace because American society is upside down. We are immoral, IMO. Hard to raise kids and scary. I am a firm believer in consecrating children to Mary. I think maybe this is why they are different in some ways. But something can happen and they can be drawn away. I pray for our children. I pray for your kids Don because I know you are raising them in the same time as I am. Your family is in my prayer intention book
Our kids will be fine. They like us will have to make their own choice one day to serve under the banner of Christ but they have been brought up with graces that others have never even known about due to parents who were brought up knowing the truth but rejecting it. They also have us to pray for them I see a lot of kids who are just completely unwashed of any belief save that which pop culture has instilled in shows and music etc. This is very concerning. I keep seeing this repeated narrative in modern popular shows that is very subtly occult and started with the Matrix. Westworld a series on HBO follows this same narrative. In my wife's family there have been 3 children born in the last year. Not one has been baptized and their parents have no intention of raising them in any Faith. My nephew and niece are in the same boat. All we can do is to pray for them and hope to bring them to the truth if we have the opportunity. America is a great wilderness of heresies. The smoke from the pit is thick here. Our Cardinals and Bishops are lukewarm and our priests are as well for the most part. Here and there is a small refuge of traditional Catholic teaching though and thank God for it.
