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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DONALD J. TRUMP

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Solemnity of Christ the King

By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

    Mr. President,

    Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity.

    I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America.

    I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities.

    May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in the desert” (Jn 1:23).

    As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June, this historical moment sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of Good; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose the children of Light, who are disoriented and disorganized, abandoned by their temporal and spiritual leaders.

    Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of education and business.

    We see heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as instrumental to the establishment of an inhuman faceless tyranny.

    A global plan called the Great Reset is underway.

    Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations.

    In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed; in others it is still in an early stage.

    Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.

    The purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures, hidden behind tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt.

    The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adherence to a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups.

    Beyond the enormous economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset, the imposition of the vaccination will be accompanied by the requirement of a health passport and a digital ID, with the consequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world.

    Those who do not accept these measures will be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest, and all their assets will be confiscated.

    Mr. President, I imagine that you are already aware that in some countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of this year and the first trimester of 2021.

    For this purpose, further lockdowns are planned, which will be officially justified by a supposed second and third wave of the pandemic.

    You are well aware of the means that have been deployed to sow panic and legitimize draconian limitations on individual liberties, artfully provoking a world-wide economic crisis.

    In the intentions of its architects, this crisis will serve to make the recourse of nations to the Great Reset irreversible, thereby giving the final blow to a world whose existence and very memory they want to completely cancel.

    But this world, Mr. President, includes people, affections, institutions, faith, culture, traditions, and ideals: people and values that do not act like automatons, who do not obey like machines, because they are endowed with a soul and a heart, because they are tied together by a spiritual bond that draws its strength from above, from that God that our adversaries want to challenge, just as Lucifer did at the beginning of time with his “non serviam.” [Note: the Latin words mean “I will not serve,” by which Lucifer meant “I will not serve God.”]

    Many people – as we well know – are annoyed by this reference to the clash between Good and Evil and the use of “apocalyptic” overtones, which according to them exasperates spirits and sharpens divisions.

    It is not surprising that the enemy is angered at being discovered just when he believes he has reached the citadel he seeks to conquer undisturbed.

    What is surprising, however, is that there is no one to sound the alarm.

    The reaction of the deep state to those who denounce its plan is broken and incoherent, but understandable.

    Just when the complicity of the mainstream media had succeeded in making the transition to the New World Order almost painless and unnoticed, all sorts of deceptions, scandals and crimes are coming to light.

    Until a few months ago, it was easy to smear as “conspiracy theorists” those who denounced these terrible plans, which we now see being carried out down to the smallest detail.

    No one, up until last February, would ever have thought that, in all of our cities, citizens would be arrested simply for wanting to walk down the street, to breathe, to want to keep their business open, to want to go to church on Sunday.

    Yet now it is happening all over the world, even in picture-postcard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small enchanted country, with its ancient monuments, its churches, its charming cities, its characteristic villages.

    And while the politicians are barricaded inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps, businesses are failing, shops are closing, and people are prevented from living, traveling, working, and praying.

    The disastrous psychological consequences of this operation are already being seen, beginning with the suicides of desperate entrepreneurs and of our children, segregated from friends and classmates, told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer.

    In Sacred Scripture, Saint Paul speaks to us of “the one who opposes” the manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, the kathèkon (2 Thess 2:6-7).

    In the religious sphere, this obstacle to evil is the Church, and in particular the papacy; in the political sphere, it is those who impede the establishment of the New World Order.

    As is now clear, the one who occupies the Chair of Peter has betrayed his role from the very beginning in order to defend and promote the globalist ideology, supporting the agenda of the deep church, who chose him from its ranks.

    Mr. President, you have clearly stated that you want to defend the nation – One Nation under God, fundamental liberties, and non-negotiable values that are denied and fought against today.

    It is you, dear President, who are “the one who opposes” the deep state, the final assault of the children of darkness.

    For this reason, it is necessary that all people of good will be persuaded of the epochal importance of the imminent election: not so much for the sake of this or that political program, but because of the general inspiration of your action that best embodies – in this particular historical context – that world, our world, which they want to cancel by means of the lockdown.

    Your adversary is also our adversary: it is the Enemy of the human race, He who is “a murderer from the beginning” (Jn 8:44).

    Around you are gathered with faith and courage those who consider you the final garrison against the world dictatorship.

    The alternative is to vote for a person who is manipulated by the deep state, gravely compromised by scandals and corruption, who will do to the United States what Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing to the Church, Prime Minister Conte to Italy, President Macron to France, Prime Minster Sanchez to Spain, and so on.

    The blackmailable nature of Joe Biden – just like that of the prelates of the Vatican’s “magic circle” – will expose him to be used unscrupulously, allowing illegitimate powers to interfere in both domestic politics as well as international balances.

    It is obvious that those who manipulate him already have someone worse than him ready, with whom they will replace him as soon as the opportunity arises.

    And yet, in the midst of this bleak picture, this apparently unstoppable advance of the “Invisible Enemy,” an element of hope emerges.

    The adversary does not know how to love, and it does not understand that it is not enough to assure a universal income or to cancel mortgages in order to subjugate the masses and convince them to be branded like cattle.

    This people, which for too long has endured the abuses of a hateful and tyrannical power, is rediscovering that it has a soul; it is understanding that it is not willing to exchange its freedom for the homogenization and cancellation of its identity; it is beginning to understand the value of familial and social ties, of the bonds of faith and culture that unite honest people.

    This Great Reset is destined to fail because those who planned it do not understand that there are still people ready to take to the streets to defend their rights, to protect their loved ones, to give a future to their children and grandchildren.

    The leveling inhumanity of the globalist project will shatter miserably in the face of the firm and courageous opposition of the children of Light.

    The enemy has Satan on its side, He who only knows how to hate.

    But on our side, we have the Lord Almighty, the God of armies arrayed for battle, and the Most Holy Virgin, who will crush the head of the ancient Serpent. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31).

    Mr. President, you are well aware that, in this crucial hour, the United States of America is considered the defending wall against which the war declared by the advocates of globalism has been unleashed.

    Place your trust in the Lord, strengthened by the words of the Apostle Paul: “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13).

    To be an instrument of Divine Providence is a great responsibility, for which you will certainly receive all the graces of state that you need, since they are being fervently implored for you by the many people who support you with their prayers.

    With this heavenly hope and the assurance of my prayer for you, for the First Lady, and for your collaborators, with all my heart I send you my blessing.

    God bless the United States of America!

    + Carlo Maria Viganò

    Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana

‘Pray, and vote — for the future of your country,’ writes Register publisher, Michael Warsaw. (photo: Photo by James Lee on Unsplash)

Michael Warsaw Publisher's Note October 17, 2020

In this year’s presidential election, the choice isn’t really between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It is a choice between two completely different views of America. That difference is philosophical, not simply personal.

One campaign has built itself on the notion that America is a great country, with much to offer. It embraces a vision that sees religious practice and belief in God as central to the country’s private and public life. In this understanding of America, faith is not something to be defended against with a “wall of separation” designed to keep Christians out. Instead, faith — and Christianity itself — are seen as critical to the flourishing of our country in a perspective shared by many of our Founding Fathers. This was the understanding of men like Samuel Adams, James Madison, Patrick Henry and George Washington. 

Emblematic of such thinking are these words by Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence Charles Carroll, who wrote in 1800: “Without morals, a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion … are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.” 

Under this view of America, Christians and other people of faith are seen as a large part of the solution to the challenges our country faces, just as they have been central to so many positive movements in American history — from the right-to-life movement of the past four decades to many of the great causes for justice and rights of the 19th, 20th and the 21st centuries. 

Unsurprisingly, the traditional view of our country holds that the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom should be protected, that people of faith should not be discriminated against for their beliefs, and that all Americans, including those not yet born, have a God-given right to life — the first right listed in the Declaration of Independence.

Under this vision, the Constitution is viewed as a well-crafted document that continues to serve the country effectively and should be interpreted as written — not adapted and changed to meet the fads or trends of the moment. 

This vision of our country believes that the values America supports through our foreign policy and overseas assistance should be values like religious freedom rather than abortion. It believes in equality of opportunity, opposes violent riots, and stands against the revisionist historians who would undermine everything in America in order to so taint the country’s heritage as to make it anathema.

This view does not hold that everything in America is perfect, or that every founder of our country or leader who espoused this view is a saint, but it believes in the greatness of the country and the idea that the tools exist within our Constitution and system of government to fix those problems that arise without having to completely change our system of laws and government. This is the classical view of America.

Against it is rising a progressive view that is increasingly popular in many colleges and universities and the news media and with protesters and rioters and even in political circles, including one of the presidential campaigns.

In this telling of our history, America has much to atone for and little to be proud of. Traditional religious and Christian values are seen as a form or vehicle for discrimination, not a central element of the country. Abortion isn’t just celebrated; its export with taxpayer dollars is an article of faith for them. Contraception in this view is a fundamental right that outweighs even the constitutional religious-freedom rights of nuns like the Little Sisters of the Poor. Conscientious objection is dismissed, and religion is seen as something to be subverted and brought into the progressive fold, not something to be celebrated for what it is and what it believes. In fact, traditional religious beliefs are seen as a major threat to the country, and religious values are seen as out of step with the newfound progressive “American” ones.

America’s progress in areas of racial equality is downplayed, and while the country continues to struggle with legitimate issues related to race, for this group hope of improvement is dismissed within the current system. For them, only a complete repudiation of the American system is acceptable. How well it has done relative to so many of its contemporaries and how attractive coming here remains to oppressed people worldwide is ignored. 

The redefinition of sexual values and of the family itself are central to this worldview — and religious people who disagree with such an agenda are labeled bigots. American “imperialism” is decried, while a blind eye is turned to the real imperialism of communist countries. Overlooked by this view is that a religion-embracing America that believed its people’s rights came from God has done far better for its people over time in trying to keep God’s promises than many of its contemporaries who simply tried to keep man’s promises. As a recent EWTN documentary pointed out, where governments tried to kill God, they have often turned next to killing people.

Religion must submit to politics and the state in this view. Period.

And submission will always be developing, because for this progressive crowd, evolution is everything. Their own values — and vocabulary — from yesterday are constantly supplanted by new values and new language. Their goal is not static but evolving, yet undeniably in an anti-Christian direction. Politicians that supported the Defense of Marriage Act, or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or the Hyde Amendment a few decades ago now find these all to be repugnant. For advocates of this understanding of America, values are not unchanging, but utterly changeable depending on political expediency and cultural trends. 

This view of America — that seeks to renounce the role of God and the importance, uniqueness and greatness of America’s founding and subsequent history — is the progressive view of our country.

This — more than the candidates themselves — is what is on the ballot. You are casting your vote this year for a long-term vision of America, not for a person. Keep that in mind: Pray, and vote — for the future of your country. 

God bless you.

Michael Warsaw

Donald J. Trump - a buffoon?

The buffoon in the White House just brokered two Middle East Peace Accords, something that 71 years of political intervention and endless war failed to produce.  He has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by 3 separate world leaders.

The buffoon in the White House is the first president that has not engaged us in a foreign war since Eisenhower.

The buffoon in the White House promised to destroy ISIS, and kept his promise. Something Obama  promised to do, but couldn’t.

The buffoon in the White House has had the greatest impact on the economy, bringing jobs, and lowering unemployment to the Black and Latino population of ANY other president. Ever.

The buffoon in the White House has exposed the deep, widespread, and long-standing corruption in the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the Democratic party.

The buffoon in the White House turned NATO around and had them start paying their dues.

The buffoon in the White House neutralized the North Koreans, stopped them from developing a further nuclear capability, sending missiles toward Japan, and threatening the West Coast of the US.

The buffoon in the White House repositioned our embassy to Jerusalem, something every president before him promised to do, but NEVER had the guts to do.

But for the Wuhan caused pandemic, the Buffoon in the White House has stood up to China, brought hundreds of business back to the US, and revived the US economy well beyond anything his predecessor thought possible…..without a “magic wand.”

The buffoon in the White House has accomplished the appointing of three Supreme Court Justices and will soon have placed close to 300 Federal Judges on the federal bench.

The buffoon in the White House lowered your taxes and caused your stock market to move to record levels over 100 times, positively impacting the retirements of tens of millions of citizens.

The buffoon in the White House fast-tracked the development of a COVID Vaccine - it will be available within months - we still don't have a vaccine for SARS, Bird Flu, Ebola, or a host of diseases that arose during previous administrations.

The buffoon in the White House rebuilt our military which the Obama administration had crippled and had fired 214 key generals and admirals in his first year of office.

The buffoon in the White House uncovered and curtailed rampant illegal immigration and widespread sex and drug trafficking in the United States and beyond.

The buffoon in the White House works for free and has lost well over 2 billion dollars of his own money in serving - and done all of this and much more in the face of relentless undermining and opposition from people who are threatened because they know they are going to be exposed as the criminals that they are if he is re-elected.

Buffoon???  I don't think so.  He's been doing amazing things for our country...the above just a sampling.

Angelic Translation the Holy House of Our Lady of Nazareth to Loreto. 

Anonymous painting, 17th century, Mexico.

How did the Holy House take off from its foundations and reappear intact about 2,000 miles away, where it remains to this day?

At a conference organized by the “Amici del Timone” Cultural Center in Staggia Senese, Italy, titled “The Story of the Incredible Move of the House of Mary of Nazareth to Loreto,” a topic was developed which challenges engineering.

Indeed, the Holy House, birthplace of Our Lady and where the Archangel Gabriel announced to her the Incarnation, has been for many centuries in the town of Loreto (Santa Casa di Loreto), in the Marche region of Italy, facing the Adriatic Sea.

However, the Annunciation took place in Nazareth, in the Holy Land, where the foundations of the Holy House remain to this day. When compared with the dimensions and characteristics of the Loreto House, they match perfectly; but the similarities and concordances do not end there.

How did the Holy House take off, so to speak, from its foundations and reappear about 2,000 miles away, where it remains intact to this day?

According to historical evidence, the move took place in the thirteenth century; but how could it have been done given the poor technological resources of the time?

The move is attributed to an angelic action officially recognized by Popes and sustained by saints. However, such authoritative approvals are not intended to explain the material procedure, which carried an object the size of a house from one continent to another practically overnight.

This transfer, however, was confirmed by historical, documentary and archaeological evidence. Once again, for the astonishment of many, science confirms the Church.

Prof. Giorgio Nicolini, who devoted his life of study and research to the case, spoke at this conference. Based on these scientific evidences, he proved indisputably the veracity of the miraculous transfer.

During his lecture, Professor Nicolini demonstrated the existence of many documents and eyewitness accounts of the transfer, which science and human method cannot explain. He also established a chronology of the change of location.

1.  On May 9, 1291, the Holy House was still in Nazareth.

2.  On the night of May 9 to 10, 1291, it traveled nearly 2,000 miles and reached Tersatto (now Trsat), in the region of Dalmatia, in what is now a suburb of Rijeka, Croatia.

On that occasion, Nicolò Frangipane, feudal lord of Tersatto personally sent a delegation to Nazareth to ascertain whether the Holy House had indeed disappeared from its original place. The emissaries not only verified its disappearance but found the foundation on which the house was built and from which the walls had been taken away as a block. Around these foundations in Nazareth, the Basilica of the Annunciation was built. In Loreto, the Holy House stands firmly, without its foundation, directly on the ground.

3.  On the night of December 9 to 10, 1294, the Holy House disappeared from Tersatto and landed “in various places” of Italy. For nine months it stayed on a hillside overlooking the port of Ancona, which thus came to be called “Posatora,” from the Latin “posat et ora” (to set down, or land, and pray).

A church was built on the site as a memorial, as was recorded at the time and signed by a priest “Don Matteo,” probably an eyewitness.

Two tombstones also commemorate this occurrence. One is from the same time period of the event and is written in old Vulgar Latin. The other, from the sixteenth century, is written in vernacular and is a copy of the older.

Posatora’s oldest tombstone already mentioned “Our Lady of Loreto,” making it clear that the inscription was done after the House’s departure from the site.

4.  In 1295, after nine months in Posatora, the Holy House moved to a forest that belonged to a woman called Loreta, near the town of Recanati. That is where the name Loreto comes from.

5.  Between 1295 and 1296, after spending eight months in this location the Holy House was miraculously transported to a farm on Mount Prodo belonging to two brothers of the Antici family.

6.  In 1296, after four months at this farm, the Holy House departed and landed on a public road on Mount Prodo connecting Recanati to Ancona, where it remains to this day.

The interior of the Holy House of Mary, Mother of God, as it is today in Loreto, Italy.

Countless other elements attest to the historical truth of this inexplicable translation of the Holy House. Three churches were built in Ancona—two still existing—testaments that eyewitnesses saw the “flying” Santa Casa arrive in Ancona and stop in Posatora.

Moreover, in Forio, on Ischia Island, fishermen who traded with Ancona returned narrating the events that had taken place in 1295. Their reports led the city inhabitants to erect a basilica dedicated to “Santa Maria di Loreto.” They also saw the Holy House in Ancona with their own eyes.

Various bishops of the region approved the veneration of the miraculous translations. For centuries the Popes renewed the approvals until Urban VIII, in 1624, definitively established December 10 as the Feast of the Translation of the Holy House of Mary, Mother of God.

Several Popes, including Paul II, Julius II, Leo X, Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pius XI documented their recognition of the translation. These respective documents, beyond their religious aspect in which the Popes recognize the event as supernatural, are recognized as valuable documents by historical science.

Professor Nicolini strongly reprimanded the materialistic mentality, at times agnostic, atheistic or Protestant, which seeks to discredit the authenticity of the Holy House venerated in Loreto.

In a way, this opposition encouraged deeper studies, which ended up proving the Holy House actually came from the Holy Land. Proofs include the chemical composition of the material used to build the house, its shape, and many architectural details.

Some, denying the angelic translation, went so far as to fabricate a story that a fanciful princely family from Epirus named “Angeli” had dismantled the house and transported it brick by brick at the request of the Crusaders facing the destructive advance of Muslims. That “family” then rebuilt the house in Loreto.

Such an operation, with the transportation conditions of the thirteenth century, would have been a more miraculous feat than the angelic translation.

The Holy House of Loreto has the exact geometric proportions of the Nazareth house, whose foundations, to this day, match perfectly the walls of Loreto.

The stones and bricks are kept together with a mortar whose physical and chemical composition is found only in Palestine and precisely in the region of Nazareth. They are nonexistent in the Marche region or anywhere else in Italy.

Moreover, if the house was dismantled and rebuilt in place after place along its journey—as claimed by its fanciful objectors—one cannot understand how it could possibly have maintained the exact geometric proportions of the Nazareth house, whose foundations, to this day, match perfectly the walls of Loreto.

Nor would it have been possible that nobody saw or heard the house being dismantled and later rebuilt, especially in the brief span of one night in the center of the shrine in Nazareth and then again in Croatia and Italy.

Even more inexplicable is the fact that the Holy House finally came to rest across an old dirt highway. On this road, the passage of animals and carriages naturally opened ruts in the center of the roadway, raising the roadsides, and forming ditches on both sides. Thus, the way the house landed, its three walls, with no foundation, are supported partly on ground and partly over open air. Today pilgrims can see this for themselves through a glass floor.

Glass on the floor for the Holy House allows pilgrims to observe the walls without foundations, still supported on the ground and partly in the air.

The Recanati City Hall, moreover, had already at that time forbidden the building of houses on public roads and had ordered demolished all buildings found to be in violation of the ordinance. How, then, could someone have rebuilt a house cutting across the road without anyone noticing?

Another great hurdle comes from the lack of means in those days to carry an entire house, even if dismantled brick by brick and stone by stone. It would weigh a few tons. Transport by road would have likely been unfeasible due the delay and the amount of chariots, animals and men it would require. Transportation by sea, while more feasible, would also have been too time-consuming and prone to loss due to storms.

More complicated still would be to cut the walls in segments and take them intact on a 2,000 mile journey and then glue them back together without leaving traces of the joints. These material factors, Prof. Giorgio Nicolini explained, postulate the impossibility of such transportation with the technical means of the time.

From Professor Nicolini’s long and detailed demonstration it is clearly much more reasonable to believe the angelic translation resulting from a wondrous work of God, for Whom nothing is impossible, and Who has worked far greater miracles.

For human hands to have performed such a translation is to consider an event even more miraculous than that done by the work of angels.

The Catholic Spirit of Christopher Columbus  (What you won't read in your History books) ...

As the sun set, the Salve Regina hymn rang out across the Atlantic. Ninety men stood on the decks of three boats, led in prayer by Christopher Columbus, the foreign captain they had come to trust. They had kept the same ritual of evening prayers since they left Spain months ago, but tonight was different. Tomorrow would be the Feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, Spain’s great patroness. Columbus had promised his men that had they not spotted land by her feast day, he would order the ships to turn back, a promise he intended to keep. He knew Our Lady would not abandon the enterprise he had worked so hard to bring about. The signs that they were near land were increasing by the day.

As Columbus climbed the steps to his cabin, his gaze fell instinctively to the western horizon. Off in the distance, he caught sight of a light, like a candle rising and falling on the waves. Quickly, he called another man, who confirmed the sighting. The crews on all three ships were alerted, each man was on deck, peering out for signs of land nearby. At 2 a.m., the cry came out, “Tierra!” Land! The excitement of the crew was such that they hardly noticed the many hours it took to navigate the treacherous reef that surrounded their new destination. As Columbus knelt on the beach to give thanks, the following prayer rose from his lips:

“O Lord, eternal and omnipotent God, Thou hast, by Thy holy word, created the heavens, the earth, and the sea; blessed and glorified be Thy name; praised be Thy majesty, who hast deigned that, by means of Thy unworthy servant, Thy sacred name should be acknowledged and made known in this new quarter of the world.”1

Columbus’ flagship on the first voyage was Santa Maria de la Inmaculada Concepción (Holy Mary of the Immaculate Conception).

San Salvador

The above prayer, recited in Latin and the first spoken in the Americas, was followed by the chanting of the Credo, the Te Deum, and many other prayers in thanksgiving. As the banners were unfurled, the admiral solemnly proclaimed, “In the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ…” He proceeded to claim the new land for his sovereigns, but not before first claiming it for his Divine Master, giving it the name San Salvador (Holy Savior).

The details in the above account of the first landfall of Europeans in the Americas are rather unknown in modern times. Historians have typically shied away from the Catholic aspects of Columbus’ journeys, either making passing mention or ignoring them entirely. Yet a reading of the writings of Columbus himself, along with the testimonies of his contemporaries, shows that the Catholic spirit permeated all aspects of life and was central to the mission of exploration.

While a detailed retelling of the events of 1492 and afterward is far beyond the scope of this article, we will examine the Catholic inspirations for the discovery, which are essential to understanding Columbus himself. Contrary to the opinion of many modern historians, and far from being a minor aberration, Columbus’ militant Catholic faith was the source of his greatness and influenced his every action.

Catholic Piety

All evidence shows Columbus was a man of deep devotion who took his faith extremely seriously. One of his contemporaries, Bartolome de las Casas, described him as a man of righteousness and deep piety:

“He observed the fasts of the church most faithfully, confessed and made communion often, read the Divine Office like a churchman, hated blasphemy and profane swearing, and was most devoted to Our Lady and to the seraphic father St. Francis…”2

These two devotions had many manifestations. The full name of Columbus’ flagship on the first voyage was Santa Maria de la Inmaculada Concepción (Holy Mary of the Immaculate Conception). During the return of the first voyage, when the ships were in danger of sinking, Columbus and his men vowed a pilgrimage to the first Marian church they came to, which they fulfilled in the Azores two weeks later. Upon his return to Spain, Columbus made a pilgrimage to the monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Extremadura as a solemn act of thanksgiving.

As a Third Order Franciscan, Columbus was often seen wearing the Franciscan habit.

As a Third Order Franciscan, Columbus was often seen wearing the Franciscan habit, particularly when in the presence of clergy or nobility. His close personal association with the Franciscans was instrumental in securing contacts in the royal court, and provided much needed encouragement when it seemed the enterprise would never get the support it required. His son Diego remained in the care of the Franciscans at the monastery of La Rabida near Palos during the first voyage, where the friars took charge of his education. Upon his return to Spain, Columbus spent the summer of 1493 at La Rabida, preparing spiritually for the second voyage later that year.

After Columbus’ death, his second son Fernando would write of his father’s piety:

“In matters of religion he was so strict that for fasting and saying all the canonical offices he might have been taken for a member of a religious order. And when he had to write anything, he would not try the pen without first writing these words, ‘Jesus cum Maria sit nobis in via.”3

This inscription is found in the majority of Columbus’ letters still extant. The literal meaning, “May Jesus with Mary be with us on the way” is a fitting prayer for an explorer, and could rightly be considered his motto.

Missionary Zeal

Scholars have been quick to point to the influence of Marco Polo’s Book of the Marvels of the World upon Columbus and his contemporaries, and rightly so. Yet the chapter which most influenced Columbus himself was the introduction. In it, we read of Polo’s father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, travelling to the Orient while Marco was still an infant. Their extensive travels eventually put them into contact with Kublai Khan, referred to in the book as the Great Khan.

The Great Khan questioned them about life in Western Europe and the Catholic Faith, in which he took an interest. Upon their departure, he entrusted them with a letter to the Pope requesting 100 missionaries to instruct his kingdom in the Catholic faith, along with oil from the lamp at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. On the return of the Polos to the West in 1268, they discovered Pope Clement IV had died, and the long interregnum which followed prevented the Khan’s requests from being fulfilled.4

In his petitions to Ferdinand and Isabella over a period of 7 years, it was Columbus’ desire to fulfill the Great Khan’s request which finally persuaded the sovereigns to approve the journey. Aboard his flagship was a letter to the Great Khan from the king and queen, and Columbus went to great lengths in order to deliver it. In the prologue to the report on the first voyage, Columbus directly addresses this evangelistic mission:

“I had given [a report] to Your Highnesses about the lands of India and about a prince who is called ‘Grand Khan,’. . .how he had sent to Rome to ask for men learned in our Holy Faith in order that they might instruct him in it, yet the Holy Father had never granted his request, and thus so many people were lost, falling into idolatry and accepting false and harmful religions; and Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, lovers and promoters of the Holy Christian Faith. . .  thought of sending me, Cristobal Colon. . . to see how their conversion to our Holy Faith might be undertaken.”5

“He was extremely zealous for the honor and glory of God; he deeply yearned for the evangelization of these peoples and for the planting and flourishing everywhere of people’s faith in Jesus Christ.”

Yet the mission to complete the Khan’s request for missionaries was but one aspect of Columbus’ desire to spread the Gospel. As Bartolome de las Casas wrote, “He was extremely zealous for the honor and glory of God; he deeply yearned for the evangelization of these peoples and for the planting and flourishing everywhere of people’s faith in Jesus Christ.”6

Upon his first encounter with the natives on San Salvador, Columbus concludes, “I recognized that they were people who would be better freed [from error] and converted to our Holy Faith by love than by force.”7

On six separate occasions, Columbus wrote to the Holy Father requesting missionaries be sent to the recently discovered islands, a request which was fulfilled. On January 6, 1494, the Feast of the Epiphany, the first Mass in the Americas was offered by a Benedictine who had accompanied the second voyage.

Five centuries after the fact, American Jesuit Fr. John Hardon would remark, “It is one thing to say that Columbus discovered America. It is something else to realize that he opened the door to the most phenomenal spread of Christianity since the time of St. Paul.”8

Crusader Spirit

A question arises from the modern reader: “What about the quest for gold?” As Columbus makes clear in his log, the finding of gold, spices, and other valuables is central to his mission, but not for the reason most are taught.

On December 26, 1492, Columbus had established a makeshift settlement named La Navidad on the north end of the island of Hispaniola from the wreckage of the Santa Maria, run aground on a reef. Seeing the hand of Divine Providence, he then proceeded to write of his desired result:

“I hope to God that when I come back here from Castile. . . I will find a barrel of gold, for which these people have traded, and that they will have found the gold mine, and the spices, and in such quantities that within three years the Sovereigns will prepare for and undertake the reconquest of the Holy Land. I have already petitioned Your Highnesses to see that all the profits of my enterprise should be spent on the conquest of Jerusalem, and Your Highnesses smiled and said that. . . even without the expedition they had the inclination to do it.”9

Now that Spain was finally free from Muslim domination (Jan. 2, 1492), the great desire to take the fight to the enemy and complete the liberation of the Holy Land could finally be completed. By sailing west, Columbus was aiming to outflank Islam, gaining access to the riches of the East so as to finance the retaking of Jerusalem. Since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, while Columbus was still a child, calls had come from all corners of Europe to renew the Crusade. Columbus saw himself as the instrument to fulfill the longed-for end.

In a letter to Pope Alexander VI, Columbus reiterates the seriousness of his intentions:

“The enterprise must be undertaken in order to spend any profits therein for the redemption of the Sepulcher and the Temple Mount unto Holy Church.”10

Historian George Grant succinctly concludes, “Clearly, the motivations of Columbus were shaped by the eons long conflict between Christendom and Islam. The evidence is inescapable. He sailed, not to discover a new world, but to find a way to recover the old one.”11

Our Great Debt to Columbus

The events of 1492 and afterward could have transpired far differently. The richest nation in the world at the time was China, followed by the Islamic caliphates which stretched from Morocco to the edges of the Far East. Why didn’t the Chinese expand their empire to the east across the Pacific? Why was it not a Muslim who established lasting contact between the continents? For that matter, why was it not an Indian who discovered Europe?

Modern historians are at a loss to answer these questions, and conclude that it was simply by chance that events unfolded as they did. This hardly explains the fact that Spain was the poorest nation in Western Europe at the time, bankrupt from its completion of the Reconquista. Yet not only did Spain successfully go about colonizing and evangelizing the Americas, it also kept the Muslims out of the Americas. Had Islam spread to the Americas in place of Christianity, what we know today as the United States could very well have been the United Emirates.

Columbus believed he was specially chosen by God to bring the Gospel to a people who were living in darkness and the shadow of death. He believed his given name, Christopher, signified the mission he was destined to carry out, as his son Fernando would later explain: “Just as Saint Christopher bore Christ over the waters, so too was he to bear the light of the Gospel over the vast oceans.”12

In conclusion, spreading the Catholic faith and acquiring riches so as to finance the retaking of Jerusalem from the Muslims were at the heart of Columbus’ mission. Any hopes of personal rewards or honors were secondary. In writing the royal treasurer of Spain at the completion of the first journey, he gives the reason all people, present and future, should celebrate what would come to be known as Columbus Day:

“And now ought the King, Queen, Princes, and all their dominions, as well as the whole of Christians, to give thanks to our Savior Jesus Christ who has granted us such a victory and great success. Let processions be ordered, let solemn festivals be celebrated, let the temples be filled with boughs and flowers. Let Christ rejoice upon earth as he does in heaven, to witness the coming salvation of so many people, heretofore given over to perdition. Let us rejoice for the exaltation of our faith, as well as for the augmentation of our temporal prosperity, in which not only Spain but all Christendom shall participate.”13

Beth Anderson was introduced to Reiki in 2004, while attending college. Handling the stress and pressures of university life was challenging, and she started experiencing acute stomach pain. Medication and advice from several doctors didn’t help, and a nun in her parish who was the parish nurse, suggested trying Reiki. A devout Catholic, Anderson was skeptical at first, but when her stomach pain got worse she finally agreed to a Reiki session given by a nun. Soon she was going to sessions on a regular basis.

“I learned how to experience deep relaxation,” Anderson said, “which in turn helped me to be more open in prayer and bring all my pain to God. After a few sessions, I felt calmer and had fewer stomach problems. I kept looking forward to the next session.”

Anderson is not alone in turning to Reiki (pronounced RAY-key) for relief from health problems. According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, more than 1.2 million adults in the U.S. had used an energy healing therapy, such as Reiki, in the previous year. What is perhaps surprising is that a growing number of Reiki practitioners and clients are Catholics.

What is Reiki? 

According to William Rand, founder and president of the International Center for Reiki Training, Reiki is “a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing” (Reiki, The Healing Touch; First and Second Degree Manual, pg. I-1).

It was developed in Japan in the late nineteenth century by Mikao Usui and brought to the West in 1937. Reiki is administered through the hands of a trained Reiki practitioner, with the client lying fully clothed on a massage table. A session usually lasts 45 to 90 minutes. The Reiki practitioner places his or her hands at locations around the head, shoulders, abdomen, legs, and feet, lightly touching or slightly away from the body.

At first, Anderson considered Reiki beneficial. The way it was presented to her resonated with her understanding of healing by the Holy Spirit. She learned that it is possible to treat yourself with Reiki and decided, with the encouragement of her practitioner, to receive training to be a Reiki practitioner herself. She signed up for a training workshop and started to learn more about the theories and practices behind it.

How does it ‘work’?

How exactly do Reiki’s proponents explain its ability to promote healing? William Rand explains in his manual, Reiki: The Healing Touch (the standard resource for many Reiki practitioners) that Rei is the all-knowing God-Consciousness and Ki is life energy, which animates all living things. According to Rand, the free and balanced flow of Ki is the cause of health. Blocks, or disruptions in the flow of Ki, are the main cause of illness:

When a person receives a Reiki treatment, the Rei or God-conscious part of the energy assesses where the person has blocks, and then directs the healing energy, usually to the block that is nearest (the practitioner’s) hands. The Reiki energy then works with the negative thoughts and feelings that are blocking one’s natural flow of Ki and heals them (p. I-5).

Rand also presents a healing guide that lists a range of illnesses and conditions:

In its long history of use it has aided in healing virtually every known illness and injury including serious problems like multiple sclerosis, heart disease and cancer, as well as skin problems, cuts, bruises, broken bones, headaches, colds, flu, sore throat, sunburn, fatigue, insomnia and impotence (p. I-7).

Anderson’s first training workshop included an “attunement.” Reiki is not taught in a traditional way in which a teacher instructs a student but is “transferred” to the student by a Reiki master by means of an attunement. During the process, the Rei or God-Consciousness purportedly makes adjustments to the student’s energy pathways to accommodate the ability to channel Reiki, then links the student to the Reiki source. The Reiki master does not direct the process but is simply a channel for the attunement energy flowing from the Higher Power.

Unease 

Anderson recalls feeling a little strange about her attunement.

“I was asked to sit in a chair and there was a little ceremony to ‘open me up’ to the Reiki energy,” she recalled. “There was clapping and ringing of bells over me. It felt a little like a sacrament. But remember, these were nuns leading the workshop, so I figured it must be okay.”

As explained in Reiki: The Healing Touch, once you have received a Reiki attunement, you will have Reiki flowing through you for the remainder of your life.

After the attunement, all that is necessary for practitioners to use Reiki is to place their hands on the ‘person to be healed’ with the intention of healing. The Reiki energies will begin flowing automatically. Reiki has its own intelligence and knows exactly where to go and what to do. It is not necessary to direct the Reiki. It will communicate with the client’s Higher Self and use this information to decide where to go and what to do (p. I-3).

After attaining first- and second-degree Reiki levels, Anderson took part in further workshops and became a Reiki master. Besides treating herself, she started offering free Reiki sessions to friends and family members, and sometimes to others for a small fee. In the second degree and master levels of Reiki, she learned about using Reiki “symbols” and the “mantras” or words that accompany them. Many of the symbols are made from Japanese kanji characters.

Rand explains that when a Reiki practitioner uses a Reiki symbol, “the Rei or God-Consciousness responds by changing the way the Reiki energy functions. This process operates under a divine covenant or sacred agreement between God and those who have Second Degree Reiki” (p. I-5). He describes Reiki symbols as “keys that open doors to higher levels of awareness and manifestation” (p. I-6)

To “activate” a Reiki symbol, the practitioner draws the symbol in the air, or says its name, or simply visualizes it. The claim is that these symbols can increase the healing power of Reiki, clear a room of negative energy, protect oneself (or loved ones or one’s car, home or other valuables), eliminate unwanted habits, facilitate exorcism or spirit release work, send Reiki to others at a distance (even to the other side of the world), or send Reiki energy into the future or past.

Unsettling apsects

Initially, Anderson simply wanted to become more relaxed and calm, to be closer to God and to help others. But as she advanced in Reiki training, some of the things she learned made her uneasy.

“Without knowing it, I began to ‘filter out’ things that I didn’t feel good about or that I didn’t believe,” she said. “I thought of myself as strong in my faith and able to handle all this in my own way, including keeping my spiritual director at the time (a priest) apprised of everything I was doing and experiencing. But as people approached me to teach them Reiki level one, I started to worry that it might not be good for my friends and family to enter into, because they wouldn’t be able to handle the parts I could so easily filter out. And then I thought—what makes me think this is okay for me but not for others?”

Anderson started to receive the International Center for Reiki Training’s Reiki News Magazine, which had articles on many other ways to use Reiki, such as treating animals; enhancing the nutritional qualities of food; filling crystals and stones with Reiki and using them to carry Reiki energy; sending Reiki into trees to help them achieve better harmony with the environment; and using Reiki energy to heal the planet, prevent famines, and restore ecological disasters.

There was one article in the magazine that Anderson found especially disturbing. Written by William Rand, it describes “Reikiman”:

And so at this sacred moment in the unfolding of the Reiki energy, this advanced manifestation of healing power has been hovering just beyond the tangible world, waiting for the right moment when the necessary numbers of those who are true to the meaning and purpose of Reiki to exist so it can make itself known. We now find that conditions are right. The material embodiment of what previously had been an unseen spiritual energy is upon us. The emergence of Reikiman is an event whose time has come (“The Emergence of Reikiman,” Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2007, pp. 40—41).

Many of the aspects of Reiki that she was encountering made Anderson feel increasingly uncomfortable, but then something happened that she called the “breaking point.”

“I was told by another Reiki master that I should do a ‘past life regression,’” she said. “I had always been dead-set against doing that, but then somehow I got to a place of temptation where I almost did it, and that scared me.”

Past life regressions involve going back in your subconscious to one of your ‘past lives’ in order to learn something that will help solve a problem you are having now. The underlying premise is that we have lived other lives in a previous time and another place.

“I knew that was not compatible with my faith,” Anderson said, “and I suddenly could see how practicing Reiki had led me into things I never thought I would get into. The fruits of the Reiki treatment—relaxation—were not worth the moral turmoil I was going through.”

At the same time, a growing number of priests were becoming concerned with the spread of Reiki practice in their parishes. In the spring of 2008, The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine issued a document titled “Guidelines for Evaluating Reiki as an Alternative Therapy” in response to a request from bishops who were noticing that Catholic retreat centers and health care facilities in their dioceses were offering Reiki workshops and sessions. (The document is viewable as a PDF at usccb.org/about/doctrine/publications.)

The bishops’ guidelines state that Reiki lacks scientific credibility and has not been accepted by the scientific and medical communities as an effective therapy. They also note that “Reiki is frequently described as a ‘spiritual’ kind of healing” but assert that there is a radical difference between Reiki therapy and the healing by divine power in which Christians believe: “Nevertheless, for Christians the access to divine healing is by prayer to Christ as Lord and Savior, while the essence of Reiki is not a prayer but a technique that is passed down from the ‘Reiki Master’ to the pupil” (8).

The guidelines warn that there are serious dangers in using Reiki for one’s spiritual health:

To use Reiki one would have to accept at least in an implicit way central   elements of the worldview that undergirds Reiki theory, elements that belong neither to Christian faith nor to natural science. Without justification either from Christian faith or natural science, however, a Catholic who puts his or her trust in Reiki would be operating in the realm of superstition, the no-man’s-land that is neither faith nor science (11).

They point to the example of forms of Reiki that teach of a need to appeal for the assistance of angelic beings, or Reiki spirit guides, and suggest that “this introduces the further danger of exposure to malevolent forces or powers” (11 [footnote]). Anderson saw this when her Reiki teachers introduced her to a divination tool called “Angel Cards” and to a special spirit guide named Richard.

The bishops’ conclusion: “[S]ince Reiki therapy is not compatible with either Christian teaching or scientific evidence, it would be inappropriate for Catholic institutions, such as Catholic health care facilities and retreat centers, or persons representing the Church, such as Catholic chaplains, to promote or to provide support for Reiki therapy” (12).

The publication of the guidelines prompted many rebuttals from Reiki practitioners, especially Christian ones, who argued that healing by a “laying on of hands” was practiced by Jesus and his followers. Rand wrote in an online article entitled “Similarities between the Healing of Jesus and Reiki” that “Jesus could pass the power to heal on to others, which is similar to the Reiki attunement process” (reiki.org/reikinews/reikin15.html).

Anderson found the bishops’ guidelines to be both wise and helpful and now feels that her Reiki experiences were a distraction from her growth in a truly Christ-centered life. She warns that much of Reiki practice is subtle and alluring, and, while it is easy to get drawn in, “it’s not that easy to get it out of your system.” She suggests there are many other less harmful—and less questionable—ways to learn how to relax and deal with stress.

Anderson is certain that many of the things she was led to believe about Reiki are spiritually dangerous and not in harmony with the Catholic faith. She has a message for anyone who might be considering or reconsidering their involvement in Reiki: “My advice is to rely on Christ alone—we don’t need anything else. Put your focus on things that will deepen and put right your relationship with Him. The sacraments of the Church are a great start. His grace is enough for us, no matter what we’re going through.”

Editor’s note: Beth Anderson is a pseudonym. The subject is a novice in a religious order and requested anonymity because of concerns about the order’s privacy and the jeopardizing of her future ministry.

Table of Contents:

~ Archbishop Vigano on the danger of WHO (World Health Organization) takeover of our Health System.

~ Link to a very important message from Archbishop Vigano - he calls out those deceiving us!!! 

https://theamericanreport.org/2022/04/02/archbishop-vigano-speaks-to-the-american-people-at-the-reawaken-america-rally-and-via-the-american-report-and-the-fortnight-intelligence-briefing/

~ Link to the Marian Visions in Ukraine...    http://www.divinemysteries.info/our-lady-of-the-ukraine-hrushiv-ukraine-1914-and-1987/

~ Story of Heitor Levy, who almost lost his life as Master Builder for the Christ the Redeemer Cross in Rio de Janeiro.

~ Father Mike Schmitz at the March for Life Rally - profound!  Every person matters!

~ About Ron Wyatt's work and archeological discoveries... he died in 1999 and affirmed his former claim to have found the Ark of the Covenant.  

~ An excellent, common-sense article by Dr. Ben Carson, about the handling of Covid response.

~ A miraculous sign of God's grace and Mary's sacred importance in our human striving to be holy...

 Juan Diego's Story from The Catholic Company - "nobodies" can be used by God...

~ Mike Lindell, true Patriot, attempted Bill of Complaint submission to the Supreme Court (all truth) - but blocked, of course, more of the same... stay tuned.  The truth ALWAYS comes out, especially in a nation so favored by God from its inception.  Awaiting signatures by courageous, truth-telling professionals.  This copied cattywampus - but the fraud is so blatant, you can just peruse it to get the idea. it's over 80 pages long.  

~ Archbishop Vigano's 148th appeal letter of warning ...     APPEAL FOR AN ANTI-GLOBALIST ALLIANCE   

~ New Letter about vaccines...  from Archbishop Carlo Vigano; words of warning.

~ On October 13th, in Fatima, Portugal - an undeniable miracle.  

~ A letter in my inbox that brought tears... as I am on an island choosing not to get "vaccinated."  Thank you Bishop Schneider.

~ Archbishop Carlos Vigano's POWERFUL letter - 8/28/21.  This holy man speaks WISDOM.  Listen to him.  Letter #100.

~ Covid PCR test swabs "as dangerous as inhaling asbestos."  

~ Life lessons from Simone Biles... who withdrew from the Olympics.

~ Another beautiful story of Our Lady embracing our world with hope... Our Lady of Charity.  Pray for our Cuban brothers and sisters from the menace of Communism.

~ Some of the approved, as authentic, Marian Apparitions.

~ Freedom isn't free...Let's resolve to keep the Republic alive.  Jeff Minick  (Epoch Times 7/4/21)

~ Epoch Times Wise Editorial - This Memorial Day: a New Birth of Freedom 5/31/21

~ Letter from Reverend Thomas Olmstead, Bishop of Phoenix - on our Blessed Eucharist.

~ Excerpt from Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals 5/14/21.  (Copy link below for full letter.)

~ LifeSiteNews - New warnings on the Covid vaccines...

~True Freedom involves rules - a good article 

~Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano' speaks out about the Vatican Health Conference hosted by the Holy See, etc.   Yikes, you just can't make this stuff up...    4/26/21

~Amanda Grace - WORD from the Lord, He loves His children and the battle is already won!  He's got this! (4/16/21)

~Hobby Lobby Letter - Goverment trying to control this Christian Business...

~Archbishop Vigano' -Former Nuncio to the USA - is the voice of God.  His archived letters - Catholicity.com

~ defendingtherepublic.org = Truth source of behind the scenes exposures...  Letter from Sidney Powell

~Trump knows the importance of remaining faithful to our citizens, our country and our God...

~Why Joe Biden's rosary is so important (from the TFP - Tradition, Family, Property). 

~Rush Limbaugh gave his life to Jesus Christ a few years ago...helped him navigate life and cancer.

~Trumps words after impeachment trial acquittal...  this man isn't going anywhere :)

~ Another Mike Pompeo interview - a good read for awareness...  The CCP is not our friend - and wants to do us harm.

~Mike Pompeo tells it like it is...  the Covid virus came from the CCP,  pure evil inflicted on humanity.

~Candice Owens speaks truth about the January 6th violence.

~Archbishop Vigano - one of the reasons a "remnant" will remain in the Catholic Church formed by Jesus Christ...

~Ben Carson - one of my heroes, talks about striking differences in administrations.

~Trump's 1776 Commission - calling for National Unity around America's founding values.

~ Amanda Grace - Prophesy given to her 1/14/21

~Trump's accomplishments in 2020 - it boggles my mind when people say he hasn't done anything...

~President Trumps remarks (some prophetic) at the completion of 45 miles of border wall on TX, Mexico border.

~ From Bill Wyland - the arrests are beginning...

~ From Newsmax - Social media ban on our President and many others trying to get their perspectives out...

~ Must read letter - 9/10/21 from the Nye Country Chairman of the Republican Central Committee

~If you're still not convinced of election fraud - check this out - per Sidney Powell, "Our weapon is the truth; our advocate is the Lord."

https://www.sidneypowell.com/election-evidence-2020        (use duckduckgo.com to access)

~ A letter from Father Frank Pavone - another one of my heroes... trying to secure election integrity.

~Proclamation by Donald Trump that December 28th be a day for honoring Saint Thomas Becket...

~5 hard truths we've come to see with 2020 vision - from Monsignor Pope (blog post Dec.31, 2020)

~Truth coming out that will not be able to be denied.

~A true American hero...  thank you Michael Flynn for helping to get this election right.

~Age-old wisdom from Venerable Fulton Sheen - Even the Notorious Son of Sam has been able to find his purpose! 

~General Flynn - upon his release from tyranny: expression of thanks, faith, love - written on Thanksgiving 11/26/20.

~Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 (by George Washington) - Thanks be to God's Providence...

~ Caught - by Newt Gingrich

~New exhortation from Archbishop Vigano'

~Must read letter from Dr. James Dobson~New letter from Archbishop Vigano to President Trump

~Lies/myths being spread about President Trump, and sources to do your own research

~Why Catholic voters should support President Trump–

~Cardinal Sarah on the threat of Islamism terrorism

~Voting for a Vision, Not a Person

~A buffoon?

~Letter from Archbishop Vigano to President Trump

~Lincoln's Proclamation of a Day of Prayer and Fasting/ Present Day Prayer and Fasting

~Science Confirms: Angels took the House of Our Lady of Nazareth to Loreto

~The Catholic Spirit of Christopher Columber (What you won't read in History Books today)

~Origins of Halloween

~Reiki and it's dangers  (from someone who became a Reiki Master)

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  DECLARATION REGARDING THE YIELDING OF SOVEREIGNTY TO THE WHO FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH EMERGENCIES

 IN the coming days, the Nations that adhere to the World Health

Organization will vote on resolutions regarding the WHO’s management

of pandemics. These resolutions will transfer sovereignty regarding the

health of citizens to a supranational body that is largely financed by the

 pharmaceutical industry and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. If these

resolutions are approved by a majority, the WHO will have exclusive

international authority in the case of a pandemic to impose all the rules,

including quarantines, lockdowns, obligatory vaccinations and vaccine

 passports. It should also be borne in mind that this organization enjoys

immunity, and thus its members cannot be either tried or convicted if they

commit crimes. Unelected technocrats will paradoxically have more power 

than that which citizens confer on their representatives by means of their 

democratic vote. 

I

Given that the yielding of sovereignty is considered the crime of high treason

 by the laws of every nation, and that Parliaments may not legislate against the

interests of the Nation, much less violate the natural liberties and fundamental

rights of the citizens whom they represent, I believe that it will not escape

anyone’s notice that this attempt by the WHO to appropriate a power that

 properly belongs to individual Nations is intended to impede any sort of 

opposition to the, Agenda 2030, which in the field of healthcare also aims to

accomplish the drastic reduction of medical and hospital services, the

 privatization of the health industry, and disease prevention by means of 

vaccines.

The psycho-pandemic has demonstrated the enslavement of rulers, the

 political system, the media, the judiciary, the entire medical industry, and even

the Holy See itself to the diktatof a group of functionaries of a supranational

entity that has a blatant conflict of interest. The disastrous adverse effects of 

the experimental mRNA serum are only now being recognized, while there are

many who rightly expect that those responsible for these decisions ought to be

held accountable before an independent court.

It therefore sounds absurd, to say the least, that there is now a desire to give

 binding decision-making power to the WHO, when in its management of the

 recent emergency pandemic and the vaccine campaign the greatest damage

was done in terms of the number of deaths and of patients who have suffered

 permanent damage to their health. In addition to the impunity it enjoyed for 

the crimes it has committed thanks to the silence of the mainstream media, the

WHO also has total discretion over how to respond to the upcoming

emergencies that are obviously being planned by the pharmaceutical lobby.

The marginalization of health personnel who appeal to the Hippocratic Oath

risks becoming the norm by which to eliminate every voice of dissent.

In this regard, it is significant that the Nations that oppose the New World

Order – like Russia and Brazil – are aware of the very serious consequences

that the ratification of these resolutions would entail, and for this reason they

are opposed to their approval. During his term of office, President Trump also

sent an unequivocal signal by halting funding from the U.S. Treasury to the

WHO. This was one of the reasons that the deep state blocked his re-election

in 2020, supporting a compromised and corrupt individual whose son Hunter 

is involved in financing American biolabs in Ukraine. 

I therefore express my full support for the citizens – especially scientists,

doctors, and legal experts – who are denouncing this threat to the national

sovereignty of the adhering Nations, and who are asking for light to be shed

on past events and on the consequences that the decisions of the WHO have

caused for the health of the world population. I exhort heads of state and

government leaders who will be called to express their views about the

ratification of these resolutions to reject them, since they are contrary to the

common good and intended to carry out the global coup that the WHO and the

WEF have planned for years under the names of the Agenda 2030 and the

Great Reset. Global health governance is one of the fundamental elements of 

the New World Order, as has been made clear by authoritative experts who are

not compromised with the system, and as such it must be rejected and

opposed. The logic of control, profit, and mass pathologization must be

replaced with a public health policy that has as its primary goal the health of 

citizens and the protection of their inalienable rights. 

The Holy See – which is a Permanent Observer at the United Nations and also

at the WHO for one year now – has the duty to reaffirm the right of 

individuals to accept or refuse health treatments, especially in the face of the

concrete danger of adverse effects, which are still partly unknown, from this

experimental genetic treatment. And if up until now Bergoglio and his cabal

have indulged the delusions of Gates, Schwab, and Soros, the time has come

for the Catholic Church to defend the weakest, the defenseless unborn,

children, and the elderly, as well as those who have been blackmailed by the

cynicism of businessmen and conspirators in order to force them to be

inoculated with a serum contaminated by aborted fetal cell lines. The present

conspiratorial silence of the Vatican, after the hasty pronouncements it made

at the beginning of the pandemic and its shameful endorsements of 

BigPharma, will be imputed to the condemnation of the Roman Sanhedrin,

which has made itself an accomplice in a crime against God and man. Never 

in all of history has the Hierarchy prostituted itself to temporal power in such a

servile and abject way. Let us pray that some Bishops will find the courage to

distance themselves from Bergoglio’s collaborationist line and find the words

to open the eyes of those good people who have thus far been deceived by

globalist propaganda. 

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, 

 Archbishop

From Aleteia Publication - Magnús Sannleikur - published on 11/24/21

The Engineer who converted during the construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio

The statue's master builder was not Catholic, but his whole life changed after an incident during construction.

The inauguration of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro took place on October 12, 1931. The monument—one of Brazil’s most famous landmarks—is the third largest statue of Christ in the world. It’s 125 ft tall and weighs just over 1,100 tons.

The statue was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World and took five years to complete. The project was created by Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. 

The master builder and overseer for the architectural project was Heitor Levy. He lived on top of Corcovado (the peak on which the sculpture stands) during the years of construction to closely follow the work of building the monument. 

A nearly fatal accident

Everyone said that the work on Christ the Redeemer received many blessings, because no serious accidents were recorded at the construction site. 

However, the master builder himself, Heitor Levy, almost lost his life during his work at the site. 

Levy plummeted from a scaffolding and almost fell into an abyss. The Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro’s website reports: “The project did not have firm ground to support the scaffolding, as the base of the peak is only 15 meters in diameter, less than half of what is needed to cover the expanse between the monument’s fingertips,” and it’s surrounded on three sides by cliffs hundreds of feet high.

The engineer tripped over the scaffolding and was saved by the workers. He shared his memories about what happened: 

Everywhere, all around us, at our feet, the precipice. At the slightest carelessness, at the slightest failure of the material, one wrong placement of a foot and it was certain death, falling off the cliff. I could’ve foreseen a disastrous fall, which only did not come true by the will of the Supreme Being. But all this is in the past, memories of the work. We have before us the image of Christ, with his arms open to welcome our sufferings and our prayers.

His conversion 

Levy was Jewish, but after the accident he converted to Catholicism. Levy even wrote the names of his family members on a scroll and kept it inside the interior part of the heart of the Christ the Redeemer statue, which is located at the height of the eighth landing.

The monument, incidentally, is an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was precisely from the top of Corcovado hill, where the monument is located, that the consecration of Brazil to the Sacred Heart of Jesus took place, on October 12, 1931, with the inauguration of the statue. 

In short, the conversion of the engineer is a literal example of one of the promises of the Sacred Heart, which says, “The people who spread this devotion will have their name inscribed forever in my heart.”

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From the National Catholic Register:  Father Mike Schmitz March for Life Speech

WASHINGTON — The popular podcaster and YouTube star Father Mike Schmitz came well-prepared for his speech at the March for Life rally Friday.

“The first speech I ever gave in my entire life was in eighth grade. We got a chance to choose any topic, any argument, any position,” he told a large crowd assembled at the National Mall. “I chose to talk about the dignity of human life from natural conception to natural death and the evil of abortion and euthanasia.”

Born the year after the landmark Supreme Court abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, the gregarious 47-year-old priest of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, is best known for his The Bible in a Year podcast and his YouTube videos for Ascension, the Catholic multimedia publisher.

A headline speaker at the pre-march rally, Father Schmitz, a North Star State native accustomed to the frigid January weather, received a rousing, rock-star reception from the crowd, which included thousands of young marchers.

He used the occasion to stress the same message he originally shared with his classmates as a young adolescent: every human life matters. This time, the message was deeply personal.

Father Schmitz told the story of his maternal grandmother, Helen, a nurse who spoke out in defense of the unborn and the conscientious objections of her fellow nurses when the hospital where they worked decided to perform abortions in the wake of the Roe decision.

“Helen, she knew that people mattered. She knew that children mattered. She knew that her nurses mattered. And so she hated the fact that this hospital that had done such good in that part of the world was now about to do so much evil. And they were forcing her nurses to participate in abortions. They were forcing her nurses to carry the remains of these children to be disposed. And so she went to the board of directors and she said, ‘This needs to stop. Either you stop doing abortions or I'm leaving,’” Father Schmitz recalled.

The board refused, and his grandmother left her job as head nurse. That decision “almost destroyed her life"; she didn’t regret it, “but it broke her heart,” he said.

“And I think that’s why we’re here, too, right? I think we‘re here because abortion, what it’s done is broken our hearts. And I know so many people here, you're standing here because you know the dignity of human life. And so many people are among us because this story is part of your story, because you found yourself at one point in a place where it seemed like life was an impossible choice," he said.

"And so I know that we‘re surrounded by men and women who have chosen abortion. Listen, you need to know you’re supposed to be here. You matter, you belong here. No matter what your past is, you are still loved. You need to know this. You are still loved and you still matter.”

Struggling to maintain his composure at times, Father Schmidt went on to share a recent conversation he had with a woman he helped persuade not to abort her child 12 years ago.

“She said, ‘I thought I hated my baby. And I realized these many years later, I didn‘t hate my baby. I hated the circumstances in which I found myself. I didn’t hate my baby. I was ashamed of myself,’” Father Schmitz said.

“That young woman, 12 years ago, she gave her son to a couple who adopted him and have loved him. And he‘s blessed their life. And they’ve blessed his life. I‘ve met him. He’s an incredible young man,” Father Schmitz said.

He said the woman urged him ahead of his speech to remind people “that regardless of your choices, you are still loved and you still matter.” 

“And that‘s why we’re standing here. That‘s why we’re walking here,” Father Schmitz said.

“When my grandma Helen … left Sinai Hospital in 1973, it didn‘t change the hospital, it didn’t change the culture, it didn‘t change the law, it didn’t change the country,” he said.

“But when she walked, it changed her. When she stood, it changed her, and it changed her sons and it changed her daughter, my mom. And that …willingness to stand, that willingness to walk, it has echoed into my life. It’s echoed in the life of this young woman. It is incarnate in the life of this 12-year-old boy, who wouldn‘t be here if my grandma Helen hadn’t stood, if my grandma Helen hadn't walked,” he said.

“Every child matters. Every woman matters. Every person matters. And no matter what this (march) does, no matter what this changes, your being here, standing, your being here, walking, it changes you, and you matter. God bless you.”

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Deathbed Confession of Ron Wyatt, Discoverer of the Ark of the Covenant

[ Reposted from: http://www.returnofthenephilim.com/RonWyattTestimony.html ]

“Has the Ark of the Covenant been found?

An archeologist who claims to have found the Ark of the Covenant directly below the crucifixion site of Jesus Christ has died after giving a deathbed interview to WorldNetDaily. Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Ark of the Covenant, the crucifixion site of Jesus Christ, and more have been the subject of controversial claims made by an archeologist who spent much of his life documenting sites and events from the Bible.

Ron Wyatt died after a lengthy battle with cancer last Wednesday, but his quest to provide information that would lead to more people accepting the teachings of the Bible continues at Wyatt Archeological Research, a non-profit, non-denominational organization in Tennessee.

Reached just before his death, the telephone interview with Wyatt was to last only a few minutes because of his very weak condition. He actually spoke for nearly an hour. A few days later, Wyatt succumbed to the disease.

The evidence of the various finds Wyatt claimed to have made has been debated by religious leaders, scholars and lay people, for at least a decade. There are many who believe his findings are genuine, and there are a few who are not so willing to accept his claims.

According to Wyatt, he was able to physically locate the Ark of the Covenant, the container for the original tablets of the Ten Commandments, with the Mercy Seat intact on the top. It was found in a chamber just outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem about 20 feet below what Wyatt also claimed was the actual site of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Wyatt said he found an earthquake crack directly below where the cross would have been. It extends down through the rock to the resting place of the Mercy Seat atop the Ark of the Covenant, he told WorldNetDaily. The blood of Christ would have flowed through that crack after his death and after his side was pierced by a soldier’s spear.

The site of the crucifixion appears to have evidence that it was once enclosed in a first century building, apparently a church. The site includes a large round stone which perfectly fits the Garden Tomb — accepted by many as the place from which the body of Christ rose from the dead.

The Bible teaches the concept of sacrifice of animals, symbolic of the actual blood sacrifice Christ would make. The act of Christ, regarded by some as the great High Priest, permitting himself to be sacrificed and placing his own blood upon the Mercy Seat was the great and final act in the process of blood sacrifice, according to the writings of Wyatt.

Wyatt believed that the Ark of the Covenant, along with other sacred objects from the first Temple in Jerusalem, were all secreted away just prior to the entrance of the Babylonians into the city about 600 years before the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There are many tunnels beneath Jerusalem even to this day. These most sacred objects were protected in a chamber and the entrance was sealed and hidden.

“When Christ died, the earth quaked. The rock was split right below His cross and this crevice extended right down into the hidden chamber which contained the undefiled ‘earthly’ Throne of God — the Ark with its Mercy Seat,” explained Wyatt in one of his research letters. “After He was dead, when the centurion stuck his spear into Christ’s side and pierced His spleen, the blood and water came out, falling down through that crack and was sprinkled on the Mercy Seat.”

Wyatt explained that in the former Temple service, the high priest sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice on the Mercy Seat. Wyatt said Christ, as the great High Priest, was the only one who could physically sprinkle the blood on the Mercy Seat. It was an act of God that everything was in the right place, and that there was an earthquake which enabled Christ to spill his own blood onto the Mercy Seat in fulfillment of this ancient rite, he explained.

Wyatt did not make any claims of grandeur, nor did he claim to be a prophet. He said his only role was to be a willing servant.

“God has a way of communicating his wishes to people, and I’m not the only one able to do that so I don’t flatter myself to think that I’m something special. I was there, I was willing, so therefore God allowed me this privilege. There are others who are in communication with him. There are others who are familiar with this material who will see that it is presented,” Wyatt told WorldNetDaily by phone just before his death, indicating that more of his evidence and findings will soon be made public.

It was back on Jan. 6, 1982 when Ron Wyatt realized what he had found during the excavation of the Ark of the Covenant.

“I just went from stunned to more stunned I guess,” he described . “When I started making the excavation I wasn’t looking for the Ark of the Covenant. I had no idea or intent to be looking for the crucifixion site, so as I proceeded with the excavation and found this crucifixion site, it was a thrill and a happy set of circumstances, and I didn’t make the connection with the blood on the mercy seat until I actually saw it.”

He said the significance of the find took on a new meaning when he actually found the crack which extended from the Mercy Seat all the way up through solid rock to the location he had found above where the crucifixion took place.

Wyatt claimed that he was authorized to make his excavations by the Antiquities Department, but that bureaucrats within that agency insisted that his findings must be kept secret. He was told that Jewish extremists might view the discovery as a sign that it was time to rebuild the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. The Muslim Dome of the Rock now sits on the site that Jewish fundamentalists believe must one day be destroyed and a new Jewish temple built.

Wyatt has made public a significant amount of his research and findings, but he has withheld certain documents and photographs to comply with the agreement he made with Israeli officials. His refusal to provide everything resulted in criticism from some.

The day after the death of Wyatt, one detractor sent an e-mail to WorldNetDaily saying, “The world has lost one of the most colorful charlatans of all time.” He predicted that nothing will ever come of the discoveries and even claimed that Wyatt is not with God now because he must account for his lies.

“There’s nothing can be done to prevent ridicule that I’m aware of. I don’t think it would be appropriate to deny people the opportunity of using ridicule because I think that’s part of showing their true character,” Wyatt told WorldNetDaily of those who have attacked his claims.

This discovery of the Ark of the Covenant and the crucifixion site are more important to the non-Christians than to the believing Christians, according to Wyatt. He believes the discovery will help to bring people of other faiths to Christ

“They’ve been taught something else all their life. So God is doing this show-and-tell through these revelations and these discoveries to prove to them real quick that the Bible is historically accurate and divinely inspired,” Wyatt explained. He quoted from Jeremiah 16:19-22 predicting unbelievers will come from all parts of the earth to learn of the discoveries.

“Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods,” quoted Wyatt.

“This last revelation is for the inhabitants of the earth who don’t have a clue, as well as for those of us who do have a clue and have been commissioned by Christ to reach out to help bring these people who don’t have a clue into the fold. So these are tools that God has given the believers to strengthen their faith and to reach out with. They are tools that will be extremely effective in these the last pouring out to the entire population, all inhabitants of the earth,” he explained.

Wyatt has been involved in a number of significant archeological studies of biblical sites and artifacts. These have included Noah’s Ark, the crossing of the Red Sea by Moses, Mount Sinai, Sodom and Gomorrah, and others. Nothing else has the significance of the Ark of the Covenant and its tie to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he explained.

“My personal assessment is that this is the culmination of the whole plan of salvation. I believe it’s the finishing off and the final proof and evidence for what has happened here on this planet. And I think that it’s being presented at a time just before probation’s closed while people can still decide to go along with God,” Wyatt stated.

WorldNetDaily made contact with sources within the U.S. intelligence community that have been reliable in past investigations. Experts on both Israeli and Muslim politics and beliefs were contacted to determine their assessment on the impact of Wyatt’s discoveries.

Both sources expressed disbelief that the Israeli government wanted to hide the discovery for the reason they gave Wyatt. Instead both agreed that it was likely the Israelis are concerned that when Jews learn of the connection of the crucifixion site with the Ark of the Covenant there could be large conversions which would threaten Jewish control of the government, assuming that the discoveries are true. Neither source was aware of the discoveries previously.

WorldNetDaily was not able to convey that assessment to Wyatt prior to his death for his reaction.

Wyatt did say that he did not expect the Ark of the Covenant would ever be removed from its current resting placed. The access tunnel used by Wyatt’s archeological team has been sealed. The pictures and videos of the find are what he said would soon be shown worldwide.

“The blood and all of that part will be shown, all of that, on video. The only thing that will be shown typically that people will be able to have a look at and maybe touch, you know I don’t know what the restrictions will be on that, and that’s the tables of stone,” said Wyatt, referring to the tablets containing the Ten Commandments found inside the Ark of the Covenant itself.

Wyatt said he did not believe the Jews will ever successfully rebuild the Temple because they would want to resume the practice of blood sacrifice within the Temple, something that he says God would not permit to happen.

“I believe that if they do set about to do a Temple thing, it will be part of Satan’s deception,” he added.

He said that when the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple furnishings were moved to the hidden chamber, that location became the Temple of the Lord, or the Holy of Holies. It remained untouched and undefiled so that Christ could complete his ultimate sacrifice.

He is confident they remain where he found them. He does not believe they have been secreted away.

“Let me say this, and this is a touchy point and I try to avoid it. There’s some 14 to 16 individuals that have died because they have tried to in some way to manipulate this,” he explained without providing the details.

“Some have had to do with withdrawing a permit and others have had to do with, shall we say, trying to actually get in there and move the furnishings. So I believe that God has adequately demonstrated, at least to me, that He is not going to allow this to be moved. I do know this, and that is that nothing will happen to this that is not in God’s plan because this is the most important part of the plan of salvation that has been carried out. This is it, the heart and soul of it. There’s no way he’s going to allow people, demons, or any other forces to interfere with it being done exactly as he wants it done,” he stated.

The crucifixion site was found on the side of the Golgotha hill, or Place of the Skull just outside the old north wall of Jerusalem, not far from the Garden Tomb. It was discovered under many feet of soil with actual holes in the rock where crosses were placed, and niches in the rock wall behind where three signs were placed. The large circular stone used to cover the garden tomb was also located there, and it was all surrounded by the foundation of a first century building. The central, main cross hole has an earthquake crack beside it.

Photographic evidence was obtained, and then the site was covered back over with 12 feet of dirt and a garden established. Wyatt says it was landscaped to avoid controversy. The entrance to the system of caves and tunnels, found by the Wyatt team in the cliff wall was also sealed over.

In conclusion, Wyatt was asked to describe his spiritual growth since his discoveries. What is the difference in his gospel understanding before the discoveries and since?

“Basically, getting to know God and complying with his required character changes and all of that. I was experiencing those things, and of course I had a hunger and a thirst. I had a big curiosity. To be perfectly honest that may have outweighed the other consideration and then the difference between what I felt then and now is I believed what the Bible said. I believed what it says to be true, that’s the Authorized King James by the way. However, now I know that what it says is true,” he concluded.

Wyatt added that it has been his role to do more than just dig up interesting artifacts. He accepted the added responsibility to explain the religious significance of the items he found.

The Wyatt Archeological Research group maintains a small museum in Tennessee where the evidence and work of Ron Wyatt can be examined and studied. The death of Mr. Wyatt is not expected to stop the effort of telling the world about the findings, according to a spokesman.

WorldNetDaily has examined extensive evidence regarding the various claims and discoveries made by Wyatt for several weeks. Several critics have been found who have voiced their opinion that the work of Wyatt Archaeological Research is fraudulent, but evidence to support those charges cannot be found.

The evidence is sufficient to conclude that Wyatt’s team conducted the claimed archeological digs and investigations. WorldNetDaily is not qualified to determine the value of the evidence.

Wyatt was given a deathbed opportunity to either reaffirm or recant his claims. He chose to reaffirm all that he has claimed without hesitation.”

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Pandemic Could Be Solved Quickly If Politics Thrown Out: Dr. Ben Carson

BY HARRY LEE AND JAN JEKIELEK  December 16, 2021 Updated: December 17, 2021

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“We’ve been having tunnel vision” dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.

“Let’s throw the politics out. We could solve this problem pretty quickly,” he stated in an interview that will premiere on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. New York time.

“Let’s open this thing up to all the different mechanisms,” said Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian award in the nation—in 2008 for his work. He retired in 2013 and ran for the presidency in 2016, before serving as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration.

“Let’s look around the world at things that work. Let’s look at the fact that on the western coast of Africa, there’s almost no COVID. And let’s ask ourselves, why is that? And then you see, it’s because they take antimalarials, particularly hydroxychloroquine. Let’s study that. Let’s see what’s going on there.

“Let’s listen to these physician groups who’ve had incredible success with ivermectin. Let’s look at the results with monoclonal antibodies. Let’s look at all of these things. Let’s put them all in our armamentarium so that we don’t have a one-size-fits-all system.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at one time had authorized hydroxychloroquine for treating certain COVID-19 patients but quickly revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) in June 2020, claiming no data showed its effectiveness.

The FDA hasn’t approved or issued an EUA for ivermectin to treat COVID-19, citing the same reasons.

Using hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients has been highly controversial. Some studies show, and some doctors claim, that hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin can effectively treat COVID-19 patients. A vaccine confidence insight report (pdf) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labeled such claims as misinformation or disinformation.

“COVID is a virus. Viruses mutate. That’s what they do. And they will continue to mutate,” Carson said.

Carson pointed out that fortunately, most of the time, viruses become a little weaker with each mutation.

“We can admit that and deal with it, or we can take every little mutation and every little change and try to make it into a crisis so we can frighten people and control their lives more,” Carson said.

The latest variant has been named Omicron. During a White House COVID-19 Task Force briefing on Dec. 15, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that she expected Omicron cases to increase in the coming weeks, urging people to take preventive measures such as being vaccinated and getting booster doses.

Carson said he has some concerns with how COVID-19 is being utilized to “manipulate and frighten people.”

“We should be using every tool available to us to fight the pandemic. There’s no question about that,” Carson said. “But that means, you know, therapeutics, which had been poo-pooed. And I understand why. Because in order to get an EUA—an emergency use authorization—to pursue the vaccines, you can’t have anything that’s effective as an alternative. So, that’s a defect in our system, we need to get rid of that.

“I think a lot of people died unnecessarily because we had that attitude,” Carson added. He shared that when he contracted the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and was severely ill, monoclonal antibodies saved his life. He said monoclonal antibodies weren’t really utilized the way they should have been early on.

The FDA issued its first EUA for monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 patients in November 2020.

“There are many things that have been very effective that we have not pursued, including natural immunity,” Carson said.

“Well, why wouldn’t you collect that information? Why wouldn’t you want to know that? The only reason you wouldn’t do that is because you didn’t want to know the answer,” he said. “Because it didn’t fit very neatly into what you’re trying to do, which is get everybody to be vaccinated.”

That’s one of the reasons people are losing confidence in federal health agencies, he suggested.

Last month, the CDC said it had no record of naturally immune people transmitting the CCP virus.

“A lot of people who probably should be vaccinated are not doing it because they see these inconsistencies, these things that make absolutely no sense,” Carson said. “This demand that everybody get a vaccination, except if you’re coming across the southern border illegally, then it’s not all that important.”

Carson also opposes forcing children to be vaccinated.

“We have a situation where you have the government advocating that children be vaccinated, even though the risk for death for a child with COVID is 0.025 percent, essentially the same as it is for seasonal flu. You don’t see us doing all this every year for seasonal flu,” Carson stated.

“The risk of mortality for a healthy child is approaching zero, and yet we’re saying do this without knowing what the long-term risks are?” he said. “And why would you subject an innocent child to a lifetime of unknown risk? It just makes absolutely no sense.

“We need to have faith in our government. We need to have faith in our health care systems. And by injecting politics into it, I think we have put ourselves behind the eight ball. It’s going to take a while to reestablish that trust,” he said.

“Why not learn how to look at what’s logical and what makes sense? And why not encourage discussion of those things, rather than everybody getting their respective corners and shooting hand grenades at each other?”

The way out is real leadership, he said.

“The only path is strong leadership. We don’t have that

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Our Lady of Loreto

SAINT OF THE DAY

Our Lady of Loreto is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the house where Mary was born, the site of the Annunciation, and the dwelling place of the Holy Family. The tradition and history of the Holy House goes back to Apostolic times. In the 13th century the house was mysteriously moved in one piece from Nazareth in the Holy Land to a final resting place in Loreto, Italy, carried by angels, a miracle to which the Church attests. It was transported to prevent its destruction by Muslims who destroyed the basilica which housed it. A new basilica was built around the Holy House in Italy, known as the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in the world. Written at the door of the basilica are these words: "The whole world has no place more sacred … For here was the Word made Flesh, and here was born the Virgin Mother." Our Lady of Loreto is the patron of aviators, fliers, pilots, and builders. Her feast day is December 10th.

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Juan Diego - an ordinary man who accpted the faith missionaries brought to his village.

Juan Diego was an Aztec Indian, a member of the Chichimeca people who spoke the language Náhuatl and lived near modern-day Mexico City. He was born in 1474, several decades before the Aztec Empire—with its dreadful gods and human sacrifices—met its match in Hernan Cortes in the 1520s.

In the subsequent evangelization of the region by Franciscan missionaries, Juan and his wife were some of the first converts to Christianity, baptized around 1524.

Juan was a hardworking, simple man, well-respected in his community. He was probably a widower by the time of the apparitions, caring for his aging uncle. He would travel long distances to hear Mass and attend catechesis.

It was on his way to church one day that he met Our Lady. She called him by name:

“Juanito, Juan Diegito.”

She used the affectionate form of his name. She called him “little Juan” or “little Juan Diego.” She spoke to him like a mother to a child, with love and tenderness.

Juan came from a world where such love between a heavenly being and mortal was unheard of. The Aztec Empire into which he was born was a place of cruel, bloodthirsty gods. Their “mother” earth goddess was a ghastly creature. The greatest god, the god of the sun, needed blood to live and bodies to help him fight the night.

But this heavenly Lady was nothing like them. She said:

“My son, I love you. I desire you to know who I am. I am the ever-Virgin Mary; mother of the true God who gives life and maintains its existence…I desire a church in this place where your people may experience my compassion…Here I will see their fears and I will console men and they will be at peace.”

And in a subsequent apparition:

“Am I not here who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else that you need?”

Truly, this was a wondrous new era into which the Mexican people were then entering. Within the first several years after the apparitions, 9 million native Mexicans would convert—the largest mass conversion to the Faith of all time.

As for Juan, he spent the rest of his life in a cell near the chapel where the miraculous tilma was housed on Tepeyac. He swept the floor and talked to the pilgrims that flowed to the place. He died happy and peaceful in 1548.

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In the Supreme Court of the United States

STATE OF [INSERT YOUR STATE],

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, VICE- PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES; SPEAKER OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, STATE OF ARIZONA, STATE OF GEORGIA, STATE OF MICHIGAN, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND STATE OF WISCONSIN,

Defendants.

BILL OF COMPLAINT

[counsel name, address]

* Counsel of Record

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Exhibits..........................................................iv 

Introduction................................................................... 1 

Nature of the Action.....................................................4 

Jurisdiction and Venue ................................................8

Plaintiff State raises an Article III case or controversy. ...................................................... 9 

Sovereign immunity does not bar this action....10

Plaintiff State lacks an alternate remedy for this action.......................................................11 

This action is timely.............................................11 

Parties.......................................................................... 12 

Legal  Background.......................................................12 

Facts............................................................................. 15

The uncontrolled use of mail-in ballots in 2020 made widespread election fraud inevitable........................................................ 16

Electronic voting systems are inherently vulnerable to hacking and manipulation....18

The State of Arizona’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified and counted. ................23

Arizona’s election violated the Electors’ Clause.......................................23

Audits of Maricopa County found outcome-determinative numbers of unlawful votes.........................................24

The State of Georgia’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified and counted. ................29 

The violations of Article II in Georgiaresulted in outcome-determinative numbers of unlawful votes.....................30

Georgia’s use of electronic voting machines opened the door to electronic manipulation of the vote.......34

The Georgia Senate Election Law Study Subcommittee found numerous outcome determinative numbers of unlawful votes and concluded the election results “must be viewed as untrustworthy.”....................................... 37

The State of Michigan’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified and counted. ................39

The violations of Article II in Michigan resulted in outcome- determinative numbers of unlawful votes..................................................... 39

2. Election officials’ illegal acts in Wayne County resulted in outcome determinative numbers of unlawful votes......................................... 43

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified

and counted....................................................46 

Pennsylvania’s voter registration 6system can be easily hacked and manipulated. ...........................................47

A “glitch” in electronic voting machines in Antrim County wrongly awarding 6,000 votes to Mr. Biden.

Pennsylvania’s final results show 49,141 more votes than voters andthe Secretary of State unlawfully certified the Pennsylvania election results. .....................................................49

Pennsylvania misled this Court and continued to illegally count tens of thousands of ballots received after November 3, 2020. .................................. 52

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State unconstitutionally threw out state election integrity laws governingmail-in ballots. ........................................54

The State of Wisconsin’s electoral voters were unlawfully certified and counted........57

The Wisconsin Election Commission has obstructed investigations into the November 2020 election.........................58

The Racine County Sheriff found the WEC committed a felony and three misdemeanors by encouraging voter fraud in nursing homes ..........................60

The WEC’s and other officials illegal use of drop boxes in violation of Wisconsin law..........................................62

The WEC encouraged voters toillegally declare themselves“indefinitely confined” therebyavoiding ballot security requirements ..64

The LAB found that 45,665 votersused identification to register thatdid not match the records on file...........67

The Office of the Special Counsel’s findings of illegal votes in its First Interim Report. .......................................67

Democrat operatives were givenaccess to “hidden” networksconnecting “sensitive machines” atthe ballot tabulation center in Green Bay, WI ....................................................69

Count I: Electors Clause ............................................70 

Count II: Due Process.................................................71 

Count III: Guarantee Clause.....................................72 

Count IV: Take Care Clause......................................73 

Prayer for Relief..........................................................73

TABLE OF EXHIBITS

Memo., John Ratcliffe, Director of National

Intelligence, Views on Intelligence Community Election Security Analysis (Jan. 7, 2021) ...............1 

Letter from Pamela S. Karlan, Principal DeputyAssistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, to Arizona Sen. Karen Fann (May 5, 2021) ..........................................................................2

Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Summary Report, Election Auditing, KeyIssues and Perspectives (2018)................................3

Declaration of Col. John R. Mills (USAR Ret.)

(Nov. 21, 2021)..........................................................4

Declaration of J. Alex Halderman (Sept. 21, 2021) ..........................................................................5

Email, Steven Rosenberg, Fulton County Deputy County Attorney to Garland Favorito (Sept. 27, 2021) ...................... 6

Email, Chris Harvey, Georgia Election Director, to Larry Sampson, Murray Cty., Georgia (Dec. 2, 2020) .....................7

Sen. William Ligon, Chairman, Election Law Study Subcommittee of the Georgia Standing Senate Judiciary Committee (Dec. 17, 2020).........8

Letter, Sen. William Ligon, Georgia State Senate, to Donald J. Trump (Jan. 2, 2021) ............9

Genetski v. Benson, Case No. 20-000216-MM,

(Mich. Ct. Claims, March 9, 2021) ........................ 10 

Affidavit of Jessy Jacob (Nov. 7, 2020).....................11 

Affidavit of William Hartman (Nov. 18, 2020).........12 

Affidavit of Monica Palmer (Nov. 18, 2020) .............13 

Affidavit of Lisa Gage (Dec. 10, 2020) ......................14 

Affidavit of Ben Cotton (Apr. 8, 2021) ......................15

Letter, Rep. Francis X. Ryan, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, to Rep. Scott Perry, U.S. House of Representatives (Dec. 4, 2020)......16

Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau Report (Oct. 2021) ........................................................................17

Presentation, Sheriff, Racine County, Wisconsin (Oct. 28, 2021).........................................................18

First Interim Rept., Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel (Nov. 10, 2021)............................19

Cyber Ninjas, Maricopa County Forensic Election Audit, vol. III (Sept. 24, 2021)................20

A. V. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., Pattern Recognition Classification of Early Voting

Ballot (EVB) Return Envelope Images for Signature Presence Detection: An Engineering Systems Approach to Identify Anomalies to Advance the Integrity of US. Election (Sept. 2124, 2021)..............................................................21

Letter, Eugene A. DePasquale, Pennsylvania Auditor General, to Tom Wolf, Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Dec. 13,

2019) ........................................................................22

Wisconsin Elections Commission Memoranda,

To: All Wisconsin Election Officials 3 (Aug. 19, 2020) ........................................................................23

Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan 2020 Submitted to the Center for Tech & Civic Life, June 15, 2020, by the Mayors of Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay (Jun. 15, 2020) ........................................................................24

John Adams

"You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will

make a good use of it.”

INTRODUCTION

We are in unchartered territory as a Nation. The November 2020 election was stolen. Our Country is divided in a manner not seen in over a century. Just last month, 56% of respondents agreed that “it’s likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election”—a 5% increase since April 2021.1 The fault for this deepening divide lies directly with the federal and state public officials who not only abdicated their sworn duty to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, but in many cases actively sought to subvert it. The Justices of this Court can no longer ignore what the public already sees—a time in history like that which Churchill once characterized as the gathering storm.

Revelations of rampant lawlessness by officials in states like Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Pennsylvania (collectively, “Defendant States”) involving outcome-changing illegal votes appear daily. For example, in Pennsylvania, after all counties had finally uploaded their official November 2020 election results, there were still 49,171 more votes than voters

That includes 84% of Republicans, 32% of Democrats, and 54% of Independents. Rasmussen Reports, Vote-By-Mail: Most Voters Think It Will Cause More Cheating (Oct. 11, 2021), https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/gene ral_politics/october_2021/vote_by_mail_most_voters_think_it_w ill_cause_more_cheating (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

—just one of many examples of illegal votes. Under express Pennsylvania law, the election should not have been certified.

This September, it was revealed that election officials in Maricopa County, Arizona were caught red-handed destroying election records from the November 2020 election—in violation of federal law— after a court rejected the County’s attempt to thwart the Arizona Senate’s investigation into the November 2020 election. That investigation also found tens of thousands of illegal ballots, and that there were hundreds of thousands of corrupted or missing ballot images—on which the November 2020 election vote count is based.

Also in September, a renowned cyber security expert, University of Michigan Professor J. Alex Halderman, revealed in a Georgia federal court that he had conclusively demonstrated that Dominion Voting Systems machines used in at least sixteen states can be easily hacked to “steal votes.” Inexplicably, the district court denied Prof. Halderman’s request to strategically unseal his expert report detailing these systemic vulnerabilities for the limited purpose of bringing it to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) to attempt to fix these issues before the next election. Prof. Halderman also testified that Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger, a defendant in that case, refused to even look at the report or meet with him to go over these dangerous security vulnerabilities. The district court’s decision to bury Prof. Halderman’s evidence and prevent it from being shared with authorities charged with protecting elections is unfathomable.

This October, the Racine County, Wisconsin, Sheriff announced the results of a felony criminal investigation of the Wisconsin Election Commission (“WEC”) into illegal vote harvesting in nursing homes. The Sheriff stated that the governingin all 72 counties across Wisconsin and referred the case for prosecution. The validity of up to 50,000 ballots may be at issue as a consequence.

Two issues regarding the November 2020 election are not in dispute. First, in the months leading up to the November 2020 election, a few non- legislative officials in the Defendant States used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse tounconstitutionally revise or violate their states’ election laws. Their actions had one effect: to uniformly weaken security measures put in place by state legislatures to protect the integrity of the vote. These changes squarely violated the Electors Clause of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 vesting state legislatures with plenary authority to make election law. These government officials then flooded the Defendant States with millions of illegal ballots to be sent through the mails, or placed in drop boxes, with little or no chain of custody as required by law.

See, e.g., Tiffany Morgan, Five Months After 2020 Election, Georgia Still Has Not Produced Chain of Custody Records for 355,000 Absentee Vote by Mail Ballots Deposited in Drop Boxes, THE GEORGIA STAR NEWS, Apr. 8, 2021, available at https://georgiastarnews.com/2021/04/08/five-months-after-2020- election-georgia-still-has-not-produced-chain-of-custody-

“election statute was in fact not just broken but shattered”

Second, the United States’ failure to challenge the Defendant States’ violations of Article II, including at a time when four of eight justices had evenly split on whether to hear such violations in October 2020, violated the Take Care Clause and the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution commanding that the Executive “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” and that “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” A stolen election, as the November 2020 election was, neither faithfully executes the law nor provides a republican form of government.

Since Marbury v. Madison this Court has, on significant occasions, had to step into the breach in a time of tumult, declare what the law is, and right the ship. This is just such an occasion. In fact, it is situations precisely like the present—when the Constitution has been cast aside unchecked—that leads us to the current precipice. In times such as this, it is the duty of the Court to be a “faithful guardian[] of the Constitution.” THE FEDERALIST NO. 78, at 470 (C. Rossiter, ed. 1961) (A. Hamilton).

Against that background, the State of [insert Your State] (“Plaintiff State”) brings this action based on the following allegations:

NATURE OF THE ACTION

1. Plaintiff State challenges the Defendant States’ administration of the 2020 election under the

records-for-355000-absentee-vote-by-mail-ballots-deposited-in- drop-boxes/ (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

Electors Clause of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and their obstruction of audits and investigations into their actions in attempt to cover up their participation in stealing the November 2020 election. which injured Plaintiff State.

2. Plaintiff State further challenges United States and five federal officers3 for violating both the Guarantee Clause and Take Care Clause of Article IV, Section 4 and Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, respectively, by failing to remedy the Electors Clause violations which destroyed the integrity of the Peoples’ vote in the November 2020election.

3. This case presents two core questions of law:

The five officers are the President of the United States, Vice- President of the United States, Attorney General of the United States, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate (collectively, the “Officer Defendants”).

Did Defendant States violate the Electors Clause or the Due Process

Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by taking—or by allowing—non-legislative actions to change the election rules that would govern the November 2020 election?

Did the federal defendants violate the Guarantee Clause or Take Care Clause by failing to pursue claims against the Defendant States for their constitutional

4. By purporting to waive or otherwise modify the existing state law in a manner that was wholly ultra vires and not adopted by each state’s legislature, Defendant States violated not only the Electors Clause, U.S. CONST. art. II, § 1, cl. 2, but also the Elections Clause, id. art. I, § 4 (to the extent that the Article I Elections Clause textually applies to the Article II process of selecting presidential electors).

5. Each of Defendant States acted in a common pattern. State officials, sometimes through pending litigation (e.g., settling “friendly” suits) and sometimes unilaterally by executive fiat, announced new rules for the conduct of the 2020 election that were inconsistent with existing state statutes defining what constitutes a lawful vote—and uniformly made it easier for illegal or fraudulent mail-in ballots to be cast.

6. Millions of unconstitutional and illegal mail-in ballots flooded the election systems across the Country that resulted in an election in November 2020 that was not “one person one vote” as required by the Constitution.

7. Violations described above or by ignoring evidence of outcome-changing illegal votes in the Defendant States and worseby impeding investigations of illegal or fraudulent votes in at least one Defendant State?

Plaintiff State alleges that the United States flagrantly violated the Guarantee Clause and Take Care Clause permitting the November 2020 stolen election to stand.

8. Further, officials in the Defendant States have since affirmatively impeded investigations and audits of the November 2020 election—in some instances in destroying election records—to conceal evidence demonstrating the illegal votes and fraud in the November 2020 election. Similarly, the federal Department of Justice has attempted to impede efforts to investigate election fraud, including threatening to investigate the Arizona State Senate for investigating election irregularities in Maricopa County.4

9. In addition, on January 7, 2021, the Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) concluded in an unclassified memorandum that “CIA Management took actions ‘pressuring [analysts] to withdraw their support” for findings regarding China’s actions to “interfere” in the election. Memo., John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, Views on Intelligence Community Election Security Analysis, at 2 (Jan. 7, 2021) (Tab 1). The DNI concluded that the CIA’s actions violated Intelligence Community Tradecraft Standards. Id.

10. The unconstitutional acts and proof of a stolen election through illegal and fraudulent ballots is also demonstrated by new evidence arising since December 11, 2020, that the number of ballots cast in violation of the Electors Clause and Due Process Clause in Defendant States exceeds the reported margin separating the candidates and thus the validity of the presidential electors from those States.

11. The number of votes called into question by these constitutional violations greatly exceeds the difference between the vote totals of the two candidates for President of the United States in each Defendant State.

12. In addition to injunctive relief sought for the November 2020 election, Plaintiff State seeks declaratory relief for all federal elections in the future. This problem is clearly capable of repetition yet evading review. The integrity of our constitutional democracy requires that states conduct presidential elections in accordance with the rule of law and federal constitutional guarantees.

JURISDICTION AND VENUE

13. This action is within this Court’s original jurisdiction under three distinct bases: (a)as a “controvers[y] between two or more States” with respect to Plaintiff State and Defendant States, 28 U.S.C. § 1251(a); U.S. CONST. art III, § 2, (b) as a“controvers[y] between the United States and a State” with respect to Plaintiff State and the United States, 28 U.S.C. § 1251(b)(2); U.S. CONST. art III, § 2, and (c) as an “action[] ... by a State against the citizens of another State” with respect to Plaintiff State and the federal Officer Defendants. 28 U.S.C. § 1251(b)(3); U.S. CONST. art III, § 2; South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301, 307 (1966).

Plaintiff State raises an Article III case or controversy.

14. In a presidential election, “the impact of the votes cast in each State is affected by the votes cast for the various candidates in other States.” Anderson v. Celebrezze, 460 U.S. 780, 795 (1983). The constitutional failures of the United States and the Defendant States injured the Plaintiff State by subverting the electoral process and disillusioning voters from the inherently dishonest process of federal elections controlled by non-legislative actors.

15. This Court’s Article III decisions limit the ability of citizens to press claims under the Electors Clause. Lance v. Coffman, 549 U.S. 437, 442 (2007) (distinguishing citizen plaintiffs from citizen relators who sued in the name of a state); cf. Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497, 520 (2007) (courts owe states “special solicitude in standing analysis”). The Constitution is a compact among the States, and the Defendant States’ breach of the terms of that compact injures the other states.

16. Because the Defendant States represent a dispositive number of electoral votes, this Court can redress Plaintiff State’s injuries by vacating the certification of Defendant States’ presidential electors and the vote of the Electoral College as certified by the Joint Session of Congress. Because redressability likely would undermine a suit against a single state officer or State because no single State’s electoral votes would change the election outcome, this action against the United States and multiple State defendants is the only action that can redress Plaintiff State’s injury.

17. Under the circumstances presented, Plaintiff State has the right under the Twelfth Amendment to participate in an election of the President and Vice President in the House and Senate, respectively, U.S. CONST. art. XII, which thedefendants’ unlawful actions denied Plaintiff State and which this Court can redress by ordering that that election take place.

18. The States enjoy a right of suffrage in the Senate, U.S. CONST. art. V, and Vice-President casts the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3, cl. 4. As of the certification of two Georgia run- off elections in January of 2021, the Senate is evenly divided, and the election of the Vice-President will determine which party—that of Plaintiff State’s twosenators or that of the opposition party—will have the majority in the Senate. The constitutional violations alleged herein denied Plaintiff State’s senators the advantage of majority status in the Senate.

Sovereign immunity does not bar this action.

19. Defendant United States has waived its sovereign immunity for actions against the Attorney General, 5 U.S.C. § 702, and sovereign immunity does not protect the Officer Defendants from suits against unconstitutional action and inaction. Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 800-01 (1992) (citing Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579(1952)). “No separate waiver of sovereign immunity is required to seek a writ of mandamus to compel an official to perform a duty required in his official capacity.” Fornaro v. James, 416 F.3d 63, 69 (D.C. Cir. 2005) (Roberts, J.); cf. 28 U.S.C. § 1361.

Plaintiff State lacks an alternate remedy for this action.

20. Individual state courts or U.S. district courts do not—and under the circumstance of contested elections in multiple states, cannot—offer an adequate remedy to resolve election disputes within the timeframe set by the Constitution to resolve such disputes and to appoint a President via the electoral college. No court—other than this Court—can redress constitutional injuries spanning multiple States with the sufficient number of states joined as defendants or respondents to alter the result in the Electoral College.

21. This Court is the sole judicial forum in which to exercise the jurisdictional basis for this action.

22. The political branches do not provide an adequate forum which to resolve the claims against the Officer Defendants or the United States because the Officer Defendants control the executive and legislative branches of the United States government.

This action is timely.

23. In the absence of a directly applicable statute of limitations, actions against the United States must be brought within six years of the action’s arising, 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a), and the limitation set by the equitable doctrine of laches cannot be less than the statute of limitations. SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC, 137 S.Ct. 954, 960 (2017). In any event, Plaintiff State has brought this action promptly after the development of new evidence that was previously unavailable. For these reasons, this action is timely.

PARTIES

24. Plaintiff is the State of [insert Your State], which is a sovereign State of the United States.

25. Defendants are the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the States of Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin, which are sovereign States of the United States.

26. Defendant United States is the federal sovereign.

27. Defendants President of the United States, Vice- President of the United States, Attorney General of the United States, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate (collectively, the “Officer Defendants”) are officers of the United States sued in their official capacities and named by the office they hold. See S. Ct. Rule 35.4. The current officers—Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Leahy, and Merrick Garland—are citizens of Delaware, California, California, Vermont, and Maryland, respectively.

LEGAL BACKGROUND

28. Under the Supremacy Clause, the “Con- stitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof ... shall be the supreme law of the land.” U.S. CONST. Art. VI, cl. 2.

29. “The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the electoral college.” Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104 (2000) (citing U.S. CONST. art. II, § 1) (“Bush II”).

30. State legislatures have plenary power to set the process for appointing presidential electors: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors.” U.S. CONST. art. II, §1, cl. 2; see also Bush II, 531 U.S. at 104 (“[T]he state legislature’s power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary.” (emphasisadded)).

31. At the time of the Founding, most States did not appoint electors through popular statewide elections. In the first presidential election, six of the ten States that appointed electors did so by direct legislative appointment. McPherson v. Blacker, 146 U.S. 1, 29-30 (1892).

32. In the second presidential election, nine of the fifteen States that appointed electors did so by direct legislative appointment. Id. at 30.

33. In the third presidential election, nine of sixteen States that appointed electors did so by direct legislative appointment. Id. at This practice persisted in lesser degrees through the Election of 1860. Id. at 32.

34. Though history has now favored the voter,” Bush II, 531 U.S. at 104, “there is no doubt of the right of the legislature to resume the power [of appointing presidential electors] at any time, for it can neither be taken away nor abdicated.” McPherson, 146 U.S. at 35 (emphasis added); cf. 3 U.S.C. § 2 (“Whenever any State has held an election for thepurpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature of such State may direct.”).

35. This Court has stated that “[m]ore recently, the Court has suggested that perhaps not all claims under the Guarantee Clause present nonjusticiable political questions.” New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144, 185 (1992). The acts of non- legislative officials in the Defendant States abrogating state election law indisputably “pose . . . realistic risk of altering the form or the method of functioning of [their States’] governments.” Id. at 186. In fact, the Article II violations go to the very heart of a Republican form of government.

36. As Justice Thomas stated in his dissent in United States Term Limits v. Thorton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995):

Our system of government rests on one overriding principle: All power stems from the consent of the people. To phrase the principle in this way, however, is to be imprecise about something important to the notion of ‘reserved’ powers. The ultimate source of the Constitution’s authority is the consent of the people of each individual State, not the consent of the undifferentiated people of the Nation as a whole.

Id. at 846 (Thomas, J., dissenting, with the Chief Justice and Justices O’Connor and Scalia joining).

37. The Constitution is a voluntary compact among the people of the States. When the Defendant States disregarded the Constitution in a manner as fundamental to our republican form of government as is Article II here, the United States is required to under Article IV to step in and enforce the Constitution against such unlawful acts.

38. Independently, a government implemented through a stolen election is not a republican form of government. The failure of the United States to prevent the electoral manipulations by the Defendant States (and other States), also violated Article IV because that failure “risk[s] . . . altering the form or the method of functioning of [all States’] governments.” New York v. United States, 505 U.S. at 185; see also Erwin Chemerinsky, Cases Under the Guarantee Clause Should Be Justiciable, 65 COLO. L. REV. 849, 868 (1994) (“[T]he key features of a republican form of government are a right to vote and a right of political participation.”).

39. Given the State legislatures’ constitutional primacy in selecting presidential electors, the ability to set rules governing the casting of ballots and counting of votes cannot be usurped by other branches of state government.

40. Defendant States’ applicable laws are set out under the facts for each Defendant State.

FACTS

41. In December 2018, the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project and MIT Election Data & Science Lab issued a comprehensive report addressing election integrity issues.5 The fundamental question they sought to address was: “How do we know that the election outcomes announced by election officials are correct?”

42. The Caltech/MIT Report concluded: “Ultimately, the only way to answer a question like this is to rely on procedures that independently review the outcomes of elections, to detect and correct material mistakes that are discovered. In other words, elections need to be audited.” Id. at iii. The Caltech/MIT Report then set forth a detailed analysis of why and how such audits should be done for the same reasons that exist today—a lack of trust in our voting systems.

43. The constitutional violations committed by Defendant States and the federal defendants directly affected the outcome of the Electoral College vote. Those violations proximately caused the appointment of presidential electors for Mr. Biden and the improper certification of his election.

The uncontrolled use of mail-in ballots in 2020 made widespread election fraud inevitable.

44. The use of absentee and mail-in ballots skyrocketed in 2020, not only as a purported public- health response to the COVID-19 pandemic but also at the urging of mail-in voting’s proponents, and most especially executive branch officials in Defendant States. According to the Pew Research Center,

See Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Summary Report, Election Auditing, Key Issues and Perspectives (2018) (Tab 3).

2020 general election, a record number of votes—in the 17 million.

45. In the wake of the contested 2000 election, the bipartisan Jimmy Carter-James Baker commission identified absentee ballots as “the largest source of potential voter fraud.” BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN U.S. ELECTIONS: REPORT OF THECOMMISSION ON FEDERAL ELECTION REFORM, at 46 (Sept. 2005).

46. Concern over the use of mail-in ballots is not novel to the modern era, Dustin Waters, Mail-in Ballots Were Part of a Plot to Deny Lincoln Reelection in 1864, WASH. POST (Aug. 22, 2020),6 and it remained a concern leading up to the November 2020 election. Crawford v. Marion Cty. Election Bd., 553 U.S. 181, 194-96 & n.11 (2008); see also Texas Office of the Attorney General, AG Paxton Announces Joint Prosecution of Gregg County Organized Election Fraud in Mail-In Balloting Scheme (Sept. 24, 2020); Harriet Alexander & Ariel Zilber, Minneapolis police opens investigation into reports that Ilhan Omar's supporters illegally harvested Democrat ballots in Minnesota, DAILY MAIL, Sept. 28, 2020.

47. Absentee and mail-in voting are the primary opportunities for unlawful ballots to be cast in scale. As a result of the explosion in absentee and mail-in voting in Defendant States, combined with Defendant States’ unconstitutional modification of

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/08/22/mail- in-voting-civil-war-election-conspiracy-lincoln/ (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

about 65 —were cast via mail compared to 33.5 million mail-in ballots cast in the 2016 general election—an increase of more than 94 percent.

statutory protections designed to ensure election integrity, Defendant States created a massive opportunity for fraud. In addition, Defendant States made it difficult or impossible to separate the constitutionally tainted mail-in ballots from valid mail-in ballots.

48. Rather than augment safeguards against illegal voting in anticipation of the millions of additional mail-in ballots flooding into their States, Defendant States all materially weakened, or did away with, security measures, such as witness or signature verification procedures, and prohibitions on unmanned ballot drop boxes, required by their respective legislatures. Their legislatures established those commonsense safeguards to prevent—or at least reduce—fraudulent mail-in ballots.

49. Significantly, in Defendant States, Democrat voters voted by mail at two to three times the rate of Republicans. Mr. Biden thus greatly benefited from this unconstitutional usurpation of legislative authority, and the weakening of legislatively mandated ballot security measures.

Electronic voting systems are inherently vulnerable to hacking and manipulation.

50. In addition to the unconstitutional acts associated with mail-in and absentee voting, there are grave issues surrounding the vulnerability of electronic voting machines—such as the electronic voting systems provided by Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. (“Dominion”) and Election Systems & Software (“ES&S”)—that were in use in all of the Defendant States (and other states as well) during the November 2020 election.

51. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) designated election infrastructure as critical infrastructure pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 5195c. See Curling v. Kemp, 334 F. Supp. 3d 1303, 1311 (N.D. Ga. 2018). The United States thus formally articulated its duty to protect the Nation’s election systems.

52. On November 12, 2020, after the November 2020 election, members of Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & The Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees issued a joint statement declaring that

53. In an ironic twist, four weeks later, on December 13, 2020, the U.S. Government announced the largest cyberattack in the Country’s history affecting more than 18,000 public and private organizations—including at least one voting machine company.

54. As Plaintiff’s expert, Col. John Mills (USAR Ret.), a former Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Civilian possessing almost 40 years of experience in the planning and use of U.S. cybersecurity-related instruments of national power testifies:

• The United States Government has the capability to project significant effects toward

“the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” The purveyors of this statement provided no support for this bold-faced assertion.

critical infrastructure worldwide—including election systems. This same capability now exists in other countries, such as China, Russian, Iran, and Venezuela, and these foreign powers now use these same, similar, and improved remote access operation methodologies at will to assert their own national agendas.

• These operations have created a growing talent base of personnel, software, and network- enabled, remote-access capabilities that are becoming ubiquitous in the hands of companies and personnel outside of the U.S. Government.

Declaration of Col. John R. Mills, ¶¶ 9 -14 (USAR Ret.) (Tab 4).

55. Further highlighting the extreme risk of manipulation of our electronic voting systems is the public testimony of renowned cyber security expert, University of Michigan Professor J. Alex Halderman. On June 21, 2017, he testified to the United States Senate Intelligence Committee on how easy it is to hack electronic voting systems to change the outcome of a national election.

56. The following statement by Professor Halderman at this hearing is startling:

Statements that the November 2020 election was “the most secure in American history”

asserted in a November 12, 2020, posted on the CISA website, had little, if any, basis in fact.

My conclusion from that work is that our highly computerized election infrastructure is vulnerable to sabotage and even to cyber attacks that could change votes. These realities risk making our election results more difficult for the American people to trust. ... I know America's voting machines are vulnerable because my colleagues and I have hacked them repeatedly as part of a decade of research studying the technology that operates elections and learning how to make it stronger. We've created attacks that can spread from machine to machine, like a computer virus, and silently changeelection outcomes. ... This puts the entire Nation at risk. In close elections, an attacker can probe the most important swing states or swing counties, find areas with the weakest protection, and strike there. In a close election year, changing a few votes in key localities could be enough to tip national results.

Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Elections: Hearing before the Sen. Select Comm. on Intelligence, 115th Cong.,72 (2017). Professor Halderman’s entire introductory remarks can be seen at the link in the footnote below. 7

57. On September 21, 2021 Prof. Halderman filed a declaration in Curling v. Raffensperger, No. 1:17-cv-2989-AT (N.D. Ga.), requesting that the district court unseal his July 1, 2021 25,000-word expert report (the “Report”) stating under the penalty of perjury, that the hacking/malware threat to Dominion voting machines used in 16 states is so “urgent” that his Report must be released to CISA to try to fix these issues, and that CISA has acknowledged that it is prepared to do so.8

58. Prof. Halderman testified that “These are not general weaknesses or theoretical problems but rather specific flaws in [Dominion’s] ICX software and I am prepared to demonstrate proof-of-concept malware that can exploit them to steal votes.” Id.

59. Prof. Halderman also testified that: “Informing responsible parties about the [Dominion] ICX’s vulnerabilities is becoming more urgent by the day. Foreign or domestic adversaries who are intent on attacking elections certainly could have already discovered the same problems I did.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmivIHUAy8Q (opening testimony at 2:15:15 to 2:21:15) (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

See Declaration of J. Alex Halderman (Tab 5). The 16 states are: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington. Id. at ¶5

60. Prof. Halderman testified that Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is refusing to address these issues and, along with the other defendant Georgia county election officials, has objected to disclosing his Report just to CISA leaving Prof. Halderman to state that “continuing to conceal [these] problems . . . serves no one and only hurts voters.” Id. (emphasis added).

The State of Arizona’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified and counted.

61. Arizona has 11 electoral votes, with a state-wide vote tally 1,661,686 for Mr. Trump and 1,672,143 for Mr. Biden, a margin of 10,457 votes.

62. The number of illegal votes and votes affected by the various constitutional violations far exceeds the margin of votes separating the candidates.

Arizona’s election violated the Electors’ Clause.

63. Since 1990, Arizona law has required that residents wishing to participate in an election submit their voter registration materials no later than 29 days prior to election day in order to vote in that election. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-120(A). For 2020, that deadline was October 5.

64. Such deadlines are permissible: “State is certainly justified in imposing some reasonable cutoff point for registration ... which citizens must meet in order to participate in the next election.” Rosario v. Rockefeller, 410 U.S. 752, 760 (1973).

65. In Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs, 492 F. Supp. 3d 980 (D. Ariz. 2020), however, a federal district court violated the Electors Clause and enjoined that law, extending the registration deadline to October 23, 2020. The Ninth Circuit stayed that order on October 13, 2020, with a two-day grace period, Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs, 977 F.3d 948, 955 (9th Cir. 2020).

66. Nonetheless, the Ninth Circuit did not apply the stay retroactively because neither the Arizona Secretary of State nor the Arizona Attorney General requested retroactive relief. Id. at 954-55. As a net result, the deadline was unconstitutionally extended from the statutory deadline of October 5 to October 15, 2021, thereby allowing more than 52,000 registrations in violation of Arizona law. Brahm Resnik, Court cuts off extension of Arizona voter registration on Thursday, 12 NEWS, Oct. 13, 2020.9

2. AuditsofMaricopaCountyfound outcome-determinative numbers of unlawful votes.

67. In addition the foregoing purely legal Electors Clause violation, audits of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County discovered evidence of outcome-determinative discrepancies and fraud.

https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/elections/court- cuts-off-extension-of-arizona-voter-registration-after-2-more- days/75-86c59dfb-2950-4fea-89aa-6c38542b10de (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

  68. On December 15, 2020, the Arizona State supplied

(the “Maricopa Board”) voting irregularities. They stated in a public hearing earlier that day that

Maricopa Cty. v. Fann, No. CV 2020-016840 (Maricopa Cty. Super. Ct. Feb. 25, 2021), the Maricopa Board and other County officials continued to obstruct the audit and withheld materials covered by the Maricopa Board.

71. After the Maricopa County Superior Court upheld the issuance of the operative subpoenas, on March 3, 2021, someone using an administrative account from a valid local network address accessed Maricopa County’s Election Management System (“EMS”) server and executed a script 37,686 times, with each execution resulting on the overwriting of one entry in the EMS server’s security log.

Senate served two subpoenas on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

to audit scanned ballots, voting machines, and software based on Arizona Senate Judiciary Chairman “there is evidence of tampering, there is evidence of fraud” with vote in Maricopa County.

Rather than comply with the subpoenas, they fought the subpoenas in state court, which resulted in the issuance of two new, superseding subpoenas on January 12, 2021.

Although the Maricopa Board complied in part, it continued to seek to withhold the balance of the subpoenaed election materials (e.g., ballots, voting routers, and equipment) that could determine the extent of internet connectedness or intrusions.

Although the Arizona Senate prevailed on the lawfulness of the subpoenas,

(e.g., splunk logs, has a fixed capacity, and each new entry displaced the oldest entry), thereby destroying evidence of the network accesses to the EMS during the 2020 election.

72. The Arizona Senate engaged systems and cybersecurity firms to audit the election materials produced by the County using forensic methods that exceed the type of hand recount typically conducted in close elections. Unlike a forensic audit, a recount would not detect fraud in the same way that recounting the money in a cash register would not detect whether a business had been passed counterfeit currency.

73. On September 24, 2021, the forensic auditors presented their reports to the Arizona State Senate in both written form and testimony.

74. The forensic auditors found numerous anomalies and outcome-determinative discrepancies with the Maricopa County election materials made available to them, including:

255,326 ballots included in the “final voted file” (the “VM55” file) as having voted early that were not included in the “early voting returns file” (the “EV33” file), when the EV33 file should have an entry for each early vote cast (whether by mail or in person) with the details as to when and how that vote was cast;

23,344 mail-in ballots cast when the registered voter had moved and where no one with the same surname remained at the address;

5,295 instances of multiple ballots from the same person;

3,432 more votes in the official results than in the final-voted (“VM55”) file;

2,592 more duplicate ballots than ballots sent for duplication;

1,528 voters who had moved to another state;

618 votes by persons not on the official precinctregister 10 days prior to election;

397 mail-in ballots returned without any record of a ballot having been sent to the voter;

282 registered voters who died before October 5, 2020, and nonetheless voted;

198 votes by persons who registered after the cut-off date for registering to vote in the 2020 election.Cyber Ninjas, Maricopa County Forensic Election Audit, vol. III, at 6, 51, 10, 12-14, 20-21, 25-26, 29-30, 34-36 (Sept. 24, 2021) (Tab 20).

75. Although Maricopa County withholding the router, Splunk, and NetFlow data prevented an audit of all internet connections with the Maricopa County election system, the audit network auditors did find evidence of internet activity in unallocated space—i.e., portions of deleted files—on the Maricopa County election systems dated after the installation of the Dominion voting software suite on August 6, 2020. This finding proves that Maricopa County’s claim that its election systems were not connected to the internet is false.

76. The forensic auditors were unable to determine whether votes or results had been electronically altered from the materials initially provided because Maricopa County officials withheld or overwrote equipment and data that would allow forensic auditors to determine whether intrusions had—or had not—occurred and, if so, from where those intrusions came.

77. In addition, A. V. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., analyzed signatures from the images of early- voting ballot envelopes that Maricopa County provided to the Arizona Senate. His findings included the following anomalies and outcome-determinative discrepancies from an analysis of the signature regions of the 1,929,240 early-voting ballot (“EVB”) return envelope images provided:

17,322 duplicate mail-in voting early ballots by 17,126 voters who voted twice (16,934 voters), thrice (188 voters), or four times (4 voters);

9,589 fewer EVB return envelopes identified as even having a signature than Maricopa County submitted for signature verification;

A 59.7% decrease in the number of EVB return envelopes rejected as having a signature mismatch versus the 2016 election, notwithstanding that the number of EVB return envelopes increased 52.6% from 2016 to 2020;

6,545 fewer EVB return envelope images made available than reported by Maricopa County’s canvass report on the 2020 general election;

2,580 “scribbles” in the signature region— which would indicate a “bad signature” if a review were commissioned to analyze signatures—when Maricopa County reported having rejected only 587 “bad signature” EVB return envelopes in its canvass report on the 2020 general election;

• 464 more "no signature" EVB return envelopes—a total of 1,919—when Maricopa County reported having rejected only 1,455 “no signature” EVB return envelopes in its canvass report on the 2020 general election.

A. V. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., Pattern Recognition Classification of Early Voting Ballot (EVB) Return Envelope Images for Signature Presence Detection: An Engineering Systems Approach to Identify Anomalies to Advance the Integrity of US. Election Processes, at 62, 88-89 (Sept. 24, 2021) (Tab 21).

78. Based on his review of signature region on the EVB return envelopes, Dr. Shiva concluded that a full audit (e.g., comparing the signature on EVB return envelope images with voters’ signatures from voter registration files) of the Maricopa signature- verification process is needed.

The State of Georgia’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified and counted.

79. Georgia has 16 electoral votes, with a statewide vote tally of 2,461,854 for Mr. Trump and 2,473,633 for Mr. Biden, a margin of approximately 11,779 votes.

80. The number of illegal votes and votes affected by the various constitutional violations far exceeds the margin of votes separating the candidates.

The violations of Article II in Georgia resulted in outcome-determinative numbers of unlawful votes.

Rule 183-1-14-0.8-.14 Secure Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes

In July 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger and the Georgia State Election Board, without legislative approval as required under Georgia’s Constitution, authorized the use of 300 absentee ballot drop boxes beginning 49 days beforethe November 2020 election.

Under this Rule, each of Georgia’s 159

counties is responsible for documenting the transfer of every batch of absentee ballots picked up at drop boxes and delivered to the county election offices with ballot transfer forms. The forms are required to be signed and dated, with time of pick up by the collection team upon pick up, and then signed, dated, with time of delivery by the registrar or designee upon receipt and accepted.

As of April 2021,.

In addition, Georgia’s Secretary of State,

Brad Raffensperger, without legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated Georgia’s statutes governing the date a ballot may be opened, and the signature verification process for absentee ballots.

85. O.C.G.A. § 21-2-386(a)(2) prohibits the opening of absentee ballots until after the polls open on Election Day. In April 2020, however, the State Election Board adopted Secretary of State Rule 183-1- officials at the state and county level in Georgia have failed to produce chain of custody records for more than 355,000 absentee vote by mail ballots deposited in drop boxes located around the state for that election

14-0.9-.15, Processing Ballots Prior to Election Day. That rule purports to authorize county election officials to begin processing absentee ballots up to three weeks before Election Day. Outside parties were then given early and illegal access to purportedly defective ballots to “cure” them in violation of O.C.G.A. §§ 21-2-386(a)(1)(C), 21-2-419(c)(2).

86. Specifically, Georgia law authorizes and requires a single registrar or clerk—after reviewing the outer envelope—to reject an absentee ballot if: the voter failed to sign the required oath or to provide the required information; the signature appears invalid or the required information does not conform with the information on file; or if the voter is otherwise found ineligible to vote. O.C.G.A. § 21-2-386(a)(1)(B)-(C).

87. Georgia law provides absentee voters the chance to “cure a failure to sign the oath, an invalid signature, or missing information” on a ballot’s outer envelope by the deadline for verifying provisional ballots (i.e., three days after the election). O.C.G.A. §§ 21-2-386(a)(1)(C), 21-2-419(c)(2). To facilitate cures, Georgia law requires the relevant election official to notify the voter in writing: “The board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk shall promptly notify the elector of such rejection, a copy of which notification shall be retained in the files of the board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk for at least two years.” O.C.G.A. § 21-2-386(a)(1)(B).

88. There were 284,817 early ballots corrected and accepted in Georgia out of 4,018,064 early ballots used to vote in Georgia. Mr. Biden received nearly twice the number of mail-in votes as Mr. Trump and thus materially benefited from this unconstitutional change in Georgia’s election laws.

89. In addition, on March 6, 2020, in Democratic Party of Georgia v. Raffensperger, No. 1:19-cv-5028-WMR (N.D. Ga.), Georgia’s Secretary of State, a non-legislative actor, entered a Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release with theDemocratic Party of Georgia (the “Settlement”) to materially change the legislature’s statutory requirements for reviewing signatures on absentee ballot envelopes to confirm the voter’s identity by making it far more difficult to challenge defective signatures beyond the express mandatory procedures set forth at GA. CODE § 21-2-386(a)(1)(B).

90. Among other things, before a ballot could be rejected, the Settlement required a registrar who found a defective signature to now seek a review by two other registrars, and only if a majority of the registrars agreed that the signature was defective could the ballot be rejected but not before all three registrars’ names were written on the ballot envelope along with the reason for the rejection. These cumbersome procedures are in direct conflict with Georgia’s statutory requirements, as is the Settlement’s requirement that notice be provided by telephone (i.e., not in writing) if a telephone number is available. Finally, the Settlement purports to require State election officials to consider issuing guidance and training materials drafted by an expert retained by the Democratic Party of Georgia.

91. Georgia’s legislature has not ratified these material purported changes to statutory law mandated by the Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release, including altered signature verification requirements and early opening of ballots. The relevant legislation that was violated by the Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release did not include a severability clause.

92. This unconstitutional purported change in Georgia law materially benefitted Mr. Biden.

93. The effect of this unconstitutional change in Georgia election law, which made it more likely that ballots without matching signatures would be counted, had a material impact on the outcome of the election.

94. Specifically, there were 1,305,659 absentee mail-in ballots submitted in Georgia in 2020. There were 4,786 absentee ballots rejected in 2020. This is a rejection rate of .37%. In contrast, in 2016, the 2016 rejection rate was 6.42% with 13,677 absentee mail-in ballots being rejected out of 213,033 submitted, which is more than seventeen times greater than in 2020.

95. If the rejection rate of mailed-in absentee ballots remained the same in 2020 as it was in 2016, there would be 83,517 fewer tabulated ballots in 2020. The statewide split of absentee ballots was 34.68% for Trump and 65.2% for Biden. Rejecting at the higher 2016 rate with the 2020 split between Trump and Biden would decrease Trump votes by 28,965 and Biden votes by 54,552, which would be a net gain for Trump of 25,587 votes. This would be more than needed to overcome the Biden advantage of 11,779

According to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, Mr. Biden had almost double the number of absentee votes (65.32%) as Mr. Trump (34.68%) votes. Regardless of the number of ballots affected, however, the non-legislative changes to the election rules violated the Electors Clause.

2. Georgia’s use of electronic voting machines opened the door to electronic manipulation of the vote.

96. In addition, Georgia uses Dominion’s electronic voting machines throughout the State. Less than a month before the election, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled on a motion brought by a citizen advocate group and others seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Georgia from using Dominion’s voting systems due totheir known vulnerabilities to hacking and other irregularities. See Curling v. Raffensperger, 493 F. Supp. 3d 1264 (N.D. Ga. 2020) (“Curling”).

97. Though the district court found that it was bound by Eleventh Circuit law to deny plaintiffs’ motion, it issued a prophetic warning stating:

The Court's Order has delved deep into the true risks posed by the new BMD voting system as well as its manner of implementation. These risks are neither hypothetical nor remote under the current circumstances. The insularity of theDefendants’ and Dominion's stance here in evaluation and management of the security and vulnerability of the BMD system does not benefit the public or citizens' confident exercise of the franchise. The stealth vote alteration or operational interference risks posed by malware that can be effectively invisible to detection, whether intentionally seeded or not, are high once implanted, if equipment and software systems are not properly protected, implemented, and audited.

493 F. Supp. 3d at 1341 (emphasis added).

98. In a November 4, 2020, video interview, Fulton County, Georgia Director of Elections, Richard Barron, stated that the tallied vote of over 93% of ballots were based on a “review [panel’s]” determination of the voter’s “intent”—not what thevoter actually voted. Specifically, he stated that “so far we’ve scanned 113,130 ballots, we’ve adjudicated over 106,000. . . . The only ballots that are adjudicated are if we have a ballot with a contest on it in which there’s some question as to how the computer reads it so that the vote review panel then determines voter intent.”10 There is no way to know whether that vast number of ballots were accurately adjudicated in that short period of time to reflect the true vote.

99. This astounding figure demonstrates how easy it is for election officials to use electronic voting systems to modify votes on a massive scale with no oversight. These figures, in and of themselves in this one sample, far exceeds the margin of votes separating the two candidates in Georgia.

100. On November 9, 2021, a voting rights group, VoterGA, announced that 56 Georgia counties admitted that most or all of the images created

https://www.c-span.org/video/?477819-1/fulton-county- georgia-election-update (last visited Nov. 23, 2021) (from 0:20 through 1:21).

automatically by the Dominion voting system for results tabulation have been destroyed, and that a total of 74 Georgia counties have been unable to produce all the original ballot images from the November 2020 election.

101. For example, VoterGA sent an open records act request to Fulton County for an “[e]lectronic Copy of all original Election Day ballot images for the November 3rd, 2020 election.” The County responded:

I recall our conversation and I appreciate you emailing me your requests. I can confirm that the County maintains no records which are responsive to your request. The answer is the same for both the request contained in this email as well as the email you just sent seeking “Electronic Copy of the approximately 315,000 original In-Person Advance Voting ballot images for the November 3rd, 2020 election”. The County maintains nothing responsive.11

102. Thus, Fulton County apparently destroyed over 350,000 ballot images—the only records which can show the authenticity of the ballot cast such as through the proof of date and time when cast based on metadata contained on the images. Paper ballots have no such evidence that proves their authenticity.

103. The destruction of these election records violated 52 USC § 20701, which requires a 22-month

11 See email from Steven Rosenberg, Fulton County Deputy County Attorney to Garland Favorito dated September 27, 2021 (Tab 6).

retention period for such records, and O.C.G.A. § 21- 2-73 which requires a 24-month retention period for such records.

104. In addition, Fulton County is also missing 17,690 mail-in ballots, which alone far exceeds Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia.

105. The response to VoterGA’s open records act request included written confirmation from Chris Harvey, then-Georgia Election Director, granting permission to erase in-person ballot images from the memory cards.12 The destruction of these election records violated 52 USC § 20701, and O.C.G.A. § 21- 2-73 as described, supra.

3. The Georgia Senate Election Law Study Subcommittee found numerous outcome determinative numbers of unlawful votes and concluded the election results “must be viewed as untrustworthy.”

106. On December 17, 2020, Georgia State Senator William Ligon—the Chairman of the Election Law Study Subcommittee of the Georgia Standing Senate Judiciary Committee—issued a detailed report discussing a myriad of voting irregularities and potential fraud in the Georgia 2020 general election (the “Report”) (Tab 8). The Executive Summary states that “[t]he November 3, 2020 General Election (the ‘Election’) was chaotic and any reported results must be viewed as untrustworthy”.

12 See email from State Election Director Chris Harvey dated December 2, 2020 (Tab 7).

107. The Subcommittee unanimously approved the Report in a subsequent hearing on election fraud held on December 30, 2020. During that hearing investigating fraud, an expert on Dominion voting systems, Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, demonstrated in real-time that a Dominion poll pad could be hacked due to the fact that it was connected to the internet.

108. On January 2, 2021, Sen. Ligon, sent then-President Trump a letter requesting a forensic audit of the Dominion voting machines and ballots under DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act of 2019. In his letter, Senator Ligon based his request in part on the following:

The Dominion voting machines employed in Fulton County had an astounding 93.67% error rate in the scanning of ballots requiring some unknown “review panel” to “adjudicate” i.e. ”determine” the voter’s intent in over 106,000ballots out of a total 113,130 ballots.

Tens of thousands of votes were switched from Trump to Biden in several Georgia counties in Georgia. For example, in Bibb County, Trump had 29,391 votes at 9:11 pm EST while simultaneously Biden had 17,218 votes. Minutes later at the next update, these vote numbers switched and Trump had 17,218 votes and Biden had 29,391 votes—a switch of 12,173 votes in Biden’s favor.Letter, Sen. William Ligon, Georgia State Senate, to Donald J. Trump (Jan. 2, 2021) (Tab 9).

The State of Michigan’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified and counted.

109. Michigan has 16 electoral votes, with a statewide vote tally of 2,649,852 for Mr. Trump and 2,804,040 for Mr. Biden, a margin of 154,188 votes.

110. The number of votes affected by the various constitutional violations exceeds the margin of votes dividing the candidates.

1. The violations of Article II in Michigan resulted in outcome- determinative numbers of unlawful votes.

111. Michigan’s then-Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, without legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated Michigan election statutes related to absentee ballot applications and signature verification. Michigan’s legislature has not ratified these changes, and its election laws do not include a severability clause.

112. As amended in 2018, the Michigan Constitution provides all registered voters the right to request and vote by an absentee ballot without giving a reason. MICH. CONST. art. 2, § 4.

113. On May 19, 2020, however, Secretary Benson announced that her office would send unsolicited absentee-voter ballot applications by mail to all 7.7 million registered Michigan voters prior to the primary and general elections. Although her office repeatedly encouraged voters to vote absentee because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it did not ensure that Michigan’s election systems and procedures were adequate to ensure the accuracy and legality of the historic flood of mail-in votes. In fact, it did the opposite and did away with protections designed to deter voter fraud.

114. Secretary Benson’s flooding of Michigan with millions of absentee ballot applications prior to the 2020 general election violated M.C.L. § 168.759(3). That statute limits the procedures for requesting an absentee ballot to three specified ways:

An application for an absent voter ballot under this section may be made in any of the following ways:

(a) By a written request signed by the voter. (b) On an absent voter ballot application form provided for that purpose by the clerk of the city or township.

(c) On a federal postcard application. M.C.L. § 168.759(3) (emphasis added).

115. The Michigan Legislature thus declined to include the Secretary of State as a means for distributing absentee ballot applications. Id. § 168.759(3)(b). Under the statute’s plain language, the Legislature explicitly gave only local clerks the power to distribute absentee voter ballot applications. Id.

116. Because the Legislature declined to explicitly include the Secretary of State as a vehicle for distributing absentee ballots applications, Secretary Benson lacked authority to distribute even a single absentee voter ballot application—much less the millions of absentee ballot applications Secretary Benson chose to flood across Michigan.

117. Secretary Benson also violated Michigan law when she launched a program in June 2020 allowing absentee ballots to be requested online, without signature verification as expressly required under Michigan law. The Michigan Legislature did not approve or authorize Secretary Benson’s unilateral actions.

118. MCL § 168.759(4) states in relevant part:

119. Further, MCL § 168.761(2) states in relevant part: “

120.

to local election clerks in the form of a document entitled “Absent Voter Ballot Processing: Signature Verification and Voter Notification Standards.” This document mirrored guidance Benson had previously issued. The stated purpose of this document was to “provide standards” for reviewing signatures, verifying signatures, and curing missing or mismatched signatures.

121. Under the heading entitled “Procedures for Signature Verification,” the document states that signature review “begins with the presumption that” the signature on an absent voter ballot application or envelope is valid. Further, the document instructs clerks to, if there are “any redeeming qualities in the [absent voter] application or return envelope

“An applicant for an absent voter ballot shall sign the application. Subject to section 761(2), a clerk or assistant clerk shall not deliver an absent voter ballot to an applicant who does not sign the application.”

The qualified voter file must be used to determine the genuineness of a signature on an application for an absent voter ballot”, and if “the signatures do not agree sufficiently or [if] the

signature is missing” the ballot must be rejected.

On October 6, 2020, Secretary Benson issued “guidance” signature as compared to the signature on file, treat the signature as valid.”

122. The section on signature-verification procedures repeats the notion that “clerks should presume that a voter’s [absent voter] application or envelope signature is his or her genuine signature, as there are several acceptable reasons that may cause an apparent mismatch.” Finally, the document concludes, that clerks “must perform their signature verification duties with the presumption that the voter’s [absent voter] application or envelope signature is his or her genuine signature.”

Case No. 20- 000216-MM, slip op. at 14 (Mich. Ct. Claims, March 9, 2021) (stating “the standards issued by defendant Benson on October 6, 2020, with respect to signature- matching requirements amounted to a ‘rule’ [and] is

invalid.”) (Tab 10).

Nonetheless, the damage caused by Benson’s unlawful disregard was done. In 2016 only 587,618 Michigan voters requested absentee ballots. In stark contrast, in 2020,

On March 9, 2021, the Michigan Court of Claims ruled that Benson’s disregard of Michigan’s statutory signature verifications requirements and procedures in her instructions to Michigan’s election clerks were unlawful. Genetski v. Benson,

of Michigan’s statutory signature verifications requirements and procedures

3.2 million votes were cast by absentee ballot, about 57% of total votes cast —and more than five times the

number of ballots even requested in 2016.

Secretary Benson’s unconstitutional modifications of Michigan’s election rules resulted in the distribution of millions of absentee ballots.

Thus, Mr. Biden materially benefited from these unconstitutional changes to Michigan’s election law.

126. In sum, the non-legislative modifications to Michigan’s election statutes, and other discrepancies, resulted in a number of constitutionally tainted votes that far exceeds the margin of voters separating the candidates in Michigan.

rules, the non-legislative changes to the election rules violated the Electors Clause

2. Election officials’ illegal acts in Wayne County resulted in outcome determinative numbers of unlawful votes.

127. Michigan also requires that poll watchers and inspectors have access to vote counting and canvassing. M.C.L. §§ 168.674-.675.

128. Michigan also has strict signature verification requirements for absentee ballots, including that the Elections Department place a written statement or stamp on each ballot envelope where the voter signature is placed, indicating that the voter signature was in fact checked and verified

applications without verifying voter signatures as required by MCL §§ 168.759(4) and 168.761(2). This means that millions of absentee ballots were

disseminated in violation of Michigan’s statutory signature-verification requirements. Democrats in Michigan voted by mail at a ratio of approximately two to one compared to Republican voters.

Regardless of the number of votes that were affected by the unconstitutional modification of Michigan’s election

   with the signature on file with the State. See MCL § 168.765a(6).

129. Local election officials in Wayne County made a conscious and express policy decision not to follow M.C.L. §§ 168.674-.675 for the opening, counting, and recording of absentee ballots. Wayne County made the policy decision to ignore Michigan’s statutory signature-verification requirements for absentee ballots. Mr. Biden received approximately 587,074, or 68%, of the votes cast there compared to Mr. Trump’s receiving approximate 264,149, or 30.59%, of the total vote. Thus, Mr. Biden materially benefited from these unconstitutional changes to Michigan’s election law.

130. In addition, numerous poll challengers and an Election Department employee whistleblower have testified that the signature verification requirement was ignored in Wayne County. For example, Jesse Jacob, a decades-long City of Detroit employee assigned to work in the Elections Department for the 2020 election testified that:

Absentee ballots that were received in the mail would have the voter’s signature on the envelope. While I was at the TCF Center, I was instructed not to look at any of the signatures on the absentee ballots, and I was instructed not to compare the signature on the absentee ballot with the signature on file.

Affidavit of Jessy Jacob, at ¶15 (Tab 11).

131. In fact, a poll challenger, Lisa Gage, testified that not a single one of the several hundred to a thousand ballot envelopes she observed had a written statement or stamp indicating the voter signature had been verified at the TCF Center in accordance with MCL § 168.765a(6).13

132. The TCF was the only facility within Wayne County authorized to count ballots for the City of Detroit.

133. In addition, a member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers (“Canvassers Board”), William Hartman, determined that 71% of Detroit’s Absent Voter Counting Boards (“AVCBs”) were unbalanced—i.e., the number of people who checked in did not match the number of ballots cast—without explanation. Affidavit of William Hartman at ¶ 6 (Tab 12).

134. On November 17, 2020, the Canvassers Board deadlocked 2-2 over whether to certify the results of the presidential election based on numerous reports of fraud and unanswered material discrepancies in the county-wide election results. A few hours later, the Republican Board members reversed their decision and voted to certify the results after severe harassment, including threats of violence. See Affidavit of William Hartman at ¶¶ 18-19 (Tab 12), and Affidavit of Monica Palmer at ¶¶ 27-28 (Tab 13).

135. The following day, the two Republican members of the Board rescinded their votes to certify the vote and signed affidavits alleging they were bullied and misled into approving election results and do not believe the votes should be certified until

serious irregularities in Detroit votes are resolved.

Affidavit of Lisa Gage ¶ 17 (Tab 14).

136. On February 5, 2021, a news outlet called The Gateway Pundit revealed video footage from security cameras at the TCF Center it had received the prior week in connection with an open records request. That video footage confirmed witness testimony that there were at least 50 mailbox bins of ballots unloaded at 3:30 am on November 4, 2020, in the back of the TCF Center, well after the 8:00 pm deadline for ballots cast. There were no poll watchers present nor was there any formal chain of custody observed to know when these ballots were cast or where the ballots came from.

137. Lastly, on November 4, 2020, Michigan election officials in Antrim County admitted that a purported “glitch” in Dominion voting machines caused 6,000 votes for Mr. Trump to be wrongly switched to Mr. Biden in just one county. Local officials discovered the so-called “glitch” after reportedly questioning Mr. Biden’s win in the heavily Republican area and manually checked the vote tabulation.

Jim Hoft, Exclusive: The TCF Center Election Fraud – Newly Discovered Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Tens of Thousands of Illegal Ballots 8 Hours After Deadline, THE GATEWAY PUNDIT, Feb. 5, 2021, https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/exclusive-tcf- center-election-fraud-newly-recovered-video-shows-late-night- deliveries-tens-thousands-illegal-ballots-michigan-arena/ (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

A “glitch” in electronic voting machines in Antrim County wrongly awarding 6,000 votes to Mr. Biden.

138. In Bailey v. Antrim County et al., Case No. 20-9238-CZ, cyber security expert, Benjamin R. Cotton, submitted an affidavit detailing his examination of, inter alia, the Dominion ICX system and the ES&S server used in the November 2020 election. What he found was shocking.

139. Specifically, Mr. Cotton found an IP address on the Dominion ICX machine that resolved to an address in Taiwan, and that the system was actively configured to communicate on a private network. Cotton concluded that “1) the device has been actively used for network communications, and 2) that this device has communicated to public IP addresses not located in the United States.” Affidavit of Ben Cotton (Tab 15).

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes were unlawfully certified and counted.

140. Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes, with a statewide vote tally of 3,377,654 for Mr. Trump and 3,458,229 for Mr. Biden, a margin of 80,575 votes.

141. The number of illegal votes and votes affected by the various constitutional violations far exceeds the margin of votes separating the candidates.

1. Pennsylvania’s voter registration system can be easily hacked and manipulated.

142. Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that allow third party entities some type of access to voter registration systems via an application programming interface (“API”). Most states and most countries prohibit access to sensitive election data but in Pennsylvania, third party organizations are not only given access to the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (“SURE”) system but they also have the ability to grant access to other “partner organizations.” The registration system is thus totally vulnerable to someone adding fake registrations or illegally modifying registration data.

143. On December 13, 2019, the Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General (“DAG”) issued a detailed report on its performance audit of the SURE system administered by the Pennsylvania Department of State (“DOS”). The DAG stated that the DOS obstructed its audit stating:

DOS’ denial of access to critical documents and excessive redaction of documentation resulted in DAG being unable to fully achieve three of the eight audit objectives. . . . This sustained refusal to cooperate with our information requests was done without DOS providing any plausible justification for their noncooperation. Accordingly, DAG was unable to establish with any degree of reasonable assurance that the SURE system is secure and that Pennsylvania voter registration records are complete, accurate, and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and related guidelines.

Letter, Eugene A. DePasquale, Pennsylvania Auditor General, to Tom Wolf, Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Dec. 13, 2019) (Tab 22).

144. The DAG’s warnings have proven true. For example, tens of thousands of voters were mysteriously added to the SURE system and backdated shortly before the November 2020 election.

145. Specifically, the SURE system includes a unique ID number for each registered voter. That number is proceeded by a hyphenated county code. The February 1, 2021, voter roll (the “Full Voter Export” or “FVE”) contains 74,090 voters with the associated unique ID that have a registration date of April 6, 2020, or earlier—55,823 of these voters are recorded as having voted in 2020. However, the FVE dated April 6, 2020, has no record of these voters— meaning these purported 74,090 voters were inexplicably added to the SURE system and increased the voting population in the months leading up to the November 2020 election. These are not inactive voters. Inactive records are in the FVE and would have shown up in the April 6, 2020, FVE had they existed.

Pennsylvania’s final results show 49,141 more votes than voters and the Secretary of State unlawfully certified the Pennsylvania election results.

146.

Pennsylvania law expressly prohibits certifying until after the investigation of an over-vote:

If . . . it shall appear that the total vote returned for any candidate or candidates for

Secretary Boockvar certified the election results on November 24, 2020. However, the SURE system, the official registrar of votes pursuant to 25 PA. STAT. § 1222, reflected that there were a whopping 784,752 more votes than voters.

147. Pennsylvania law expressly prohibits certifying until after the investigation of an over-vote:

If . . . it shall appear that the total vote returned for any candidate or candidates for

Secretary Boockvar certified the election

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the same office or nomination . . . exceeds the total number of persons who voted in said election district or the total number of ballots cast therein . . . such excess shall be deemed a discrepancy and palpable error, and shall be investigated by the return board, and no votes shall be recorded from such district until such investigation shall be had . . . .

25 PA. STAT. § 3154 (emphasis added).

148. No investigation of the 784,752 votes before certification, as required under 25 PA. STAT. § 3154, was undertaken.

149. On December 28, 2020, Boockvar tried to excuse the massive number of extra votes compared to the number of voters—still over 205,000 as of that date—by issuing a press release stating “[a]t this time, there are still a few counties that have not completed uploading their vote histories to the SURE system.”

150. However, as of February 1, 2021, all Pennsylvania counties closed out their elections in the SURE system—meaning all counties had completed updating the voter information for the November 2020 election. The SURE system reflects that there are still 49,141 more ballots cast included in the certified vote tally, than there were voters in the November 2020 election. No explanation for this gross discrepancy has ever been given by the State.

151. As stated above, Boockvar’s excuse that not all counties had finished uploading their results to the SURE system is now moot. That leaves the fact that there are at least 49,141 more confirmed votesthan voters demonstrating the stark illegality of the Pennsylvania election.

152. In Philadelphia County alone, 792 out of 1703 precincts (also called “districts”) had more votes for President than voters who participated in the election. Those 792 precincts had a total of 346,484 votes for President. In those 792 precincts, Biden received 286,014 votes and Trump received 57,253 votes, for a net margin of 228,761 votes for Biden. Under 25 PA. STAT. § 3154, “no votes shall be recorded from such district until such investigation shall be had . . . .” No investigation into these discrepancies has been conducted.

153. Biden’s margin of 228,761 votes in those 762 precincts, none of which should have been recorded, far exceeds his margin of victory in Pennsylvania.

154. In Alleghany County, 767 out of 1,323 precincts had more votes for President than voters who participated in the election. In those 767 precincts, Biden received 246,446 votes and Trump received 153,060 votes, for a net margin of 93,386 votes for Biden—which alone exceeds Biden’s margin of victory. Combined with Philadelphia County, Biden received 322,147 more votes than Trump. 25 PA. STAT. § 3154 prohibited from being counted until these discrepancies were resolved. Boockvar’s certification of the vote 24, 2020 violated 25 PA. STAT. § 3154, and is therefore void.

3. PennsylvaniamisledthisCourtand continued to illegally count tens of thousands of ballots received after November 3, 2020.

155. On September 17, 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voted 4-3 that all mail- in ballots postmarked by 8:00 on Election Day, and received by 5:00 p.m. November 6, 2020, even those lacking a postmark or bearing an illegible postmark, would be counted. Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar, 238 A.3d 345 (Pa. 2020).

156. On October 19, 2020, this Court split 4-4 on whether to stay that decision by Pennsylvania Supreme Court leaving that unconstitutional decision to stand.

157. After Justice Barrett’s confirmation, the Republican Party sought expedited relief to resolve this issue before the November 2020 election. On October 28, 2020, in a classic bait and switch, Pennsylvania used guidance from its Secretary of State that Pennsylvania would segregate potentially unlawful ballots to argue that this Court should not expedite review. See Republican Party of Pa. v. Boockvar, 141 S. Ct. 1, 2 (2020) (“we have been informed by the Pennsylvania Attorney General that the Secretary of the Commonwealth issued guidance today directing county boards of elections to segregate [late-arriving] ballots”) (Alito, J., concurring) The Court would reasonably rely on such a representation.

158. Before the ink was dry on that decision, however, Pennsylvania changed that guidance, breaking the State’s promise to this Court. On November 6, 2020, Justice Alito ordered all county boards of election to comply with the guidance “that all ballots received by mail after 8:00 p.m. on November 3 be segregated and . . . if counted, be counted separately.” Republican Party v. Boockvar, 208 L.Ed.2d 293, 294 (U.S. 2020) (“The application received today also informs the Court that neither the applicant nor the Secretary has been able to verifythat all boards are complying with the Secretary’s guidance, which, it is alleged, is not legally binding on them.”) (Alito, J., Circuit Justice).

159.

Before Justice Alito’s order dated November 6, 2020, Pennsylvania illegally counted at least 61,855 illegal ballots which were received after the statutory 8:00 pm November 3, 2020, deadline by virtue of the fact that Pennsylvania did not segregate those ballots. The Department of State’s records reflect that: 50,285 ballots were received between November 4 through November 6, 2020; 11,570 ballots were received between November 7 through November 11, 2020; and 10,038 were received after November 11, 2020. Pennsylvania was still counting ballots after November 17, 2020.

Secretary Boockvar claimed that only about 10,000 ballots were counted after 8 p.m. on November 3, thereby admitting ballots were illegally counted, but she offered no proof that only 10,000 ballots were illegally counted.

160.

https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/state-

details.aspx?newsid=434 (last visited Nov. 23, 2021)

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State unconstitutionally threw out state election integrity laws governing mail-in ballots.

161. In 2016, Pennsylvania received 266,208 mail-in ballots; 2,534 of them were rejected (.95%).16 However, in 2020, Pennsylvania received 2,623,867 mail-in ballots—nearly 10 times the number of mail- in ballots compared to 2016. Despite this flood of ballots, the reported rejection rate was just 1.3% with just 34,171 ballots rejected.17 As explained below, this vastly larger volume of mail-in ballots was treated in an unconstitutionally modified manner that included: (1) doing away with the Pennsylvania’s signature verification requirements; and (2) blocking poll watchers in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties in violation of State law.

162.

163. Specifically, Pennsylvania’s then- Secretary of State, Kathy Boockvar, without legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated several Pennsylvania statutes requiring signature verification for absentee or mail-in ballots.

U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Report to Congress,

Election Administration and Voting Survey: 2016 Comprehensive Report, at 24 (2017).

U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Report to Congress Election Administration and Voting Survey: 2020 Comprehensive Report, at 36 (2021).

   The blatant disregard of statutory law renders all mail-in ballots constitutionally tainted

and should not have formed the basis for appointing or certifying Pennsylvania’s presidential electors to the Electoral College.

Pennsylvania’s legislature has not ratified these changes, and the legislation did not include a severability clause.

164. On August 7, 2020, the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and others filed a complaint against Secretary Boockvar and other local election officials, seeking “a declaratory judgment that Pennsylvania existing signature verification procedures for mail-in voting” were unlawful for a number of reasons. League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar, No. 2:20-cv-03850-PBT, (E.D. Pa. Aug. 7, 2020).

165. The Pennsylvania Department of State quickly settled with the plaintiffs, issuing revised guidance on September 11, 2020, stating in relevant part: “The Pennsylvania Election Code does not authorize the county board of elections to set aside returned absentee or mail-in ballots based solely on signature analysis by the county board of elections.”

166. The Pennsylvania Department of State’s guidance directly contradicted Pennsylvania law. First, Pennsylvania Election Code mandates that, for non-disabled and non-military voters, all applications for an absentee or mail-in ballot “shall be signed by the applicant.” 25 PA. STAT. §§ 3146.2(d) & 3150.12(c). Second, Pennsylvania’s voter signature verification requirements are expressly set forth at 25 PA. STAT. 350(a.3)(1)-(2) and § 3146.8(g)(3)-(7).

167. The Pennsylvania Department of State’s guidance unconstitutionally did away with Pennsylvania’s statutory signature verification requirements. Approximately

70% of the requests for absentee ballots were from Democrats and 25% from

168. In addition, in 2019, Pennsylvania’s legislature enacted bipartisan election reforms, 2019 Pa. Legis. Serv. Act 2019-77, that set inter alia a deadline of 8:00 p.m. on election day for a county board of elections to receive a mail-in ballot. 25 PA. STAT. §§ 3146.6(c), 3150.16(c). Acting under a generally worded clause that “Elections shall be free and equal,” PA. CONST. art. I, § 5, cl. 1, a 4-3 majority of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court in Pa. Democratic Party v. Boockvar, 238 A.3d 345 (Pa. 2020), extended that deadline to three days after Election Day and adopted a presumption that even non-postmarked ballots were presumed timely.

169.

170. In addition, Congressman Scott Perry (the “Ryan Report”) (Tab 16) stating that “the general election of 2020 in Pennsylvania was fraught with inconsistencies, documented irregularities and improprieties associated with mail-in balloting, pre- canvassing, and canvassing that the reliability of the mail-in votes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is impossible to rely upon.”

Thus, this unconstitutional abrogation of state election law greatly inured to Mr. Biden’s benefit.

Absentee and mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania were thus evaluated under an illegal

standard regarding signature verification. It is now impossible to determine which ballots were properly

cast and which ballots were not.

on December 4, 2020, fifteen members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives led by Rep. Francis X. Ryan issued a

report to Republicans

171. The Ryan Report’s findings are startling, including:

Ballots with NO MAILED date. That total is 9,005.

Ballots Returned on or BEFORE the Mailed Date. That total is 58,221.

Ballots Returned one day after Mailed Date. That total is 51,200.Id. at 5.

172. These nonsensical numbers alone total118,426 ballots and exceed Mr. Biden’s margin of victory.

173. These stunning figures illustrate the out-of-control nature of Pennsylvania’s mail-in balloting scheme.

The State of Wisconsin’s electoral voters were unlawfully certified and counted.

174. Wisconsin has 10 electoral votes. Mr. Trump received 1,610,184 votes and Mr. Biden received 1,630,866 votes, a margin of 20,682 votes.

175. The number of illegal votes and votes affected by the various constitutional violations far exceeds the margin of votes separating the candidates.

80,555 votes over Mr. Trump. But these discrepancies pale in comparison to the discrepancies in Pennsylvania’s reported data concerning the number of mail-in ballots distributed to the populace—now no longer subject to legislatively mandated signature-

verification requirements.

Democrats submitted mail-in ballots at more than two times the rate of Republicans.

1. The Wisconsin Election Commission has obstructed investigations into the November 2020 election.

176. According to the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau (“LAB”) Report 21-19 (the “LAB Report”) (Tab 17), in the 2020 presidential election, 1,963,954 absentee ballots were cast, 59.6 percent of all ballots cast compared to 819,316 absentee ballots cast in 2016, or 27.3 percent of all ballots cast. Id. at 38.

177. Wisconsin statutes guard against fraud in mail-in absentee ballots: “[V]oting by absentee ballot is a privilege exercised wholly outside the traditional safeguards of the polling place. The legislature finds that the privilege of voting by absentee ballot must be carefully regulated to prevent the potential for fraud or abuse[.]” WISC. STAT. § 6.84(1).

178. Leading up to the November 2020 election, in direct contravention of Wisconsin law, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (“WEC”) and other local officials unconstitutionally weakened or completely abrogated Wisconsin election laws—each time taking steps that did away with established security procedures put in place by the Wisconsin legislature to ensure absentee ballot integrity.

179. The WEC is now attempting to block any investigations into the widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin. In March 2021, the Wisconsin legislature voted to commence an investigation into election irregularities in the November 2020 election. In July 2021, Wisconsin Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos state and local election officials, the WEC, represented by the State Attorney General’s office, sought a temporary restraining order against Speaker Vos, former Justice Gableman, and others seeking to block two subpoenas issued to the WEC and Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe claiming the subpoenas were part “of an unlawful investigation focused on debunked theories about the November 2020 Election.” The WEC spoke too fast.

181. In October 2021, the nonpartisan LAB, and the Racine County Sheriff, revealed lengthy investigations that confirmed the WEC’s massive violations of Wisconsin election law, including at least one felony and three misdemeanors caused by their illegal instructions to disregard Wisconsin election laws designed to ensure that fake ballots did not affect the integrity of the vote.

182. Indeed, Racine County found that the WEC knowingly “shattered” at least one statute likely causing fraudulent votes in nursing homes in all 72 counties across the State of Wisconsin.

183. The LAB Report detailed the WEC’s and other elections officials’ lack of cooperation noting that the City of Madison refused to let the LAB auditors handle absentee ballots despite their county (Dane County) having the highest percentage of absentee ballots in the state at 74.4 percent of ballots. [LAB appointed former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, as special counsel.

subpoenas to

After former Justice Gableman issued Report at 6] The LAB also stated that county clerks for Milwaukee County and the Town of Little Suamic refused access to their ballots. Combined, these areas accounted for 623,700 of the 3.3 million ballots cast in the November 2020 election. (18.9 percent). Lab Report at 7. The LAB also noted that three WEC members refused to speak with the auditors (the audit doesn’t mention which ones, but three are Democrats). Id. at 5.

184. After the Racine County Sheriff’s Office released their findings, Wisconsin lawmakers, including Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, called on the Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe to resign.

The Racine County Sheriff found the WEC committed a felony and three misdemeanors by encouraging voter fraud in nursing homes

185. Wisconsin

On October 28, 2021, the Racine County, and. Sheriff held a press conference and

laid out the case of the WEC’s criminal election fraud during the 2020 election related to the abuse of voters confined to nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

The Sheriff’s investigators discovered

that the WEC expressly discussed that their proposed conduct for the 2020 election would violate state law, and yet they decided to do it anyway, and memorialized their decision in letters disseminated to every single county clerk’s office in Wisconsin. As such, the Sheriff concluded members of the WEC.

187. Specifically, the Sheriff commenced an investigation in early 2021, after a complaint by a nursing home resident’s daughter that her dementia suffering mother cast a vote that she was entirely incompetent to make. An eight-month investigation the Sheriff’s investigation discovered, inter alia, that the WEC sent nursing homes across the state letters March 12, 2020, June 24, 2020, and September 25, 2020, stating that “Municipalities shall not use the Special Voting Deputy process”—a key requirement under WISC. STAT. § 6.875(4)(a) to ensure that nursing home residents are not taken advantage to cast false ballots—and should instead mail the absentee ballots.

188. The investigation discovered that at that nursing facility about 10 residents would normally vote in a presidential election cycle but in 2020 42 residents voted. Though the focus of the Sheriff’s investigation was on the WEC’s clear orders to violate Wisconsin election law, the Sheriff noted seven other families also said their family members were not competent to cast their votes—and that all of these eight incompetent patients last voted in 2012.

189. The Sheriff stated the

by the WEC in all 72 counties across the State of Wisconsin. As a result of WEC’s clear violation of the law, as many as 50,000 fraudulent ballots may have been cast by incompetent nursing home residents.

WEC committed at least one felony and three misdemeanor crimes.

 “election statute was in fact not just broken, but shattered”

The WEC’s and other officials illegal use of drop boxes in violation of Wisconsin law

190. The WEC undertook a campaign to position hundreds of drop boxes to collect absentee ballots—including the use of unmanned drop boxes. Wisconsin Elections Commission Memoranda, To: All Wisconsin Election Officials, at 3 (Aug. 19, 2020) (Tab 23).

191. The mayors of Wisconsin’s five largest cities—Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine, which all have Democrat majorities— joined in this effort, and together, developed a plan to use purportedly “secure drop-boxes to facilitate the return of absentee ballots.” Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan 2020 Submitted to the Center for Tech & Civic Life, June 15, 2020, by the Mayors of Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay, at 4 (Tab 24).

192. The use of any drop box—whether manned or unmanned—is directly prohibited by Wisconsin statute. The Wisconsin legislature specifically described in the Election Code “Alternate absentee ballot site[s]” and detailed the procedure by which the governing body of a municipality may designate a site or sites for the delivery of absentee ballots “other than the office of the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners as the location from which electors of the municipality may request and vote absentee ballots and to which voted absentee ballots shall be returned by electors for any election.” WIS. STAT. 6.855(1).

193. Any alternate absentee ballot site “shall be staffed by the municipal clerk or the executive director of the board of election commissioners, or employees of the clerk or the board of election commissioners.” WIS. STAT. 6.855(3). Likewise, WIS. STAT. 7.15(2m) provides, “[i]n a municipality in which the governing body has elected to establish an alternate absentee ballot site under s. 6.855, the municipal clerk shall operate such site as though it were his or her office for absentee ballot purposes and shall ensure that such site is adequately staffed.”

194. Thus, the unmanned absentee ballot drop-off sites are prohibited by the Wisconsin Legislature as they do not comply with Wisconsin law expressly defining “[a]lternate absentee ballot site[s].” WIS. STAT. 6.855(1), (3).

195. In addition, the use of drop boxes for the collection of absentee ballots, positioned predominantly in Wisconsin’s largest cities, is directly contrary to Wisconsin law providing that absentee ballots may only be “mailed by the elector, or delivered in person to the municipal clerk issuing the ballot or ballots.” WIS. STAT. § 6.87(4)(b)1 (emphasis added).

196. The fact that other methods of delivering absentee ballots, such as through unmanned drop boxes, are not permitted is underscored by WIS. STAT. § 6.87(6) which mandates that, “[a]ny ballot not mailed or delivered as provided in this subsection may not be counted.” Likewise, WIS. STAT. § 6.84(2) underscores this point, providing that WIS. STAT. §6.87(6) “shall be construed as mandatory.” The provision continues—“Ballots cast in contravention of the procedures specified in those provisions may not

be counted. Ballots counted in contravention of the procedures specified in those provisions may not be included in the certified result of any election.” WIS. STAT. § 6.84(2) (emphasis added).

197. Incredibly, the rejection rate for the 1,963,954 absentee ballots cast in the November 2020 election plummeted to .217%, or 4,270 rejected ballots, compared to the rejection rate in November 2016 election of 1.35% when there just 819,316 absentee ballots cast. The rejection rate in 2016 was more than six times greater than in 2020.

The WEC encouraged voters to illegally declare themselves “indefinitely confined” thereby avoiding ballot security requirements

198.

The WEC and local election officials also took it upon themselves to encourage voters to unlawfully declare themselves “indefinitely confined”—which under Wisconsin law allows the voter to avoid security measures like signature verification and photo ID requirements.

199. Specifically, registering to vote by absentee ballot requires photo identification, except for those who register as “indefinitely confined” or “hospitalized.” WISC. STAT. § 6.86(2)(a), (3)(a). Registering for indefinite confinement requires certifying confinement “because of age, physical illness or infirmity or [because the voter] is disabled for an indefinite period.” Id. § 6.86(2)(a). Should indefinite confinement cease, the voter must notify the county clerk, id., who must remove the voter from

indefinite-confinement status. Id. § 6.86(2)(b).

200. Wisconsin election procedures for voting absentee based on indefinite confinement enable the voter to avoid the photo ID requirement and signature requirement. Id. § 6.86(1)(ag)/(3)(a)(2).

201. On March 25, 2020, in clear violation of Wisconsin law, Dane County Clerk Scott McDonnell and Milwaukee County Clerk George Christensen both issued guidance indicating that all voters should mark themselves as “indefinitely confined” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

202. Believing this to be an attempt to circumvent Wisconsin’s strict voter ID laws, the Republican Party of Wisconsin petitioned the Wisconsin Supreme Court to intervene. On March 31, 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimouslyconfirmed that the clerks’ “advice was legally incorrect” and potentially dangerous because “voters may be misled to exercise their right to vote in ways that are inconsistent with WISC. STAT. § 6.86(2).”

203. On May 13, 2020, the Administrator of WEC issued a directive to the Wisconsin clerks prohibiting removal of voters from the registry for indefinite-confinement status if the voter is no longer “indefinitely confined.”

204. The WEC’s directive violated Wisconsin law. WISC. STAT. § 6.86(2)(a) specifically provides that

“any [indefinitely confined] elector [who] is no longer indefinitely confined ... shall so notify the municiclerk.”

WISC. STAT. § 6.86(2)(b)

further provides that the municipal clerk “shall remove the name of any other elector from the list upon request of the elector

205. On December 16, 2020, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Wisconsin officials, including Governor Evers, unlawfully told Wisconsin voters to declare themselves “indefinitely confined”— thereby avoiding signature and photo ID requirements. See Jefferson v. Dane County, 394 Wis. 2d 602, 951 N.W.2d 556 (Wis. 2020). Given the near fourfold increase in the use of this classification from 2016 to 2020, tens of thousands of these ballots could be illegal. The vast majority of the more than 216,000 voters classified as “indefinitely confined” were from heavily Democrat areas, thereby materially and illegally, benefited Mr. Biden.

206. The LAB found that according to statistics kept by the WEC, nearly 220,404 voters said they were indefinitely confined in the 2020 election, including 169,901 individuals (77.1 percent) who indicated for the first time that they were indefinitely confined. [LAB Report at 50]

207. Moreover, according to WEC’s data, 48,554 of those first time individuals (22.0 percent) had not previously voted by methods that required them to have provided photo identification or did not have photo identifications on file with clerks. [LAB 51]. Thus, at a minimum there was zero verification that these 48,554 voters were who they said they were or were even real voters.

or upon receipt of reliable information that an elector no longer qualifies for the service.”

The LAB found that 45,665voters used identification to register that did not match the records on file

Thus, at a minimum there was zero verification that these 45,665 voters were who they said they were or were even real voters.The Office of the Special Counsel’s findings of illegal votes in its First Interim Report.

209. In the Summer of 2021, the Wisconsin State Assembly established a new office, the Office of the Special Counsel, to investigate the November 2020 election.

210. On November 10, 2021, the Office of the Special Counsel delivered its First Interim Report to the Wisconsin State Assembly. First Interim Rept., Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel (Nov. 10, 2021) (the “Report”) (Tab 19).

211. The Office of the Special Counsel found that many of the “safeguards mandated for the protection of honest absentee ballots” were “abrogated by WEC” including “the illegal mass self-certification of individuals as ‘indefinitely confined’ under the statute, a category which enables a voter to evade

According to the LAB Report, in 2020,

957,977 Wisconsinites registered to be a new voter. Of that figure, 45,665 new voters registered with driver’s license information that did not match DMV records or 4.8% of registrants. Of the 45,665 total non- matches, 63.1 percent were from a name non-match, meaning the name submitted by the new voter on the ballot application did not match the name on file at

the DOT.

state voter ID requirements, but which is intended to apply to physically or physiologically immobile residents confined to their home because of their condition.” Id. at 18.

212. Another issue identified by the Office of the Special Counsel are “Democracy in the Park” events held prior to the election to harvest absentee ballots in Madison. The Report states “[w]hile this Office draws no conclusions, we possess evidence that the events, which occurred on September 26 and October 3, 2020, involved numerous possible violations of state law, calling into question the validity of over 17,000 absentee ballots. Id. at 19.

213. The Report also identified the Racine County Sheriff’s referral of criminal charges against the WEC for violations of Wisconsin’s laws designed to elderly voters from being taken advantage of in casting votes. The Report states:

This Office has evidence that WEC and some clerks instructed residential care employees to act in a manner prohibited by law, collecting and assisting in completing ballots for individuals in these group facilities, including those with dementia.This led to record-high voting by individuals who had not voted for nearly a decade and may have lacked the cognitive ability to vote.

Id. at 21 (emphasis added).

214. The Office of the Special Counsel also identified that the WisVote (SVRS) system, the statewide system that enables clerks to track absentee ballot requests and includes highly sensitive personal information, is not secure even though WEC guidance requires it to be subject to a high level of security. The Report states that “there is already some evidence of unauthorized access to this database.” Id. at 24.

Democrat operatives were given access to “hidden” networks connecting “sensitive machines” at the ballot tabulation center in Green Bay, WI

were not supposed to be connected to the internet were in fact connected to a “hidden” Wi-Fi network during voting.19

216. Specifically, Michael Spitzer- Rubenstein, a Democrat political operative, was given internet access to a hidden Wi-Fi network at the Wisconsin election center where votes were being counted. M.D. Kittle, Democrats’ Operative Got Secret Internet Connection at Wisconsin Election Center, Emails Show, DAILY SIGNAL, Mar. 23, 2021.20 Spitzer- Rubenstein received an email from Trent James, director of event technology at Green Bay’s Central Count location, which stated, “One SSID [for a Wi-Fi network] will be hidden and it’s: 2020vote. There will

M. D. Kittle, EMAILS: GREEN BAY’S ‘HIDDEN’ ELECTION NETWORKS, WISCONSIN SPOTLIGHT, Mar. 21, 2021, https://wisconsinspotlight.com/emails-green-bays-hidden- election-networks/ (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/03/23/democrats- operative-got-secret-internet-connection-at-wisconsin-election- center-emails-show/ (last visited Nov. 23, 2021).

In Wisconsin, Dominion machines that there would be no passwords or splash page for this one and it should only be used for the sensitive machines that need to be connected to the internet.” Id. Four other individuals were copied on the email. Id.

COUNT I: ELECTORS CLAUSE

217. Plaintiff State repeats and re-alleges the allegations above, as if fully set forth herein.

218. The Electors Clause of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, of the Constitution makes clear that only the legislatures of the States are permitted to determine the rules for appointing presidential electors. The pertinent rules here are the state election statutes, specifically those relevant to the presidential election.

219. Non-legislative actors lack authority to amend or nullify election statutes. Bush II, 531 U.S. at 104 (quoted supra).

220. Under Heckler v. Chaney, 470 U.S. 821, 833 n.4 (1985), conscious and express executive policies—even if unwritten—to nullify statutes or to abdicate statutory responsibilities are reviewable to the same extent as if the policies had been written or adopted. Thus, conscious and express actions by State or local election officials to nullify or ignore requirements of election statutes violate the Electors Clause to the same extent as formal modifications by judicial officers or State executive officers.

221. The foregoing actions constitute non- legislative changes to State election law by executive- branch State election officials, or by judicial officials, in Defendant States Pennsylvania, Georgia,

Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona in violation of the Electors Clause.

222. Electors appointed to the Electoral College in violation of the Electors Clause cannot cast constitutionally valid votes for the office of President.

COUNT II: DUE PROCESS

223. Plaintiff State repeats and re-alleges the allegations above, as if fully set forth herein.

224. When election practices reach “the point of patent and fundamental unfairness,” the integrity of the election itself violates substantive due process. Griffin v. Burns, 570 F.2d 1065, 1077 (1st Cir. 1978); Duncan v. Poythress, 657 F.2d 691, 702 (5th Cir. 1981); Florida State Conference of N.A.A.C.P. v. Browning, 522 F.3d 1153, 1183-84 (11th Cir. 2008); Roe v. State of Ala. By & Through Evans, 43 F.3d 574, 580-82 (11th Cir. 1995); Roe v. State of Ala., 68 F.3d 404, 407 (11th Cir. 1995); Marks v. Stinson, 19 F. 3d 873, 878 (3rd Cir. 1994).

225. Under this Court’s precedents on proced- ural due process, not only intentional failure to follow election law as enacted by a State’s legislature but also random and unauthorized acts by state election officials and their designees in local government can violate the Due Process Clause. Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 537-41 (1981), overruled in part on other grounds by Daniels v. Williams, 474 U.S. 327, 330-31 (1986); Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 532 (1984). The difference between intentional acts and random and unauthorized acts is the degree of pre-deprivation review.

226. Defendant

unconstitutionally to lower their election standards— including to allow invalid ballots to be counted and valid ballots to not be counted—with the express intent to favor their candidate for President and to alter the outcome of the 2020 election. In many instances these actions occurred in areas having a history of election fraud.

227. The foregoing actions constitute intentional violations of State election law by State election officials and their designees in Defendant States Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona in violation of the Due Process Clause.

COUNT III: GUARANTEE CLAUSE

228. Plaintiff State repeats and re-alleges the allegations above, as if fully set forth herein.

229. The Guarantee Clause provides that “[t]he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” U.S. CONST. art. IV, cl. 1.

230. Although this Court dismissed Texas v. Pennsylvania, No. 22O155 (U.S.), citing a lack of standing, Texas v. Pennsylvania, 141 S.Ct. 1230 (2020) (“Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.”), the United States has parens patriae standing to challenge the manner in which states conduct their elections: “Nor does a State have standing as the parent of its citizens to invoke these constitutional provisions against the Federal Government, the ultimate parens patriae of every American citizen.” South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383

States acted

U.S. 301, 324 (1966). The failure to pursue the United States’ meritorious claim violates the Guarantee Clause.

231. The United States and the Officer Defendants have been aware of the constitutional violations and facts at issue in this action and have not acted either to avoid or to remedy these violations.

232. The foregoing actions violate the Guarantee Clause.

COUNT IV: TAKE CARE CLAUSE

233. Plaintiff State repeats and re-alleges the allegations above, as if fully set forth herein.

234. The Take Care Clause provides that “[the President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3, cl. 5.

235. The President, Attorney General, and Vice President have been aware of the constitutional violations and facts at issue in this action and have not acted either to avoid or to remedy these violations.

236. The foregoing actions violate the Take Care Clause.

PRAYER FOR RELIEF

WHEREFORE, the Plaintiff State respectfully requests that this Court issue the following relief:

1. Declare that Defendant States administered the November 2020 election in violation of the Electors Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

2. Declare that the United States and Officer Defendants violated the Guarantee Clause and the Take Care Clause with respect to allowing the foregoing constitutional violations by the Defendant States in administering the November 2020 election.

3. Declare that the Defendant States’ certification of the November 2020 election results and of presidential electors on or about December 14, 2020, violated the Electors Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and vacate those certifications.

4. Declare that the Defendant States’ certification of the November 2020 election results and of presidential electors on or about December 14, 2020, violated the Electors Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and vacate those certifications.

5. Declare that the United States violated the Guarantee Clause in allowing the November 2020 election to proceed on the basis of the unconstitutional results in Defendant States.

6. Declare that the President, Attorney General, and Vice-President violated the Take Care Clause by failing to act to remedy the violations of the Constitution in the November 2020 election.

7. Enjoin the use of vacated certifications in Defendant States’ use of the 2020 election results for the Office of President to appoint presidential electors to the Electoral College.

8. Declare that the counting of electoral votes in the Joint Session of Congress on January 6-7, 2021, violated the Electors Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Guarantee Clause, the Take Care Clause, and the Twelfth Amendment, and vacate that count.

9. Enjoin the Officer Defendants to convene special sessions of the House of Representatives and the Senate to vote for the President and Vice- President, respectively, pursuant to the Twelfth Amendment.

10. Alternatively, authorize, pursuant to the Court’s remedial authority, the Defendant States to conduct a special election to appoint presidential electors.

11. Alternatively, authorize, pursuant to the Court’s remedial authority, the Defendant States to conduct an audit of their election results, supervised by a Court-appointed special master, in a manner to be determined separately.

12. Enjoin Defendant States’ use in future elections of revisions adopted by non-legislative actors to the election laws enacted by the state legislatures unless the legislature ratifies any such revisions by enacting them as state law before the election.

13. Award costs to Plaintiff State.

14. Grant such other relief as the Court

deems just and proper.

November __, 2021 Respectfully submitted,

_____________________ [Name/title]

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From Archbishop Viganò:

APPEAL FOR AN ANTI-GLOBALIST ALLIANCE

By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

November 16, 2021

    For two years now we have been witnessing a global coup d’état, in which a financial and ideological elite has succeeded in seizing control of part of national governments, public and private institutions, the media, the judiciary, politicians and religious leaders.

    All of these, without distinction, have become enslaved to these new masters who ensure power, money and social affirmation to their accomplices.

    Fundamental rights, which up until yesterday were presented as inviolable, have been trampled underfoot in the name of an emergency: today a health emergency, tomorrow an ecological emergency, and after that an internet emergency.

    This global coup d’état deprives citizens of any possibility of defense, since the legislative, executive, and judicial powers are complicit in the violation of law, justice, and the purpose for which they exist.

    It is a global coup d’état because this criminal attack against citizens extends to the whole world, with very rare exceptions.

    It is a world war, where the enemies are all of us, even those who unwittingly have not yet understood the significance of what is happening.

    It is a war fought not with weapons but with illegitimate rules, wicked economic policies, and intolerable limitations of natural rights.

    Supranational organizations, financed in large measure by the conspirators of this coup d’état, are interfering in the government of individual nations and in the lives, relationships, and health of billions of people.

    They are doing it for money, certainly, but even more so in order to centralize power so as to establish a planetary dictatorship.

    It is the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum, the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations.

    It is the plan of the New World Order, in which a Universal Republic enslaves everyone and a Religion of Humanity cancels Faith in Christ.

    ***

    In the face of this global coup d’état, it is necessary to form an international Anti-Globalist Alliance, which gathers all those who want to oppose the dictatorship, who have no intention of becoming slaves to a faceless power, who are not willing to cancel their own identity, their own individuality, their own religious faith.

    If the attack is global, the defense must also be global.

    I call upon rulers, political and religious leaders, intellectuals and all people of good will, inviting them to unite in an Alliance that launches an anti-globalist manifesto, refuting point-by-point the errors and deviations of the dystopia of the New World Order and proposing concrete alternatives for a political program inspired by the common good, the moral principles of Christianity, traditional values, the protection of life and the natural family, the protection of business and work, the promotion of education and research, and respect for Creation.

    This Anti-Globalist Alliance will have to bring together the Nations that intend to escape the infernal yoke of tyranny and affirm their own sovereignty, forming agreements of mutual collaboration with Nations and peoples who share their principles and the common yearning for freedom, justice, and goodness.

    It will have to denounce the crimes of the elite, identify those responsible, denounce them to international tribunals, and limit their excessive power and harmful influence.

    It will have to prevent the action of the lobbies, above all by fighting against the corruption of state officials and those who work in the information industry, and by freezing the capital used to destabilize the social order.

    In Nations where governments are subservient to the elite, they will be able to establish popular resistance movements and committees of national liberation, including representatives of all sectors of society who propose a radical reform of politics, inspired by the common good and firmly opposed to the neo-malthusian project of the globalist agenda.

    I invite all those who want to defend traditional Christian society to meet together in an international forum, to be held as soon as possible, in which representatives of various nations come together to present a serious, concrete, and clear proposal.

    My appeal is made to political leaders and to rulers who care about the good of their citizens, leaving aside the old systems of political parties and the logic imposed by a system enslaved to power and money.

    I call the Christian nations together, from east to west, inviting Heads of State and the healthy forces of institutions, the economy, labor, universities, health care and information to join a common project, disrupting the old systems and putting aside the hostilities that are desired by the enemies of humanity in the name of divide et impera.

    We do not accept our adversary’s rules, because they are made precisely to prevent us from reacting and organizing an effective and incisive opposition.

    I call upon Nations and their citizens to ally themselves under the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the only King and Savior, the Prince of Peace. In hoc signo vinces.

    Let us found this Anti-Globalist Alliance, let us give it a simple and clear program, and let us free humanity from a totalitarian regime that brings together in itself the horrors of the worst dictatorships of all time.

    If we continue to delay, if we do not understand the threat that looms over us all, if we do not react by organizing ourselves into a firm and courageous resistance, this infernal regime that is establishing itself everywhere will not be able to be stopped.

    And may Almighty God assist us and protect us.

    + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

      Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

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QUININE HAS MANY USES AND APPLICATIONS. IT IS ANALGESIC, ANESTHETIC, ANTI -ARRHYTHMIC, ANTIBACTERIAL, ANTIMALARIAL, ANTIMICROBIAL, ANTIPARASITIC, ANTIPYRETIC, ANTISEPTIC, ANTISPASMODIC, ANTIVIRAL, ASTRINGENT, BACTERICIDE, CYTOTOXIC, FEBRIFUGE, FUNGICIDE, INSECTICIDE, NERVINE, 

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HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO DO TO MAKE YOUR VERY OWN QUININE......TAKE THE *RIND OF 2-3 LEMONS, 2-3 GRAPEFRUITS. TAKE THE PEEL ONLY AND COVER IT WITH WATER ABOUT 3 INCHES ABOVE THE PEELS.PUT A GLASS LID ON YOUR POT IF YOU HAVE ONE, A METAL ONE IS FINE IF YOU DON'T. *either buy organic lemons and grapefruit, or soak your fruit in cider vinegar for several hours and dry first, to remove any chemicals.

LET IT SIMMER FOR ABOUT 2 HOURS. DO NOT TAKE THE LID OFF OF THE POT TILL IT COOLS COMPLETELY AS THIS WILL ALLOW THE QUININE TO ESCAPE IN THE STEAM. 

SWEETEN THE TEA WITH HONEY OR SUGAR SINCE IT WILL BE BITTER."

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 Letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano  

To His Excellency

    Msgr. José Horacio Gómez

    Metropolitan Archbishop of Los Angeles

    President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

    To Their Eminences and Excellencies

    The Archbishops and Bishops of the Dioceses of the United States of America

    And, for their competence:

    To His Eminence

    Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, s.j.

    Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

    To His Eminence

    Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller

    Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

23 October 2021

    Your Eminences,

    Your Excellencies,

    I address you, Archbishop Gómez, as President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and to You, Cardinals Ladaria and Müller, for your competence, some serious considerations related to the so-called vaccines against Covid-19.

    I believe there are some aspects of the question that now allow for a more complete evaluation of what these drugs are and what effects they cause; this evaluation ought to lead to a collegial stance, in conformity with the Magisterium of the Church and not influenced by biased information or by erroneous news spread by the producers of these drugs or by the media.

    1. Subject of the Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

    The Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines was issued last year in the absence of complete data on both the nature of the gene serum and its components. I point out to You that the subject of the Note is limited to “the moral aspects of the use of the vaccines against Covid-19 that have been developed from cell lines derived from tissues obtained from two fetuses that were not spontaneously aborted,”[1] and it states that “[w]e do not intend to judge the safety and efficacy of these vaccines, although ethically relevant and necessary, as this evaluation is the responsibility of biomedical researchers and drug agencies.”[2] Safety and effectiveness are thus not the subject of the Note, which in expressing its opinion about the “morality of use” therefore does not even express its opinion about the “morality of production” of these drugs.

    2. Safety and effectiveness of the vaccines

    The safety and effectiveness of individual vaccines is determined after a period of experimentation that normally lasts for several years. In this case, the health authorities have decided to carry out experimentation on the entire world population, as an exception to the usual practice of the scientific community, international standards, and the laws of individual nations. This means that the entire population finds itself in the condition of being susceptible to suffering the adverse effects of the vaccine, at their own risk, when normally experimentation is done on a voluntary basis and carried out on a limited number of subjects, who are paid to undergo it.

    I think it is clear that this is an experimental drug that has not been approved,[3] but only authorized for administration by the bodies in charge; just as I think it is evident that there are medical treatments without adverse side-effects, even though they have been systematically boycotted by the Health Institutions – WHO, CDC, EMA – and by mainstream media. Even if the Church should express a moral evaluation of the different treatments available – some of which are carried out with drugs produced with cell lines that originated in an aborted fetus, like the vaccines – it must be reiterated that there are effective treatments which cure patients and allow them to develop permanent natural immune defenses, something that the vaccines do not do. Furthermore, these treatments do not cause serious side effects, since the drugs that are used have been licensed for decades.

    Other recently developed treatments are absolutely effective, inexpensive, and carry no danger for those who receive them: this is the case with the plasma treatment studied and employed with great success by the Italian doctor Giuseppe De Donno.[1]

    Treatment with hyper-immune plasma was strongly discouraged and boycotted by pharmaceutical companies and doctors financed by them, because it does not cost anything and renders the analogous therapy useless, which is made in laboratories with monoclonal cells at exorbitant costs.

    International standards specify that an experimental drug cannot be authorized for distribution except in the absence of an effective alternative treatment: this is why drug agencies in the USA and Europe have prevented the use of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, hyper-immune plasma, and other therapies with proven effectiveness. There is no need to remind You that all of these agencies, along with the WHO, are financed almost entirely by the pharmaceutical companies and by foundations tied to them, and that there is a very grave conflict of interest at the highest levels,[2] about which the media are culpably silent.[3] In expressing a moral evaluation of the vaccines, the Church cannot fail to take these elements into consideration, since they cause a manipulation of scientific information, on the basis of which the judgments about their moral liceity by ecclesiastical Authority have been formulated.

    3. The experimental drugs are not vaccines in the proper sense

    The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, while not expressing its opinion on the effectiveness and safety of the so-called vaccines, nevertheless defines them as “vaccines,” taking for granted that they actually give immunity and protect people from active and passive contagion. This element is disavowed by the declarations coming from all of the world’s health authorities and from the WHO, according to which vaccinated people can become infected and infect others more seriously than those who are not vaccinated[4] and find that their immune defenses are drastically reduced if not even completely destroyed.

    A recent study confirms that the gene serum can cause forms of acquired immuno-deficiency in those who receive it.[5] Therefore, the drugs that are called “vaccines” do not fall within the official definition of a vaccine to which the CDF’s Note presumably refers. In fact a “vaccine” is defined as a medicinal preparation aimed at inducing the production of protective antibodies by the organism, conferring specific resistance against a specific infectious disease (viral, bacterial, protozoal). This definition was recently changed by the WHO, because otherwise it would not have been able to include anti-Covid drugs, which do not induce the production of protective antibodies and do not confer a specific resistance against the SarsCoV-2 infectious disease.

    Furthermore, while mRNA serums are dangerous because of the implications they have at the genetic level, the Astra Zeneca serum may be even more harmful, as recent studies show.[6]

    4. Proportionality between the costs and benefits of the vaccines

    Limiting itself to an evaluation only of the morality of the use of the vaccines, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith does not take into account the proportionality between the presumed benefits of the gene serum and the short-term and long-term adverse side effects.

    Worldwide, the number of deaths and grave pathologies following vaccination is increasing exponentially:[7] in only nine months these vaccines have caused more deaths than all vaccines in the last thirty years.[8] Not only this: in many nations – such as Israel for example[9] – the number of deaths after vaccination is now greater than the number of deaths from Covid.[10]

    Having established that the drugs sold as vaccines do not give any significant benefit and on the contrary may cause a very high percentage of deaths or grave pathologies[11] even in subjects for whom Covid does not represent a threat,[12] I do not think that we can conclude that there is any proportionality between the potential damages and the potential benefits.

    This means therefore that there is a grave moral obligation to refuse inoculation as a possible and proximate cause of permanent damages[13] or death. In the absence of benefits, there is therefore no need to expose oneself to the risks of its administration, but on the contrary there is a duty to refuse it categorically.

    5. New data on the presence of aborted fetal cell lines

    Revelations from Pfizer executives have recently been released showing that the mRNA gene serums contain aborted fetal material not only for the production of the original vaccine, but also for its replication and production on a vast scale,[14] and nothing suggests that other pharmaceutical companies are an exception. Bishop Joseph Strickland[15] has also expressed himself in this regard, inviting the faithful to “say no. I’m not going to do it just because you mandate it, in that, who knows what next crazy thing will come up.” This makes the use of these drugs absolutely immoral, just as it is immoral and unacceptable to use drugs that use orphaned children for experimentation.[16]

    6. Side Effects on pregnant mothers and nursing children

    Another aspect to consider is the concrete danger of grave side effects on pregnant mothers and even more serious ones on newborn children: in the United States there have been 675 miscarriages in vaccinated mothers and in the United Kingdom 521 nursing infants have died.[17] We should remember that for the so-called vaccines against Covid active vigilance was not put into effect, but only passive vigilance, which requires patients to report adverse cases themselves; this means that the data on adverse effects should be multiplied at least ten times.

    7. Components of the vaccines

    I would like to point out to You that the components of the gene serums are still concealed as trade secrets, even if there are already multiple studies that have analyzed the content of the vaccines;[18] it is therefore not yet possible to completely evaluate the other critical elements and their long-term impacts, because the experimentation on the world population will end only in 2023/2025, and it is not known what the effects of the newly adopted technology are at the genetic level.[19] The presence of graphene in the doses that have been administered, reported by numerous laboratories that have analyzed its content,[20] suggests that the forced use of so-called vaccines – together with the systematic boycott of existing treatments of proven effectiveness[21] – serves the purpose of contact-tracing all vaccinated human beings throughout the world, who will be or already are connected to the Internet of Things[22] by means of a quantum link of pulsed microwave frequencies of 2.4 GHz or higher from cell towers and satellites.[23] As proof that this information is not the fruit of the fantasies of some conspiracy theorist, You should know that the European Union has chosen two projects dedicated to technological innovation as the winners of a competition: “The Human Brain” and “Graphene.” These two projects will receive one billion euro each in funding over the next ten years.[24]

    I trust that Your Excellency, Archbishop Gomez, will take into serious consideration these observations of mine – which I have taken care to thoroughly verify with highly qualified Catholic doctors[25] – together with your brothers of the US Bishops’ Conference gathered in plenary Assembly from November 15 to 18, 2021 in Baltimore, so that the official position of the Catholic Church in the United States on the so-called vaccines will be revised and updated. Likewise, I ask Your Eminence, Cardinal Ladaria, to proceed as soon as possible to the revision of the Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faithon the morality of certain anti-Covid-19 vaccines.

    I realize that it may be extremely unpopular to take a position against the so-called vaccines, but as Shepherds of the flock of the Lord we have the duty to denounce the horrible crime that is being carried out, whose goal is to create billions of chronically ill people and to exterminate millions and millions of people, based on the infernal ideology of the “Great Reset” formulated by the President of the World Economic ForumKlaus Schwab and endorsed by institutions and organizations around the world.[26]

    The silence of so many Cardinals and Bishops, along with the inconceivable promotion of the vaccination campaign by the Holy See, represents a form of unprecedented complicity that cannot continue any longer. It is necessary to denounce this scandal, this crime against humanity, this satanic action against God.

    With every passing day, thousands of people are dying or are being affected in their health by the illusion that the so-called vaccines guarantee a solution to the pandemic emergency. The Catholic Church has the duty before God and all of humanity to denounce this tremendous and horrible crime with the utmost firmness, giving clear directions and taking a stand against those who, in the name of a pseudo-science subservient to the interests of the pharmaceutical companies and the globalist elite, have only intentions of death. How Joe Biden, who also defines himself as “Catholic,” could impose vaccination on 28 million children aged 5 to 11,[27] is absolutely inconceivable, if only for the fact that there is practically zero risk of them developing the SARS-CoV-2 disease. The Holy See and the Bishops’ Conferences have the duty to express a firm condemnation in this regard, and also in relation to the very serious side effects that can result for children who are inoculated with the experimental gene serum.[28]

    It is equally imperative that there be an intervention by the US Bishops’ Conference aimed at promoting the religious exemption and immediately revoking the bans imposed in this regard by many Ordinaries on their priests. Similarly, all vaccination requirements for seminarians and candidates of religious communities must be revoked. Instead, clear directives should be given about the dangers connected to the administration of the vaccine and its grave moral implications.

    I am certain that You will want to consider the particular gravity of this subject, the urgency of an intervention that is enlightened by and faithful to the teaching of the Gospel, as well as the salus animarum that the Pastors of the Church must promote and defend.

   In Christo Rege,  

    + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

    Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

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October 13th, 1917 ~ an undeniable miracle (prophesied by Our Lady) happened.

Our Lady first appeared to Lucia and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco, on May 13th, 1917. She asked them to come every 13th day of the month for six months and promised to perform a miracle on the 13th day of the final month.

The Beautiful Lady expressed, over the course of six apparitions, her desire that devotion to her Immaculate Heart be propagated. She asked the children to pray the Rosary every day and to make many sacrifices for sinners. She said that many sinners went to Hell because they had no one to pray for them and even showed them a frightening vision of that terrible place.

She also asked for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart and the practice of the five First Saturdays Devotion. The war (World War I), she said, would soon end. But another, more terrible war would come if her requests were not heeded; Russia would spread her errors throughout the world, the Church would be persecuted, the Holy Father would suffer much, and the good would be martyred.

Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta

After word spread through the region that the three shepherd children had seen Our Lady, crowds began to come to the apparition site.

Today, on the 13th of October, tens of thousands were gathered—some estimates say about 70,000. It was a rainy day, the people’s clothes were wet, and the roads were sodden and muddy.

The Lady came in the early afternoon. She asked that the people build a chapel in her honor at the site and continue to say the Rosary every day. She said that she was the “Lady of the Rosary.”

The children saw a vision of the mysteries of the Rosary in the sky, and of St. Joseph with the child Jesus, who together blessed the world. Lucia also saw Our Lady of Sorrows with Our Lord, Who also gave His blessing, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The people, however, did not see these things—they had their eyes fixed on the sun. It had broken through the clouds, appearing as a silver disk, and everyone could see it without hurting their eyes. Not only that—it was dancing! It whirled, danced, and cast colorful rays of light downwards.

Then it hurtled towards the earth as though it would crash into it.

The people, filled with awe and terror, cried out, knelt, and prayed. But the sun did not hurt them; it reversed course and returned to its place in the sky. Though it had been soaked before, the land was now miraculously dry, as were the people’s clothes.

The crowds look towards the sun

Thousands upon thousands had observed this event. Catholics and atheists alike. Lawyers, doctors, professors, priests, men, women, and children saw it and gave their eyewitness testimony of Our Lady’s magnificent miracle. Newspapers—including O Seculo, a secular, anti-Catholic Lisbon publication—reported what happened on “the day the sun danced

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(From LifeSite News) 

Dear readers,

There is huge Covid news today with more to come tomorrow.

We are reaching a climax in the battle between the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness over the vaccine mandates and passports that we now know are the primary weapons to bring us all into a New World Order of total control.

Start by reading Patrick Delaney’s summary of the awesome Sept. 24 lecture by Dr. Peter McCullough.McCullough is being blunter and more forceful every day about the deliberately caused, totally avoidable, ‘major biological catastrophe’ we are all enduring. This amazingly competent man has been subjected to tremendous persecution by the health industry for simply telling the truth about COVID and the COVID vaccines and passports. If you can read only one item in today’s reports – this is the one to read. Watch the hour and 48-minute video of this awesome lecture.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned the screws tighter today on all those who refuse to comply with unnecessary and dangerous vaccine mandates. He has dictated that all public servants must now be jabbed by the end of October and only jabbed citizens will be able to travel by air, boat or train in Canada – even the millions who are immune because of past infection, and all children who are under no serious risk from COVID or a risk of infecting others.

The criminal cruelty and even medical murder that is happening in Canada is well illustrated in the article about the removal of Dr. Daniel Nagase for saving the lives of three patients by using safe, highly effective protocols that are prohibited by the hospital and Canada’s medical establishment. NOTHING can justify what happened to this good doctor and his patients. There needs to be a criminal investigation into what took place there and in other hospitals where they are also killing COVID patients through this deliberate negligence.

Emergency physician Dr. Patrick Phillips is another one who is willing to publicly state that COVID policies have led to patients “being harmed” and which he can no longer cooperate with.

We have a special report today with numerous charts revealing stark evidence of COVID jab campaigns having led to dramatic spikes in COVID-19 deaths in 40 nations. Everyone must ask, how could this possibly have been allowed to happen? What is really going on here? Do you still wonder why so many doctors and nurses are unwilling to take these dangerous injections after seeing so much suffering and death among jabbed patients, and hospital policies enforcing ruthless denial of the jab connection to these injuries?

In Quebec, the wicked government is willing to deprive the public of its very best 600 doctors who recognize that they and others should not be taking the experimental COVID injections that have led to exceptionally high rates of death and serious injuries compared to all past vaccines. These top frontline workers are suddenly no longer heroes for refusing to take the toxic injections.

We have a report for you today from Dr. Mark Trozzi about the persecution of doctors promoting the use of Ivermectin to save patients’ lives and who rightly criticize the COVID injections, while in a large state in India COVID has been practically eliminated by the wide use of Ivermectin. Insanity reigns in Canada and U.S. government health policies. This can’t be just incompetence. By now, after all that has been said and revealed, this suppression of medications that could have saved the life and health of almost all COVID patients has deliberately caused loss of life for the purpose of forcing citizens to take the jab.

Scotland is the latest nation to start indicating that COVID deaths are significantly higher among the vaccinated, and the vaccinated are the ones infecting other vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens.

A Harvard study is confirming what doctors and scientists have been warning. The study strongly indicates COVID-19 vaccination rates do not correspond with lower infection rates and the trend is toward them actually causing MORE infections, deaths and injuries.

The good news among all of this is that the number of people willing to fight for truth and freedom is growing. We should thank God for all these brave people and do whatever we can to support, encourage and join them. Most have never been in this kind of situation ever before in their lives.

God bless,

Steve Jalsevac

LifeSite

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 Janis,

Today, I greet all of those workers who at this very hour who are being forced to choose between keeping their job and getting the Covid-19 vaccine or being fired for not getting the vaccine.

Through this brief letter I extend some encouragement in your trials. The Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima can also offer a religious exemption.

Some of you have already paid the price for the truth about the Covid-19 vaccine and its causal link to abortion.

I am deeply touched by the witness of a lady in the U.S. who writes:

"Today was my last day of packing up the remainder of my stuff. As I would not take the vaccine, I was told to leave last Friday. They called over and asked me to tidy up my desk and said that today would be my last day. My boss is hoping that I will cave in, get vaccinated, and come back. I am extremely sad."

I am moved by the witness of this woman. I would say to her: "Today you pack your things from your place of work, and while you pack, your treasure is being transferred to the room that Jesus has already prepared for you in the Kingdom of Heaven."

There are thousands and thousands of Catholics like her who have the courage to choose Christ and who will not throw a pinch of incense to Caesar, just like the very first Catholics of old.

I encourage all of you to hold fast to your conviction and to your faithfulness to Christ.

The sufferings and the losses that you will have to endure are tiny when compared to the

reward that God prepared for you in heaven.

"For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18

I urge you to continue on this path that you have chosen of witnessing to the truth that unborn life is sacred and that the trafficking of fetal body parts is an evil industry that cries out to Almighty God for His justice!

As you seek His Kingdom, first and above all, believe that you will be provided for.

Jesus and Mary will open up new ways to provide for your families. I also exhort and encourage the lay faithful of means to step in and help your fellow Catholics to find new meaningful work.

My dear brothers and sisters, these are the prices that we knew we always had to pay to be faithful to Jesus Christ.

And now at this very hour the payment is being required and so we must pray that we will pass the test and be faithful to the Lord Jesus. I give all of you God’s abundant blessing!

+Athanasius Schneider

Auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan

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LIBERA NOS A MALO

Considerations on the Great Reset

and the New World Order

by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

August 28, 2021

Feast of St. Augustine

No one will be part of the New World Order

unless he carries out an act of worship to Lucifer.

No one will enter the New Age unless he receives Luciferian initiation.

                 —David Spangler, Director of the United Nations Planetary Initiative Project (Reflections on The Christ, Findhorn, 1978) 

    For more than a year and a half we have been helplessly witnessing the succession of incongruent events to which most of us are unable to give a plausible justification.

    The pandemic emergency has made particularly evident the contradictions and illogicalities of measures nominally intended to limit contagion – lockdowns, curfews, closures of commercial activities, limitations of public services and classes, suspension of citizens’ rights – but which are disavowed daily by conflicting voices, by clear evidence of ineffectiveness, by contradictions on the part of the same health authorities.

    There is no need to list the measures that almost all the governments of the world have taken without achieving the promised results.

    If we limit ourselves to the presumed advantages that the experimental gene serum should have brought to the community — above all immunity to the virus and renewed freedom of movement — we discover that an Oxford University study published in The Lancet (here) stated that the viral load of those vaccinated with a double dose is 251 times greater than the first strains of the virus (here), despite the proclamations of world leaders, starting with the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, according to whom “whoever gets vaccinated lives, whoever does not get the vaccine dies.”

    The side effects of the gene serum, cleverly disguised or deliberately not registered by the national health authorities, seem to confirm the danger of taking the vaccine and the disturbing unknowns for the health of citizens which we will soon have to face.

    From science to scientism

    The art of medicine — which is not science, but the application of scientific principles to different cases each time, on an experiential and experimental basis — seems to have renounced its prudence, in the name of an emergency that has risen to the level of priesthood of a religion — the religion of science, in fact — which in order to be such has cloaked itself in a dogmatism bordering on superstition.

    The ministers of this cult have constituted themselves as a caste of untouchables, exempt from any criticism even when their claims are denied by the evidence of the facts.

    The principles of medicine, considered universally valid until February 2020, have given way to improvisation, to the point of being advised to vaccinate at the height of the pandemic, the obligation of masks being imposed although they are useless, the arbitrary mandating of bizarre distances, the prohibition of treatments with effective drugs and the imposition of experimental gene therapies in violation of normal safety protocols.

    And just as there are new Covid priests, so there are also new heretics, that is, those who reject the new pandemic religion and want to remain faithful to the Hippocratic Oath.

    Not infrequently, the aura of infallibility that surrounds virologists and other more or less titled scientists does not seem to be questioned due to their conflicts of interest or by the substantial financial benefits received by pharmaceutical companies, which under normal conditions would be scandalous and criminal.

    What many fail to understand is the inconsistency between the stated aims and the means that are adopted in a constantly changing manner in order to achieve them.

    If in Sweden the absence of lockdowns and masks did not lead to higher infection rates than those in countries where people have been confined to their homes or where they have had masks put on even in primary schools, this element is not considered as proof of ineffectiveness of the measures.

    If in Israel or in Great Britain mass vaccination has increased infections and made them more virulent, their example does not induce the rulers of other countries to be cautious in the vaccination campaign, but rather pushes them to evaluate the mandatory nature of their giving of the vaccine.

    If ivermectin or hyperimmune plasma prove to be valid treatments, this is not enough to authorize them, let alone recommend them.

    And those who wonder the reason for this disconcerting irrationality end up refraining from judgment, giving a sort of fideistic acceptance to the pronouncements of the Covid priests, or conversely considering doctors as unreliable sorcerers.

    A single script under a single direction

    As I said earlier, we are faced with a colossal deception, based on lies and fraud.

    This deception starts from the premise that the justifications put forward by the authorities in support of their actions are sincere.

    More simply, the mistake consists in believing that the rulers are honest and in assuming that they do not lie to us.

    So we persist in finding more or less plausible justifications, with the sole purpose of not recognizing that we are the object of a conspiracy planned to the smallest detail.

    And while we try to rationally explain irrational behavior, while we attribute logic to the illogical actions of those who govern us, cognitive dissonance leads us to close our eyes to reality and to believe the most shameless lies.

    We should have understood — I wrote it some time ago — that the Great Reset plan was not the result of the ravings of some “conspiracy theorist” but the crude evidence of a criminal plan, conceived for decades and aimed at establishing a universal dictatorship in which a minority of immeasurably rich and powerful people intends to enslave and subjugate the whole of humanity to the globalist ideology.

    The accusation of “conspiracy theory” could perhaps have made sense when the conspiracy was not yet evident, but today denying what the elite has planned since the 1950s is unjustifiable.

    What Kalergi, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, Klaus Schwab, Jacques Attali and Bill Gates have been saying since World War II has been published in books and newspapers, commented on and taken up by international bodies and foundations, made up precisely by parties and government majorities.

    The United States of Europe, uncontrolled immigration, the reduction of wages, the cancellation of trade union guarantees, the renunciation of national sovereignty, the single currency, the control of citizens under the pretext of a pandemic, and the reduction of the population through the use of vaccines with new technologies are not recent inventions, but the result of a planned, organized and coordinated action — an action that clearly shows itself perfectly adhering to a single script under a single direction.

    The criminal mens [“mind,” in Latin]

    Once it is understood that the present events have been intended in order to obtain certain results — and consequently to pursue certain interests on behalf of a minority part of humanity, with incalculable harm for the majority — we must also have the honesty to recognize the criminal mens [mind] of the authors of this plan.

    This criminal design also makes us understand the fraud perpetrated by civil authority in presenting certain measures as an unavoidable response to unpredictable events, when the events have been artfully created and magnified with the sole purpose of legitimizing a revolution — which Schwab identifies as the fourth industrial revolution — intended by the elite to the detriment of all humanity.

    The enslavement of authority is on the other hand the result of a process that began even earlier, with the French Revolution, and which made the political class the servant not of God (whose Lordship it disdainfully disregards) nor of the sovereign people (which it despises and uses only to legitimize itself), but of the economic and financial potentates, of the international oligarchy of bankers and usurers, of multinationals and pharmaceutical companies.

    In reality, on closer inspection, all these subjects belong to a small number of well-known very rich families.

    Equal enslavement is also evident in the media: journalists have accepted — without any scruple of conscience — prostituting themselves to the powerful, going so far as to censor the truth and spread shameless lies without even trying to give them the appearance of credibility.

    Up until last year journalists counted the numbers of the “victims” of Covid by presenting anyone who tested positive as terminally ill; today those who die after being vaccinated are always and only taken by a vague “illness,” and even before the post mortem examinations they officially decide that there is no correlation between a person’s death and the administration of the gene serum.

    They twist the truth with impunity when it does not confirm their narrative, bending it to fit their purposes.

    What has been happening for a year and a half had been widely announced, down to the smallest detail, by the creators of the Great Reset themselves; just as we were told the measures that would be adopted.

    On February 17, 1950, testifying before the United States Senate, the well-known banker James Warburg said, “We will have a world government, whether you like it or not. The only question that arises is whether this world government will be established by consensus or by force.”

    Four years later, the Bilderberg Group was born, which has counted among its members characters such as [Italian businessman Gianni] Agnelli, Henry Kissinger, Mario Monti, and the current Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

    In 1991, David Rockefeller wrote: “The world is ready for a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is certainly preferable to the national self-determination practiced in past centuries.” And he added: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the ‘right’ global crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

    Today we can affirm that this “right crisis” coincides with the pandemic emergency and with the “lockstep” outlined since 2010 by the Rockefeller Foundation document “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development,” in which the events we are now witnessing are all anticipated (here).

    In short, they have created a false problem in order to be able to impose population control measures as an apparent solution, cancel small and medium-sized businesses with lockdowns and the green pass to the benefit of a few international groups, demolish education by imposing distance learning, lower the cost of manpower and employees with “smart working,” privatize public health for the benefit of BigPharma, and allow governments to use the state of emergency to legislate in derogation of the law and impose so-called vaccines on the entire population, making citizens traceable in all their movements and either chronically ill or sterile.

    Everything the elite wanted to do, they have done. And what is incomprehensible is that in the face of the evidence of the premeditation of this terrible crime against humanity, which sees the leaders of almost the whole world as accomplices and traitors, there is not a single magistrate who opens a file against them to ascertain the truth and condemn the guilty and complicit.

    Those who disagree are not only censored but pointed out as public enemies, as infectors, as non-personsfor whom no rights are recognized.

    Deep state and deep church

    Now, in the face of a criminal plan it would be at least logical to denounce it and make it known, in order to then be able to avert it and try those who are guilty.

    The list of traitors should start with the heads of government, with cabinet members and elected officials, and then continue with the virologists and corrupt doctors, the complicit officials, the leaders of the armed forces incapable of opposing the violation of the Constitution, the sold-out journalists, the cowardly judges and the obsequious unions.

    In that long list that will perhaps be drawn up one day, the leaders of the Catholic Church should also be listed, starting with Bergoglio and not a few of the Bishops, who have become zealous executors of the will of the prince against the mandate received from Christ.

    And certainly, in that list, one would know the extent of the conspiracy and the number of the conspirators, confirming the crisis of authority and the perversion of civil and religious power.

    In short, it would be understood that the corrupt part of the civil authority — the deep state — and the corrupt part of ecclesiastical authority — the deep church — are two sides of the same coin, both instrumental to the establishment of the New World Order.

    However, in order to understand this alliance between civil and religious power, it is necessary to recognize the spiritual and eschatological dimension of the present conflict, framing it in the context of the war that Lucifer, ever since his fall, has waged against God.

    This war, whose outcomes have been decided ab æterno with the inexorable defeat of Satan and the Antichrist and the overwhelming victory of the Woman encircled with the stars, is now approaching its conclusion.

    This is why the forces of darkness are so wild at present, so impatient to cancel the name of Our Lord from the earth, to not only destroy his tangible presence in our cities by tearing down churches, demolishing crosses, and suppressing Christian holidays; but also by eliminating memory, cancelling Christian civilization, adulterating its teaching, and debasing its worship.

    And in order to do this, the presence of a faithful and courageous Hierarchy, ready to suffer martyrdom in order to defend Christian faith and moral teaching, is certainly an obstacle.

    This is why, from the very initial phase of the globalist plan, it was essential to corrupt the Hierarchy in morals and doctrine, to infiltrate it with fifth columns and sleeper cells, to deprive it of any supernatural yearning, and to make it vulnerable to blackmail thanks to financial and sexual scandals; all with the purpose of excluding it and eliminating it once its purpose has been achieved, according to established practice.

    This infiltration operation began at the end of the 1950’s, when the project of the New World Order was just taking shape.

    It began its own work of subversion a few years later, with the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, in view of which the election of Roncalli and the expulsion of Cardinal Siri, Pacelli’s “dauphin” or probable successor as pope, represented a reason for enthusiasm both for the progressive and modernist element within the Church, as well as for the communist, liberal, and Masonic element of the civil world.

    Vatican II represented within the ecclesial body what the Tennis Court Oath [of the French Revolution] was for civil society: the beginning of the Revolution.

    And if on many occasions I have drawn attention to the subversive nature of the Council, today I believe that a historical analysis deserves attention in which apparently disconnected facts acquire a disturbing significance, explaining many things.

    Liaisons dangereuses

    As Michael J. Matt has reported in a recent video at The Remnant (here), today we are beginning to put together all the pieces of the mosaic, and we discover — by the very admission of one of the protagonists — that Msgr. Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife in Brazil, had a meeting in those years with the young Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum and theorizer of the Great Reset.

    Once Schwab recognized Câmara for his opposition to the traditional Church and his revolutionary and pauperist theories, he invited him to the Davos Forum, considering his participation in this event as extremely important in view of the project of the New Order.

    We know that Hélder Câmara was among the organizers of the “Pact of the Catacombs,” which was signed by about forty ultra-progressivist Bishops on 16 November 1965, a few days before the closing of the Council.

    Among the heretical theses of that document, there is also collaboration in the establishment of “another, new social order”(here, n. 9) based on justice and equality.

    And we are not surprised to learn that among the signatories there was also Msgr. Enrique Angelelli, the auxiliary bishop of Cordoba in Argentina, “[a] point of reference for then-Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio” (here).

    Bergoglio himself declared right from the beginning of his Pontificate that he agreed with the demands of the Pact of the Catacombs.

    On 20 October 2019, during the Synod on the Amazon, the celebration of the pact between the conspirators was repeated in the Catacombs of Santa Domitilla (here), confirming that the plan begun at the Council had found fulfillment precisely in Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

    Far from distancing himself from the ultra-progressivists who support him and who determined his election at the last Conclave, Bergoglio never misses an opportunity to give proof of his perfect coherence with the plan of the New World Order, beginning with the collaboration of Vatican commissions and dicasteries with environmentalism of a Malthusian matrix and their participation in the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, a global alliance with the Rothschilds, the Rockefeller Foundation, and large banks.

    So on the one hand we have David Rockefeller with the Trilateral Commission, and on the other we have Klaus Schwab, who is related by marriage with the Rothschilds (here), with the World Economic Forum, and both of them are arm-in-arm with the head of the Catholic Church to establish the New Order by means of the Great Reset, as has been planned since the 1950’s.

    The world depopulation plan

    Among the associates of this pactum sceleris there must also be counted some members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which recently had its organizational structure overturned by Bergoglio himself when he removed the members who were most faithful to the Magisterium, replacing them with supporters of depopulation, contraception, and abortion.

    There should be no surprise at the Holy See’s support for vaccines: in June 2011 the Sovereign Independent carried the headline on its front page: “Depopulation Through Forced Vaccination: The Zero Carbon Solution!”(here).

    Beside the headline, a photograph of Bill Gates was accompanied by a quote from him: “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive services [abortion and contraception], we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”

    This is what Bill Gates said eleven years ago.

    Today he is one of the shareholders of the Black Rock group that finances the pharmaceutical companies that produce the vaccines, one of the main sponsors of the World Health Organization (WHO), and also of a myriad of public and private entities connected to health.

    At his side we curiously find George Soros, the “philanthropist” of the Open Society, which together with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently invested in a British company that produces swabs for Covid testing (here).

    And since we are talking about economic issues, I would like to recall that the Holy See has held shares worth about €20 million in two pharmaceutical companies that have produced a contraceptive drug (here), and more recently it invested in a fund that guaranteed very high profits in the event of a geopolitical or pandemic crisis thanks to speculation on international currencies, the “Geo-Risk” fund managed by the Merrill Lynch investment bank, which had to close it because of its skyrocketing yields after the first few months of the pandemic (here).

    Other capital, coming from the “Peter’s Pence” collection, had been used to finance various other initiatives, even collaborating with [Italian businessman] Lapo Elkann, whose endeavors include Rocketman, the autobiographical film of Elton John.

    To say nothing of the real estate speculations and the purchase of the London building at 60 Sloane Avenue that the news coverage has amply informed us on, a purchase that I know, from a reliable source, was decided on by Bergoglio himself.

    And then there’s China: always in the name of “coherence” and the “church of the poor for the poor” that is so dear to Bergoglio’s heart, there are those who believe that the secret Accord prepared by the Jesuits and former-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick may have obtained substantial funding from the communist regime in Beijing in exchange for the Vatican’s silence over the persecution of Catholics and the violation of human rights (here).

    The same is true for the immigration racket: among those drawing profit from the industry of welcoming immigrants are the Vatican commissions and the Bishops’ Conferences, to which various nations give substantial funding for the reception of illegal immigrants.

    The horrid monument with the bronze boat erected by Bergoglio in Saint Peter’s Square is the plastic representation of a hypocrisy that is the distinguishing mark of this pontificate.

    In a recent Wednesday audience, we were able to hear these words: “Hypocrites are people who pretend, flatter and deceive because they live with a mask over their faces and do not have the courage to face the truth.[…] Hypocrisy in the Church is particularly detestable; and unfortunately, hypocrisy exists in the Church and there are many hypocritical Christians and ministers”(here). I believe no comment is necessary.

    Deep state interference

    There have been manifold examples of interference by the deep state in the life of the Church.

    We cannot forget the emails of John Podesta and Hillary Clinton, which show the intention to oust Benedict XVI from the papacy and so to initiate a new “springtime of the Church” that would be progressivist and globalist, which later came about with the resignation of Benedict and the election of the Argentine.

    Nor can we overlook the interference of entities and institutions that are anything but close to religion, such as the B’nai B’rith, in dictating the direction of the “renewal” of the Church after Vatican II and most of all under this Pontificate.

    Finally, we should remember on the one hand the disdainful refusals to grant audiences to conservative political and institutional personalities, and on the other hand the passionate smiling encounters with leaders of the Left and of progressivism, along with expressions of enthusiastic satisfaction on the occasion of their election.

    Many of them owe their success to having attended universities run by the Society of Jesus or circles of Catholicism that in Italy would be called Dossettian,[1] where the network of social and political relations constitutes a sort of progressive Freemasonry and ensures dazzling careers for so-called “adult Catholics,” those who use the name “Christian” without behaving consistently with Christian faith and morality in their service of public affairs: Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi; Romano Prodi, Mario Monti, Giuseppe Conte, and Mario Draghi; to name only a few.

    As we can see, the cooperation between the deep state and deep church is long-standing and has now produced the results hoped for by its supporters, with very serious damage to both the State and religion.

    The closure of churches in early 2020, even before the civil authorities imposed the lockdowns; the prohibition of the celebration of Masses and the administration of the Sacraments during the pandemic emergency; the grotesque ceremony performed on 27 March 2020 in Saint Peter’s Square (here); the insistence on vaccines and their promotion as morally legitimate despite having been produced with cell lines originating with aborted fetuses; Bergoglio’s declarations that the genetic serum represents a “moral duty” for every Christian; the introduction of the “Green Pass”health passport in the Vatican and more recently in Catholic schools and in some seminaries; the Holy See prohibiting Bishops from announcing that they are against the vaccination obligation, promptly endorsed by certain Bishops’ Conferences — these are all elements that demonstrate the subordination of the deep church to the orders of the deep state, and the way in which the Bergoglian church is an integral part of the globalist plan.

    If we combine all this with the idolatrous cult of the pachamama right under the arches of Saint Peter’s Basilica; the insistence on irenicist ecumenism, pacifism, and pauperism; the endorsement of situation ethics and the substantial legitimization of adultery and concubinage in Amoris Laetitia; the declaration that the death penalty is morally illicit; the endorsement of left-wing politicians, revolutionary leaders, and abortion activists; the words of understanding for LGBT issues, homosexuals, and transsexuals; the silence over the legitimization of homosexual unions and the even more disconcerting silence over the blessing of sodomitical couples by German Bishops and priests; and the prohibition of the Tridentine Mass with the abolition of Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, we realize that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is carrying out the task entrusted to him by the globalist elite, which wants him to be the liquidator of the Catholic Church and the founder of a philanthropic and ecumenical sect of Masonic inspiration that is meant to constitute the Universal Religion in support of the New Order.

    Whether this action is being carried out with full awareness, out of fear, or under blackmail, nothing detracts from the gravity of what is happening, nor from the moral responsibility of those who promote it.

    The Luciferian matrix of the New World Order

    At this point, it is necessary to clarify what is meant by the “New World Order,” or rather what its creators mean, regardless of what they say publicly.

    Because on the one hand, it is true that there is a project, that certain people conceived it and are charged with carrying it out; but on the other hand it is also true that the inspiring principles of the project are not always disclosed, or at least they cannot be openly admitted to be closely related to what is happening today, since such an admission would arouse opposition even from those who are the most peaceful and moderate.

    It is one thing to impose the “Green Pass” with the excuse of the pandemic; but it is quite another to recognize that the purpose of the passport is to accustom us to being tracked; and still another to say that this total control is the “mark of the Beast” of which the Book of the Apocalypse speaks (Rev 13:16-18).

    The reader will forgive me if, in order to demonstrate my argument, I must resort to using quotations of such gravity and wickedness that they arouse bewilderment and horror — but this is necessary if we are to understand what the real intentions of the architects of this plot really are, and the true nature of the epochal battle they are waging against Christ and His Church.

    In order to understand the esoteric roots of the thought that lies at the foundation of the United Nations, once longed for by [19th-century Italian political activist] Giuseppe Mazzini, we cannot fail to consider characters such as Albert Pike, Eliphas Levi, Helena Blavatsky, Alice Ann Bailey, or other disciples of Luciferian sects.

    Their writings, published since the late nineteenth century, are quite revealing.

    Albert Pike, a friend of Mazzini and a fellow Freemason, gave an address in 1889 in France to the highest levels of Freemasonry, which was then reprinted on 19 January 1935 by the English journal The Freemason. Pike declared:

    That which we must say to the crowd is, we worship a god, but it is the god one adores without superstition […]. The Masonic religion ought to be maintained in the purity of Luciferian doctrine by all of us who are initiates of the highest degrees. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay [sic] [the God of the Christians] whose deeds prove his cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion of science, would Adonay and his priest calumniate him?

    Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive… the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.

    This profession of faith in the divinity of Satan is not only an admission of who the real Great Architect that Freemasonry adores is, but also a blasphemous political project that passed through the ecumenism of Vatican II, whose first theorist was Freemasonry:

    The Christian, the Jew, the Moslem, the Buddhist, the follower of Confucius and Zoroaster can unite as brothers and join together in prayer to the only god who is above all the other gods (cf. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, ed. Bastogi, Foggia 1984, vol. VI, p. 153).

    And the identity of the “only god who is above all the other gods” has been well explained in the preceding quotation.

    In another letter, Pike wrote to Mazzini:

    We will unleash the nihilists and atheists and provoke a formidable social cataclysm that will clearly demonstrate to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of absolute atheism, the origin of barbarism and bloody subversion. Then citizens everywhere, forced to defend themselves against a world minority of revolutionaries, […] will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, finally revealed to the public’s view; a manifestation that will be followed by the destruction of Christianity and also of atheism, which will be conquered and crushed at the same time! (cf. Letter of 15 August 1871 to Giuseppe Mazzini, Library of the British Museum, London).

    It will not escape notice that the “great heresy of separativeness” sounds curiously in agreement with the ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in his Encyclical Mortalium Animos, an ecumenism that was adopted by the Declaration Dignitatis Humanae and recently merged into the doctrine of “inclusivity” formulated by those who allowed idolatrous worship to the pachamama to be offered in Saint Peter’s Basilica.

    It is clear that the term “separativeness” intends to designate in a negative key the necessary separation of good from evil, of true from false, of the right from wrong that constitutes the criterion of moral judgment of human behavior.

    “Inclusivity” opposes this distinction, allowing oneself to be deliberately contaminated by evil to adulterate the good, equating the true and the false in order to corrupt the former and give legitimacy to the latter.

    The shared ideological roots of ecumenism

    If one does not understand that the ideological roots of ecumenism are intrinsically linked to Masonic Luciferian esoterism, one cannot grasp the connection that links the doctrinal deviations of Vatican II to the plan of the New World Order.

    The revolution of 1968 was a sad example of those pacifist and ecumenist ambitions, in which the “Age of Aquarius” was celebrated by the musical Hair (1969) and then by John Lennon with Imagine (1971):

    Imagine there’s no heaven. It’s easy if you try.

    No hell below us. Above us only sky.

    Imagine all the people, living for today.

    Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do.

    Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.    

    Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

    You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

    I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

    Imagine no possessions. I wonder if you can.

    No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man.

    Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.

    This manifesto of Masonic nihilism can be considered the hymn of globalism and the new universal religion: it is no coincidence that it was used as the theme song for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and more recently for those in Tokyo.

    A soul that is not led astray can only feel horror at these blasphemous words.

    The same is true for the words of Lennon’s no-less-blasphemous song God (1970):

    God is a concept by which we measure our pain. […]

    I just believe in me.

    I understand that for many it is distressing to accept that the Hierarchy may have allowed itself to be deceived by its enemies, making their requests their own in questions that touch the very soul of the Church.

    It is certain that there were Masonic prelates who succeeded in introducing their ideas into the Council by disguising them, but in the full awareness that they would inexorably lead to the realization of that demolition of Religion that is the premise for the establishment of the New Era — the Age of Aquarius — in which Our Lord is banished from society in order to welcome the Antichrist.

    One can then understand the winking indulgence given to Freemasonry by many Catholic personalities — I am thinking of Cardinals Martini and Ravasi, among the many — and their opposition to the excommunications that the Popes renewed against the sect.

    One also understands the reason for the enthusiasm of the Masonic Lodges at the election of Bergoglio, and conversely their ill-concealed hatred toward Benedict XVI, considered as the kathèkon [“the one who restrains” (cfr. 2 Thess 6:7)] to be eliminated.

    It should also be remembered, with some embarrassment, that certain statements by Ratzinger suggest an attempt to “Christianize” the globalist project, without condemning it as antichristic and anti-Christian:

    Let the Child of Bethlehem take you by the hand! Do not fear; put your trust in him! The life-giving power of his light is an incentive for building a new world order (here).

    These words, unfortunately, confirm the fallacy of Hegelian thought, which influenced the professor from Tubingen right up to the Throne.

    Certainly the Pontiff’s failure to take a position permitted him to be considered in some way an ally of the globalist plan, if Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was able to affirm in his 2006 year-end address speech to the Italian people: There is harmony between Pope Benedict and me in supporting a New World Order” (31 December 2006).

    On the other hand, the Hegelian process of thesis-antithesis-synthesis echoes the motto of alchemy, Solve et Coagula, which was adopted by Freemasonry and by Luciferian esoterism.

    It is the motto that appears on the arms of Baphomet, the infernal idol adored by the highest levels of the Masonic sect, as is admitted by its most authoritative members.

    In his essay Lucifer Rising, Philip Jones specifies that the Hegelian dialectic “combines a form of Christianity as thesis with a pagan spiritualism as antithesis, with the result of a synthesis that is very similar to the Babylonian mystery religions.”

    The globalist pantheism of Theilard de Chardin

    Ecumenism is one of the key themes of globalist thought.

    This is confirmed by Robert Muller, who was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations: “We must move as quickly as possible towards a one-world government, a one-world religion, and a single world leader.”

    Before him, one of the advocates of the League of Nations, Arthur Balfour, created the “Synthetic Society,” which had as its purpose the creation of the “one-world religion.”

    Pierre Theilard de Chardin himself, a Jesuit heretic condemned by the Holy Office and today a celebrated theologian of progressivism, considered the United Nations as “the progressivist institutional incarnation of his philosophy,” expressing his hope that “a general convergence of religions on a universal Christ who fulfills them all….seems to me to be the only possible conversion of the world, and the only form in which a religion of the future can be conceived” in order to “reduce the gap between pantheism and Christianity by drawing out what could be called the Christian soul of Pantheism or the pantheistic aspect of Christianity.”

    It will not escape notice that the pachamama and the attribution of Marian connotations to Mother Earth turns these concepts of Theilard de Chardin into a disturbing reality.

    And that’s not all: Robert Muller, the world government theorist who is also a disciple of the theosophist Alice A. Bailey, declares: “Teilhard de Chardin influenced his companion [the Jesuit Father Emmanuel Saguez de Breuvery, who held important positions at the UN], who in turn inspired his colleagues, and they in turn initiated a rich process of global and long-term thought within the United Nations, which has affected many nations and people all over the world. I was profoundly influenced by Teilhard.”

    In his book The Future of Man, Theilard writes: “Even if its form is not yet visible, tomorrow humanity will wake up in a pan-organized world.”

    Muller was the founder of the World Core Curriculum, which aimed “to orient our children towards global citizenship, earth-centered beliefs, socialist values and the collective mindset, which are becoming a requirement for the work force of the 21st century” (New Man Magazine).

    And if he proudly claims Alice A. Bailey among his inspirers, we discover that she was a disciple of the Theosophic Movement founded by Helena Blavatsky, a declared Luciferian.

    In order to correctly understand Blavatsky’s character, here are a few citations from her writings:

    Lucifer represents Life, Thought, Progress, Civilization, Liberty, Independence… Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

    And, almost anticipating the pachamama:

    The Celestial Virgin thus becomes, at the same time, the Mother of Gods and Demons, because she is the ever-loving beneficent Divinity… But in antiquity and in reality the name [of this god] is Lucifer. Lucifer is the divine and earthly Light, both the Holy Spirit and Satan at the same moment.”

    And last but not least:

    It is Satan who is the god of our planet and the only god.

    It was Alice A. Bailey who founded the Lucifer Publishing Company, which is now known as the Lucis Publishing Company, closely related to the Lucis Trust, formerly the Lucifer Trust, recognized as an NGO by the United Nations.

    If we add to this heap of infernal ramblings the words of David Spangler, the Director of the Planetary Initiative Project of the United Nations, we will realize how terrible is the threat that is hanging over all of us:

    No one will be part of the New World Order unless he carries out an act of worship to Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he receives a Luciferian initiation (Reflections on the Christ, Findhorn, 1978).

    Alice A. Bailey writes about the New Age:

    The achievements of science, the conquests of nations and the conquests of territory are all indicative of the method of the Age of Pisces [the age of Christ], with its idealism, its militancy, and its separativity in all fields — religious, political, and economic. But the age of synthesis, of inclusivity, and understanding is upon us, and the new education of the Age of Aquarius [the age of the Antichrist] must very delicately begin to penetrate the human aura.

    Today we see how the teaching methods theorized by Muller in the World Core Curriculum have been adopted by almost all nations, including LGBT ideology, gender theory, and all other forms of indoctrination.

    This is confirmed by the former director of the WHO, Dr. Brock Chisolm, explaining what the UN educational policy would like to achieve:

    In order to achieve a world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, fidelity to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas (cf. Christian World Report, Marzo 1991, Vol. 3).

    Behold once again the fil rouge [the red thread] that links not only Klaus Schwab to Hélder Câmara, but also Robert Muller and Alice A. Bailey to Pierre Theilard de Chardin and Emmanuel Saguez de Breuvery, always in a globalist key and under the ill-omened inspiration of Luciferian thought.

    An in-depth analysis of these disturbing aspects will make it possible to shed light on the truth and reveal the complicity and betrayals of not a few churchmen who are enslaved to the enemy.

    Our response to the crisis of authority

    The corruption of authority is such that it is very difficult — at least in human terms — to hypothesize a peaceful way out.

    In the course of history, totalitarian regimes have been overthrown by force.

    It is difficult to think that the health dictatorship that has been established in recent months can be fought differently, since all the powers of the State, all of the means of information, all the international public and private institutions, all of the economic and financial potentates are complicit in this crime.

    Faced with this bleak scenario of corruption and conflict of interest, it is indispensable that all those who are not subservient to the globalist plan unite in a compact and cohesive front, in order to defend their natural and religious rights, their own health and that of their loved ones, their freedom, and their goods.

    Where authority fails in its duties and indeed betrays the purpose for which it has been established, disobedience is not only lawful but obligatory: non-violent disobedience, at least for now, but determined and courageous.

    Disobedience to the illegitimate and tyrannical diktats of ecclesiastical authority, wherever it shows itself to be an accomplice of the infernal plan of the New World Order.

    Conclusion

    Allow me to conclude this reflection with a brief spiritual thought.

    Everything that we know, discover, and understand about the global conspiracy currently unfolding shows us a tremendous reality that is also at the same time sharp and clearly-defined: there are two sides, the side of God and the side of Satan, the side of the children of Light and the side of the children of darkness.

    It is not possible to come to terms with the Enemy, nor is it possible to serve two masters (Mt 6:24).

    The words of Our Lord must be engraved in our minds: “Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters” (Mt 12:30).

    Hoping to build a world government in which the Divine Kingship of Jesus Christ is outlawed is insane and blasphemous, and no one who has such a plan will ever succeed.

    Where Christ reigns, peace, harmony and justice reign; where Christ does not reign, Satan is a tyrant.

    Let us consider this well, whenever we have to choose whether to make agreements with the adversary in the name of a false peaceful coexistence!

    And let those prelates and civil leaders who think that their complicity only affects economic or health issues, pretending not to know what is behind all this, also consider this well.

    Let us turn to Christ, Christ who is the King of hearts, of families, of societies, and of nations.

    Let us proclaim Him as Our King and Mary Most Holy as Our Queen.

    Only in this way can the wicked project of the New World Order be defeated.

    Only in this way can the Holy Church be purified of traitors and renegades.

    And may God listen to our prayer.

    + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

28 August 2021

S. Augustini Episcopi et Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris

An experimental physicist and bio-materials researcher examined various PCR test swabs under a microscope and found that the fibres they contain are as dangerous for human beings as inhaling asbestos.

Professor Antonietta Gatti examined various PCR test swabs and analysed their ingredients. The results showed that they are made of tough materials and contain a large number of nano-particles including silver, aluminum, titanium, and glass fibres. All of which are not declared on the PCR test package insert. 

According to the Professor if these fibres get stuck in the mucous membranes they can cause severe wounds and inflammation. Mucous membranes that are no longer intact can no longer fulfill their role of fending off viruses, bacteria and fungi before they reach the airways. The germs penetrate the respiratory tract without any immune filter. This isn’t good news for those who have been compliant with the authorities rules since the start of the alleged pandemic and take part in regular testing and mask wearing. This is because face coverings are the ideal breeding ground for all types of germs.

In the laboratory, Professor Gatti used electron microscopy (ESEM and EDS) to analyse various types of swabs, which are used to collect human organic material for PCR diagnostics, in order to check the morphology and chemical composition.

With a “cotton wool” stick made by Biocomma in Shenzhen, China, it was not possible for Prof. Gatti to determine whether it was made of carbon or cotton. The dirt in the product consisted of calcium corbonate, stainless steel and silicates.

Read more: ‘Covid’ PCR Test swabs ‘as dangerous as inhaling asbestos’

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Life Lessons From Simone Biles: Throw Stones or Give Thanks?

COMMENTARY: The world’s greatest gymnast has shared with us lessons not only of exquisite athletic performance, but of humility, fortitude, prudence and loving care for her fellow teammates and competitors.

Kevin Vost, Psy.D.  Commentaries - July 30, 2021

Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from Olympic competition this year has certainly generated a great deal of heated discussion, with some public commentators praising her for her courage and others describing her as a selfish quitter.

From my experience in psychology, I know it is very hard to determine exactly what is going on in another person’s mind and heart while seated across from them, let alone from a distance of several thousand miles. I can’t presume to fully understand Biles’ motivation, but in throwing in my two cents’ worth, I’ll try to keep this advice from St. Thomas Aquinas in mind as to whether we should consider another person’s actions as virtuous or vicious: 

 “He who interprets doubtful behaviors for the best, may happen to be deceived more often than not; yet it is better to err frequently through thinking well of the wicked man, than to err less frequently through having an evil opinion of a good man, because in the latter an injury is inflicted, but not in the former” (Summa Theologiae, II-II, Q. 60, a. 4).

Based on the limited information I’ve been able to gather on  Biles’ withdrawal from the women’s gymnastics finals at the Tokyo Olympics, I applaud her decision and hope there are lessons in it for all Olympic athletes and for all of us in their wide world of fans.

Biles reported that in the five hours leading up to her under-par vault performance she was unable to obtain her usual mental clarity, to calm down and focus on the demanding tasks at hand. After stumbling on her landing in the balance-beam event, she reported that while up in the air she experienced the sense that she did not know where she was. She said she realized that her head was not in it, that she might get hurt, and that she might spoil her teammates’ chances for medals if she continued on in the competition.

I recall a particular incident in my own athletic past. While in the descent of a barbell squat with 572 pounds on my back, I realized that I was picking out and noticing the faces of people out in the audience. I knew then and there I was not “in the zone” and that I would fail on that lift. I knew I did not have it that day. There are few athletic endeavors less technical and more basic than a barbell squat, but even there, lack of mental focus can produce failure and possible injury. 

Mental focus in the midst of a complicated athletic feat is of the utmost importance, especially in the highly technical and specialized world of gymnastics, where the slightest error in body positioning could lead to a damaging fall. Such skills are practiced and honed until they are virtually automatic, but it is possible for mounting mental stress to throw the body and mind back into manual transmission, so to speak, impairing bodily control and proprioception (the awareness of body position), which perhaps Biles was alluding to, in saying that in mid-air after the vault she did not know where she was. Gymnasts even have a word for this disorienting experience, calling it “the twisties.” 

So a simple lesson for even world-class athletes is to know yourself, not only your abilities when you are at your best, but also being humble enough to admit it at particular times when you are not at your best. This takes the virtue of humility, which I believe Biles displayed so well. She is often referred to as the “GOAT” (greatest of all time) and, indeed, was called just that by a television commentator as she prepared for the fateful vault that led to her withdrawal. 

It appears that this gymnast is indeed the greatest of all time in female gymnastics, with an unmatched record of repeated success. To acknowledge it is to pay her a well-deserved compliment, but the wide acknowledgment of one’s greatness can bring pressures of its own.

Biles came into the Olympics with exceedingly high expectations from fans around the world, but she herself reported the damaging impact of multiple stressors leading up to and during the games. These games were delayed by a year due to COVID, and the athletes had to perform without the benefit of a cheering live audience and the support of family members in attendance. Further, for Biles in particular, she was the lone surviving competing gymnast among hundreds of young gymnasts to be abused by a trainer, and she had reported that part of the reason she had not yet retired was to be sure the scandal was remembered and addressed by USA Gymnastics.

Of course, even our greatest athletes or superior performers in any endeavor are still human beings who can be overcome by personal and generalized stressors at certain times in certain situations. At times like these, it is entirely appropriate to pull back from competition to focus on one’s mental health, as she reported she intends to do. I know nothing of the particulars of her own mental-health situation, but pray (and expect) that she will regain her equilibrium and see sport as “fun” again, a feeling she reported to have lost during these Olympics. And while I’ve seen her mention of “fun” derided as implying selfishness, there should indeed be a sense of pleasure when an athlete displays his or her well-honed powers at their peak, performing citius, altius, fortius (faster, higher, stronger), as we see in the Olympic motto. A lack of “fun” may indeed serve as a warning that something is seriously wrong.  

I believe Biles’ story gives the lie to the old aphorism, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” Mental health and moral virtue are more important: win, lose, draw — or withdraw. 

I’ve been happy to see some commentaries praising  Biles for her courage, and I must heartily agree. St. Thomas Aquinas told us that the virtue of courage or fortitude (from the Latin fortis for “strength”) enables us to conquer or to endure arduous, difficult obstacles to the good. Biles has masterfully overcome countless obstacles on the gymnastics floor and in her personal life for many years now, and I see her decision to withdraw as yet another act of fortitude. 

We may think of a lack of fortitude as withdrawing in the face of a difficult situation, yet, sometimes, withdrawal is precisely the most courageous thing to do. St. Thomas tells us that while cowardice is a vice that shows a lack of fortitude, temerity or foolhardiness is a vice that overshoots the virtue of fortitude, taking on tasks we are truly not up to at a particular time. 

Biles realized that while she may well indeed be “the greatest of all time” in gymnastic endeavors, she was not at her best at this time. I believe this was also an act of the virtue of prudence or practical wisdom, whereby we consider all the relevant factors that determine whether or not a particular course of action is wise at a particular time. 

Of course, as Catholics, when we face any kind of difficulties, we can draw on an infinite strength and an unlimited wisdom. Biles, a practicing Catholic, has written about the importance of faith in her life, about praying the Rosary and the Hail Mary and how she lights a candle to St. Sebastian, patron saint of athletes, prior to competitions. May she realize that, as our sister in Christ, our prayers join with hers.

I believe Biles has shared with us lessons not only of exquisite athletic performance, but of humility, fortitude, prudence and loving care for her fellow teammates and competitors. Pope Pius XII once said, “The Church, without any doubt whatever, approves of physical culture, if it be in proper proportion.” Thank you, Simone Biles, for helping us keep the value of athletics, virtue and mental health “in proper proportion.” ________________________________

The Marvelous Story of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Patroness of Cuba

July 29, 2021 | Edwin Benson 

The Marvelous Story of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Patroness of Cuba

Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, has many titles. Some titles describe her relationship with God, such as Mother of God. Many titles refer to her surpassing virtues, such as Seat of Wisdom. The most reassuring titles speak of her relationship to humanity, such as Refuge of Sinners or Mother of Good Counsel.

However, many titles are connected to places by which she endears herself to nations. This article deals with one such title by telling the marvelous story of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Patroness of Cuba.

Like many such titles, this devotion is connected to a miraculous event. It begins with several ordinary people engaged in their daily work, which in this case was the gathering of salt.

One day in 1612, two young Indian men—Rodrigo and Juan de Hoyos—and one child—ten-year-old Juan Moreno—went into the Bay of Nipe in a small boat to collect salt. The exact process by which they gathered it is uncertain, but the salt was used to preserve meat.

Miraculous Deliverance 

They were returning to the port town of Santiago del Prado (today called El Cobre) when a storm arose. Their lives were in danger. Juan Moreno was wearing a medal with an image of the Blessed Mother, to whom all three prayed. Just as suddenly as the storm arose, the waters calmed.

The three were relieved that Our Lady had saved their lives. As they returned, they saw and then retrieved a white bundle floating on a piece of wood. The bundle turned out it be a sixteen-inch baked clay statue of the Blessed Mother holding Our Infant Redeemer in her left arm and carrying a gold cross in her right. Mary’s feet rested on a thin crescent moon, which in turn is carried on clouds borne by angels. Our Lord’s right hand is raised in blessing, and He holds a globe in His left. The piece of wood bore the words, “Yo soy la Virgen de la Caridad,” which translates to “I am the Virgin of Charity.”

The three young men were astonished to discover that the statue and her white cloth robes were dry. Given the violence of the storm only a few minutes earlier, this seemed impossible. The delivery from the storm and the discovery of the dry statue made the three sense the miraculous nature of the Virgin of Charity. They took the statue ashore and told their story throughout the village. Eventually, the figure was housed in the parish church in El Cobre.

However, one day, the statue disappeared. The villagers frantically searched for it but to no avail. One night, the searchers saw a light shining from a nearby mountain. Like the three wise men following the Star of Bethlehem, they went to the light and found the statue. On that site, the local men constructed a hermitage church to serve as the statue’s place of veneration under the Spanish invocation of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre.

The story spread, and the chapel became a place of pilgrimage for the poor and enslaved workers in nearby mines. Over the next seventy years, devotion to Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre grew as devotees reported answered favors and miraculous cures. In 1688, the Archdiocese of Santiago, which includes El Cobre, initiated an inquiry to determine the statue’s miraculous reputation.

Signs of Increasing Devotion

The reputation of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre increased in May of 1801 when Spanish King Carlos IV issued a declaration freeing all slaves who labored in the copper mines of El Cobre. From this action, the practice of bringing copper objects to Her shrine and having them blessed near the image arose.

On May 10, 1916, Pope Benedict XV declared Our Lady of Charity to be the Patroness of Cuba. Twenty years later, a ceremony that culminated with the solemn coronation of the statue took place at a Eucharistic Congress in Santiago.

When large numbers of Cuban exiles came to Miami in the wake of the Castro Revolution, many wanted to bring a historical copy of the statue with them. However, the government refused to let “historical relics” leave Cuba. Eventually, one was smuggled out of Havana by the Italian Embassy. The Embassy passed it on to the Panamanian diplomatic office. The Panamanians turned it over to the Cubans in Miami. On September 8, 1960—the feast day of Our Lady of Charity—thousands of Cuban exiles converged at Miami Stadium to welcome her.

Today, she remains a symbol of hope in the face of the communist menace. Cubans flock to her shrine, imploring her intercession. Many shrines to her were established over the years.

Enshrined

In 1973, a shrine to Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre opened near the Bay of Biscayne in Miami. In 1977, Bishop Eduardo Tomás Boza Masvidal, Auxiliary of San Cristobal de la Habana, blessed and dedicated an Oratory in her honor in the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

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MARIAN APPARATIONS - From Wikipedia

The apparitions in this category have been judged to be "worthy of belief."

Approved, with widespread liturgical veneration endorsed by the Holy See

 Our Lady of Guadalupe

1531

 Tepeyac, Mexico City, Mexico

Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

Juan Bernardino

1555

December 12 in the General Roman Calendar

Juan Diego, an Aztec who had recently converted to the Catholic faith, saw an apparition of Mary early in the morning on December 9, 1531, during which Mary asked that a church be built in the spot of the apparition. The local bishop did not believe his story. In response, during another appearance to Juan Diego three days later, after also appearing to Diego's sick uncle Juan Bernardino, Our Lady imprinted an image of herself on Juan Diego's cloak (tilma). The cloak is on display at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Over the years, Our Lady of Guadalupe became a symbol of the Catholic faith in Mexico and the Mexican diaspora.[9]

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

Our Lady of Graces

1830

 Rue du Bac, Paris, France

Catherine Labouré

1836

Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen

Archdiocese of Paris

November 27 in the Roman Calendar for Venezuela and the Vincentian orders

Catherine, a novice at the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, reported that Mary appeared to her one night in the convent chapel and asked that a specific medallion be made, promising that "all who wear this medal will receive great graces."[11] The medal eventually produced is most commonly known as the Miraculous Medal due to the many miracles that were connected with it. The front of the medal displays a picture of Mary as Catherine described her. The design on the reverse includes the letter M and a cross.

Our Lady of La Salette

1846

 Mount Sous-Les Baisses, La Salette-Fallavaux, France

Mélanie Calvat

Maximin Giraud

September 19, 1851

Bishop Philibert de Bruillard 

Diocese of Grenoble

September 19 in the Roman Calendar for France[14]

Two shepherd children reported seeing an apparition of Mary, who was weeping because of the disrespect shown to the Lord's Day and to the Lord's name. She entrusted one secret to each of the two children, which they wrote down and delivered to Pope Pius IX.

Our Lady of Lourdes

The Immaculate Conception

1858

 Lourdes, France

Bernadette Soubirous

January 18, 1862

Bishop Bertrand-Sévère Laurence [fr]

Diocese of Tarbes

February 11 in the General Roman Calendar

A 14-year-old shepherd girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported seeing Mary appear to her while she was out gathering firewood in the countryside. Mary identified herself as "the Immaculate Conception" and told Bernadette of the location of a spring, promising miraculous healings from its waters. Since 1862, over sixty medical cures associated with Lourdes have been certified as "miraculous" by the Catholic Church, which established its own Medical Bureau in 1883 to review and evaluate claims of cures. An independent study of cures published in 2012 concluded that some of the cures were "currently beyond our ken but still impressive, incredibly effective, and awaiting a scientific explanation."[18]

Our Lady of Knock

1879

 Knock, County Mayo, Ireland

Group of 15 people

1879

Archbishop John MacHale

Archdiocese of Tuam

August 17 in the Roman Calendar for Ireland

On August 21, 1879,[note 1] a group of 15 men, women, and children, ranging in age from 5 to 75, reported seeing an apparition behind their church, against the back wall, of an altar with a lamb on it (understood to represent Jesus), surrounded by a multitude of angels. Off to the side in prayer stood Mary, Joseph, and St. John(with St. John dressed as a bishop). Because Mary was among those seen, the apparition is classified as Marian, although the simultaneous appearance of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, John, and numerous angels makes it unique among this category. A further distinctive characteristic is that this apparition was silent: no verbal messages were given. The apparition lasted for an hour and a half.[23]

Our Lady of Fátima

Our Lady of the Rosary

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

1917

 Cova da Iria, Fátima, Portugal

Lúcia Santos

Jacinta Marto

Francisco Marto

October 13, 1930

Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva

Diocese of Leiria

May 13 in the General Roman Calendar

Three shepherd children reported seeing apparitions of an angel (who identified himself as the Guardian Angel of Portugal) followed by apparitions of Mary. Mary revealed to the children three secrets: first, the reality of hell and the means of saving people from it through personal sacrifices and Acts of reparation; second, a prediction of future upheavals (beginning with World War II), the spiritual means of ending them (a Consecration of Russia and Communions of reparation on First Saturdays), and a prediction of an eventual "triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary"; third, an obscure vision of future persecution of the Catholic Church. The apparitions culminated with the Miracle of the Sun, an astronomical phenomenon witnessed by a crowd of approximately 70,000 people, and even by others located miles away.[26] All nine popes since the apparitions – Benedict XV, Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis – have indicated their belief in the authenticity of the apparitions. Pope John Paul II credited Our Lady of Fátima with saving his life after he was shot in Rome on the May 13 feast day of the apparition in 1981, and donated the bullet that wounded him to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima.[27] In 1925, eight years after the Fátima events, Lúcia, then Sister Lúcia, reported another set of related apparitions, which became known as the Pontevedra apparitions.[28]

Approved

Below are additional apparitions which have been approved by the local ordinary (i.e. the bishop assigned over the area in which the events allegedly occurred).

Our Lady of the Good Event

1594-1634

 Quito, Ecuador

Mariana de Jesus Torres

1611

Bishop Salvador Ribera Avalos

Diocese of Quito

A religious sister, Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, reported that the Virgin Mary appeared to her at the Conceptionist Convent in Quito, Ecuador, under the title "Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso."[30] According to Mother Mariana, Mary requested that a statue be made in her likeness and made several predictions, saying that the church and the world would enter into a period of crisis beginning in the mid-20th century, and that this period would be followed by a complete restoration.[31]Although the phrase "Good Event" in the apparition title is also understood to refer to this prophesied restoration, the phrase, properly speaking, refers to the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus.[32]

Our Lady of Laus

1664–1718

 Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, France

Benoîte Rencurel

May 4, 2008

Bishop Jean-Michel Di Falco

Diocese of Gap and Embrun

Beginning in 1664, a young shepherdess reported seeing multiple visions of Mary, who said, "I have asked my Son for this place for the conversion of sinners and He has granted it to me." Mary charged Benoîte to prepare sinners for the Sacrament of Penance,[35] a vocation for which she received the gift of reading souls.[36] Mary asked for a sanctuary to be built, and foretold that it would last until the end of the world, emerging from obscurity and becoming well-known shortly before the onset of the endtimes.[37] Benoîte continued to receive apparitions until her death in 1718. The local archbishop at the time approved the public veneration of the initial apparitions in 1665, but the apparitions themselves were not approved until almost four centuries later.[34]

Our Lady of Good Help

1859

 Champion, Wisconsin, United States

Adele Brise

December 8, 2010

Bishop David L. Ricken

Diocese of Green Bay

In Robinsonville (now called Champion), Wisconsin, a young Belgian immigrant woman named Adele Brise was walking through a wooded area when she saw a beautiful woman standing between a maple and a hemlock tree. She saw the lady again on her way to Mass, and walked past her again. After Mass she told her priest about the apparition, and he told her to ask the Lady "In God's name, who are you and what do you want of me?" When Adele walked past the spot again, the Lady was there, and Adele asked what she was told by the priest. The Lady replied, "I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners." She gave Adele the mission to pray for sinners and teach the children of the area their Catechism, with the assurance, "Go and fear nothing, I will help you." Soon after, Adele's father built a small chapel between the trees, and later two more churches were built on the spot before the present brick church, built in 1942. Our Lady of Good Help is the first approved apparition in the United States.[39]

Our Lady of Pontmain

Our Lady of Hope

1871

 Pontmain, France

Eùgene Barbadette

Joseph Barbadette

Jeanne-Marie Lebossé

Françoise Richer

February 2, 1872

Bishop Casimir Wicart 

Diocese of Laval

At the height of the Franco-Prussian War, Pontmain, a hamlet of about 500 inhabitants, found itself between the oncoming Prussian army and the city of Laval. While two boys, Joseph and Eugène, aged ten and twelve, were helping their father in the barn, Eugène saw in the night sky an apparition of a beautiful woman smiling at him; she was wearing a blue gown covered with golden stars, and a black veil under a golden crown. Joseph came to look and could see the lady as well. As a crowd gathered, two girls, Françoise Richer and Jeanne-Marie Lebosse, ages nine and eleven, reported seeing Mary as well, and described her in the same way. None of the adults, however, could see Mary, but only saw three stars forming a triangle. The crowd began praying the Rosary. The children saw a banner unfurl beneath the Lady with a message: "But pray, my children. God will hear you in time. My Son allows Himself to be touched." The apparition lasted about three hours. It was later discovered that the advance of the Prussian troops was halted at the same time that the apparition began; the general reported that the advance was blocked by a "Madonna."

Our Lady of Gietrzwałd

1877

 Gietrzwałd, Warmia-Mazury, Poland

Stanisława Samulowska

Justyna Szafryńska

September 1, 1977

Bishop Józef Drzazga

Diocese of Warmia

A 13-year-old girl named Justyna Szafryńska reported that, while praying the Angelus on June 27, 1877, she saw a woman seated on a gold throne near a maple tree, accompanied by an angel. The following day, she saw another apparition, this time also with the Christ child. Three days after the first event, both she and 12-year-old Barbara Samulowska saw Mary, and Justyna asked: "What do you want, Holy Mary?" Mary answered in the local Polish dialect, "I want you to pray the Rosary daily." During the apparition the next day, Justyna asked, "Who are You?" and Mary replied, "I am the Blessed Virgin Mary of Immaculate Conception." In the coming days, Mary promised that fervent prayer would be able to end the persecutions of Catholic Poles that had occurred under Kulturkampf. The apparitions continued for three months. On September 8, about a week before the apparitions ended, Mary blessed a spring of water, from which pilgrims have subsequently reported healings. Our Lady of Gietrzwałd is the only approved Marian apparition in Poland.[43]

Our Lady of Beauraing

Virgin of the Golden Heart

1932-1933

 Beauraing, Belgium

Andree Degeimbre

Gilberte Degeimbre

Albert Voisin

Fernande Voisin

Gilberte Voisin

July 2, 1949

Bishop André-Marie Charue 

Diocese of Namur

Five children, ages 9 to 15, reported seeing 33 apparitions of Mary between November 1932 and January 1933. Mary asked for prayer and for the construction of a chapel as a place of pilgrimage, promising to convert sinners.[45]

Our Lady of Banneux

Virgin of the Poor

1933

 Banneux, Belgium

Mariette Beco

August 22, 1949

Bishop Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs

Diocese of Liège

A child named Mariette Beco reported that Mary appeared to her, calling herself "the Virgin of the Poor."[47] Mary said "I come to relieve suffering" and indicated a spring through which miracles of healing would be worked.[48]

Our Lady of Akita

1973

 Yuzawadai, Akita, Japan

Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa

April 22, 1984

Bishop John Shojiro Ito

Diocese of Niigata

Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa reported seeing a statue of The Lady of All Nations illuminate and reported hearing messages, even though she was deaf. The same statue also miraculously wept, a phenomenon repeated on 101 occasions and broadcast on Japanese national television. The messages were apocalyptic in nature, warning of coming calamities if mankind is to not repent. One such prophesy stated, 

If men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, ... the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayer of the Rosary. With the Rosary pray for the Pope, bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops.[50]

Our Lady of Cuapa

1980

 San Francisco de Cuapa, Nicaragua

Bernardo Martinez

1994

César Bosco Vivas Robelo

Diocese of León in Nicaragua

A sacristan named Bernardo Martinez reported seeing a supernatural light emanating from a statue of the Virgin Mary in the parish church on April 15, 1980. When walking through the fields shortly thereafter on May 8, he saw a vision of the Virgin Mary, who encouraged him to pray the Rosary daily and to promote peace, saying, "Make peace. Don't ask Our Lord for peace because, if you do not make it, there will be no peace."[52] At this time, Nicaragua was going through a civil war, with the Sandinista government facing armed opposition from the Contras. Bernardo reported that Mary asked people to burn books that deny God and promote sin. Many locals understood this to mean Marxist books, and the consequent book-burnings resulted in backlash from supporters of the Communist government.[53] In 2005, Silvio Sirias wrote a novel, Bernardo and the Virgin, based on the apparition events.[54]

Our Lady of Kibeho

Mother of the Word

1981-1983

 Kibeho, Rwanda

Alphonsine Mumureke

Nathalie Mukamazimpaka

Marie Claire Mukangango

June 29, 2001

Bishop Augustin Misago

Diocese of Gikongoro

On November 28, 1981, in the African college of Kibeho, Rwanda, the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to three teenage students, Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and Marie Claire Mukangango. The apparition identified herself in the native Rwandan dialect as "Nyina wa Jambo" ("Mother of the Word")[56] and warned of the coming 1994 Rwandan Genocide (in which Mukangango was killed). The Marian sanctuary at Kibeho was named "Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows" in 1992, two years before the genocide. Only the apparitions to Mumureke, Mukamazimpaka, and Mukangango were approved; other apparitions reported by several other girls and one boy were not. An estimated 500,000 pilgrims visit the site every year.[57]

Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás

1983-1990

 San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gladys Quiroga de Motta

May 22, 2016

Bishop Héctor Cardelli 

Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos

Amid reports of rosaries mysteriously glowing in homes throughout San Nicolas, a mother and grandmother named Gladys Quiroga de Motta, upon witnessing the phenomenon, began to pray to the Virgin Mary, who then appeared to Gladys wearing a blue gown and veil. Mary asked Gladys to go look for a statue that had been blessed by Pope Leo XIII but was hidden away, forgotten, in a church. She found the Marian statue, which bore a resemblance to Mary's appearance in the apparition, in the belfry of the diocesan cathedral. Gladys continued to receive apparitions from Mary and Jesus, some of them apocalyptic in nature, warning of mankind's impending self-destruction and the loss of many souls.[59]

Mary, Virgin and Mother, Reconciler of All Peoples and Nations 

1984

 Finca Betania, Miranda, Venezuela

Maria Esperanza de Bianchini and 150 other people

1987

Bishop Pío Bello Ricardo

Diocese of Los Teques

Maria Esperanza de Bianchini had several Marian apparitions among her many mystical experiences. In one event on March 25, 1984, 150 other people also said they saw the Blessed Mother along with Maria Esperanza. The apparition is known under the title "Mary, Virgin and Mother, Reconciler of All Peoples and Nations."

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FAMILY & HOME 

Our Sacred Honor: Reflections on the Fourth of July

BY JEFF MINICK  June 29, 2021 Updated: June 29, 2021

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The place: Philadelphia. The time: June 1776.

The Continental Congress appoints a Committee of Five—Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, and chairman John Adams of Massachusetts—to draw up a declaration of independence from Britain. Though John Adams seems the natural choice to write the initial draft of this document, he defers to the Virginian for several reasons, telling Jefferson by his own account, “You can write ten times better than I can.”

The committee agrees with Adams, and Jefferson takes up his pen.

On July 2, Congress votes to declare America’s independence from Great Britain, a date that Adams believes will be forever remembered. In a letter written to his wife Abigail on July 3, Adams asserts: “The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.”

Adams is mistaken.

On July 3 and 4, Congress debates the declaration presented them by the committee, making changes in the wording. To avoid offending some of the Southern members of the Congress, for example, they strike out Jefferson’s charge blaming the English monarchy for the importation of slaves into the colonies.

On the evening of July 4, Congress approves the document we now call the Declaration of Independence. Over the next days and weeks, members will sign the document, knowing that by doing so they are possibly signing their own death warrants as rebels against King George III.

Despite the alterations made by Congress, one of Jefferson’s passages is left untouched:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The Creed

Jefferson’s words lie at the heart of the American Creed.

Near the beginning of his latest book, “Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America,” Charles Murray favorably cites fellow writer Samuel Huntingdon’s definition of this creed: “the political principles of liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, human rights, the rule of law, and private property.”

For more than 200 years, these principles have served as the bedrock of our American Republic. We have struggled to live up to these ideals, fighting a Civil War, for instance, to put an end to slavery, and nearly a century later, battling to ensure that the descendants of those slaves achieved equality under the rule of law. Women also fought for and won the right to vote and for other rights as well. Human rights remain paramount concerns both in this country and abroad, and our emphasis on the individual and freedom is demonstrated in a myriad of court actions over the course of our history.

It’s this creed that has drawn so many immigrants to our shores. The numbers of Europeans who processed through Ellis Island in the late 19th century came not only to enjoy the bountiful gifts of this country and its free enterprise system, but also to follow their dreams and breathe the air of liberty.

Freedom Breeds Prosperity

That creed, first envisioned by Jefferson and which might also go under the name of the American Dream, brought us prosperity and numerous privileges: the right to vote in elections, the right to a fair trial, the right to protest injustices, the right to go our own way for better or for worse. We may forget this Dream and its many benefits in the day-to-day exigencies of life, but it’s what has allowed us to live as we do.

And that liberty accounts for the great achievements of some of our citizens. Henry Ford’s mass production of the automobile, Thomas Edison’s electric lights, Silicon Valley’s computers and phones, the writers, painters, musicians, and filmmakers who practice their arts without fear of government censorship, the scientists who have discovered everything from cures for polio to improved methods of agriculture: all of these people accomplished these things because they possessed the freedom to do so.

The same holds true for the rest of us. Here in America, we still possess the wonderful opportunity to make of ourselves what we will, to go as far as we can, to develop our own businesses. Around me, I see young adults operating their own construction companies, running restaurants and website businesses, practicing law, working as nurses and doctors. Others of their own volition enter college or the trades, free to succeed or to fail as they will.

The Price of Liberty

The American Dream comes with a price tag.

On Memorial Day, we remember those who died for their country in our various wars. On Veterans Day, we honor those who served their country in uniform.

On Independence Day, we might do well to remember our predecessors who also sacrificed themselves for our benefit. The wealthy surgeon who sends his children off to the best universities is the son of a successful owner of a car dealership, who, in turn, is the son of an immigrant tailor in Brooklyn. The surgeon’s wife grew up in an affluent home, but her great-grandmother lost her father to death when she was 12, dropped out of school, and worked a variety of jobs to help her mother make ends meet.

Then there are the volunteers who helped forge our country. The Fourth of July is the perfect time to remember with gratitude those who even today give of their time and treasure to help others: the mechanic who finds time on the weekends to work in a food bank, the busy mom who volunteers at her children’s school, the retiree who plays the piano twice a week to entertain residents in a nursing home.

Nearly 250 years ago, a small band of prominent men vowed “to pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Knowing that the consequences of that pledge might mean death by execution and the ruination of their families, these men did not take this oath lightly. Yet they were willing to give up everything, including their lives, for the cause of liberty.

We should treasure our freedoms and our rights, but if we forget that the foundation stones of these privileges are sacrifice, duty, and self-responsibility, liberty will die.

Patriotism and Celebration

Like the United States, many countries around the world set aside a day to celebrate their country. Canadians, for example, have their Dominion Day, and Australians honor their country on Australia Day.

This patriotism is a positive good. Some equate patriotism with nationalism, but the two are quite different. The patriot loves and honors his country; the nationalist believes his country is superior to other countries. A patriot values his patch of earth, the people who live there, and the ideals upon which his country was founded. He has little interest in comparisons with other countries, any more than he would put his beloved mother into a competition against other moms.

To celebrate our patriotism here in America, we host backyard barbecues, head for the beach, plant American flags in the front yard, and shoot off fireworks. My wife used to dress our small children and herself in red, white, and blue for the day, and put out small flags along the front sidewalk of our house. Some of us may talk to our children about the American past or the Declaration; others may scarcely think of the holiday itself while they are grilling hamburgers or popping off bottle rockets. Whatever the circumstances, like those patriots of old who rang church bells and lighted bonfires to celebrate the Fourth of July, we are commemorating our liberties and our heritage.

When we celebrate the Fourth of July, we are observing more than our break with the British and the creation of our American nation. We are paying homage to one of the most remarkable documents in human history, to the venerable and universal proclamation of our Declaration of Independence—that human beings are all created equal, that by their very creation they possess certain inviolable rights, and that these truths are “self-evident.” To those Founding Fathers such as Jefferson, Adams, and the rest, humanity—not just Americans—owes a debt of gratitude for these words alone.

Let me close with a remarkable story that seems closer to legend than to fact, but which is nonetheless true.

On July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years to the day after Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson and Adams died. That remarkable circumstance brings chills every time I remember it. What are the odds of these two men crossing the bar on the same day and on such an anniversary? What are the chances of that?

And yet it happened.

The last words spoken by Adams were “Thomas Jefferson still lives,” but Adams was wrong. His friend and sometime opponent Jefferson had taken his last breath five hours earlier at his home in Monticello.

But the words of Jefferson lived and should live still in the hearts and minds of patriots everywhere.

As we Americans celebrate Independence Day this year, let’s be grateful for the republic those men gave us. More importantly, let’s resolve to keep that republic alive.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________On Memorial Day, we honor those soldiers who gave their lives for our country.

In the Gettysburg Address, perhaps the greatest reflection in our history on such sacrifice, Abraham Lincoln refers to the fallen soldiers as having given “the last full measure of devotion.”

In our nation’s present crisis, we can learn from the devotion of which Lincoln spoke more than 150 years ago.

Speaking after the Union had won a decisive battle, he begins his address by saying: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.”

This Memorial Day we are, thankfully, not fighting a civil war, but we are nonetheless engaged in a struggle for the soul of our nation.

Dangerous new ideas are challenging whether we can remain a nation “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Of course, the very meaning of equality is contested these days. Some seek to turn society in the direction of socialism in order to ensure we all have the exact same conditions of life.

The Declaration of Independence, which Lincoln highly admired, says we are “created equal.” We are equal in that all possess God-given rights. These confer on us the right to pursue happiness, but don’t guarantee anyone any particular outcome.

Critical race theory creates division in our nation as it seeks to make us unequal.

It teaches that some of us are, by virtue of skin color, racists and oppressors, while others, by virtue of skin color, are morally superior.

The proponents of critical race theory often replace our traditional practices of liberty with coercion.

Individuals in corporations and schools are subjected to re-education sessions reminiscent of China’s Cultural Revolution in which they must confess their guilt. Those who don’t risk losing their jobs.

A new spirit of intolerance abounds in our land, and many refuse to give voice to their true beliefs for fear of being shunned or worse.

Behind critical race theory lies the specter of Marxism, dressed in new clothes. It seeks to inflame the wounds our nation carries from past racism in hopes of bringing on a disease fatal to our free republic.

But this Memorial Day offers us the opportunity to begin healing our distressed nation.

Lincoln concludes his remarks at Gettysburg by saying: “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

This Memorial Day, we need to reflect deeply on the sacrifices of those we honor. They died in devotion to the idea of America, of a free country dedicated to the proposition of equality.

So, let us now dedicate ourselves to a “new birth of freedom.” Doing so, we will, with our acts, honor our fallen heroes in the most fitting manner and safeguard the meaning of their sacrifice.

It goes without saying that as we work to revive the principles of equality and freedom, we do so steadfastly but without seeking to make enemies of those whose positions we oppose.

Near the end of the bloodiest war in our nation’s history, Lincoln was able to say, in his Second Inaugural Address, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds.”

The strength of our republic lies in our “firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.”

There are those—revolutionaries who seek to use our freedom to destroy that freedom—who wish the United States ill. These we oppose with all our might.

But the great majority of the advocates of critical race theory and other pernicious ideas are themselves the victims of bad education. While we are unrelenting in opposing their ideas, we treat them with charity. We understand that as poor ideas are replaced with better ones, everyone has a healthy role to play in realizing the destiny of our nation.

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My beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,  ~Bishop Thomas Olmstead (Phoenix Diocese)

1. I wish to speak to you about the most important and central teaching of our faith. What I share is “not too high for you.” It is not theology that is only meant for theologians and priests. This concerns the most important reality of our lives – the saving presence of our Lord. This is not a teaching that can be dumbed down or over simplified. This is a truth that we need to be clear and certain about. Be bold, then! Take up and read, drink in the truth, discuss and share it with others and allow Jesus, truly present in the Eucharist, to conform you further to Himself and fulfill the deepest longings of your heart.

2. From the time I was a little child, I knew Jesus was present in every Catholic Church. I could not have explained it, but I was certain He was there. The way my father genuflected before the Tabernacle, the quiet reverence of my mother, the way our pastor Father Daly sang the Tantum Ergo with such gusto and a thick Irish brogue, it was these actions and God’s grace, more than words, that imbedded in my heart a solid conviction about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. And because our farm family prayed together every evening, during thunderstorms or blizzards, whether we had a bumper crop or hardly anything at all from drought-stricken soil, no matter what, we knew that the Lord Jesus we received at Mass was with us, every day and night, and that whatever we faced, all would be well because of Him.

3. Of course, that faith in the Eucharist has been tested many times over the years. As a seminarian in Tours, France, for example, during two months of intensive French language study, some classmates learning of my practice of daily Mass accosted me, sneering with venom, “You really believe Jesus is present in that piece of bread?” Shocked by their hate-filled tone, I could say nothing for what seemed like eternity; but after probably less than a minute, I managed to stammer, “Yes… I do.” That shocking and embarrassing moment, to my surprise, led ever so gradually to new gratitude for the gift of the Eucharistic faith and a deeper conviction about daily Mass and Eucharistic adoration. It also taught me to expect my faith in our Eucharistic Savior to face scorn and contradiction.

4. I invite you in this Exhortation to “put out into the deep” (Lk 5:4). Whether your faith in the Eucharist is strong or weak, whether you consider the Church your Home or you have recently decided to disassociate, or even if you have no faith at all, my sincere hope is that a true “Eucharistic amazement” will be ignited within you.

5. The People of Israel faced many obstacles, challenges, and sufferings as they crossed the desert and entered the Promised Land. But God had assured them of His presence and guidance on their arduous sojourn. In the Ark of the Covenant, they recognized the presence of God. Into battles and in dangerous lands, wherever the Israelites went, the Ark went with them because it assured them that God would be with them to fight their battles, to care for them and protect them. For this reason, the Ark became a powerful and enduring image of God’s presence.

6. When the People of Israel were preparing to cross the Jordan river and enter the Promised Land, Joshua stressed the importance of following the Ark: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord being carried, you are to set out from your positions and follow it… so that you can see the way to go, since we have never been this way before” (Josh. 3:2-4). This instruction was addressed to a people who would face the dangers of the crossing and the challenges and threats that awaited them in an unknown land.

7. Like the People of Israel, we too are heading into difficult waters. Today we find ourselves in a crisis; many anxieties, uncertainties and doubts assail us from every side. As I said in my pastoral letter “O Sacred Feast,” the Church at large is experiencing a grave crisis of faith in the Eucharist. This crisis has inflicted additional significant implications for authentic Christian discipleship; namely, abysmal Mass attendance, declining vocations to marriage, priesthood, and religious life, waning Catholic influence in society. As a nation we are experiencing a torrent of assaults upon the truth. The Gospel message has been watered down or replaced with ambiguous worldly values. Many Christians have abandoned Christ and His Gospel and turned to a secular culture for meaning that it cannot provide and to satiate a hunger that it can never satisfy.

8. In such troubled waters, our greatest anchor in these storms is Christ Himself, found in the Holy Eucharist. Though the instruction of Joshua was intended for the People of Israel facing formidable enemies as they crossed into the Promised Land, his words remain crucial for us: “Follow the Ark of the Lord, for we have never been this way before”.

9. As God’s People today, we are also on a journey to a promised inheritance, a journey also filled with dangers, challenges, and suffering. We do not have a column of cloud by day nor a pillar of fire by night reminding us of God’s presence ever guiding and protecting us as He did for the People of Israel. We do not have the Ark of the Covenant in our midst. Instead, we have not something but Someone much greater! Someone greater than the Ark who goes before us and is always with us. We have Jesus Christ truly present in the Eucharist to guide, comfort, and strengthen us. In times like these, echoing the instruction of Joshua, we must fix our gaze on the Lord and draw near to Him more than ever in the Eucharist. The more the Lord in the Eucharist is our central focus, the more surely He will bring us through these dark and turbulent waters. On this day when we commemorate the Institution of the Eucharist, I as your shepherd implore each of you to seek out Jesus in the Eucharist to be strengthened and renewed in your faith.

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Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals - 5/14/21

From Flag Officers 4 America

Our Nation is in deep peril. We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty.

Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the “will of the people” our Constitutional Republic is lost. Election integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen. Legal votes are identified by State Legislature’s approved controls using government IDs, verified signatures, etc. Today, many are calling such commonsense controls “racist” in an attempt to avoid having fair and honest elections. Using racial terms to suppress proof of eligibility is itself a tyrannical intimidation tactic. Additionally, the “Rule of Law” must be enforced in our election processes to ensure integrity. The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020. Finally, H.R.1 & S.1, (if passed), would destroy election fairness and allow Democrats to forever remain in power violating our Constitution and ending our Representative Republic.

Aside from the election, the Current Administration has launched a full-blown assault on our Constitutional rights in a dictatorial manner, bypassing the Congress, with more than 50 Executive Orders quickly signed, many reversing the previous Administration’s effective policies and regulations. Moreover, population control actions such as excessive lockdowns, school and business closures, and most alarming, censorship of written and verbal expression are all direct assaults on our fundamental Rights. We must support and hold accountable politicians who will act to counter Socialism, Marxism and Progressivism, support our Constitutional Republic, and insist on fiscally responsible governing while focusing on all Americans, especially the middle class, not special interest or extremist groups which are used to divide us into warring factions.

We  welcome others to join with us as we continue our effort to defend the  U.S. Constitution and the American way of life.

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COVID vaccines ‘must be halted immediately,’ renowned toxicologist tells CDC

We must halt all COVID vaccine administration immediately, before we create a true pandemic that we cannot reign in,’ warned Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay, Ph.D.

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May 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Renowned toxicologist Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay, Ph.D., has called on the U.S. government to halt COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Late last month, Lindsay told a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in Atlanta that the vaccines “must be halted immediately due to safety concerns on several fronts.” ACIP had convened to discuss blood disorders linked to the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Lindsay, who holds a doctorate from the University of Texas and has more than three decades of scientific experience, cited potential blood clot, fertility, and immune issues related to the jabs. Her full testimony can be found on YouTube, with a transcript here.

“This is not a coincidence”

“In the mid-1990s, I aided the development of a temporary human contraceptive vaccine which ended up causing unintended autoimmune ovarian destruction and sterility in animal test models, despite efforts against this and sequence analyses that did not predict this,” Lindsay told ACIP.

“I strongly feel that all the gene therapy [COVID-19] vaccines must be halted immediately due to safety concerns on several fronts,” she said. Dr. Lindsay warned that the vaccines could hinder production of syncytin, a crucial protein for fertility and pregnancy, and negatively impact pregnancy outcomes as a result

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“First, there is a credible reason to believe that the COVID vaccines will cross-react with the syncytin and reproductive proteins in sperm, ova, and placenta, leading to impaired fertility and impaired reproductive and gestational outcomes,” she argued.

“Respected virologist Dr. Bill Gallaher, Ph.D., made excellent arguments as to why you would expect cross reaction due to beta sheet conformation similarities between spike proteins and syncytin-1 and syncytin-2,” Lindsay said.

“I have yet to see a single immunological study which disproves this. Despite the fact that it would literally take the manufacturers a single day to do these syncytin studies to ascertain this. It’s been over a year since the assertions were first made that this could occur.”

“We have seen 100 pregnancy losses reported in VAERS,” the vaccine injury tracking system of the U.S. government, as of April 9, Dr. Lindsay continued. “And there have been reports of impaired spermatogenesis and placental findings from both the natural infection, vaccinated, and syncytin knockout animal models that have similar placental pathology, implicating a syncytin-mediated role in these outcomes.”

Lindsay also pointed to reports of irregular menstrual cycles following COVID-19 shots. “We simply cannot put these [coronavirus vaccines] in our children who are at .002% risk for COVID mortality if infected, or any more of the child-bearing age population, without thoroughly investigating this matter,” she said.

Otherwise, “we could potentially sterilize an entire generation.” “Speculation that this will not occur and a few anecdotal reports of pregnancies within the trial are not sufficient proof that this is not impacting on a population-wide scale,” Lindsay said.

Dr. Lindsay noted that “all of the [COVID vaccine] gene therapies are causing” blood clots, as well. “This is not isolated to one manufacturer, and this is not isolated to one age group.”

“We are seeing coagulopathy deaths in healthy young adults with no secondary comorbidities. There have been 795 reports related to blood clotting disorders as of April 9th in the VAERS reporting system, 338 of these being due to thrombocytopenia,” she added.

“There are forward and backward mechanistic principles for why this is happening. The natural infection is known to cause coagulopathy due to the spike protein. All gene therapy vaccines direct the body to make the spike protein,” she said. Lindsay cited a paper published in the Journal of Hematology & Oncology in 2020, which showed that infusing spike proteins led to blood disorders in mice.

“Spike protein incubated with human blood in vitro also caused blood clot development which was resistant to fibrinolysis” — a process that stops the growth of clots. “The spike protein is causing thrombocytic events, which cannot be resolved through natural means,” she said. “And all vaccines must be halted in the hope that they can be reformulated to guard against this adverse effect.”

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________When No One Knows What Freedom Is, All Is Lost

February 8, 2021 | John Horvat II 

When No One Knows What Freedom Is, All Is Lost

In our polarized nation, no other word causes so much confusion as freedom. Everyone claims to fight for freedom. Each side in the political debate claims the other is an enemy of freedom.

And yet, it seems we have less and less freedom. We have lost the meaning of the word. When no one knows what freedom, it becomes whatever we want it to be. Each side understands it in a different sense and thus plays by different rules. The resulting chaos is tearing our nation apart.

Making Distinctions About Freedom 

In his excellent book, The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols, the Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko defines two classical types of freedom. These distinctions do much to explain our present plight both on the right and the left.

One category is negative and the other positive. The two are not necessarily contradictory and are generally complementary. However, when distorted and misunderstood, the two can cause conflicts like those we now see.

The Perils of Negative Freedom 

The first type is negative freedom. When thinking of freedom, most people think of negative freedom. It means the absence of coercion. By this freedom, no one stops us from doing what we want as long as we do not hurt others by our actions.

This is a legitimate freedom that involves the unrestrained exercise of the will. We enjoy this freedom because the human soul does not function well under coercion. We need space where we can act uninhibited.

However, we cannot have a society where total or absolute negative freedom rules. To live together in peace, we must give up some negative freedom by accepting restrictions. There must be rules to keep things peaceful.

However, modernity, especially individualism and liberalism, holds absolute negative freedom as an ideal. And that is where things start to go wrong. Many people come to think that freedom only means a regime of no limitations or restrictions, regardless of the consequences.

Negative freedom works well when we live lives of virtue. In a society of vice where people want bad things without restraint, it can be disastrous.

The Positive Value of Ordered Liberty

The second type of freedom is positive freedom, which Prof. Legutko defines as “a set of qualities and conditions needed to achieve important aims.”

Positive freedom assumes the development of character, talents and virtues that allow us to overcome obstacles so that we might be free to pursue higher goals. Thus, we might deny ourselves the negative freedom of excessive drinking so as to possess the positive freedom of driving without danger.

This definition was what people in ancient, medieval and pre-modern societies understood as freedom. They believed that individuals who did only what they wanted were not free but enslaved to their passions. To be truly free, people must suppress bad habits and addictions. They must pursue important goals with virtues, efforts and qualities that freed them from the slavery of gratification. They could thus find order, the common good and sanctification.

Thus, positive freedom had a stabilizing effect upon society and led to what the Founders often referred to as ordered liberty.

The Destruction of Freedom

With the destructive sexual revolution of the sixties, absolute negative freedom became the dominant paradigm adopted by both right and left. Those on the right falsely believe they can use absolute negative freedom to reach the ordered liberty always sought by conservatives. Meanwhile, the left is willing to bulldoze over everything to impose a regime of absolute negative freedom without taboos and moral restrictions.

Today, nobody talks about positive freedom that builds character and allows progress. Such a concept is portrayed as something hateful that restricts freedom and inhibits individuals. Everyone talks about negative freedom, even as it enslaves those who follow vice and addiction.

As a result, a confused notion of freedom leaves us with a polarized and fragmented society in which everything is allowed in the name of a concept that we can no longer define or classify.

Wrong Notions of Positive and Negative Freedom

Indeed, the confusion increases as each side now adopts wrong notions of positive and negative freedom as part of the strategy to dominate the other.

Conservatives are at a disadvantage. Because only negative freedom is discussed, conservatives ardently defend it as the only freedom needed, even while it destroys the excellent goal of ordered liberty. They need to think in terms of positive freedom.

Liberals reveal their real face. They now defend a pseudo-positive freedom, which they claim allows them to suppress conservative rights to reach their destructive goal of absolute negative freedom to do everything.

Returning Freedom to its Proper Place

A true solution to the problem requires returning each freedom to its proper place.

There is nothing wrong with negative freedom as long as we desire things that are good and virtuous. Then, there is no need for limitation or restraint.

However, absolute negative freedom must be opposed since it easily turns people into slaves of their passions. It can easily give rise to the tyranny that comes from the hatred of legitimate restraints.

Above all, we need a return to positive freedom. Then we might develop our talents, abilities and virtues to overcome the vices and defects that keep us from reaching our full potential.

The interplay of positive and negative freedom allows society to function harmoniously and with the least coercion.

The Moral Problem 

Freedom is only a means, not an end. It only works when people have a sense of right and wrong. It has meaning when we follow the first and most basic principle of the natural law written on the hearts of all: do good and avoid evil. Freedom involves moral acts and therefore presupposes natural law and Divine assistance. If we ignore this aspect, we will be delivered to our obsessions and manias.

As Edmund Burke noted: “Men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2021

Archbishop Viganò on 2021 Vatican Health Conference (full text)

by Dr Taylor Marshall

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From May 6-8, 2021, the fifth International Vatican Conference will take place, entitled “Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul. Unite to Prevent & Unite to Cure. A Global Health Care Initiative: How Innovation and Novel Delivery Systems Improve Human Health.” The event is being hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Cura Foundation, the Science and Faith Foundation, and Stem for Life.

Michael Haynes of LifeSiteNews has reported on the topics to be addressed and the participants, including the infamous Anthony Fauci, whose scandalous conflicts of interest did not prevent him from taking over the management of the pandemic in the United States; Chelsea Clinton, a follower of the Church of Satan and a staunch abortion advocate; the New Age guru Deepak Chopra; Dame Jane Goodall, environmentalist and chimpanzee expert; the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna; representatives of Big Tech; and a whole slew of abortionists, Malthusians, and globalists known to the general public. The conference has recruited five prominent journalists to be moderators, who are exclusively from left-wing media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, CBS and Forbes.

This Conference – along with the Council for Inclusive Capitalism of Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the Global Compact on Education, and the inter-religious Pantheon to be held in June in Astana, Kazakhstan – is the umpteenth scandalous confirmation of a disturbing departure of the current Hierarchy, and in particular its highest Roman members, from Catholic orthodoxy. The Holy See has deliberately renounced the supernatural mission of the Church, making itself the servant of the New World Order and Masonic globalism in an antichristic counter-magisterium. The same Roman Dicasteries, occupied by people ideologically aligned with Jorge Mario Bergoglioand protected and promoted by him, now continue unrestrained in their implacable work of demolishing Faith, Morals, ecclesiastical discipline, and monastic and religious life, in an effort as vain as it is unprecedented to transform the Bride of Christ into a philanthropic association enslaved to the Strong Powers. The result is the super-imposition over the true Church of a sect of heretical and depraved Modernists who are intent on legitimizing adultery, sodomy, abortion, euthanasia, idolatry, and any perversion of the intellect and will. The true Church is now eclipsed, denied and discredited by her very Pastors, betrayed even by the one who occupies the highest Throne.

The fact that the deep church has managed to elect its own member so as to carry out this infernal plan in agreement with the deep state is no longer a mere suspicion, but a phenomenon which it is now essential to ask questions about and shed light on. The submission of the Cathedra veritatis to the interests of the Masonic elite is manifesting itself in all its evidence, in the deafening silence of the Sacred Pastors and in the bewilderment of the People of God, who have been abandoned to themselves.

Further demonstration of this degenerate libido serviendi of the Vatican towards the globalist ideology is the choice of speakers to give testimonials and lectures: supporters of abortion, of the use of fetal material in research, of demographic decline, of the pan-sexual LGBT agenda, and last but not least, of the narrative of Covid and the so-called vaccines.Cardinal Ravasi, the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, is certainly one of the leading representatives of the deep church and Modernist progressivism, as well as an advocate of dialogue with the infamous Masonic sect and a promoter of the famous Courtyard of the Gentiles. It is therefore not surprising that included among the organizers of the event is the Stem for Life Foundation, which proudly defines itself as “a nonsectarian, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization focused on creating a movement to accelerate development of cell therapies.”

On closer inspection, the sectarianism and partisanship of the Vatican Conference are made evident by the topic it addresses, the conclusions it seeks to draw, its participants, and its sponsors. Even the image chosen to promote the Conference is extremely eloquent: a close-up of Michelangelo’s fresco of Creation on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, in which the hand of God the Father reaches out towards the hand of Adam, but with both hands covered by disposable surgical gloves, recalling the regulations of the new “health liturgy” and implying that even the Lord Himself might spread the virus.

In this sacrilegious representation, the order of Creation is subverted into therapeutic anti-creation, in which man saves himself and becomes the mad author of his own health “redemption.” Instead of the purifying laver of Baptism, the Covid religion proposes the vaccine, the bearer of disabilities and death, as the only means of salvation. Instead of Faith in the Revelation of God, we find superstition and the irrational assent to precepts that have nothing scientific about them, with rites and liturgies that mimic true Religion in a sacrilegious parody.

This choice of imagery has an aberrant and blasphemous ring to it, because it uses a well-known and evocative image to insinuate and promote a false and tendentious narrative that says that in the presence of a seasonal flu, whose virus has still not been isolated according to Koch’s postulates (here) and that can be effectively cured using existing treatments, it is necessary to administer vaccines that are admitted to be ineffective and that are still in the experimentation phase, with unknown side-effects, and whose producers have obtained a criminal shield of immunity for their distribution. The victims immolated on the altar of the health Moloch, from children dismembered in the third month of pregnancy in order to produce the gene serum to the thousands of people who have been killed or maimed, do not stop the infernal machine of Big Pharma, and it is to be feared that there will be a resurgence of the phenomenon over the next few months.

One wonders if Bergoglio’s zeal for the dissemination of the gene serum is not also motivated by base economic reasons, as compensation for the losses suffered by the Vatican and the Dioceses following the lockdown and the collapse of attendance by the faithful at Mass and the Sacraments. On the other hand, if Rome’s silence about the violation of human and religious rights in China has been paid for by the Beijing dictatorship with substantial prebends, nothing prevents the replication of this scheme on a large scale in exchange for the Vatican’s promotion of the vaccines.

The Conference will obviously take great care not to mention even indirectly the perennial teaching of the Magisterium on moral and doctrinal questions of the greatest importance. Conversely, the sycophantic praise of the worldly mentality and the prevailing ideology will be the only voice, along with the amorphous ecumenical repertoire inspired by the New Age.

I note that in 2003 the same Pontifical Council for Culture condemned yoga meditation and, more generally, New Age thought as being incompatible with the Catholic faith. According to the Vatican document, New Age thought “shares with a number of internationally influential groups the goal of superseding or transcending particular religions in order to create space for a universal religion which could unite humanity. Closely related to this is a very concerted effort on the part of many institutions to invent a Global Ethic, an ethical framework which would reflect the global nature of contemporary culture, economics and politics. Further, the politicization of ecological questions certainly colors the whole question of the Gaia hypothesis or worship of mother earth” (2.5). It goes without saying that the pagan ceremonies with which Saint Peter’s Basilica was profaned in honor of the pachamama idol fit perfectly into that “politicization of ecological questions” denounced by the 2003 Vatican document, and which today is instead promoted sine glossa by the so-called Bergoglian magisterium, beginning with Laudato Sì and Fratelli Tutti.

At La Salette, Our Lady warned us: “Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.” It will not be the Holy Church, indefectible by the promises of Christ, that will lose the Faith: it will be the sect that occupies the See of Most Blessed Peter and which today we see propagating the anti-gospel of the New World Order. It is no longer possible to remain silent, because today our silence would make us accomplices of the enemies of God and of the human race. Millions of faithful are disgusted by the countless scandals of the Pastors, by the betrayal of their mission, by the desertion of those who by Holy Orders are called to bear witness to the Holy Gospel and not to support the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist.

I beg my Brothers in the Episcopate, priests, religious, and in a particular way the faithful laity who see themselves being betrayed by the Hierarchy, to raise their voices so as to express with a spirit of true obedience to Our Lord, Head of the Mystical Body, a firm and courageous denunciation of this apostasy and its authors. I invite everyone to pray that the Divine Majesty may be moved to compassion and intervene in our aid. May the Most Holy Virgin, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata, intercede before the Throne of God, compensating with Her merits for the unworthiness of Her children who invoke Her with the glorious title of Auxilium Christianorum.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

20 April 2021

Feria Tertia infra Hebdomadam II

post Octavam Paschae

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A Word from the Lord at the Health and Freedom Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma--Friday, April 16th, 2021

And the spirit of the Lord says this day, fear not my children fear not. Have I not said and will I not do says the Lord for I am the Alpha and Omega, I am the beginning and the ending, I am the first and last, and I am He that liveth and died and behold my children, I am alive forevermore and I the Lord rule and reign on the throne, not the enemy. And the earth is my footstool and the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof says the spirit of the Lord. And the spirit of the Lord says rise up my children, rise up. Rise up in your faith take the word and the sword of the spirit put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles and schemings of the devil for the wickedness attempt to advance in this country, I the Lord see ahead. I the Lord see the end of the battle because the battle is already won. Vengeance is mine saith the Lord and I will raise up my children in this hour and I will pour out a double portion of my spirit on the remnant of this country, and my children shall speak with a greater boldness in this hour as you see things begin to turn, as my children cry out to me says the spirit of the Lord this day. As my children speak my word and faith, as they stand rooted in their faith knowing I can do exceedingly abundantly above anyone could ask or think because I am Ruach Elohim the spirit of the living God. I am the creator of all things I speak it, and it is, says the Lord, I am. And the great I am says this day, I am raising up soldiers and generals and those in business and those in the prophetic and those in the military and those in health to come together says the Lord into agreement for such a time as this for this will be unlike any other time says the Lord for the wicked thinks they think, they have a hold and I the Lord say this day I shall break that hold and I shall shake the wicked and I shall shake the ground that they're on and I shall shake their calves and I shall shake their buildings and I shall shake whatever can be shaken in this country because they are going to let this covenant nation go says the spirit of the Lord this day. This is not the enemies to take and this is not the wickets to rule this was a nation I created says the Lord to be a brother to Israel and to send forth the gospel into all the earth. And the spirit of the Lord says this day, as you my children press into me, I shall press into you, as you speak with a faith that you KNOW that I am that I am that you KNOW what I the Lord can do that nothing is too difficult for me. You are going to see first small shakings and cracks and pushes, you're going to see it begin as a tremor and you're going to see that tremor turn into a shaking that is going to move mountains in this country says the spirit of the Lord this day. For I am not done with the nation of the eagle. I am not done with the United States of America. I am not done with its purpose. I am not done with my people, and my people in this hour need to believe this, and they need to walk and step into their call because as I gather my people, as I gather my remnant, as I gather the faithful together, you are going to see them lead this battle with those at the forefront in this nation, you are going to see those I call back says the Lord, you are going to see those that are not done with their commission that I say the Lord shall I call back to finish their task, and I the Lord say this day to my children not only do I love you with an everlasting love but I am ever-present in an ever-present help in times of trouble, and you shall see that now more than ever in this nation and this today what my children are doing gathering and coming into agreement is going to help shake the chains of bondage in this country says the spirit of the Lord and they will break says the spirit of God this day, they will fall and they will crumble and I the Lord God shall have my way. Know it, believe it, walk in it, says the Lord in the precious name of Yeshua Jesus Christ amen and amen.

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Hobby Lobby, We may close

By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. 

When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn't much bigger than most people's living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God's word. From there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation's largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family. 

We're Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I've always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God's laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And that's what we've tried to d o. We close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week's biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God's grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We've not only added jobs in a weak economy, we've raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage. 

But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new government healthcare mandate says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance. Being Christians, we don't pay for drugs tha t might cause abortions, which means that we don't cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one. 

If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government fines. Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that's raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It's not right. I know people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it's the same for everybod y. 

But that's not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won't exempt them for reasons of religious belief. So, Hobby Lobby and my family are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don't like to go running into court, but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit. 

My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going to make that much more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that's a choice no American and no American business should have to make. 

The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of companies but will not exempt Christian organizations including the Catholic Church. 

Since you will not see this in the liberal media, please pass this on to all your contacts. 

Sincerely, 

David Green 

CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

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