Catholic Church

By Edward Pentin, December 12, 2020 - What else can a vaccine derived from foetal cell lines be other than a violation of the God-given Order of Creation? For it is based on a serious violation of this Order through the murder of an unborn child. Had this child not been denied the right to life, had his cells (which have been further cultivated several times in the lab) not been made available for the production of a vaccine, they could not be marketed. We therefore have here a double violation of God’s holy Order: on the one hand, through the abortion itself, and on the other hand, through the heinous business of trafficking and marketing the remains of aborted children. Yet, this double disregard for the divine Order of Creation can never be justified, not even on the grounds of preserving the health of a person or society through such vaccines.

By Bishop James Conley, Southern Nebraska Register - The entire world is waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine to end the pandemic... We long to get back to our normal way of life... We need to stop living in fear. We need the strife and tension that has arisen between people due to this pandemic to end... When we really engage and practice Ignatius’ discernment of spirits, the Lord blesses us with a greater trust in him, as we learn to abandon ourselves to his divine providence. We learn to seek serenity and peace even amidst the external problems of the world or internal desolation within us.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - At the center of this reading is St. John the Baptist and the setting forth of his role by Jesus. The first difficulty in the text is most easily overcome, namely that Jesus seems to offer faint praise for John the Baptist. On the one hand he says no one born of woman was greater than John. But then, he indicates that the least born into the Kingdom is greater than John. There are several explanations that can be taken together to explain this remark.

By Pete Baklinski, LifeSiteNews - Rights and freedoms have been crushed. Churches have been closed. Worshiping God in public has been banned. Many have lost their jobs. Lockdowns are destroying businesses. Economies are in shambles. People walk around in masks with fear in their eyes. Fear is everywhere. Most are controlled by it. Many have come to the point mentally and emotionally where they are willing to do almost anything to secure their safety, to live in peace and freedom once again, to go back to the way things were just one short year ago.