First Bishops' Conference in the World to Call for Aberrosexual "Marriage"

Archbishop Stankevics of Riga: Latvia's Bishops' Conference is the first in the world to call for the legalization of "gay marriage".

(Riga) The Latvian Bishops' Conference managed to set a record. Under the leadership of Msgr. Zbignevs Stankevics, Archbishop of Riga, it was the first bishops' conference in a country to call for the introduction of "gay marriage".

This unusual demand is justified with the call to “put all ideologies aside”. For the bishops, this obviously also includes the Catholic faith, which is incompatible with such a demand.

"It's unbelievable, but tragically true," said the Catholic online newspaper Nuova Bussola Quotidiana have surged ahead of the Latvian bishops. On December 15th they called on the Latvian parliament to legalize “gay marriage” and also “wild marriages”, what the Church calls “irregular connections”. The archbishop said it openly at a hearing in parliament.

In November the Constitutional Court made a distinction between marriage and family, stating that “family” includes a variety of different relationships, while marriage only means a relationship between a man and a woman. That was the call to introduce "gay marriage". The bishops have now seconded.

Archbishop Stankevics justified the initiative that it was a matter of "uniting society, not dividing it", and referred to John XXIII, albeit without context. The archbishop seems to have misunderstood some things. The basis on which an agreement is reached cannot be arbitrary. It is not an end in itself. Unity is a consequence of the natural order, not its opposite.

The bishops would “not question the traditional understanding of family,” said the archbishop. However, they decouple the Christian understanding of the family from the legal system of the country.

Last October, Pope Francis caused irritation when he declared that he had supported the introduction of registered partnerships in Argentina in order to prevent the legalization of "gay marriage". The Latvian bishops have surpassed this record by calling for "gay marriage" to "unite" society.

How can the family, under fire from all sides, withstand when even the bishops become their enemies, hollowing them out and undermining them?

Archbishop Stankevics made the request at the parliamentary hearing, but the other bishops in the country immediately supported his request. The Latvian Bishops' Conference wrote a letter to President Egils Levits and Parliamentary President Inara Munriece, in which they defined the maintenance of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, but at the same time recommended the legalization of other forms of union.

Launched in 2003, the CDF published under the direction of the then Cardinal Prefect Joseph Ratzinger, "Considerations Regarding Proposals of Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons," seem to have remained unknown to the Latvian episcopate.

The homosexualization train rolls on.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi 
Picture: Igreja em Movimento (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Tired of the lies yet?

At least Holy Skojec doesn't make that much blogging

Pagan Monolith Torn Down in Salzburg

Edit: looks like Kapuzinerberg.

[Gloria.tv] Recently, unknown persons placed a monolith as a "symbol of hope" in the Lungau region of Salzburg, Austria.

Erecting monoliths is an esoteric trend coming from the USA that is now spreading to Europe. However, young people from Salzburg decided to testify that the Cross of Christ "is the only sign of hope".

They made a huge cross out of light wood with professional tools and brought it to the monolith. Then they dug out the black block and put the cross in its place.

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Ivor Cummins on Neglected COVID Truths

 

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COVID-19: A Virus of Disinformation

By David Martin 

With all the COVID-19 warnings being issued by the-radical left, we are witnessing a virus of disinformation that has all but deranged the public mindset and turned society into a political insane asylum. Deep-state socialists are simply using COVID-19 as a political tool to lock down on liberty and to launch their "Great Reset." 

There exists no pandemic and the near-nil COVID case and death numbers only prove this. The "surging" numbers of COVID cases are fabrications, no different than the fabricated reports that "Biden won the election." There are medical facilities that haven't seen a single COVID case in months, which matches an earlier CDC report that the total COVID-19 death toll in America is closer to 12,000, not 200,000 +. https://nbc-2.com/news/2020/08/31/cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths-in-u-s-had-contributing-conditions/  

Linked to Election Lies 

The media lies concerning COVID-19 coincide with their lies about the 2020 presidential election. In the same way that many of the votes for Trump were automatically flipped over to Biden by communist trained election workers and communist made "Dominion" voting machines, so many who simply have a cold, flu, or allergy are automatically listed as having COVID-19. There in fact are people who were never tested for COVID-19 who have been listed as having "tested positive." The system has been rigged to "diagnose" as many people as possible with COVID-19 so that the enemies of America can have an excuse to shackle us and advance their agenda. 

St. Paul speaks of "the operation of error to believe lying" that would bewitch society in the last times (2 Thessalonians 2:10) and it appears we are seeing the fulfillment of this. While the media is having a field day with fake COVID-19 numbers, people are operating out of fear and running about in a frenzy to get their COVID tests, which in turn is feeding this media delusion and turning society into a madhouse.     

Baptisms With Squirt Guns

And now we're hearing of churches in New York that are requiring that baptisms be done with squirt-guns while standing six-feet away from the baptized. What next, will priestly ordinations be done with robots imposing mechanical hands? https://www.core77.com/posts/99472/Industrial-Designer-Solves-Problem-of-Social-Distancing-Priests-Baptizing-Babies-with-Squirt-Guns 

The best cure for this sickness is to ignore the COVID fuss and go back to being normal. When America can finally drop the masks and distancing and ignore Socialists like Newsom, Cuomo, and Fauci, our cure will be complete. 

 

 

Funeral Mass for 640

Russia Fomenting the Growing Social Disorder in the West

By David Martin

In the wake of the race-riots that have imperiled the U.S., it has become evident that the forces of Communism are alive and active in our world. Clearly the George Floyd incident was orchestrated by deep-state socialists to frame America’s police and instigate nationwide riots.

None less than high-ranking state officials were used to try to set this red revolution in motion. Governor Jay Inslee’s call for an anarchist autonomous zone in Seattle was a classic Communist maneuver to try to bring down the government. Governor Newsom of California likewise showed his Leninist colors when he told rioters, “I want you to know that you matter. To those who want to express themselves [riotously]... Keep doing it. Your rage is real."

We indeed have witnessed deep-seated Communist activity operating at the highest levels of the government. There are even reports that Newsom paid the Chinese nearly $1 billion in tax-payer money to purchase munitions that are ¹ being stored at the Easy End Complex in Sacramento in preparation for the anticipated race-war that he and the Chinese have planned for this country. Communist China providing automatic weapons to Antifa and affiliates… some may even be stored in democrat-run government buildings –  

Revolutions are Planned 

The present unrest in America was planned. In his 1945 release, The Tactics of Communism, Archbishop Fulton Sheen cites Earl Browder, the then Vice-President of the International Communist Party as saying that Communism establishes itself by revolution that is made. "The revolution does not simply happen, it must be made." (Earl Browder, What is Communism)

According to Browder, it is not the working class (proletariat) but the Communist Party that makes the revolution. "The revolution is carried out by the great masses of toilers. The Communist Party as the vanguard of the most conscious toilers acts as their organizer and guide." (Ibid., p. 163.)

The revolution begins with riots and looting aimed at overthrowing institutionalized authority and police. "Revolution signifies the forceful invasion of the proletariat into the domain of property. The conquest of power by the proletariat is the violent overthrow of ... armies, [and] police." (p. 163.)

It is important to point out that the International Communist Party has its headquarters in Moscow from which it exerts its influence and control in the West. And while it is generally believed that Communism fell in the early 90s, the Communists have continued building their forces to this day. 

Communist Ruse 

Russia’s strategy is to conceal its plan for world domination under the guise of a power collapse, in keeping with Lenin’s strategy: "When you are strong, feign weakness." As they finalize their plan for world conquest they don’t want the world to suspect what they’re about to do (invade the west), so the bear has been playing dead while secretly building its strength against its archenemy the United States. 

Consider Mikhail Gorbachev’s famous speech to the Soviet Politburo in November 1987: 

"Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep. 

We want to accomplish three things: One, we want the Americans to withdraw conventional forces from Europe. Two, we want them to withdraw nuclear forces from Europe. Three, we want the Americans to stop proceeding with Strategic Defense Initiative." 

Acclaimed author Christopher C. Horner was on target when he said that "the Reds of yesterday are the Greens of today." Russia’s strength has never been more evident. If the world believes that Communism died, it only testifies to the power that Russia presently exerts over the western mind.  The beast of the Apocalypse [northern enemy] is staging this disappearing act in the anticipation of the greatest assault ever to befall the human race – World War III and the annihilation of billions! 

The Apocalypse 

This insidious ruse appears to be recorded in Holy Scripture. Apocalypse 17 speaks of the beast of the last days that "was, and is not," and then returns from the bottomless pit to “go into destruction” so that the deceived inhabitants of the earth "shall wonder, seeing the beast that was, and is not." (17:8) 

Communist Russia [U.S.S.R.] seemingly is the beast that "was, and is not." That is, it appears to not exist right now, but the red bear will soon re-emerge onto the world scene and go forward with her destructive plan so that the inhabitants of the earth indeed "shall wonder," seeing the reappearance of the superpower that everyone thought had collapsed. We are truly witnessing “the operation of error to believe lying” (2 Thess. 2:10) that would bewitch mankind in the last days.  

Russian Aggression Continues

Despite Russia’s cries of peace, their horns of aggression continue to surface. According to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Russia was behind a recent massive cyberattack on the U.S. government. “We can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity,” Pompeo said during an interview on the Mark Levin Show. https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/pompeo-blames-russia-for-us-cyber-attack-on-federal-agencies-private-companies.html     

This is not to mention that Russia today is continuing to interfere with the internal affairs of the NATO member states, while they conduct provocative military activities in NATO air and sea space, spread aggressive disinformation and propaganda campaigns against the West, and lead military attacks on Ukrainian forces and civilians. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/nato20-2020/ramp-up-on-russia/ 

If Russia is showing this kind of aggression toward the West after all they have alleged about the demise of Communism and the cessation of their anti-American aspirations, it indeed warrants concern.

Consecrate Russia 

The present world condition is a solemn reminder of the need to procure Russia's conversion through the consecration of Russia to the Immaclate Heart of Mary. Our Lady of Fatima warned that if Her requests for the consecration of Russia were not heeded, the errors of Russia would spread throughout the world fomenting revolution, war, and a major persecution of the Church. 

Unfortunately, Russia was not consecrated and consequently did not convert, and as such, is generating the present surge of terror activity in the West, though it executes much of this through its various pawns like Antifa, ² China, and the Democratic deep-state.

Moreover, it is Russia that has lured the West into today’s pacifist lifestyle of “rock-and-roll,” promiscuity, and LGBT living, in keeping with Lenin’s plan for starting revolution: “Corrupt the young: get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.” The past fifty years of spiritual revolution have paved the way for all-out revolution in our streets, so one day must be set aside in which the pope together with the world’s bishops officially entrust Russia to the Blessed Mother through the collegial consecration of Russia. The Consecration is needed to neutralize this diabolical force of Communist Russia that it might cease from its path of destruction and become an instrument to help spread the True Apostolic Faith. 

Without the Consecration of Russia the present surge of Communist activity will only continue. And while just laws and executive orders to guard America from deep-state activity can avail us some protection, Russia will continue to foment riots and social disorder as long as this belligerent nation isn't consecrated to the Immaclate Heart. 

At this pivotal point of history, it is important that people everywhere recite the daily Rosary as requested by Our Lady at Fatima, remembering especially Her intentions for the Consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, that peace may finally ensue.

1. The lack of photographic evidence is apparently due to the fact that the Easy End Complex is a high security area that doesn’t even allow cell phones, let alone cameras, thus making it an ideal hideout for a dastardly plan such as this. 

2. Now accused of interfering with the 2020 election to try to get socialist Biden into the Oval Office.  

 

 

 

  

Pope Francis: Let Us Dream of a New World Order

By David Martin

Pope Francis recently published a new book titled, Let us Dream: A Path to a Better Future, which is being touted “an inspiring and actionable blueprint for building a better world for all humanity” (Simon & Schuster). What is strange is that the book is void of the instructions for a better world given to us by Christ. There is nothing about doing penance (Mt 3:2) and obeying rules and commandments (John 14:15).

In his book, Francis talks about "creating something new", "our new principle", and "reimagining a new world." This immediately calls to mind the lyrics of John Lennon's anti-religious song "Imagine," in which he says, "Imagine there’s no Heaven ... and no religion too."

Sees COVID as a Launch into “Great Reset”

The pope indeed appears to be dreaming, as if he is saying a "new world" with a "new principle" is too good to be true, i.e. a dream. His book is all about emerging from the COVID crisis and arriving at a new plateau they call the “Great Reset” – a New World Order dreamed up by globalists in which man forgets his religious past and bows to the planetary idol of “mother earth.”  

Francis says:

“This is a moment to dream big, to rethink our priorities – what we value, what we want, what we seek…. God asks us to dare to create something new. We cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the crisis.”

Nowhere in Francis’ discourse is there anything about returning to morality or Catholic tradition but his whole thrust is to move on to “new ways.” And while he does advocate “sacrifice,” it’s not in the penitential sense but in the Reformationalist sense that we give up the former rule (tradition) with the understanding that it has failed us. He continually says that returning to former ways is a poor response to crisis.

“In a crisis there is always the temptation to retreat,” he says. “You can’t retreat, pull back into old ways and roles.” So doing a retreatful examination of conscience and being contrite for errant new ways [sin] is a temptation? This calls to mind how Martin Luther referred to contrition as “an abomination.”

Francis says that we shouldn’t allow the sufferings of COVID to go to waste but should look forward to how COVID can launch us into a new world.

“From this [COVID] crisis we can come out better or worse. We can slide backward or we can create something new. For now, what we need is the chance to change, to make space for the new thing we need.”

True Positive Approach

The pope indeed should not “slide backward” into the errant ways that brought COVID upon us.  The sufferings of COVID should be an occasion for him to reflect on how his public display and veneration of the Pachamama idol in the Vatican last year helped to spawn the COVID-19 crisis.

He needs to humbly admit that COVID is a punishment for his profanation of the Church and that his wished-for “new world” will be the ultimate punishment for having not recognized the punitive hand of God in the COVID crisis. He indeed should learn by this.

He furthermore should confess that our new progressivist church of today offends God and is bringing upon humanity a great chastisement in the form of enslavement under a new world government run by the global elite masters he colludes with. He needs to admit that COVID is not a pandemic but a political tool to shackle humanity and destroy our regard for the past. 

Francis: Obey Globalists

What is mind-boggling is that Pope Francis habitually bows to the U.N. globalists behind this “new world” ideology and in 2015 he went so far as to say that “There is urgent need of a true world political authority” (Laudato Si’). He later accentuated this point, saying:

“When we acknowledge international organizations and we recognize their capacity to give judgment, on a global scale – for example the international tribunal in The Hague, or the United Nations – If we consider ourselves humanity, when they make statements, our duty is to obey … We must obey international institutions. The is why the United Nations were created.” https://youtu.be/FBOeHudjqGM

Unfortunately, these U.N. globalists touted by Francis avidly promote abortion, LGBT rights, transgenderism, transhumanism, and BLM riots, and they slave for the internationalist octopus that now seeks to enslave the nations under a communistic one-world government – this “Great Reset” https://real-agenda.com/in-depth/the-bilderberg-group-origins-and-influence/ 

Why is Francis endorsing them? And what are we to think when he repeatedly invites U.N. population-control experts like Jeffrey Sachs and Ban Ki moon to lecture the Vatican concerning its “duty” to help make “mother-earth” a safer place through population-control (abortion)?

On Oct. 28, 2019, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences partnered with U.N. pro-abortion advocates to pledge fidelity to the antilife Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) championed by socialist rebels like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Jeffrey Sachs. According to Francis, “our duty is to obey” these agents who are "creating something new" and "reimagining a new world" with a “new principle.”    

Unfortunately, looking for “something new” or a “new principle” shows ingratitude and disrespect for the perfect rule given to us by God in the beginning. Our looking for “new ways” is what has alienated us from God and brought us to the brink of destruction.   

The positive response to COVID or any crisis is to reject dreams of a new world order and to “ask [God] for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk in it.” (Jeremias 6:16) For only a childlike submission to tradition can save us. 

It indeed is high time that the Catholic hierarchy take the ax to the “golden calf” of Vatican II and return to God and His Commandments, lest our carousing over new ways eventually leads us to the ‘annihilation of nations’ prophesied by Our Lady at Fatima.

 

 

 

Credibly Accused Aberrosexual Predator From Australia Attacks Trump

Edit: More evidence, if any were needed, that he's a bad actor. It's no secret that I think this man is a mountebank.  60 Minutes Australia.  Les Tyack's testimony was particularly damning and credible and coupled with the suicides and other accusations against Pell, I'm shocked that the stronger cases against Pell were not brought forward with the less credible one for which he was acquitted. 

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ former treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, praised President Donald Trump’s “splendid” Supreme Court appointments and defense of Christian values but questioned his effort to sow doubt in the integrity of the U.S. presidential election.

“It’s no small thing to weaken trust in great public institutions,” Pell told reporters Wednesday in launching his book, “Prison Journal,” about the 404 days he spent in solitary confinement before his sexual abuse conviction was overturned by Australia’s High Court. 

 In the book, Pell muses on his court case and current events in the Catholic Church and around the world, and at one point says Trump is unfortunately “a bit of a barbarian, but in some important ways, he is ‘our’ (Christian) barbarian.”

HT: Canon212

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Election Fraud & and the Illegitimacy Crisis.

Click HERE to listen

author of John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition: How the CIA's Doctrinal Warfare 

Changed to Catholic Church.  His website is:  The American Proposition.

Will Bergoglio Take the Vaccine Made From Children Murdered by Pfizer?

The Vatican plans to implement a vaccination plan in early 2021. Will Pope Francis also get vaccinated?

(Rome) The Vatican is currently preparing a vaccination plan against SARS-CoV-2. In the first few months of the coming year, the employees and residents of the Vatican State will be able to get vaccinated against the coronavirus - including Pope Francis. A corresponding agreement has already been made with a pharmaceutical company. Will Pope Francis, who actively supported the governments' Corona measures, also appear as a "role model" for vaccination?

The Covid-19 vaccine was "reserved" for Pope Francis and the residents and employees of the Papal States at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. The administration of the State of Vatican City issued a request to all concerned to get vaccinated. It was not just about protecting one's "own health", but also for the health "of other people," said the Governorate .

The new Director of Health and Hygiene of the Vatican State, Andrea Arcangeli, said that "only through general immunization of the population can real public health benefits be achieved". He therefore sees it as his task to offer all residents, employees and their families “the opportunity” to be vaccinated against this “dreaded disease”.

The Vatican has around 3,000 employees and 800 residents. Arcangeli confirmed that the necessary vaccine doses were reserved with Pfizer. This is the first vaccine, according to the Vatican health director, which has an effectiveness “of 95 percent”. And it is the only vaccine that is currently being approved by the relevant European and American authorities. Further vaccines could be introduced later, which would have to be tested for their effectiveness and safety.

But what does 95 percent effectiveness mean if 0.04 percent of the population in Austria is currently hospitalized at the height of the second corona wave (comparable figures for the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland are not available at the moment, but based on previous experience they should be in line with the same orders of magnitude). In the missing five percent effectiveness that Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna show, this value is 125 times greater than  0.04 percent. So what is the real relevance of the vaccine beyond interest-based self-promotion? Vaccinate healthy people while those at risk are still not protected? Alone the already known side effects (pregnant women, women wanting to have children, Allergy sufferers) affect a much larger population group than the 0.04 percent actually threatened by the coronavirus. Apart from the fact that, due to a lack of studies, not really anything is really known about side effects and consequential effects, because the strict approval criteria for the corona vaccine have been suspended, although this - according to Bill Gates, many governments and their paid experts - the general population should be vaccinated.   

Arcangeli stressed that minors are "currently" not vaccinated in the Vatican because there are "no studies" on this age group. As far as allergy sufferers are concerned, a medical examination is recommended before any form of vaccination, said Arcangeli. In his statement, the health director reiterated general guidelines that are also represented by other governments in Europe. However, it is not known where these uniform specifications come from. 

The US company Pfizer, its German partner BioNTech and the pharmaceutical company Moderna recently announced that their vaccine was 95 and 94.5 percent effective against Covid-19, respectively. The companies are awaiting approval of the vaccine from the US FDA. If approval takes place there, rapid approval is also expected in the EU, although the usual approval requirements are not guaranteed.

The Catholic Medical Association also took the position of the aforementioned pharmaceutical company on the vaxxines. Life rights groups expressed concern in mid-November that cells from aborted children would be used in the manufacture of the vaccine. The medical association did not confirm this assumption. While it was true that such cells were used in the animal testing phase of the vaccine, that was not the case for the manufacture of the vaccine developed.

The concerns of the pro-life movement were triggered by another pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, which developed in collaboration with Oxford University an anti-Covid-19 vaccine and used aborted children for cell lines. The Catholic doctors expressed the hope that AstraZeneca would also look for and find other ways to manufacture its vaccine.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Vatican News (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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E. Michael Jones joins Aleš Ernecl to discuss Bishop Stepinac, The Ustaše, Yugoslavia & Medjugorje.

Dreher Calls Trump and His Supporters Nazis

 

Edit: since October 12, 2006, Rod Dreher has been an apostate from the Catholic Church after leaving behind the evils of Methodism for the Catholic Church in 1993. (So he’s old enough to remember when Neocon Catholics were getting access to the Bush White House to promote wars for Israel that destroyed the Catholic Arab world.. Dreher would later do an about face on the forever war.) Dreher has found it profitable to write as a Catholic or as an Orthodox and be a sort of house Conservative. Wherever he goes there’s a lack of plain speaking and things don’t tend to add up. Sure, the left accuses him of being a white-nationalist, but he frequently tries to hijack issues and disparage the people with whom he claims to identify.  He’s just so much more in tune with you on issues like sodomites playing at being married. His vocabulary is up to date and modern, postmodern, even.  It's in his tone!

True to form, he’s attacking the people he says he’s aligned to, and accusing the right-wing supporters of Trump and Trump himself, of being Nazis. Oh Dear!

Where do grifters like the original Saint Blog’s Parish place, Holy Skojek, Slandering Thug Gordon, Taylor Marshall get the money to feature such slick, Catholic-appearing content, but then consistently martial these appearances to favor agendas hostile to their constituencies?  There seems to be a common sort of Nostra Aetate feeling about them. It’s almost like they want European civilization to destroy itself.

Now who would want that?

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Kung-Flu has made all libtards and dumb as Mark Shea

Do we have free elections?

Trump Tells Georgia Governor to Investigate Or Else

 

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Holy Steve Pontificates About the Election -- #NeverTrumper

 Edit: he was pretty much AWOL during the whole thing and now he chimes in.  Rather like his partner, Rod Dreher, he values apperances and perceived disapproval more than substance and winning.

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John Courtney Murray (bad dude)

Dave Wemhoff on Natural Law

Mike Peinovich on the National Justice Party

Mike Peinovich returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss the Presidential Election controversy, Lockdown politics and the ideas behind the National Justice Party. Mike is a founder of the National Justice Party, co-host of TDS - a program that is carried on the Right Stuff Network. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tkelly6785757/episodes/2020-12-08T05_21_38-08_00

Bergoglio Receives Transexual Prostitutes Arayed in Their Bawdy Getups -- Gives Them Money

Edit:  Does anyone think any of these catamites arrayed in their immodest outfits, as if for a triumphalisticn rainbow parade, have any intention to amend their lives? Did the sinful woman come to Christ proudly attired as a prostitute with no intention to reform her life? It looks like they're agitating for Globohomo to us.

[Gloria.tv] Francis supported again the about 30 male transvestite prostitutes” of Torvaianica, Rome, whom the Italian Francis media call coyly with the English term "sex workers."

Francis sent a Vatican ambulance to provide the prostitutes with free Covid-19 tests and free flu vaccinations.

This initiative was initiated by the local parish-priest, Father Andrea Conocchia who complained with the papal almoner, Cardinal Krajewski, that the prostitutes could "no longer work" and were living in fear because they didn't know whether the "few remaining customers" were healthy.

In August 2016, Francis wrote in a prologue of a book by Father Aldo Buonaiuto that prostitution is a "horrendous crime" and that "any form of prostitution is a reduction to slavery, a criminal act, a disgusting vice that confuses making love with venting out one's instincts."

In April 2020, Francis offered money to the Torvaianica prostitutes.