This comes highly recommended by Dr. Beep, who you will remember also alerted us to Dr. Kory and Ivermectin, which many of us have now acquired. His very last point is SPOT ON, and I had this explained to me in the context of my research on Diabolical Narcissism: people who have photographic memories and can memorize data with tremendous facility are today considered “geniuses” and even “super-geniuses”, but many of these people are actually functionally stupid because they cannot engage in any speculative thought. They can only repeat and regurgitate what they are TOLD, and they tend to attach themselves to dominant psychopaths to whom they have cultish loyalty. Gates, Fauci, Cuomo… these are all psychopaths with thralls of sycophants repeating and VIOLENTLY ENFORCING the wills of their masters.
There will be no negotiations or appeals to common sense or human decency. You can scream “What the **** is wrong with you??” at these things until you’re blue in the face. You’ll just die out of breath.
Here’s the quadrillion dollar question: will the effeminate masses even be able to summon the fortitude to shoot A MACHINE that is sent to kill them?
After watching the total and complete capitulation and surrender to the Coviet religion’s overthrow of the US and the entire post-Christian world, I’m not optimistic.
(Michael Linden knocks it out of the park in shooting down what the Remnant Faithful have understood all along – OF COURSE knowingly taking a “vaccine” derived from aborted babies, no matter how long ago the child was murdered, is morally illicit. Anyone who fancies themselves a “moral theologian” should humble themselves and receive Mr. Linden’s clear, easy to understand and thoroughly Catholic instruction. Note well, folks, how Mr. Linden applies exactly the concept we have been talking about in this space for YEARS: if your base premise is false, then all output from that false base premise can APPEAR to be true, and in formal logic those false corollary “truths”, and really the entire “if-then” consequence, are called “vacuous truths”. Funny how exactly the same issues just keep cropping up. You will want to watch this quick clip first….)
Archbishop Ladaria’s Lie
Michael Linden*
The recent Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) on the liceity of vaccines obtained from cell-lines derived from aborted fetuses is a masterpiece in deception.[1] The words of our Lord, “the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light” (Luke, 16:8), undoubtedly apply to some members of the Roman Curia. And it is not surprising to observe that some Catholic commentators have also fallen for Archbishop Ladaria’s lie.[2]
Mons. Ladaria’s CDF makes two arguments that are intertwined in order to maximize the deception: 1) the use of cell-lines from aborted fetuses is the lesser of two evils (the other evil being death from Sars-Cov-2) and 2) the use of cell-lines from aborted fetuses is a remote cooperation with the crime of abortion.
Mons. Ladaria’s deception consists in stating that he does “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”. His whole argument, however, rests also on the assumption that the data offered by the pharmaceutical companies are accurate and that the risk of death from Sars-Cov-2 is as high as the media is saying that it is.
De duobus malis eligendum est minus malum
Saint Thomas Aquinas states that you should always choose the lesser of two evils (cf. e.g. In IV Sent. d. 6, q. 1, a. 1, arg. 4) – a moral principle that is obviously correct. The application of the rule to the particular case under examination, however, requires the exercise of prudence (cf. Summa theol. II-II, q. 47, a. 3). Only prudent men and women can judge whether a particular action fits the general rule according to which the lesser of two evils should be chosen. Their decision has to take into account the concrete circumstances of the action. In other words, it is impossible to assert the liceity of a vaccine regardless of its proven efficacy and of the risk posed by the disease. If you make abstraction from the concrete circumstances concerning the efficacy of the vaccine or the danger of the disease, you could still state with the CDF that,
If vaccines developed from cell-lines derived from aborted fetuses are a lesser evil than becoming infected with Sars-Cov-2, then said vaccines are morally licit.
But in order to assert the truth of the conclusion (“these vaccines are morally licit”, as the CDF grants, cf. paragraph 3 of the Note), you would have to affirm the truth of the premise. The whole argument (i) is vacuously “true” if vaccines are not the lesser of two evil. It would be tantamount to state:
i*) if God does not exist/if Michael Linden is President Elect of the US/if Bergoglio is the pope, then vaccines developed from cell-lines derived from aborted fetuses are morally licit.
If the antecedent of the conditional is obviously false, the whole implication is “true”. But from the truth of the implication it is impossible to infer the truth of the consequent, as the CDF surreptitiously does. In classical logic, the definition of the propositional connective “if …. , then ….” if such that, if the antecedent is false, the whole conditional is “true” (logicians say it is “vacuously true”).
So, for any proposition A, B, the truth-value of the conditional “if A, then B” is the truth if “A” is false.
This is supposed to capture the meaning of the conditional connective “if… then…”. But from the truth of the conditional sentence “if A, then B”, you cannot infer that “B” is true, if you do not want to evaluate the truth of “A” – as the CDF allegedly does by refusing to take into account the actual efficacy of the vaccine or the risk posed by the disease. They purportedly ignore the truth-value of the antecedent (“A”), while inferring the truth of the consequent (“B”) from the truth of the consequence (“if A, then B”). In other words, they offer nothing but a sophism. It is probably useful to remind that it will be harder to trick the devil when he will come to ask for the soul of these sophists. (In Dante’s Comedy, a demon says to a soul whom he is taking to hell: “Forse/ tu non pensavi ch’io löico fossi!” “Perhaps/ you hadn’t thought that I was a logician” Inferno, 27.122-3).
In order to evaluate the possibility of applying the principle of the lesser evil to the case we are considering, we should establish a) how significant is the evil caused by the use of cell-lines from aborted fetuses and b) how significant is the evil caused by an infection from Sars-Cov-2.
It is probably pointless to remind the readers of Miss Barnhardt’s blog that this particular coronavirus is much less dangerous than what we are being told by the media. But even if it had a 100% mortality rate (which it doesn’t), moral theology would still see the active cooperation in a single abortion as the greater of the two evils, according to a principle clearly stated by Saint Alphonsus de Liguori in his Moralis Theologia:
Et etiam si mors matris esset moraliter certa, si non sumat remedium, nec etiam tunc auderem ei medicinam permittere, si aliqua rationabilis spes effulgeret, quod, mortua matre, proles superviveret et baptizari posset. Quia nemini licet, ob tuendam suam vitam temporalem, positive exponere proximum, in necessitate constitutum, periculo mortis aeternae (Lib. III, tr. IV, c. I, n. 394).
And even if the death of the mother were to be morally certain, if she were not to take a medicine [that will contextually cause the death of the fetus], I would still not dare to allow her to take the medicine, if there is some reasonable hope that, after the death of the mother, the child could survive and be baptized. For no one can positively expose their neighbour in need to the peril of eternal death in order to protect their own temporal life.
The reason is that we are not comparing the death of a limited number of children and the life of a possibly larger number of adults. We are comparing the deprivation of the possibility of eternal beatitude for a single human being with the possible longer life on this earth for a possibly large number of human beings.
For this reason, the CDF skillfully moves to a second argument.
2. Remote cooperation with evil
According to the CDF, “[t]he fundamental reason for considering the use of these vaccines morally licit is that the kind of cooperation in evil (passive material cooperation) in the procured abortion from which these cell lines originate is, on the part of those making use of the resulting vaccines, remote” (Note, paragraph 3). Some theologians have already argued that the CDF is wrong in maintaining that the cooperation is merely remote.[3]
But even if we were to accept that the cooperation is merely remote, and the evil under consideration is lesser than the evil of the actual crime of abortion, one could wonder whether such passive remote cooperation is a lesser evil than contracting a virus that has a more than 99% survival rate. If you take into account the particular circumstances, as Saint Thomas says that prudence dictates, one can hardly see how the vaccine could be morally permissible.
Note that we are not merely talking about material goods, even though the CDF seems not to mention anything but life on this earth as what needs to be preserved.The very talk about the liceity of (remote) cooperation with abortion is, in and of itself, a spiritual evil, because it is scandalous to state that passive cooperation with abortion might be a lesser evil than a mild infection.[4]
In other words, even if we were to NOT accept Fr. Ripperger’s claim that the cooperation with evil is not remote in the case of the vaccine (cf. n. 3), we would still have to apply prudence to establish whether a remote cooperation with one of the most abject crimes a human being can commit is a lesser evil than contracting a disease with over 99% survival rate. It is impossible to establish the liceity of the vaccine regardless of these considerations, despite the CDF’s claim that the note offers a moral assessment that makes abstraction from the concrete circumstances.
Conclusion
Behind the foggy statement of the CDF, it is not difficult to detect a very skillful lie.
But I dare say that not even Sir Humphrey Appleby would be able to get the concept across to a Jesuit working at the CDF these days.[5] (video clip above)
A final point. Faith tells us that nothing falls short of the order of Divine Providence. If we were to get infected with a mortal disease and the cure were to be immoral, wouldn’t we have to infer that God is calling us to leave this life? And if this were to be so, why would we want to oppose Him?
[4] An example will suffice. Stefano Montanari, a pharmacologist who has been on the forefront of the battle to denounce the lies of the coronavirus narrative in Italy, is scandalized by the ‘Catholic’ acceptance of the vaccines developed from aborted fetuses. https://www.stefanomontanari.net/invito-allinferno/ Imagine how many souls of non-Catholic good doctors, who are still fighting for truth, would be converted if the shepherds were actually doing their job.
Here is a tweet, still active, of an American Jesuit priest who is openly a sodomite, and has been promoted and sent to Rome to work in the Curia in the so-called “New Evangelization” dicastery, Fr. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ.
Ballecer took this picture from his airplane as he was landing in Rome a few days ago, returning from Christmas in the US, apparently.
Let me just say this bluntly so there is absolutely no confusion: Ballecer’s caption “Italy… I am inside you,” is 100% a pornographic reference to anal sodomy. His followers mostly thought this satanic blasphemy was deliciously funny, most especially because it came from a priest. Ballacer used the selfsame canonical digit or digits (thumb and index finger) to type those satanic words as he uses to hold the Host at the consecration of the Eucharist. And yes, Ballecer probably validly consecrates. Think about the infinitude of Our Lord’s love for the world that He obeys Ballecer’s call, and becomes physically, substantially present in Ballecer’s wretched, filthy hands at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. “For God so loved the world…” None of us can even begin to comprehend that simple phrase.
Rome is a bathhouse that makes San Francisco and Tel Aviv look respectable by comparison. Now you see why I have been talking for many years now about the justice and likely inevitability of Rome being physically destroyed.
Per Pope St. Pius V, this man Ballecer should be laicized and turned over to civil authorities on capital charges… were there any sane Christian government anywhere in the world to actually try him and execute him upon conviction.
After the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, there will be no more “Jesuit” order, and men like Ballecer will be totally purged from the priesthood, and some believe that they will be totally purged from the planet, as all sodomites were purged from the planet when Our Lord was born, pious tradition holds. Think about it. How could it possibly be said that Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart has TRIUMPHED if there are sodomites running around?
Every day is one day closer…
Like I said, Ballacer is an OPEN sodomite.
Evidently there is a significant group of people who have never heard of “apps” and appear to be angry that I helped @meganmorrone test one back in the day.
THIS is why sodomy and all forms of sexual perversion are CRIMES and must be criminalized under anti-obscenity codes after this war. Because once TOLERANCE creeps in, the slope is swift and steep to what is now happening: sodomites are demanding that morally sane people engage in sodomy with cross-dressers or else be cancelled as “haters”.
And make no mistake, the primary target of this will be children. as is clear by the imagery below. What is depicted is clearly a pre-pubescent child, presumably a boy with long hair dressed as a girl by his criminally insane diabolical mother.
Today was a strong earthquake in Croatia. 6.4. Yesterday was earthquake 5.0 strong. Yesterday was Massacre of the Innocent. Croatia is predominately Catholic country but lately with the Covid-19 there have been measures similar to those in other countries.
We are in 2nd lock down currently. When there was a 1st lock down in March, there was also strong earthquake in capital Zagreb: 5.5.
Now, you have said that either war or God intervention can change the situation and this is exactly what has happened today. They said that we are not in lock down anymore from tommorow and can travel around country as we wish.
The Lord is a master of history and Heaven and Earth and not earthly powers.
Over the transom, yet another confirmation that the Coviet political religion is a fusion of Freemasonry with islam. Let it also be VERY WELL NOTED that this musloid abrogation trick is EXACTLY PRECISELY the game that Antipope Bergoglio is playing. “Oh I’m not changing anything, I’m just substituting it with something better….” They all use the same playbook – Coviets, musloids, Antichurch – because they are all on THE SAME TEAM under lucifer.
Hi Ann,
Did you notice that just prior to the sweeping mask mandates going into effect, a number of high-profile figures came out and very publicly ridiculed the idea of compulsory face coverings? Fauci, Michael Osterholm, Surgeon General Adams, and several others all rightly went on national television and popular podcasts to mock (and literally laugh at) the idea of using porous cloth and paper masks to defend against particulate matter measured in nanometers.
Of course you noticed. We all did. But what does it mean?
“In Islamic legal exegesis, naskh is a theory developed to resolve contradictory rulings of Islamic revelation by superseding or canceling the earlier revelation.”
Sound familiar? This doctrine can also be applied to Fauci’s evolving “scientific revelations” on PCR cycle count thresholds, “two weeks to flatten the curve”, Italy’s 10% CFR in March, and any number of other data points that have been used to justify totalitarian heath & safety measures. Essentially, yesterday’s science has no bearing on today’s science, and today’s science will have no bearing on tomorrow’s science. In the religion of scientism, only the *now* counts. And, while the science may evolve, the solutions passed down by the infallible elites never do. Those are fixed and unchanging, no matter what the science may say.
No one with even the slightest capacity for critical thinking, and a functioning hippocampus can possibly truly believe any of this. You have to want to believe in it… And to get there, you have to possess a burning hatred for your fellow man (which probably stems from extreme self-loathing, but mass psychoanalysis is way outside my pay grade).
The level of diabolical disorientation we’re witnessing is unfathomable. If you’ve ever wondered how billions of souls could ever fall for something as irrational and anti-human as mohammedanism, now you know.
Have a blessed and Merry Christmas.
C
“They say, ‘Thou art a forger,’ but most of them understand not.”
I just thought you’d like a boots on the ground report to shed some light on the “hospitals are overwhelmed” COVID-hysteria.
I have spoken to several colleagues throughout the US who work in healthcare. Their stories are very similar with minor variations:
First, hospitals in Syracuse, NY are indeed short on inpatient beds, but their bed shortages are not due to new COVID cases. Rather, they are due to nursing home patients who are being refused re-admission to the nursing homes after their hospital stay.
Second, some New England residents are traveling as far as Florida for elective surgery. A Boston physician reports that hospitals there, averaging only about a 10% occupancy due to COVID, are cancelling operations at the request of the governor.
Third, a colleague in Pittsburgh and one in Chicago both report their large tertiary care hospitals have only about 10% of their beds taken up with COVID patients. I’ve heard the magical 10% number is pretty much the national average.
There is large-scale fibbing go on here, but you already knew that.
