The district attorney of Norfolk County, Massachusetts has found solid, credible evidence of sexual abuse by Theodore McCarrick, the once-chief power broker of the U.S. Catholic Church who is also the highest-ranking Catholic prelate ever to be charged for sex abuse.
Theodore McCarrick and young James Grein
Today he comes one step closer to accountability for his crimes — but sadly, just one. And there are many victims. McCarrick used his power to abuse not just those he molested, but those who love them.
One victim, John Doe, explains, "My whole family was abused by him."
I understand what that means.
Sexual predators often seduce their victims by earning someone else's trust first: family or friends who are slyly befriended. This is clearly illustrated in a recent case in Louisiana, in which family members still anguish over a sexual crime against a loved one in which they too were victimized.
The case in court today is the first time in the United States a cardinal has ever been criminally charged with a sex crime against a minor. I watch this case with interest not just because of my own pain or because of its significance in holding the hierarchy accountable, but also because I know it will also be watched by many victims who have yet to come forward. How will it impact them?
In the states of Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, the statute of limitations for sexual abuse — meaning the window of time in which victims can legally bring action against a perpetrator — never expires. While McCarrick never resided in these states, he did travel to Massachusetts, where he repeatedly abused me, resulting in the criminal charge he now faces.
All of this is happening today because of Jesus Christ. He is leading this charge and I am His voice. As a great man once said to me, 'God is never late.'GabTweet
If McCarrick — or anyone else — abused you in one of these states, you still have time to file charges that can bring your abuser to justice. Incidents of abuse can be directed to the office of the attorney general in your state.
This will be the most important call of your life, but it's one that must be made in order for justice to be served and to heal not just you but the millions of souls across the world — including their betrayed family and friends — who still suffer.
James Grein addresses the "Silence Stops Now" rally
This very instant marks a great opportunity for the world to see Theodore Edgar McCarrick as the predator he is. But it's also a time for the uncounted victims to seek justice for themselves and those they love.
All of this is happening today because of Jesus Christ. He is leading this charge and I am His voice. As a great man once said to me, "God is never late."
For me, the last three years have been a daily devotion to Jesus Christ. I feel the strongest while in prayer with Him. There have been days when I have strayed from Him, but my return is quick and effortless. Daily, I feel the love and care of millions of prayers spoken by wonderful, God-loving people around the world.
I want to share that love, that strength, with all of you who are still hurting but silent. I pray you will take action.
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Images of aborted children are devastating to the abortion industry's deceptive narrative. Armed with this knowledge, one pro-life champion in Louisiana took it a step further, buying an actual abortuary and converting it into a memorial. Church Militant's William Mahoney recently toured that facility.
The National American Holocaust Memorial stands in the capital of the Pelican State.
Richard Mahoney: "People actually come here still, thinking it's an abortion clinic."
Richard Mahoney is the owner and operator of the memorial, which was once the Delta Women's Clinic, an abortuary where nearly 30,000 babies were butchered from 1986 to 1994. The building was then purchased and transformed into a memorial, education center and lifeline for pregnant mothers and the children they're carrying.
Visitors tour the rooms where abortionists once practiced their bloodstained craft.
Mahoney:
In this particular death camp, they didn't throw the babies in the dumpster. They ground them up in a garbage disposal. And you'll see the pipes with the dried blood. When we first got in here, the blood was just soaked through the floor there, and because of the gravity, it just flowed this way.
Almost 20 years later, the floor is permanently stained with the blood from abortions.
Resting on the countertops are instruments once used to dismember living human beings, everything from sopher clamps to curettes, the latter being the same instrument used to scrape away skin cancer. On the floor sits an aspiration machine that was used on children in the earlier weeks and months of development, as their developing tissue breaks apart easily under the vacuum's suction.
Outside, Mahoney shows some more features of the memorial.
Mahoney:
Many people have come to me — those who've had abortions, those who've come from Rachel retreats, Cana retreats, those who found with the murdered babies the names in the dumpsters at the death camps. All these people have asked, "How can we commemorate our baby? How can we remember our baby because we didn't bury our baby?" ... After we fill this up with 60 names, we're going to build a 60-foot-wide, 8-foot-tall wall, which should hold tens of thousands of names of innocent babies.
The former human slaughterhouse is located on Bennington Avenue, down the street from bars and a prominent strip club next to an EconoLodge hotel.
The memorial is dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, an obvious choice for a patroness, as the founder of Human Life International, Fr. Paul Marx, once wrote, "In this apparition alone does she appear to us as clearly the patroness of the unborn, in the manner of a pregnant mother."
Mahoney explained that, after a long and painful battle, God, through the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, closed the doors to Delta Women's Clinic. He reopened them to show the world the horror of killing His children.
To learn more about the memorial and for a wealth of information, visit the website at CPForLife.org/memorial.
Pfizer spends more than any other drug company on lobbying
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Vaccine giant Pfizer pumped millions of dollars into the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Congress, potentially influencing the authorization and controversial quasi-approval of its COVID-19 jab.
Pfizer has been the biggest tax dodger of all Big Pharma firms
The vaccine oligarch spent over $21.8 million in 2019–20 and $6.7 million from January–August 2021 on lobbying the government, making it the biggest spender of any individual drug company during the COVID-19 crisis, according to Senate Office of Public Records data.
In a blatant conflict of interest, the FDA gets 45% ($2.7 billion) of its funding from drug companies, called "industry user fees." What’s more, "human drugs regulatory activities" — lobbying — accounts for one-third (33%) of the FDA’s budget, with 65% of this paid for by the regulated companies. All told, more than three-quarters (78%) of the drug industry regulator's budget is bankrolled by the drug-makers it claims to regulate, rendering it what many observers call a "captured" (financially compromised) agency.
"As pharma companies underwrite three-fourths of the FDA's budget for scientific reviews, the agency is increasingly fast-tracking expensive drugs with significant side effects and unproven health benefits," ProPublica media noted.
Thirty scientists, clinicians and patient advocates signatories petitioned the FDA in June to "delay any consideration of a 'full approval' of a COVID-19 vaccine," urging the regulator to "slow down and get the science right" as "there is no legitimate reason to hurry."
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The Conversation observed that because so much of the FDA's funding comes from drug-makers, the agency essentially tells its regulated companies how to apply for new drug approvals, greasing the skids for the approval process instead of leaving onus on the drug-makers to pass muster.
The FDA's financial entanglement with Big Pharma, it claims, makes the agency "quicker and more willing to discuss what it wants to see in an application with manufacturers."
"Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the FDA provide emergency use authorization for potential treatments in a matter of weeks, not months," the pro-vaccine magazine noted.
According to available figures, pharma companies paid 75% ($905 million) of the FDA's scientific review budgets for branded and generic drugs in 2017.
"What we are seeing is a clear example of regulatory capture, which is a phenomenon that is at the heart of much of the evil at work in the world at present," Dr. Pat Morrisey told Church Militant. "Regulatory capture has compromised so much of public life that people seem unable to perceive the corrupting effect of it."
Church Militant's Rome Correspondent raises concerns regarding the vaccine at a Vatican press conference
"Another blatant example is Bill Gates' funding of the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom," the sister organization to the FDA, the Irish Catholic doctor added.
In 1992, Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, moving the FDA from a fully taxpayer-funded body to one partly funded through prescription drug user fees paid by pharma manufacturers who pay the fees when applying to the FDA for drug reviews.
FDA in bed with Big Pharma with no regard for patient safety
British medical ethicist Dr. Niall McCrae told Church Militant:
As a National Health Service (NHS) ethics research committee member for 11 years, I find it difficult to believe how established standards of ethical governance have been abandoned. But I have also woken up to the facade of compliance and unscrupulous practice that predates the COVID-19 scam.
It is now clear that drug companies such as Pfizer, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have been funding the regulatory authorities and ensuring the best commercial conditions for their global greed. Conflict of interest are not a barrier to Big Pharma; they are the modus operandi.
Covert Political Influence
Central to Big Pharma's profit-making is shaping politics.
A groundbreaking 2020 investigation by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed that pharma companies spent $4.7 billion between 1999 and 2018 — an average of $233 million per year — lobbying federal agencies and Congress.
From 1999 to 2018, the industry also spent $414 million on contributions to political candidates, including $22 million to presidential candidates and $214 million to congressional candidates — in all, over $1.3 billion on political campaign contributions.
Pfizer was the biggest corporate spender over the period, with the vaccine oligarch accounting for $219 million in lobbying (93% of the industry total) and $23 million in campaign contributions (around 10% of the industry's giving to politicians).
A 2020 Oxfam report slammed Pfizer for failing to disclose how much it spent on lobbying states or trade unions.
The report elaborated:
And Pfizer does not disclose its membership in tax-exempt organizations that write and endorse model legislation, such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Pfizer is also a major contributor to politically active social welfare organizations, yet the full list, disclosure about the amounts, and about possible misalignments, is lacking.
Transparency about drug-makers' and the federal regulators' interests in pushing vaccines to market is also woefully missing, Oxfam warned, saying, "similar misalignment" in their COVID-19 response "is apparent."
Dodging Taxes, Subverting Democracy
A 2018 Oxfam report titled "Prescription for Poverty" blasted Pfizer for "systematically" stashing its profits in overseas tax havens. Pfizer's $199 billion held offshore was the second most of any U.S. corporation.
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In seven Third World countries alone, Pfizer may have underpaid $22 million annually in taxes. Oxfam listed the developing countries as Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, India, Pakistan, Peru, and Thailand. In First World nations, Pfizer may have underpaid taxes by $1.1 billion.
"Perhaps even more galling than these corporations' sophisticated tax avoidance is their subversion of democratic politics," Oxfam pointed out. "They are also adept at placing their own people in powerful government posts."
Corrupting influence of Big Pharma lobbying
Pfizer and Big Pharma systematically engage in "tax dodging, high prices and influence peddling," victimizing the most vulnerable while they "funnel superprofits from people living in poverty to wealthy shareholders and corporate executives," Oxfam's report lamented.
Despite Pfizer's dubious ethics — having been fined $2.3 billion in 2009 for what was then the largest health care fraud settlement ever — the Vatican invited Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla to address its May conference "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul." Vaccine start-up Moderna was one of the funders of the conference.
Pope Francis: Big Pharma Sellout
Pope Francis has repeatedly endorsed the Pfizer vaccine, receiving it himself without addressing the systemic injustices perpetrated by the pharma oligarch.
Francis' Jesuit communities — at the forefront of social justice campaigns — have remained silent on Pfizer's crony capitalism, on the contrary, compelling community members, employees, faculty and students of Jesuit-run institutions to get the jab.
Dr. Niall McCrae reminded Church Militant how "Pope Francis and the Jesuits have always shouted from the rooftops about social justice" with "the Argentinian pontiff displaying sympathies for the Liberation Theology that swept across Latin America in the 1970s."
What we are seeing is a clear example of regulatory capture, which is a phenomenon that is at the heart of much of the evil at work in the world at present.GabTweet
"Pope Francis would proudly describe himself as progressive, but the globalist COVID coup shows that progress is not helping the poor but creating a master class that will deny basic liberties, enrich a pharmaceutical oligarchy and suppress Christian worship," McCrae noted.
"Can't Pope Francis see this dystopian prospect?" the ethicist asked.
Ironically, Pope Francis has condemned "tax havens for private and corporate profits" but failed to name the overwhelming role of Big Pharma in the racket.
Pope Francis remains silent on Big Pharma's injustices
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in a note on the morality of the abortion-tainted vaccines, urged "a moral imperative for the pharmaceutical industry" to ensure that vaccines are effective, safe, ethically acceptable and accessible to the poorest countries.
However, despite an increasingly close relationship with Big Pharma, the Vatican remains tight-lipped on the systemic unethical practices of the vaccine industry and its close relationship with health regulators and government.
Big Profits, Little Transparency
Pfizer expects to generate $33.5 billion in vaccine sales in 2021. It profited to the tune of $9.2 billion in vaccine sales in the second quarter of 2021 alone, compared to $1.2 billion during the same period last year.
Church Militant earlier reported on how pharmaceutical oligarchs pushing COVID-19 vaccines had disclosed only 7% of contracts with governments and published clinical trial protocols for just 12% of trials.
The FDA has a history of approving unsafe drugs. In 2005, whistleblower Dr. David J. Graham, associate director of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, revealed the "FDA is inherently biased in favor of the pharmaceutical industry" and views Big Pharma as "its client, whose interests it must represent and advance," Church Militant reported.
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