Monday, April 26, 2021

Conflict of interests: Mormons, Moderna Fund Bergoglio’s Health Gig

Francis schmoozes doctrinally white-supremacist, pro-polygamy cult

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - A $100-billion cult rooted in white supremacy and an experimental vaccine manufacturer with financial links to pro-abortionist Bill Gates are among the controversial sponsors of the Vatican's forthcoming summit on global health.

Mormon leaders give Francis a statue of the Mormon Jesus

Mormon elder William King Jackson and Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel will address the Pontifical Council for Culture's conference on "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul" from May 6–8. The conference will also host abortion advocate Chelsea Clinton and New Age guru Deepak Chopra.

The Vatican invitation to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints follows Pope Francis' unprecedented 33-minute meeting with Mormon president Russell M. Nelson in 2019 when the cult dedicated its new temple in Rome, not far from the Vatican.

Receiving Moderna sponsorship and hosting Bancel is also raising questions about Francis' conflict of interest in pushing the jab — especially after some vaccine oligarchs (including Bancel and Moderna's co-founder Noubar Afeyan) became billionaires profiting from the COVID-19 crisis.

The health summit has already triggered a firestorm of criticism for parading a gallery of the mostly Western, elite, globalist, super-rich speakers in the name of "global health." The Vatican is facing mounting calls to cancel the conference.

Pope Francis' Cognitive Dissonance

"It causes some cognitive dissonance to see Pope Francis rubbing elbows with billionaire oligarchs, population controllers and social engineers, given all his prattle about the poor," academic Dr. John Zmirak told Church Militant. "But, in fact, we're just glimpsing the other side of the papal coin."

"If globalist utopians are going to run the world, they can't face billions of free citizens with sovereign votes and disposable income," Zmirak remarked, as conference organizer Robin Smith earlier boasted that the Vatican gabfest was "like Davos, but for health care."

It causes some cognitive dissonance to see Pope Francis rubbing elbows with billionaire oligarchs, population controllers, and social engineers, given all his prattle about the poor.Gab Tweet

"No, you need billions of beaten-down, reeducated, disarmed proletarians living from paycheck to paycheck. People so terrified by an ordinary virus that they'll toss away their liberties with both hands, gladly, in return for the promise of 'safety,'" Zmirak said.

Zmirak's reference to the pontiff's "cognitive dissonance" also covers the contradictions between Mormon and Christian doctrine and more recent controversies over the cult's adherence to religious texts preaching white supremacy.

Catholic Church Rejects Mormon Baptism

In a 2001 statement, the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog rejected the validity of baptism conferred in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, changing "the past practice of not questioning the validity of such baptism."

Even though "non-Catholics can validly administer baptism," the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) rejected Mormon baptism because, according to Mormons, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are "three gods who form one divinity."

The differences are so great that one cannot even consider that this doctrine is a heresy which emerged out of a false understanding of the Christian doctrine.Gab Tweet

In Mormon doctrine, God the Father has a wife, the Heavenly Mother, and they procreate sons — of whom the firstborn is Jesus Christ, equal to all men, who acquired his divinity in a pre-mortal existence. Even the Holy Spirit, according to Mormons, is the son of heavenly parents. Four gods are directly responsible for the universe, the CDF explained.

"The differences are so great that one cannot even consider that this doctrine is a heresy which emerged out of a false understanding of the Christian doctrine," the CDF declared.

The recently built Mormon temple in Rome

Racism in Mormon Scriptures

Mormonism, which renounced polygamy in practice but not in doctrine, has yet to explicitly reject doctrinal racism in its religious texts, even though the Mormon hierarchy issued a statement in February 2012 rejecting all racism during Mormon Mitt Romney's campaign for the U.S. presidency.

"Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse," the statement said, after a 1978 "revelation" to Mormon president Spencer W. Kimball removed restrictions on ordaining black people to the priesthood.

But scholars have observed that "these statements appear more as responses to crises than as significant changes in practice" and coincide with the Mormon cult's extension of its proselytism to Africa.

The Book of Mormon explicitly states that God cursed the Lamanites with a dark skin for their wickedness: "Wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, therefore the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." The Book of Abraham also contains similarly racist texts.

"A clear theological challenge for the LDS Church is that a genuine repudiation of racism would raise fundamental questions about the historical validity of scriptural texts, both in their means of production and message," scholars maintain.

Mormons Back Experimental Vaccines

A 2020 whistleblower exposé with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that the cult's investment fund, Ensign Peak Advisors, had stockpiled $100 billion. Notably, there are pending allegations of improper use of some of the funds — allegations denied by Mormon officials.

A clear theological challenge for the LDS Church is that a genuine repudiation of racism would raise fundamental questions about the historical validity of scriptural texts.Gab Tweet

Attention has been drawn to the Mormon support for the COVID-19 vaccine, with Vaticanist Edward Pentin exposing the Vatican's health conference as a vaccine-advocacy vehicle to combat COVID-19 "vaccine hesitancy" and "provide a platform for promoting vaccines" produced by "Big Pharma."

In January 2021, eight senior Mormon leaders (including president Russell M. Nelson) and most of their wives received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Salt Lake City, Utah, issuing a statement in support of the experimental shot.

Controversial Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel

Last month, the Mormon cult updated its handbook, encouraging members to "safeguard themselves, their children and their communities through vaccination."

Moderna's Dodgy Dealings

The Vatican's invitation to vaccine oligarch Stéphane Bancel is also coming under the spotlight after revelations that Moderna Therapeutics received an initial $20 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2016, before the COVID crisis — with a total commitment of $100 million in funding toward mRNA-based treatments.

Bancel sold nearly $2 million of his stock ahead of Moderna's emergency-use vaccine filing, according to filings registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is now worth $3 billion.

The vaccine oligarch's "stock sale was carried out through a routine Rule 10b5-1, a predetermined trading plan that allows company executives to sell shares at set times without facing insider trading accusations," a Business Insider investigation revealed.

If globalist utopians are going to run the world, they can't face billions of free citizens with sovereign votes and disposable income.Gab Tweet

According to the report, "Through the safe-harbor 10b5-1 trading plan, Bancel and other insiders have been offloading their shares throughout the pandemic."

In March 2020, Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan, whom Forbes estimates to have a net worth of $2.3 billion, sold more than $1.5 billion in shares, cashing in on the Wuhan virus crisis.

Moderna Therapeutics, valued at over $5 billion, is estimated to be the United States' most valuable private biotech company, with a number of top executives raking in billions in sales of Moderna shares.

Mormon Proselytism

Meanwhile, earlier in April, the Mormons, who are well-known for their aggressive door-to-door proselytism, announced the construction of 20 more temples around the world — including in traditionally Catholic countries like Belgium, Austria, Brazil, Columbia and Mexico.

Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned proselytism as "solemn nonsense" and "the strongest poison against the ecumenical path."

Church Militant contacted the Pontifical Council for Culture a second time asking why the Vatican was inviting speakers and accepting sponsorship from bodies who were likely to be a source of scandal. We received no response on both occasions.

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Prayer to St. Michael

Please protect us, St. Michael the Archangel, against violence, murder, and robbery. In your goodness preserve us today from all the malice of sinful and wicked persons. In your sleepless vigilance watch over the safety and welfare of our homes, and keep guard over our possessions. Ever hold in your special care, most triumphant St. Michael, the forces of public order against the crimes of evil people, and defend all honest citizens in time of peril. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Novena Prayer to St. Michael

(Pray for nine consecutive days)
Saint Michael the Archangel, loyal champion of God and His Catholic people, I turn to thee with confidence and seek thy powerful intercession. For the love of God, Who hast made thee so glorious in grace and power, and for the love of the Mother of Jesus, the Queen of the Angels, be pleased to hear my prayer.
Thou knowest the value of my soul in the eyes of God. May no stain of evil ever disfigure its beauty. Help me to conquer the evil spirit who tempts me. I desire to imitate thy loyalty to God and Holy Mother Church and thy great love for God and men. And since thou art God’s messenger for the care of His people, I entrust to thee this special request: (here mention your request).
Saint Michael, since thou art, by the will of the Creator, the powerful intercessor of Christians, I have great confidence in thy prayers. I earnestly trust that if it is God’s holy will, my petition will be granted.
Pray for me, Saint Michael, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through thy powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death and reach Heaven where we may praise and love God with thee forever. Amen.
Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory Be.
St. Michael, Guardian of souls, Vanquisher of rebel spirits, Pray for us.

St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

“If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say, do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or night, so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.” -Saint Anselm, Father and Doctor of the Church

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH, THE PROTECTOR OF CHRISTIAN FAMILIES Great Saint Joseph, who wast chosen of God to be the head of the holiest and most august of families, deign to cast thy eyes upon us, and take us this day under thy special protection. Holy Patriarch, model of the holiest faith, and of the most perfect virtues, obtain for all the members of this family grace to withstand the dangers and seductions of the world, and to remain stedfastly attached to the LORD. Obtain for us that, always united by the bonds of the most tender charity, and encouraging one another mutually in good works, we may taste under thy auspices the sweetness of that peace which JESUS has promised to His true disciples. But above all, when our last hour shall come, obtain for us that we may find grace before the Sovereign Judge, so that, reunited in heaven at the foot of Thy Throne, we may celebrate everlastingly the glory of GOD and thy praise. Amen.

St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)