Vatican Health Gig Gets Contraception Cash

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Vatican Health Gig Gets Contraception Cash

With Bergoglio's support, the Vatican is in the hands of the contraception industry

Bergoglio's actions that favor abortion and contraception speak louder than his words

by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • May 3, 2021

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VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The John Templeton Foundation, committed to promoting contraception in partnership with faith-based organizations, is pumping $750,000 into the Vatican's global health conference as its main financier.

Pfizer, which pushes its injectable contraceptive Sayana Press in collaboration with global aid groups in the world's poorest countries, will also feature at the Vatican conference "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul," beginning Thursday.

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“Pfizer Inc. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced an agreement to expand access to the drugmaker’s long-acting Sayana Press contraceptive to women in 69 of the world’s poorest countries, for $1 per dose…”

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The new alliance leaves the Vatican "binding hands and feet to the contraception industry," according to Italy's New Daily Compass.

Vatican Invested in Abortifacient

The revelations come days after former Vatican auditor general Libero Milone admitted on Italian channel Rai3 that the Vatican's Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See had been investing in the "morning-after pill" for the last 20 years.

Rai3 called the Holy See's decision to buy shares worth 20 million euros in the pharma giants Novartis and Roche "one of the most paradoxical investments in the recent history of the Church." Novartis makes and sells the abortifacient through its subsidiary Sandoz.

The Vatican's health summit, organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture (PCC), has come under a firestorm of criticism for hosting hugely controversial speakers like New Age guru Deepak Chopra and abortion promoter Chelsea Clinton in its lineup of celebrity speakers.

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Summit organizers are also being accused of providing a platform to vaccine oligarchs to combat "vaccine hesitancy" — a euphemism for conscientious objectors to the experimental gene therapy and abortion-tainted jabs — promoted vigorously by Pope Francis.

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'Main Protagonist' of Global Contraception

The Vatican's publicity for its conference describes the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) as a philanthropic body ranking "among the 25 largest grant-making foundations in the U.S." with "over $2.8 billion in assets and annual grants of $115 million in 2018."

The JTF "supports research and dialogue on the deepest and most perplexing questions facing humankind," with the organization's philanthropic activities engaging "all major faith traditions," the Vatican's publicity notes.

"The Foundation funds work on subjects ranging from black holes and evolution to creativity, forgiveness and free will," the Vatican adds, failing to mention the foundation's robust promotion of contraception under its scheme of "voluntary family planning funding."

But JTF declares: "Sir John Templeton believed that families would flourish when parents were empowered to choose their ideal family size," noting that it "only funds research and programs that affirm the value of human life from conception until natural death."

Sir John Templeton believed that families would flourish when parents were empowered to choose their ideal family size.

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The foundation trumpets its work in a number of developing countries, asking: "Can the Church play a role to increase the use of family planning methods?" and announcing its role of "empowering local churches to deliver programs and messages that support voluntary family planning."

One of JTF's projects in Burundi, funded through World Relief (WR), aims at "creating a cascade effect that will exponentially saturate family planning messaging throughout the three target areas in Gitega province."

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"At the end of the project we will see increased gender equity in Burundian households as well as increased use of contraception," it claims, as WR seeks to "influence the beliefs and underlying social norms perpetuating high fertility."

In Rwanda, with earlier funding from the pro-abortion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, JTF announced that its work with "faith leaders," including Catholic groups like Caritas Rwanda and the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB), has "significantly increased delivery of family planning techniques."

The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies also received grants of just under half a million dollars from the JTF from 2018–2020. The Vatican Observatory Foundation benefited from grants of $351,691 in 2015 and 2020.

Italy's New Daily Compass described the JTF as "one of the main protagonists" of global contraception, observing that its "concept of voluntary planning ... differs considerably from the concept of responsible fatherhood and motherhood that the Church teaches."

JTF is also part of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition — a coalition that moves about $3 billion a year in contraceptives — working with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the dissemination of all modern contraceptives, the New Daily Compass noted.

Pfizer: Criminal History

Pfizer, the manufacturer of the most widely used COVID-19 vaccine (made mandatory in the Vatican), is also the "queen" of the injectable medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) contraceptives Depo-Provera and Sayana Press, the news media added, lamenting the participation of the pharma giant.

The direct interruption of the generative process already begun is to be absolutely excluded as a lawful means of regulating the number of children.

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Depo-Provera's potential side effects include a decrease in bone mineral density — which may put women at higher risk for osteoporosis and bone fractures later in life —weight gain, with about 20% of users experiencing this side effect, as well as changes in periods.

In 2009, Pfizer paid $2.3 billion in what was then the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice, arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, Church Militant earlier reported.

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Pfizer's unapproved clinical trials on children with meningitis in Nigeria led to the deaths of 11 children in 1996. Dozens more were left disabled.

Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against Pfizer over the last decade, according to DrugWatch. Nevertheless, the Vatican has invited Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla as one of the conference speakers.

Organizers Quiet

The conference is being held online and there are no costs for travel and board, but the conference organizers have not revealed how the $750,000 is being spent.

Church Militant contacted conference organizer Mgr. Tomasz Trafny from the Pontifical Council for Culture but received no response despite three attempts.

Conference organizer Dr. Robin Smith of the Cura Foundation also did not respond to our request for comment.

In 2000, the Pontifical Academy for Life issued a statement just after the morning-after pill went on sale in Italy, warning that the pill was being falsely marketed as an "emergency contraceptive" but was in fact an "abortifacient" that works by killing the embryo.

"We strongly urge everyone who works in this sector to make a firm objection of moral conscience," the statement said.

"We are obliged once more to declare that the direct interruption of the generative process already begun," is "to be absolutely excluded as [a] lawful means of regulating the number of children," Pope Paul VI declared in his 1968 encyclical Humane Vitae.

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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)

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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.

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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)

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