Catholic, Apostolic & Roman

December 2021

Light of the World

THE EDITOR

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

- Jn 1: 4-5, 12
 

“The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.”

- G. K. Chesterton, as he lay dying, 1936.

 

Like twin tsunamis, Covid and Carbon "narratives" at the service of very dark agendas continue to flood the West, threatening to overwhelm and finish off nations pummelled by generational waves of cultural Marxism.

Ominous red flags are no longer raised for discussion but, rather, lowered by corporate, state and ecclesiastical propagandists who raise false flags instead. Merely to query these official narratives, never mind actually demonstrate their falsity by way of established facts and healthy public debate, is to find oneself "cancelled" (made persona non grata)and hounded from the public square.

Starved of plain facts and honest explanations by this cancellation ("disappearing") of impartial, disinterested truth-seekers, the oblivious majority has become accustomed to the dense fog of lies and dissembling that surrounds, disorients and corrals them.

Constantly misinformed and misdirected but too comfortable and conditioned to care, they are easily spooked and intimidated by arbitrary diktats (—that is, by imperious demands issued by governments that have swapped the protective separation of its executive, legislative and judicial branches for a partisan convergence of those branches and the unaccountable, China-like power it confers).

Over several decades, this symbiotic self-interest broadened and deepened the social degeneration and political corruption.

The extent of the rot was finally exposed when wartime levels of government propaganda, overreach, censorship and dirty tricks easily convinced a docile public that a largely harmless virus was a threat to life on earth.

Despite easy access to alternative sources of information, the high levels of public fear and ignorance needed to sustain this inversion of reality have been maintained by a complacent and sorely misplaced trust in serial failures; namely, political and health authorities who repeatedly misdiagnose then catastrophically mishandle supposed viral threats (as with every health 'crisis' in Britain for over 30 years). 

Mutually reinforcing,  the ignorance compounds the fear and vice versa, all the while intensifying the suicidal trust. Indeed, the pervasive ignorance includes lack of awareness of the actual mechanisms of fear; viz., the Communistic committees and sub-committees established by governments to manipulate and control the public.

Psychological war: "ramping up the fear"

In Britain, this brutal psychological war is self-professedly waged by the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour, (SPI-B), a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) that advised SAGE on the role of psychology in nudging the British public into complying with government lockdown measures. SAGE, in turn, advises government ministers, wresting far-reaching influence on public policy. This nefarious psychological operation and the dystopian fear tactics employed by the SPI-B to manipulate and control public behaviour is detailed in a book:

Journalist and author Laura Dodsworth, in her latest publication A State of Fear, documents “how the U.K. government weaponised fear during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The book features the testimony of SPI-B members who admit that the tactics used by the group were tantamount to “totalitarianism.”

“Fear is the most powerful emotion,” Dodsworth’s website states. “Hardwired into humans, fear is … one of the most powerful tools in the behavioural psychology toolbox and it has been used to manipulate and control people during the pandemic.”

An unnamed SPI-B member explained to Dodsworth that “[i]n March [2020] the Government was very worried about compliance, and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down. There were discussions about fear being needed to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up the fear.”

“The use of fear has definitely been ethically questionable,” the source continued. “It’s been like a weird experiment. Ultimately, it backfired because people became too scared. The way we have used fear is dystopian.”

SPI-B psychologist Gavin Morgan told Dodsworth that “using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government.” Morgan related that, in spite of his normally optimistic outlook on life, seeing the government implement fear tactics to control the population “has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”

Morgan’s colleague Dr. Harrie Bunker-Smith explained the bait-and-switch manoeuvre employed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson with lockdown restrictions, turning them on and off seemingly at whim, and always with a new justification.

“Abusers will say they won’t do something again, but then they keep doing it. Abuse is not constant; it’s not bad all the time. You have periods of extreme abuse followed by the honeymoon period, where you get flowers and apologies and promises, and then things deteriorate again,” Bunker-Smith said.

Another member of the team described the psychology work of SPI-B as “mind control.” “That’s what we do … clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past.”

Another still admitted to being “stunned by the weaponisation of behavioural psychology” over the last year, lamenting that fellow “psychologists didn’t seem to notice when it stopped being altruistic and became manipulative. They have too much power and it intoxicates them.”

[LifeSiteNews, 20/5/21. My emphases.]

Heritage Party leader David Kurten, an outspoken critic of the government’s handling of the 'crisis', recommended A State of Fear as "essential reading," lauding its explanation of how the "UK government has waged a psychological war against the people of the country, ramping up fear of a virus that is no worse than a bad flu to destroy our fundamental freedoms."

He spoke for very many when he added that "Their strategy of threatening arrest, fines, and imprisonment for doing normal things like meeting friends in a park or having a dinner party, while simultaneously using mainstream media to smear, denigrate and stir up hatred towards non-conformists is odious and totalitarian." He continued:

It is clear to any with eyes to see that they have manipulated citizens into accepting lockdowns and mass injections of experimental mRNA. Now they are on the next phase of the plan to increase acceptance of a Chinese Communist Party style Digital Identity control system. They have used all the tactics of a psychological abuser as laid out in Biderman’s Chart of Coercion which is a blueprint for abuse. [See October CO, p. 7.]

Self-abusing servitude

The Chinese influence on the totalitarian conduct of this global coup was clear from the beginning.

Renowned commentator Peter Hitchens regularly drew attention to an excerpt from an interview with globalist puppet Neil Ferguson, whose erroneous prediction of millions of Covid deaths essentially launched the lockdowns. In the interview, Ferguson draws attention to China’s strategy of mass repression "to flatten the curve," but admits his hesitancy that such measures could be implemented in non-communist countries: "We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought. And then Italy did it. And we realised we could."

Once that realisation dawned, they "ramped up the fear," as the SPI-B member confessed to Laura Dodsworth. To such an extent that the mid-2020 local elections saw the psychologically abused electorate increase the vote share for their abusers! A disgusted David Kurten fumed:

It is shocking that they have destroyed the liberty which generations of our forefathers have fought and died for. It is just as shocking that the majority of people have succumbed and capitulated to these fear-mongering techniques with so little resistance, and even voted in greater numbers in recent elections for the ruling parties in England, Wales and Scotland which have been perpetrating the propaganda.

Happy in their servitude, this servile majority lives in a trance-like state of fear because of their fearful ignorance. Studiously orchestrated and maintained by the government in cahoots with the media presstitutes, this includes ignorance of the cheap, safe and effective prophylactic and early treatment protocols for Covid-19 and its many variants (including the dominant Delta).

Continually featured in these pages since March 2020, these protocols cut hospitalisations by 85% and obviate the need for mass vaccination and every other destructive "measure."  

Criminal 'vaccine' narrative

Among many other fundamental and vital points still rarely mentioned, and thus little recognised or understood by the public, is the fact that the Covid jabs were only authorised for experimental use for the precise reason that they are not vaccines as we've traditionally understood them.

The Federal Drug Administration labels them "gene therapy."

On 19 July 2021, America's Frontline Doctors filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on behalf of several plaintiffs against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("the Defendant"). Therein, they explained the workings of standard vaccines, stating that "The public are accustomed to these traditional vaccines and understand them." On the other hand, they continued,

The public are fundamentally uninformed about the gene therapy technology behind the “Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine” and the “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.” Referring to the “mRNA technology” in its Vaccine, Moderna admits the “novel and unprecedented nature of this new class of medicines” in its Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Further, it admits that the FDA classes its Vaccine as a form of “gene therapy.” No dead or attenuated virus is used in the “Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine” and the “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.” Rather, instructions, via a piece of lab-created genetic code (the mRNA) are injected into your body that tell your body how to make a certain “spike protein” that is purportedly useful in attacking the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

By referring to the “Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine” and the “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine” as “vaccines,” and by allowing others to do the same, the Defendants knowingly seduce and mislead the public, short-circuit independent, critical evaluation and decision-making by the consumers of these products, and vitiate their informed consent to this novel technology which is being deployed in the unsuspecting human population for the first time in history. [My emphases]

Like renowned medical journals forced to retract fake studies published last year at the service of Big Pharma's lucrative 'vaccine' agenda, both the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services "knowingly seduce and mislead the public" and "vitiate their informed consent" because they, too, are bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical giants; global predators who seduce, mislead and vitiate for a living!

Last October, during a two-day World Health Summit held in Berlin, Stefan Oelrich, president of Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals Division, actually proclaimed this modus operandi to 6,000 people from 120 countries, boasting that the Covid-19 shots are indeed "cell and gene therapy" marketed as "vaccines" to make them palatable to the public. As reported by LifeSiteNews [10/11/21]:

Oelrich told his fellow international “experts” from academia, politics, and the private sector that the novel mRNA COVID “vaccines” are actually “cell and gene therapy” that would have otherwise been rejected by the public if not for a “pandemic” and favourable marketing.

“We are really taking that leap [to drive innovation] – us as a company, Bayer – in cell and gene therapies … ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy. I always like to say: if we had surveyed two years ago in the public – ‘would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?’ – we probably would have had a 95% refusal rate.” 

Oelrich's arrogant boast of exploitation and manipulation was not reported and analysed by Big Media because Big Pharma's multi-billion dollar advertising budget also controls them.

Together with spurious reportage, the ignorance fostered by this mainstream media silence demonises the unvaccinated, weaponising terms like "vaccine hesitancy" while triggering incomprehension, discomfort, and/or anger at the mere sight of  "vaccine" framed and debunked by inverted commas.

For, as Olreich happily admitted, the MSM and their Big Pharma paymasters know that simply highlighting that single truth — that mRNA shots are a form of genetic manipulation — would immediately loosen the public blinders and cast the unvaxed in a far more rational and sympathetic light, undermining the wicked attempt to depict them as the new lepers of society; dangerous, and deserving of separation and incarceration.

Indeed, were the reality of "cell and gene therapy" to replace the fictional "vaccine" narrative, even a jabbed populace deeply vested in maintaining the illusion of normality would be unable to stop all the related shocking truths, especially those provided firsthand by whistleblowers, from pouring out. Above all, allegations of the suppression of evidence of massive 'vaccine' side-effects, and research fraud and substandard procedures in the clinical trials for the shots in the first place.

Highlighting the fact that these trials are not due to finish until 2023 would also alert the public to the fact that they are unwitting participants in a genetic engineering mass experiment on humans;  an experiment already linked officially to millions of injuries and tens of thousands of deaths worldwide, and between 10 and 100 times those numbers unofficially.

In their lawsuit, America's Frontline Doctors argue the gravity of crimes committed against their clients and the American people by the U.S. government:

The Defendants are both violating, and threatening the violation of, the core constitutional right to personal autonomy and bodily integrity held by Plaintiffs and all Americans. Plaintiffs [...] have alleged that their rights to personal autonomy and bodily integrity were violated when they were subjected to Vaccines without first having given voluntary, informed consent. [...]

These victims testify under penalty of perjury to their physical injuries caused by the Vaccines, and to facts and circumstances that establish that they did not give, and could not possibly have given, their voluntary, informed consent. By way of example, Plaintiff Deselle states (Ex. H):

No one ever provided me with any information regarding possible adverse reactions, nor did they provide me with any information regarding alternative treatments. I did not understand this was gene therapy rather than a traditional vaccine. Again, I also did not understand that the Vaccines were not “approved” by the FDA. No one told me, and I did not understand that the Vaccines were not determined to be “safe and effective” by anyone — only that it was “reasonable to believe” that they were.

[Pp. 61-62 of the filing. My emphasis]

Nuremberg 2.0 beckons

Since these accusations can be levelled at virtually every government in the world, one also looks forward  to the public being alerted to the 1,000 lawyers and 10,000 medical experts who are patiently amassing damning evidence of crimes against humanity committed by the CDC, WHO, and the World Economic Forum’s 'Davos Group.'

Among much else, their Nuremberg-like prosecution will argue that the 'vaccine' fails to meet the following requirements to be considered a vaccine, and is by definition a medical "experiment" and trial:

The Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines do NOT Provide immunity to the virus
This is a “leaky” gene-therapy that does not provide immunity to COVID. The vaccine is claimed to reduce symptoms. Yet sceptics claim that double-vaccinated people represent 60% of the patients requiring ER or ICU care. Double-Vaccinated infected with COVID have also died.

Does NOT Protect recipients from getting the virus
Opponents argue, this gene-therapy does not provide immunity and double-vaccinated people can still catch and spread the virus.

Does NOT Reduce circulation of the virus
This gene-therapy still permits the spread of the virus as it offers zero immunity to the virus.

Does NOT Reduce transmission of the virus
This gene-therapy still permits the transmission of the virus as it offers zero immunity to the virus.
[Undercurrents, 1/5/21]

Lead by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich a German lawyer and member of the German Corona Investigative Committee, who specialises in prosecuting fraudulent corporations, this vast international team indict both the faulty PCR test (which invalidates over 90% of alleged Covid infections) and the order for doctors to label any comorbidity death a Covid death, as fraud.

In addition, they argue that the "experimental" vaccine violates Article 32 of the Geneva Convention, prohibiting "mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person." And also Article 147, according to which conducting biological experiments on protected persons is a grave breach of the Convention.

According to the litigators, the Covid Nuremberg trial is needed because experimental vaccines contravene all 10 of the Nuremberg Codes; contraventions which carry the death penalty. (See alleged violations on pp. 17-19):

Austria revisits its dark past

The urgent need for such developments to enter public consciousness increases by the day and month as the ignorance, fear and societal divisions intensify. Austria is a prime example.

In mid-November, the Austrian government introduced a lockdown specifically for the unvaccinated, who were not legally allowed to leave their home except for five prescribed reasons. This put a third of the country under mandatory house arrest, indefinitely.

On the day it was introduced, Freddie Sayers of the online magazine UnHerd visited Vienna.

A fair-minded British journalist, interviewer and former pollster, he was looking for answers: How do ordinary people feel about a third of their population being put in partial house arrest? How does it feel for the people stuck at home? And how did a liberal democracy come to this in 2021?

Interviewed on the streets of Vienna, where uniformed police patrols checked people’s vaccination status against a state database and issued fines of up to £1,200 to the unvaxed, well-heeled Austrians out shopping showed no sympathy for the unvaccinated, whom they regarded as foolish and dangerous, responsible for all the problems and high "cases." Informed by Englishman Freddie that the vaccinated could still pass on the virus, they were baffled but studiously incurious about the facts.

Mesmerised and paralysed by propaganda, they clearly are immune: not to the virus but to commonsense and daily news that contradicts the propaganda.

Such as the choir concert held just a few weeks earlier in neighbouring Germany, which although restricted to the fully-vaccinated ended in a substantial Covid outbreak that infected at least 24 people.

Or similar vax giveaways in Israel and all over. The entirety of the adult population on The Rock is vaccinated, yet Gibraltar is urging people not to attend gatherings and has cancelled its official Christmas events.

Unable to see this vaccinated forest fire for the unvaccinated trees, these self-righteous well-off Austrians praised the government; comforted by its official narrative and wilfully blind to the spectre of its fascist past.

Ordinary workers had a very different view, however.

"It's nonsense. The people they must be free. This is not ok," insisted one, despite himself being vaccinated.  "It's terrible," said another. "Because, economically, everything will be down, everything will be not nice." For starters, taxpayers now have to compensate businesses who are losing up to 35% of their income from unvaxed customers who are not allowed to enter their premises.

Freddie and his camera crew then retired to a Viennese cafe, where he reflected on these initial encounters [his emphases]:

The impression I have so far is of the boiled frog syndrome in action. Where because of the strangeness of the past couple of years, the norms have changed so gradually, that no one here really thinks that much about the idea of locking up a third of your population in their homes. If the practical effect of it was driving it, that would be one thing. The sense that it could really change the pandemic if for example, the vaccinated were not transmitting and only the unvaccinated were the cause of any transmission, that might be a bit more understandable. But you don't find that people are talking about that. And when I raise the fact that vaccinated people can also transmit the disease, people aren't especially interested. And I suppose it feels like it's become more of a class issue. There is a part of society that the rest of society just doesn't like very much. And to watch that in action, to see people's hardening attitude to them as they — instead of thinking this is something sad and reluctant that they have to do, but it's necessary — almost quite relish the chance to punish, or to draw a line under these people whose behaviour is unacceptable. That's quite difficult to watch.

It didn't get any easier to stomach after he discussed the lockdown and the Austrian attitude with a political scientist.

Asked by Freddie, "Isn't it likely it will just increase the distrust, increase the paranoia, and therefore create a more divided society here in Austria?", the political scientist admitted: "For sure, the vaccinated-unvaccinated divide is extremely important and it's going to be very deep."

Studiously avoiding alternative paths such as successful early treatments, and ignoring red flags like rampant censorship, statistical manipulations, and the endless incoherence and hypocrisy ever giving lie to the 'crisis' he accepted as a given, the professor preferred to stress the pragmatic perspective of the government: "It's much more easy to press on the minority because you feel you have the legitimacy, speaking for this majority group."

Even more accepting and supportive of the government's action was a legal expert and special rapporteur to the UN on both torture and child liberty.

He viewed seclusion of the unvaxed and their banishment from public life generally as not inhumane and not suggestive of Austria's Nazi past.

Asked, in light of his human rights background, whether he wasn't anxious about where the house arrest of a third of his fellow is heading, he replied: "No, not really, not from a human rights perspective. What I am afraid of is that it is a further step in dividing society. And I am very afraid — and we will have very soon another big demonstration organised by the FPO in Vienna — and if you follow on social media, the withdrawing is becoming very much 'us and them,' and it becomes very hostile. And you feel that often also in the underground, for instance, if you have people who are not wearing masks and others are saying, 'but would it not be better, you should actually wear masks,' people are reacting in very aggressive manner. And I think we have to bridge this divide again."

So there it is, dear reader: a human rights lawyer who is worried about a political divide in society yet supportive of legal segregation; who views not wearing a mask as a provocative act; who demonises unvaxed 'right-wing' demonstrators standing up for fundamental freedoms, objectivity and rationality as the problem.

Sadly, if predictably for an abused electorate that votes for its abusers, a YouGov poll found 58% of Brits would support a similar lockdown of the unvaxed. Still, this small sample of the overwhelming reaction of British viewers in the vast comments section beneath the report will lift your Christmas spirits: 

And this final telling comment:

A&E doctor here, 12 years of experience. I, together with the majority of my colleagues, choose to reject all covid vaccines because not only do they not offer immunisation against a rather harmless virus but they also do NOT prevent transmission nor contagion. Most admissions with covid-related complications we treat are of those who are fully vaccinated. One must ask oneself why it's being forced upon the public in this draconian manner. Watching the general public behave so appallingly against the minority of enlightened individuals who wish to exercise their freedom to make their own medical choices is not only upsetting but downright frightening. The fear-driven propaganda and political agenda has been successful due to the wilful ignorance and compliance of the public. Labels such as "anti-vaxxer" and comparisons to "flat-earthers"  demonstrates a profound level of ignorance of the truth. When the state coerces you into being inoculated against your will, you should be seeing red flags and start asking questions. Ask yourself: if the media and governments did not tell us there was a "pandemic" taking place, would you even know it based on your own experience in the last 24 months?

"So as night falls here in Vienna, it almost looks like just another Christmassy scene," mused Freddie at the end of his report,

The famous Christmas market just in front of the Rathaus is open for business, the lights are twinkling, and customers are filing in. Squint, and it almost looks like a perfect Christmas scene. There's only one difference: which is that a third of the population are not allowed in.

"Do you have an ID?" a security person in a yellow vest asks him as he approaches the barricaded market area. He shows ID, and enters. Wandering around the lovely scene lit up with angels, trees, stars etc., he concludes:

The almost hilarious thing, at the end of all this, is that the moment everyone is past the barrier, the moment you've shown your barcode and you've waved your ID, and you've put your mask on — everybody starts to relax! The masks are coming off, I'd say 90% of people here are not wearing masks. Everyone is having a nice, normal, Christmassy time with their families, and they've forgotten all about it. Is there one person in this market who has Covid right now? Probably there is. Would people have been in great danger if that person was actually two or three people? Probably not, because we're outside and people are not even that closely packed. But the fact, of excluding a certain number of people, of adding those checks, evidently makes everybody feel better. And at the end of the day, that is what a lot of this is all about.   

Goering said it himself at Nuremberg: that convincing people to swap their freedoms for the illusion of safety is very easy and works the same in any country under any political system. All that's needed, he said, is to create fear by contriving a false threat.

On cue, starting the day after supposedly dangerous unvaxed citizens were locked up and isolated from their compatriots, "cases" in Austria soared; a predictable turn of events yet one with zero effect on the ignorant, fear-filled majority whose desperate desire to feel safe from this imagined threat (non-existent to the vast majority) knows no bounds of irrationality or cruelty.

Pandemic of the vaccinated: more compelling proof

The Austrians are hardly alone. The reality of a pandemic of the vaccinated is also being waved away in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where similar baseless persecutions of the unvaxed are ramping up.

And yet, rocketing post-vax "all-cause excess death" figures in the US, the UK and elsewhere also contradict the false narrative of a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."

Like the Austrians, assured that the jab would return normalcy to their lives after a chaotic 2020, most Americans embraced Big Pharma's lucrative con. Our World in Data statistics show 70% of Americans have received one dose, 59% are fully vaccinated, and 11.1% received a booster.

But there’s an alarming statistical trend that indicates things aren’t even close to normal.

The United States is witnessing a dramatic surge in all-cause excess deaths, with the country on course to eclipse all-cause excess deaths from 2020. Currently through the roof in almost all US states, these figures started to spike again in July-August 2021 and have yet to return to the normal yearly range of all-cause excess deaths.

As I write, in the last 13 weeks (week 33-45; adjusting for age and population and reporting delay), the CDC reports a 112% increase in all-cause excess deaths: 193,000 people died more than normal in just the last 13 weeks. In 2020, that number was 91,000. For the year as a whole, 2021 all-cause excess deaths already stand at 393,555, rapidly closing in on the 2020 figure of 411,940. So, just 18,385 behind 2020's final toll, and we’re still in November.

Have the Covid-19 jabs caused this surge in all-cause excess deaths or is it other factors?

The alarming figures for Vermont, the most vaccinated state in the US, are strongly suggestive of the answer. Despite 71% of  its entire population, including 83% of its adult population having been jabbed by 1 June, they are now seeing the most excess deaths since the pandemic — far above the 2020 figures, as graphically illustrated at USMortality.com.

Meanwhile, our local figures for all-cause deaths are roughly two months ahead of America. In Unreported Truths, renowned American journalist Alex Berenson provided this telling chart and his explanatory comment beneath it, based on the latest official UK data for the under-60s:

 

The brown line represents weekly deaths from all causes of vaccinated people aged 10-59, per 100,000 people.

The blue line represents weekly deaths from all causes of unvaccinated people per 100,000 in the same age range.

I have checked the underlying dataset myself and this graph is correct. Vaccinated people under 60 are twice as likely to die as unvaccinated people. And overall deaths in Britain are running well above normal.

I don’t know how to explain this other than vaccine-caused mortality.

The Light of the World

The good news amid this ongoing nightmare is that the mad ferocity of the Covid narrative is finally bringing things to a head.

In the process, and despite the lengthening shadow of the techno-fascist globalist state for which Covid-19 was instrumentalised, the courageous example of those high and low speaking truth to unbridled power fills us with hope and strength.

More edifying and gratifying still, is the fact that among the countless men and women of all faiths and none speaking out, very many are Catholics.

They are not deterred by a worldly Pope pushing universal vaccination (—"I believe that, ethically, everyone should take the vaccine," he pontificates without so much as an ethical tut-tut about plundered cells from aborted-babies facilitating modern vaccines).

Nor are they cowed by his mocking of vaccine "deniers" (—into which spurious category he vindictively dumped Cardinal Burke).

Instead, together with other devout Christians, before a merciless media and a misled, hostile, unchurched public, at great risk to their reputations, livelihoods and sometimes their very lives, they pursue scientific facts and the evidence of their own eyes wherever they lead, all the while proclaiming their faith and trust in Jesus, their Lord and Saviour.

It seems fitting, therefore, to include herein further vital testimonies from such brave witnesses. For, amid the current darkness which mirrors the cruel paganism of the world at the First Coming, their fidelity to truth vividly reflects their illuminating Source and His affirming presence — the Child of Bethlehem:

"the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh
into this world... that believe in his name."
[Jn 1: 9, 12]