Letters on Liturgy - Fr. Dwight Longenecker

 

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A significant crux of my conversion to Catholicism was    my dissatisfaction with Protestant- Evangelical worship. It always seemed narcissistic to put it in modern context. That is it was (and still is I assume) people centered. We sang songs "about" how "we" experienced him; they were not songs "to" God and how "He" objectively was.  The choir, piano, and organist were up front, on stage, like performers. When they performed we watched "them" and evaluated their performance. This is especially true today with the pop oriented "seeker" church movements with bands and drama performances on stage or video screens. 

Most egregious to me was the hour long sermons with the preacher demanding our attention. No, there was something more egregious to me: the lack of inspiring art on the walls, ironically rejected by my evangelical upbringing because there was a misguided claim that art drew our attention to the artist not to the subject of the art. This was a strange view since we hardly ever knew who the artist was, even if there was a name microscopically inscribed in the lower corner.  And the most obnoxious element of protestant evangelicalism (lower case on purpose) was the architecture, or lack of it. There was nothing about most churches (except perhaps the Crystal Cathedral) that lifted the soul upwards toward heaven. Visually the evangelical protestant churches were stuck to the wrong side of the iconoclastic heresy of the 700s. God was a good friend, my buddy, a chum, not the almighty. majestic, invisible creator behind the universe. 

For reasons I can only guess, my understanding of God was always one of awe. That may have developed because of my exposure to nature and the intricacies of creation and the wonder of the heavens; astronomy was an early hobby that mesmerized my imagination. 

Old St. Marys in Detroit, MI

Catholicism, and the Mass changed all that for me. Suddenly I was introduced to a way to worship God that  more befitted my (yes, it was still about my sinful perspective) view of who God was and how we should approach him. The longer I was Catholic, however, and attended a variety of Masses in various churches in the Detroit, MI metropolitan area, I saw elements of Protestant-Evangelical worship that turned me off. Some Masses (at particular parishes) were too friendly, and too "us" focused.  The music was pop, cheesy and trite. There were a couple of churches where the sign of peace became a party with everyone leaving their pews and wandering about the nave shaking hands, hugging, talking, and creating a vast disturbance just after the consecration of the wine and bread into the body and blood of our Lord. It was incongruous and distracting, it turned our attention from God to each other.

In recent years I've gravitated to the Tridentine Latin Mass, and I only wish there was a church, a gothic styled church, near me that celebrated it. The downside of a Tridentine Mass however, is that I can never follow the liturgy and thus worship with my mind because the priest never says much of anything out loud, except the homily, and when things are sung or said aloud, it's in Latin, which I don't understand. And the missals don't help. I've been to dozens of Latin Masses and the missals they hand out or that I bring with me are of little help. If the priest doesn't follow the missal in my hands exactly, I'm lost. 

Alas, I see that this post has become a narcissistic outlet appeasing my melancholy-choleric nature. Let me shift.

Pam, Stan, Fr. Dwight after Mass at
Our Lady of the Rosary, Greenville, SC

The parish I would most like to attend is Our Lady of the Rosary in Greenville, South Carolina pastored by Fr. Dwight Longenecker. Just one problem...it's a 12 hour drive away. Many have moved to Greenville SC, however, with their large families because of this parish and their school. Pam and I have relatives in town and we've been there a few times. The Sunday 10:30 AM Mass is SRO. If you're late you get a chair in the aisle or foyer. Many of the families have a pew full of children. Fr. Dwight celebrates a New Order Mass, but there's a bunch of Latin thrown in, with an excellent schola choir and pipe organ in the balcony, and he celebrates the Eucharist ad orientem, with the people and the priest facing East together. Yes, the new church was deliberately built so the people and the priest face EAST during Mass.

This post is supposed to be about Fr. Dwight's book Letters on Liturgy (LOL). So, I'll finish with a few words about it. I've only read five of Fr. Dwight's 30 or so books. They're all good. He's easy to read. I can identify with him for a number of reasons including his easy non-technical choice of words, his Evangelical roots, his love for orthodox Catholicism, his preference for art (he was an art major before he turned to theology), his love of good stories, and no doubt because we're working together to produce a major television documentary on St. Michael's Sword. 

I wish more Catholic priests would read LOL and put the ideas the book contains into practice. Am I being narcissistic? No doubt, why else would I have a blog? (I have several, actually.)

In the Foreword to LOL, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone writes: 

This work is nothing less than a practical resource for priests to realize in their life and ministry the apologia for Christianity that a defiant world truly needs and unconsciously years for: the production of art from the Church's womb that mediates the presence of the sacred, and the witness of saints who personalize the power of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the transcendent majesty of God. 

Some quotes from LOL:

First Thoughts

...traditional Catholic worship is iconic...every person, every action, every vestment, every point of art and architecture, music and liturgical text functions like an icon—a door into the invisible realm of God's presence." (p 21)

Sacrifice or Sacred Feast 

The Extraordinary Form of the Mass is the Mass of the Ages and it therefore transcends particular time-periods and cultures. A traditional church building, Gregorian chant, traditional trained altar servers, and a traditional style of celebrating the mass rise above all our individual tastes, cultural influences, fashionable ideas, and political ideologies.  The very antiquity of such a liturgy gives it a transcendence that cannot be denied. (p 34) 

Priest: Wimp or Warrior? 

The priest must be a warrior, not a wimp. He is a man of sacrifice. He is one who hears Jesus Christ say, "Take up your cross and follow me," and "unless you take up your cross and follow me you cannot be my disciple." The way the priest does this is by offering the sacrifice of the Mass with due reverence and awe... (p 43) 

Celebration of the Mystery

Through the ritual we connect with the ancient truths in a symbolic and unspoken way, and it is through this language that we worship best. (p 53)

On the Mystery of Language

Worship is the way we step into the other side of reality. (p 59) 

Words, the Word, and the World

People need to see and hear how the faith is real in the lives of real people. [Therefore] Faith stories incarnate theology. Faith stories make real the truths you are preaching. (p 74) 

Plays and Playtime

It was through religious ritual, drama, and ceremonial storytelling that the ancient peoples participated in the deep truths locked in the myths, and it is through the liturgy that we do a kind of ceremonial storytelling that connects us at the deepest level with the life-changing drama of Jesus Christ. (p 79)

Fr. Dwight ad orientem Mass
Our Lady of Rosary, Greenville, SC

Priests and People

The altar servers are robed in white because they...represent the angels who serve God day and night. their function in the Mass...is a symbol of the constant service of the angels in the court of God. This is why at the consecration altar servers should kneel before the altar of God as the angels who cry "Holy, Holy, Holy." (p 91)

Beauty: The Language of Worship

Beauty is the language that really takes us beyond language. (p 98)

We open up to beauty, and as we do we also open up to truth and goodness because beauty, truth, and goodness are a little Holy Trinity. You cannot have beauty without truth and goodness. You cannot have goodness without beauty and truth and you cannot have truth without beauty and goodness. Three in one and one in three. (p 98-99)

Church art is not just pretty decoration. It is part of the whole act of worship. (p 103) 

Images, Art, and Icons

[Sacred Art is incarnational.]

Music: Praying Twice

What would it be like if we could hear the music of the spheres and the singing of the planets on their way? Sacred music is church is meant to bring us to the threshold of heaven—where we hear echoes of eternity.  The music in church should therefore be otherworldly, transcendent, and sublime. (p 146-147) 

Any kind of music performed badly is awful. The answer to poorly sung Gregorian chant is not to ban Gregorian chant, but to work harder to sing it well. (p 151) 

Okay, enough. I have to go to Mass. Today I'm taking our Chinese (Catholic) house guest to a Chaldean Catholic Mass, parts of which will be in Aramaic.  Jesus would like it. 

 

 

 

The Holy Spirit is Alive and Well in Beijing, China

The Holy Spirit is Alive and Well in Beijing, China Check out this photo from an on-line newsletter issued by the Xicheng (Church of the Savior) Catholic Church, a historic Catholic church in the Xicheng District, Beijing, China. It is a picture taken July 17, 2022, the first Sunday the church was reopened after being closed for a year by the government over COVID-19 fears. But present on this day (pictured) was a bishop, four priests, and 101 newly baptized and confirmed Catholics, a close friend among them who took the baptism name, Anastasia. Anastasia writes: "Do mention it (the confirmation) and show my pictures if you think it is helpful. And tell your church that you and Pam being Catholic and your mentorship albeit virtual and never in person was pivotal in my decision to be a Catholic," Anastasia is an international consultant working in the past for the UN and now for a European firm with offices in Beijing. Below are a couple of her pictures and a video of her reading prayers during the Mass. We "met" virtually when she was studying for her Masters in European Governance while in Germany. She had read my screenplay structure book, "The Moral Premise" and established contact with me because she hoped to be a writer of stories. Over time, (she's a very good writer) I established a blog for her titled "No Smell of Smoke: Musings from China in the Burning Love of God (Daniel 3:94)."

Anastasia with her sponsor/God Mother, an economics professor. Anastasia was asked to read prayers for the deceased and sinners during the Mass. A great honor that took her by surprise. But she is very poised, well spoken and an experienced conference leader. We were not surprised as we've talked with her via zoom a number of times during her international travels.  The beautiful Christ the Savior church was established in 1703 by Catholic Missionaries. And now this....Manchurian styled Holy Mother and Child statuary and paintings from the Christ Our Savior church's chapel.

Why Not To Wear a COVID-19 Mask

Posted July 12, 2022

The post below was written months ago. A week ago I returned from a 22 day European scouting trip for our documentary Angel Quest. During those days I mingled with thousands of people in airports and on planes, train stations and on trains, on ferries, in taxi-cabs, and at pilgrimage sites.  I traveled from the U.S. (Detroit and Boston) to Ireland, England, France, Italy, Greece, and Israel, back to London and then to Detroit in the U.S. Almost no one anywhere I went wore a mask. I never wore a mask except for 20 minutes on a Greek ferry because I was told to in a vacant interior cabin, until I discovered the hundreds of people on the top deck in the sun sans-masks...where I stayed for the rest of the 2 hour trip to Symi Island. I am convinced I am healthy before, during, and after the trip because I have refused all COVID vaccines. Yes, I did have COVID-19 pneumonia in December and January, when my doctor told me I was building anti-bodies. In my case I think Natural Immunity worked better than the vaccines. I have many friends and acquaintances, as does my wife. It seems to us that those that got vaccinated got sick with covid frequently and repeatedly and some died within a week or two of getting their booster shots. Pam and I both got sick once, and that was it. No vaccines, no masks. 

POSTED June 17, 2020

This afternoon I was listening to a call-in show hosted by Guy Gordan on WJR 760 AM Detroit. He was defending Governor Whitmer's order to wear masks in restaurants when you enter and walk around but not when sitting with your party at a table. Patrons around town are objecting to the order, and he was asking for callers to explain to him the resistance. But no one calling in had any reasons for NOT wearing masks other than a rebellious attitude. I'm not good debating on live radio, and the reasons for NOT wearing mask were too many to get across in my 20 seconds, should I get through the call screener. Besides that I was driving and didn't want to further distract myself. So, I'm going to send Guy this link. My response is appropriately on our Imperfectly Human documentary blog. We're all imperfectly human, especially government officials...and some medical experts, when it comes to this covid19 business.

Why NOT to wear covid19 masks...UNLESS you're a member of a health compromised group.

1. SCIENTIFICALLY

There are around 2 billion different bacteria and viruses in the world. The human body is designed to ingest small amounts of them and create a defense against them. This is why kids that eat dirt don’t get sick, yet get healthy instead.

A. If wearing a mask prevents you from getting a little of the germ, you weaken your immune system by wearing the mask. Your natural immune system requires small doses of bacteria and viruses to build up antibodies and antigens to defend the body naturally. To prevent that, through wearing masks and isolation, makes you more vulnerable in the long run and is one of the reasons for there sometimes being a second wave.

B. Our bodies are designed to expel toxins on a regular basis, not just through urination and defecation, but also through the sweat glands via the pores in your skin, and by the expelling of breath.  While this may sound like an argument to wear a mask to save others from breathing in our toxins, wearing a mask keeps those toxins close to your nose and mouth for re breathing, which you don’t want to do.  The simple example is chemical, e.g. the exhaling of CO2 and inhaling of O2.

C. Throughout the whole pandemic cycle the changes of dying form covid19 have been between 0.002 – 0.004 of 1%. That is dramatically lower than just about every other way to die. And yet we’ve destroyed people’s lives because of this. The threat was never scientifically valid, except for those in nursing homes or for people with other serious health issues.

2. LOGICALLY

A. As the CDC is finally admitting, catching a serious dose of the virus requires prolonged contact, such as sitting at a restaurant table for 30 minutes in discussion. You are NOT likely to catch anything walking into a restaurant or walking to the restroom to wash your hands. Thu, the wearing of mask rule in restaurants in irrational and you’re better off not wearing one when walking around. See Item No. 1.

B. There is no rule about wearing protective gloves or using hand sanitizer after handling the door handles to the restaurant or bathrooms. The masks doesn’t help here, and yet sanitizer would.

C. Whitmer’s orders to prevent golf and boating to reduce the spread is irrational and not in the interest of good health. A healthy immune system requires (a) reduced stress, (b) exercise, (c) fresh air, (d) and sunlight (Vitamin D). Golf and boating do all those things, and they do not need to be large group events, clearly golf is not, and even in a foursome can be played easily with social distancing.  These and other examples of her edicts throw into question everything she demands. Most of us are not into irrational tyranny.

D. The so called “experts” including Fauci have been wrong about many issues regarding covid19. To claim that we should be following expert advice when we have never before shut down society or been asked to wear masks in any of the last half-dozen serious flu seasons, reveals that the demand we wear masks now is political.

E. The last I read, those states that did not lock down and demand masks are not fairing worse than those that did.

F. Whitmer claims she’s all about saving lives, but yet she supports abortion lessens her credibility.

G. News media personnel have been caught on camera demanding the president and others always wear a mask, but there are video clips of them removing their masks as soon as they think the cameras are off, and NOT social distancing. This lends credibility to the argument that wearing masks is a hoax.

3. POLITICALLY

A. Trump is role modeling the behavior I’ve outlined above. He doesn’t wear a mask, because it is not healthy to wear one, as well as not being politically smart...it’s not petty to claim he doesn’t want the media to see him, it would be a serious mistake, because it would reinforce that all the panic stricken but ill-informed “experts” would be right. And he knows they’re not.

B. Politicians move the goal posts. It’s no longer about hospital capacity. It’s the “number of cases.” When, in fact, we want everyone in the state to become a “case” so they can build up immunity. We WANT large number of cases, but we’re irrationally told that a high number of cases is bad. Not true. If a vaccine gets developed and everyone takes the vaccine, guess what, EVERYONE would test positive for the virus at some point…and that would be good.

C. You take all this together, and the rules do not make sense. It makes more sense that Democrats have wanted to kill the economy to oust Trump. But everyone seems to want to follow the mask guidelines, even if there is no rational reason for doing so.  

Stan Williams

Science and Equivocation

Neil deGrasse Tyson

On the Instagram feed "MoneyTips" there's a snippet of an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicists, author, and science commentator who often appears on television to talk about science. Tyson is articulate and presents himself well. 

Unfortunately, Tyson often gets derailed to talk about religious faith about which he has ideological blinders. In the process he projects his own logical fallacies on the religious faithful. It's a form of psychological projection—"I'm doing what I find fault with you, and the fault I claim you are committing, I'm committing as well." Some of what he says is true of some religious groups, but he over generalizes and inadvertently reveals his "faith" in atheism. At the same time he seems to discount the "faith" that is required for productive scientific investigation. One must have faith in a rational, intelligent, and ordered universe for the scientific method to function. 

Now, I don't want to spend time here explaining all of this, as I have a different purpose in mind. I do explain this in my webisode series The Logic of Catholicism, which could be titled The Logic of Christianity. In either regard much of the same material is covered in our book of Dr. Stan Walter's lectures Basic Christianity. 

Here's the quote from the Tyson clip and the link so you can hear for yourself. 

So these are people who apparently require data to support their faith. That I find odd, right? Because then it's not faith, right? I mean, if, if you have religious faith, then whatever anyone says about the world wouldn't matter to you. If it does matter to you, then that's a different kind of contract that you're taking out on information. And that contract is there could be data out there that would conflict with your religious philosophy, and then you'd have to go along with it. But that's not what actually happens. There's a pretense that data matters. And then they filter it, reinterpret it, ignore parts of it, slice and dice it so that it all fits in to the religious philosophy. So it requires blinders in order to make that happen. 

Here's the link to the above quote: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ccs_MUjj1zd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 

In this clip Tyson is defining faith much the way many Evangelical Christians define faith—a mental construct that does not require physical, historical, or logical evidence. Christianity, which I am defending here, requires all three kinds of evidence for its authenticity. Many other religious faiths require little. So Tyson is right about some "faiths" but wrong about Christianity. 

In a Catholic/Christian sense "faith" is a belief that things will happen in the future that are consistent with what has happened in the past. In Basic Christianity, Walters refers to D. Elton Trueblood's little book, which I love, titled "The Trustworthines of Religious Experience," which is still in print and I encourage all to read it. It's the "scientific" argument for Christian experience. That is, it applies the scientific method to the religious experience of Christians throughout the ages. 

Tyson's projection is that he is using blind "religious" faith in his disbelief of Christianity and the Bible. His own words describe this, which I've taken the liberty to edit (see italics) to show his projection:

If you have atheistic faith, then whatever anyone says about the world of Christianity wouldn't matter to you. If it does matter to you, then that's a different kind of contract that you're taking out on information. And that contract is there could be data out there (about the facts, evidences, and reasons for the Christian faith) that would conflict with your atheistic philosophy, and then you'd have to go along with it. But that's not what actually happens. There's a pretense (I ascribe to) that data matters. But I filter it, reinterpret it, ignore parts of it, slice and dice it so that it all fits in to my atheistic philosophy. So it requires blinders in order to make that happen.

When Tyson comments on what he believes is the unreconcilable juxtaposition of science and faith, he equivocates to make his arguments sound logical, but in fact his equivocation makes his comments irrational.  Christian faith requires an abundance of facts, evidences, and valid logic to make sense. 

Now, my purpose in bringing this up is a comment thread I got partly involved in with a couple of belligerents who in in Tyson's camp and are too lazy to study the counter evidence or stubborn in their ideology to come out of the darkness into the light of reason and the world around us. Tyson's comment in the picture above amazes me: "The more I look at the universe the more I'm convinced there is no God." He's essentially saying, "the vast, interrelated, functioning, complexity of the universe convinces me that it all happened by random chance." This reveals, again, Tyson's blind faith in creation happening by random chance for which he has no evidence.

So, one person (Alex) engaged me in a discussion and eventually asked for some evidence of Christ's resurrection. He claimed he didn't want to read a book, although he seemed to be familiar with a few Biblical stories. Here is what I attempted to tell him, but Instagram refused the length of my reply. So, if Alex comes to this post, he can read this summary of some of Walter's lecture from Basic Christianity.

Alex, i’ll try but this is not an easy format to edit. 

The best historical evidence we have for any historical event is the verbal/written testimony of eye witnesses. There is that difference between scientific evidence and historical evidence. Of course you have to have faith in the eye witness accounts, and there are techniques for authenticating such accounts. (See Walter's BC book.)

You such accurate accounts in the case of the New Testament writings. There are many arguments that attempt to discredit the New Testament writings as made up or fictional or just facetious. But the arguments are thin and easily refuted. (See Walter''s BC book.) What you do have regarding the resurrection is that the Gospels claim, as well as some of the letters after the Gospels, that Christ appeared to over 500 people at one time, as well as spending time with his apostles and disciples of which there were many more than 12. He ate with them and he drank with them and he instructed them for many days before he ascended into heaven. 

Those eye witnesses that wrote about Christ’s resurrection did so during a time when other eye witnesses, which might have refuted his resurrection, we\re still alive. And yet you have no contravening evidence or testimony in the historical record that Christ stayed dead. At the same time, Christianity spread like wildfire throughout the region and into other countries principally because the resurrection story could not and was never refuted by those that were against the Christian sect.

There is evidence like there is no tomb in which the body of Jesus could be found. And there wasn’t at the time. The Romans and the Jews and the others that might not have liked Jesus could not find such place. That means they could not find the body. And it's hard to reason that a few fishermen and a single tax collector could outwit Roman legions and the great political power of the Jewish authorities. 

And then you have the evidence that hundreds if not thousands of Christians willingly gave up their lives because they believed the resurrection which occurred in their lifetime and to which they were eye witnesses. You have to ask yourself would you die for a lie? Or would you rather show the authorities where the body was or explain what you did with it and live?  All but one of Christ's 11 apostles were martyred because they refused to believe that Christ was in the grave. Of course they had seen him alive, and ate with him, and spend many days with him after his resurrection.  

There were plenty of officials, Roman and Jewish, who could’ve easily produced the body or pointed to a grave if in fact Christ was in the grave or his body somewhere. But no one could. And yet Christ kept appearing to these hundreds of people that followed him. And they wrote about it, and they died for it. 

Now there are many arguments that attempt to refute all of this and other things. And the only way to discern it for yourself is to look at the arguments make a list of them and see the rebuttals and refutations for the arguments. Which is more reasonable. That the testimonies are true of his resurrection or something else. And that is what the BC book does. You can also go online to the book site that I linked above and there are some audio lectures that I’ve recorded from the books author, as well as a video that might be helpful. 

The point of the whole Christian idea is that something happened. And that something that happened is Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. There is a lot of historical evidence that the claims of Christianity are true historically. And there is the Trustworthiness of Religious Experience and I and millions of others give personal, eye witness, testimony to, as well. 

In the end, you have to ask yourself, if it did happen what does that mean for your life? If it didn’t happen and if it can be easily disapproved then Christianity is fake and it’s worthless and it means nothing. And yet today Christianity is based on this one event — that the Jesus rose from the dead that in fact he is God in person. It is unlike any other religion that ever has touched the face of the earth. That God came down and became man and we saw him and we spoke with him, argued with him, and we killed him, and yet he rose from the dead proving (giving evidence) to an event that no other religion as ever even suggested—that God came to live among man, as a man, and we saw him, talked with him and he lived among us.

The Truth about COVID-19, Vaccines, and Masks.

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Below are articles about the COVID-19 mainstream media and big tech are suppressing against our right protected under the First Amendment. These are written by medical doctors, immunologists, theologians, and other social and physical scientists. When the link leads to a journalist's report, look for a link in the article to the scientific study with the raw data. Having access to the raw data is important for accurate understanding. For the most part the links below are to articles I've saved to my own website as PDFs to avoid the article being removed by some omniscient tech giant so called "fact checker". Often I've placed the original Internet URL at the top of the article.I do not doubt that COVID-19 is real. What isn't real is calling it a pandemic when the scientific and medical data does not support the term. One study by a group of doctors indicates the real death rate from the disease is about 5% of what has been reported. My assessment is that the political lies about COVID-19 are the real diseases we're fighting. 

APPROVED AND NON-APPROVED COVID DRUGS

Infographic from The Epoch Times

 

Hydroxychloroquine (Mercola).pdf

MY COVID-19 ILLNESS AND RECOVERY

My Covid 19 Experience (Stan Williams)

TOTALITARIANISM VIA COVID

'Our Country is Under Attack': RFK, Jr. Speaks on CIA and Totalitarianism

VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS AND NATURAL IMMUNITY

View & Order Booklet - Click Image

—CDC Changes Definition of "Vaccine" Because COVID-19 Vaccines: Emails

—Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Falls Below 50% After 5 Months: Study (Report with PDF of study linked)

—Two Medical Reports with links to the studies comparing persistence of Natural Immunity to Vaccine Immunity. Guess which lasts longer. (PDF)

—Massive Israeli Study Come To Bombshell Conclusion on Natural Immunity (Multiple doctors, Tel Aviv University and others, PDF)

POLITICAL TWISTING OF FACTS

—STUDY: COVID-19 DEATHS ONLY 5% OF WHAT'S REPORTED (Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law / Multiple authors) Scientific and Legal document detailing how CDC changed death metrics for reporting COVID-19 deaths that differs from all other death reporting of other diseases. Suggests that 90% of reported COVID-19 deaths were not caused by COVID-19 but rather by comorbidities. 

—Statistics - The Devil in the Detail - How politicians can't read scientific studies. A textbook example regarding Biden's Secretary Miguel Cardona. (PDF)

—Physician and Senator Rand Paul calls on Xavier Becerra (Biden's Secretary of Health) to apologize to Covid Survivors for lying to the American People about Natural Immunity (Video)

–– Dr. Christina Parks testimony on Michigan House bill 4471 Requiring Vaccines for Work. (YouTube)

 

—Physicians Declaration Global COVID Summit

—Flaw in Many Models Used for Lockdown Policies

HOSPITALS, COVID19, & MONEY

—Two Families Fought Hospitals

—Hospitals Paid More for Covid-19 Cases

—Ivermectin: Ohio Judge Orders Hospital to Treat

— Wife Stands Off Hospital to Save Husband and Wins (but husband later dies)

-- Covid Testing Company Scandal

VACCINE HESITANCY

—Applying Brakes on Vaccinating Children (by vaccine pioneering physician-researchers) PDF

—Healthcare Workers Speak Out Against Taking Unproven Jab (PDF of Interviews)

—Concerns of the Unvaccinated (Janet Smith) PDF

—Health Officials Confirm Seattle Woman Died of Blood Clots Caused by U&U Vaccine (See also comments to this post of other anecdotal deaths and VARES)

—Statement of Non-Compliance (Professor Maximilian C. Forte, PDF)

—How Effective are the Vaccines? (David Solway, The Pipeline, PDF)

—Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed (Charles Eisenstein, PDF)

—The Nuremberg Code (National Institutes of Health, PDF)

—Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2

 (COVID-19) Infection (The American Journal of Medicine (dozens of MD authors), PDF)

—10 Reasons to Drop Support or Mandates for Investigational COVID-19 Vaccines (Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, PDF)

—Dangers of Vaccine Mandates (Interview with Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, Video and PDF)

—PhDs the Most Vaccine Hesitant (The Post, Unherd, PDF)

COVID-19 TREATMENT PROTOCOLS

– Senate Hearing - Early Treatment Works

– Dying Covid19 Patient Recovers - Ivermectin

– Dr. Zelenko on Z-Stack Preventative Supplement

—Ivermectin Mounting Evidence Supports Use

—Detailed Article on Ivermectin and what "OFF-LABEL" really means. These paragraphs are critical:

Based on a number of studies in 1000s of patients, IVM appears to be close to 100% effective in preventing COVID-19. For example in the most remarkable such study 788 frontline health workers in Argentina took it for 3 months and none of them got COVID-19, compared to a 58% COVID-19 infection rate in the group that didn’t take IVM. This study was the equivalent of a human challenge trial involving the intentional exposure of a group to the infection. 

IVM also reduces the severity of COVID-19 when taken in acute infection and reduces death from severe COVID-19 by up to 85%. In one study it was also 95% effective for long COVID symptoms. 

Still studies may be published in the future with poor trial design that appear to discredit ivermectin. It is also possible excellent quality studies are published in the future that prove ivermectin doesn’t work. 

But for now what we know is that it’s demonstrably safer than that daily baby aspirin so many healthy people took for years and so many still take, despite data of late showing it shouldn’t be used outside of patients with preexisting heart disease due to the risk of GI bleeds outweighing the benefits of heart attack prevention. 

The whole Ivermectin article is here

—Hydroxchloroquine, Azithromycin and Zinc: Proposed Treatment for Covid-19 Infections

—Helpful Supplements for Corona Virus Prevention

— Dr. Lee Merritt Exposes COVID Truths (Rumble)

UNMASKING MASKS

–– CDC study - School mask mandates don't work

—Should Masks Be Worn All the Time (Stan Williams, PDF)

—Dangerous Pathogens on Children's Face Masks (Jennifer Cabrera, Rational Ground, PDF)

MANDATES AND PASSPORTS

— Coercive Mandates and Vaccine Passports (Dr. Douglas Farrow, includes 7 important links listed below, PDF)

—Do COVID-19 Restrictions Serve the Common Good? (Stephen Sammut, PhD, PDF)

LOGIC AND REASONING

The Logic Behind Masks and Vaccines (with apologies to Abbott and Costello) (Source Unknown)

—Who's Vaccinated (by Mark Hyman) (a longer Abbott and Costello parody)

COVID-19 AND THE CHURCH

—Archbishop Vigneron's UNLEASH THE GOSPEL Put on Hold

— Woke Priests Need to be Defrocked - Polish Pastor a Hero