Vatican in the hands of the contraception industry

Joseph
6 min readMay 2, 2021

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The following is an English translation of the Italian article https://www.lanuovabq.it/it/vaticano-nelle-mani-dellindustria-della-contraccezione

The Fifth Vatican International Conference which will take place from 6 to 8 May on the topic of health has already caused a scandal both for the invited speakers (many linked to the vaccine business). anti-Covid) and for the image that advertises it, a real manifesto of practical atheism. But there is an even more disturbing aspect: the main financier of the Conference is the John Templeton Foundation, committed to the diffusion of contraception and specialized in involving religious organizations in birth control campaigns. And Pfizer, present at the Conference, is also the manufacturer of injectable contraceptives with long-term effects, which have caused so many disasters in the Third World. Yet a Motu Proprio by Benedict XVI forbade these admixtures.

Thehas already created a notable scandal for the Fifth Vatican International Conference which will take place from 6 to 8 May on the theme “Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul — Unite to Prevent & Unite to Cure”. First of all for the presence of some speakers, between the bizarre and the embarrassing: the first category includes Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the former American presidential couple, the former model Cindy Crawford, rock singers like Joe Perry of the Aerosmith group; to the second belong the New Age guru Deepak Chopra; conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, a fanatic proponent of birth control and population reduction (in Davos a year ago she said that the world population should be reduced to the levels of 500 years ago, ie between 420 and 560 million); and above all the greatest supporters of mass vaccination, from immunologist Anthony Fauci to the top executives of Pfizer and Moderna, Albert Bourla and Stéphane Bancel, passing through the director of Google Health, David Feinberg.

What aredoing in the Vatican (even if virtually given the limits set by Covid) all these peopletalking about health, guests of the Pontifical Council for Culture, led by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi? A question that becomes even more urgent given that these international conferences were born in 2011 to promote research on adult stem cells, a response to the tendency of the industrial and scientific world to focus instead on embryonic cells. Above all, it is inevitable to combine Vatican enthusiasm for vaccinations (including promoting vaccination indoctrination in the church, as we revealed yesterday) and the presence of the two pharmaceutical companies that are sharing the biggest chunk of the vaccine revenue pie. At least an inopportune coincidence.

Even worse is the impression aroused by the poster advertising the Conference: a found worthy of Oliviero Toscani with the reference to the detail of the Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, in which the two hands that touch (the arms are one colored and one white to be politically correct) are covered by latex gloves. Whatever was the intention of those who conceived it and those who approved it, it is objectively a manifestation of practical atheism. God must also protect himself from the virus, with what science has decided is necessary. It is the clearest demonstration of what we have been saying for some time, namely that for many pastors of the Church health has taken the place of salvation as the main concern. And the vaccine, of course, is the real salvation.

This would be enough and it would also go on to be horrified by this drift of the ecclesiastical institution.

But there is another aspect, perhaps even more shocking even if less evident. And we discover this by trying to answer a simple question that arises spontaneously when observing the grandeur of the Conference: who pays? The Vatican organizer of the Conference, Monsignor Tomasz Trafny, made us know that everything is at no cost to the Holy See: in fact, a series of organizations, foundations and industries linked to the theme of health promotion and medical research. Moderna is also on the list of sponsors, which speaks for itself. But the real key sponsor, the one without which the conference would not have been possible at this level, is the John Templeton Foundation, one of the 25 largest foundations in the United States.

And what does the John Templeton Foundation do? Why is she so interested in the Church? Because it is strongly involved in family planning programs (birth control laws) in developing countries, especially through the involvement of the so-called “Faith-based Organizations”, that is, charitable organizations of a religious nature. Although to save the form and not to offend too much the sensibilities — given the involvement of Islamic, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organizations — the language in which the various projects are presented is vague, the reality is that the John Templeton Foundation is one of the main protagonists of the diffusion of contraceptives in the world. On the list of beneficiaries of the various projects of the Foundation there are also some African national Caritas: although from the presentation of the projects it is not clear at what level Catholic organizations participate, it is however evident that the concept of voluntary planning promoted by the John Templeton Foundation and others similar linked to the United Nations, differs considerably from the concept of responsible fatherhood and motherhood that the Church teaches.

John Templeton is also part of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, a coalition of foundations, organizations, pharmaceutical companies, governments, working in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the dissemination of all modern contraceptives. It is a coalition that moves about $ 3 billion a year in contraceptives. Obviously, it is no surprise to find the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — certainly the most generous in the world in funding the culture and practice of contraception — and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the most generous in the list of partners in this coalition. large multinational of abortion and contraception.

The fact that the specialization of the John Templeton Foundation is precisely the enlistment of religions in the work of spreading contraception also makes it clear why it generously finances the Vatican Conference on health. And, as Monsignor Trafny candidly admits, whoever pays also chooses the speakers.

And if the topic becomes contraception, then we cannot escape the fact that the pharmaceutical industry Pfizer is not only the manufacturer of the most widespread anti-Covid vaccine (made mandatory in the Vatican), but it is also the “queen” of injectable contraceptives in long-term, or injections that prevent ovulation for 13 weeks, but with side effects that have proved disastrous for Third World women, with high mortality rates: this is the infamous (in poor countries) Depo Provera, protagonist since from the 70s of wild birth control programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America (see also Riccardo Cascioli, Il conspirato demografico, Piemme 1996), to whichwas added in 2015 Sayana Press. Substance, procedure, efficacy and side effects are in all respects similar to Depo Provera, the only difference is that the latter is injected through an intra-muscular injection, while Sayana Press with a subcutaneous injection which can therefore be easily self-injected.

There are therefore very dangerous relations established by the Holy See, which make it easier to understand the reason for some exits of prelates who open up to contraception in developing countries. A blatant contradiction with the Magisterium of the Church, and a grave danger to the freedom of the Church, a problem of which the previous pontiffs were well aware. So much so that in November 2012 Pope Benedict XVI signed a Motu Proprio which clarified what even common sense should suggest, namely that Catholic charitable organizations cannot be financed for their activities by “bodies or institutions that pursue ends in contrast with the doctrine of the Church “. The document, a legislative text, is called Intima Ecclesiae Natura and was born from the concern that all the charitable works born within the Church — Caritas in the head — were at the service of evangelization and therefore did not create confusion among the faithful about what Church teaches, also embezzling the donations of the faithful themselves (which evidently happened). The inspirer of that document was the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (now diluted in the Dicastery for integral human development) headed at the time by Cardinal Robert Sarah, and was aimed above all at diocesan bishops who are in control of the charitable organizations in their own territory.

After just eight years , however, it turns out that it is even the Holy See that violates what it has established by binding hands and feet to the contraception industry.

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