By LifeSiteNews (Politics) | Created at 2024-09-23 11:07:56 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:19:08
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With just 10 days of our fall campaign remaining, I feel that there is still so much that I want to share with you.
Some words I read this week have remained with me. They come from the great 19th century churchman John Henry Newman. He wrote:
There is an immense weight of evil in the world. We Catholics are charged with resisting to overcome the evil.
This is the mission of LifeSiteNews.
We bring to light the evils that the enemies of God want to conceal.
They work in the darkness; they manipulate money and power behind the scenes. They stay in the dark because they know their schemes would not survive being exposed in the light.
They know a time is coming when their evil will be completely revealed:
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed: nor hidden, that shall not be known.
For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness, shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers, shall be preached on the housetops. (Lk 12:2-3)
In the end, there will be perfect justice. But in this life, the servants of Satan will have many victories, they will do great evil, innocents will be killed, and souls will be lost. Our victory here will never be final.
Newman wrote:
We do a part of the work, not all. It is a battle which goes on between good and evil, and though by God’s grace we do something, we cannot do more. There is confusion of nations and perplexity.
It is God’s will that so it should be, to show His power. He alone can heal the soul, He alone can expel the devil.
And therefore we must wait for a great deal, till He comes down, till He comes down from His seat on high, His seat in glory, to aid us and deliver us.
We cannot do everything, but we are doing something.
We are saving precious babies who would otherwise be lost.
We are the bringing the Gospel to souls who might otherwise be damned.
We are waking up warriors for freedom, in every nation of the earth.
And this is something – is it not in fact a very great deal?
The full exposure of evil will only come at the end of time, but there is much that can be done to defend innocents from the wicked in this life.
But exposing evil means reporting stories that are often hard to read.
For me, some of the most difficult stories to share are those of men and women who have had irreversible surgery – permanently mutilating their bodies – and are now filled with regret.
The anguish of these men and women is often almost past bearing.
I can’t think of them without reflecting on Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane, bearing the anguish of the world, sweating blood as He endured psychological anguish greater than anyone else could ever suffer.
But LifeSiteNews must share these stories to stop other men and women from going down this terrible, irreversible path.
The medico-political establishment will never tell the truth about what they are doing to innocent and vulnerable bodies.
Without LifeSiteNews and other truthful media, we would be kept in the dark until it happens to our child, our relative, our friend.
Please support LifeSiteNews today so that we can give a voice to those whom the corrupt media establishment wants to silence.
Debbie, a 44-year-old woman whose body was mutilated by transgender surgeons, said:
I remember breaking down. It was like, this was a mistake. It should never have happened. But what do you do about it? How do you go through another harrowing transition? What do you do? I’ve got no hair. I’ve got a beard. I’ve had all my body mutilated. How do I go back?
Debbie had been sexually abused by her father. But, like many, instead of receiving the help she needed to overcome her trauma, she was betrayed again, this time by the medico-political establishment.
“I was traumatized by what had happened in my life, and it was misdiagnosed as being transgender,” she continued.
“Looking back now, I realize that it was simply a feeling that if I didn’t have a vagina, I couldn’t be raped.”
The horror stories are endless
Time and time again, it is those who have already suffered much in life who are sacrificed on the altar of transgenderism by an elite wholly given over to the service of Satan.
A 41-year-old autistic man, who was bullied at school, was later told by counsellors that he would be happier living as a woman. After a period of homelessness, a doctor told him surgery would reduce the need for him to take drugs. He was castrated without even understanding what was going to be done to him.
Yet another young victim is Yaeli Martinez. Like many teenagers, she had a difficult time during adolescence. At high school, she suffered from depression.
Under the influence of a school counselor and the school’s LGBT club, she began “socially transitioning” to live as though a boy, without her mother’s knowledge.
When her mother found out and began to voice concerns, she was stripped of custody of her daughter by the Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services.
This led Yaeli to leave home, aged just 16. For three years, she tried to live as a man, but her depression continued to get worse. She committed suicide when she was just 19 years old.
There are many more stories like this, and they all need to be told, to stop other young people going down this path, and to wake parents up to the dangers their children face.
And it isn’t just vulnerable young people and parents at risk – they are coming for everyone. They are determined to prevent us from speaking the truth.
- In Texas a nurse has been fired after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s alleged use of Texas Medicaid to cover attempted “sex changes” for children.
- In Germany a podcaster has been fined 25,000 euros ($20,898) for referring to a “transgender” person with the “wrong” pronouns.
- Across America, female athletes have suffered cracked skulls, traumatic brain injury, paralysis, and other injuries at the hands of “transgender” men – sometimes causing life-long damage.
But for me, some of the most heart-breaking stories are the testimonies of parents who couldn’t protect their children from having their bodies destroyed.
“It’s an absolute nightmare for a mother to live through,” said Elaine Davidson. “I found out about the surgeries after the fact.”
Elaine first saw the photos of her 17-year-old daughter’s chest – bloody bandages covering the places where her breasts had been cut off – on social media. She had a double mastectomy and hysterectomy without her parents ever knowing.
And sometimes, it is the parents who are responsible for the catastrophic assaults perpetrated on their children.
There are far too many children like “Jazz” Jennings whose parents “socially transitioned” him at the age of five.
At 11, he had a hormone blocker implanted into his arm to prevent puberty. He was later castrated.
“Jazz” is now a “transgender celebrity” but admits, “I don’t feel like me, ever” and “I just want to feel like myself.”
If we remain silent, more innocent lives will be blighted forever.
One parent, representing a national group of parents whose children identify as transgender, expressed her horror that the medico-political establishment is mutilating the bodies of those who just need to loved:
What happens when other factors are overlooked in a rush to hormones and surgery? What if there is other trauma, other pain, behind these youthful feelings and troubles? Can’t we heal the hurts without cutting the body?
And once we have cut that beautiful body, when the voice is permanently broken, the beard is there for good, the breasts are gone, what happens if the body was never wrong to start with?
What will you tell the daughters that realize, too late, that they have destroyed their ability to bear children, or to nurse them? When they find that their wounds had other causes, other origins, and required other treatments?
These are the truths that we must tell, and we must get them out to more and more people, until the whole world knows what is going on. The mother continued:
I plead with you to hear the parents, and the many stories of young people who have changed their minds after medical transition.
This is not healthcare, this is a medical experiment. This is not lifesaving care, these are criminal actions.
And they must be stopped.
These are criminal actions and they must be stopped!
The weight of evil in this world is great.
But we must resist it. We must fight it. And we must defeat it.
And we will defeat this evil by telling the truth.
LifeSiteNews is the world’s leading source of unbiased news. We are not controlled by big government or big business. Our only boss is our conscience, which instructs us that we must tell the truth.
But we can only keep telling the truth with your support.
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The reality is that our work costs money. So far, your generous support has always seen us through. Not only have you covered our basic costs, you have also helped us to grow year on year, so that we can bring the truth to millions more people worldwide.
But the weight of the evil is getting greater, and the storm clouds of war are growing. We can only stand up to Satan, we can only do our part, if we all stand together.
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John-Henry Westen
Editor-in-Chief
P.S. I know that the weight of evil in our world can sometimes be overwhelming. But there is no greater weight than that borne by Christ on the Cross.
He has already carried our sins and our suffering. We must suffer for a short time, knowing that eternal victory is His.
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John-Henry is the co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews.com. He and his wife Dianne have eight children and they live in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario, Canada.
He has spoken at conferences and retreats, and appeared on radio and television throughout the world. John-Henry founded the Rome Life Forum, an annual strategy meeting for life, faith and family leaders worldwide. He is a board member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family. He is a consultant to Canada’s largest pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and serves on the executive of the Ontario branch of the organization. He has run three times for political office in the province of Ontario representing the Family Coalition Party.
John-Henry earned an MA from the University of Toronto in School and Child Clinical Psychology and an Honours BA from York University in Psychology.
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