Hi John
I only have an old email address. Could you send me yours to expatmartin@gmx.de ?
Regards,
Martin
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: The Lepanto Institute weekly Review carries
: an article by Michael Hichborn titled: Pope
: Francis Awards Architect of Safe-Abortion
: Fund with Pontifical Ho
:
: It commences: On January 12, reports began
: surfacing on Twitter that Lilianne Ploumen,
: former Minister for Foreign Trade and
: Development Cooperation in the Netherlands,
: was honored by Pope Francis with the title
: of Commander in the Pontifical Equestrian
: Order of St. Gregory the Great. The Lepanto
: Institute was able to confirm from a
: December 22, 2017 Dutch radio broadcast that
: Ploumen indeed received the honor. In a
: brief video clip promoting the broadcast,
: Ploumen displays the medal while saying that
: she received it from the Pope.
:
: Here is the video:
:
: Here is a crude translation of the exchange:
: BNR – And this is the umpteenth prize that
: Lilianne Ploumen observes, won in 2017 and
: from whom they came.
: Ploumen – Yes, it is a high distinction from
: the Vatican; from the pope.
: BNR – From the pope.
: Ploumen – Beautiful.
: BNR – Yes.
: Ploumen – It is Commander in the order of
: St. Gregory.
: BNR – And that despite that you are
: pro-abortion.
: Ploumen – Yes you can check.
:
: To say that Lilianne Ploumen is
: “pro-abortion” is an extreme understatement
: and doesn’t even come close to the
: scandalous reality of her activism.
:
: In January of last year, after US President
: Donald Trump reinstated the Mexico City
: Policy, Ploumen launched a new NGO called
: She Decides to provide mass amounts of funds
: to organizations that would no longer
: receive funds from the US government. The
: Mexico City Policy automatically denies US
: funding for international organizations
: which perform or promote abortion.
:
: Referring to the Mexico City Policy as a
: “Global Gag Rule,” Ploumen stated that the
: intention of She Decides was to continue
: support for existing programs being run by
: organizations such as the United Nations
: Population Fund (UNPFA), the International
: Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie
: Stopes International. She said, “These are
: successful and effective programs: direct
: support, distributing condoms, making sure
: women are accompanied at the birth, and
: making sure abortion is safe if they have no
: other choice.”
:
: And concludes: The Pontifical Equestrian
: Order of St. Gregory the Great was
: established in September 1831 by Pope
: Gregory XVI. The honor of membership in the
: Order is conferred on individuals for their
: “personal service to the Holy See and to the
: Roman Catholic Church, through their unusual
: labors, their support of the Holy See, and
: their excellent examples set forth in their
: communities and their countries.”
:
: It remains to be seen what service Lilianne
: Ploumen has provided for the Catholic Church
: or the Holy See, given her staunch support
: for homosexuality, abortion and
: contraception. Given that the one thing
: that Lilianne Ploumen is known for in the
: past year is the establishment of a fund
: that provides hundreds of millions of
: dollars to organizations that commit
: abortion and dispense contraception, it is
: difficult, if not impossible, to separate
: her recent Pontifical honor from this
: grievous and scandalous act.
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