When I was a young student (learning Hardon) we were often told that the world thinks in years and decades, but the Church thinks in centuries and millennia. Imagine, if you will, the damage Bergolio and his minions like Cupich, have done to the Church with their insistence on the vaccine. What will happen to the reputation of the Church if the vaccine program is halted, or shown to be killing and injuring millions of people, or that the whole program is just an excuse for the establishment of a bio-technocratic state through passports. No one will ever trust the Magisterium again.

Ah yes, the autism again. And here's proof of your insincerity: I also have autism, which says a lot about you. And simply declaring what Francis says to be "Catholic teaching" does not make it so.

I have two questions for you: simple "yes" or "no" answers:

(1) Is abortion intrinsically evil?

(2) Does the state have the right to mandate experimental vaccines for the population, regardless of the individual’s personal medical profile?

You miss the point entirely.

We have witnessed over the past 18 months the most egregious and unjust incursion into every aspect of human freedom, including the freedom to worship, the freedom to visit my mother in hospital, the freedom to work, to make a living, to determine what medical interventions are good and necessary for me. Suicide rates and alcohilism and drug abuse are through the roof.

Our Catholic clergy, with very, very, few exceptions, have totally capitulated to this monstrous overreach and violation of every norm of human freedom, and instead of fighting for the people have now simply made themselves proxies for the state mandated health dictats, in the face of overwhelming science to the contrary. I can’t go to mass, but Costco is okay, and our weak and cowardly clergy have totally surrendered.

To underscore the point, the best you can do it seems is produce a mealy-mouthed, banal, and theologically-inept argument that we shouldn’t fake reasons for not wearing face diapers, and prattle on about legitimate authority. You have no authority to speak on this matter, no more than our globalist politicians do. The laity are beginning to wake up to your total betrayal of your flock.

This is patent nonsense, and speaks to the very real crisis of moral teaching among our clergy and episcopacy today. The shameful capitulation of the Church to what are clearly unjust and unconstitutional laws aside, and the reprehensible dictates of Francis and the like of Cupich that the experimental vaccines are morally obligatory should be enough to make any thinking, decent Catholic think twice before taking the advice of any Catholic cleric on the COVID scam. How humiliating it is that our Protestant brothers and sisters are resisting the tyranny while Catholic clerics continue to equivocate and cower.

First of all, no one is obliged to follow unjust authority. Human governments are only legitimate insofar as they uphold the moral and natural law. No one is under any obligation whatsoever to follow an illegitimate government or law, and indeed are required to resist, with the tools one has at their disposal, and with every means necessary, tyrannical and unjust laws.

Shame on you Father Matthew for continuing to prop up this effete and cowardly defense of the State’s overreach. Grow a pair for God’s sake.