Posted on 01/09/2021 4:12:18 PM PST by ebb tide
anuary 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In an interview scheduled to air Sunday night with the Italian television station Canale 5, Pope Francis has opined that “everyone” must take the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I believe that, ethically, everyone should take the vaccine,” he said, according to a transcript released in advance of the airing of the interview.
The Pope added that he would be taking the vaccine himself and that the Vatican will start administering it to its citizens “next week,” remarking that “it must be done.”
According to the transcript as quoted in The New York Times, Pope Francis suggests that, “it’s an ethical choice, because you are playing with health, life, but you are also playing with the lives of others.”
“I don’t understand why some say, ‘No. Vaccines are dangerous,’” the Pope is quoted as saying. “If it is presented by doctors as a thing that can go well, that has no special dangers, why not take it? There is a suicidal denial that I wouldn’t know how to explain.”
The Pope’s statement leads to many questions. Does he think people who had the virus should still get the vaccine? Should pregnant mothers take it even the UK government has told them not to do so? How about people with allergies that conflict with vaccines whom the FDA and other agencies have said should not take the vaccine? This a rushed vaccine with way too little testing, by all accounts, and yet we are to believe implicitly in its safety and efficacy?
But there is also a moral side to the pope’s reported statements. In a paper released on December 12, 2020, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, along with co-signers Cardinal Janis Pujats, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Archbishops Tomash Peta and Jan Pawel Lenga, expressed their strong conviction that any use of a vaccine tainted with the “unspeakable crime” of abortion, under any circumstances, “cannot be acceptable for Catholics.”
These prelates cite the teaching of St. John Paul II, affirming the duty of every Catholic and person of goodwill to defend “the most basic and fundamental right” to life “with maximum determination.” To make use of vaccines that are “made from the cells of murdered unborn children contradicts [this] ‘maximum determination’ to defend unborn life,” their statement read.
“The crime of abortion is so monstrous that any kind of concatenation with this crime, even a very remote one, is immoral and cannot be accepted under any circumstances by a Catholic once he has become fully aware of it,” they also wrote. “One who uses these vaccines must realize that his body is benefitting from the ‘fruits’ ... of one of mankind’s greatest crimes.”
A week after the statement by Cardinal Pujats and the other bishops, the Vatican department on doctrine put out a statement claiming that Catholics could licitly take even an abortion-tainted COVID vaccine if there were no ethical alternatives available.
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I always like Coke better than Pope-Secola
Well, if I were catholic, I guess I’d still say...NO
It must be done. That makes no sense at all. It’s a vaccine for God’s sake! Take ir and you’re fine. Why should ANYONE take the damn thing if they don’t want it?
Hey Frank — Efffffff Yoooooooooou!
If the Pope says it, it must be wrong.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
The socialist Pope says take the vaccine.
All the more reason to avoid it like a rattlesnake.
This is very dangerous, for the Pope.
If it turns out there is some large error in the vaccines, even one of them...
Children have not been cleared to take any of the vaccines.
He’s the Q-Pope. Trust the plan...
As I understand it the survival rate for covid is 99.7%.....I think I’m good without.
The pope, like all politicians, get the saline injection, while the rest of us get the sterilizing gene modifying injection.
I wouldn’t take advice on a babysitter from that guy.
“All the more reason to avoid it like a rattlesnake”
No that’s the Pentecostals. :D
You first, pops.
Has this commie fraud ever advocated evangelizing for Jesus? Asking for a friend.
No, it mustn’t, Frank. YOU are NOT my BOSS. Where do these idiots come from?
If the Pope says “get the vaccine”...that’s a good reason not to.
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