Posted on 08/20/2021 2:33:53 PM PDT by ebb tide
CV NEWS FEED // Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago stated this week that there is “no basis in Catholic moral teaching for rejecting vaccine mandates on religious grounds,” and instructed priests under his authority to turn down parishioners who ask them to sign exemptions.
In a letter to priests in the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cupich wrote that pastors should “politely decline” requests that they sign exemptions, “and explain that doing so would mean that you would be endorsing something that is not in keeping with Catholic teaching,” according to the Catholic News Agency.
“Parishioners surely can determine their own actions, but it would be important to clarify that they cannot use the teaching of the church to justify such decisions, which in their essence, are a rejection of the church’s authentic moral teaching regarding Covid vaccines,” Cupich wrote.
Cupich’s letter seems to contradict guidance from the Vatican’s top doctrinal authority, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF).
In a CDF statement released in December 2020, the Vatican addressed a number of issues connected with vaccines, including the use of fetal cells in inoculation research.
The document stated that the “common good may recommend vaccination” in times of pandemic, but added: “At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.”
As CatholicVote has reported, America’s bishops are divided on the question of vaccine mandates.
While some bishops like Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York have forbidden priests from granting the religious exemption that various laws allow to vaccine mandates, others have encouraged their clergy to consider and grant the requests.
In a joint letter published Aug. 6 on the Archdiocese of Denver website, Colorado’s four Catholic bishops upheld the right of Catholic laypeople to refuse a vaccine on the grounds of conscience. Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver, Bishop Stephen J. Berg of Pueblo, Bishop James R. Golka of Colorado Springs, and Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodriguez of Denver said that while some of the vaccines remain “morally acceptable under certain circumstances,” nevertheless “the government should not impose medical interventions on an individual or group of persons.”
Some religious freedom advocates affirm that Americans do not need permission from their clergy to qualify for religious exemption.
“Americans of all faith traditions have the First Amendment right to religious freedom. They have that freedom even if their pastor or minister disagrees with them,” said Joshua Mercer, Political Director of CatholicVote.
The bishops of South Dakota emphasized that each Catholic has the God-given right to determine if they should seek a religious exemption. They stated:
[A] Catholic may, after consideration of relevant information and moral principles, discern it to be right or wrong to receive one of the available Covid-19 vaccines. If he or she thus comes to the sure conviction in conscience that they should not receive it, we believe this is a sincere religious belief, as they are bound before God to follow their conscience. We support any Catholic who has come to this conviction in seeking religious exemption from any Covid-19 requirement.
The bishops of Colorado also cited history to warn that vaccine mandates could lead to further violations of human rights.
“We always remain vigilant when any bureaucracy seeks to impose uniform and sweeping requirements on a group of people in areas of personal conscience,” the bishops wrote:
Throughout history, human rights violations and a loss of respect for each person’s God-given dignity often begin with government mandates that fail to respect the freedom of conscience. In the case of the COVID-19 vaccine, we are convicted that the government should not impose medical interventions on an individual or group of persons. We urge respect for each person’s convictions and personal choices.
The document stated that the “common good may recommend vaccination” in times of pandemic, but added: “At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.”
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The Catholic Church is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the globalist totalitarian oligarchy.
No, the Vatican under Bergoglio is a wholly owned subsidiary of the globalists, but no one owns the ordinary faithful who, in the tradition of St Paul, are resisting them to their faces.
Rhetorical question of the day: Is he an IDIOT?
I never went to the church for religious exemption for my school-aged children. I went online and submitted a request from the state of Texas for their form. Filled it out and had notarized. Turned into school and whoola, good for 2-years
Good for him!
The vaccine industry is pure evil and fraudulent
“Vaccinations only prove that you can inject someone
with highly acidic toxic poisonous chemicals and that person
hopefully surviving the debilitating side effects, such as multiple
sclerosis, lesions on the brain, paralysis, breakdown of the red
and white blood cells, ulcerations of the liver, lung, kidney, pancreas,
stomach and bowels, seizures and death. Vaccinations provide
zero immunity. True immunity that leads to health and fitness
can only be achieved by making healthy lifestyle and dietary choices.”
diphtheria bacillus from the throats of patients.
1881 Sternberg in his own lab isolated the pneumococcus
1882 Robert Koch isolates the tubercle bacillus
1883 Robert Koch isolates the cholera bacillus.
1883 Max Von Pettenkofer suggested that Koch’s bacteria were only one of the many factors in the causation of cholera. He prepared test tubes thick with lethal cholera bacteria and he and several of his students drank them down with no side affects.
1888 Bacteriological Institute opens in Paris for experimentation with animals and production of vaccines and sera. Other institutes open around the world modeled after the Paris Institute.
1888 Bacteriological Institute in Odessa, Russia tries its hand at a vaccine for anthrax. Over 4500 sheep are vaccinated; 3,700 of them die from the vaccination.
1909 New York Press, January 26, 1909 publishes a report by W.B. Clark which states, ‘cancer was practically unknown until cowpox vaccination began to be introduced. I have seen 200 cases of cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer in an un-vaccinated person.’ Scientific evidence begins to mount that where human lymph is employed in a vaccine, syphilis, leprosy and TB soon follow. Where calf lymph is employed in the creation of a vaccine, TB and cancer soon follow. (Cancer and Vaccination by Esculapius).
1911 The head of French Public Health for the French Army said that germs alone were ‘powerless to create an epidemic.’
1912 First whooping cough (Pertussis) vaccine created by two French bacteriologists, Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou, who wanted to use it in Tunisia. After they grew Pertussis bacteria in large pots, they killed it with heat, mixed it with formaldehyde (used to embalm bodies) and injected it into children.
“Vaccinations, Not a Virus, Is Responsible for Spanish Flu – 1918”
– Dr. Robert O. Young
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http://www.phmiracleliving.com
1933 a British science team to identify the first filterable bacteria in man, yet propaganda says that the virus of Spanish flu killed millions of civilians and soldiers during the pandemic from 1918 to 1920.
Many would have us believe that all those American soldiers who died from non-combatant causes died from Spanish flu. However, U.S. Army records show that seven men died after being vaccinated.
A report from U.S. Secretary of War Henry L Stimson, the deaths were not only verified but also there had been 63 deaths and 28,585 cases of hepatitis reported as a direct result of yellow fever vaccination during only six months of the war. Plus, the yellow fever vaccination was only one of the 14 to 25 shots given to recruits.
1911 vaccinations became a requirement in the U.S. Army. Cases of typhoid and vaccinial diseases increased rapidly, according to Army records.
1917 The death rate from typhoid reached the highest point in the history of the U.S. Army after America entered the war.
In 1917, 19,608 men were admitted into army hospitals due to anti typhoid inoculation and vaccinia, according to a report of the Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army; and this doesn’t take into account others whose symptoms were attributed to other causes. The army doctors knew all these cases of disease and death were due to vaccination and were honest enough to admit it in their medical reports. Army doctors tried to suppress the symptoms of typhoid with a stronger vaccine, however it caused a worse form of typhoid, paratyphoid. They then concocted an even stronger vaccine to suppress the previous one and created an even worse disease–Spanish flu.
After the war, this was one of the vaccines used to protect a panic-stricken world from the soldiers returning from WWI battle fronts infected with dangerous diseases.
The rest is history.
1918 Great influenza epidemic attributed to widespread use of vaccines that killed up to 100 million people.
1921 BCG tuberculosis vaccine developed.
1922 A study by Samuel Torrey Orton connects emotional disturbance with neurological problems. This insight was lost after World War II when psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis became popular, breaking the connection. The emotional disturbances caused by vaccines then became financial fodder for the new psych-industries. With the causes suppressed, a new industry was born.
1925 Danish researcher Thorvald Madsen tries a modified Pertussis vaccine during an epidemic in the Faroc Islands. It did not prevent Pertussis. (See 1933).
1925 General vaccine programs against tuberculosis began in the United States.
1927 British government appoints a committee to inquire into ‘vaccine lymph’, as it is noticed that the ‘glycerinated calf lymph’ used in vaccinations causes deaths from ‘sleepy sickness’. Two London professors bring notice of the problem to the government in 1922. It takes 5 years before the government responds.
April, 1930 Eli Lilly, makers of thimerisol, inject the product into 22 people with meningitis who all die. Lilly publishes the “study”, claiming that thimerisol, 50% mercury by weight, is safe.
1930 Max Theiler develops a yellow fever vaccine.
1931 Roosevelt endorses polio ‘immune serum’, precursor to vaccines in 1950’s.
1932 Diptheria vaccines injure 171 and kill 1 in Charolles, France.
THIS POPE MUST GO! EVICT HIM FROM THE CHURCH!
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