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Pope Francis calls on ‘everyone’ to take COVID vaccine: ‘it must be done’
LifeSite News ^ | January 9, 2021 | John-Henry Westen

Posted on 01/09/2021 4:12:18 PM PST by ebb tide

Pope Francis calls on ‘everyone’ to take COVID vaccine: ‘it must be done’

The Pope said he himself would be taking the vaccine and that it is 'ethically' acceptable that everyone else take it as well.

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 vaccineShould 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. 

LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page. View it here.  



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; liar; poiticalpope; puppetpope; risk; scamdemic; secularpope
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To: ebb tide

Did God make human nucleic acid chain?

Who made the NOVEL viral nucleic acid chain?

Why did they give it ‘gain’ [more kill-ability]?

Who put HIV on it? Why?

Why did the SAME organization that made it,
own the patent, and get royalties from every test,
from every vaccine, and from every source as
it WITHHELD the virus from other labs (to this day)?

Why would anyone sentient demand anyone ELSE take
an untested antifertility, mutating, alive, oncogenic,
living nucleic acid which has ALSO
already shown facial paralysis, hyperimmune reactions,
flipping of blood and HIV tests (or worse),
and death?


21 posted on 01/09/2021 4:29:26 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: knarf

I think ol’ Frankie is not the Antichrist, but rather his right-hand man the False Prophet, who will oversee the religious arm of the AC’s One World Empire, performing all sorts of false miracles and even calling down fire from heaven in order to convince the world that the AC is God.

Even asbestos underwear won’t help him where he’s going.


22 posted on 01/09/2021 4:30:28 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: ebb tide

I remember reading some prophecy many years ago dealing with the “black pope/last pope”
I think we found him.


23 posted on 01/09/2021 4:33:31 PM PST by Tolk2112
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To: cyberstoic

Saw a church freind this morning, he got his 1st of the 2 injections last thursday....he is now exhibiting signs of Bells Palsy. 1 side of face is drooping, eyes not blinking at the same time.

I think I’ll pass forcthectime being.


24 posted on 01/09/2021 4:34:24 PM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: ebb tide

I try to be nice, but

Pope, you satanic tool

Fk off


25 posted on 01/09/2021 4:35:51 PM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: ebb tide

How low can he go?
Only God knows.


26 posted on 01/09/2021 4:35:53 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: AFB-XYZ
I am amazed that Catholics have allowed this to continue so long.

I've been reading about him on FR for what?... three, four, five years ?

27 posted on 01/09/2021 4:36:34 PM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: ebb tide

It’s almost as if George Soros owns him.


28 posted on 01/09/2021 4:37:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: ebb tide

FU, Frankie!


29 posted on 01/09/2021 4:38:51 PM PST by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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To: ebb tide

I was taught at an early age the Pope is infallible.

With this guy, I gotta believe even God does a facepalm whenever Francis opens his mouth.


30 posted on 01/09/2021 4:39:04 PM PST by twoputt
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To: twoputt

You probably haven’t read all the stupid stuff he said.


31 posted on 01/09/2021 4:40:14 PM PST by TTFX
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To: ConservativeMind

Is the bear Catholic? Does the Pope...


32 posted on 01/09/2021 4:43:31 PM PST by Noumenon (As long as you have a rifle, you still have a vote. (KTF))
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To: ebb tide

Could be warming up to be the Tribulation false prophet.


33 posted on 01/09/2021 4:43:58 PM PST by Maudeen (ARE YOU PREPARED . . . FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS? https://www.patburt.com/)
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To: ebb tide

Pope should try performing an anatomically impossible act upon himself.


34 posted on 01/09/2021 4:47:13 PM PST by zek157
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To: V_TWIN

My daughter’s MIL got her first shot right before Christmas. She then hosted the family celebration on Christmas Eve and not only got the virus from her niece, but half a dozen other family members are now sick. One even had to be hospitalized, the super liberal who’s paranoid about getting Covid but still went to the party, lol. And don’t worry, she’s gonna be fine.


35 posted on 01/09/2021 4:47:14 PM PST by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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To: ebb tide

The anti-Christ wants me to get a vaccine? I don’t think so! Any slim chance I would have taken it was just eliminated.


36 posted on 01/09/2021 4:48:30 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Sirius Lee

Hell to the No.


37 posted on 01/09/2021 4:49:16 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: ebb tide

Can I say FU to the Pope?


38 posted on 01/09/2021 4:52:15 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: ebb tide

No. It doesn’t you heretic.


39 posted on 01/09/2021 4:52:42 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: ebb tide

Sorry Mario, I had a mother and father. I don’t need a replacement.


40 posted on 01/09/2021 4:52:46 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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