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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Actually, it is unethical as well as illegal to render medical advice without a license. And it is heretical to pretend that the Papacy confers authority to pronounce on matters of science.
I’m confused on the moral issue. I agree with what Strickland says about not being involved in any way in abortion. But is taking the vaccine somehow promoting abortion? It’s only a stem-cell line used in testing, not part of the vaccine. Moral quandary?
No.
They seem to be bringing him about. Almost intentionally.
do you wanna see the pope on the end of a rope?
do you think he’s a fool?
They think they’re the authorities on everything.
I bet Pacamama appeared to him in a vision.
Agreed!
Then again, they’ve been sort of conditioned for hundreds of years to submit to the Pope as the “Vicar of Christ” and the successor to the Apostle Peter. So I can understand (somewhat) why Catholics complain about him but no one puts a stop to it.
He can cram the vaccine up his unholy frock.
This Pope speaks with all the moral authority of Baghdad Bob. He’s done more to reduce Catholicism to an anachronism than all the Protestants, Muslims,
Hottentots, and Hindus put together. Will no savior arise to purge the Church of this pop-culture play actor?
lol
Head of kin jung un, face of xi..u get it..lol
I don’t listen to Satanists, sorry.
I quit caring about what the pope thinks since the 95 Theses.
You can have mine commie pope.
Nobody, not even Catholics listen to this circus sideshow, clown prince of evil.
Fake President, Vice President, Media, Elections, and a fake Pope.
More reason NOT to take it..
Many need reminding that the Papal Magisterium does not extend to prudential judgments on the efficacy or safety of an array of possible vaccines, medicines, prophylactic regimens or public health approaches. Bonus insight: nor does infallibility pertain to papal diplomacy.
Satan’s representative on earth.
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