Vatican orders all employees to get vaccine or submit to testing

Axios ^ | 09/28/2021 | Shawna Chen

[SeekAndFind]

The Vatican City State said Tuesday that it will require all employees to provide proof of vaccination or documentation of a recent negative COVID test, the Washington Post reports.

Why it matters: Pope Francis, who was vaccinated in January, has campaigned for people to get the shots, calling it a moral duty. Some Catholics, however, have argued for exemptions on religious grounds.

• Employees without proper documentation will be considered "unjustly absent" and receive no salary, per the Post.
• The Vatican is not allowing exemptions at the moment, though the Secretariat of State and the city-state's health department will review the issue.
• The new policy goes into effect on Oct. 1.

The big picture: Roughly 82% of Catholic adults in the U.S. say they were at least partially vaccinated as of August, according to Pew Research Center.

[Reno89519]

Where is their faith in God?

[rktman]

Because the gov of new york made her proclamation?

[BenLurkin]

God doesn’t expect his church to eschew medicine.

Not that these “vaccines” seems like very good medicine.

[ground_fog]

Imagine Jesus turning away someone because the did not take the evil jab. Those who took it..repent

[BenLurkin]

Pope Frank is pretty far from Jesus, IMO.

[siamesecats]

It seems to me Pope Francis is working with the devil to destroy the Church; I just can’t figure out why.

Has anyone read Finding Vigano? I just finished reading it, and I highly recommend it.

[mewzilla]

The Catholic Church gets a lof of funding from governments.

Follow the money.

[Tudorfly]

Apparently Vatican employees will not qualify for a religious exemption. Ironic.