Posted on 08/17/2021 11:11:41 AM PDT by Marchmain
Concerns regarding recently instituted or expected mandatory vaccination policies for COVID-19 by various governmental and institutional authorities, including Catholic health care systems and universities, have been voiced by the Catholic Medical Association, the National Catholic Bioethics Center and the bishops of Colorado.
These statements either critique the mandates themselves, casting them as a form of authoritative overreach, or call for wide allowance of religious/moral exemptions. There is, however, no sufficient moral reason for Catholics to request such an exemption. Furthermore, as Pope Francis has affirmed, there may be a moral obligation to be vaccinated for COVID-19 unless one has a medical contraindication.
Such an obligation is fundamentally grounded in the Gospel's call for each of us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves (Mark 12:31). Insofar as loving oneself entails a moral obligation to use proportionate means to safeguard one's own life and health, Christians are called to love others by taking proportionate means to safeguard their lives and health. As St. Thomas Aquinas exhorts in his commentary on St. Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians:
It is prescribed that a human being sustains his body, for otherwise he murders himself. … Therefore, one is bound to nourish his body, and we are bound likewise with respect to all other things without which the body cannot live. ....
Invoking the concept of the "common good" immediately raises red flags for those, such as National Catholic Bioethics Center President Joseph Meaney, who emphatically assert each person's right and obligation to follow their own conscience in deciding whether to be vaccinated. There is an evident "culture war" ideology underlying Meaney's position and that of the Colorado bishops.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncronline.org ...
Going back to orthodoxy. The Romans have maligned the truth in scripture.
Big Pharma paid off the Pope...
yawn...
The conscience of the individual is supreme. Some individuals don’t want the vax because of the bad side effects that are real, even if the media refuses to tell us what they are.
The mandate is to love one’s neighbor as oneself. Self comes first logically in that mandate.
A common misconception here. Neither your church, nor pastor, deacon, priest or bishop have any say about your religious exemptions. The law hinges on your personal, deeply held convictions and not the statements or opinions of others.
Good luck with argument when you meet your maker.
The ImPopester is a marxist.
There is no need for any formalized church. Over the course of history they have used religion as a weapon to control people and keep them obedient to them, not God. Have a personnel relationship with God, ignore the church.
In that entire 2,000 word article, the authors neglected to address even in passing the Catholic objection to using aborted babies in the development or testing of these injections. (They are not “vaccines”).
F*ck off.
A) It does not prevent you from catching COVID
B) It does not prevent you from spreading COVID
C) COVID is no more a threat than the flu (contrary to all of the lies and propaganda)
Anyone who thinks mandatory or forced "vaccination" for COVID is justified, is an idiot paving the way to absolute tyranny.
In our area the primary use of Catholic Churches is a meet-up location for child molesters—so yeah I stay far away from them...
;-)
“Good luck with argument when you meet your maker.”
That is the bottom line.
Are they invested in Pharma like I am?
I am making money from this regardless of my opinion.
Orthodox Jews are being targeted by the Australian Premier Daniel Andrews of Victoria State.
He denounced with dirty language an engagement party involving an Orthodox Jewish family with 69 people last week...
That story and more at the blog....
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2021/08/news-summary-intelligence-report_17.html
While I agreed with you, that argument will still result in you getting fired.
The words Pope Francis and moral obligation should not appear in the same sentence.
Of course you know this is from the National Catholic Reporter (aka the National Catholic Distorter), one of the most notoriously liberal Catholic papers in the US. It’s like getting your news from CNN or NPR— you’re just asking to be misinformed. It no more reflects authentic Catholic teaching than the present Pope.
[ The Church is sure pushing the vaccine...? ]
I blame the globohomo commie anti-pope
The process used to change the source of tissue from a crime to that of a “legitimate” source is analogous to money laundering.
My guess. The pope is the false religious leader that goes hand and hand with the beast.
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