Posted on 08/22/2021 11:44:30 AM PDT by ebb tide
Liberal Catholics normally extol the rights of conscience and favor a loose interpretation of rules. But they have turned strict and dogmatic on all matters related to COVID. They treat the unvaccinated as sinners beneath contempt. “Let’s start replacing ‘vaccine hesitancy’ with ‘vaccine stupidity’ or ‘vaccine selfishness,’” says Michael Sean Winters at the National Catholic Reporter.
Pope Francis has joined the collectivists in casting vaccine use as compulsory. “I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine,” he has said. The Vatican has a policy of “no jab, no job,” reports Reuters.
The same liberal Catholics who say the Church must honor Joe Biden’s conscience extend no such sympathies to the unvaccinated. They scoff at “conscience exemptions.” The New York City archdiocese sent out a blunt memo to priests, saying, “There is no basis for a priest to issue a religious exemption to the vaccine.” Catholic institutions appear to be imposing vaccine mandates with even more relish than secular ones.
Never mind that the Church has no official teaching on mandatory vaccine use. Even the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope Francis has said, “practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.”
The bishops of Colorado have said that vaccine use is “not morally obligatory” and warn that this is no time for the Church to join the stampede against conscience:
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Ping
Which Catholic Church?
The real one or the one currently being headed by the pseudo-Pope?
No. They’ve already said so
I’m gonna say no they won’t defend. I hear nothing less than Hillary Clinton’s politics coming from the pulpit.
The self-deceived, tone deaf hierarchy weren’t there for us when the overblown pandemic started, or during the continuing fake fear-hype fiasco, and they won’t be there for us now to stand up for our God-given right to choose. They quickly fall into lockstep with the globalist agenda and serve the “great reset” rather than The People of God in these most evil of times. Pathetic! Saint Maximilian pray for us!
From what I’ve seen, the legal basis for a religious exemption in the U.S. is so broad that it is usually accepted (in government, at least) at face value with no supporting documentation other than a personal attestation. I’ve never once heard of a case where a person was required to submit a letter or other document from a pastor or other religious leader as a condition of a religious exemption.
Exactly. Many American Bishops seem to be supine, spineless closeted homosexuals. I've seen simple nuns and priests speaking out much more forcefully on these issues.
All in Colorado are defending Conscience Rights.
They have already said no.
Thanks for the link.
We need more bishops who have spines.
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