Posted on 09/21/2021 4:31:31 PM PDT by ebb tide
Spokesman Matteo Bruni was unable to confirm whether it would be needed for public papal events. ‘I think certain decisions are still being made,’ he told the Register Sept. 20.
VATICAN CITY — Details remain unclear on how the Vatican will enforce an anti-COVID “green pass” for staff, residents, and visitors ahead of its implementation on Oct. 1.
According to a decree signed on Sept. 18 and published on Monday, entry into Vatican territory will only be allowed for those in possession of a digital “green pass” certificate attesting to a “state of vaccination” against COVID-19, recent recovery from the virus or a negative test.
The pass will apply to “citizens, residents of the State, personnel serving in any capacity in the Governorate of Vatican City State, in the various bodies of the Roman Curia and related institutions, and to all visitors and users of services.”
The decree, signed by the outgoing president of Vatican City State, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, was issued on the express instruction of Pope Francis following a private audience with the cardinal on Sept. 7.
The decree states that during the audience, Francis “affirmed it is necessary to ensure the health and well-being of the working community while respecting the dignity, rights and fundamental freedoms of each of its members.” He therefore requested the Governorate — the administrative office of Vatican City State — to “adopt every suitable measure to prevent, control and counteract the health emergency” in Vatican territory.
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Thunder and lightning?
Their equivalent of “The Bishop” of Monty Python.
Ecclesiastical authorities, whatever office they may hold, shall be admonished and induced and if necessary compelled by ecclesiastical censure, that as they wish to be esteemed and numbered among the faithful, so for the defense of the faith they ought publicly to take an oath that they will strive in good faith and to the best of their ability to exterminate [get rid of somehow] in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all unvaccinated persons pointed out by the WHO; so that whenever anyone shall have assumed authority, let him be bound to confirm this decree by oath.
But if a ruler, after having been requested and admonished by the Church, should neglect to cleanse his church of this infectious foulness, let him be quarantined by the metropolitan and the other bishops of the province. If he refuses to be vaccinated within a month, let the matter be made known to the supreme pontiff, that he may declare the ruler’s vassals absolved from their allegiance and may offer the church to be ruled by vaccinated lay Catholics, who on the extermination of the unvaccinated may possess their church without hindrance and preserve it in the purity of vaccination. .
The same law is to be observed in regard to those who have no chief rulers (that is, are independent). Catholics who have girded themselves with the cross for the extermination of the unvaccinated shall enjoy the indulgences and privileges granted to those who go in defense of the vaccinated. (adapted from Canons of the Ecumenical Fourth Lateran Council (canon 3), 1215: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.asp)
Wow I feel privileged, I can say I’ve been banned from the Vatican by the pope himself. Is this sort of like being excommunicated?
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