Posted on 11/20/2021 5:00:08 PM PST by marshmallow
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane made the announcement in a November 15 letter to clergy obtained by LifeSiteNews. ‘I will not consider conscientious objection,’ he wrote to priests.
BRISBANE, Australia (LifeSiteNews) – Australia’s senior Catholic cleric Archbishop Mark Coleridge has warned that any clergy in the Archdiocese of Brisbane who do not take the abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections, will be removed from “pastoral duties,” and suffer “suspension of faculties” until vaccination is complete.
The dictates came in a November 15 letter from the archbishop’s desk, obtained by LifeSiteNews.
Referencing severe new COVID mandates which take effect from mid-December, cutting off the unvaccinated from many aspects of daily life, Coleridge said the archdiocese “needs to comply with the government health directions which have been issued in some sectors in which the Archdiocese operates.”
Writing of the commitment “to the health and safety” of the archdiocese’s “employees, contractors, students, volunteers and lay religious,” Coleridge – president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) – stated that his own injection mandates were “designed to protect agency clients, parishioners and all the faithful.”
Recognizing that “having a vaccination, including the COVID-19 vaccination, is a matter of personal choice,” Coleridge then defended the mandate by appealing to his status as “the sole member and officer of the Archdiocesan Corporation which in civil law is the employer of Archdiocesan staff, including those working in parishes.”
Unvaccinated clergy ‘failing in their duty to care for the faithful’
“In the circumstances of the pandemic, clergy engaged in pastoral ministry who are not doubly vaccinated put the faithful of the parish at risk,” he claimed. “They present a risk to the faithful to whom they minister, as well as to their families.”
“Clergy not doubly vaccinated are failing in their duty to care for the faithful,” he further claimed.
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Australia has a lot of creepy crawling things.
Yeah, in their government!!
Note how the Vatican has become part of many governments these days? Francis is part of the Great Reset.
Time to change denominations.
The Catholic Church leadership seem to be vying for the “False Prophet” position.
Is this part of “render unto Caesar”?
So much confusion these days.
Any priests suspended should hold mass anywhere they can. A building is not The Church, it is where ever two or more are gathered in His name.
BS - No Roman Catholic Bishop anywhere in the world can afford to lose Priests - there aren’t enough Priests to cover the Parishes - Vax or no Vax
Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
No
So much effort to promote evil and demand that others violate their conscience. If a faithful priest has an understanding that he should not take the clot shot, forcing him to do so is morally wrong.
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