Posted on 12/18/2021 6:06:07 PM PST by marshmallow
After disclosing that he has not had a COVID-19 vaccination, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has agreed to reschedule a parish visit at the pastor's request, due to parishioners' health concerns.
Cordileone, who shared his vaccination status on a Dec. 1 podcast, was scheduled to visit St. Agnes Catholic Church in San Francisco on Dec. 19. According to the parish's policy, however, only priests who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 may celebrate Mass there.
For that reason, and because parishioners shared their uneasiness about Cordileone not being vaccinated, Father George Williams, S.J., the pastor, called the archbishop and asked him to postpone his visit.
"These are stressful times enough and I felt his pastoral visit to us would be overshadowed by concerns about the pandemic,” Williams wrote in the parish's Dec. 5 bulletin.
“When I explained this to his Excellency, he graciously understood,” Williams later told ABC7 news. “We look forward to his visit when the circumstances permit.”
Williams said in the bulletin that he feels it is important that “everyone feels safe,” adding that “we all” must “do our part” in preventing the spread of the virus, especially in light of the new Omicron variant.
CNA asked Williams in an email if the archdiocese gives pastors the option to require vaccination, but received no response. That same question was posed to the archdiocese, to which they responded: “health care decisions are a very personal matter.”
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One would rationalize in the District of the Famous Nancy Pelosi, the Archbishop who literally changes the elements into the Body of Christ, it would be far more powerful than Covid. But then their faith is not strong.. they have more trust in Covid than in the Sacraments... Nancy has influenced them well, that one can’t trust the Church and it’s beliefs about the unborn.
Not quite shocking that a man of the cloth puts his faith in God over man. Not to mention his resistance to maybe have his life prolonged through the sacrifice of another life.
So the parishioners were afraid of the Archbishop because he did not have the vaccine? Did they think they would catch COVID from the un-vaccinated person? Are they mentally deficient in this parish?
“Did they think they would catch COVID from the un-vaccinated person?”
Yes. Some people concluded that everyone should get the vaccine, since everyone should have the joy of knowing that Covid is gone. Of course, a vaccinated person can still catch the virus. Cordilenoe is a hero is these times of fake popery, fake presidency and fake fauci-ism.
AMEN! HE IS A HOLY MAN!! I talked to him for 20 minutes.
OUR BISHOP, STILL HASN’T ALLOWED HOLY WATER FONTS!!! HELLO.....it’s HOLY WATER!!!
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