Posted on 08/13/2021 2:19:19 PM PDT by ebb tide
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said Thursday the Catholic church supports COVID-19 vaccinations and priests must “caringly decline” any requests from parishioners seeking a religious exemption.
“Such a declaration is particularly problematic because the Holy See has made it clear that receiving the COVID vaccine is perfectly consistent with Catholic faith, and indeed laudatory in light of the common good in this time of pandemic,” wrote McElroy in a letter on Wednesday to priests.
The Diocese of San Diego said there have been reports from California and around the country of priests being pressured to sign a form prepared by the Colorado Catholic Conference suggesting that there is a basis in Catholic teaching that justifies a religious exemption to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received their COVID-19 vaccinations in January. McElroy received his in February.
San Diego Auxiliary Bishop John Dolan participated in the drug studies that resulted in the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
“My greatest worry is that signing this declaration [from the Colorado Catholic Conference] thrusts our priests into the impossible position of asserting that ‘the Catholic Church’s teachings may lead individual Catholics…to decline certain vaccines’ when those priests recognize that Catholic teaching proclaims just the opposite,” said McElroy.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego runs the length of California’s border with Mexico and serves more than 1.3 million Catholics in San Diego and Imperial counties. It includes 98 parishes and 49 elementary and secondary schools
Ping
that’s because they work for the devil
Of course they don’t.
El Popa has made it effectively impossible for a Catholic to credibly claim a religious exemption.
It makes you want to become Orthodox or other Protestant.
Who seyz what the Worldly Marxist Church doctrine is currently?
The bishops in Colorado and other places beg to differ. He can only speak for his own diocese on prudential matters like this.
Catholic Church-b. 1st Century- d. August 2021.
It simply is not against Catholic teaching. The faith is not a rubberstamp for exemption. Treating it like one will make it will build resentment to accommodate other important practices.
You gotta make a better argument about how every vaccine is rejected.
There are several of them made differently. Vaccinations are not intrinsically against the practice of the faith.
He’s wrong.
The Catholic Church stands staunchly for freedom — not forcefulness.
But they do endorse hot beef injections.
Not me. If the truth isn't found in the visible Church that Christ himself founded, it would make Christ a liar when he said the gates of hell would not prevail against his Church, and I would say screw the whole thing.
or other Protestant
BTW. Orthodox are not Protestants. They are Orthodox.
That's why they follow El Popa, just like Catholics.
One of my uncles was a Franciscan priest. Even as far back as the 70s and 80s he was broken-hearted by what was happening to his church.
Sure “common good”! Even Jesus and Mary would get the jab!
This bishop is not known for his conscience.
On questions of prudential judgment, rather than on questions of faith, the bishop can only speak for himself. No Catholic is bound to follow that judgment.
I'm not sure why. If people have a legitimate and earnest Religious Exemption, why does getting a statement from a Priest increase the chances of the approval?
what kind of an idiot do they have in San Diego?!
Product packaging often proclaims (in large and clear lettering), “Not tested on animals.”
Many Americans “religiously” make sure to buy products that are produced without harming animals.
I “religiously” like to make sure that I am not jabbed with a “vaccine” that was developed, produced, or tested by harming unborn children.
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