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
You clearly don’t know what rationalize means. You can’t call something a sin without there being a concept of truth.
Remote or proximate cooperation with evil is still cooperation with evil. It’s been excused because it’s remote but some people still don’t want anything to do with supporting abortion, even indirectly.
Small point: ethics are man-made and based on rationality. The moral law is God’s.
Yet it definitely depends on context there.
When we’re talking about remote, were already in a contextual case. Some vaccinations are simply not in the same realm as others, ergo there simply cannot be a blanket religious exemption without due consideration for what the Church teaches there.
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Small point: ethics are man-made and based on rationality. The moral law is God’s”
Follow on point.
God’s truth does not contradict reason genuinely seeking the truth which is God.
What are your thoughts on this?
True, and that’s the trap of defining it as a ‘religious’ exemption. Instead there should be a category of ‘conscientious objectors’ who may object based on their own beliefs irrespective of what church they may or may not belong to. A Catholic bishop has no authority to mandate the faithful get vaxxed.
Of course, yes!
San Diego’s Bishop Says Catholic Church Does Not Condone Religion
False witness.
It’s not a vaccine.
It hasn’t been tested on humans sufficiently.
It’s not 95% effective.
Those who got the jab are spreading variant strains (leaky vaccine, see Marek chickens).
The most jabbed countries in the world are having the most severe outbreaks (Johns Hopkins) and are put on US “Do Not Travel” list.
These people started with lies (”When he lies, he is only doing what is natural to him...”)
and are just doubling down.
I have no problem with the truth. I have a well formed conscience, unlike Biden and Fauci. That’s why I won’t participate, nor support the murder of babies.
I think McElroy is a heretic.
Where do you think HEK-293 came from? A plant?
The science on masks is out there. They do not totally prevent transmission. They do reduce viral load in and out, which decreases severity of disease while slowly building natural immunity. Better than nothing and probably better than Mrna vaccines.
Odd, my priest disagrees. And he gave me a letter explaining his belief that refusing the vaccine is a moral duty.
These people started with lies (”When he lies, he is only doing what is natural to him...”) and are just doubling down."
The vaccines might indeed be these things, untested, lied about, prone to spreading variant strains, and or being ineffective. But that doesn't argue that there is a Catholic Religious exemption there per se.
It can and should be in terms of universal human rights, but under that umbrella there would need to be a cogent argument.
Chinese Bioweapon. China is Asshoe. QED.
Its a good self defense and freedom angle but its not exactly a religious argument. The issue is these being issued on grounds of religious exemption, but that is not entirely clear whether there is a Catholic exemption.
Participation in some remote way with immoral vaccine research and benefitting from a COVID Vaccine might be a case of real conscience exemption, but the Vatican already states there is a countervailing necessity to take the vaccine. Such as taking the vaccine being important to fight a "deadly" virus (99% survival rate if healthy and under 40).
A proximate and material cooperation with the immoral research is warranted a religious exemption. But merely taking the vaccine for ones health in a pandemic may not be. Our taxes should not have been used to fund this method of research.
Be not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.
Sod off, sophist.
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