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To: ebb tide

“So it’s not a black and white issue for you? It’s for one to discern, just as one discerns adultery, per Francis?”

No issue is black and white without an argument for why it is black and white. I think if you want to talk about issues binding on the conscience of Catholics everywhere the Church rightly considers answering why it is thus. If rationally discerning the truth is Francis teaching it would be laudable. Very often I understand Pope Francis to rely on vague and undiscerned language. Which is the problem with some of what he says.

“I’m just pointing out that knowingly cooperating with the remote ongoing murder of babies is sinful.”

There is no “ongoing murder” of infants at least in the case of some of the vaccines.

“Thousands of baby girls are being murdered, on a daily basis, to this day.

Murder is black and white to me.”

And murder is wrong. But nonetheless there are distinctions as to what someone who uses a Vaccine entails. Again, nothing is simply black and white without an argument or reason why it is black and white.


75 posted on 08/13/2021 7:53:35 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Bayard
No issue is black and white without an argument for why it is black and white.

How about if God says so? See the Fifth Commandment.

Do you require an argument from Him?

76 posted on 08/13/2021 7:57:52 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: Bayard
There is no “ongoing murder” of infants at least in the case of some of the vaccines.

Does that statement mean you have no problem with the "ongoing murder" of those infants not for the purpose of medical research?

I have no problem with morally acceptable vaccines and I'm patiently waiting for one for COVID.

But I'm not about to rationalize sinning.

78 posted on 08/13/2021 8:06:09 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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