US bishop announces he won’t receive COVID jab: I will not ‘take a vaccine that I believe is wrong’

Bishop Strickland called on Catholics to demand Big Pharma to produce vaccines which are ethical and are not "in any way connected to abortion."

(LifeSiteNews) –Bishop Joseph Strickland is once again condemning COVID jab mandates being pushed across the United States as a violation of Catholic teaching on free will and individual conscience rights. He also said that as far as he is concerned, he will never “take a vaccine that I believe is wrong.”

Bishop Strickland is the Bishop of Tyler, Texas. He made these statements in the latest episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, hosted by Virgin Most Powerful Radio’s Terry Barber.

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Bishop Strickland also described how free will, the ability for humans to make choices, “hopefully” guided by God, is largely being dismissed during the COVID jab campaign. He also called on Catholics to demand that Big Pharma produce vaccines that are ethical and are not “in any way connected to abortion.”

Besides addressing the COVID shot mandates, Strickland talked about the importance of making a well-informed decision in regards to the virus and the so-called vaccines. He said that there are many questions about the effectiveness of the jab and even “about natural immunity…[and] people having certain antibodies after they’ve had the disease.”

Although he encouraged people to form “their conscience as fully as they can,” Bishop Strickland pointed out that ultimately the decision comes down to the individual person.

A shepherd who is defending his flock. What a refreshing concept.

Thank you, Bishop Strickland. May God bless you.

Now if we could the rest of the bishops to speak out, we may have something going (I’m looking at you Cardinal Cupich).

>> Bishop Strickland called on Catholics to demand Big Pharma to produce vaccines which are ethical and are not "in any way connected to abortion." <<

>> Looks like a good Catholic exemption. Should work for any Catholic. <<

Those were the grounds I used when I filed paperwork this week seeing an exemption from the vax mandate for anyone who teaches school in Illinois. I wrote a detailed, one page essay citing that all three existing Covid-19 vaccines used fetal issue in either the development, testing phase, or actual formula of the vaccine.

Lady at the district office said any objection was fine and I didn't need to do all that -- I just needed a letter from a religious figure (my pastor is sending them a letter affirming my religious beliefs are genuine) to clear it.

I guess some people have gotten a religious exemption cleared just by making a simple statement like "I am a Christian who is morally opposed to this vaccine and feel it would be a grave sin to take it"

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