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Will the Church Defend Conscience Rights in the Age of COVID?Will the Church Defend Conscience Rights in the Age of COVID?Liberal Catholics normally extol the rights of conscience and favor a loose interpretation of rules. But they have turned strict and dogmatic on all matters related to COVID. They treat the unvaccinated as sinners beneath contempt. “Let’s start replacing ‘vaccine hesitancy’ with ‘vaccine stupidity’ or ‘vaccine selfishness,’” says Michael Sean Winters at the National Catholic Reporter.Pope Francis has joined the collectivists in casting vaccine use as compulsory. “I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine,” he has said. The...

The [Catholic] Church raises a wall against non-vaccinated personsAccess to Masses celebrated by the Pope in Slovakia is prohibited to those who are not vaccinated. And in Italy, the bishop’s daily newspaper launches a crusade against those who oppose mandatory vaccination. Fully espousing the pro-vaccination cause and the adoption of the Green pass, the Church of mercy that advocates tearing down all walls, is building one around the Mass.The Green pass party has also found a high profile sponsor: the Catholic Church. In fact, it is easy to imagine the impact the news regarding the pope’s upcoming visit to Hungary...