Despite an oath to give their lives defending the pope, three members of the Vatican’s fabled Swiss Guard have abandoned the small force due to refusal to comply with a recent mandate to possess either a COVID-19 vaccination certificate or the results of a negative COVID test within the past 48 hours in order to Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Covid-19 vaccinations’
Vatican says: no vaxx, no green pass – no entry
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
Anyone wanting to go to the Vatican State will need a green pass before they’re allowed in. A green pass shows proof of COVID-19 vaccination, recovery from the virus or a negative COVID-19 test. The Vatican’s new entry rules, which take effect from 1 October, aim to keep the virus out of the independent city Read more
Church members at centre of outbreak get vaccinated
Thursday, September 9th, 2021More members of the Māngere church, which is New Zealand’s largest sub-cluster of the Covid-19 Delta outbreak, have come forward to get vaccinated, most of whom recently came out of managed isolation. On Tuesday, members came with families to get jabbed at the South Seas Vaccination Centre in Ōtara. A lot of them were young Read more
Archdiocese of Chicago requires priests and all staff to be vaccinated
Thursday, August 26th, 2021
The Archdiocese of Chicago announced all staff and clergy (including Catholic Charities and Misericordia) would be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as the delta variant surges. The archdiocese’s vaccination policy will take effect on 4 Oct, giving unvaccinated employees six weeks from FDA approval to get their vaccination. This is an additional week to the Read more
Pope starring in major COVID vax advert
Thursday, August 19th, 2021
A major new international ad campaign stars Pope Francis going hard promoting the COVID vax. The vaccination is “an act of love,” he says. “Thanks to God’s grace and to the work of many, we now have vaccines to protect us from COVID-19! They bring hope to end the pandemic, but only if they are Read more