Pope Francis said Wednesday he didn’t understand why people refuse to take COVID-19 vaccines, saying “humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,” and that serene discussion about the shots was necessary to help them. “Even in the College of Cardinals, there are some negationists,” Francis said Wednesday, en route home from Slovakia. He noted Read more
Posts Tagged ‘COVID Vaccine’
Unvaccinated clergy barred from ministering to the sick and homebound elderly
Thursday, September 16th, 2021Priests of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 may not minister to the sick, elderly, and homebound, Bishop John Stowe has directed. The policy was announced during a Saturday vigil Mass Sept. 11 that Bishop Stowe celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington. At the end Read more
Vaccines and fraternity
Monday, August 9th, 2021
No doubt we need to listen to those who are protesting against compulsory vaccinations, who feel “bullied” by a State they believe is encroaching on their own intimate space. Our freedoms are a precious commodity. Society must not become the domain of permanent policing and it is to the credit of democracy that these debates Read more
COVID vaccines; a moral duty – a human right
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), as reported by The Guardian, has warned that as COVID vaccines continue to roll out, the world faces a “catastrophic moral failure” as richer countries administer the vaccine on a vast scale, while poor countries are left behind.” The head of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, underscored the Read more
Government and church leaders discuss mutual priorities
Monday, March 22nd, 2021
Housing, access to COVID vaccination, income and well being, are some of the major concerns church leaders raised recently at a church and government meeting. As reported recently by CathNews, church leaders met, March 11, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Housing Minister Megan Woods to discuss issues of mutual Read more
How not to talk about vaccines: Culture war vs common good
Monday, March 8th, 2021
Why are some US bishops of the Catholic Church telling Catholics to avoid the newly approved Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine? Why did some U.S. Catholic leaders rush to issue warnings about this vaccine even though the Vatican has already said that it can be morally acceptable to receive it? Most importantly, why did these Read more
US bishops ‘ethically unhelpful’ and ‘pastorally dangerous’
Thursday, March 4th, 2021
“Pastorally dangerous” and “unhelpful” is how South African ethicist Anthony Egan SJ is labelling the Archdiocese of New Orleans claim the Johnson & Johnson Covid Vaccine is “morally compromised”. He made the claims in America Magazine. Egan’s irritation is that just one day before the US Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorisation to a Read more
NZ bishops urging everyone to have covid vaccine
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
New Zealand’s Catholic Bishops Conference is urging everyone to have a covid vaccine when it becomes available. Conference President Cardinal Dew says the bishops took their advice about vaccines from reputable doctors, scientists and the bishops’ own bioethics agency, the Nathaniel Centre. “Everyone, including Catholics, has a moral responsibility to protect themselves and others by Read more
Should Catholics vaccinate using an ethically compromised vaccine?
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Edward Jenner is considered the father of vaccinology. He pioneered the world’s first vaccine, which was for smallpox. Caused by a virus, smallpox was a serious disease which killed about three in ten of the people who contracted it and left many others with severe scars. Smallpox was mainly spread by direct, lengthy face-to-face contact Read more
Who goes first? The ethics of distributing a Covid-19 vaccine
Monday, August 10th, 2020
We are in the midst of a global health crisis that already has inflicted a significant humanitarian and economic toll on the United States. For now, we must try to contain the spread of Covid-19 through physical distancing and face-covering. But we will reach another turning point when a vaccine to prevent the disease has Read more