
Is the Decision to Receive COVID-19 Vaccination for Each Person’s Conscience to Judge?
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS
The New Brunswick rules apply to those 12 and older seeking to attend “indoor organized gatherings,” including weddings, funerals, conferences, workshops and parties, excepting parties at a private dwelling.
The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Pontifical Lateran University and the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum have confirmed they will require the COVID-19 plan for all staff and students.
“Consequently, someone who in conscience decides that he or she should not receive the COVID-19 vaccine should be granted an exemption based on his or her beliefs or convictions,” the bishops asserted.
According to critics, such provisions amount to forced vaccinations that will violate privacy and civil liberties and undermine trust in public-health authorities.
The vaccine will be administered to the poor by volunteer medical workers in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, where Pope Francis and Vatican employees were vaccinated beginning in 2021.
Along with the controversy over use of vaccines with connections to abortion-derived tissues, other key questions include the right to refuse vaccines, mandatory vaccination, and distributing the vaccines fairly.
The bishops said the Church was praying for those seeking to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 673,000 lives worldwide as of July 31.
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