A student poses after receiving a coronavirus vaccination dose at a University of Notre Dame clinic held April 8, 2021. The school in Indiana announced its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for the upcoming fall semester on April 7. (Courtesy of University of Notre Dame/Barbara Johnston)
Some two dozen Catholic colleges and universities have joined the growing list of institutions requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students returning to campus this fall.
As among their secular counterparts, Catholic colleges requiring the inoculations are still a small minority, and the potential requirements have sparked debate about what Catholic colleges can and should require of their students.
According to a tracker maintained by the Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 Catholic colleges, of about 191 nationwide, had announced fall semester vaccine requirements as of May 4 including large schools like DePaul University, Georgetown University, Loyola University Chicago, Fordham Un
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NIH Reverses Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research 04/25/2021 at 9:32 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
Attorney General Xavier Becerra, HHS Secretary, previewed the announcement on Thursday at a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee.
National Catholic Register, April 17, 2021
WASHINGTON The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday reversed restrictions on federally-funded research using fetal tissue and organs of aborted babies.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a notice to the “extramural research community” – researchers who are not at NIH facilities – that it would be removing the Trump administration’s 2019 requirement that a federal ethics advisory board review all proposals for fetal tissue research.
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 19, 2021 / 16:03 pm (CNA).
Catholic scientists and ethicists have warned of the potential for a slippery slope in response to reports that scientists had successfully created a “chimeric embryo” that was part macaque monkey and part human.
An article published April 15 in the journal “Cell” described how scientists took a blastocyst from a macaque and added human cells. The blastocyst then developed into a chimeric embryo, meaning it has parts of two species. It is the goal that these beings could be used to grow human organs, which would then be used in transplantation.
Similar experiments have occurred using other animals; this was the first time a monkey-human chimera had been created.