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The Tablet March 9, 2021
Walgreens health care professionals in Evanston, Ill., pass to each other the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTec vaccine Feb. 22, 2021. (Photo: CNS/Kamil Krzaczynski, Reuters)
By John L. Allen
ROME (Crux) – As American Catholics continue to wrangle over the morality of COVID-19 vaccines using stem cell lines remotely derived from aborted fetuses, one Filipino Dominican priest, who’s both a moral theologian and an MIT-trained molecular biologist, is pleading with them to consider the potentially dangerous global consequences of their rhetoric.
“You’ve got American Catholics telling Catholics all over the world that receiving the vaccine is a ‘lesser evil,’ so you’re putting millions of my fellow Filipinos in an ethical dilemma,” said Dominican Father Nicanor Austriaco, who teaches at Providence College in Rhode Island, and who’s currently on sabbatical helping to develop a low-cost and easy-to-use vaccine for his native country.
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(MANILA BULLETIN)
“Conditions on the ground are considered in determining limited face-to-face options,” CHED Chairman J. Prospero De Vera III told the Manila Bulletin on Sunday, March 7. Thus, he noted that there will be “no need” to issue additional directives for such.
In an advisory issued by the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges (APMC) also dated March 7, the suspension of face-to-face activities involving medical interns in NCR hospitals was announced.
De Vera confirmed that he was “already informed of this” and such is “provided for in the guidelines” – referring to the Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2021-001 issued early this month.
University of the Philippines (up.edu.ph)
The 2021 QS University Rankings by Subject placed the University of the Philippines (UP) in the 101-150 rank for Politics and International studies, and the 151-200 rank for English Language and Literature, Agriculture and Forestry, and Geography.
In total, UP placed 15 out of 51 disciplines, down from last year’s 18.
Both the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) and De La Salle University (DLSU) ranked in four subjects each.
AdMU entered the rankings in Modern Languages, 251-300; Business and Management Studies, 451-500, retaining its place in English, Language, and Literature, 201-250; and falling in Sociology, 301-320 from last year’s 251-300.