BRAINTREE The chairmen of two committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement on Dec. 14 addressing concerns about whether it is morally acceptable to receive a forthcoming coronavirus vaccine if its development, production, or testing involved the use of cells derived from abortions.
MC Sullivan, the archdiocese s chief healthcare ethicist, praised the tone and content of the USCCB s statement on this topic, saying they addressed the major concern of our faith community and that they did so clearly, authoritatively, and actually very comfortingly. It was a very pastoral announcement, I thought, because they were right in tune with what people s first question would be, Sullivan said in a Dec. 17 interview.
12/22/2020 at 1:44 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
The Pontifical Academy for Life has said that Catholics may use, in a narrowly defined limit, vaccines prepared with cell lines derived from aborted children, but with strong warnings regarding our obligation to protest. Here’s how to demand ethical options in biomedical research.
By Stacy Trasancos, National Catholic Register, December 21, 2020
The 2005 guidance from the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL), “Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared From Cells Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses,” told us to end the practice of using abortion-tainted vaccines and demand ethical alternatives. These same principles are reaffirmed in the new statement the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has released regarding the new COVID-19 vaccines that are now becoming available.
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Shelley Smialkowski, an emergency room nurse at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md., receives a vaccination against Covid-19 on Dec. 16, 2020. (CNS photo/courtesy UM St. Joseph Medical Center)
The coronavirus vaccine is finally here. Not enough of it is here yet, and its rollout has not been without confusion and logistical tie-ups, but people are receiving their first doses. Already we see some first providers, medical professionals and politicians sharing photos of themselves being vaccinated.
While it is important for leaders to think through who gets the vaccine and when, the decision facing most Americans is “Should I get the vaccine when it is my turn?” The U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops in its statement last week rightly described getting vaccinated as an “act of charity.” It is also an act of solidarity.
ROME: “It is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process.”
Due to the situation of the ongoing pandemic, “all vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be used in good conscience with the certain knowledge that the use of such vaccines does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion from which the cells used in production of the vaccines derive.”
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) made these statements in a note signed by the Prefect, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, and the Secretary, Archbishop Giacomo Morandi. The text was explicitly approved by Pope Francis on 17 December and released on Monday.