Maryland bishops say benefits of Pfizer, Moderna vaccines outweigh concerns
Dec 22, 2020 catholic news service
A health care worker at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 17, 2020. (Credit: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters via CNS.)
Maryland s Catholic bishops are encouraging Catholics strongly to be vaccinated against COVID-19, unless medically indicated otherwise.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Maryland’s Catholic bishops are encouraging Catholics strongly to be vaccinated against COVID-19, “unless medically indicated otherwise.”
“A Catholic can in good conscience receive these COVID-19 vaccines,” they said in a joint letter, which echoed what most bishops around the country, the Vatican and leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have said about use of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines now being distributed.
U.S. bishops say benefits of Pfizer, Moderna vaccines outweigh concerns
Physician Alister Martin receives one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Dec. 16, 2020. (CNS photo/Craig F. Walker, Pool via Reuters)
By Mark Zimmermann • Catholic News Service • Posted December 22, 2020
WASHINGTON (CNS) Maryland’s Catholic bishops are encouraging Catholics strongly to be vaccinated against COVID-19, “unless medically indicated otherwise.”
“A Catholic can in good conscience receive these COVID-19 vaccines,” they said in a joint letter, which echoed what most bishops around the country, the Vatican and leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have said about use of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines now being distributed.