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(RNS) When U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Wednesday (May 5) that the White House would back efforts to suspend intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, it was a victory for Vatican officials and U.S. Catholic groups that had long supported loosening vaccine patents to help expand production of the life-saving shots. The decision came after a months-long campaign to convince the White House of the wisdom of the move spearheaded by Asian and African nations but aided by the Vatican and U.S. Catholic groups. And as negotiations continue at the World Trade Organization on what the waivers will look like, President Joe Biden, the second Catholic president in U.S. history, may end up leaning further on Pope Francis and his team at the Vatican. ....
Johnson & Johnson vaccine creates a week of confusion for Catholics An attempt to clear up confusion about the moral acceptability of the vaccine only created further uncertainty. Pharmacist Madeline Acquilano draws a syringe of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, March 3, 2021. The first shipments of the vaccine arrived at the hospital Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) March 5, 2021 (RNS) Catholic clerics and organizations continued to wrangle over how best to respond to a new COVID-19 vaccine this week, with bishops scrambling to make their views known on how their faithful should approach a vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson that some say is morally tainted by a connection to a long-ago aborted fetus. ....
PONCE INLET While others ate bon-bons and binged on Netflix during this pandemic lock-down year, Lois Butterfield was moving ahead one stride at a time toward an ambitious 2020 fitness goal. On Thursday, as the hours ticked away toward the new year, Butterfield, 64, crossed the finish line along the sandy shore of the Atlantic Ocean to reach her goal of walking and running 2,020 miles in 2020. That feat is all the more impressive because Butterfield also happens to be totally blind, a condition that adds some obvious complications to going out for a jog. Not for Butterfield, who has been blind since she was a toddler and has never let it interfere with anything she sets her mind on doing. ....
Andrew Anglin runs the anti-Semitic Daily Stormer website. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA) AP A Montana real estate agent who secured a $14 million judgment against a neo-Nazi website publisher for orchestrating an anti-Semitic harassment campaign against her Jewish family is seeking a court order compelling the man to disclose information about his assets and finances. Tanya Gersh’s attorneys said in a court filing Friday that Andrew Anglin, founder and operator of The Daily Stormer, hasn’t paid any portion of the August 2019 judgment and has ignored their requests for information about his whereabouts, his operation of the website and other assets. ....