The Vatican declares “morally acceptable” for Catholics to receive vaccines against covides based on research using abortion-derived tissues
- The Vatican said it received several requests for guidance on Covid vaccines
- Vaccines have been prepared from cells derived from aborted fetuses
- The Church said it is “morally acceptable” to receive Covid vaccines
The Vatican has said it is “morally acceptable” for Roman Catholics to receive research-based Covid vaccines that use fetal tissue for abortions.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s doctrinal orthodoxy oversight office, said it addressed the issue after receiving several requests for “guidance” in recent months.
The doctrine office noted that bishops, Catholic groups and experts have offered “diverse and sometimes conflicting pronouncements” on the issue.
The Vatican has said it is “morally acceptable” for Roman Catholics to receive vaccines against covides according to research using fetal tissue for abortions
Based on statements from the Vatican in recent years about the development of vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted fetuses, the surveillance office issued a statement saying Pope Francis had examined them last week and who ordered it made public.
The teaching of the Catholic Church says that abortion is a grave sin.
The Vatican concluded that “it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used aborted fetal cell lines” in the research and production process when “ethically irreproachable” vaccines are not available to the public.
But he stressed that the “lawful” use of these vaccines “does not imply or should in any way imply that there is moral support for the use of cell lines from aborted fetuses.”
In its statement, the Vatican explained that it is not always possible to obtain vaccines that do not pose an ethical dilemma.
The Vatican concluded that “it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used aborted fetal cell lines.”
He cited the circumstances of countries where unethical vaccines are not made available to doctors and patients or where special storage or transport conditions make it difficult to distribute them.
Reassuring Catholic faithful that obtaining a vaccine against COVID-19 would not violate religious doctrine, the Vatican also noted that while several vaccines could be distributed in one country, “health authorities do not allow citizens to choose the vaccine to be inoculated with “.
In these cases, it is morally acceptable to receive vaccines that have used aborted fetal cell lines, the Vatican said.
The Vatican said the vaccines used cell lines “extracted from tissue obtained from two abortions that occurred in the last century.”
The Vatican has not said if and when Francis would be vaccinated or what vaccine he could receive.
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Pope Francis on Monday promised Vatican employees that none of them would lose their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has severely damaged the Vatican’s finances.
Here you are the most important thing. No one is left out, no one will lose their job, ”Francis told workers and their children in a special hearing to exchange Christmas greetings.
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the Vatican’s finances, forcing it to dive into reserve funds and implement some of the small city-state’s toughest cost control measures.
Pope Francis promised Vatican employees on Monday that none of them will lose their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic
“No one should suffer the ugly economic effects of this pandemic … We need to work harder to solve this problem, which is not easy.
There is no magic wand. We have to move forward as in the same family, ”Francis said in impromptu comments.
Lay employees work in all Vatican administrative departments and also as gardeners, firefighters, police, maintenance workers and in its world-famous museums.
Francis spoke with workers and their children at a special hearing on Monday to exchange Christmas greetings
The pandemic has drastically slowed the flow of funds from Vatican museums, which received about 7 million visitors last year and represent the most reliable cash cow in the city.
The museums, estimated at about $ 100 million a year, closed for three months in the spring during the first wave of the pandemic, reopened to a limited number of visitors during the summer, and closed again when a second wave hit Italy.
Earlier this year, top Vatican administrators ordered freezing promotions and hiring and banning overtime, travel and large events to try to contain costs.