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Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 21, 2020 17:16:07 GMT
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Monday declared that it is “morally acceptable” for Roman Catholics to receive COVID-19 vaccines based on research that used fetal tissue from abortions. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's watchdog office for doctrinal orthodoxy, said it addressed the question after receiving several requests for “guidance” during recent months. The doctrine office noted that bishops, Catholic groups and experts have offered “diverse and sometimes conflicting pronouncements” on the matter. Drawing on Vatican pronouncements in past years about developing vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted fetuses, the watchdog office issued a statement it said Pope Francis had examined last week and ordered to be made public. The Catholic Church’s teaching says that abortion is a grave sin. The Vatican concluded that “it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses” in the research and production process when “ethically irreproachable” vaccines aren’t available to the public. But it stressed that the “licit” uses of such vaccines “does not and should not in any way imply that there is a moral endorsement of the use of cell lines proceeding from aborted fetuses."
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 21, 2020 17:17:45 GMT
Double talk at its finest.
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Post by barb43 on Dec 21, 2020 19:34:36 GMT
Double talk at its finest. I was thinking they're talking out of both side of their mouths with this pronouncement. I scrolled on down and read your comment and thought, 'yep! that's it in a nutshell.' Attachment Deleted
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