Vatican staff – including the most senior members of the Catholic church – who choose not to fulfil their “moral duty” of getting vaccinated against Covid will be forced to undergo a regular testing regime or will be refused work (and, more importantly, pay). Pope Francis believes the mandate is acceptable because “humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines”. MailOnline has the story.
Vatican employees without the proper certificates proving they are either vaccinated or have returned a negative Covid test would be considered “unjustly absent” and would be paid no salary, according to the Washington Post.
Pope Francis was vaccinated in January and has advocated for Roman Catholics to get the jab, with the firm stance from the Holy See being seen as a message to Catholics across the word.
Vaccine mandates have become a contentious issue around the world, with some debating whether they can be refused on the grounds of religious exemptions.
In the case of the Vatican, no exemptions have been announced so far, although it noted that the issue would be discussed with the Secretary of State in consultation with the city-state’s health department.
The new rules are set to go into force from October 1st.
The Vatican has said that it considers it acceptable for Catholics to use vaccines, even those that use stem cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research. …
“It’s a bit strange because humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,” [the Pope said earlier this month] after a visit to Slovakia, according to BBC News.
“Even in the College of Cardinals there are some vaccine negationists but one of them, poor thing, has been hospitalized with the virus. These are the ironies of life,” he added, in an apparent reference to U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is a vaccine sceptic.
Cardinal Burke is now out of hospital recovering from his Covid infection.
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Ah, the National Catholic Distorter.
A few points to note. This is not an ex cathedra pronouncement on doctrine, not even an encyclical, but one of his famous interviews beginning “I believe” – basically a personal opinion.
As for the doctrinal office note, it talks of “vaccines” [for ‘Covid’]. that are “recognised as safe and effective”. It doesn’t say recognised by whom – for example “recognised by x number of independent doctors” – just recognised. So it is up to us to make our own judgment . Be assured that there are clergy (and of course laity) in his Church who believe that Catholics should not take these experimental “vaccines”. The same with other Christian churches, because Christian doctrine does not require people to take these “vaccines” based on some reasonable interpretations of the evidence available that conclude, as many independent doctors have, that they are not “safe and effective”. Christians who sincerely believe, after careful consideration, that these experimental gene therapy drugs are not safe and effective, are by no means morally obliged to take them. As I’ve said before, I have yet to see convincing evidence that they are safe and effective. Or that this virus poses… Read more »
Oh, and the doctrinal note, dated December 21st 2020, says : “In the absence of other means to stop… the epidemic”. If we did not know then, we have now seen clear evidence from parts of India on Ivermectin as an effective other means. So therefore Catholics should clearly not be expected to take these dangerous experimental “vaccines”, however many lies the pharmaceutical industry and their proxies with a financial interest in the “vaccines” may tell about Ivermectin (as indeed they have previously deceived about other medications that threaten their profits).
Religion is good for the soul. Organised religion that delegates over others in their golden thrones, not good for anything but the organisation.
I wish this website would show how many bishops are trying to oust the jesuits infiltrating this clearly non-Christian entity that is known as the Vatican.
Anyone, atheist or not, can see just how full of nonsense he is.
Popes, I believe are all Freemasons so this would make sense currently in the world?
Italian Town Council rejects “GreenPass” as an a criminal extortion
https://www.fromrome.info/2021/09/30/italian-town-council-rejects-greenpass-as-an-a-criminal-extortion/
This man is no Pope! He’s as corrupt as you can get and a puppet of his NWO masters.
Today I renounce myself from the Catholic church. I still believe in God, but this is not the word of God or the behaviour of a good person. I no longer want to belong to such an organisation.
I feel your disgust, but I’m staying. One or 40 bad popes don’t invalidate Christ or the Church. You’ll find no better and much worse by leaving.
We are the remnant.
Why? You can still be a Catholic, but refuse to acknowledge anything this pope states. The Church is not the Vatican!
Another vote for how dare those at the top say this, when they said NOTHING against churches being forcibly closed?
Another inconsistency: I thought that it was a Catholic view to “let nature take its course” or “if someone dies from illness, it’s the will of God”. I’m thinking of the case (2002) of the conjoined twins Jodie and Mary, where without an operation, both twins would have died; but with an operation, one could be saved. The Catholic parents did not want the operation, preferring to let nature take its course, but were overruled in court.
The same man who didn’t say a word when churches were shuttered. A time when people desperately needed their church, their spirituality, their god. This man never said a word. A disgrace.
Why doesn’t the Pope, who fights for the little guy and the poor, promote early treatments for Covid, costing $1.80 for a five day treatment of ivermectin, working well in India and Mexico. Instead he is pushing the BBB and great reset agenda to vaxx the world. Surely he knows better. It isn’t like the Catholic Church has an over abundance of priests. Looks like he is looking for ways to thin these numbers further.
Since its inception the Catholic Church has been dictatorial and discriminatory. So this is hardly out of character.
What do you expect from Satanists
Dunno, pray tell?
Being unvaccinated is a mortal sin. If you die unjabbed, your soul will be damned to the blackest pits of hell.
Er, no. Crack open that catechism, fella.
Is the pope Christian? Seemingly not
Ah, that’s the Christian spirit!
Great to see two of the great religions getting together – Christianity and Covid.
Better stick to yours then.
Well, they are historically famous (or infamous) for mass murder throughout history.
So, no real surprise.
Still, say a few Hail Mary’s and you will have absolution come what may.
Come to think of it, Absolution Certificates may be de rigour again – aka Vaccine Passports. History repeats itself.
What a fucking world we have become – apologies for swearing but ..
This would be comedy Gold were it not so bloody frightening.
Ignoramus.
Can’t help thinking that your critique was somewhat lacking in detail
Succinct and to the point. Learn some religion, Bob.
Catholicism as an institution is nothing more than a brand to be marketed now. Like Coca Cola or Nike.
And like these corporations they have no respect for humanity.
I’ll take Catholicism over Coke, thanks
Now we just need the Ayatollahs to declare Israeli-made Pfizer doses as manna from heavens, and the world will be united at last.
It’s okay because the new governor of New York said that vaccines were a gift from God and that he wanted us to have them. She also went on to say that all the people she was speaking to in the room were her apostles and to go out and spread the word of the vaccine.
Amen.
Was SARS a similar gift from the old fraud?
No your Nature did that one!
Amazingly, you summarized her comments accurately.
Unlike the Spanish inquisition I was expecting this.
They just used to pray in the past, no talk of segregation passports, how utterly disgraceful
So when you get to The Gates, not Gates, will you be asked if you have your passport or you don’t get in
So bring some Semtex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxlsMe61rRg
Sarah Everard: Wayne Couzens may have used Covid laws to arrest and handcuff his murder victim
Looks like it.
After what happened to Macron it looks like some young Italian is going to have to slap a Pope.
Can’t we get that Algerian bloke from the Bulgarian KGB?
Don’t forget the Macron egg thrower was locked up in a psychiatric ward, reviving the good old tradition of disposing of politically inconvenient people as insane. I bet they can jab him with many interesting drugs there. What’s next, electroshocks?
They’re not even trying to hide it at the moment are they?
Hey, the Pope’s on board with the agenda!
Nice one, God’s rep on earth!
How long from now until he considers Pfizer CEO for sainthood?
Well now at least we know the whole thing is evil.
What would Jesus do?
Of course, he’d jab up, cast out the unvaxxed lepers, invite the money changers into the temple and create a dogma based on the old pagan traditions.
I remember it clearly in the new testament, thou shalt worship idols and saints, hoard vast wealth in exchange for forgiveness and protect the pedos.
Fuck the pope.
a jesus took 3 of the 5 fish in tax and was well fed…
Well ya gotta eat sometime! 😃
Apparently holy water is not enough now and we must improve God’s imperfect work?
One always knew that this would be the position of the C of E, but, clearly, the rot has now thoroughly infiltrated Roman Catholicism as well.
The Roman Catholic church is clearly rotten from the core as Archbishop Vigano makes abundantly clear.
We are up against not just Globocap but certainly ALL Christian religions.
Bollox. Why trust the ‘evil’ Vigano then?
I would appreciate you dismantling his case if you are up to it.
State the case and I’ll give it a shot. My point being that if everyone’s rotten how can you trust Vigano?
Heaven help us; God has evidently given up!
And so it Ends…
All we need to know is contained in the lede paragraph of this story summary: It is now Catholics’ “moral duty” to be vaccinated against COVID.
Moral duty or not, getting vaccinated does not prevent Catholics from getting this virus or spreading it to others. So it is now one’s moral duty to get a vaccine that really doesn’t do what vaccines are supposed to do.
And YouTube has now banned all “anti-vacine” content.
Does anyone have moral duty to protest censorship or defend free speech? No. It presumably is people’s moral duty to defend those doing the banning. And to accept it when they are censored and discriminated against.
What’s the moral thing to do has changed … Which couldn’t be a more chilling or immoral development for the people of the world.
I’m pretty sure when they threw Christians to the lions they considered it perfectly moral conduct as well. In a sense this pandemic is a great boon for humanity because it holds a mirror to who we are as a species.