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US Bishops further clarify Church’s position on Covid-19 vaccine - Vatican News
The US Catholic bishops rightly state that choosing to be vaccinated serves the common good and is an act of charity. /1 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-12/us-bishops-covid-clarification-ethical-use-vaccine.html
The US Catholic bishops rightly state that choosing to be vaccinated serves the common good and is an act of charity. /1 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-12/us-bishops-covid-clarification-ethical-use-vaccine.html
However, they vitiate what they say about vaccination by speaking of remote cooperation with evil, because some vaccines apparently use, in their long chain of development, fetal cells.
As with everything else they say, it turns out the moral question is about abortion. /2
As with everything else they say, it turns out the moral question is about abortion. /2
One might be tempted to pay attention to their moral argument if they had only once, for instance, pointed out that living complacently within a socioeconomic system of rapacious capitalism is even more than remote cooperation with all kinds of evil. /3
It’s not as if we have not known for a long time that rapacious capitalism enriches the already rich while immiserating multitudes of people. It’s not as if we haven’t known for a long time that letting people live in poverty is an act of violence that attacks their very lives./4
One might be more willing to listen to the bishops argument which brings the abortion issue one more time into a seemingly unrelated moral argument if they had ever once suggested that supporting a man now involved in a killing spree as he exits office /5
is an act of even more than remote cooperation with evil.
One might be willing to take the bishops’ argument re: vaccines seriously if they had, for years now, pointed out that in voting for those who fanning racist flames, we are cooperating with a lethal system of evil. /6
One might be willing to take the bishops’ argument re: vaccines seriously if they had, for years now, pointed out that in voting for those who fanning racist flames, we are cooperating with a lethal system of evil. /6
Finally, one has every right to ask why the bishops suddenly want to link vaccination to abortion right now, when the debate about vaccines has been politicized by one political party, with ugly consequences. /7
It’s not as if Catholics have not been vaccinating themselves and their children for a long time now, while the bishops never raised these questions loudly in the past.
Why now, when their doing so appears to lend support to the party politicizing discussion of vaccination? /8
Why now, when their doing so appears to lend support to the party politicizing discussion of vaccination? /8
