I haven’t received the vaccine but Catholic people and organizations I trust and respect have. The Dominican nuns from Nashville have been vaccinated. They are almost the gold standard to me. Patrick Madrid (Relevant Radio) said the vaccine is licit but not necessary. Finally, haven’t Chaput and Cordileone been vaccinated?
I can see both sides of the issue, because the vaccine is so terribly unethical, but we don’t want to see even millions of more people dying from the virus. Years ago I called Merck about their unethical Shingles vaccine, and now I’m working on the COVID vaccines. (Now there is a ETHICAL vaccine that replaced Merck’s Shingles vaccine in most pharmacies, and it even WORKS BETTER!)
Whether we take the vaccine, or not, I think we should fight hard to stop the EVIL use of using aborted babies in vaccines.
btw, this helped me make some decisions:
“....The 2005 statement of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL) addresses the issue of moral cooperation and conscientious objection in depth. It notes that there is a grave responsibility to use an alternative, ethical vaccines if available.
If this is not possible, we must protest the available unethical ones, whether we choose to use them or not. In his encyclical, Gospel of Life, Pope St. John Paul II enunciates the principle: ....”
more https://immunize.org/talking-about-vaccines/vaticandocument.htm
Bishop Strickland of Tyler, TX:
In a tweet, he wrote the “Moderna vaccine is not morally produced. Unborn children died in abortions and their bodies were used as ‘laboratory specimens.’ I urge all who believe in the sanctity of life to reject a vaccine which has been produced immorally.”