Just heard on Rachel that there appears to be some Catholics attemping to claim a religious

[dflprincess]

exemption to the vaccine. (Strange when I was kid & being raised Catholic vaccines were not an issue. My mom told me that Sunday after the polio vaccine was announced the priest offered a special prayer of thanksgiving for the vaccine at Mass and even said a blessing for Dr. Salk.)


Meanwhile, Pope Francis is vaccinated. He has announced that all Vatician employees will be vaccinated and those who aren't will see their paychecks getting smaller.

I don't think they anti-vaxers can pull this one off.

[Walleye]

1. If they have ever been vaccinated for anything they can't claim religious exemption!

[Omnipresent]

4. How dare you!

Shutting down their half baked, argument with reason.

[Walleye]

11. Oh yeah. My bad

[JohnSJ]

2. You are right, Pope Francis encouraged people to get vaccinated. As far as religious exemption,

there is no religious exemption to endanger other People’s lives. They don’t want to be vaccinated, then find employment that doesn’t require it

[mucifer]

3. Catholic ones can't pull it off since the Vatican is mandating the vax. They will probably convert.

Makes sense. They worship republicanism not the Catholic teachings.

[Ocelot II]

5. A few of the hard-core anti-choice crowd won't take the vaccine because

they think it's made of aborted babies (fetal stem cells). Interestingly, the drug being touted by Rod DeSatan, Regeneron, as a treatment for covid if (when) you get it after not being vaccinated, was developed from fetal stem cells.

[underpants]

6. There are conservative Catholics

That’s whom it sounds like to me.

[dflprincess]

10. Of course it is

The crowd that thinks they're "more Catholic than the Pope" (especially this one).

But if I were an employer & a Catholic employee tried to claim an exemption I'd cite Francis' support of the vaccines and let them know I wasn't buying their lame arguments.

[shrike3]

7. Wonder where these Catholics are.

In my Diocese, parishes host vaccination clinics.

[bottomofthehill]

8. Pope Francis is all in on the Vaccine

Some religious leaders, especially in the United States, believe Catholics should be allowed to claim conscientious objection to the Covid-19 vaccines on religious grounds. However Pope Francis has disagreed with this, and said the vaccines were "morally acceptable" and could be used "in good conscience".

[bottomofthehill]

9. More from Pope Francis

The Pope has said he does not know how to explain why some cardinals in the Catholic Church are hesitant to get the Covid-19 jab.
"It's a bit strange because humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines," Francis told reporters during a flight from Slovakia to Italy.
The pontiff, who is vaccinated himself, has previously encouraged people to get jabbed for the "common good".

[emmaverybo]

12. They should work for Catholic employers, private sector. NT

[jimfields33]

13. Good luck. I bet Notre dame is mandatory vaccine.

I bet Catholic charities is too. Catholics have been told no exemptions to vaccines.

https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-to-require-students-to-be-vaccinated-for-covid-19-beginning-with-fall-2021-semester/

https://ifyc.org/article/catholics-getting-vaccinated-act-charity

[emmaverybo]

14. Ah. Maybe they are charismatics. Not that there's anything wrong with it. NT