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Vaccines and Catholic morality

and the actual production or even administration of a
vaccine derived from the cells of the victim. This was
because a real causal connection exists between the two,
which means that the use of such vaccines now would
inevitably mean both direct cooperation with the immoral
acts of others, in the abortion(s) and in the use of materials
deriving from it (them), which would seem to imply
approval of those acts (which would be formal coopera-
tion), and because it is of its nature scandalous, in the
proper sense of the term, as being something said or done
which could give rise to others committing or approving
of what is sinful, in this case seriously sinful.1⁵ Concerns
have also been raised about the fact that the confirmatory
testing of vaccines almost always uses materials derived
from aborted human foetuses, not least because laborato-
ries involved in clinical trials and in the pharmaceutical
industry more generally, it seems, have often used such
materials as a matter of course for decades; these concerns
have been aggravated by descriptions of procedures
involved, involving the dissecting and sifting of such
human biological material (and hence of the mutilation of
such mortal remains) in the process.

1⁵ Cf. Statement of Cardinal Janis Pujats, Metropolitan archbishop
emeritus of Riga, Tomash Peta, Metropolitan archbishop of the
archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Jan Pawel Lenga,
Archbishop/bishop emeritus of Karaganda, Joseph E. Strickland,
Bishop of Tyler (USA) and Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary
bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, 12th Decem-
ber, 2020; cf “Covid Vaccines: The end cannot justify the means”
in Crisis Magazine (December 2020).

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