[quote=“MACmiracle, post:17, topic:3547522, full:true”]
The misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the Church’s view is related to the idea that the currently available vaccines in the US are not morally problematic. They are morally problematic because they used fetal cells obtained from elective abortions. Because of the pandemic, the are morally permissible now. There’s a difference. And it’s not carte blanche. The Church teaches we are to advocate for more morally acceptable vaccine options, i.e., vaccines that don’t use cells derived from aborted fetuses in their development or testing.[/quote]
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I do not misunderstand and did not misrepresent the Church’s view. I am a Catholic. I never said whether they were morally problematic or not. I said that the Pope recommends them and that Catholic schools have always required vaccines. I’m well aware that testing used stem cells derived from fetal lines, but no fetal cells are contained in any individual vaccines.
Unfortunately seems to be the only area of morality that seems to come under this kind of scrutiny. Do the same Catholics who object on this basis reject the money which supports our Catholic schools because some of it was derived from lines of money originally obtained in the slave trade and the sex trafficking that went with it?
I did not say that Catholics have to blindly follow the Pope. Nor is that my understanding. I just have a problem with some of my fellow Catholics who ignore the Pope when his pronouncements are inconvenient and at the same time cite a “religious objection”, claiming church teachings as the basis.