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Yes that is what I am suggesting, based off of the PDF provided above and it's referenced sources which I have pasted below for your convenience. As to the rest, point taken; I got carried away. From the PDF:
1 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), “Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-COVID-19
Vaccines,” December 17, 2020, n. 5: “At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not,
as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.” 2 See Pontifical Academy for Life, “Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted
Human Foetuses,” June 9, 2005; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Dignitas personae,
2008, nn. 34-35; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-COVID-
19 Vaccines,” nn. 1-3. When there is a sufficiently serious reason to use the product and there is no
reasonable alternative available, the Catholic Church teaches that it may be permissible to use the immorally
sourced product under protest. In any case, whether the product is used or not, the Catholic Church teaches
that all must make their disagreement known and request the development of equal or better products using
biological material that does not come from abortions.
3 See United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic
Health Care Services, 6th ed. (Washington, DC: USCCB Publishing, 2018), n. 28. Hereafter “ERDs.” 4 “A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were deliberately to act
against it, he would condemn himself. Yet it can happen that moral conscience remains in ignorance and
makes erroneous judgments about acts to be performed or already committed.” Catechism of the Catholic
Church (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1993), www.vatican.va, n. 1790. Hereafter “CCC.”
5 See ERDs, nn. 32-33; nn. 56-57; Part Three, Introduction, para. 2; Part Five, Introduction, para. 3. 6 See ERDs, nn. 56-57. Both of these directives state that the proportionality of medical interventions is
established “in the patient’s judgment.”
7 CCC, n. 1777, citing John Henry Cardinal Newman, "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk," V, in Certain Difficulties
felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching II (London: Longmans Green, 1885), 248. 8 CCC, n. 1782, citing Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis humanae, December 7, 1965, n. 3. |