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23 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Catholics and pro-lifers are being forced to make a difficult discernment in conscience regarding the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, because no completely ethical vaccines are available. With that in mind, today we are featuring...
...a point-counterpoint series about how Catholics can respond to vaccines developed with aborted fetal tissue. These should not be read as a debate over what all Catholics must do; rather, they are a discussion of prudential judgements we should make as witnesses to life.
First, the point from Dr. Joseph Meaney of @NCBCenter: Making use of these vaccines involves remote material cooperation with evil, which is licit for Catholics but requires discernment.
catholic.com/magazine/onlin…
Second, the counterpoint from Dr. Stacy Trasancos of @StPhilipInst: Even if current vaccines can be justified as remote cooperation, Catholics should make a heroic witness to life and wait for fully ethical COVID vaccines to arrive.
catholic.com/magazine/onlin…

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