Will Pope Francis vaccinate against Covid-19 - ChristianGospelTV

Will Pope Francis vaccinate 

against Covid-19 - ChristianGospelTV

As debate rages about the ethics of using cell lines from aborted fetuses, the Vatican 

says it is morally acceptable

Pope Francis has not yet vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic. The world is watching to see if the 84-year-old bishop of Rome will receive a vaccine produced using cell lines from aborted fetuses, thus violating the principle of "moral cooperation in the evil of another" — in this case abortion.

His cooperation or non-cooperation (the pope was initially reluctant to wear a mask) will assert that "vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary."

Although sin remains a personal act, moral cooperation in another's evil, such as abortion, can also become a grave sin, according to Catholic catechism. When willingly driving someone to get an abortion is considered a grave sin, is not benefiting from a vaccine made using aborted cell lines a sin?

Ever since research began for Covid-19 vaccines, theologians and bishops have discussed the moral dilemma. Most openly and vehemently opposed using a vaccine produced using cell lines, while some left the question open-ended.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF), the Vatican office overseeing dogmatic developments, last week categorically stated that it is "morally acceptable" to receive Covid-19 vaccines produced using cell lines from aborted fetuses when no alternative is available.

The raison d'être for the Dec. 21 Vatican statement is that although any formal cooperation with evil is always morally wrong, mediate material cooperation can be morally licit at times. "Sometimes there are situations in which it is permissible to cooperate in a mediate material way in order either to gain some good or to prevent the loss of some good."

The Vatican was forced to bank on certain clauses in the moral theology of cooperation in evil as nations are waiting for the launch of the much-needed vaccines, all of which have employed cell lines either in the trial phase or in the manufacturing stage.

The Pontifical Academy for Life first addressed the moral dilemma of cooperation in evil in June 2005. The 2005 document dealt with issues surrounding vaccines prepared in cell lines from aborted fetuses.

However, the latest CDF document concluded that it is morally permissible and morally responsible for Catholics to accept these vaccines.

The Vatican made its stand clear on Covid-19 vaccines: "When ethically irreproachable Covid-19 vaccines are not available," it is "morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process."

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