The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), along with the Pontifical Academy for Life \u2014 a Vatican body established to provide information about issues in law and biomedicine \u2014 have studied the moral issues surrounding vaccines and have determined that it is morally licit, and even morally responsible, for Catholics to use even those vaccines developed from aborted fetus cells.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nBottom line, the method of deriving the vaccines is immoral, but it remains licit for parents to use them because it is remote material cooperation with evil and the good of vaccinating those at risk outweighs this. Foolished, I thought this would relieve consciences. I still childishly imagine that Catholics who claim to believe the Church\u2019s guidance on faith and morals will listen to the Church\u2019s guidance on faith and morals. \u00a0But alas, many people who claim this merely mean they cannibalize the Church\u2019s teaching in order to accessorize the opinion of their MEgesterium. \u00a0So instead of listening to the Church\u2019s common sense, my comboxes swelled up and burst (1173 comments and counting) with an epic argument between people bound and determined to ignore the Church\u2019s guidance and tho<\/span>se trying to point out the bleedin\u2019 obvious fact that you should vaccinate your family not only for their safety but because herd immunity protects the immunocompromised and those who, for whatever reason, cannot get vaccinated.<\/span><\/p>\nSo, having a radio show, I decided \u201cWhy not use a bit of mass media to hear from a Catholic pediatrician with expertise in immunology to counter the life-threatening rubbish?\u201d \u00a0Please listen in to hear from a Catholic who is both faithful to the Magisterium *and* an actual expert on the medical issues in play? \u00a0Click on the link above at 5 PM Eastern today and feel free to join the conversation on why it is *morally responsible* to vaccinate, not only for the health of your family but for thousands of the very young, very old, and immunocompromised.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026here. Join me and\u00a0my Monday co-host Simcha Fisher today on \u201cConnecting the Dots\u201d as we discuss\u00a0the morality, responsibility and common sense of vaccination with Catholic pediatrician and immunology specialist Dan Conway. \u00a0Join the conversation with your questions and comments\u00a0by\u00a0calling in at 1-855-949-1380. I was inspired to do this when I\u00a0naively pointed out the Church\u2019s teaching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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