Oh well. I suppose we Kiwi Catholics can be grateful we're not of the English variety, whose bishops have told them them it's okay to be vaccinated against COVID-19 with tissue derived from aborted
babies.
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| Bishop John Sherrington left, Bishop Paul Mason right |
In fact the bishops of England and Wales reckon the faithful have "a prima facie duty to be vaccinated", even if using body parts which once belonged to a fellow human being.
Let this serve as notice to New Zealand's bishops, just in case they get it into their pretty heads to try the same one on us: our duty is to obey God, not man - on the first impression (prima facie), the second impression and unto the last impression: "For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill"(Jas 2:11).
"We believe there is a moral obligation to guarantee the vaccination coverage necessary for the safety of others" and "out of solidarity with others," the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW) announced in a statement published Thursday.
Oh really. Do the good bishops also believe the makers of the vaccine have a moral obligation to guarantee the success of the vaccine? That the makers of the vaccine have a moral obligation not to make trillions out of a population that's scared witless by the bogy of COVID-19 foisted on them by the media, and for good reason: because said bishops have neglected their own prima facie duty, which is to save souls.
Not to muscle in on the territory of health professionals, especially when they can show no muscle in their own field of shepherding, but to teach the Gospel which states:"Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.
"The Church," say Bishops Paul Mason and John Sherrington, "teaches that the paramount importance of the health of a child and other vulnerable persons could permit parents to use a vaccine which was in the past developed using these diploid cell lines."
The Church teaches no such thing. One of the cell lines being exploited in the production of the COVID-19 vaccine at Oxford University is from a healthy baby girl murdered through abortion in 1972 in the Netherlands. Her kidney cells were harvested, labelled 'HEK-293' and used for medical research.
What preposterous prevarication, for bishops to teach that the evil of killing another person becomes a good when you stand to gain from that evil. To support this they cite the Pontifical Academy for Life, in a non-magisterial 2005 paper, which justifies the use of unethically produced vaccine strictly "as an extrema ratio" [last solution or extreme remedy].
Have the bishops any evidence to prove that the Oxford University vaccine is a solution or remedy of any kind, let alone "last" or "extreme"?
What the Academy actually stated is: "When immediate material cooperation concerns grave attacks on human life, it is always to be considered illicit, given the precious nature of the value in question, and considers "morally illicit every form of formal cooperation (sharing the evil intention) in the action of those who have performed a voluntary abortion, which in turn has allowed the retrieval of fetal tissues, required for the preparation of vaccines."
But hey, there's one thing to be said for the bishops of England and Wales: they make their brother bishops of the United States look good.
Aborted babies can't be used to develop vaccines," say the U.S. bishops. They sent an open letter to Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, asking for a COVID-19 vaccine that's "free from any connection to abortion."
The letter was signed by four U.S. bishops on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as by a host of prominent U.S. pro-life leaders.https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/no-immoral-inoculations
And then there's the bishop chairing the COVID-19 Pastoral Ministry Working Group in Scotland, who's sparked alarm among Catholics after revealing that restoring normal parish life is contingent on finding a vaccine for the Wuhan virus.
"While it will be wonderful when our parishes can reopen, we recognize that parish life cannot quickly return to normal until a vaccine or a treatment is available," Bp. Brian McGee of the diocese of Argyll and the Isles announced.
"We do not expect this to happen until at least 2021" and "parish activities will still be greatly restricted," McGee noted, "even when churches reopen."
"No normality means no Mass, no Communion. Catholics in Scotland continue to be scandalously and systematically denied participation in the Mass as bishops and their bureaucrats collude with the ruling atheistic, leftist Scottish National Party (SNP)," says a Catholic lay leader from Glasgow.
"The bishops seem to have decided, years ago, on a policy of appeasement, at odds with their status as shepherds in a deeply secular country," he observed. "Only after Catholics flooded every single bishops' inbox with e-mails demanding a resumption of Masses, there has been some talk of the possibility of commencing normal parish life, and that too in 2021.
The bishops were taken aback by the extent of protest from lay Catholics through the OpenChurchesScotland campaign and some in the hierarchy even resorted to subtle threats to bully campaign leaders into silence.
"The continued and prolonged ban on the Mass in Scotland has very disturbing origins and implications," Catholics from a lay-led fraternity said. "Scottish dioceses banned reception of Communion on the tongue before Scotland officially went into lockdown and bishops in all eight dioceses unilaterally suspended public Masses on March 18 even before they were required to do so by the government," they explained.
A week later the bishops shut all churches. "The bishops of Scotland, agree that our churches should be closed during this period of national emergency for the common good." Catholics from various dioceses in Scotland said they were attending "clandestine Masses."NZ Rad Trads, take note!
"I started to attend a Traditional Latin Mass covertly at 7:15 a.m. in a semi-rural parish," a young Catholic professional said. "I know that many others have also done so, most at traditionalist parishes, in the main body of the Church. But these have largely stopped due to non-TLM clergy snitching on us."
Another Catholic lamented: "Many Catholics feel as if they have been cast adrift and are in a 'no-mans land' in Scotland due to the lack of ecclesiastical support for basic Catholic teaching and the near-absence of a defense of Catholic social teaching in the Catholic and mainstream media," he stressed. Catholics said Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow was deeply embedded in politics of the Scottish National Party.
"Archbishop Tartagliaappears to be on the same political journey as the numerous Catholics who have swelled the ranks of the SNP in recent years," The Tablet, a liberal Catholic British journal, wrote in 2015.
"The Scottish Catholic Church is not in a good place. Some of its clergy and functionaries act more as partisan political cheerleaders than as dedicated pastors keen to strengthen its community in an increasingly secular era," world-renowned Scottish Catholic composer Sir James MacMillan wrote in 2016 in The Spectator.Sound familiar??? NZ Rad Trads, take note!
The parish priest of St. Brigid Church in Toryglen, Glasgow, warned that the parish income has fallen to just 10% of what the church normally receives and that the future of many churches was bleak: "We have little income right now, and from speaking to other priests around the city, they're very much in the same position."https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/scottish-bishop-no-vaccine-no-mass?fb
Oh Holy Father Pope Francis, could you please sort your bishops out?
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Linda Clarke says:
ReplyDeleteLooked at the Scotland bit, and what came before is so horrifying....how long can God let this world go on its way with this sort of attitude IN THE CHURCH ? Wot is wrong with these Bishops. I'll tell ya ------ they don't walk with the Lord, therefore they are afraid for their lives and need to keep in good with the political side of things........they are not living the life they should be living, He would be their All if they would walk with Him. Oh, what sorrow! God's most beautiful gift to us - children.