The Vatican COVID-19 Commission and Pontifical Academy for Life issue 20-point joint paper confirming moral responsibility of taking COVID-19 vaccines, building off guidance from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued 21 December.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discusses ethical aspects of anti-COVID-19 vaccins. They conclude that use of the available vaccins is licit in the current circumstances even if these vaccins are developed or produced in cell lines originally derived from aborted fetusses.
US Catholic Bishops clarify the Church’s position regarding the moral jusitification of the use of currently available COVID-19 vaccines.
The letter Samaritansu bonus on the care of persons in critical and terminal phases of life was presented by the Undersecretary Gambino.
On the occasion of the Season of Creation 2020, FIAMC-president Bernard Ars has invited His Eminence Willem Cardinal Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht (The Netherlands) to contribute to the FIAMC website with a reflection on gender, creation and human ecology.
The bishop of Cassano, Monsignor Francesco Savino pronounces on the new guidelines on the use of the abortion pill Ru486.
Cardinal Eijk reacts on behalf of the Dutch Bishop’s Conference on the supreme court’s judgement in a case euthanasia in a patient with advanced dementia in the Netherlands.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announces that the psychiatric hospitals run by the Brothers of Charity in Belgium cannot considered anymore as Catholic institutions.
All humanity is being put to the test. The Covid-19 pandemic puts us in a situation of unprecedented, dramatic and global difficulty whose power to destabilize the plans we have for our lives is growing day by day.
God our Father, Creator of the world, almighty and merciful, out of love for us You sent your Son into the world as the doctor of our souls and our bodies, look upon your children who, in this difficult time of confusion and dismay in many regions of Europe and the world, turn to you …