Healthy skepticism

Even if it is morally permissible to take an abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccine, the “default” position for the Catholic, based on the 2005 PAL instruction and even the 2020 CDF instruction, should be at least hesitancy toward taking such vaccines, especially those for whom COVID-19 is not particularly dangerous (i.e., the young and the healthy). As the 2005 PAL instruction notes, taking an abortion-tainted vaccine requires a “proportional reason” in order to take it. For most people, is taking an experimental vaccine that merely limits the symptoms of COVID-19 proportional to cooperation, even remote, in the great holocaust of our time?

Thank you, Eric Sammons

And then there is this, from Edward Barr:

The fourth criterion seems pretty simple.  If you meet the first three criteria and decide to take an unapproved, unlicensed, and morally tainted ‘vaccine,’ you are required to protest vehemently.  Have you ever heard a homilist mention this mandate from the pulpit?  Neither have I.  Nor have we heard it from the Vatican.  Instead, the Holy See is hosting an international conference highlighted by pro-vaccine and pro-abortion zealots.  Morality is carefully nuanced to give Catholics the impression that there is nothing wrong with abortion-tainted vaccines.  Nearly all senior Church leaders ignore the requirement to protest the evil thrust upon them by Caesar.

The USCCB does warn against complacency on abortion.  However, it is buried under a mound of cheerleading and theological gymnastics that gives the general impression that an unapproved, unlicensed, experimental, abortion-tainted vaccine is the salvation of mankind.