{"id":223676,"date":"2020-12-22T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223676"},"modified":"2020-12-24T06:39:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:39:42","slug":"vatican-says-getting-covid-vaccine-morally-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223676","title":{"rendered":"Vatican says getting Covid vaccine &#8216;morally acceptable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AFP \u2013 Dec 22, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/vatican\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Vatican<\/a> has urged Catholics to get vaccinated against coronavirus and said it it \u201cmorally acceptable\u201d to take vaccines that use cell lines from aborted foetuses.<\/p>\n<p>Cells derived from foetuses aborted decades ago have been used by some researchers working on vaccines against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican acknowledged that the issue was a cause of concern for some Catholics but said in a note that \u201cit is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted foetuses in their research and production process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The use of such vaccines \u201cdoes not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion from which the cells used in production of the vaccines derive\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican added that while vaccination \u201cmust be voluntary &#8230; in the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic, the common good may recommend vaccination, especially to protect the weakest and most exposed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Those who refuse to use vaccines \u201cmust do their utmost to avoid\u201d spreading infection, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The note also highlighted the \u201cmoral imperative\u201d of the pharmaceutical industry, governments and international organisations to ensure that vaccines \u201care also accessible to the poorest countries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Italy will go into a nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/19\/italy-to-go-into-covid-lockdown-over-festive-period\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">lockdown during the Christmas and new year period<\/a>. The whole country will be under \u201cred-zone\u201d lockdown between Christmas Eve and 27 December, then again between 31 December and 3 January, and several more periods into the new year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/22\/vatican-says-getting-covid-vaccine-morally-acceptable\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 even though the vaccine is derived from call lines from aborted foetuses <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":122210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223677,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223676\/revisions\/223677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}