Bishop Fabre Offers Pastoral Guidance on Covid-19 Vaccines

Bishop Fabre offers the following pastoral guidance on Covid-19 Vaccines:

“For those receiving a COVID-19 vaccination, those vaccines that are morally acceptable are clearly preferable and should be requested.  However, one may not have a choice of vaccines without a lengthy delay, which may present serious health consequences.  In this case, accepting a vaccination with a morally compromised vaccine is morally permissible because of the lack of alternatives and the serious risk to public health.”    

      - Bishop Shelton Fabre


Learn more about Covid-19 vaccines and questions of faith by reading the following pastoral articles and statements:

USCCB Addresses the Use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 Vaccine:
https://www.usccb.org/news/2021/us-bishop-chairmen-doctrine-and-pro-life-address-use-johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine


Bayou Catholic (February 2021) article from Fr. Brice Higginbotham:
“Is it morally acceptable to receive a COVID-19 vaccine? I’ve heard that some of the vaccines are connected to abortion.”
https://bayoucatholic.org/news/questions-of-faith-2


Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Statement on Covid-19 Vaccines (December 2020):
https://htdiocese.org/news/louisiana-conference-of-catholic-bishops-on-covid-19-vacinnes


United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Statement (December 2020):
"Moral Considerations Regarding the New Covid-19 Vaccines"
www.usccb.org/moral-considerations-covid-vaccines

 

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