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Then they better stop treatment for Parkinsons Disease Huntington Disease and many blood cancers Cuz guess what They been using embryonic stem cells for treatment and testing for 20 years!
I understand the message but believe this is not s pro life position.
and priests should avoid....what?
the best shot is the one you can get
Yeah, what we’re NOT seeing are CDC doctors, pharmacologists, and epidemiologists telling Catholics who and how to worship. So maybe the bishops should take their cue from that and stay in their lane re: fetal tissue FROM PLACENTA that was set aside for testing DECADES AGO.
The Church should butt out
Really think we should sue and tax them out of existance. They continue to protect there pedifile kind.
I find it laughable that these Catholics spent years protecting child rapists yet find the J&J vaccine immoral. How incredibly irresponsible of you all to tell your followers not to take a certain vaccine. What if that's the only option available to them? Religion sucks.
Does that mean the Church is still against rubbers and birth control too?
This was the right thing for the church to do during a global pandemic. Persons with covid19 can be asymptomatic and spread the disease unknowingly. Being vaccinated is the ultimate act of love to another person and in these times the ultimate display of being prolife
STOP ALL RELIGIOUS NONSENSE and keep it out of politics and government.
Really ! At this point in time who cares where it comes from 🤷♂️
More idiots.
Moral issues! Really?!!! How come they didn’t raise moral issues when all of those priests raped children?
All vaccines are tainted by abortion. They open up the baby and extract the organs while the heart is still beating...
Maybe some good will come out of this? Like a person who was not planning to get the vaccine, but now since a religious advisor recommends one over the other and they will now plan to get vaccinated
All u false ass religious leaders need to take all three vaccine companies poison for lying to the people
Church should stay out of science. Which ever vaccine is available get it!!
So glad to have walked away from all of that.....
Oh FFS!! Just get vaccinated as soon as you are able to!! WTF!
Says the guys who regularly let priests abuse little boys
“The Lord works in mysterious ways.” The Lord has a plan for everyone.” I can’t help but wonder why the same wouldn’t apply here...whatever the reason, these cells have now become a part of a life-saving medicine that will change the world. CovidVaccine
Do church leaders realize patients don't get to choose which vaccine that they're give at a facility? When you get there, you get what they have available!
Ah yes, a Catholic priest preaching morality
Sorry to say with me they lost their right as moral advisers many many young boys ago.
And when did the Catholic Church start running people’s lives...awful.
How about we don’t take health or science advice from a religion that hoards wealth and hides child abusers...
I'm not about to take moral advice from a bunch of child rapists
Ah a hedge! Is the future being foretold?
Such campaign against FDA approved and certified vaccine shot is not only likened to the 'Johova Witness' dogma,but it's troubling at the time the bottomline is protection for everyone first across the horizon.Saving lives is the critical mission over beliefs
Pure bull shit by bishops
The Catholic Church should keep their mouth shut.
People should listen to their healthcare providers on what's best for them. And the church should stay out of it.
Same church leaders also recommend that you do not use condoms when you have sex. So take this within context.
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Morals?
More for me 👍
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The Catholic Church should butt out. They have no right to deny theJ&J vaccine. What hypocrites with their child molestation cases.
Those dudes have more serious issues to deal with rather than giving bad advice.
Isn’t this the same church that put Galileo in jail for denying that the earth is the center of the universe?
the 'pro-lifers' can stop with their charade. We can't even get them to wear a mask to save a life. Then said nothing when their 'pro-life' President pardoned a soldier CONVICTED of murdering children and pushed through death row executions!
Was this before or after they molested kids?
Churchmeaxersshpuld stay in their lane and not offer medical advice.
The cells were derived from fetal( not baby) cells from a miscarriage that ‘god’ caused.
Get the vaccine that is available!
The Catholic church never stops harming. They have no morals or commonsense, a bad combination.
More for me 😂
Catholics are only pro-life so that they can have an endless supply of molestation victims.
So according to the Catholic church, using fetal cells is wrong but raping young boys is A-Okay. Got it.
Given all the child abuse perpetrated AND hidden by the Catholic Church the question should be is it moral to be a catholic. Get the vaccine and save lives people
The Catholic Church has no standing in telling anyone about morals when they allow priests to rape & abuse children & women. Why not ask them how many abortions they paid for? Why God allowed them to abuse their calling to serve & protect the most weak? Yeah they can STFU!!!!!!
If you needed more reason to detest catholic church. Fetal cell lines save lives &these were already aborted. Women had abortions even when they burnt them for it. Make better protection and we'll have none at all. Posturing from people who protect pedophiles.
The Catholic Church raising moral issues? Please, tell me more.
Clean up you own house and forget about the moral high ground you think you occupy, your 'Eminence', and leave vaccinations to experts!
If this is going to be the Catholic Churches opinion that nothing that was developed using fetal cells is allowed they can pretty much go join the Christian Scientists. New and fabulous targeted medications and gene therapy are going to largely be fetal tissue based.
Tell them it’s made from the saliva of children and they’ll be onboard to take it
If the Catholic Church stops accumulating wealth in the backs of the poor, raping children and hiding their pederasts I’ll consider not getting the J&J vaccine.
Morals......yea right!
Fuck the church
They have no moral issues about assaulting children. But a vaccine? Whoa that's one step too far.
Oh, please, tell the Bishops to get down into the trenches at a hospital ICU where their parishioners are on ventilators. They have lost all credibility. BTW, I am Catholic and a realist. Take any vaccination you can get. Do it for your children!
Church shouldnt be taking any of the vaccines it’s science based
U.S. Bishops don’t get an opinion in public policy.
I think all catholic bishops should only be given one option, J&J. I definitely don’t need moral advise from a bunch of old men who covered-up/abused children. 🙄
From the institution that said AIDS was bad, very bad, but not quite as bad as condoms are bad.
Maybe they’d prefer the bleach that Drump offered.
Fk the church.
lol. Listen to a church covered up sexual abuse because they know what’s good for you.
Religion poisons everything.
Is this why Detriot’s Mayor refused the J&J vax?
Church leaders, All men, Once again want control, Over people’s bodies. Apparently POTENTIAL life is more important than The LIVING. Remember the holy innocents? Maybe they LIVE In established fetal cell lines. Maybe God is okay with that. Doesn’t he work in mysterious ways?
It would probably surprise most people to learn that the use of some sort of animal fetal serum is very common in cell and virus culturing. Animals are an integral part of health research.
the pope said all the vaccines are fine. why isn’t that in the tweet?
This might be the dumbest and most uneducated rationale for choosing one molecular biology product over another. There is a reason you don’t go to seminary to learn biology!
What about those hundreds of bodies of babies that were found in some septic tank in a catholic run orphanage. The church tried to cover it up and kept quiet about it. And now they want to talk about moral issues.
Then they should probably avoid most modern medicines, because there's a pretty good chance that embryo-derived cell lines were used to test those as well.
This should be the equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre. This will cause deaths. Get any vaccine you can!!!!
These bishops represent nobody. They don't have the moral authority to advise anybody about anything.
That's nice but I going to do whatever the hell I want visa ve the shot
U.S. Bishops are stupid. As a scientist and health care professional I am advising Catholics to choose a better religion.
As a catholic who has been isolating at home for a year, I can’t wait to get back to community activities - including church. Many of us don’t have a choice Bishops! We are going to take what we are offered.
Those same bishops never raised any objections to the COVID treatment Trump got that also used abortion derived fetal cell lines. The moral objections from these most unChristian of old men are highly selective.
The fact that most of these church leaders have already been vaccinated (before the tax payers funding it) instead of using prayer that God protects them from infection. Then 'avoid J&J, but get it if you have to, to save your life!' They lose their pious moral high ground.
Excellent way to save lives. I’m so happy to see that the Catholic Church has its priorities in place...(?!?!?)
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To catholic leaders spreading vaccine fear
They should concern themselves with removing pedophiles from the priesthood instead of playing God. Where was the Catholic Church when previous administration locked babies in cages at the border?
I think I’ll get the Johnson & Johnson one then. I’m tired of the Catholic Church trying to tell me what to do. It’s why I stopped going to church.
Hypocrisy being at the very top of 'christians' characteristics, they'll gladly take the JJ vaccine and just tell their friends otherwise.
I'd advise the catholic church to stop ruining children's lives around the world
Just another example of Christians and Catholics being on the wrong side of history and science.
Reason 3b why I’ve left the Catholic Church.
Abortions saves lives.
More for me!
From the church that conducted the Spanish inquisition, put Galileo's head on a chopping block, and protects pedophile priests. I'll go with science, thank you, which wouldn't exist if it were up to the Church
jesus fn christ
Oh please...🙄
Interestingly, Pope Francis weighed in on this last week by saying he didn't object to this in light of the fact that the vaccine would save millions of lives - serving the greater good.
its the old 'blessed are those who advise pro death solutions for that will result in pro life positions' be attitude
As a Catholic, I would gladly take the J&J vaccine if it was available!!! Trust scientists not religious leaders!!!
Well duh. Goes against their beliefs
Time to start taxing religions.
Yet another proclamation by U.S. bishops to try to maintain control of, and relevance to, their dwindling flocks. An organization with a long record of abuse by clergy and reform neglect should redirect its moral outrage inward. Wedded to the Trump mob and money.
If there is a god he must be laughing at this. “Morals You wanna talk about morals After what you did to my children?”
My mom is staunch catholic and when her doctor told her that vaccines are available, she was the first one in line, and her comment about the fetal cells, “that’s full of shite”!
Organized religion. Still winning 🙄
It shows again that they have no willingness to understand how it works. Not to mention their hypocrisy : Prolife until birth, then they don’t care anymore
Tax them
I only want the J&J one...
Fuck church leaders.
The abortions its victims get after a priest has diddled one of the children or nuns. Shut this nonprofit organization down. Make them give money back to every victim, every ex- catholic, every communicant its ever had the privilege to meet.
The big sky man says this no-no sicky juice is BAD
Do not give their misleading non scientific advice a platform.
But the Pope said differently. Reporting like this is going to cost lives. Do better NPR
Great, now we are going to have people refusing vaccines due to religious beliefs. How many doses will end up in the trash?
I stopped listening to Catholic bishops' opinions about anything when they made it clear protecting pedophiles and the church's reputation was more important than protecting children. Get whatever vaccine you can. These men's opinions should not be allowed to risk your life.
of course they are..
cell lines used for these vaccines come from fetal cells harvested from miscarriage that happened like 30 years ago and used thereafter for a range of science. There’s nothing untoward or unethical here.
I don’t mind if people want to read & study fiction, which is what every religion is. This should never affect the lives of others, though. Now, that seems to be all religions do (badly) anymore. It’s time for humanity to grow up & dump them as they should have done already.
My family is Catholic and my dad plans on getting whichever vaccine is available. Most Catholics aren’t like these bishops and the church doesn’t dictate our lives.
In my kids catholic preschool, the phrase they used was “you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.”
Religion will continue to destroy the world
Nothing done about priests sexually abusing children yet.
🙄that’s all I got
Catholic Church just finding another way to control it's followers... Guess what bishops, your plebs tell you what you want to hear. You have more hippocrates than you know, and they don't care to confess it either. I saw it for 40 years in the church. Just serve your wafers.
Ok but they are only against abortion because it's less kids to molest
Same Bishops that had persuaded catholics to support and vote for Trump until they find him as the earthly evil.
raventerp100 THIS is why I despise the Catholic hierarchy. May they all rot in hell.
Ahum, and you know were they’re advising their alter boys to get it givenI vaccine 💉 🍑😖
Any port in a storm
Just when you thought Catholicism couldn’t get any worse than misogyny, child-raping priests, and the ludicrousness of transubstantiation.
A remarkable ability to consistently be worried about the wrong things.
I think God would probably rather we just get any shot available as soon as we can so we don’t all die and so we stop killing each other by unknowingly spreading the virus!
When the Catholic church publicly prosecutes sexual predators to the fullest extent of the law, I will consider listening to their opinion on anything.
I think religion has killed enough people....
Meanwhile the Pope is advising take whatever one is available. Pope trumps lowly bishops.
I will take whatever vaccine is offered. Pretty sure my God wants me to stay alive long enough to see my grandchild.
TAKE WHAT IS AVAILABLE TO SAVE YOUR LIFE
But they forgave trump for all his transgressions lol
Psst they all do
I got my J&J vaccine today and I was grateful to be given one ❤️
As soon as the church starts paying taxes, I’ll actually give a shit what their options are regarding the vaccine distribution
USCCB just cannot help themselves, huh.
They really need to be explicitly clear that if J&J is all that's available you shouldn't pass on it.
I’m catholic mostly. The church did nothing against the. Black Plague. The good of life on earth is what should be. Get anyone that will save your life.
Ridiculous.
Like the stuff they pumped into trump.
Fking weirdos
As long as you’re getting vaccinated and you are following all other masking / social distancing recommendations, I don’t really care which vaccine you choose.
They're making it almost impossible for me to stay Catholic.
Cell lines is cell lines. We're cloning human tissue for experimentation, which is either an insult to god or a miracle of human ingenuity. There's no in-between.
Oh no! If you're catholic, you just gotta die, no passes
Well, those fetus won’t be dying of COVID either way, I don’t see the problem
I am in no mood to listen to a ppl who cover up for pedophiles
Yes. Religion poisons everything
Fucking idiots 🙄 Most vaccines are made from that.
More hocus pocus from the peddlars of fantasy
As they molest children.... 🙄
Went through this with the Moderna jab...... sigh. Just get what you can get.
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And we wonder where the general sense of entitlement comes from?
WTF, vaccine beggars can't be choosy.
Pfizer makes viagra. So it’s in line with pro-life stance 🤣
I have no idea why you're tweeting a story dated March 3rd today when that same Bishop said this on March 4th.
I stopped listening to the Catholic Church when they told me tittyfucking was a sin.
U got to be kidding me!science before bull shut please
And how many churches were packed to capacity during the pandemic Don't try to lecture us on the sanctity of life. Most American christians didn't give two shites about life during the pandemic - holding services that resulted in death and suffering. Hypocrites all.
What do the Catholic bishops say about using cadaver-derived skin, bone, etc., to repair injuries?
I wish the church cared this much when I was a kid when my grade school had a priest that was a pedophile look after another priest from another state that that was a pedophile. FYI our grade school had 5 priests eventually removed.
Please say US Conference of Catholic Bishops, instead of church leaders. Not all church leaders need this bad rap. Many are doing all they can to keep people safe and healthy.
I'd socially distance from Catholic bishops.
Bleh. The Catholic Church needs to stop micromanaging people’s lives and futures and look internally at scandal, travesty and their own sin.
Maybe they should be telling themselves not to rape children, instead.
What a stupid opinion by these bishops. To save lives vs covering up abusive priests.
Pro lifers,right?
Yeah right I’ll do that when you guys stop protecting pedophiles. Too much telling people what to do and not to do based on interpretation of archaic church laws by out of touch oddballs with drinking problems who are on power trips.
Time to start taxing churches
LeviFetterman I thought they settled this yesterday?
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Refuse the J&J vaccine? Your appointment gets deferred until everybody else who wants a vaccine is vaccinated. This is absurd.
Oh dear God! We need to celebrate the Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, not discourage its usage before the masses.
The US Bishops are an anathema to the Church.
I’m actually more pissed at J&J for having cancer causing products.
Just one more reason to eliminate religion from our daily lives.
The rest of us are advising Catholics to attend the Protestant or Jewish faiths over morality concerns with the Cath church
Best not take medical advice from institutional child molesters.
FFS NPR stop giving this type of idiocy air time.
Jesus. Catholics. For f*cks sake.
US bishops? NO TRUST there! Pedophiles are fine, but don't get an abortion? Moral issues? My former church used the collection plate to pay 4 pedophiles airline tickets to England to avoid arrest! Moral?
... this furthering the Church’s acceleration toward irrelevance
People who raised this problem in other vaccines FOR YEARS were labeled anti-vaxxers when they just wanted trolls like Hotez to clean up the vaccine ingredient list. Instead nobody was allowed to criticize vaccines ever without incurring the wrath of Pharma trolls like Hotez.
The Catholic Church should keep their nose out of people’s business!!!
Or maybe they can just say Yay Science! and get over themselves?
Give me a fucking break. I’d advise staying away from the Catholic Church for raping children and covering it up.
Perhaps a better, more Catholic response from the bishops would be to counsel all recipients of this specific vaccine to consider the value—in the present and for so many, of that life terminated so long ago.
I'm a Roman Catholic who refuses ALL COVID vaccines.
tifffuxxsake Might as well howl at the full moon and beat drums to please god to stop the Covid curse. It is 2021 not 1021.
Tend to the moral issues within your cult first ..sad indictment of the American experiment that this hogwash and these hustlers still garner attention... they have plenty of their own moral dilemmas to ponder ,,,,,,,,,, in silence preferably
Fix the headline- 'US Catholic Bishops'
ALL 3 vaccines SAVE LIVES! Full stop. Stay out CatholicBishops
Fetal cells are not being harvested today for this from aborted babies. The cells were derived from fetal tissue from 1960s, which have been replicated in a lab, being used till this day. No babies will be saved by this, but more people will die from this senseless edict.
Whatever floats your boat.
They should work on their own moral issues before worrying about some dead fetus cells that are saving lives.
Aren't these same cells used for most vaccines you got in childhood? Many of them developed by Pfizer. These are manufactured cells from cells obtained long time ago.
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Crazy Catholics.
That is not what the Pope is saying
This makes me want to get the Johnson vaccine more!
This info has since changed. You need to update
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Props to church leaders for a fettered, clear as mud message during a pandemic in which over 500,000 have lost their lives; many due to the same line of thinking.
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It's gonna cost more lives..but hear me out... ugh..the 'church' can fuck right off
So the church’s obsession with abortion leads it to actively undermine efforts to save post-birth lives. More evidence supporting those who justly left the church.
Catholics and the church are irrelevant
Yeah till we find out they have all been vaccinated already just like trump
It's not like anyone has a choice at this stage, except wait and see which one you get. But count me in for any vaccine that bible-thumpers reject.
Dumb
Advice from a group of pedophiles....
This voodoo bullshit is why I stopped practicing (plus the misogyny)
So incredibly dumb
Meanwhile CardinalDolan (disgrace) had no problem offering a prayer for Trump at the RNC. I guess separating families and deporting people who have only ever lived in this country didn’t tip the morality scale for him.
Yeah, that's what we need- moral advice from men who rape altar boys.
The church should stfu. Hypocrites.
😂 The catholic church should have a seat on moral issues.
Shouldn't they have been outraged over priest molesting young boys? Save it Catholic Church..you lost all creditability with my faith years ago.
Return five centuries ago........
Trump’s Covid Treatments Were Tested in Cells Derived From Fetal Tissue
We have to stop providing a market for by-products of murdered baby parts. We must never fund abortion and we must reduce its profitability. I do not want to murder to a avoid a 'potential, might be' threat.
Maybe sit this one out Catholic Church..
Oh barf
Proving ONCE AGAIN that religion was created TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE who are incapable of making their own decisions
The Catholic church should really worry about the plank in their own eye instead of discouraging the use of life saving medication.
Are they also advising them to not wear two different blends of fabric? What about cheese burgers?
Do you all the bishops mind your own business church state mind your own business lives are at stake how Jesus like of you all
So let me be sure I get this. Catholic RightToLife advocates are fomenting vaccine hesitancy which could lead to the deaths of thousands? WTF.
Stop giving air time to this, it will cost lives
Get whatever vaccine which is offered to you if you want to live & get back to having a normal life again
So using aborted babies....to keep Adults Alive sounds Satanic
Why not ask Christians to go to a different denomination, after raising moral issues with the Catholic Church's history of, oh I don't know, all the bad things they've done and lives they've killed?
Oh FFS. Can the church just shut the hell up, and let’s get vaccinations done. And women have the right to control their own bodies, and no one else!
These are fetal cells from the 1970’s. They’ve been multiplied and regrown so many times there is no original cell left. This is nonsense.
Oh Jesus.
Listening to people who don’t pay taxes is ___________
This is the dumbest fucking thing I have heard today. The Catholic Church (and I went to Catholic school my entire life including university) is one giant moral failure.
Well this now explains the random late night text from my Mother. Another win for stupidity 🙄😭😂
Hey, look who suddenly cares about morality!
Yup, let’s risk the lives of thousands of living, breathing humans for a blob of cells. Let’s fuck up the heroic efforts of scientists to save us from our stupid selves. Once again, the Church is arrogant, science denying, & a stick in the spokes in a desperate bid to be relevant
Fine. Don’t come
Fuckers want more kids born cuz they're pedos.
The Pope says not getting vaccinated is immoral. Doesn't he outrank U.S. Bishops?
npr Please stop sharing this. It's harmful for our nation as conservatives who already show distrust in vaccinations will see it as more evidence of why they shouldn't participate.
How about all the boys that were abused gor years by priests? How about all the bastards your priests fathered! I don’t think the Catholic Church should be saying anything to anyone until their own house is cleaned up and all truth is discovered.
The same catholic church that hid nazis and helped them escape to South America, the same church with billions of dollars it hasn't given to the poor, the same church that hid crimes of priests raping children are telling us what's moral? Really?
If Catholics cared about children they wouldn’t rape them.
US Bishops have Moral issues? They’ve been okay with child abuse for DECADES in the country.
Just more proof of how out of touch the Bishops are. And this is what the Church calls leadership.
I was born and raised a Roman Catholic but honestly I cannot believe the STUPIDITY of The Catholic Church! Every time they get involved in politics they fuck everything up completely! Stay in your lane bishops and stay out of secular affairs!
Church leaders are not helping! They want to super spread COVID-19.
Maybe US Bishops themselves should be avoided
You want to have full capacity churches yet you also tell your flock to avoid certain vaccines when it is already hard enough to get a vaccine
DrEricDing - can you comment, please?
Right! let’s choose the possibility of loosing your life bc you turn down a vaccine because a vaccine was made not to your approval 🤔 I get it I’m Catholic BUT c’mon people vaccination IS IMPORTANT
Haven’t they ruined enough lives?
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