Catholic Candle note: In our current corona-scare and on-going leftist takeover, Catholics are being pressured and “required” to receive a COVID vaccine.  We must die rather than commit this heinous sin!  Below we provide a model letter you could use when explaining why you refuse this vaccine.

We understand that some non-Catholics and liberals might be offended by the strength of the letter below.  Nonetheless, if we were to “soften” the letter it would be less effective in receiving a COVID vaccine exemption and also less likely to “plant seeds” of the Catholic Faith which could possibly sprout into a future conversion.  It takes strong “medicine” to penetrate into the souls of persons in the world who are not searching for the truth and who are completely immersed in the sensibilities of the world!

Let us remember the advice of St. Thomas Aquinas, Greatest Doctor of the Catholic Church:

If someone is scandalized by hearing the truth, it is better that such scandal would occur than that the truth not be declared. 

Catena Aurea on St. Luke’s Gospel, ch.17, §1, St. Thomas Aquinas, quoting and following the Venerable Bede, Doctor of the Church.

Suggested Model Letter Explaining the Refusal of a COVID Vaccine Mandate

To whom it concerns:

I am a Traditional Catholic, adhering to the teachings of the Catholic Church as they have been always taught prior to Vatican II (in the 1960s).

Having carefully examined the issue of the morality of the COVID-19 vaccines, I firmly conclude that it is impossible for me to accept this vaccine under the sincerely and firmly held Catholic principles which have governed my entire life.

Below, I explain my Catholic principles and their application regarding the COVID vaccines.
 

The Evil of using Vaccines made through the Murders of Babies

There are three reasons I hold that it is wrong to accept these vaccines developed or manufactured using the cell lines of murdered babies (abortion):

1.    Using those vaccines promotes future murders.

2.    Using those vaccines rewards persons connected with the murders.

3.    I would incur guilt for those murders, by the inherent consent which would be involved in accepting any one of those vaccines.

Below, I discuss each of these reasons.

1.   Using abortion-connected vaccines promotes future murders.

Using the cell lines from murdered babies encourages future murders whenever pharmaceutical companies deem it to be convenient and profitable to commit more murders for use in vaccine research or production. 

Because people did not refuse vaccines coming from babies murdered in the 1970s (viz., the 1970s-era cell lines)^[1], this caused drug companies, labs, and researchers to feel “free” to commit more murders to create new cell lines.  For example, a new cell line from a new murdered baby, was announced in 2015.^[2] 

Accepting those vaccines manufactured through murdered babies, promotes future murders (and every murder of an innocent human is a murder too many)!  Thus, if I would accept a vaccine produced through murder, I would be encouraging the drug companies to commit additional murders to keep vaccine production high.

2.   Using those vaccines rewards persons connected with the murders.

It is wrong to use vaccines produced from murdered babies because using these vaccines enables manufacturers to profit through the murders.  I must refuse to help drug companies make evil profitable!

3.   I would incur guilt for the babies’ murders by my consenting to use any one of those vaccines.

I would become culpable for someone else’s sin by consenting to it.^[3]  When St. Paul teaches us this truth about sharing someone else’s sin by consent, he mentions murder in particular.  Here are his words:

Being filled with … murder, …  they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Romans, 1:29-32 (emphasis added).^[4]

St. Paul shows that consenting to murder is a grave sin and shows this by teaching that such consent makes us “worthy of death”.

A person is guilty of a murder by his consent when he acquiesces^[5], even passively^[6], or accedes, even reluctantly,^[7] to the murder.  If I were to use a vaccine which comes from murder, I would be (at least) passively accepting – i.e., giving in^[8] to – the murders that make those vaccines available. 

A person can incur guilt by consenting even after the murder.

Some ways of sharing in someone else’s sin can only occur before the sin is committed, e.g., commanding or advising that the sin should be committed.  See, the above list (from The Penny Catechism) of ways to share someone else’s sin. 

However, consent to a sin is different.  A person can consent to (i.e., acquiesce in) a murder either before or after it is committed, and so can incur guilt either way.

St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Doctor of the Catholic Church, teaches that a person can incur guilt by consenting to a murder which has already been committed.  He applies this principle (of guilt through post-murder consent) to a person who joins the Jewish religion after Christ’s murder.  Here are St. Thomas’ words:

When a person becomes a Jew, he becomes a participant in the killing of Christ. 

St. Thomas Aquinas, Lectures on St. Matthew’s Gospel, ch.23, §1861 (emphasis added).

By using those vaccines manufactured through the murders of babies, a person thus incurs guilt by consenting to (i.e., acquiescing in) the murders of those babies even though those murders were already committed.

The passage of time does not remove the implicit consent, and thus, the sin, of association with murders.

A superficial objection could be raised that the vaccines were made from murdered babies more than five decades ago and surely that is “so long ago” that we should disregard the murders because they are too distant in time.

That is wrong.  God does not cease to treat a murder as murder merely because of the passage of time.^[9]  Those who commit murder and those that consent to it, remain culpable.  The mere passage of time does not remove the inherent guilt.  The punishments of hell are forever because the damned do not repent and the simple passage of time does not erase guilt (even a billion years in hell).

Just as God does not overlook culpability for murder simply because of the passage of time, man does not do so either.  In the civil society, there is typically no statute of limitations for murder.^[10]  In other words, no murder is ever so remote in time that it is no longer culpable and punishable.

The murdering of the babies which was committed in order to “harvest” their cell lines, was premeditated and is first degree murder.  The passage of time does not change the guilt of those murders and does not eliminate the guilt of a person who consents to them.

No matter how much time passes, Catholics who are faithful to the Traditional teachings of the Church will never accept a vaccine developed through the murder of a baby!

The end does not justify the means.

Another superficial objection could be raised that vaccines do much good and that they save so many lives that this “outweighs” the murders through which the vaccines are produced.  However, faithful and informed Catholics must never be complicit in evil because of “good” that can come from it.  The end does not justify the means!

We are not justified in consenting to even the smallest of sins, much less, consenting to murder.

The evil at issue here is murder.  That is a very grave evil.  But even if a person were to suppose that receiving vaccines derived from the cell lines of murdered babies were “only” a small (“venial”) sin, even the very smallest sin is an infinite evil in three ways.^[11]  We should be ready to die rather than commit any sin. 

Here is how St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Doctor of the Church, warns against committing even the smallest sin:

A single venial sin is more displeasing to God than [i.e., outweighs] all the good works we can perform.

St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Uniformity with God’s Will, §6 (bracketed word added for clarity).

Here is how St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church, warns us that the road to hell begins with small sins:

Our Lord said in the Gospel: “He that is unfaithful in little will be unfaithful also in much.”  For he that avoids the small sin will not fall into the great sin; but great evil is inherent in the small sin, since it has already penetrated within the fence and wall of the heart; and as the proverb says: Once begun, half done.

Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book III, ch.20, section 1.

Here is how John Henry Cardinal Newman declares that the smallest sin is worse than all the physical suffering in the world:

The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one willful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse.

 Apologia Vita Sua, by John Henry Cardinal Newman, Image Books, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, © 1956, p.324.

Conclusion of this section

In summary, some vaccines are produced through cell lines obtained from murdered babies.^[12]  There are three reasons I cannot accept the COVID vaccines:

1.    Using these vaccines promotes future murders.

2.    Using these vaccines rewards those connected with the murders.

3.    I would become culpable for the murders, by my consent.

 

The Currently Available COVID-19 Vaccines are all Abortion-Connected and are all sinful to receive.

1.    The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is tested using the HEK293 cell line.^[13]  The abbreviation “HEK293” refers to “Human Embryonic Kidney 293, identifying the organ of the particular murdered baby, who in this case was a baby girl aborted in the Netherlands in the 1970s.^[14]  Although each “cell line” is from a particular murdered baby, the cell line production process requires many babies dissected alive without anesthetic in order to successfully obtain a single such human “cell line”.^[15]

2.    The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine used the parts grown from the same kidney from the same murdered baby girl.^[16]

3.    The Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine used the parts of the same kidney from the same murdered baby girl.^[17]

4.    The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine uses the PER.C6 cell line.  This is the body of a different murdered baby.  This vaccine uses the retinal tissue of an 18-week baby boy who was murdered in the Netherlands in 1985.^[18]

5.    The COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Sanofi/Translate Bio uses the parts of the kidney from the murdered baby girl identified as HEK293.^[19]

I would commit a serious sin by accepting any of these COVID-19 vaccines because they were developed using abortion.

For these reasons, based on my sincerely and long-held Traditional Catholic principles which govern my entire life, I cannot and will not accept a COVID vaccine.

Four Catholic Candle tips:

1.    Be bold!  Don’t minimize the problem with the vaccine out of human respect for your employer.  For example, don’t change the word “baby” to “fetus” to avoid offending your employer.

2.    It is a type of intellectual laziness to say: “Just give me something to sign that will succeed in getting the waiver for me.”  Master every aspect of the contents of the letter.  You won’t do well if you don’t thoroughly understand the content of the letter you are sending.
 

3.    Do not even consider a compromise, i.e., meeting the employer “half-way”.  Not only is that a sin – and a compromise between light and darkness, between God and Baal – but if your employer knows you would even consider a compromise, it will make it less likely you would obtain your conscience objection waiver.  Thus, e.g., if your employer proposed: “would you meet us half way and get one of the two shots (of the two-shot regimen)?  If you even respond: “let me think about it”, you are signaling that you are not firm in your conviction.  This is clear because anyone who would say “let me think about cooperating in the murder of babies” is not really firm against it.

4.    As always, feel free to use Catholic Candle as a resource.  Ask us questions.  Tell us how we can help you!  That is why we are here!