Archbishop Upholds Catholic Doctrine

That headline shouldn’t be newsworthy, but here in Clown World, it’s a bombshell.

Archbishop of the U.S. military services Timothy Broglio has issued a statement against forcing American service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, saying that “no one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience.”

Again, His Excellency’s statement should not be controversial, since mandating experimental therapies violates informed consent laws, the Geneva Conventions, and the Catholic Church’s only magisterial statement on the vaccine mandate:

At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary.

It’s interesting that Archbishop Broglio’s recent remarks demonstrate a dramatic shift in tone, if not content, from comments he made just two months ago.

The move to mandate the vaccinations is supported by Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. Broglio told Catholic News Agency on Monday that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, along with Pope Francis, “had recognized the morality of the vaccine.”

The CDF’s advice “is the best guidance that we, as Catholics, have,” he said.


Broglio added that this vaccine mandate would “be very similar to other mandates already in force,” and that “several chaplains have mentioned that before a deployment you are given several inoculations and no one asks for your consent.”

“Certainly, no vaccine is an absolute, but the military is bound to live, work, and recreate together,” he said. “It seems prudent to ensure they do not infect each other.”

The archbishop said that while a person could object from the mandatory vaccine due to their personal conscience, “even that should be formed by the teaching of the Church.”

What the Church teaches is that even remote material cooperation with grave intrinsic evil is usually sinful, barring a sufficiently serious reason. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its note back in December of last year, when drug companies were claiming a 98 percent effectiveness rate for the vaccine. Now that the infanticide-tainted vaccines are proving significantly less effective than advertised, it’s hard to argue that the proportional good offered from vaccination universally justifies cooperation with abortion.

It’s encouraging to see Archbishop Broglio joining fellow Catholic prelates like Raymond Burke and Carlo Vigano in upholding Catholic teaching. It will take much stronger resistance to dissuade the Death Cult from imposing its new sacrament of unholy communion. Thankfully, we’re seeing signs that such resistance is building. Pray it’s not too little, too late.

In the meantime, don’t give people who’d infringe your primacy of conscience–including parishes that go along with Covidian mandates–your money.