Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò to Prelates: Clarify Vax Danger, Grave Moral Issues (Oct. 27, 2021)

To His Excellency

Msgr. José Horacio Gómez

Metropolitan archbishop of Los Angeles

President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

To Their Eminences and Excellencies
The archbishops and bishops of the dioceses of the United States of America

And for their competence:

To His Eminence
Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J.
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

To His Eminence
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller
Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Oct. 23, 2021

Your Eminences, Your Excellencies,

Abp. Gómez and Cdls. Ladaria and Müller

I address you, Abp. Gómez, as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and you, Cdls. Ladaria and Müller, for your competence, some serious considerations related to the so-called vaccines against COVID-19.

I believe there are some aspects of the question that now allow for a more complete evaluation of what these drugs are and what effects they cause; this evaluation ought to lead to a collegial stance, in conformity with the Magisterium of the Church and not influenced by biased information or by erroneous news spread by the producers of these drugs or by the media.

1. Subject of the “Note” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

The “Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-COVID-19 Vaccines” was issued last year in the absence of complete data on both the nature of the gene serum and its components. I point out to you that the subject of the note is limited to “the moral aspects of the use of the vaccines against COVID-19 that have been developed from cell lines derived from tissues obtained from two fetuses that were not spontaneously aborted,” and it states that “we do not intend to judge the safety and efficacy of these vaccines, although ethically relevant and necessary, as this evaluation is the responsibility of biomedical researchers and drug agencies.” Safety and effectiveness are thus not the subject of the note, which, in expressing its opinion about the “morality of use,” therefore does not even express its opinion about the “morality of production” of these drugs.

2. Safety and Effectiveness of the Vaccines

The safety and effectiveness of individual vaccines is determined after a period of experimentation that normally lasts for several years. In this case, the health authorities have decided to carry out experimentation on the entire world population as an exception to the usual practice of the scientific community, international standards and the laws of individual nations. This means that the entire population finds itself in the condition of being susceptible to suffering the adverse effects of the vaccine, at their own risk, when normally experimentation is done on a voluntary basis and carried out on a limited number of subjects who are paid to undergo it. ….

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