By Gillian Richards, The Stream, June 29, 2021
Gillian Richards is a recent graduate of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
My alma mater, The Catholic University of America, is the only university in the District of Columbia not to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on students and faculty. By contrast, many Catholic colleges are requiring that students and faculty be vaccinated before returning this fall. Creighton, Notre Dame, and St. John’s University are among them.
To many, such mandates are no-brainers. After all, don’t they serve the common good by speed up herd immunity? And as Christians, are we not called to care for our own health and that of others? …