LifeSiteNews: Priest on COVID Vaccine: ‘The Risks Far Outweigh the Benefits’

Editor’s note: The following essay comes from a priest well known to LifeSiteNews. Prudence requires the author to remain anonymous. We hope this anonymity will help people focus on the ideas being presented rather the person presenting them.

February 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – As headlines sound that “nobody is safe until everyone is vaccinated” and that “it is an ethical obligation” to receive this new “vaccine,” many ethical questions are presented to our consciences. The decision we make concerning this “vaccine” may profoundly and permanently touch our lives, and must be prudently and calmly considered.

Prudence is a moral virtue which gives us the correct knowledge of things to be done in particular cases. It resides in the practical intellect and gives the habitual disposition to know what is good and evil in the matter at hand. Prudence is the queen of the moral virtues and must govern all of our human acts. ….