Never Forget: Pope Francis on Covid, by Paul Kengor

By Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine, April 25, 2025

Paul Kengor is Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, executive director of the Center for Vision and Values. He is the author, most recently, of The Devil and Karl Marx (TAN Books, 2020). He is also the editor of The American Spectator.

Let’s not forget just how bad Francis abandoned and hurt his flock during the dark days of Covid.

It was August 18, 2021. I was at a coffee shop in Paso Robles, California. I had kids in college who feared that their institutions might kick them out if they didn’t get one of the experimental mRNA-based Covid “vaccines.” They didn’t need the shots for many reasons, from their healthy age and lack of any co-morbidities to the most important fact of all: our entire family had gotten and fought through Covid and we all had antibodies, easily demonstrated by blood tests we offered to provide from their doctors to the schools. Worse, there were legitimate fears of myocarditis and pericarditis among young people from the Covid shots. I knew of a 19-year-old girl locally whose heart was so immediately damaged that she required a heart transplant. (Yes, seriously. I wrote about it at the time. I worked for four years in organ transplantation.) ….

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