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![]() ![]() The template provides questions for federal agencies, such as why an employee is opposed to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Many of the questions about religious exemptions in the federal guidance are “largely irrelevant to assessing whether someone has conscience concerns about being vaccinated,” he said. Otherwise, the vaccine mandates “can easily become intrusive, blunt instruments that end up violating personal liberties,” he said. However, religious exemptions should be “liberally available” for employees, said Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center, in an interview with CNA. 4, states that employees requesting a religious exemption to the mandate “must first establish that refusal to be vaccinated is based upon a sincere belief that is religious in nature.”Ī template for religious exemptions includes a seven-part form for employees to fill out, asking a series of questions about employees’ religious-based objection to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Guidance for federal agencies from the Office of Personnel Management, released on Monday, Oct. ![]() Said Bishop McElroy, “Thus the pastor is being asked not to endorse what the Church does not teach on this question, but rather what individuals might discern as their chosen pathway even when that pathway is built upon a rejection of the Church’s objective teaching on the morality of the COVID vaccine.WASHINGTON - New guidance on issuing COVID-19 vaccine religious exemptions for federal employees insufficiently treats the matter of conscience, one Catholic bioethicist told CNA.įederal employees are now required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. To do so would be “particularly problematic,” as the Holy See did not raise objections to the vaccines and even said receiving one would be “laudatory,” he said. “The purpose of this declaration seems to be to elicit from the pastor a public indication that a specific parishioner’s decision to refuse the COVID vaccine is rooted in and supported by authentic Catholic faith,” said Bishop McElroy in a letter to the priests of his diocese on Aug. In August, Bishop McElroy said that he had received several inquiries from priests regarding “a declaration written by the Colorado Catholic Conference on the issue of vaccinations and Catholic teaching.” This mandate gos into effect January 2022. Gavin Newsom announced that all children enrolled in public, charter or private schools age 12 and older would need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, albeit with personal-belief exemptions. “The consensus among legislative analysts with whom we have spoken is that it is unlikely that the legislature will give legislative approval for a mandate without a personal-belief exemption,” the letter said. 1 letter to school pastors and principals from the diocese’s Offices for Schools and Communications & Public Affairs. “In implementing any legal mandate for COVID vaccinations that includes a personal-belief exemption, the Catholic schools of the Diocese of San Diego will accept any parents request for exemption as valid,” said a Nov. Catholic schools in the Diocese of San Diego will accept “any” personal-belief exemption for the coronavirus vaccine once California’s mandate for schoolchildren goes into effect. ![]()
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