CONSCIENTIOUS EXEMPTION NEEDED
Some employers have begun mandating that workers receive COVID-19 shots. But a Catholic bioethicist says that conscience exemptions are necessary. “It is Catholic doctrine that people’s well-founded conscientious objections are part of their religion,” said Dr. Joseph Meaney, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center. He added that the Church has stated that people can receive the shot, or decline it. “In both circumstances,” he said, the Church defends “their right to do so.”