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Chicago archdiocese to require vaccination for all priests, employees

August 24, 2021

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CWN Editor's Note: The Archdiocese of Chicago is requiring Covid vaccination for all priests and lay employees. Medical exemptions may be granted, but religious exemptions will not be allowed. In a letter to his priests, Cardinal Blase Cupich said that Catholics “cannot use the use the teaching of the church to justify such decisions, which in their essence, are a rejection of the church’s authentic moral teaching regarding Covid vaccines.”

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  • Posted by: frjt - Aug. 24, 2021 6:51 PM ET USA

    Setting things a-Blaise! Would that his grace demand the same "obedience" of his abortion loving politico's...