US dioceses vary in granting, denying religious exemptions to vaccines
August 26, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: The National Catholic Register examined the varying diocesan policies on vaccination and admission to Catholic schools.
According to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s note on the morality of COVID vaccines, “practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary ... Those who, however, for reasons of conscience, refuse vaccines produced with cell lines from aborted fetuses, must do their utmost to avoid, by other prophylactic means and appropriate behavior, becoming vehicles for the transmission of the infectious agent.”
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