What is the Church’s role in vaccination policy?

Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Should the Church even have a policy about vaccination to COVID-19, especially a vaccine mandate? Individual rights must always be limited by the requirements of the common good. But to say that the common good should “prevail over” individual rights is to betray a strange understanding of what the “common good” actually means.

 

 

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