M. Therese Lysaught is a professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago. She also is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Commentary: Pope Francis has called for a better kind of politics. That must start with the church. There can be no room for anyone who identifies as a "warrior," who profanes Christian witness by using the tactics of war.
Pope Francis, the Holy See and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops say all the COVID-19 vaccines are morally acceptable. But some Catholics wrongly support "religious" exemptions on the basis of Catholic teaching on the primacy of conscience.
Commentary: Statements about the new Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine have come out urging Catholics to privilege a theoretical moral purity over the value of their own lives, the lives of others and the common good. Why?
