Archdiocese of Oklahoma City
As a few Catholic leaders across the country express hesitation or outright disavow the newly approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City said Thursday that the church encourages Oklahoma Catholics to get any of the currently approved vaccines as soon as they can. Given the current pandemic and public health crisis that we re living through, the moral cooperation in receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is so remote that it does not outweigh the public health need, said Archbishop Paul Coakley.
At issue for some Catholic leaders, including the Archbishop of New Orleans and the Bishop of Tyler, Texas, is the fact that the Johnson & Johnson shot was developed and produced using cells derived from those of a fetus aborted in the 1980s. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines used those cell lines as well, but only for testing efficacy of the vaccine.
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By KTOK News
Mar 5, 2021
The Archbishop of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese is urging fellow Catholics to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Archbishop Paul Coakley said the needs of public health make it morally licit to get vaccinated, no matter which one you receive. This comes after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops discouraged getting the Johnson and Johnson vaccine because of the use of cells that descended from aborted fetus tissue. Coaxley said there is no moral or ethical reason to not get the vaccine.
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