![]() The COVID-19 vaccine mandate announced by the city of Denver requires city workers, healthcare professionals, school employees, and others to be fully vaccinated by Sept. 6 pushing back against COVID-19 vaccination mandates issued by the city, writing that they violate “personal freedoms of conscience and expression.” Within the letter, the bishops embedded a template letter for parishioners to use to get a religious exemption signature from their pastor. In Denver, the Catholic Bishops of Colorado published a letter on Aug. city to require proof of at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine for most indoor events, effective Aug. The memos went out to archdiocesan priests days before New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City would be the first U.S. Priests in the Archdiocese of New York were also advised in a July 30 memo from the archdiocese to not get involved with religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination mandates because it would be “acting in contradiction to the directives of the pope,” adding that “there is no basis for a priest to issue a religious exemption to the vaccine.” “Please be aware that there is no religious exemption for Catholics as the Vatican has determined that the COVID-19 vaccines are morally acceptable,” stated a July 30 memo to the clergy from the Diocese of Brooklyn Office of the Vicar General. The Diocese of Brooklyn and the Archdiocese of New York have sent out memos to their clergy that they cannot give religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccination mandates. ![]() ![]() WINDSOR TERRACE - As more institutions enact COVID-19 vaccination mandates, Catholic leaders find themselves answering questions from parishioners about whether or not they can claim a religious exemption from getting the jab. A health care worker administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a Marymount University student in one of the athletic buildings on the Catholic college’s Arlington, Va., campus, during a coronavirus vaccine clinic April 21, 2021.
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