{"id":146946,"date":"2021-02-18T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=146946"},"modified":"2021-02-18T20:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:43:26","slug":"vatican-walks-back-decree-about-firing-staff-who-refuse-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-walks-back-decree-about-firing-staff-who-refuse-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Walks Back Decree About Firing Staff Who Refuse Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-walks-back-decree-about-firing-staff-who-refuse-vaccine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=146946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BACAD7A9-D673-47C1-A03C-3ACE680ACD31_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, the Vatican moved to explain a decree that seemed to suggest Vatican employees could be fired if they did not get a COVID-19 vaccination \u2014 unless the refusal was due to significant health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican received criticism on social media for the February 8 order. The decree came from Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, the governor of Vatican City. It reportedly said that \u201cgetting a vaccine was \u2018the responsible choice\u2019 because of the risk of harming other people,\u201d according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-vatican\/no-jab-no-job-vatican-gets-tough-with-covid-anti-vaxxers-idUSKBN2AI1IC\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican City is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-vatican\/no-jab-no-job-vatican-gets-tough-with-covid-anti-vaxxers-idUSKBN2AI1IC\">reportedly<\/a> 108 acres and the world\u2019s smallest state. It has several thousand employees, most of whom live in Italy. Its vaccination program started last month, and Pope Francis, 84, was one of the first people to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The decree in question stated that employees who do not get the vaccine because of specific health issues could be given another job, \u201cpresumably where they would have contact with fewer people,\u201d but they would still receive the same pay as their previous job \u2014 \u201ceven if the new post is a demotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the directive also said that anyone who refused the vaccine who did not have a health reason would be subject to a provision in a 2011 law that has to do with employee rights and duties.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-vatican\/no-jab-no-job-vatican-gets-tough-with-covid-anti-vaxxers-idUSKBN2AI1IC\">Reuters<\/a>, the article in the aforementioned law \u201csays employees who refuse \u2018preventive measures\u2019 could be subjected to \u2018varying degrees of consequences that could lead to dismissal.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After media outlets reported on the decree on Thursday, Italians called it out on Twitter. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-vatican\/no-jab-no-job-vatican-gets-tough-with-covid-anti-vaxxers-idUSKBN2AI1IC\">reportedly<\/a> said that it was the opposite of \u201cPope Francis\u2019 general call for mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/vatican\/pope-francis-suggests-people-have-moral-obligation-take-coronavirus-vaccine\">Pope Francis<\/a> has come out very strongly in favor of the coronavirus vaccines. In early January, he did an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tgcom24.mediaset.it\/televisione\/papa-francesco-al-tg5-per-la-politica-questo-non-il-momento-di-rompere-lunit_27455525-202102a.shtml\">interview<\/a> with Italy\u2019s TG5 news program. He said, \u201cI believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine. \u2026 It is the moral choice because it is about your life but also the lives of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not understand why some say that this could be a dangerous vaccine,\u201d said Francis. \u201cIf the doctors are presenting this to you as a thing that will go well and doesn\u2019t have any special dangers, why not take it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/anti-vax-at-the-vatican-you-might-lose-your-job\">Fox News<\/a> pointed out that the provisions in the Vatican\u2019s directive \u201cgo well beyond the generally voluntary nature of COVID-19 vaccinations in Italy and much of the rest of the world. The Vatican is an absolute monarchy in the heart of Rome that operates independently of Italian law and Italian labor protections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Catholics and other religious people have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/anti-vax-at-the-vatican-you-might-lose-your-job\">expressed concerns<\/a> about the vaccines \u201cbecause some of the ones available were indirectly connected to research that used aborted fetal cells.\u201d However, the Vatican\u2019s doctrine office has decided that it is it morally acceptable for Catholics to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>In December of last year, the Vatican put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/cfaith\/documents\/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20201221_nota-vaccini-anticovid_en.html\">statement<\/a> on the topic, saying (some formatting adjusted):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u2026all vaccinations recognised as clinically safe and effective can be used in good conscience with the certain knowledge that the use of such vaccines does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion from which the cells used in production of the vaccines derive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It should be emphasized, however, that the morally licit use of these types of vaccines, in the particular conditions that make it so, does not in itself constitute a legitimation, even indirect, of the practice of abortion, and necessarily assumes the opposition to this practice by those who make use of these vaccines.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday night, after receiving backlash from the order, Bertello\u2019s office issued a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-vatican\/no-jab-no-job-vatican-gets-tough-with-covid-anti-vaxxers-idUSKBN2AI1IC\">Reuters<\/a>, it said that \u201calternative solutions\u201d would be found for people who do not want to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said that the reference to the article in the 2011 law which specifically referred to the dismissal of employees should not be seen as \u201csanctioning or punitive\u201d and that \u201cfreedom of individual choice\u201d would be respected.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the Vatican moved to explain a decree that seemed to suggest Vatican employees could be fired if they did not get a COVID-19 vaccination \u2014 unless the refusal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181518,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BACAD7A9-D673-47C1-A03C-3ACE680ACD31_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Vatican Walks Back Decree About Firing Staff Who Refuse Vaccine","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BACAD7A9-D673-47C1-A03C-3ACE680ACD31_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Vatican Walks Back Decree About Firing Staff Who Refuse Vaccine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}