#386 – Covid-19 Vaccines and the USCCB

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode Trent breaks down a recent statement from the USCCB on the ethics of using Covid-19 vaccines given their connections to past abortion-related research.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.4	You've probably heard about the controversies related to the COVID-19 vaccines and the
0:14.4	program used to create them, Operation Warp Speed.
0:18.2	Namely, why is that to be called Operation Warp Speed?
0:21.6	That's kind of exclusionary to Star Wars fans.
0:23.7	Why can't it be called Operation Hyperdrive?
0:26.6	No, in all seriousness, there is controversy related to these vaccines and their connection
0:32.1	to medical experiments that were done in the past on aborted fetuses and embryos.
0:37.8	The USCCB is actually weighed in on this in a statement entitled Moral Considerations
0:43.8	regarding the new COVID-19 vaccines.
0:46.2	As we're going to talk about that today here on the podcast, so welcome to the Council
0:50.6	of Trend Podcast.
0:51.8	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:55.0	We actually addressed this issue a little bit a few weeks ago in a podcast I did with
0:59.1	Father Matthew Schneider.
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