Hello, hello and welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad and today joined around the proverbial bar table with me.

We'll be my good friend, Catholic apologist Jimmy Aiken.

Today we're going to be discussing a recent document put out by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith called Note on the Morality of Using some Anti-COVID-19 vaccines. Our plan is to read through

this document, which isn't terribly long, it's about one page, one and a half pages, so that you can

be really well informed about what the church is actually teaching regarding this. I think sometimes

we can hear things and we don't actually kind of see what the church has said herself. So we're going to be reading through that, pausing throughout for commentary, and then we'll do that for about 30 minutes, and then we'll start to take some questions from patrons and super chatters. So if you're in the chat box, it would be great to hear from you. And, you know, if you disagree with what we're saying today, if you disagree with what the CDF has said, that's okay. More than willing to take objections or arguments or whatever you might have regarding this. I know this is a hot topic right now, and I'm really pleased that Jimmy's here to help us hash it out. If you have not yet subscribed to the channel, do us a favor, click subscribe and then that bell button because we're at 97. Something thousand right now and it would be nice to hit the 100,000 K mark soon. So thank you very much for that. Do us a favor to and click that thumbs up button. And one of the ways you could support this channel and especially if you enjoy this video is to share this video on Facebook or Twitter with your friends or whomever because I think this is going to

be a really important episode Jimmy nice to see you oh likewise pleasure to be

here how are you doing during this you know lockdown oh it's been you know

it's been inconvenient I'll put it that way. Yeah. Especially since I live in

California. It's been extra inconvenient. Yes, yes, yes. All right. Well, it's great to have you here.

Your podcast, Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, is quickly becoming my favorite Catholic podcast.

I'm just saying that to make you feel good. I mean it. Oh, you're too kind. But maybe tell the folks who are watching right now about that podcast if they haven't yet heard of it. Sure. So, you know, a lot of people are familiar with me from my work with Catholic Answers. I'm on Catholic Answers Live regularly, and of course, that's a podcast. And I have several other podcasts.

I participate in things like Secrets of Star Wars or Secrets of Star Trek, Secret to Doctor Who.

But the main one that's been getting a lot of attention lately is Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World.

And this is a podcast.

It comes out every Friday.

Every Friday we look at a different mystery. These can be natural mysteries, you know, historical mysteries. They can be supernatural mysteries, paranormal mysteries. So we look at things like the Kennedy assassination or Bigfoot or UFOs or stigmata or whatever it may be.

And we then we talk about the background to the mystery, and then we evaluate it both from

the perspective of faith, what would the Catholic faith have to say about this mystery,

and also from the perspective of reason, how we can use reason to try to resolve as much

of the mystery as we can. One of the reasons I love your podcast is I know a lot of people who are

interested in these conspiracy theories or supernatural mysteries or UFO sightings, like my dad,

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