Next time anyone attempts to tell you that this Pope is in favor of the rights of workers, please laugh in their face:
The Vatican has told employees that they may risk losing their jobs if they refuse to get a Covid-19 vaccination without legitimate health reasons.
A decree by Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, effectively the governor of Vatican City, said getting a vaccine was “the responsible choice” because of the risk of harming other people.
Vatican City, at 108 acres the world’s smallest state, has several thousand employees, most of whom live in Italy.
Its vaccination programme began last month and Pope Francis, 84, was among the first to get the jab.
The seven-page decree says that those who cannot get vaccinated for health reasons may be given another position, presumably where they would have contact with fewer people, but will receive the same pay even if the new post is a demotion.
But the decree said those who refuse to get a vaccination without sufficient reason would be subject to a specific provision in a 2011 law on employee rights and duties.
The article in the 2011 law says employees who refuse “preventive measures” could be subjected to “varying degrees of consequences that could lead to dismissal”.
The decree was signed on 8 February and later posted on the website of the governor’s department.
Go here to read the rest. Of course this tells workers to go pound sand who have moral concerns as to the fact that the Pfizer vaccine has a link to abortion. Go here to read about it. Bad Pope, worse Boss.
“Who will rid us of this meddlesome Pope”?
If one can still be a carrier after receiving the vaccine… What does forcing everyone to get the vaccine have to do with Risk Mitigation?!
At least Luther had the _ _ _ _ to leave and name his heretical enterprise after himself. I never knew I would be grateful for that fact, but I am. Bergoglio has given me cause to think more than a few thoughts I never would have imagined.
Given me a much greater empathy for Protest-ants.
In the time of JP2 I’d ask “What are you protesting?”
Now, I dare not.
Isn’t it ironic how those who go on and on about how we supposedly have a duty to comply with every aspect of Covid tyranny always cast it in terms of “protecting others”, when by and large these same people are all in for abortion? And that includes the present occupant of the See of Peter, because actions speak louder than words. He honors publicly many avid supporters of baby murder, even Italy’s leading abortionist, while occasionally mouthing some platitudes about how terrible abortion is. Such is perfectly in line with his Peronist mentality. By their fruits shall ye know them.
An acquaintance of mine who has worked in Rome had this observation:
“For the Church herself, Catholic social teaching is a topical cream: ‘for external use only.'”
“I had a dream….” (Always a good lead line) that the entire Swiss Guard showed up at the Colosseum carrying signs saying, “Bring on your Vatican lions.”