Notarized Affidavit of Religious Belief for Exemption from COVID Vaccination

1) I,_________, am a practicing Catholic, and my belief is sincere and meaningful.

2) The Catholic church has, over the centuries, extensively addressed issues related to bodily integrity ("Medical-Rape") generally a vaccination specifically, including issues of involuntariness and vaccine mandates.

3) Regarding COVID in particular, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) published a "Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines"1 on December 21, 2020, stating that;

a) COVID-19 vaccines that used cell lines originating from aborted fetuses are morally compromised. (Note: The J&J vaccine "is an adenoviral vector grown in the PER.C6 cell line that originated from a healthy 18-week-old aborted child." 2 The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines where tested using the "Morally compromised HEK-293 cell line," originating from "a child aborted in the Netherlands in 1972."3] Catholics have a moral duty to avoid use of such vaccines.

b) However, this moral duty "is not obligatory if there is a grave danger, such as the otherwise uncontainable spread" of COVID-19.

c) "In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic, the common good may recommend vaccination,"

d) "In such case, all vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be used in good conscience."

e) "At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary."

f) "Those who, […] for reasons of conscience, refuse vaccines produced with cell lines from aborted fetuses, must do their utmost to avoid, by other prophylactic means and appropriate behavior vehicles for the transmission of the infections agent."

4) To summarize, the moral duty to avoid use of these three COVID vaccines is not obligatory only if:

a) "The spread of COVID-19 is otherwise un-containable,

b) "There is absence of other means by which to stop or present the epidemic,

c) "The vaccines are clinically safe, and

d) The choice to receive a vaccine must be voluntary.

5) If any element is not satisfied, the moral duty to avoid using the vaccines is obligatory. In which case, _______'s vaccine mandate violates my Catholic faith.

6) Even if all elements where satisfied, a non-obligatory moral duty does not equate to me taking a vaccine, much less authorizing a vaccine mandate. It merely means that, as a Catholic, I have the option to evaluate the evidence myself and make my own prudential decision whether to receive a vaccine; to repeat, "it must be voluntary." I can choose to not take the vaccine, in which case I must "avoid, by other prophylactic means and appropriate behavior, becoming [a] vehicle for the transmission of the infection agent."

7) Here, all four elements have yet to be satisfied.