An educator and preacher, Father John Jimenez is a longstanding presence in the San Francisco Bay Area Catholic community. One of the causes closest to Father John Jimenez’s heart is the struggles of those whom society dehumanizes.
Many scientific, medical leaders, and even bishops, promote the use of Covid 19 vaccines as a proportional good, stating that the use of vaccines developed from a line of cells distantly related to aborted fetuses is a proportional good serving the many that outweighs the evil done in destroying one human life.
Yet, for the great majority of people, who are low risk, there are alternative therapies if one gets sick. For those who are high risk, consider what Pope John Paul II says in his encyclical "The Gospel of Life" about "proportional reasoning", and discuss with your confessor, and weigh the medical options with your doctor.
Here is what John Paul says in paragraph no. 62 and 63, "No law can make licit that which is illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God and proclaimed by the Church. The use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation constitutes a crime against the dignity of the human person, who have a right to the same respect owed to a child once born. This moral condemnation of procedures that exploit living human embryos and fetuses even for treatment of diseases. The killing of human creatures, even if carried out to help others, constitutes an absolutely unacceptable act."
The Pope goes on to point out the consequence of not protecting the dignity of life. We then begin to treat all human beings as objects, and unleash a Cain vs. Abel, envious, scapegoating and violence upon society, tribalism rather than the rule of law (protection of people's medical privacy under HIPPA law), the powerful who oppress the weak (authoritarians using health mandates to enhance their power), identity politics over free responsibility, ultimately a darkening of conscience and the rise of an Authoritarian State (in our current time, enhanced by Big Tech censorship and control over information)
