Bishop Kevin Rhoades Archives

Pharmaceutical companies urged to stop using abortion-derived cell lines

Apr 18, 2021

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities has launched a campaign urging Catholics to write letters to pharmaceutical companies urging them to stop the use of abortion-derived cell lines in the development and testing of vaccines.

By Julie Asher

Bishop Rhoades: Latest COVID-19 vaccine can be used in good conscience

Mar 4, 2021

In a new video, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine reiterated that use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine “can be used in good moral conscience.”

By Catholic News Service

Johnson & Johnson vaccine raises ethical concerns

Mar 3, 2021

Several Catholic ethicists are urging people to steer clear of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine if possible, but at the same time affirm it is morally acceptable to receive it if the alternatives are not an option.

By John Lavenburg

Use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines is morally acceptable, say bishops

Nov 25, 2020

While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over “the moral permissibility” of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, it is not “immoral to be vaccinated with them,” the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Nov. 23.

By Julie Asher

Catholic social doctrine key to today’s political issues, bishop says

Sep 26, 2020

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, of Fort Wayne-South Bend, acknowledged that Catholics face serious challenges when discerning what message to send to political leaders when they vote.

By Jodi Marlin

At Mass for racial justice, healing, Catholics asked to see Christ in others

Sep 11, 2020

Marking the Sept. 9 feast day of St. Peter Claver with a Mass at a historically Black Catholic church in southern Maryland, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory urged Catholics to recognize reflections of Christ in others, just as that saint saw Christ in the enslaved Africans he served.

By Jo Kroeker DeVoe

Fort Wayne-South Bend bishop quarantines after COVID exposure

Aug 12, 2020

Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend is in quarantine after being exposed to someone with COVID-19, a statement said.

By Associated Press

Bishops say Our Lady of America apparitions were not supernatural

May 7, 2020

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, and five other bishops have concluded that alleged apparitions of Our Lady of America — said to have taken place more than six decades ago — were not of supernatural origin.

By Greg Erlandson