Vaccines Archives

Aussie Catholic health group seeks mandatory vaccines for hospital staff

Jul 27, 2021

With a national emergency declared in Australia’s most populous state, Catholic not-for-profit hospitals called on the Australian government to make vaccinations compulsory for all hospital staff across the country.

By Debbie Cramsie

CRS gradually restores services in Haiti amid series of crises

Jul 16, 2021

A series of debilitating crises in recent weeks — from a surge in COVID-19 cases to the assassination of a president — has left Haiti reeling again in uncertainty and forced Catholic Relief Services to curtail its outreach efforts.

By Dennis Sadowski

Vatican, medical associations look at ways to promote vaccination

Jul 2, 2021

The discovery of vaccines is “one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine,” but the global community is facing the dual challenges of giving everyone access to them and overcoming “vaccine hesitancy,” especially when it is based on false information, said the Pontifical Academy for Life and the World Medical Association.

By Cindy Wooden

U.S. bishops praise Biden for committing to give vaccines to needy nations

Jun 24, 2021

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops praised President Joe Biden June 23 for his commitment to provide 500 million COVID-19 vaccines to lower-income countries.

By Catholic News Service

Vaccination clinic aimed at refugees, immigrants

May 17, 2021

A vaccination clinic is targeting refugees and new immigrants, and aims to remove barriers to getting a dose.

By Associated Press

Cultural gap between US and Rome clear in recent reactions to Biden

May 9, 2021

Abortion is not the conversation about Biden that’s prevailed here in Rome over the past week, where the top note instead has been praise for the president’s decision to waive intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines in order to speed up distribution to poorer nations.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Pope doubles down in press for equity in vaccine distribution

May 9, 2021

To make his point, the pope joined a concert hosted by Selena Gomez and organized by Prince Harry And Meghan Markle, with a lineup that included Jennifer Lopez, Foo Fighters, David Letterman, Olivia Munn and Sean Penn.

By Inés San Martín

Catholics debate Biden’s waiver of property rights for vaccines

May 8, 2021

Two U.S. faith organizations on the front lines of the global coronavirus response stand with the federal government in support of waiving intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 vaccines, in an effort to help poorer countries get more doses.

By John Lavenburg