In a new interview with John Henry Westem of Life Site News, Bishop Athanasius Schneider explained why Christians should never take Abortion-Tainted Vaccines.
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Bishop Schneider explains why Christians must never take abortion-tainted COVID vaccineBishop Schneider joins John-Henry Westen to discuss the immorality of vaccines connected to aborted baby cells, whether inside the vaccine itself or used during the testing stages.Mon Dec 21, 2020 - 12:32 pm EST_480_296_75_c1.jpg)
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December 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – “God knows these souls by name,” Bishop Athanasius Schneider said to me today on The John Henry Westen Show. He was referring to unborn children who were aborted and then had their murdered bodies used in the manufacture of cell lines used for the COVID and other vaccines.
Bishop Schneider explains that in calling on pro-lifers to resist abortion-tainted vaccines, he prayed for inspiration asking the intercession of the very babies who were killed. Watch my interview with him below or visit LifeSite's new account on Rumble by clicking here. If you’d like to watch it on YouTube, click here.
Bishop Schneider’s position was articulated in a paper released last week that was signed by himself and Cardinal Janis Pujats, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Archbishops Tomash Peta and Jan Pawel Lenga. The statement was spurred by the push of bishops across the world to support a COVID vaccine despite it being tainted with cells from aborted babies.
Bishop Schneider explained that he and his brother bishops who signed the statement understand the gravity of what they have suggested in that refusing the COVID vaccine may lead to harsh penalties. His Excellency explained, like fellow signee Bishop Strickland already has as well, that he would go to prison before taking an abortion-tainted vaccine. Moreover, should it even be demanded at the price of his life, he said he believed God would grant him the strength to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Bishop Schneider said it was “a pain in my heart” in seeing so many people he esteems backing the permissibility of taking an abortion-tainted COVID vaccine. He believes they are “simply blinded,” but that God will show them the consequences and their eyes will be opened. SUBSCRIBE to LifeSite's daily headlines
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Simple people, he said, reject this automatically, instinctively, which is for the bishop a sign of the Sensus Fidelium. But even were he alone in this, the bishop said he must “follow the truth, even if I will lose all of my good friends.”
“Even if I will be alone, I will follow my conscience, as Thomas More and John Fisher,” he said.
Bishop Schneider believes it is also a sign of the last times where even the good ones are confused. (Mt. 24:24)
In the interview Bishop Schneider responds to the following questions:
Why now, when abortion-tainted vaccines have been around for decades?
What about the Vatican docuмents which say these are okay to use?
What is the difference between this and paying taxes some of which are used for abortion?
Are we guilty for having already taken abortion-tainted vaccines?
Below is the transcript for the show:
JHW: Welcome to this special episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, where we are very pleased and blessed to bring to you Bishop Athanasius Schnieder. Most of you know him as a very outspoken defender of the Catholic faith in these most troubled times. He is the auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan. Welcome, Bishop Schneider, to The John-Henry Westen Show.
Bishop Schneider: Thank you. God bless you.
JHW: And we're going to be discussing something very, very important for these times, the issue of vaccines – COVID vaccines developed with abortion-tainted COVID vaccines, both in terms of their development, some with aborted fetal cell lines used in their manufacture, some used with its testing of these vaccines. And so we're going to get into all of that. You're going to want to stay tuned. Excellency, if you wouldn't mind leading us.
Bishop Schneider: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
JHW: Amen. Amen. So, Bishop Schneider, that recent docuмent that you put out on vaccines is very timely, but also, I must say, very controversial. I have never seen such controversy among very good people. So if you could tell us a little about it first, about what it is and how it came to be and maybe your consultation process that that got it, brought it to fruition.
Bishop Schneider: This docuмent came because in the last month and weeks, several bishops from around the world made public statements justifying the use of vaccines produced by cell lines of aborted babies. I only say in a simple manner, and they were justifying this because apparently, allegedly, [there] would not be other means and several explanations, even of theologians and church communities were based on the moral theory of moral cooperation, distant or remote, and of two docuмents of the Holy See from 2005 and the Pontifical Academy for Life in 2008. The Doctrine of Faith, where this issue was discussed and substantially both docuмents allow to use such vaccines in an exceptional way. We have to stress this as these docuмents say that not only you can just use this on the base of the so-called principle of moral, material, remote cooperation, but it should be in an exceptional way. And at the same time, those who use it should ask, demand an alternative of vaccine which [does] not use in any way such cells.
So this caused to me and to other countries, bishops, some bishops and faithful concern because this is confusion and it is undermining ultimately. If you want or not, it's undermining the First Commandment of God and the absolute maximum determination of the Church to oppose the evil of abortion. And therefore, we considered this as not responsible to be silent. It is not responsible to enter the great quarrels group, even of good theologians and good-minded people. And we did not consider this responsible just to go together with it all because in our conscience – we have to follow the conscience and our conscience says it is not possible. It is a damage and we explained then after we can see the reasons. But as I already mentioned for this – and this is not a matter of quantity, of numbers, but of truth – of that which we are convinced of as presbyters and I discussed this [with] all the signatories very carefully and we were really all convinced we have to speak.
JHW: Now, just so that everyone gets the gravity of what...I know you understand this, but the gravity of what is at stake here is quite something. The vaccine is being approved. They have already approved the first one in some countries. They've already started administering it in the U.K. and in the U.S. as well. One of the bishops in the U.S. has just become one of the first people to receive the vaccine. We have the U.K. bishops’ conference saying that there is a, you know, Catholics are compelled to take the vaccine even if it's abortion tainted. And they're basing themselves, yes, on these docuмents from 2005 and 2008. But they don't even seem to be as concerned with the stipulations, even those docuмents put into place that Catholics have to demand vaccines that aren't abortion-tainted and so on. But your position goes beyond that of the 2005 [and] 2008 docuмents in that it suggests that Catholics cannot morally take such vaccines at all, the abortion-tainted vaccines. And we'll get into some of the specifics later. But I wanted to draw, first of all, the severity of what this is and that, you know, with Catholics being now asked as as is the whole world to take this vaccine, very likely in a way that is mandated while they're saying it's going to be forced, they're saying it's going to be. Well, yes, if you want to travel or if you want to go to the theater or if you want to perhaps even enter stores to purchase your food, you're going to need to have the vaccine. So can you speak for a moment to the severity of what we're facing and also your consideration of that severity when you made the statement?
Bishop Schneider: Yes, we could see this and we all will see this that with this vaccine whoch used these cell lines of [aborted] children. The world powers, anti-Christian and those who promote the culture of death will impose [on] the entire population of the world, an implicit, even if it is remote, passive collaboration with abortion – this is also the evil and to the perversion of the world powers and we have to recognize this, we have to resist. This is an effort to resist and not to collaborate in any way with these vaccines. Exactly. Because in this case, into some kind to receive in our body the fruits – so-called fruits in the way of the greatest evil, one of the greatest evils of mankind, the cruel genocide of unborn. We will be marked. We will receive a sign in our body which will in any way and some way demonstrate that we are connected to this greatest, one of the greatest evils. Not in a direct way, of course, I repeat, but anyway we are because if there would not had been murdered cruelly and not even one innocent child. Then, we would not have these vaccines. You have to recognize the logic of this and also that the circuмstances of the deliberate promotion, because there are of course...we have to not be so ingenuous and naive not to see that behind these vaccines is not only to protect our health, but to promote also together ever, ever more abortion. Of course not! For example, there are arguments if people do not take these vaccines, the abortion will continue. Of course, we will not reduce the abortion in numbers [if] we will not take the vaccine. But this is not a question. It is the moral weakness, the moral in some way support. And then the abortionists will say, you see the entire Catholic Church, the hierarchy in some way accepts, even reluctantly, but accepts this. And so this is very dangerous. And we have to really to awaken to see the real dangers, the consequences and the circuмstances ...[/font][/size]
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