Florida’s Neo-Church Bishops Betray Conscience Rights for State Funding Over Aborted Fetal Vaccines
The EWTN News portal reports a dispute between the “Archbishop” of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier regarding vaccine exemptions in “Catholic” schools receiving state scholarship funds. Uthmeier demanded compliance with Florida law granting religious exemptions, threatening loss of funding; Wenski refused, citing the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s 2011 guidance that vaccines derived from aborted fetal cell lines are “not intrinsically evil” and that “religious” exemptions cannot be granted, only “conscience” exemptions. The “bishops” prioritize state money and a false obedience to public health idols over the immutable rights of Catholic parents and the moral law. This controversy exposes the conciliar sect’s total subservience to the secular state and its betrayal of the very conscience rights it claims to champion.