Christmas, the COVID vaccine, and Archbishop Chaput
Introduction
Thomas Merton’s death anniversary
Taylor Swift’s new album, Evermore
Segment 1 - COVID 19 and vaccines
Post-Thanksgiving triage fears
Most recent Trump failing to obtain sufficient doses of vaccine
‘Bishop of Fresno warns against vaccines’
Diocese of Ireland - vaccine is okay
The infamous Tuskegee experiments
Dan's recent NCR column on climate change
Accurate sources of information on COVID 19
USCCB: Getting the vaccine is an ‘act of charity’
UPDATE - According to this report, Bishop Brennan has now endorsed the use of the vaccine
Segment 2 - Recent comments by Archbishop Chaput
NCR essay by Michael Sean Winters, on Archbishop Chaput
Our episodes on communion and communion denial
Segment 3 - Christmas
Feast of Christmas is an Octave
Philippians - god empties Godself as a child
Luke reporting the tween Jesus going to the temple
‘What is not assumed is not saved’ - from Gregory of Nanzianzus
Wishing you a blessed Advent and a Merry Christmas!