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A coalition of healthcare workers, has again petitioned the U-S Supreme Court, to block a coronavirus vaccine mandate for healthcare employees in New York. The mandate does not allow for religious exemptions. The men and women say they are willing to be tested frequently, and wear additional equipment, rather than receive the coronavirus vaccine. They say receiving the vaccine violates their religious convictions.
The Church is filled with inconsistencies and sins, but it is also filled with goodness and holiness. Those were the words of Pope Francis this morning, during his general audience in Rome. The pope encouraged all Catholics to love the Church. He said only those who are motivated by love are able to speak the truth fully.
Today is the feast day of Saint Onesimus. He was a slave to Philemon, an influential man who had been converted by Saint Paul. He met Saint Paul while Paul was in a Roman prison, and he was baptized. He became a preacher and bishop, and was martyred in the year 90.