Jason T. Eberl is a professor of health care ethics and philosophy and director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University. He is the editor of Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics (Springer, 2017).

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Commentary
A local resident receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination event for adolescents and adults outside the Bronx Writing Academy school in New York City June 4. (CNS/Reuters/Mike Segar)

Catholics have no grounds to claim exemption from COVID vaccine mandates

Coronavirus
Opinion
Aug 17, 2021

Commentary: There may be a moral obligation to be vaccinated for COVID-19 unless one has a medical contraindication. Such an obligation is grounded in the Gospel's call to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.