WATCH: Leo XIV urged COVID vaccination as 'act of love' in resurfaced 2021 video - LifeSite
Resurfaced footage from 2021 shows the future Pontiff pressing his Peruvian parishioners to ‘make the effort’ to receive the COVID shots, many of which relied on aborted fetal cell lines.
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(LifeSiteNews) — The future Pope Leo XIV encouraged COVID-19 vaccination as an “act of love” in a rediscovered 2021 video, despite grave moral issues with the shots’ use of aborted fetal cells and doubts that were eventually vindicated about their effectiveness.
In the clip, archived on the website Un Católico Perplejo, then-Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, said he wanted to “encourage everyone to participate in the vaccination campaigns being carried out in different parts of the region” at the time, according to an English translation of his remarks.
«Ponga su hombro, pues que todos ustedes se vacunen porque es de verdad un servicio muy …