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The Catholic Spirit: Archbishop responds to priest’s controversial homily on COVID-19

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Letter includes MN Health Department refutation, resources on ethical vaccination development

Priests should not use homilies to “present medical or scientific speculation,” Archbishop Bernard Hebda wrote in a Sept. 22 letter to Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, responding to a homily Father Robert Altier gave at St. Raphael in Crystal Sept. 6.

The letter included a link to COVID-19 resources on the national CMA chapter’s website, as well as links to additional resources from the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia on the ethical development of vaccines.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda