01.20.22 | Stories | by Jim Merritt
From left, the Rev. Donna Marie Field of St. Paul's Reformed Church and a Northwell Health clinical medical ethics consultant, Rabbi Joel M. Levenson of Midway Jewish Center, and the Rev. Jaye Brooks of Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock. Credit: Donna Marie Field; Alex M Wolff; Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
In a recent speech from the Vatican, Pope Francis suggested that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 was "a moral obligation" and repeated his call for universal access to the shots, urging a change in patent laws so nations with low vaccination rates could develop their own vaccines, according to published reports. This week’s clergy discuss why getting the vaccine into as many arms as possible is imperative from a Jewish, Unitarian Universalist and medical ethics perspective.