The Catacombs

Gloria.tv | June 21, 2021

Father Stefan Frey, the PiusX District Superior in Austria, has recanted his "urgent" April warning against Covid-19 vaccinations. Now he says the opposite.

In the Pius X June newsletter, Frey adopted the pro-vaccination position of his confrere Arnaud Sélégny, and even recommends the "solid official documents of the Vatican" on vaccination, calling it a "rich source of information." Frey explains that an ethically questionable vaccine can be used under four criteria:

- there must be a clear emergency,

- no approved alternative must be available,

- the benefit of a vaccination must be greater than the harm, in case a person is not vaccinated,

- there must be opposition to abortion-tainted vaccine research.

At least, Frey admits that one can come to different conclusions on this issue and that nobody should force his opinion on anyone else. It seems however, that Frey himself was pushed by his superiors to swing to the PiusX party line on vaccinations.

The problem with Frey's change of opinion is that his four arguments against vaccination remain in place despite his retraction, unless PiusX also intends to adopt the Vatican's position that — depending on political opportunism — what was true yesterday can suddenly be "wrong" today.