Parsi again dismissed the criticism, saying that "when it comes to vaccines, all the questions and all the inclarity [sic] have been tackled and I think there is no reason why we shouldn't be confident that these vaccines are a blessing for our patients and for the people."
Montgomery specifically discredited the papers mentioned by the journalist, and said that "as far as we know up to now, and of course, no one can say anything about long-term effects because we've only administered these techniques for six months now, but as far as we know, these techniques are very safe and produce much less side effects than for instance, the well-known vector therapies, which have a very high rate of side effects, especially at the first dose."
The correspondent from The Remnant addressed a question to Archbishop Paglia: "you've spoken a lot today about the ethics of vaccines, but these ethics appear limited to primarily equitable distribution and overcoming vaccine hesitancy. You've made no mention to what genuinely concerns many Catholics; the fact that many of these vaccines are abortion tainted; the right to conscientious objection, and the fact that these vaccines have cost many lives in the United States, 6,100 people have died from them. Why are you not addressing these legitimate questions, particularly (to) Catholics, as you're the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life."
"I have mentioned before the interventions both from the Dicastery for Integral Human Development of this past December, but also of the document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which as you know, within the context of the Catholic Church, is the authority which responds with more clarity to all doubts and problems, and which has responded exactly to the objections you have presented,” Archbishop Paglia said.
“Now, if Catholics do not listen to that, well that is another matter.”
“We are very aware that the answer (to your question) has been provided. But since liberty exists, there are those who say ‘I don't accept what the Pope says’, ‘or what the Congregation says’, ‘or what you say’. But from a standpoint of the Catholic doctrine, we are in the right," he added.
“I would appeal to my Catholics brothers and sisters to listen to what has already been said (regarding the vaccines),” Archbishop Paglia concluded.
Alejandro Bermudez, born in Lima, Peru is the Executive Director of the ACI Group, which includes ACI Prensa, ACI Digital, ACI Stampa, CNA Deutsche, and ACI Africa and the former Executive Director of Catholic News Agency. He is also the host of the show "Cara a Cara" on EWTN in Spanish.