Date uploaded: 2021-08-18 14:27:27
Would you get the COVID-19 vaccine if the Pope asked you to?
"Getting the vaccine," the Pope Francis says, "is an act of love."
Francis and six Catholic cardinals and archbishops made a public service announcement released Wednesday in which they urged people to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
"Thanks to God's grace and the work of many, we now have vaccines to protect us from COVID-19," the Pope said in the video, seated at a desk in the Vatican and wearing a white cassock and skull cap.
"Getting vaccinated is a simple yet profound way to care for one another, especially the most vulnerable," he said. "I pray to God that each of us can make his or her own small gesture of love."
Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI were both first vaccinated against COVID-19 on Jan. 14.
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