Dialogue needed in addressing vaccine hesitancy, Vatican official says (CNS)

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, was among the speakers at “Public Health in Global Perspective,” a workshop organized by the academy. The prelate also spoke at a September 28 a press conference.

Dr. David Barbe, a Missouri physician who is former president of the American Medical Association and current president of the World Medical Association, delivered a talk entitled “Pandemic in the Physicians’ Perspective.”

In his address to workshop participants, Pope Francis emphasized inequalities in public health and denounced abortion and euthanasia.