US bishops will vote on sex-change policy at Catholic hospitals
June 12, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: At a meeting this week, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will vote on proposed amendments to their “Religious and Ethical Directives of Catholic Health Care,” providing guidance for Catholic health-care institutions regarding treatment for “transgender” patients.
The draft document on which the bishops will vote says that sex-change operations and hormone therapies are “injurious to the true flourishing of the human person,” and thus should not be performed at Catholic institutions.
In an Orwellian article on the bishops’ vote, the National Catholic Reporter refers to sex-change operations as “gender-affirming medical treatment,” and quotes a liberal moral theologian as saying that the field is “an area of moral theology and doctrine that is not yet fully developed.” The article quotes several theologians opposed to the bishops’ doctrinal stand, making room for only one voice in support of Church teaching.
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Posted by: miketimmer499385 -
Jun. 12, 2023 1:31 PM ET USA
With multiple news items this morning about supposed Catholic medical institutions providing transgender surgeries the bishops may be facing their Waterloo. There are still some of us who believe the Church actually should be One, Holy, Catholic, and Universal. Now it takes a vote?! Each step brings about another parishioner who has had enough of the hollow pieties. I missed the synod called by Christ to consult with his apostles concerning his developing social programs.
