By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — If it would not cause scandal or confusion among other Catholics, “a transsexual — even one who has undergone hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery — may receive baptism under the same conditions as other faithful,” said a document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine […]
Children at risk
Transgender interventions pose serious medical consequences for minors, says surgeon By Gina Christian OSV News A former U.S. Navy surgeon with experience in reconstructive surgeries for combat-wounded troops, Deacon Patrick Lappert of the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama, recently shared with OSV News his insights on transgender interventions for children. Deacon Lappert, who speaks nationally on […]
Medically ‘changing’ sex not morally justified, say bishops
By Julie Asher OSV News WASHINGTON — Surgical, chemical or other interventions that aim “to exchange” a person’s “sex characteristics” for those of the opposite sex “are not morally justified,” said the U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee in a statement released March 20. “What is of great concern, is the range of technological interventions advocated […]
Mandate on transgender procedures called misguided
By Catholic News Service NEW YORK — Catholic hospitals and their workers “must not be coerced by the government to violate their consciences” by being forced to perform “gender transition procedures” against their religious beliefs, said two U.S. cardinals writing in America magazine. In a Sept. 26 article in the national weekly Jesuit publication based […]
The transgenderism question
Virginia bishop says church has ‘sacred duty’ to speak the truth about human person, gender By Zoey Maraist Catholic News Service ARLINGTON, Va. — The topic of transgenderism is discussed routinely in the news, on television shows and in schools. This prevailing ideology — that a person can change his or her gender — is […]
Ruling blocking ‘transgender mandate’ called ‘victory for conscience’
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — A U.S. District Court judge’s Aug. 9 ruling to block the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures despite their own moral or medical objections is “a victory for common sense, conscience and sound medicine.” That is the view of Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior […]
Eliminating differences between sexes ‘not right,’ Pope Francis says
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While societies must find a way to overcome the subjugation of women, pretending there are no differences between men and women or even using technology to change a person’s sex is not the answer, Pope Francis said. Using science “to radically eliminate any difference between […]
Canadian canon law experts consider baptism possible for transgender people
By Philippe Vaillancourt Catholic News Service MONTREAL — If the possibility of becoming a godfather or godmother remains mostly out of reach for a transgender person, what about receiving baptism? In this respect, there seems to be more flexibility. “Any unbaptized person may be baptized. The church has not spoken further than that, whether the […]
