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England’s health service to stop prescribing puberty blockers for kids

Jun 12, 2023

By Kevin J. Jones

The NHS found that there is not enough evidence to support the “safety or clinical effectiveness” of puberty-blocking drugs for... Read more

Pope Francis addresses civil authorities and other dignitaries at a former a Carmelite monastery in Budapest, Hungary, on April 28, 2023, on the first day of his three-day pilgrimage to the country.

Pope Francis calls abortion ‘senseless’ and criticizes gender theory in Budapest speech

Apr 28, 2023

By Shannon Mullen

The pope said abortion is “always a tragic defeat” in an address to Hungarian authorities. Read more

Pope Francis speaks at the general audience in Vatican City's Paul VI Hall on Feb. 22, 2023.

Pope Francis: Gender ideology is ‘one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations’ today

Mar 11, 2023

By Courtney Mares

“Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women,” the pope said. Read more

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Gender theory confusion shows need for papal encyclical, Dutch cardinal says

Nov 16, 2022

By Kevin J. Jones

Extreme forms of gender theory have become so influential that a papal encyclical should address the topic, Dutch Cardinal Willem... Read more

Omaha Archbishop George Lucas in a 2011 photo.

Omaha archdiocese to delay and revise new gender identity policy

Sep 7, 2022

By Jonah McKeown

Under the policy, all students, parents, and employees would have been required to “act toward a person in accordance with... Read more

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Green Bay diocese issues gender identity policy consistent with biological sex

Jul 13, 2022

By Maisy Sullivan

The Diocese of Green Bay has added a clause to its education policy manual that prohibits the use of pronouns... Read more

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Church of England lacks 'official definition' of woman, bishop says

Jul 11, 2022

By CNA Staff

Robert Innes, the Church of England’s Bishop in Europe, has said that that ecclesial community has no definition of a... Read more

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the Supreme Court, Nov. 1, 2021

Federal officials condemn Texas' investigations of child transgender therapies

Mar 3, 2022

By Jonah McKeown

The Biden administration this week issued condemnations of a Texas policy whereby parents who facilitate gender transition medical treatments for... Read more

Catholic school district in Canada mandates LGBT Pride Month awareness, staff training

May 9, 2021

By Kevin J. Jones

While a Catholic school district in Ontario failed to pass a proposal to fly the rainbow-colored LGBT Pride Flag outside... Read more

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Catholic university in New England 'affirms support' for LGBT persons

Apr 24, 2021

Sacred Heart University held a rally celebrating LGBT students last month after the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith... Read more

People with rainbows flags in the annual Pride Parade as it passes through Greenwich Village. Via Shutterstock.

Hasbro to sell gender-neutral Potato Head families, criticizing 'limiting' family and gender norms

Mar 1, 2021

The Hasbro toy company is now marketing a gender-neutral Potato Head family set showing same-sex couples and a baby, alongside... Read more

The Italian version of the new Directory for Catechesis, launched at the Vatican, June 25, 2020.

Catholic catechesis directory addresses gender, biological sex, and bioethics

Jun 25, 2020

Bioethics, gender identity, and biological sex are new subjects covered in the Vatican’s latest Directory for Catechesis, released Thursday. The... Read more

Archbishop Rino Fisichella presents the new Directory for Catechesis at the Vatican, June 25, 2020.

Vatican releases Catholic directory for catechesis in ‘dynamic continuity’ with Church teaching

Jun 25, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

The Vatican Thursday published a new directory for catechesis, emphasizing both its continuity with two previous directories and its new... Read more

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Department of Education will hear transgender track complaint

Aug 9, 2019

The U.S. Department of Education will hear a Title IX complaint brought by three female high school track athletes over... Read more

Amazon workers at London Pride Parade.

Gender identity protections good for the economy, companies tell SCOTUS

Jul 2, 2019

More than 200 businesses have asked the Supreme Court to recognize anti-discrimination protections on the basis of gender identity and... Read more

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In responding to gender theory, ‘forming the formators’ is key, educators say

Jun 24, 2019

By Jonah McKeown

Amid a flurry of headlines denouncing the Vatican for releasing a document condemning “gender theory,” theology professors and Catholic educators... Read more

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Vatican’s doctrinal office expected to release document on gender theory

Jun 14, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

The Vatican’s doctrinal office is preparing a document which will address Church teaching and the anthropology of the human person... Read more

Catholic 'gender theory' document: clarity for a wounded, oversexed culture?

Jun 11, 2019

By Kevin J. Jones

Catholic commentators have welcomed a Vatican document warning that gender theory is a cultural and ideological revolution that undermines both... Read more

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New Vatican document says gender theory is 'cultural and ideological revolution'

Jun 10, 2019

A Vatican department has issued a sweeping denunciation of so-called gender theory, and affirmed the principles of human dignity, difference,... Read more

How should Catholic educators respond to gender ideology?

Oct 8, 2016

A rising push for gender ideology will have deep consequences, but Catholics can respond in the right way, an English... Read more