by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 7, 2022 / 17:56 pm Vanderbilt University Medical Hospital has paused irreversible gender surgeries on children following Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s calls for investigation after pressure from social media activists. The decision was made public Friday afternoon, announced in a letter written by the university medical center’s …

by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 15, 2022 / 17:00 pm Controversy erupted last week when news of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Gender Clinic for kids took over social media, prompting outrage over the hospital’s “first of its kind” program to facilitate sex-changes for children in the form of hormone …

by Maisy Sullivan Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 13, 2022 / 18:08 pm The Diocese of Green Bay has added a clause to its education policy manual that prohibits the use of pronouns and wearing clothes that do not align with a person’s biological sex. With 54 Catholic schools in the …

Denver, Colo., May 4, 2021 / 15:00 pm America/Denver (CNA). Federal LGBT legislation that excludes important religious freedom protections has the backing of over 400 American corporations with trillions of dollars in annual revenue. More than 400 companies, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies, have joined a business coalition in …

Washington D.C., Mar 22, 2021 / 03:00 pm MT (CNA).- The group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is criticizing South Dakota’s governor for “gutting” a bill prohibiting transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. After Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Friday vetoed House Bill 1217, which clarified that only biological women could …

CNA Staff, Dec 15, 2020 / 10:30 am MT (CNA).- A leading LGBT activist group is calling for the Biden administration to create accreditation regulations of religious schools that would enforce acceptance of so-called transgender rights. The pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign (HRC) issued its list of policy priorities for the …

CNA Staff, Aug 7, 2020 / 04:34 pm MT (CNA).- Christ draws close with love and compassion, as well as a challenge, for people who experience discord between their gender identity and their biological sex, Archbishop Robert Carlson of Saint Louis said in a reflection dated June 1. “If you’re …

By Nick Hardesty One day, Charles Dickens sat in a coffee shop. Actually, it was a “coffee room,” as indicated on the glass door of the establishment. Dickens had read that sign and frequented rooms like it many times. But, on this day, he happened to read the sign from …

By Gail Finke The Canada Summer Jobs Program (CSJ) helping small businesses and charities pay salaries for summer workers got an extra $113 million this year, but pro-life organizations and traditional Christians suspect they need not apply. New restrictions on grants require that both the jobs and the “core mandates” …

Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s doctrinal congregation upheld a Spanish bishop’s refusal to allow a transsexual person to be a godparent. Bishop Rafael Zornoza Boy of Cadiz and Ceuta said in a written statement that the Catechism of the Catholic Church says godparents must be “firm believers, able …