The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:53:05 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Disputing theory, crashing into reality /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35171-disputing-theory-crashing-into-reality /opinion/guest-columnists/item/35171-disputing-theory-crashing-into-reality

The institutionalization of radically anti-scientific notions of sex and gender has been creeping into our world — and my life — at an astonishing pace for years. I’ve simply never gotten used to it. 

]]> Guest Columns Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:58:01 -0500 Court strikes down BidenƵapp transgender mandate /home/international/item/35056-court-strikes-down-biden-s-transgender-mandate /home/international/item/35056-court-strikes-down-biden-s-transgender-mandate

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis Dec. 9 permanently blocked a transgender mandate the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ƶapp had implemented as a revision to the Affordable Care Act.

]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:05:16 -0500 Helping youth toward gender reality /opinion/columnists/item/34662-helping-youth-toward-gender-reality /opinion/columnists/item/34662-helping-youth-toward-gender-reality

I don’t need to tell you that gender confusion is rampant among our youth today. Only 10 years ago, when I would ask an audience of adults or youth, everyone knew someone who was same-sex attracted, but no one knew someone who was experiencing gender dysphoria or identified as “trans.” Now everyone knows some young person fairly close to them in that situation: a son, daughter, nephew, niece, grandchild. Why?

]]> burnsh@catholicregister.org (Sr. Helena Burns, FSP) Register Columnists Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:00:18 -0400 Social contagion and trans propaganda /opinion/columnists/item/34582-social-contagion-and-trans-propaganda /opinion/columnists/item/34582-social-contagion-and-trans-propaganda

When Dr. Lisa Littman learned that 80 per cent of youth showing up at “gender clinics” were females, she decided to investigate. She quickly named the phenomenon “ROGD” for rapid onset gender dysphoria, because, unlike typical gender dysphoria that begins in childhood, these girls had no discomfort with their sex until approximately age 12, and then suddenly decided they were actually boys.

]]> burnsh@catholicregister.org (Sr. Helena Burns, FSP) Register Columnists Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:00:57 -0400 Catholic groups challenge federal mandate on gender transition procedures /home/international/item/33832-catholic-groups-challenge-federal-mandate-on-gender-transition-procedures /home/international/item/33832-catholic-groups-challenge-federal-mandate-on-gender-transition-procedures

WASHINGTON -- Several Catholic hospitals, a Catholic university and Mercy sisters who run health clinics filed a challenge to a federal mandate for performing gender transition procedures with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit Dec. 15.

]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:37:04 -0500 Charles Lewis: Stupidity abounds in an arrogant world /opinion/columnists/item/32820-charles-lewis-stupidity-abounds-in-an-arrogant-world /opinion/columnists/item/32820-charles-lewis-stupidity-abounds-in-an-arrogant-world

We often bemoan the state of the world. A word such a “tragic” is often used. War and famine still plague much of the world and here in Canada we live under an anti-life government. So yes, tragic is fitting.

]]> clewis@catholicregister.org (Charles Lewis) Charles Lewis Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:00:24 -0500 Catholic doctors, bishop welcome U.K. ruling against puberty blockers /home/international/item/32459-catholic-doctors-bishop-welcome-u-k-ruling-against-puberty-blockers /home/international/item/32459-catholic-doctors-bishop-welcome-u-k-ruling-against-puberty-blockers

MANCHESTER, England -- A U.K. court has ruled children are unable to consent to taking drugs to change gender, in a landmark case welcomed by Catholic doctors and a bishop.

]]> International Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:12:11 -0500 Archbishop Chaput urges synod to be careful with language, especially on sexuality /home/international/item/28137-archbishop-chaput-urges-synod-to-be-careful-with-language-especially-on-sexuality /home/international/item/28137-archbishop-chaput-urges-synod-to-be-careful-with-language-especially-on-sexuality VATICAN  – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia told members of the Synod of Bishops their task was to help young people understand Catholic teaching on sexuality and to avoid using terms like "LGBTQ" that make it seem as if the church categorizes people that way.
]]> ccn-ottawa@rogers.com (Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News) International Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:41:29 -0400 Quebec Catholic Church mulls questions about transgender godparents /item/26125-quebec-catholic-church-transgender-godparents /item/26125-quebec-catholic-church-transgender-godparents QUEBEC CITY – Andrea was baffled when her friend asked her to be the godmother of her newborn baby. She would have said "Yes" right away, but things are not that simple for her. She has been a woman for only a little more than a year.]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) Canada Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:26:38 -0400 Transgender military ban applauded for respecting biology, the common good /home/international/item/25829-transgender-military-ban-applauded-for-respecting-biology-the-common-good /home/international/item/25829-transgender-military-ban-applauded-for-respecting-biology-the-common-good

WASHINGTON – After President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that persons identifying as transgender could not serve in the U.S. military, theologians and bioethics experts voiced support for the policy change.

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