Gender Policies Archives - Page 8 of 15

Portland Archdiocese’s Gender Policy Seemingly Ignores Vatican II, Writes Theologian

June 30, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Andru Zodrow

Before the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon announced it was closing its Catholic schools office, possibly in response to backlash against its new gender identity policy, one theologian tackled the problems with document and its limited imagination. Read More

Archdiocese’s Failed Communication Raises LGBTQ+ Questions about Catholic Schools Decision

June 28, 2023/0 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A U.S. archdiocese that unexpectedly shuttered its Catholic schools office has said the closure was not related to an ongoing controversy about a gender identity policy issued earlier this year, but a lack of communication has left local Catholics with serious questions about links between the two. Read More

Finding God and Self by Bicycle During the Pandemic

June 24, 2023/3 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Personal Stories /by Guest Contributor

I remember thinking about how strange it was to be transforming in real time—day by day, chin hair by chin hair; my voice dropping, decibel by decibel—in private. Read More

U.S. Bishops Vote for Process that Could End Gender-Affirming Care at Catholic Hospitals

June 22, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

The U.S. bishops voted unanimously at their spring assembly last week to begin revisions of their medical guidelines that could lead to gender-affirming care being offered at Catholic hospitals. Read More

Catholic Groups, Including USCCB, Seek Halt to Federal Protections for Transgender Athletes

June 12, 2023/0 Comments/in Arts, Books & Culture, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Higher Education, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Three Catholic organizations, including the U.S. bishops' conference, have asked the U.S. Department of Education to halt efforts to protect transgender athletes in schools. Read More

USCCB Note on Gender Transitions “Could Have Been Written in the 1950s,” Writes Bioethicist

June 8, 2023/4 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Angela Howard-McParland

M. Therese Lysaught, a bioethicist and theologian, comprehensively dissected the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine's recent statement that seeks to stop Catholic healthcare institutions from providing gender-affirming care. Read More

Two-Spirit Student Leaves Catholic School After Repeated Gender-Based Discrimination

June 2, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth /by Bobby Nichols

A Two-Spirit student has left Montana Catholic high school after facing discrimination due to the local diocese's transgender-negative policy couple with school administrators' actions. Read More

Alumni Protest New Hampshire Catholic School Over Firing of LGBTQ+ and Ally Teachers

May 26, 2023/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Andru Zodrow

Community members of a New Hampshire Catholic school have launched protests alleging school administrators fired staff members who refused to attend an anti-transgender training. Read More

Global Survey of Catholic Women Finds Significant Support for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Church

May 19, 2023/2 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Statistics, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A survey of Catholic women worldwide released this spring has found respondents to be largely supportive of LGBTQ+ inclusion, though not as much for sacramental marriage equality and with diversity in terms of where such support is found geographically. Read More

“Rules Are Written for the Majority”: Dress Codes in Catholic Schools and LGBTQ+ Students

May 18, 2023/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Schools & Youth /by Guest Contributor

Curious about dress codes at other Catholic high schools, I scoured online handbooks and had conversations with other administrators. Beyond reading their dress codes, I wanted to understand the rationale behind them. Read More