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Appeals Court Rules Catholic Health Providers May Deny Care to Transgender Patients

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A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously decided that Catholic healthcare systems and providers cannot be forced to perform or cover gender-affirming healthcare, if such procedures violate the system or provider's religious beliefs. Read More

Former Catholic Charities Head Denounces Bishops’ Defense of Adoption Discrimination

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A former Catholic Charities head has denounced the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2021 ruling that allows religious adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ client. The head also chastised the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) support of such discrimination. Read More

Judge Rules In Favor of Michigan Catholic Charities That Discriminates Against LGBTQ Clients

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Michigan adoption agencies receiving government funding are no longer required to provide equal support to LGBTQ families, a federal judge ruled in a preliminary injunction last week for a case that involves a Catholic social service agency Read More

Catholic Charities Employees Protest Bishop’s Decision to End Adoption Services Over LGBT Non-Discrimination

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Employees at Catholic Charities in Buffalo are protesting their local bishop's decision to end the agency's adoption and foster care services over anti-LGBT non-discrimination protections, a controversy erupting just as that same bishop faces increasing calls for resignation over his handling of abusive priests. Read More

With Catholic Support, Oklahoma and Kansas Pass Bills Allowing Adoption Discrimination

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Over the past week,  the state legislatures in both Kansas and Oklahoma passed bills that will give faith-based adoption agencies the right to refuse to place children with lesbian and gay couples.  Read More

North Carolina Bishop Cancels Charity Fundraiser Over Gay Entertainer

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A Catholic fundraising event in Asheville, North Carolina, has been cancelled because of an invited performer’s... Read More

(Most) Rhode Island Clergy Offer Lesson in Pastoral Priorities

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At the beginning of August a newly married gay Catholic couple in Rhode Island was... Read More

The Incredible, Shrinking Catholic Church

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Were it up to some Catholics, the church would become an isolationist sect that has... Read More

Rep. Paul Ryan Endorses LGBT Adoption, While Newt Gingrich Digs In Against Equality

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As marriage equality becomes law in state after state, related legal matters like adoption rights... Read More

Should the City of Palo Alto Fund Catholic Charities?

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The City of Palo Alto, California, a suburb of San Francisco, is facing a question... Read More