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Bishop Claims Transgender and Nonbinary Identities Are Result of Original Sin

November 3, 2022/5 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A U.S. bishop has suggested that being transgender is a result of the Fall and made other negative comments in a new letter on gender. Read More

Iowa Bishop Uses Occasion of Diocesan Anniversary to Criticize Transgender People

August 25, 2021/6 Comments/in Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A bishop in Iowa used the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption and a diocesan anniversary to instead emphasize the need to deny transgender people the respect and care they deserve. Read More

Iowa Student Works To Reform His Former Catholic High School

July 12, 2018/2 Comments/in Schools & Youth /by Kaitlin Brown

A gay teenager who is a former student of a Catholic high school in Iowa, spoke out about discrimination there, and, in the process, set off a chain reaction of similar statements from other students, and a declaration defending the school from the principal. Read More

Iowa Catholic School Will Not Recognize Student for LGBT Scholarship

May 3, 2016/0 Comments/in Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Catholic high school in Iowa which previously fired a gay teacher is now refusing honors... Read More

Two Gay Teachers Fired from Midwest Catholic Schools

April 8, 2015/11 Comments/in Employment Issues, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

News that gay educators in Iowa and Nebraska were fired from the Catholic schools where they had been teaching broke yesterday, prompting swift outcry from local communities. Read More