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Catholics Criticize New Archdiocesan Guidelines Against Gender Transition

August 27, 2020/3 Comments/in Gender Identity, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Catholics and LGBTQ advocates have negatively appraised a new document from the Archdiocese of St. Louis that issues restrictive guidelines on how the church is to engage transgender people. Read More

Transgender Advocate Sr. Luisa Derouen Criticizes Bishop Paprocki’s New Gender Policy

March 17, 2020/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Melissa Feito

Sr. Luisa Derouen, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace and long time spiritual companion to transgender people, has published an essay reacting to Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s controversial, transphobic policy published in January. Read More

Responding to Vatican’s Gender Document, Catholics Urge Church Leaders to Really Listen

July 4, 2019/1 Comment/in Gender Identity, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Catholic sister who has worked with transgender people for two decades shared her thoughts on the Vatican's gender document released last month, one of many reactions about the controversial text still being published. Read More

Holy Cross Officials Rebuke Bishop’s Anti-Transgender Comments as “Offensive”

May 22, 2019/1 Comment/in Gender Identity, Hierarchy, Higher Education, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Top officials at the College of the Holy Cross have rebuked a local bishop's comments disparaging transgender people, saying the bishop was "deeply hurtful and offensive." Read More

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