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Texas hospital agrees to end "sex-rejecting" procedures on children and fund detransition clinic
6+ hour, 49+ min ago (1126+ words) May 15, 2026 Amira Abuzeid News Briefs 0 Print Doctors at Texas Children's Hospital allegedly continued to perform procedures on children despite a Texas law prohibiting them, with Governor Greg Abbott calling such interventions "child abuse." Texas Children's Hospital has reached a major…...
German Catholic congress approves bondage group's booth
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (992+ words) May 14, 2026 Alexander Folz News Briefs 0 Print Organizers of the W'rzburg congress told EWTN News the group's guidelines contain "no contradiction with the Catechism." An ecumenical working group promoting "consensual BDSM culture" will again exhibit at Germany's Catholic Congress in W'rzburg…...
Doing justice while making Catholic schools affordable
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (301+ words) May 13, 2026 George Weigel The Dispatch 0 Print Recently, Senator Kelly got 29 fellow senators to support his bill to repeal the federal tax credit scholarship program that was created in 2025 and will come into effect next year. A'Wall Street Journal'editorial quoted Senator…...
U. S. same-sex ministry group says criticism in Vatican report is "false and unjust
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (689+ words) May 8, 2026 Daniel Payne News Briefs 0 Print An influential Catholic ministry that walks with those experiencing same-sex attraction said a Vatican report that criticized its work was guilty of a "false and unjust depiction" of the decades-old apostolate. Courage International said…...
Oregon counselor sues after being fined $90, 000 for not affirming client's same-sex relationship
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (754+ words) May 8, 2026 Amira Abuzeid News Briefs 0 Print Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal group representing the counselor, Frank Canepa, filed the lawsuit on May 1 at the Oregon Court of Appeals, asking for the order to be overturned. According to ADF,…...
Homosexuality and Authentic Freedom
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1860+ words) The tragic impasse that exists in our culture on the issue of homosexuality stems from two errors. May 6, 2026 Dr. Mark Lowery Features, From the Archives 75 Print Data from Divine Revelation The homosexual rights movement asks, "Why can't you just let…...
Synod report condemns "devastating effects" of conversion therapies for homosexual persons
1+ week, 2+ day ago (829+ words) May 6, 2026 EWTN News News Briefs 0 Print A Vatican synod study group's final report includes testimony from two men in civil marriages with other men and calls for a listening-based approach to difficult doctrinal and pastoral questions. It is the first…...
Catholics in Sweden receive rare electoral guidance on life issues
1+ week, 3+ day ago (568+ words) May 5, 2026 Bryan Lawrence Gonsalves News Briefs 0 Print The Diocese of Stockholm's justice and peace commission published a document urging Catholics to consider candidates" positions on abortion and euthanasia. STOCKHOLM " The Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm…...
Vatican publishes 2024 letter prohibiting formal blessings for homosexual couples in Germany
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1312+ words) May 4, 2026 Victoria Cardiel News Briefs 0 Print As it was already circulating on the internet, the Vatican decided to go public with a 2024 letter to the German bishops reiterating that blessings for same-sex couples could not be formalized. The Vatican released…...
Former federal prosecutor: "I'd like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit'
1+ week, 6+ day ago (759+ words) May 2, 2026 Tyler Arnold The Dispatch 0 Print Text messages released by the Senate Judiciary Committee show two former federal prosecutors discussing desires to prosecute nuns during investigations of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U. S. Capitol. Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston, career prosecutors…...