Posted on 03/23/2023 11:08:31 AM PDT by bitt
ROME — The United States Catholic Bishops have issued guidelines banning surgical and chemical intervention aimed at exchanging “the sex characteristics of a patient’s body for those of the opposite sex.”
In a March 20 “Doctrinal Note,” the bishops rule out certain forms of medical interventions in Catholic healthcare institutions such as puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgery, insisting that the do not promote the authentic good of the human person but are, in fact, injurious.
“Catholic health care services must not perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex or take part in the development of such procedures,” they declare.
While modern technology offers important interventions that have led to the cure of many maladies and promises for more, the bishops write, it also “produces interventions that are injurious to the true flourishing of the human person.”
The interventions advocated by many as treatments for “gender dysphoria” or “gender incongruence” do not respect “the fundamental order of the human person as an intrinsic unity of body and soul, with a body that is sexually differentiated,” the doctrinal note states, and thus Catholic healthcare services must not perform them.
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the Bishops are, obviously, raciss and transfob...
God makes NO mistakes!
I would offer my accolades (credit given where credit is due), except for the fact that such doctrinal “courage” is so rare as to merit notice.
Got the ‘rare’ part right, but if they’re finally going to grow a pair themselves, they’ve got to start somewhere.
Some were born with the wrong brains though. I’d like to see some experiments there. Free lobotomies for all of them.
God is good... get these people help, mentally.
And lock up the predators taking advantage of them
No, but you’ll start seeing more and more Christians depicted
as some sort of denigrate for not buying in on this insanity.
It’s going to become pronounced in public, bordering a
Christian purge > IMO.
... On Monday (March 20) the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine published a document titled "Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body," which calls for the refusal to provide gender-affirming care to those experiencing gender dysphoria. In the process, those responsible for this document not only deny the reality of transgender, nonbinary and intersex persons, but they also compound the harm experienced by already very vulnerable people. ...
don’t forget, the DOJ actually called devout Christians and Catholics “potential terrorists..”
Perhaps Francis could talk to our good Catholic president about it.
Yeah, but that’s only if they were W. Wasn’t it?
LATE to the podium to make this statement.
Sorry, but not National Catholic Register, but the link is to an essay that appeared in today’s NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER. A mere 3 letters make a difference.
Franky is gonna be crazy mad!
Ohhh! Pope Sodomy ain’t gonna like this!
I’m impressed by the bishops. Positively, for once!
There’s good be to be a lot of legal persecution now - not to mention internal harassment from the Bergoglio-Jesuit wing - and this actually took courage.
The truth is the truth, and they’re saying it. Good for them!
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