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England’s health service to stop prescribing puberty blockers for kids

null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 12, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA). England’s National Health Service has announced it is limiting the use of puberty-blocking drugs for minors and will allow them only “as part of clinical research” following an evaluation of medical practices for purported “gender transitions.” Its interim policy, announced June 9, proposes that […]

England’s Health Service to Stop Prescribing Puberty Blockers for Kids

NHS England’s new Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board has approved the development of a study into how puberty blockers affect both gender dysphoria in children and young people with early-onset gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is the perception that one’s birth sex does not match one’s perceived gender identity.

Archdiocese Distances Itself From Dodgers Protest

In this episode of The Download, hosts Simon Rafe, Kyle Kopy, Christine Niles and Nick Wylie talk about problems in the archdiocese of Los Angeles in light of the ongoing controversy involving the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — a drag group that mocks Almighty God and the One True Faith but is receiving an award […]

Biden ‘hijacks’ foreign aid to push abortion, Congressman charges (Fox)

President Joe Biden has “hijacked” a foreign-aid program to promote abortion in Africa, according to a pro-life Congressman. Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, says that the PEPFAR program—begun in 2003 to fight AIDS—is now being used, particularly in African countries, “in order to promote abortion on demand.”

Texas bishop defends intervention in Carmelite monastery (Pillar)

Bishop Michael Olsen of Fort Worth, Texas, has issued a public statement defending his intervention in a Carmelite monastery. In a videotaped message, the bishop said that his increasingly ugly dispute with the Carmelite community should not be played out in “inappropriate venues,” such as a civil court of “both social and mainstream media.” Nevertheless […]

Catholic health-care system linked to gender-reassignment surgeries (Lepanto Institute)

The largest Catholic health-care system in the US provides employee benefits that include contraception and “medically necessary” abortions, and at least one affiliated hospital has been offering “gender-reassignment” surgery, according to an investigative report from the Lepanto Institute. CommonSpirit Health, a consortium of Catholic institutions in 21 American states, has offered support for homosexual ideology, […]