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No Supreme Court hearing for Catholic hospital sued for declining transgender surgery

November 03, 2021

Denver Newsroom, Nov 2, 2021 / 17:28 pm The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital that declined to perform a hysterectomy on a woman who identifies as a transgender man on the grounds that doing so would violate Catholic ethics and the U.S. bishops’ directives. “In keeping with

Alta Fixsler dies in hospice

October 25, 2021

Alta Fixsler, the two-year-old girl whose parents fought to keep on life support, died on 18th October after her life support was withdrawn. “Sad news, little Alta Fixsler’s life support was turned off this afternoon and she died at the hospice with her parents by her side,” said a statement from a representative for her

More Catholic Than The Pope: ‘Rad-Trads’ and ‘Rona Vaccines

March 19, 2021

Tradition and Traditionalism are two different things. The former is the living source of Truth given to the Church by Christ himself. The latter is a rigid, obsessive form of individualism that reminds one both of the Pharisees and the Jansenists.

Bishops of England and Wales distressed at DNR orders for persons with learning disabilities

February 17, 2021

"It is wholly unacceptable and immoral to suggest that the challenges which some people with learning disabilities face with communicating symptoms should make them candidates for a DNACPR order," Bishop Moth said. ""There should be no discrimination of this kind in our health service."

French Catholics fast and pray in response to controversial Bioethics bill

January 15, 2021

French Bishops launched the campaign to tackle the “widespread blindness to the dignity of every human being” represented by the new law

Appeal to European Court of Human Rights for comatose patient in NHS care

January 12, 2021

An appeal on behalf of the Polish citizen is being prepared with the European Court of Human Rights, and provision of food and water has been restored pending the appeal.

Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine approved in UK: The good and the bad

December 30, 2020

"It is important to oppose ethically compromised science," says Ron Belgau, "but it’s also important to cheer scientists who produce ethical research."

CDF approves use of Covid-19 vaccines

December 21, 2020

“It is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process,” the CDF stated in the doctrinal note released Monday.