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Bishops begin process that could ban gender-affirming care in Catholic hospitals

Ronan — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:51:06 +0000

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops voted on Friday (June 16) to amend its directives for US Catholic health care organisations, setting in motion a process that could bar Catholic hospitals and other church-affiliated institutions from providing gender-affirming treatment to transgender people.

The vote occurred during the USCCB's spring meeting in Orlando. It passed via voice vote, with no audible dissenters or abstentions.

Technically, the procedural vote doesn't specifically bar gender-affirming care but allows the USCCB's Committee on Doctrine to begin the process of amending the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services — the "authoritative guidance on certain moral issues" for Catholic health care institutions.

Bishops begin process that could ban gender-affirming care in Catholic hospitals

Bishops' working group on Biden disbanded

Ronan — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:55:31 +0000

Less than three months after the formation of a controversial working group to deal with President Joe Biden, the nation's Catholic bishops have disbanded the group, which produced a public rupture among the U.S. hierarchy in its approach toward the nation's second Catholic president.

According to two bishops familiar with the process, the work of the group is now complete and the group's proposal to produce a document on the question of Communion will be addressed by the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine.

Chieko Noguchi, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, declined to comment.

The group, originally announced on Nov. 17, met virtually on two occasions. As NCR first reported last month, its 10-person committee did not include Biden's local bishops in Washington, D.C., or his home state of Delaware.

Bishops' working group on Biden disbanded