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[Biff]

Simple: Demons.

[Hovannes]

Newsom to speak at Vatican:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/outspo ... can-summit

[Del]

Newsom to speak at Vatican:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/outspo ... can-summit

News to me, from the article:

Newsom, who is Catholic,...

Okay... I'm utterly gobsmacked.

[Hovannes]

Newsom to speak at Vatican:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/outspo ... can-summit

News to me, from the article:

Newsom, who is Catholic,...

Okay... I'm utterly gobsmacked.

Any chance he'll get Pachamama'd into the Tiber?

[Del]

Any chance he'll get Pachamama'd into the Tiber?

My Knights of Columbus council guys got a laugh out of this!

[Wosbald]

+JMJ+

Source: Crux
Link: cruxnow DOT com/church-in-the-usa/2024/05/bishops-say-new-u-s-regulations-advance-an-ideological-view-of-sex

Bishops say new U.S. regulations ‘advance an ideological view of sex’

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NEW YORK — While recent healthcare related non-discrimination regulations implemented by the Biden administration don’t include an abortion mandate as the U.S. bishops feared, they’ve taken issue with how the regulations advance an “ideological view of sex.”

The Department of Health and Human Services on April 26 published a final rule to nondiscrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act, known as Section 1557, adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the definition of discrimination on the basis of sex.

The U.S. bishops have long anticipated the change, as they first submitted comments when the changes were proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services back in 2022. At the time, however, the U.S. bishops lamented not only the potential changes to the definition of sex, but that an abortion mandate would eventually be a part of the final rule.

“We appreciate that the final rule does not attempt to impose a mandate with regard to abortion,” Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne–South Bend, Chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Religious Liberty said in an April 30 statement. “These regulations, however, advance an ideological view of sex that, as the Holy See has noted, denies the most beautiful and most powerful difference that exists between living beings: sexual difference.”

“I pray that health care workers will embrace the truth about the human person, a truth reflected in Catholic teaching, and that HHS will not substitute its judgment for their own,” Rhoades added.

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Responding to the new final rule, the Catholic Health Association, which includes more than 2,200 Catholic hospitals, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, and related organizations, said in an April 30 statement that its strongly supports non-discrimination in health care, noting that its members provide quality care for all people regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other category or status.

“At the same time, as Catholic health care providers there are certain procedures that may conflict with our sincerely held religious beliefs. The women and men of Catholic healthcare treat all patients with the compassion and dignity they deserve,” the association said. “We look forward to fully reviewing the final rule to understand its impact on patients and providers.”

Rhoades said the faith’s core beliefs about human dignity are at the core of the USCCB’s stance.

“The human right to health care flows from the sanctity of human life and the dignity that belongs to all human persons, who are made in the image of God,” Rhoades said. “The same core beliefs about human dignity and the wisdom of God’s design that motivate Catholics to care for the sick also shape our convictions about care for preborn children and the immutable nature of the human person.”

“These commitments are inseparable,” Rhoades said.

[Del]

+JMJ+

Source: Crux
Link: cruxnow DOT com/church-in-the-usa/2024/05/bishops-say-new-u-s-regulations-advance-an-ideological-view-of-sex

Bishops say new U.S. regulations ‘advance an ideological view of sex’

I suppose this has something to do with "faith" -- if we see the fundamentalist Left as being a faith-based worldview established and compelled by our government, in conflict with the First Amendment's security of our freedom of religion.

Most people still think this is the Biden Admin's support for the Left's war against reality.

[Wosbald]

+JMJ+

Source: Crux
Link: cruxnow DOT com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2024/05/march-for-life-takes-place-in-ireland-amid-soaring-abortion-rates

March for Life takes place in Ireland amid ‘soaring’ abortion rates

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LEICESTER, United Kingdom — Crowds turned out in the Irish capital Dublin on Monday for the annual March for Life.

EilIs Mulroy of the Pro Life Campaign addressed the event, saying the country’s legalized abortion has sent the numbers of unborn babies being killed in Ireland “soaring.”

British pro-life doctor Calum Miller also spoke at the event.

“If you lose the soul of medicine and make it a profession of killing, if you rob medicine of conscience by expelling those who listen to their conscience, everyone is in danger,” he said.

“Is that the sort of healthcare system you want looking after you when you are weak and vulnerable?” Miller added.

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Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin and chairman of the Council for Life of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference spoke at Mass before the March for Life.

He noted that the biology of cells was discovered less than four hundred years ago, and it is only a little more than 150 years since the discovery of DNA.

“Everything we have discovered since then has confirmed that, while pregnancy is a time of rapid growth and development, there is a radical continuity between the fertilized ovum and the child who is born at the end of nine months,” he said.

“That is not a matter of faith; it is a matter of scientific fact. Philosophers can interpret it, but they can’t change it. A human embryo is an individual member of the human species; otherwise known as a person,” Doran continued.

He noted that Pope John Paul II, writing in Fides et Ratio, said there is no fundamental conflict between faith and science.

“We who seek to promote a renewed respect for the inherent dignity of every human person, certainly need to distinguish between science and fake news. We have no need to be afraid of science, but we do need to remember that science only goes part of the journey in understanding the human person,” he said.

Ireland passed the ‘Safe Access Zones’ Bill earlier In May, legislation Mulroy called “draconian.”

The legislation criminalizes any perceived attempt to influence one’s decision to have an abortion within a 100-metre zone of a premises where abortion could be provided, which includes areas where some churches are located.

“Nothing — no law, no public policy and no peer pressure from neighbours or colleagues — can remove our right and indeed our responsibility to advocate publicly for those who are most vulnerable, especially at the beginning and at the end of life,” Mulroy said when the legislation was passed.

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“While the Medical Council has no policy one way or the other on assisted suicide and has entirely removed the section on abortion from its code of conduct, we still stand with our doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals who refuse to be bullied into participating in ending the lives of their patients,” the bishop said.

“We do this, not just because of what science tells us, but also because we believe in the inherent God-given dignity of every human life. This is a dignity that does not depend on society or law, on wealth or nationality, on physical or mental health or ability, because before ever we are formed in the womb, God knows us intimately and loves us for all eternity,” Doran said.