Bishop James D. Conley: Catholic Hospitals Must Protect Children from Gender Ideology

Before Christianity came on the scene, ancient Greek and Roman pagans did not consider children to be fully human persons like adults. Indeed, it is not too strong to say that Christianity introduced the concept of children that we have today, in which we give children more concern than adults owing to their vulnerability. This was truly a revolutionary concept.

Such a view comes directly from the commands of Christ, whose very strong view was also extremely counter-cultural. When the disciples tried to stop children from engaging with Jesus, he sternly rebuked them saying that the Kingdom of God belonged to the little children. Indeed, our Lord reverses the adult-versus-child priority, saying directly that adults must become like little children. And he reserves the harshest language of all for those who harm children: saying that it would be better if they were drowned in the sea with a millstone hung around their neck. …