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IT’S TIME! Bishop Daly: USCCB Meeting Needed to Address Transgender Treatments in Catholic Hospitals – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

IT’S TIME! Bishop Daly: USCCB Meeting Needed to Address Transgender Treatments in Catholic Hospitals

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Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington (photo: Courtesy of Diocese of Spokane)

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register, October 16, 2024

Matthew McDonald is a staff reporter for The National Catholic Register and the editor of New Boston Post. He lives in Massachusetts.

The bishop of Spokane says it’s time for Church leaders to confront the role of Catholic hospitals in immoral procedures on minors.

Reacting to a recent report that shows that scores of Catholic hospitals have provided children with drugs or surgeries to change their gender identity, a U.S. bishop has called for a special meeting of the country’s bishops to address what he sees as a major breach of Catholic medical ethics.

“As bishops, I think we need to confront Catholic health care, because they are violating their mission,” Bishop Thomas Daly of the Diocese of Spokane, Washington, told the Register.

The medical watchdog group Do No Harm published a database of public hospital records on Oct. 8 that catalogs nearly 14,000 sex-change-related treatments — including 5,747 sex-change surgeries — patients age 17 and under received from health-care facilities from 2019 to 2023.

Nearly 150 Catholic hospitals were among the health-care facilities that appear in the database, an EWTN News analysis found. …

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