Ohio Archbishop Ends Long-Standing Girl Scouts Partnerships Because of ‘Gender Ideology’, by Kate Quiñones

By Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency, Oct. 30, 2024

Kate Quiñones is a staff writer for Catholic News Agency and a fellow of the College Fix. She has been published by the Wall Street Journal, the Denver Catholic Register, and CatholicVote, and she graduated from Hillsdale College. She lives in Colorado with her husband.

CNA Staff, Oct 29, 2024 / 13:35 pm – The archbishop of Cincinnati is ending a 110-year relationship with Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) due to the group promoting gender ideology “contrary” to Catholic teaching.

Archbishop Dennis Schnurr announced that pastors in the archdiocese must discontinue any partnerships with GSUSA by December 2025.

“The Archdiocese of Cincinnati cannot partner with an organization that, from its highest level, advocates ideas which the Church considers false and harmful,” Schnurr wrote in the Oct. 28 letter to the faithful.

Schnurr noted that GSUSA “has embraced and promoted an impoverished worldview regarding gender and sexuality” through some activities, badges, and resources. GSUSA and its local chapter in Ohio “has contributed to normalizing a sexual and gender ideology contrary to the Catholic understanding of the human person made male and female in the image and likeness of God,” he noted. …