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U.S. bishops pass directive forbidding transgender surgeries at Catholic hospitals

Mercy Health Perrysburg Hospital in Perrysburg, Ohio. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA).
Catholic hospitals in the United States are explicitly forbidden from carrying out transgender-related surgeries on indi… […]
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Saint Frances Cabrini: Victim or Victor?

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know him or have forgotten [...]
Columns

Catholicism and the American Founding: A further response to “The Great American Story”

“No taxation without representation!” Every American school boy and girl learns this as the rallying cry that inaugurated the sequence of events that led to [...]
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Preparing for Death: A Brief Imaginative Pilgrimage

November, the month of the dead, calls us to remember our own death and to prepare for eternal life. We may be tempted to think [...]
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Sportsmanship and the season of our discontents

In early October, a dinner conversation with an old friend turned to why we both find the National Football League virtually unwatchable these days: the [...]

Catholicism and the American Founding: A further response to “The Great American Story”

Columns

Dr. Christopher Shannon November 13, 2025 1

“No taxation without representation!” Every American school boy and girl learns this as the rallying cry that inaugurated the sequence of events that led to the birth of the United States of America. In this [...]

On the Taliban and the dehumanizing “regulations” of radical Islam

Essay

Luma Simms November 11, 2025 50

The Taliban, who took control of Kabul and overthrew the government of Afghanistan in August 2021, have set up a ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice. In August 2023, they [...]

Essay

Newman on the Sacred Liturgy, Part One

Peter M.J. Stravinskas November 10, 2025 6

Editor’s note: The following address was delivered to the Theology Department of the University of Dallas on November 5, 2025, and is posted here in two parts. When thinking of John Henry Newman, one’s thoughts [...]

Essay

The life of the Trinity in Saint Elizabeth Catez

Dawn Beutner November 9, 2025 9

Each year on a Sunday in May or June, every Catholic priest is assigned the seemingly impossible task of preaching about the mystery of the Trinity. Considering the number of theological errors about God that [...]

Analysis

The Emergence of the Post-Liberal Catholic Priest

Kenneth Craycraft November 7, 2025 52

A major recent survey suggests that a new generation of Catholic priests is breaking free of the restrictive political labels of “conservative” and “liberal,” recognizing that the claims of our Faith transcend such increasingly anachronistic branding. [...]

Columns

Catholicism and the problem of political extremism

James Kalb November 6, 2025 85

Modern politics go to extremes. There are a variety of reasons for that. One is that modern thought likes to draw far-reaching conclusions from a few simple principles. In the natural sciences, where exact verification [...]

Editorial

The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 130

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...]

Analysis

America’s Most Fruitful Dioceses: A Look at the Numbers

J. J. Ziegler November 3, 2025 32

The median Latin-rite diocese in the United States has one infant baptism per year for every 113 Catholics, one non-infant reception into the Church per year for every 413 Catholics, one wedding per year for [...]

Catholicism and the American Founding: A further response to “The Great American Story”

Dr. Christopher Shannon November 13, 2025 1

“No taxation without representation!” Every American school boy and girl learns this as the rallying cry that inaugurated the sequence of events that led to the birth of the United States of America. In this [...]
Catholicism and the problem of political extremism

James Kalb November 6, 2025 85
Charity, liberty, and the contested history of the American story

Dr. Christopher Shannon October 26, 2025 11

The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 130

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...]
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 53
Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 130

U.S. bishops pass directive forbidding transgender surgeries at Catholic hospitals

Saint Frances Cabrini: Victim or Victor?

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Preparing for Death: A Brief Imaginative Pilgrimage

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