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One in 7 U.S. hospital beds are in Catholic systems.

At the final day of their spring meeting in Orlando, Florida, the U.S. bishops discussed updates to directives for Catholic health care services.

While most Catholic hospitals already refrain from offering transgender surgeries and hormonal interventions, the vote means that the bishops will move to formalize such bans.

Catholic hospitals are on track to begin banning gender-transition surgery and other medical procedures for transgender people after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops unanimously voted to revise the church's health care guidelines.

During their spring assembly this week, Catholic bishops in the United States will vote on whether to amend official healthcare directives to prohibit Catholic facilities from offering services that affirm trans-identified individuals' perceptions about their sex.

Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. are going to to vote this week on issuing guidance to Catholic hospitals prohibiting transgender procedures and puberty-blocking drugs.

Now that the NDC primaries have concluded, I would like to pose some questions to you:

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to our reporting about an open letter from more than 30 Catholic women scholars, theologians and advocates saying that many U.S. Catholic leaders have ignored women's lived experience.

While in many ways their careers ran parallel to each other, the two philosophers disagreed about whether liberalism could—and should—be saved?

Providing such a poor analysis in such a fraught sociopolitical context does not demonstrate virtues, says moral theologian M. Therese Lysaught.