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Null / Image credit: ADragan/ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, Mar 20, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The U.S. Catholic bishops released a statement Monday offering moral guidance for Catholic health care institutions, reiterating that "gender transition" interventions are not to be performed because they do not respect the fact that God has created each person as a unity of body and soul. "The body is not an object, a mere tool at the disposal of the soul, one that each person may dispose of according to his or her own will, but it is a constitutive part of the human subject, a g...

The US bishops’ Committee on Doctrine has issued a 14-page Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body.

U.S. bishops' new document rejects gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender individuals, reasserting that Catholic providers must not perform such procedures. Critics warn of the document's far-reaching consequences.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Surgical, chemical or other interventions that aim 'to exchange' a person's 'sex characteristics' for those of the opposite sex 'are not morally justified,' said the U.S. bishops' doctrine committee in a statement released March 20. 'What is of great concern, is the range of technological interventions advocated by many in our society as treatments for what is termed 'gender dysphoria' or 'gender incongruence,'' it said. The statement urged 'particular care' be taken '