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Wounds in the Body: A Thoughtful Response to the Abuse Crisis in the Church

Sr. Annie Devlin

In 2021 Catholics in France were deeply shaken by the publication of a report revealing the dimensions of abuse within the Catholic Church there: content known at least in part by some, suspected by others, but which had never been documented as such, en masse. In the same period, Dom Dysmas de Lassus, Superior General of the Carthusians, emerged from the silence characteristic of his order and published a 446-page book entitled Risks and Aberrations in the Religious Life.

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The Legal and Cultural Context of Skrmetti

John Bursch

Last December, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti. The case involves the constitutionality of a Tennessee law, SB1, that prohibits any medical procedure for the purpose of “Enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex,” and “Treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” Including Tennessee, 27 states have enacted such protections for children.

How did we get here?

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