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** May 20, 2022
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HHS Guidance on Trans Pharmacology Raises More Questions Than It Answers
David Gortler
Newsweek
Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Population Affairs (HHS/OPA) issued a “guidance document” called Gender Affirming Care in Young People ([link removed]) . The document claims to outline an established standard of care on how to proceed with social, pharmacological and surgical “affirmation” of children and adolescents who identify as transgender. When announcing the new document, Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine ([link removed]) went so far as to state “there is no argument among medical professionals—pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, etc.—about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care.”
Levine’s extreme statement was rightly rebuked ([link removed]) by physicians and members of Congress for not being appropriately based in evidence.
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The Pro-Choice Fairytale
Carrie Gress
The Epoch Times
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The Dumbest Generation Grows Up Is One Smart Book
Stanley Kurtz
National Review
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The Nature of Our ‘Angels’
Stephen White
The Catholic Thing
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Politics Isn’t Everything, But It’s Not Nothing: On Finding Balance
Andrew Walker
WORLD Opinions
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Dobbs Hysteria and Disinformation
George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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Yoram Hazony Recovering the Philosophy of Conservatism
Brad Littlejohn
WORLD Opinions
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On May 18, George Weigel delivered a lecture to the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture in Rome exploring the theory behind the Vatican Ostpolitik of the 1960s and 1970s, the Ostpolitik’s effects on the Church in east central Europe and in the Vatican, and the distinctive statecraft of Pope John Paul II
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On May 17, Andrew Walker went on Phoenix Seminary’s Faith Seeking Understanding podcast to discuss religious liberty’s meaning, its scriptural basis, the original intent behind the phrase “separation of church and state,” and what is at stake for Christians in protecting religious rights for all.
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Jennifer Bryson discusses her work with an association of German Catholic women who are making public their unity and loyalty to the Catholic Church and the Magisterium.
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of EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast (Listen on:** Apple ([link removed])
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) explores how “masculinity” has shaped elements of white evangelicalism in America. American evangelicalism is today navigating an important moment of reorientation and reexamination of its identity, and as this Faith Angle conversation highlights, it has much to learn from the history and witness of its global counterparts.
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