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While controversy still swirls over a  contentious new program  to admit "transgender" students to Catholic schools , a nun who serves as the superintendent is touting the process as putting the diocese "in the lead."  Jefferson City is “a pioneer among other U.S. dioceses ,” the LGBT blog Proud Parenting says, citing the controversial “ Pastoral Process of Accompaniment and Dialogue .” The LGBT blog pulled from a  Jefferson City News Tribune   report  over the weekend that said the superintendent of schools,  Sister Elizabeth Youngs , viewed the diocese as a forerunner among other U.S. dioceses because of the accompaniment and dialogue program. Critics of the process  say it was crafted clandestinely and that neither parents nor priests in charge of parishes with schools were consulted. They say as well that it pushes gender ideology, upends Christian morality , scandalizes children in diocesan schools, and makes the dioce...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) wasn't interested in commenting on whether  Amoris Laetitia  means same-sex couples must be given Holy Communion if their "conscience" tells them it's OK. As LifeSiteNews asked the question at a Thursday press conference, the bishop of Burlington, Vermont , whispered something to the USCCB's director of public affairs, who then said questions should only relate to topics the bishops discussed that morning. "OK, I – you know, the press conference, the panel has been put together pertaining to topics from today's news agenda, so I think we really need to stick to topics that ... were visited this morning as the body of bishops were discussing them," said Judy Keane, director of public affairs for the USCCB.  LifeSiteNews had asked:  There have been different interpretations of  Amoris Laetitia  in dioceses across the U.S, and I'm wondering if you think that ministers of Holy Communion must...

Pope Francis warned on Saturday of a " global war " against traditional marriage and the family, saying both were under attack from gender theory and divorce . Francis made his comments in an impromptu response to a question at a meeting of the small Catholic community in the ex- Soviet republic of Georgia . "You mentioned a great enemy of marriage: gender theory," the pope said in response to a woman who had asked about it being taught in schools. He did not elaborate. Gender theory is broadly the concept that while a person may be biologically male or female, they have the right to identify themselves as male, female, both or neither. "Today, there is a global war out to destroy marriage," Francis said. "Not with weapons but with ideas ... we have to defend ourselves from ideological colonization." The pope has used the phrase "ideological colonization" in the past to denounce what he says are attempts by rich c...