“The largest Catholic health system in the United States, CommonSpirit Health, is acting directly against Catholic moral teaching in direct defiance of its Catholic identity,” the institute states. “This report will provide indisputable proof of gross defiance of Catholic moral teaching on the part of CommonSpirit Health.”
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One of the network’s hospitals is St. Francis Memorial Hospital, located in San Francisco. St. Francis Memorial Hospital has a facility it calls “The Gender Institute,” where it provides “gender affirming care.” The program is openly associated with CommonSpirit, with the Gender Institute’s email account ending in “@commonspirit.org.”
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The hospital even produced a with a transgender-identified individual who underwent a sex change operation at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. The video promotes sex change surgeries as a way to live as your “authentic self.”
A list of surgeries available at the hospital includes “hysterectomy,” “vaginoplasty,” “phalloplasty,” “scrotoplasty,” and even a “penile preserving vaginoplasty,” as well as numerous others.
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Meanwhile, Saint Francis Memorial Hospital received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a leftist organization that received sponsorship from the pharmaceutical industry to create a grading system for LGBT acceptance at hospitals.
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St. Francis Memorial Hospital is just one of many hospitals affiliated with CommonSpirit that attempts to modify peoples’ gender through chemical and surgical interventions.
There’s also Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH) in Washington State, a Catholic health network under the umbrella of CommonSpirit, which provides puberty blockers to minors, according to the report. VMFH lists their “pediatric primary care” services, which include “puberty blockers” as well as “gender-affirming hormone therapy.”
At least 13 different hospitals in the CommonSpirit Health network received perfect scores from the HRC, including Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Woodland Memorial Hospital, Sequoia Hospital, and several other hospitals in California.
The ranking system is predicated on a number of different factors, including hospitals’ approach to gender transition attempts and their support for “pro-equality legislation.”
CommonSpirit Health is sponsored by the Catholic Health Care Federation, which is legally defined as a “public juridic person within the meaning of the code of Canon law for the Roman Catholic Church,” according to Page 28 of CommonSpirit’s 990 IRS form.
It goes on to read:
As a public juridic person in the Church, CHCF is the juridical equivalent of a diocese or parish or religious order in the Catholic Church. As a public juridic person, CHCF is not merely affiliated with the Catholic Church; it is the Catholic Church, an official part of the Church itself, with a munus or duty assigned to it by the Church, and able to act publicly in the name of the Church.
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