Catholic Replies
Editor’s Note: Commenting on the Bruce Jenner fiasco in his usually perceptive way, Fr. George Rutler of the Church of St. Michael in New York City said in a recent bulletin: “Anyone who can remain awake listening to the conversations of sedentary former athletes on ESPN is perhaps unable to think clearly on any subject of significance, but the declaration that a man is a woman must astonish alert minds, including the Olympic judges who awarded him [Jenner] a medal under the impression he was a man. . . . “In 1965, the Johns Hopkins Hospital pioneered sex-change surgery. Since ‘gender’ is a grammatical term with no proper application to biology, the term ‘transgenderism’ had not yet been coined. Such…Continue Reading