Health Update On The Pope: Pope Francis’ Condition Showing ‘Improvement’ As Hospital Doctors Order ‘Absolute Rest’

 From lifesitenews.com and written by Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican

Correspondent, comes this updated info on the health of the pope...

Pope Francis' condition showing 'improvement' as hospital doctors order 'absolute rest' - LifeSite

Fri Feb 14, 2025 - 6:16 am EST

By the way, as you can see, this was posted on the 14th, Friday, will we see even more updated info today, perhaps?

"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis’s condition is reportedly showing some “improvement,” after he was admitted to hospital in Rome Friday morning with a fever, for some “diagnostic tests,” and to receive treatment for ongoing “bronchitis” which has lasted for some time.

According to the latest communication issued to the Holy See press corps at 6pm Saturday evening (local time), the Pope spent Saturday resting and reading. The fever which he was admitted to hospital with has apparently subsided, and medical personnel stated that he was showing “improvement in some values.”

He received Holy Communion also, but as doctors have “prescribed absolute rest” to “facilitate his recovery,” the Pope will not lead his customary Sunday Angelus on February 16.

The Pope was admitted to hospital Friday morning.

Just before 11 a.m. local time Friday morning, the Holy See Press Office issued a statement reading: “This morning, after his audiences, Pope Francis will be admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for necessary diagnostic tests and to continue hospital treatment for his ongoing bronchitis.”

READ: Pope Francis cuts speech short for third time in one week as breathing issues continue

Francis’ breathing has been a notable issue for him in recent weeks, as he has complained of “bronchitis” and had to cut short a number of speeches and homilies as a result.

Since last Thursday – when already he had asked aides to read speeches – his private audiences have been held in his house of residence, the Casa Santa Martha, rather than the Apostolic Palace: this arrangement being so in order to avoid any unnecessary movement.

The Pope had received the prime minister of Slovakia in audience this morning, before the press office’s statement was issued to the Vatican press corps.

Less than two hours before the statement, new events had been added to the Pope’s public calendar for the morning of Saturday, February 15, namely his participation at a 9 a.m. general audience for a Jubilee Year pilgrimage. Such timing suggests that the Pope’s admission to hospital was a hastily arranged affair.

In a later update issued to the press around 1pm local time, the press office stated that the Pope’s participation at his planned events for February 15, 16, and 17 was cancelled due to his hospitalization. Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, will deputize for Francis at the Jubilee events.

As previously reported on these pages, the health of the 88-year-old Pontiff has been particularly frail in recent months. Already missing a large part of one lung as a result of illness in his early 20s, the Pontiff has always been particularly susceptible to winter colds affecting his breathing capability.

Prior to today’s admission, he underwent brief “diagnostic tests” in February 2024 but has not officially visited hospital for an operation since summer 2023.

However, in recent months he has had two publicly acknowledged falls. At the December 7 consistory to create cardinals, Francis appeared with a very visible bruise on his chin. The mark was explained by the press office as being due to a minor fall that the Pope had on the previous morning, when he hit his chin on his bedside table.

Then, in mid-January, the Pope had another fall which this time led to his using a sling on his right arm for a few days.

The Pope’s mobility has also been noticeably much more limited in recent weeks. While he has had to use a wheelchair and a cane for some years, his inability to walk freely without assistance has been especially highlighted this winter.

His features have displayed signs of significant bloating also, an aspect carefully hidden by the camera-operators during his live-streamed events.

Speaking to La Croix, sources close to the Pope said that Francis was “not in good shape,” an observation which appears readily ascertainable for those with an observational eye.

In 2023 Francis underwent two significant hospitalizations, the first of which was described as “scheduled” but which Francis later described as being an emergency, having arrived at the hospital “unconscious.”

In June 2023 he underwent surgery for an “incarcerated incisional hernia,” which the Holy See Press Office described as a necessary procedure, but not an emergency.

Prior to that in summer of 2021, the Pope also had a 10-day stay in hospital, after he had to undergo a six-hour surgery at the Gemelli to have part of his colon removed due to diverticulitis.

Information surrounding the Pope’s health is always shrouded in secrecy and privately held concerns downplayed to the public. It remains to be seen what information about Francis’ condition will be forthcoming in the subsequent hours from the Vatican."

End of article...

Again, no matter what one thinks of the Bishop of Rome, Bergoglio, we must fulfill the corporal work of mercy by praying for the sick!

Pray too, for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emiil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

Have You Heard? Pope Francis Hospitalized With Bronchitis, Fever As Health Concerns Grow

 "Pope Francis has been noticeably frail in recent weeks, suffering both with increased breathing and mobility issues."

From lifesitenews.com and written by Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

Pope Francis hospitalized with bronchitis, fever as health concerns grow - LifeSite

Fri Feb 14, 2025 - 6:16 am EST

"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis was admitted to hospital in Rome this morning for “diagnostic tests” and to receive treatment for ongoing “bronchitis” which has lasted for some time.

Just before 11 a.m. local time today, the Holy See Press Office issued a statement reading: “This morning, after his audiences, Pope Francis will be admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for necessary diagnostic tests and to continue hospital treatment for his ongoing bronchitis.”

By the evening local time, the Vatican Press Office issued another update, saying that Francis has begun “pharmacological therapy” and currently has a respiratory tract infection and mild fever.

READ: Pope Francis cuts speech short for third time in one week as breathing issues continue

Francis’ breathing has been a notable issue for him in recent weeks, as he has complained of “bronchitis” and had to cut short a number of speeches and homilies as a result.

Since last Thursday – when already he had asked aides to read speeches – his private audiences have been held in his house of residence, the Casa Santa Martha, rather than the Apostolic Palace: this arrangement being so in order to avoid any unnecessary movement.

The Pope had received the prime minister of Slovakia in audience this morning, before the press office’s statement was issued to the Vatican press corps.

Less than two hours before the statement, new events had been added to the Pope’s public calendar for the morning of Saturday, February 15, namely his participation at a 9 a.m. general audience for a Jubilee Year pilgrimage. Such timing suggests that the Pope’s admission to hospital was a hastily arranged affair.

In a later update issued to the press around 1pm local time, the press office stated that the Pope’s participation at his planned events for February 15, 16, and 17 was cancelled due to his hospitalization. Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, will deputize for Francis at the Jubilee events.

As previously reported on these pages, the health of the 88-year-old Pontiff has been particularly frail in recent months. Already missing a large part of one lung as a result of illness in his early 20s, the Pontiff has always been particularly susceptible to winter colds affecting his breathing capability.

Prior to today’s admission, he underwent brief “diagnostic tests” in February 2024 but has not officially visited hospital for an operation since summer 2023.

However, in recent months he has had two publicly acknowledged falls. At the December 7 consistory to create cardinals, Francis appeared with a very visible bruise on his chin. The mark was explained by the press office as being due to a minor fall that the Pope had on the previous morning, when he hit his chin on his bedside table.

Then, in mid-January, the Pope had another fall which this time led to his using a sling on his right arm for a few days.

The Pope’s mobility has also been noticeably much more limited in recent weeks. While he has had to use a wheelchair and a cane for some years, his inability to walk freely without assistance has been especially highlighted this winter.

His features have displayed signs of significant bloating also, an aspect carefully hidden by the camera-operators during his live-streamed events.

Speaking to La Croix, sources close to the Pope said that Francis was “not in good shape,” an observation which appears readily ascertainable for those with an observational eye.

In 2023 Francis underwent two significant hospitalizations, the first of which was described as “scheduled” but which Francis later described as being an emergency, having arrived at the hospital “unconscious.”

In June 2023 he underwent surgery for an “incarcerated incisional hernia,” which the Holy See Press Office described as a necessary procedure, but not an emergency.

Prior to that in summer of 2021, the Pope also had a 10-day stay in hospital, after he had to undergo a six-hour surgery at the Gemelli to have part of his colon removed due to diverticulitis.

Information surrounding the Pope’s health is always shrouded in secrecy and privately held concerns downplayed to the public. It remains to be seen what information about Francis’ condition will be forthcoming in the subsequent hours from the Vatican."

End of article...

We have to pray for the restoration of Francis' health, this, no matter what you may think of him, even if he has attempted to create a new, novus ordo, synodal church that does not resemble the true Catholic Church, we have a duty to pray for him as he approaches his Particular Judgment, end of story!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

Uncomfortable Martyrdoms: "...There’s Another Element To Martyrdom Stories...The Character Of The Cultures Doing The Actual Martyring."

Warning, warning, warning... The description of the martyrdoms of the Saints mentioned in the following article is quite graphic!

The following article from crisismagazine.com and written by Casey Chalk, gives another perspective and helps to fill in the blanks, so to speak, on the horrendous martyrdoms suffered by the good and holy Catholic priests who died bringing the faith of Christ, Our Lord to the American Indians (Native Americans as they are called), both here in the U.S., Canada and South America, namely, Mexico.

My wife and I have visited the sight of the North American Martyrs in upstate New York on several occasions going back to around the year 2000.  It is quite humbling to walk where those Saints walked and worked just before they suffered martyrdom, baptizing as many of the "good" Indians as possible before they themselves were killed in the most brutal of ways. 

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Uncomfortable Martyrdoms - Crisis Magazine

"On January 27, Pope Francis officially recognized the martyrdom of five Spanish Franciscan missionaries killed in September 1597 in what is now the state of Georgia. Francis labeled the martyrdom of the Venerable Servants of God Pedro de Corpa, Blas Rodríguez de Cuacos, Miguel de Añón, Antonio de Badajoz, and Francisco de Veráscola—also known as the “Georgia Martyrs”—to be in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith). The friars were murdered by an indigenous tribe because of an argument over marriage—many of the men took multiple wives. A sixth friar, Francisco de Ávila, was kidnapped and tortured before being liberated months later.

When we consider such martyr stories, we usually focus our attention on the martyrs themselves: their faith, their courage, their stories which led them to the moment when they died for the Faith. But there’s another element to martyrdom stories that has historical, political, and spiritual importance: the character of the cultures doing the actual martyring. And that’s especially the case when the default stance of our dominant cultural institutions—media, the academy, and entertainment industry—is nothing but sympathy for indigenous peoples.

The fact that the Super Bowl featured a team called “The Chiefs” provoked the customary indignation from pundits who claim such mascots are racist toward indigenous peoples. “The team’s imagery is filled with racist tropes,” declared ESPN panelist and Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone, who accused the team of “cultural theft wrapped in misappropriated imagery and accompanying cartoonish imitations of their customs.” Changing team names such as the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, land acknowledgements, and investigative journalism into American Indian children who died in boarding schools—these are all examples of attempts to “atone” for historic sins against indigenous peoples.

Certainly, as Catholics we should demonstrate charity and empathy for those who suffer, and the story of Native American relations with settlers and the U.S. government is categorically one of suffering, epitomized in such incidents as the Trail of Tears, the Sand Creek massacre, or Wounded Knee. Even American Indians who did their best to comply with the demands of the government and military often encountered mistreatment, betrayal, and violence. And American Indians today endure great hardship, with comparatively higher incidence rates of addiction, sexual violence, and poverty than other groups in the United States.

But the dominant narrative of victimized American Indians and victimizer white settlers has a tendency to obscure what the many civilizations and tribes of our continent’s indigenous populations were truly like. This is where martyr stories can be so important.

Consider the stories of the Canadian Martyrs (though many of them were actually killed in what is now upstate New York). The French Jesuits Isaac Jogues and René Goupil, for example, were ambushed by Iroquois warriors in 1642. For months, the Iroquois subjected Jogues and Goupil to terrible tortures, including tearing off their hair, beards, and nails, and biting through their forefingers. The Iroquois eventually tomahawked Goupil to death. Jogues escaped in 1643; but three years later, in 1646, he was tomahawked by a Mohawk warrior, his severed head implanted on a pole, and his dismembered body thrown into the Mohawk River.

Three years after that, French Jesuit missionaries Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant were captured by Iroquois warriors who tortured them, subjecting them to boiling water, then burning them at the stake. The Iroquois then cannibalized de Brébeuf’s body, drinking his blood and eating his heart. That same year, another French Jesuit, Noël Chabanel, was murdered by a “renegade” Huron.

Farther south, in what is now Virginia, the Powhatan—a tribe celebrated in contemporary accounts of Pocahontas—in 1571 betrayed and murdered Jesuit missionaries Juan Baptista de Segura, Gabriel Gómez, Pedro de Linares, Cristóbal Redondo, and Sancho de Zaballos. The Powhatan then tried to deceive a Spanish relief expedition later that spring by dressing in the dead Jesuits’ cassocks. (The Spanish soldiers recognized the deception, and avoided a similar fate.) 

Out west, approximately 2,000 Comanches and allied North Texas Indians in 1758 attacked Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá, on the San Saba River in what is now Texas. Among those killed were two priests, Fray Alonso Giraldo de Terreros and Fray José de Santiesteban Aberín, who were seeking to evangelize the Apache. (As S.C. Gwynne describes in his best-selling book Empire of the Summer Moon, the Comanche’s brutality was especially legendary, mutilating the dead bodies of male settlers and gang-raping settler women.) A few decades after the attack on the Spanish mission in Texas, four Franciscan missionaries—Fathers Francisco Garcés, Juan Antonio de Barreneche, José Matías Moreno, and Juan Díaz—were murdered in 1781 during a Quechan uprising in what is now Arizona. 

These are not stories that are well-known, even among Catholics. But they offer a gruesome window into the practices of many Native American cultures. Polygamy, torture, rape, murder, and cannibalism were all practices settlers could expect to encounter among various indigenous civilizations. Yes, it’s true, not all tribes engaged in such horrors, but many did. (For another example of cannibalism, look up the Karankawa, a tribe in present-day Texas.) And, it should be said, indigenous peoples were fighting, conquering, and enslaving each other for millennia before European settlers arrived.

This is one reason why the memorialization of martyrs killed by indigenous peoples is so important. Yes, we revere the faith and courage of the priests and religious who heroically sought to share the love of Christ and His Gospel with American Indians. But we also remember the terrible evils that these civilizations unleashed on their enemies. And those evils demonstrate that any narrative that presents Native Americans as solely innocent victims who suffered nothing but betrayal and abuse from American settlers is highly misleading and even false. Yes, settlers and soldiers often did indefensibly cruel things to indigenous peoples. But those indigenous peoples were capable of horrific cruelties as well. We revere the faith and courage of the priests and religious who heroically sought to share the love of Christ and His Gospel with American Indians. But we also remember the terrible evils that these civilizations unleashed on their enemies.

The many martyrdoms that defined the evangelization of indigenous peoples in the Americas remind us of the pervasiveness and perversity of sin in our fallen human condition—and that it is only Christ who can help us both perceive that sin for what it is and defeat it with heroic virtue enabled by God’s grace. What is needed to address the continued suffering of indigenous peoples in the United States today is not performative land acknowledgments, name changes for professional sports teams, or patronizing portrayals in the media and movies. What is needed is the kind of saintly love and sacrifice manifested in such martyrs as our Church still (praise God) honors."

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  Casey Chalk

  Casey Chalk is the author of The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity (Emmaus Road Publishing), and The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands (Sophia Institute Press). He has an M.A. in Theology from Christendom College and a Masters in Teaching from the University of Virginia.

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Pray for strength and honor and for the conversion of all those outside the Church of Christ!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vicent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

Brazilian Homosexual Activist Leonardo Ulrich "Cardinal" Steiner: "Any Resistance To The Path Of Synodality...[Is] The Refusal To Dialogue"

 "Any resistance to the path of synodality has nothing to do with the right to disagree, but with the refusal to dialogue" [which is an old Marxist argument].

So said homosexual activist Leonardo Ulrich Cardinal Steiner, 74, Archbishop of Manaus in Brazil, during a recent online meeting (ReligionDigital.org, February 7).

For him, the most important thing to come out of the Synod is that "the process has been set in motion", he said.

His talk was empty full of contradictory rhetorics like "being a Church of communion" or being "a Church for everyone: saints and sinners, saints-sinners".

Brazilian Cardinal: "Resistance to Synod Has No Right – It Is Refusal" – Gloria.tv

End of snippet.

Remember, we are dealing with a new, novus ordo, synodal "church" -- their words...

Whatever this "church" is, it is not Catholic.

But, if you or I refuse to go along to get along, then we are the schismatics, the "rigid" folk who cling to Apostolic tradition, the Traditional Latin Mass and the real Magisterium of the Saints and Martyrs...

Not such a bad bunch, right?

Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic faith!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

More Heterodox Lunacy From The Vatican! "Bishop" Edward Weisenburger ..."Catholics ‘Involved’ In Trump’s Border Policies... Could Be "Ex-Communicated!!!!!!!!!!

 In another bizarre appointment by Bergoglio, of "Bishop" Edward Weisenburger, to become "archbishop" of Detroit, Michigan (one of those damned states I have mentioned previously!) was placed there specifically to be another thorn in the side of President Trump and the MAGA movement...

But this bad actor is, in fact, very bad! 

How so?

The following article from lifesitenews.com and written by David McLoone should provide a clue...

Pope Francis appoints outspoken critic of Trump immigration policy as archbishop of Detroit - LifeSite

Tue Feb 11, 2025 - 10:32 am EST

"DETROIT (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Detroit’s long-serving Archbishop Allen Vigneron and nominated Arizona Bishop Edward Weisenburger as his replacement.

A Tuesday morning announcement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) confirmed that, after 16 years at the helm, 76-year-old Archbishop Vigneron’s resignation had been accepted by Francis, who promoted Weisenburger from his previous see in Tucson, Arizona, to become the sixth Archbishop of Detroit – a position which includes the role of “Superior of the Mission sui juris of the Cayman Islands,” according to the release.

Weisenburger has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, taking aim at his immigration policies during the first Trump administration. In 2018, at the USCCB’s Spring Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the prelate suggested that Catholics who “are involved” in the detention of immigrants and separation of families at the U.S. border might receive “canonical penalties” usually used in “life issues” cases, which could include excommunication.

(My emphasis.)

“For the salvation of these people’s souls, maybe it’s time for us to look at canonical penalties,” Weisenburger claimed at the time.

(Comment: Another in-y0ur-face hypocrite!

See here: "...Weisenburger signed a letter alongside eight other U.S. prelates aligning themselves with LGBT activist group Tyler Clementi Foundation which seeks to “reduce the shame and stigma” of homosexual lifestyles."

So, is Weisenburger "just" sympathetic to these poor souls, or is he one of "them"??  And is he really concerned about the salvation of the souls of those confused LGBT folks, or is it all talk and no action, you decide?)

Following Trump’s re-election to office in 2024, Weisenburger joined his voice in “grave concern” with a group of Christian leaders in Arizona over an apparent “threat of mistreatment of undocumented persons who are our neighbors and contribute to our communities.”

Anticipating deportations of illegal immigrants from the U.S., the group commented, “grounded by the demands of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and love of our neighbors – our deeply held religious beliefs – we urge our elected officials and community leaders to stand with us to protect family unity and human dignity by refusing to participate in any deportation efforts that violate these most basic human rights.”

The 64-year-old Weisenburger, a canon lawyer, was among the most stringent in America in applying restrictions on the faithful during the COVID crisis, closing churches and implementing mask mandates in the spring of 2020 while encouraging Catholics to take the abortion-tainted COVID-19 jabs. Weisenburger released a statement in September 2021 instructing all priests within his Arizona diocese “not to cooperate with any individuals seeking our endorsement of an exemption from vaccine or facemask mandates based specifically upon our Catholic faith.” He added that “[a]ll current anti-COVID-19 vaccines may be received by the faithful without moral compromise.”

Upon reopening churches to public Masses in October 2020, the bishop stressed that the dispensation from attendance “remains in place and I have consistently encouraged those identified by the Centers for Disease Control as ‘at-risk’ to not attend Mass in person, but rather to view a televised or internet Mass from home.” He also issued a directive to priests not to distribute Holy Communion in the mouth and to only hear the Sacrament of Confession outdoors.

Later, in 2021, Weisenburger signed a letter alongside eight other U.S. prelates aligning themselves with LGBT activist group Tyler Clementi Foundation, which seeks to “reduce the shame and stigma” of homosexual lifestyles.

In line with Pope Francis, the archbishop-elect has also made “climate change” a central issue, calling it a matter of “life and death” and thanking the Pope for focusing on the topic in his encyclical Laudato Si’ and subsequent apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum.

Weisenburger will be installed as archbishop of Detroit, Michigan, in a Mass at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit on March 18."

End of article...

Where do we get such people??

Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

The Culture Of Death Is "Alive " And "Well," Right In My Own Backyard! Pro-Family Lawyers Challenge Kansas City Ban On Counseling Minors Against ‘Gender Transitions’

 The hard left, Marxist tyrants who run the City of Kansas City, Missouri, are anti-Natural Law lunatics who have shut down the ability of counselors to truthfully explain the realities of one's biological sex to confused, or should I say, brainwashed young boys and girls!

The fact is these maniacs are working for Satan, period, end of story!

It seems that the same can be said for those Jackson County "executives," who run that bastion of destructive "woke" nonsense, by prohibiting a common-sense approach to confused children by explaining the plan that God has for their lives as males and females.

(I (we) live in Jackson County, Missouri!)

However, there are courageous and righteous folks fighting to reverse this nonsensical stupidity to insure the First Amendment rights of those good counselors to help the most vulnerable of our youngsters.

Here is an article from lifesitenews.com and written by Alliance 

Defending Freedom

Tue Feb 11, 2025 - 11:46 am EST

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Alliance Defending Freedom) — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against Kansas City, Missouri, and Jackson County on behalf of licensed counselors Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenreich after the city and county passed ordinances that violate their freedom of speech and push children to reject biological reality.

Specifically, these ordinances prohibit counselor-client conversations that explore the truth about a child’s sex but allow conversations that push children to live inconsistent with their sex and disfigure their bodies with “transition” procedures. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has joined the suit as a co-plaintiff to protect the freedoms of Missourians impacted by these ordinances.

In 2019, Kansas City passed an ordinance that prohibits counselors from having private, voluntary, and honest conversations with their clients on “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” that the city disfavors; Jackson County passed a similar ordinance in 2023. These ordinances interfere with counselors’ conversations with their clients and force them to adopt the government’s view of these topics in violation of their religious beliefs. The ordinances stop families from receiving counseling rooted in biological truth – even when children and families want this counseling.

“Our children have a right to therapy that allows for honest, unrestricted conversations, free from transgender indoctrination,” said Bailey. “These ordinances represent a dangerous overreach, forcing children and counselors to conform to a radical transgender agenda. I will not stand by while Jackson County violates Missourians’ constitutional rights to free speech and religious liberty.”

“The government has no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors, nor should counselors be used as a tool to push children toward dangerous, life-altering drugs and surgeries,” said ADF Senior Counsel Bryan Neihar, adding:

Kansas City and Jackson County’s ordinances violate Wyatt and Pamela’s freedom to speak, and the ordinances harm both them and their clients who come to them seeking help. The First Amendment protects every American’s freedom to speak and listen; these are some of the most fundamental elements that go into counseling. We are urging the court to respect the speech of these counselors and the goals of their clients. Now more than ever, families and children need counselors free to speak truth about the harms of gender ideology. Children deserve love and truth, not a government that censors their ability to pursue healthy, flourishing lives.

READ: One woman is on a mission to bring the world’s largest pornography site to its knees

The city and county ordinances prohibit any conversation between a counselor and a minor client in pursuit of a goal to assist a child to embrace his or her sex or reduce unwanted sexual attractions, even when those goals are set by the client. ADF attorneys explain in the complaint that, because of the ordinances, the counselors are often self-censoring their speech with clients and turning away potential clients to avoid penalties of up to $1,000 for each offense.

As the complaint also explains, the challenged ordinances prohibit counsel in only one direction: for example, counselors are free to steer a young person toward identifying as the opposite sex but prohibit conversations that aim to help a young person embrace his or her sex. ADF attorneys are representing Colorado counselor Kaley Chiles in a similar lawsuit.

ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit, Wyatt Bury v. City of Kansas City, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Mike Whitehead and Jonathan Whitehead, two of more than 4,800 attorneys in the ADF Attorney Network, are serving as local counsel on behalf of the counselors."

Republished with permission from the Alliance Defending Freedom.

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Pray for a successful litigation and victory for the good guys!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla