On Monday, the text, Male And Female He Created Them, was released to help Catholic teachers, parents, students and clergy address what the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education called an “educational crisis” in the field of sex education.

Pope Francis has repeatedly argued the position that people cannot choose their genders.

In a statement in response a spokesperson for CBCEW said it was a welcome contribution to developing Catholic thought on gender, but reiterated the Church wanted to support those who are transgender.

“We recognise that there are people who do not accept their biological sex,” it said. “We are concerned about and committed to their pastoral care.

“Through listening to them we seek to understand their experience more deeply and want to accompany them with compassion, emphasising that they are loved by God and valued in their inherent God-given dignity.

“There is a place of welcome for everyone in the Catholic Church.”

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The owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, was last year given the right to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple on the basis of his religious beliefs.

Following the ruling he was asked to make a cake celebrating a gender transition which he again refused. He was once again cleared when legal action was pursued.

Now, once more he’s being sued – this time over the same ‘trans cake’ with the customer claiming it’s a birthday cake and therefore he has no right to refuse.

Throughout his ordeal he’s been supported by religious freedom charity Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

Addressing the most recent action, ADF senior counsel Jim Campbell said: “A new lawsuit has been filed against Masterpiece Cakeshop that appears to largely rehash old claims.

“The State of Colorado abandoned similar ones just a few months ago.

“So this latest attack looks like yet another desperate attempt to harass cake artist Jack Phillips.

“And it stumbles over the one detail that matters most: Jack serves everyone; he just cannot express all messages through his custom cakes.”

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​Gwendolen Patricia Crow, 58, was involved in a road accident on 10^th January 2000.

She died shortly after in hospital and was buried ten days later in consecrated ground at a Surrey church yard without her family’s knowledge.

A judge of the Church of England’s Consistory Court has now granted rare permission for the committed atheist’s remains to be exhumed and cremated.

Morag Ellis QC, deputy  hancellor of the Diocese of Southwark has agreed with the family’s wish for the woman’s remains to be scattered elsewhere.

The judge explained that when Mrs Crow was killed her family was “traumatised” so a family friend, Simon Ebsory, who was a practicing Christian, arranged the funeral for them “with the very best of intentions”.

She was buried in St Nicholas Church churchyard at Charlwood near Crawley, Surrey.

Mrs Crow’s daughters and widower, William Crow all made a plea for her to be exhumed as, “we do not regard this as a suitable place to honour the memory of this woman”.

According to The Telegraph, when Mrs Crow died, she was on her way to help out at her daughter Justine’s bookshop. Justine, who was pregnant at the time, gave birth the day after the accident.

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Michael Newdow, an activist who filed the case on behalf of a group of atheists, said that inscribing the nation’s motto on money was a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which prohibits Congress from establishing a national religion.

He argued that the federal government has turned atheists into “political outsiders on the basis of their fundamental religious tenant”.

The phrase “In God We Trust” first appeared on US coins in 1864, and Congress passed legislation in 1955 requiring all currency to bear the words.

This isn’t the first time Newdow has challenged what he deems as the government’s endorsement of religion.

In 2004, his case brought to the Supreme Court that the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance violated the First Amendment, was dismissed.

He also attempted but failed to block Chief Justice John Roberts from saying the phrase “So help me God” while administering the presidential oath of office to President Barack Obama during his inauguration in 2009.

Newdow repeated this attempt unsuccessfully for the 2013 and 2017 inaugurations.

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The group of three females and one male were ringed on Monday morning by Ed Drewitt of the British Trust for Ornithology, who also weighed and measured the birds.

Mr Drewitt was assisted by Phil Sheldrake, RSPB Conservation Officer, while the birds of prey weighed in at between 25oz and 32oz (700-900 grams).

All four birds will be identifiable as South West region peregrines as a result of their blue rings, and are expected to fledge at the end of June.

They will then spend a month or more around the cathedrallearning how to be independent before going their own way.

Those hoping to learn more about the cathedral’s latest additions will be able to do so thanks to the newly launched Peregrine Tower Tours, while from June 26 to July 24 RSPB volunteers and specialists will be on hand to help people watch the birds in action.

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A police spokesman in the southwestern city of Wroclaw, said the attacker approached Fr Ireneusz Bakalarczyk on Monday morning in front of the city’s Holiest Mary church.

Polish news site TVP.info reported that the man spoke to the priest, who was on his way inside the church, before suddenly stabbing him in the chest.

  The attacker has been detained. A spokeswoman for Wroclaw Univesrity Hospital said the priest has undergone surgery for chest wounds and is in stable condition. A motive remains unclear.​

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