EDITORIAL: It turns out that fending off the gender-ideology police is the least of the sisters’ troubles with the state of New York.
It’s a safe bet that the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have garnered more news coverage in the past 125 days than they did in the preceding 125 years. That’s about how long they’ve quietly done the Lord’s work in upstate New York, compassionately caring for people with terminal illnesses at the order’s Rosary Hill home.
If the sisters sound familiar, it’s because it was only a few weeks ago when we last editorialized about them. At the time, they were pushing back against the state of New York’s instructions to use their patients’ “preferred pronouns” and not restrict rooms and bathrooms based on biological sex. The sisters were also reminded they must attend biennial “cultural competency” training sessions to go over these woke dictats.
It turns out that fending off the state’s gender-ideology police is the least of the sisters’ troubles. The state is now forcing them and other Catholic healthcare providers to be complicit in New York’s new physician-assisted suicide program, even though it flatly contradicts the tenets of their faith.
Once again, the sisters
