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Amid Trans Ideology Dispute, Portland Archdiocese Temporarily Closes Department of Schools

CheapbooksIn January, Archbishop Sample published guidelines on how Catholics should handle gender ideology, which included recommendations on how schools should handle transgenderism and preferred pronouns that are inconsistent with a person’s biological sex.

The department oversees more than 40 archdiocesan elementary schools and high schools, which educate more than 15,000 students and employ about 1,300 teachers, according to the archdiocese’s website.