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They are dedicates, and have been taking care of the dying for some 125 years.
Their founder was the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Their founder was the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
New York State has decided that the women who have spent 125 years washing, feeding, and sitting with the dying poor need to be taught a lesson in gender ideology — or face jail time. That is not a rhetorical flourish. It is the actual situation facing the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, an order of Catholic nuns who run Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, New York, a 42-bed facility where terminal cancer patients who cannot afford care go to spend their last days in dignity, free of charge.
The state of New York would now like to require these sisters to assign patient rooms by gender identity rather than biological sex, grant access to opposite-sex bathrooms, use preferred pronouns, undergo state-mandated training in gender ideology, and post notices of compliance with the progressive vision of human nature — or risk fines, loss of their license, and up to one year in prison.
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The order was founded in 1900 by Mother Mary Alphonsa Lathrop — the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne — who resolved to give her life to what she called the “cancerous poor.” She wrote that she had set her “whole being to endeavor to bring consolation to the cancerous poor,” and the congregation she built has honored that charge for more than a century, asking nothing from those they serve. No insurance. No government reimbursement. No payment of any kind from patients or families. Just consecrated women caring for the dying as if, in the words of their mission, they were caring for Christ himself.
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The sisters’ attorney, L. Martin Nussbaum, put it plainly: “This law imposed on the Dominican Hawthorne Sisters is a form of gender ideology virtue signaling, to require these sisters to be trained in an ideology entirely contrary to Catholic belief. Why are we doing this? We don’t even have such patients. It’s the state requiring these holy nuns to bend the knee to an ideology contrary to their faith.”
That framing deserves to be taken seriously. The state is not responding to a documented harm. It is not protecting patients who have been mistreated at Rosary Hill. It is compelling ideological conformity from a religious institution that has, by every measurable standard, served the public with extraordinary care and compassion. When government power is used not to correct a wrong but to enforce a worldview, the word for that is coercion.
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The state of New York would now like to require these sisters to assign patient rooms by gender identity rather than biological sex, grant access to opposite-sex bathrooms, use preferred pronouns, undergo state-mandated training in gender ideology, and post notices of compliance with the progressive vision of human nature — or risk fines, loss of their license, and up to one year in prison.
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The order was founded in 1900 by Mother Mary Alphonsa Lathrop — the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne — who resolved to give her life to what she called the “cancerous poor.” She wrote that she had set her “whole being to endeavor to bring consolation to the cancerous poor,” and the congregation she built has honored that charge for more than a century, asking nothing from those they serve. No insurance. No government reimbursement. No payment of any kind from patients or families. Just consecrated women caring for the dying as if, in the words of their mission, they were caring for Christ himself.
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The sisters’ attorney, L. Martin Nussbaum, put it plainly: “This law imposed on the Dominican Hawthorne Sisters is a form of gender ideology virtue signaling, to require these sisters to be trained in an ideology entirely contrary to Catholic belief. Why are we doing this? We don’t even have such patients. It’s the state requiring these holy nuns to bend the knee to an ideology contrary to their faith.”
That framing deserves to be taken seriously. The state is not responding to a documented harm. It is not protecting patients who have been mistreated at Rosary Hill. It is compelling ideological conformity from a religious institution that has, by every measurable standard, served the public with extraordinary care and compassion. When government power is used not to correct a wrong but to enforce a worldview, the word for that is coercion.
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NY Wants to Jail Nursing Home Nuns for Not Embracing Gender Delusion, and That’s Not the Worst Part
New York State has decided that the women who have spent 125 years washing, feeding, and sitting with the dying
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