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}}</ref> The Catholic authorities have turned a blind eye toward this practice of which it apparently approves, although it is a clear violation of the moral law as expressed in the ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' §2273.
* Catholics comprise 23 percent of the population in the [[United States]]. The Catholic Church is the largest single religious denomination. The Catholic Church operates hospitals, yet the Catholic Church has taken no action to introduce the moral law into practice, for the protection of boys. Catholic hospitals in the United States still allow [[circumcision]] in direct violation of ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' §2273. There apparently is no interest in the protection of Catholic infant boys on the part of the Catholic authorities.
* The Catholic Church in [[Canada]] operated Residential Schools for First Nations and Métis children. Paul Tinari, who was Métis, was forcibly circumcised at the age of eight by a Catholic priest and a Jewish [[mohel]] in Montreal, Quebec.<ref>{{REFweb
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* The Federal Republic of Germany has been the site of a controversy over the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. The [[Cologne circumcision court judgment]] was a ruling in 2012 that non-therapeutic circumcision of a boy violated the [[human rights]] of the boy guaranteed by Germany's Basic Law. Thereafter a heated [[Circumcision Debate]] commenced.