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A Catholic sister who has worked with transgender people for two decades shared her thoughts on the Vatican’s gender document released last month, one of many reactions about the controversial text still being published.
I wrote a note to Pope Francis to tell him about my sadness and my disappointment with the use of the concept, “gender ideology.”
Responding to pro-LGBTQ+ critics of the Vatican’s latest declaration, a top U.S. prelate has said the church “listens with the heart of the parent to a child, but it doesn’t believe that the child gets everything they ask for.”
Criticism and commentary about Dignitas Infinita, the Vatican’s transgender-negative declaration on human dignity, has continued steadily in the week since the document’s release. Today’s post features insights from Paul Elie, a senior fellow at Georgetown University, who published his criticisms in The New Yorker.
Today’s post features more reactions to Dignitas Infinita, the Vatican declaration on human dignity released last Monday that sharply condemned “Gender Theory” and “Sex Change.”
At a press conference to release the Vatican’s new declaration on human dignity, which made headlines for condemning gender theory, the top doctrinal official also made positive comments about homosexuality. Yet, he doubled down on the declaration’s anti-transgender aspects, too.
“Fundamentally unserious,” “not just insulting, devastating,” and “a painful lack of understanding.” These are some Catholic theologians’ appraisals of Dignitas Infinita, the Vatican document on human dignity released Monday that condemns “gender theory” and “sex change,” appraisals featured in today’s post.
The Vatican doctrinal office issued its latest intervention about LGBTQ+ issues yesterday, part of a larger document on human dignity in contemporary society that posited a highly transgender-negative approach.
This is, on its face, a very good thing, but this declaration fails to live up to its claim to affirm and support the ”infinite dignity” of all people. Specifically, the document misunderstands and misrepresents both the scholarly and scientific work in the areas of sexuality and gender.
More than two months after Fiducia Supplicans was released, the debate over blessings persists—in some cases, pastoral workers are taking it to heart and offering blessings. In other cases, bishops are continuing their resistance. Today’s post includes those news stories and other commentaries on the topic.