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The U.S. bishops have provisionally affirmed opposition to transgender rights and the continuation of their religious liberty campaign as key parts of their strategic priorities for 2021-2024.
It is being reported that a second document on gender is being prepared by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine (CDF) of the Faith, even as the cardinal behind the first document released last week acknowledged flaws in it.
Today’s post from guest blogger Dr. Jennifer Haselberger recalls a 1975 decision from the Vatican’s highest court that shows another way beyond condemnation is possible for the Church on gender identity issues.
The new Vatican document, Dignitas Infinita, fails terribly by offering transgender and nonbinary people not infinite, but limited human dignity. While it lays out a wonderful rationale for why each human being, regardless of condition in life, must be respected, honored, and loved, it does not apply this principle to gender-diverse people.
In the National Catholic Reporter, Rebecca Bratten Weiss explores the way that claims of “gender ideology” by Pope Francis and other church leaders fail to reflect gender realities in nature in favor of the church’s doctrinal claims.
“It is problematic – if not contradictory – to stand up for the dignity of a gay person of either sex while deploring what it is about them that defines them as gay, namely their desire for intimate personal relationships with others of the same sex.”
A recent piece in the National Catholic Reporter suggests that both Catholic and Protestant colleges are often serving as this liminal space where queer students experience acceptance, as well as the contradiction of anti-LGBTQ+ theological underpinnings.
In a new article, queer alumni of Catholic schools throughout the Sacramento, California area recently described varying experiences about how administrators and teachers handled sexual education. The article profiled three high schools, each of which approached sex ed and LGBTQ+ inclusion in a different way.
How are the creation stories in the Book of Genesis queer? To celebrate Pride Month, a theologian offers a biblical interpretation that challenges the dominant readings of God’s creation.