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Vatican’s Doctrine Chief on Criminalization Laws: “When I Read Them I Wanted to Die”

April 12, 2024/2 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Same-Gender Blessings, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

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. Read More

“A Painful Lack of Understanding”: Theologians Respond to Vatican’s Latest Declaration

April 11, 2024/10 Comments/in Anti-LGBTQ Criminalization, Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Synod on Synodality, Theology & Church Teaching /by Brian Flanagan

"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. Read More

What Transgender Catholics and Their Allies Are Saying About “Dignitas Infinita”

April 10, 2024/6 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

How are transgender and nonbinary Catholics, their families, pastoral ministers, and allies responding to "Dignitas Infinita," the Vatican document on human dignity released Monday that condemns "gender theory" and "sex change"? Read More

New Vatican Document Condemns Gender Transitions and Undefined “Gender Theory”

April 9, 2024/3 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

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. Read More

The Strawman of “Gender Theory” in the Vatican’s New Document

April 8, 2024/19 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Theology & Church Teaching /by Guest Contributor

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. Read More

New Ways Ministry: Vatican Document on Human Dignity Fails LGBTQ+ People

April 8, 2024/12 Comments/in Dignitas Infinita, Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, New Ways Ministry, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Theology & Church Teaching /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

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. Read More

Judith Butler’s “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” An Insightful Read for LGBTQ+ Catholics

April 5, 2024/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Guest Contributor

In "Who’s Afraid of Gender?," Butler offers their response to such critics in one of their most public and widely readable works, providing an insightful conversation partner for queer-affirming Catholics today. Read More

Three Years Later, Theologians Reflect on Vatican’s Trans-Negative Schools Document

December 27, 2022/6 Comments/in Gender Identity, Gender Policies, Healthcare, Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching /by Ariell Watson Simon

America recently published a conversation between two theologians who were looking back, three years later, at the Vatican's then-Congregation for Catholic Education’s (CCE) 2019 instruction “‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.” Read More

Two Months Later, Conversation Still Continues Over Vatican’s Latest Document on Gender

August 10, 2019/0 Comments/in Gender Identity, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

It has been two months since the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education published the transgender- and intersex-negative document, Male and Female He Created Them. LGBTQ advocates and many theologians were quick to denounce the text, and a number of responses have been subsequently published. Today's post excerpts several commentaries with links provided for further reading. Read More

Anti-Transgender Leaflets Accidentally Given to Catholic Students; Other Education Updates

July 19, 2019/0 Comments/in Higher Education, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Two English dioceses are apologizing after an anti-LGBTQ leaflet was distributed to students in Catholic schools. Today's post features this story and two other news items from the realm of Catholic education. Read More

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