In its most eagerly anticipated section, the Vatican repeated its rejection of 'gender theory' or the idea that one's gender can be changed.
Pope Francis meets with volunteers of the Italian Red Cross in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Saturday, April 6, 2024. The Vatican on Monday declared sex change operations and surrogacy as grave threats to human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God's plan for human life.a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years.
The document's existence, rumored since 2019, was confirmed in recent weeks by the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, a close Pope Francis confidante.approving blessings for same-sex couplesAnd while rejecting gender theory, the document takes pointed aim at countries — including many in Africa — that criminalize homosexuality.
The child has the right to have a fully human origin and to receive the gift of a life that manifests both the dignity of the giver and that of the receiver," the document said. "Considering this, the legitimate desire to have a child cannot be transformed into a 'right to a child' that fails to respect the dignity of that child as the recipient of the gift of life.
The new document from the more authoritative Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith quotes from that 2019 education document, but tempers the tone. Significantly, it doesn't repurpose the 1986 language of a previous doctrinal document saying that homosexual people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect but that homosexual actions are "intrinsically disordered.
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