With what many Catholics took as a refreshing forthrightness, the Vatican released a document on Monday that took aim at gender theory and sex-change interventions, among other things, as “grave violations” of human dignity. Hang out around the Church long enough and you’ll quickly see that there’s nothing unusual about human dignity talk, but what was welcomed as novel was a text that specifically called out as abuses practices that are often claimed as rights in western societies.
Pope Francis has long been vocal about these things, just last month calling gender ideology “the ugliest danger of our time,” and previously blasting surrogacy as “deplorable”. “A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract,” he said on that occasion. To explicitly link these things though to the erosion of human dignity in a new document was a move many welcomed, as it has been perceived for a while now that that core pillar of western civilisation has been silently under attack by these modern means.
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