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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Male and Female He created them. Gender ideology is the exact opposite of this. If, as I believe, the first statement is a reflection of God’s plan for mankind whose plan then is gender ideology? If it does not come from God it comes from Satan. These are the only two possibilities. May God confound and utterly destroy all of Satans plans.
Its a well known fact that governments are the biggest murders and this ideology is a mental cancer being pushed by western governments for a sterilization agenda with known studies proving trans people regret it in later life and lead to higher suicide rates. From a christian perspective, there are numerous chapters that can be referenced where this lunacy is inherently wrong and even if you are an athiest, it still feels wrong on every level. Will smiths daughter is a great example for this, she was john for a while until she grew out of it.
The document is certainly welcome – but what are we to make of it? Its condemnation of Gender Ideology has to be set against those confusing and sometimes scandalous actions of Pope Francis that appear to support transgenderism. Notably his public rehabilitation of the infamous New Ways Ministry, his public support of and highly complimentary personal letters to Sister Jane Gramick and Fr. James Martin, his public meetings with groups of transsexuals, even going so far as to hug them, his use of their pronouns. Not to mention the novelty of the term ‘LGBTQ’ appearing in official Vatican documents. We can only hope that the document represents what he truly ‘believes’ about this subject.
Was the Pope a creator of Dignitas Infinita? The Vatican stated the document was given approval by him. Is it a pushback by conservatives within the Vatican against the Pope’s previous stand? He has stated, who am I to judge about homosexuality and gave priests authority to bless same-sex couples. He gave permission for trans people to be baptised in the Catholic Church and to act as godparents. Does that include those who were previously baptised Catholics in infancy? Two baptisms? Which one is valid? He removed conservatives Bishop Strickland and Cardinal Burke, causing great distress to many. I hope this document is an indication of what will return, after his exit.
A very good article, Jason; needs to be said and read. We must all stay alert and informed. I encourage readers to share it across their media – as I am doing now.
Great article Jason. The puritans of queer ideology are a toxic substratum of woke ideology that has managed to invert the concept of human rights to exploit the mental health of those that suffer body and gender dysphoria. It’s an outrage that thru advocate genital mutilation on adolescents as a panacea for what is a serious health problem. And then expect the rest of society to salute the queer flag and accept this insanity. It would be laughable were it not so grave.
It amazes me talking to some young people at just how little sense of their own self worth they have. They are full of opinions, both good and bad but they lack the inner strength to say that “there are some things I will not do”. They don’t seem to have any guiding principles. You can have good principles or bad principles but to not have any must make the world a very confusing place. This is a generalization and by no means all are like that but for those that are a world in which everything is relative must be a scary place.