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‘Male and Female He Created Them’ warns that an emphasis on gender identity over biological sex has sparked a ‘cultural revolution’ that must be met in the classroom with a reaffirmation of Christian truths and compassion.
COMMENTARY: ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ has great potential for Catholic education. Faithful Catholics should pick up this ball and run with it.
COMMENTARY: The Church rejects the misguided ideology of ‘gender theory,’ and affirms the reality of the sexual differences that form the natural basis of the family.
The new document was written specifically to address Catholic schools, where teaching is often at odds with radical cultural ideology.
During his second day in Georgia, the Holy Father blasts gender theory as the ‘great enemy’ of marriage. He also said mothers and grandmothers are key to passing on the faith and helping young people discern vocations.
A leading Spanish archbishop had faced legal complaints over a homily critical of politicians’ attacks on traditional family life.
Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, Germany, taught that ‘the essence of man and woman is the potential to become a father and the potential to become a mother, respectively. These are not exchangeable roles, but, rather, gifts from the Creator, and, in the last instance, a calling.’
Bishops from various countries and language groups said divorcing gender from biological sex threatens to dissolve families, parenthood and the nobility of human love.
The Holy See Press Office has rebutted media claims that a courtesy letter to the book’s lesbian author constituted an endorsement.
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