The Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education yesterday issued a 32-page document titled
Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education. (
Full text). The document says in part:
There is a need to reaffrm the metaphysical roots of sexual difference, as an anthropological refutation of attempts to negate the male-female duality of human nature, from which the family is generated. The denial of this duality not only erases the vision of human beings as the fruit of an act of creation but creates the idea of the human person as a sort of abstraction who “chooses for himself what his nature is to be. Man and woman in their created state as complementary versions of what it means to be human are disputed. But if there is no pre-ordained duality of man and woman in creation, then neither is the family any longer a reality established by creation. Likewise, the child has lost the place he had occupied hitherto and the dignity pertaining to him”.
According to
Vatican News:
The new document is intended as an instrument to help guide Catholic contributions to the ongoing debate about human sexuality, and to address the challenges that emerge from gender ideology.
As reported by
CBS News, the document, issued during LGBTQ Pride Month, was criticized by LGBTQ advocacy groups.
