VATICAN CITY – A Vatican department has issued a sweeping denunciation of so-called gender theory, and affirmed the principles of human dignity, difference, and complementarity.
In all such [gender] theories, from the most moderate to the most radical, there is agreement that one s gender ends up being viewed as more important than being of male or female sex, the Congregation for Catholic Education wrote June 10, in a new document entitled Male and Female He Created Them.
The effect of this move is chiefly to create a cultural and ideological revolution driven by relativism, and secondarily a juridical revolution, since such beliefs claim specific rights for the individual and across society.
The document says it aims to set out an intellectual framework towards a path of dialogue on the question of gender theory in education.