Vatican Document Casts Gender Change and Fluidity as Threat to Human Dignity

In his presentation, Cardinal Fernández described the lengthy means of the drafting of a doc on human dignity, “Infinite Dignity,” which started in March 2019, to consider the “newest developments on the topic in academia and the ambivalent methods wherein the idea is known right this moment.”

In 2023, Francis despatched the doc again with directions to “spotlight subjects carefully linked to the theme of dignity, equivalent to poverty, the scenario of migrants, violence in opposition to ladies, human trafficking, struggle, and different themes.” Francis signed off on the doc on March 25.

The lengthy street, Cardinal Fernández wrote, “displays the gravity” of the method.

Within the doc, the Vatican embraced the “clear progress in understanding human dignity,” pointing to the “want to eradicate racism, slavery, and the marginalization of girls, youngsters, the sick, and other people with disabilities.”

However it mentioned the church additionally sees “grave violations of that dignity,” together with abortion, euthanasia, the dying penalty, polygamy, torture, the exploitation of the poor and migrants, human trafficking and intercourse abuse, violence in opposition to ladies, capitalism’s inequality and terrorism.

The doc expressed concern that eliminating sexual variations would undercut the household, and {that a} response “to what are at instances comprehensible aspirations,” will change into an absolute fact and beliefs, and alter how youngsters are raised.