The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith: 'Violence against women is a global scandal, it denies dignity' The Church takes a stand against the practice of surrogate motherhood, 'through which the child, immensely worthy, becomes a mere object' The document commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It highlights "the decisive critical issues present in the theory of gender", which as Pope Francis said "is very dangerous because it erases differences in the claim to make everyone equal"