Pope Francis described so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest danger" of our time as headdressed participants at conference in the Vatican on Friday.
"It is very important that this meeting is taking place, this encounter between men and women, because the ugliest danger today is the gender ideology, which cancels out differences," the pope told participants at a conference entitled 'Man-WomanImage of God - For an Anthropology of Vocations.
"I have asked for studies to be done on this ugly ideology of our time, which cancels out differences and makes everything the same; to cancel difference is to cancel humanity".
The pope said he is still under the weather and asked for an aide, Mons.
Filippo Ciampanelli, to read out his speech to the participants for him, "so I don't get so fatigued", as he has gone with other audiences this week.
"I still have a cold and I get fatigued reading for a while," he said.
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