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“Denouncing these violations of human dignity is a duty”: The Catholic Church reaffirms its opposition to sex change and surrogacy

2024-04-08T10:45:09.602Z

Highlights: The Catholic Church reaffirms its opposition to sex change and surrogacy. In a declaration on “human dignity’, published this Monday, April 8 by the Vatican, fourteen burning ethical debates are scrutinized. “Yes” to human dignity, very firm “no’ to gender theory, sex change, euthanasia and assisted suicide, surrogacy and abortion, the document says. The declaration does not contain any real new features because it takes up, depending on the themes, the teachings of Francis but also of Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.


In a declaration on “human dignity”, published this Monday, April 8 by the Vatican, fourteen burning ethical debates are scrutinized, including sex change, gender theory, euthanasia, assisted suicide or gestation for others.


“Yes”

to human dignity, very firm

“no”

to gender theory, sex change, euthanasia and assisted suicide, surrogacy and abortion. In a document published this Monday, April 8, on "

human dignity

", the Vatican recalls the position of the Catholic Church on fourteen specific ethical themes, including the death penalty, poverty, war, migrants, trafficking people, sexual abuse, violence against women, respect for people with disabilities and digital violence.

This “

declaration

” of around a hundred pages does not contain any real new features because it takes up, depending on the themes, the teachings of Francis but also of Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Approved by the current pope who “

ordered

” its publication, it is signed by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, prefect of the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith, the Vatican ministry responsible for defining what the Catholic faith is over time. and as…

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Source: lefigaro

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