Pope Francis again criticized gender theory on Friday, seeing it as “the most terrible danger” that “erases differences.”
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“It is very important that there is this encounter between men and women, because today the greatest danger is gender ideology, which erases differences,” the pope said during an audience at the Vatican with participants in an international conference on marriage and consecrated life.
“I asked to conduct studies on this ugly ideology of our time that erases differences and makes everything the same. The erasure of differences means the eradication of humanity,” the 87-year-old Argentine pope added.
“I remember reading a novel from the beginning of the 20th century, written by the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury: + The Lord of the World +. “This novel speaks of the future and is prophetic because it shows the tendency to erase all differences,” he added.
Jorge Bergoglio has criticized this theory several times, according to which sexual identity is determined by education and environment and not by genetic differences.
In 2016, he particularly denounced the “insidious indoctrination” of French textbooks influenced by this theory, triggering an avalanche of criticism in France.
In 2019, the Vatican published a text intended to help teachers in Catholic schools counter “gender ideology” that “denies the natural difference between men and women” while promoting dialogue and openness.