Pope Francis Warns Against the Dangers of Gender Ideology

With a still somewhat weak voice, Pope Francis has launched a very strong message to the Church. "I still have a cold and it tires me to read. But I would like to underline one thing: it is very important that there is this meeting, this meeting between men and women, because today the ugliest danger is the ideology of gender, which cancels differences". For Bergoglio, Gender Theory is no longer a kind of conspiracy by the conservative right to discredit and prevent progress for transgender people, but a real danger that he himself has been insistently hammering on for some time, to the point of having requested the drafting of a document whose release seems imminent. Pope Francis aims for a total ban on surrogate motherhood: "It is only a trade". And he condemns the "very dangerous" gender theory. "I have asked to conduct studies on this ugly ideology of our time, which erases differences and makes everything the same; to erase difference is to erase humanity. Man and woman, instead, are in a fruitful 'tension'. I remember reading a novel from the early twentieth century, written by the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The novel talks about the future and is prophetic, because it shows this tendency to erase all differences. It is interesting to read, if you have time read it, because there are these problems of today; that man was a prophet," said the Pope to the participants of a conference on the anthropology of vocations. The gender ideology that is rapidly spreading with a certain emphasis also from the policies of Brussels - as Francis denounced during his last trip to Hungary - remains something alarming, wrong, and to be corrected for the Church. Cardinal Swedish Anders Arborelius, a reference point at the European level for a Church determined to act as a barrier to this drift, resumed the discourse and asked for a document to be drafted. Two years ago, Arborelius had drafted a writing that was then signed by the Scandinavian episcopal conferences. It was pointed out that it is only nature, biology that determines the sexes of individuals, and not so much culture, despite the currents inspired by the French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir who considered the feminine something designed and defined by man and imposed on women. Her famous phrase: "no woman is born, it is a matter of becoming." "Fundamentally, the human being always remains a human being, whether man or woman. God wanted us this way," explained Arborelius. "Even if men and women choose a different gender, they remain as they are." However, today "there are ideologies with which - for the Church - it is very difficult to engage in dialogue".