Nullifying Differences: (Part 1 of Thinking it Through: The Church and “Gender Change”), by Dr. Jeff Mirus 

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, May 07, 2024

Next in series: 2: Male and female He created them

The recent exchange of letters discussing transgendered persons between Sr. Jeannine Gramick and Pope Francis led Sister Jeannine to write an article about it which was jointly and propagandistically published on the New Ways Ministry’s daily blog and in the National Catholic Reporter. One hardly knows what to make of this exchange, which is why we must think more deeply than these correspondents did in order to make sense of the issue.

Pope Francis clarified his position by writing that transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society” while emphasizing that the negative judgment in the recent Declaration Dignitas infinita “refers not to transgender people but to gender ideology, which nullifies differences.” While it is clear that the intention of the text was not to deny that God loves (and the Church should minister to) the transgendered, but rather was to insist that the whole idea of gender manipulation is an afront to human dignity, Pope Francis shed no light on the reason for the Church’s teaching on this matter by suggesting that the key factor is that gender ideology “nullifies differences”. …

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