Addressing participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God.”
Pope Francis describes so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest ...
Addressing participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God.” Pope Francis describes so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest danger" of our time, because it cancels out all differences that make humanity.
Pope Francis on Friday again spoke out against gender theory describing it as an “ugly ideology of our time”, because it erases all distinctions between men and women. To ceancel this difference “is to erase humanity. Man and woman, instead, exist in a fruitful ‘tension’”, he said.
The Symposium
The remarks came as he opened his address to participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God. Towards an Anthropology of Vocations" held in the Vatican on March 1-2.
The Congress is organized by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Bishops, together with the Centre for Research and Anthropology of Vocations (CRAV) and is a follow-up to the previous 2022 Symposium dedicated to the theology of the priesthood.
Introducing his address the Pope said he still has a cold and asked his assistant Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli to read it out for him, "so I don't get so fatigued.”
In the prepared text the Pope reflected on the theme of the Congress which is aimed first of all at highlighting the anthropological dimension of every vocation.
The human person is a vocation
Indeed, he remarked, “the life of the human being is a vocation” which has a relational character: “I exist and live in relation to who generated me, to the reality that transcends me, to others and to the world around me, in which I am called to embrace a specific and personal mission with joy and responsibility.”
“Each one of us discovers and expresses oneself as called, as a person who realizes oneself in listening and response, sharing our being and gifts with others for the common good.”
This fundamental anthropological truth is sometimes overlooked in today's cultural context, where human beings tend to be reduced to their mere material and primary needs. Yet, Pope Francis said , they are more than this: created by God in His own image, man and woman “carry within themselves a desire for eternity and happiness that God himself has planted in their hearts and that they are called to fulfil through a specific vocation.”
“Our being in the world is not a mere fruit of chance, but we are part of a design of love and are invited to go out of ourselves and realize it, for ourselves and for others,” the Pope said.
“We are called to happiness, to the fullness of life, to something great to which God has destined us.”
We all have a mission in Church and society
Recalling Cardinal Saint John Henry Newman’s “Meditations and Prayers” Pope Francis further remarked that not only we have all been entrusted with a mission, but ”each and every one of us is a mission.”
The Pope therefore welcomed the symposium and the studies conducted on this topic because, he said, “they spread awareness of the vocation to which every human being is called by God”, and are also useful to reflect on today’s challenges, on the ongoing anthropological crisis, and on the need to promote human and Christian vocations.
Promoting a more effective "circularity" of vocations
He also emphasized the importance of promoting “a more effective circularity” of the different types of vocations in the Church, including lay vocations, ordained ministry and consecrated life, so they “can contribute to generating hope in a world overwhelmed by death.”
“Generating this hope, placing oneself at the service of the Kingdom of God to build an open and fraternal world is a mission entrusted to every woman and man of our time,” he said.
The courage to seek God’s will
Closing his address, Pope Francis encouraged the participants in the Symposium not to shy away from risks in seeking God’s will in their work, reminding them a living faith is not an artifact in a museum:”The Holy Spirit asks us fidelity, but fidelity moves, and often leads us to take risks”, he said.
“Move forward with the courage to discern and risk seeking God's will.”
The real gender ideology is thinking you can boil the entire human experience down to two aesthetics, you're only allowed to have one, and it's chosen for you at birth.
And then going right back to assuming that the Catholic church is woke and based and diverse and good after a day is probably one of the things that alienates me most from the community.
Death to the Catholic Church, unironically. This is just one more peanut in the massive turd of horrors that the Catholic Church has unleashed on humanity throughout its dark history.
Like "woke," the term used by fascists of "gender ideology" is so fucking nebulous. What does it mean? Who are the main leaders in this "ideology"? What are it's principles? What are the ideolgical roots? The philosophy behind it?
It's another buzzword that doesn't mean anything real that is used to rile up the hogs into a rage over anything that makes them upset.
Homelessness plague, systemic misandry having men killed en masse through imperialist wars, capitalism ruining everyone's health and lives, but no, gender is the true danger. I have been so blind. Thank you, Frank, for opening my eyes.
I sure do love how this douchebag is revered across the entirety of Latin America. It's so awesome that a decrepit white man from halfway across the globe still governs the politics of his colonies centuries later. Dime que mas te dijo Dios, papa! Somos muy tontos nosotros para entender.
What happened? The Trumpists were claiming he was the WOKE POPE.
Maybe the religious order that sought to conquer and convert the world, that genocided indigenous people and refuses to apologize, and presently diddles kids and pals around with the rich and powerful of the world aren't actually... woke?
Introducing his address the Pope said he still has a cold and asked his assistant Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli to read it out for him, "so I don't get so fatigued.”
I gotta say I agree with the pope. I think this whole ideology of there being genders is bad. It's silly social conditioning like "girls are pink, boys are blue" that create harmful social movements.
I didn't read past the headline, but that's what I assume he says, because anything else would be silly and stupid. I assume the transphobia warning is because the pope describes transphobia and explains why it's bad. Anything else would be so silly.
We all remember when our trans comrades bombed innocent children and opened fire on refugees seeking aid, don't we? Disgusting, but I would expect no less from the leader of the worlds most powerful combination landlords and child sex ring leaders. Stay in your fucking lane, old man.
I love how my Catholic family finds it so baffling that I, as a trans person, was so eager to discard religion from my life entirely, even as their outdated, batshit insane institution they hold so dear is still pushing shit like this in fucking 2024.
Where's the justification? I'm sorry Popey-boy but "humans are a vocation" and "men and women live in balanced tension" are vague as fuck. None of that explains why trans people are a bad thing, or why you are essentially calling for their extermination in soft terms.
Saying things like "gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time" is exterminationist rhetoric. It's outright genocidal.
America is absolutely going to see a large portion of more conservative Catholics break away from create a new ore horrifying vision of christianity, unified with evangelicals who wish their services had a bit more pomp and circumstance.
Written evidence of trans people predates this sex pest cult by millennia and even predates the entirety of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition itself. Source: Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, which gets as explicit as "to turn man into woman / woman into man / are yours Inanna" and "priest to become woman / priestess to become man", among others such as a beautiful description of a ritualistic gender transition. The most maddening thing about all of this is that, like others have pointed out, the real "gender ideology" is the one that forbids these expressions that have been a part of humanity since at least the dawn of culture, which trans people are revolting against. Not only that, but this monsterous institution was at the forefront of eradicating similar expressions since their rise to power in Rome, in which they immediately went about murdering people like the Gallae, to say nothing of the countless cultures and non-western gender systems that were destroyed by them during colonialism.
Remember all religions are made up by people and none of it is real no matter how badly they want it to be, and "god" is just an excuse for people to be bigots
This is why people shouldn't to reflexively shit on all of protestantism. It is the only area of Christianity where trans and queer folks are accepted and has fought for their civil rights for decades.
I was in his fancy palace last year and I strolled right through the holiest places and sullied it with my ugliness. Gotta say, pretty fancy place, just wondering if they use any of that money to idk... Maybe help the deformed and crippled guy begging outside the castle wall, face down before the tourist crowd holding a picture of "his holiness". Wait, isn't he supposed to have performed miracles and or there are cardinals and priests who are confirmed to have done so? Maybe you could just go heal that dude?
No wonder it was Mousalinni (don't care if I'm spelling the name of that pasta right or not) that made Vatican City it's own state.