The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a declaration in the works for five years. After substantial revision, it was approved by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication.

The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life.

The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years. After substantial revision in recent months, it was approved March 25 by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication.

In its most eagerly anticipated section, the Vatican repeated its rejection of “gender theory,” or the idea that one’s gender can be changed. It said God created man and woman as biologically different, separate beings, and said people must not tinker with that plan or try to “make oneself God.”

“It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the document said.

  • @ZombiepirateEnglish
    14•7 months ago

    I think offloading one’s morality to a patriarchal power-hungry cartel is an embarrassment to human dignity, but you know what I do about it?

    Let people live the one life they have in whatever way they want so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

    It’s not anyone else’s job to force their idea of dignity on people, but I guess the Catholic Church isn’t known to stop their clergy from being forced onto unwilling targets.