Leo XIV Accepts Concept of "Gender" in Encyclical
Paragraph 79 is about social justice: “It aims to mend broken bonds and reintegrate those who have been excluded, taking into account the wounds caused by injustices, such as wars, colonialism, racial or gender discrimination, violence against entire peoples and exploitation.
The used term “gender” is not a neutral vocabulary. It is the linguistic framework to separate the natural sex from a self-attributed category.
Until Leo XIV, the term gender was carefully quarantined or rejected - even in the Francis’ Vatican. Amoris Laetitia (2016) used the word “gender” in quotation marks and rejected it as “an ideology that denies the difference and natural reciprocity of man and woman.”
Cardinal Tucho Fernández signed Dignitas infinita in 2024, which explicitly condemned gender theory.
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