To anyone who has truly paid attention to the Vatican and to Pope Francis in perticular, the message from Dignitas Infinita could not possibly have come as a surprise. And to those who have pushed back hard against the transgender activists and their social panic, it could not have come too soon.
Regardless of whatever else thinks of Pope Francis on various issues, he has remained firm on transgender ideology, although mainly through statements and homilies. In Dignitas Infinita (“Infinite Dignity”), the pontiff has formally declared the idea that gender feelings transcend biology and reality unacceptable. While exhorting the Church to treat people with gender confusion with love and respect, Francis all but declares gender theory a heresy.
Pope Francis’ encyclical covers a number of topics in the framework of human dignity, in arguments developed over a five-year period in the…
