Gender ideology:
a cultural and highly potential destructive bomb
The Holy Father in his address to the Roman Curia on 21 December 2012
Benedict XVI has made us become accustomed to high profile addresses when he receives the Roman Curia for the annual exchange of Christmas greetings, and this has proven to be the case this year as well.
On 21 December last he dwelt at length upon two themes of utmost importance: the family and dialogue among religions. In this brief commentary we will deal with the first of said themes. Who knows if Catholics actively involved in politics have read these words of the Holy Father.
We would be very pleased if they would read in particular the phrase we have put between quotation marks, especially during this phase of pre-electoral manoeuvres when political parties are steering clear from tackling such matters.
The family, he said, is of fundamental importance in the transmission of the faith. If the family fades away, that transmission is also at risk.
If persons no longer wish to commit themselves to a life-long bond, disappearing are fundamental experiences of the human and Christian person: “being father, mother, child”.
Disappearing are openness and dedication, the rising above egoism, which is at the selfsame basis of the family and society.
The family is not just a social construct; it is a social institution so man does not remain withdrawn into himself, but, in the choice of binding himself in matrimony and the family, may truly transform his ‘I’ into a ‘we’.
Without this self-donation in the family there is no true society.
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The man-woman duality is
an essential aspect of what being human is all about.
Benedict XVI, Address on the occasion of Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia,
Friday, 21 december 2012
“The Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, has shown in a very detailed and profoundly moving study that the attack we are currently experiencing on the true structure of the family, made up of father, mother, and child, goes much deeper. While up to now we regarded a false understanding of the nature of human freedom as one cause of the crisis of the family, it is now becoming clear that the very notion of being – of what being human really means – is being called into question.
He quotes the famous saying of Simone de Beauvoir: “one is not born a woman, one becomes so” (on ne naît pas femme, on le devient).
These words lay the foundation for what is put forward today under the term “gender” as a new philosophy of sexuality.
According to this philosophy, sex is no longer a given element of nature, that man has to accept and personally make sense of: it is a social role that we choose for ourselves, while in the past it was chosen for us by society. The profound falsehood of this theory and of the anthropological revolution contained within it is obvious.
People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being.
They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves.
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