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New Vatican Document Provides Schools with Guidance on Gender Issues
‘Male and female he created them. For a path of dialogue on the issue of gender in education’
The Vatican on June 10, 2019, issued a new document to provide Catholic educators — and anyone else with an interest in the subject — guidance on dealing with the gender issues being broadly debated in today’s culture.
“Male and female he created them. For a path of dialogue on the issue of gender in education” provides a path for dialogue on the controversial issue while maintaining the teachings of the Church on the fundamental differences between male and female in God’s plan.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that we are now facing with what might accurately be called an educational crisis, especially in the field of affectivity and In many places, curricula are being planned and implemented which ‘allegedly convey a neutral conception of the person and of life, yet in fact reflect an anthropology opposed to faith and to right reason’, according to the document. “The disorientation regarding anthropology which is a widespread feature of our cultural landscape has undoubtedly helped to destabilize the family as an institution, bringing with it a tendency to cancel out the differences between men and women, presenting them instead as merely the product of historical and cultural conditioning.”
The new document endorses of “path of dialogue” that includes listening, reasoning, and proposing. It also praises the work of Catholic educators and urges “care and tenderness” in dealing with gender issues. However, it also says: “The culture of dialogue does not in any way contradict the legitimate aspirations of Catholic schools to maintain their own vision of human sexuality, in keeping with the right of families to freely base the education of their children upon an integral anthropology, capable of harmonizing the human person’s physical, psychic and spiritual identity.”
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