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“All humanity is the tension of differences. It is to grow through the tension of differences. The question of gender is diluting the differences and making the world the same, all dull, all alike, and that is contrary to the human vocation.” Pope Francis.
The article is a commentary to the special issue of Religion and Gender, which comes as timely and highly relevant contribution to the ongoing debate on the origins, characteristics and effects of the current pushback against gender. Sarah Bracke and David Paternotte have put together five texts that scrutinize different aspects of the Roman Catholic Church’s engagement with gender in specific national contexts (Argentina, France, Italy and Poland) and internationally. Contributions to this issue convincingly argue that the concept of “gender ideology” has been invented and popularized by the Church because it encapsulates a number of critical issues, linking vital concerns regarding gender order, family and sexuality, which for a long time were not necessarily a part of the same conversation, e.g. the issues of women’s reproductive rights and homosexuality, marriage and education. Analyses of the Catholic Church’s position on gender confirm the view that anti-genderism is not just a set of “post-truths” disseminated by Catholic media outlets, but a coherent worldview and an area of expertise. Anti-genderism is spread through various channels, both religious and secular: it became a vast project of education which has led to the development of an alternative public sphere, perhaps even an alternative civil society. Just like second wave feminism established itself in the academic world in the form of gender studies, the present wave of anti-feminist activism seeks to legitimize itself by establishing anti-gender studies.
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This article is a reasoned response to the article by Timothy F. Murphy, recently published in the prestigious journal Bioethics, on the supposed opposition between the views of the Catholic Church and what he calls “contemporary science” in relation to certain anthropological issues linked to the gender perspective. To point to “the Vatican” as anchored in an unscientific and anachronistic position, using the term contemporary science to which he attributes a unanimous representation of current scientific thinking on the subject is, in our view, unfounded and completely unacceptable. In his reflection, he does not adequately distinguish between intersex and transgenderism, two clearly different realities with different needs. The author defends the obsolescence of the binary sex/gender model that, in his view, “betrays human sexuality.” Furthermore, he does so without providing a plausible justification or a definition of human nature that is able to support the plurality and indet...
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Applying the inductive synodal approach and sociological perspectives, this chapter aims to sociologically unpack the so-called "gender ideology" in the Catholic Church by distinguishing the fundamental differences between the Church's philosophical-theological understanding of gender, sexuality, and gender theory and those of sociology and the social sciences. It aims to find a common ground in understanding gender between the Church's moral magisterium and the social sciences and attempt to update the traditional moral approach in the spirit of Pope Francis's synodality and inductive theology. It argues that the synodal-sociological approach offers a new hope for the Church to achieve a more empirical, inculturated, and nuanced view of gender and sexuality in the contemporary world despite Francis's strong opposition to "gender ideology."
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