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June 11, 2019

U.S., English bishops welcome Vatican document on gender ideology

A bishop prays on the first day of the annual general assembly of the USCCB in Baltimore June 11, 2019.

WASHINGTON -- Catholic bishops in the U.S., England and Wales welcomed the Vatican's statement that gender ideology is opposed to faith and reason, and that Catholic schools and parents must help teach children that gender is fixed from birth.

Published in International
June 11, 2019

Catholic 'gender theory' document: clarity for a wounded, oversexed culture?

In this 2015 file photo, supporters for same-sex marriage wave a flag outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.

WASHINGTON D.C., (CNA) -- Catholic commentators have welcomed a Vatican document warning that gender theory is a cultural and ideological revolution that undermines both human dignity and the right understandings of sexual difference and complementarity, though the document was not without its critics.

Published in International
June 10, 2019

Gender ideology is opposed to faith, reason, Vatican office says

Catholic schools must help parents teach young people that biological sex and gender are naturally fixed at birth and part of God's plan for creation, the Congregation for Catholic Education said June 10.

VATICAN CITY -- Catholic schools must help parents teach young people that biological sex and gender are naturally fixed at birth and part of God's plan for creation, said the Congregation for Catholic Education.

Published in Vatican
March 31, 2015

Pope names Cardinal Versaldi new prefect of education congregation

Pope Francis talks with Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi as they leave the concluding session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 18.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis named 71-year-old Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, president of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See since 2011, to be the new prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.

Published in Vatican