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New Vatican document condemns gender theory, surrogacy

The new document takes a step back from the opening toward LGBTQ Catholics ushered in by Pope Francis.

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Vatican City (RNS) — In a new document on human dignity issued Monday (April 8), the Vatican’s department that guides Catholic doctrine reinforced the church’s opposition to abortion, surrogacy, gender theory and any attempt to change one’s sex.

“Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to...

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