Church teaching – dignity unbounded

I think I was right to predict that the document would offer no succour to the culture warriors.

German priest Wolfgang Rothe, right, takes part in a parade celebrating gay and trans rights.
PHOTO: ALAMY/DPA, KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND

A new Vatican document defends transgender people while rejecting “gender theory”, and emphasises that those whose dignity is threatened include all those threatened by poverty, discrimination, violence and abuse as well as the unborn and the elderly.

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