Germaine Greer, renowned feminist and a self-described “atheist Catholic”, has emerged as an unlikely supporter for traditional church teaching on gender. At Hay literary festival, Greer attacked the singer Elton John for devaluing motherhood by listing his partner, David Furnish, as mother of their children, and said the 1967 Abortion Act came about because of pressure from the fertility industry.Recently, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture,