2024-04-08T14:03:30+00:00
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/ On Monday, the Vatican defended the rights of immigrants, homosexuals, and other members of the LGBT community, stressing respect for human dignity.
Agence France-Presse said, “The Vatican published a new text dedicated to respecting (human dignity) in which it condemned everything that is against life itself,” such as abortion, euthanasia, and voluntary suicide, and defended the rights of immigrants, homosexuals, and other members of the LGBT community.”
She added, “The document titled ‘Infinite Dignity’ (Dignitas infinita), which consists of about 20 pages and was approved by Pope Francis, can be considered a way to address internal divisions within the Church four months after controversy sparked by the blessing of same-sex couples, especially in the conservative camp.”
The document includes key issues such as war, migrant rights, poverty, the environment or social justice, linked among others to questions of bioethics or digital violence.”
The text, the result of five years of work, was published by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the highly influential body of the Holy See responsible for the doctrine that enumerates cases of “grave violations of human dignity.”
Surrogacy is described in the document as “completely inconsistent with the fundamental dignity of every human being,” while the Vatican sees “a very serious crisis of moral sense” in “the acceptance of abortion in mentalities, in morals, and in the law itself.”
For the first time, the Vatican condemns with such clarity the “gender theory,” which Francis described as “a very dangerous ideological colonialism.”
“Any sex reassignment procedure threatens, as a rule, the unique dignity acquired by any person from the moment of conception,” the document said.
At the same time, the Church recalls the right to respect for LGBT people and condemns “the fact that in certain places many people are imprisoned, tortured and even deprived of the goods of life solely because of their sexual orientation.”
A long paragraph in the text is devoted to violence against women. The Vatican says that “the phenomenon of femicide has not been adequately condemned.”
Andrea Tornelli, editorial writer for the Vatican’s official media, said that this declaration “contributes to overcoming the division between those who focus exclusively on defending emerging or dying life, forgetting many other attacks on human dignity, and vice versa.”
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has insisted on the importance of a church that is open to everyone, including LGBT faithful, but his efforts have faced significant resistance.