New in PJ Media:
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, has just issued a thoroughgoing rejection of the fashionable gender identity madness and provided a strong defense of sanity. In future ages, when the history of our Age of Absurdity is written, the diocese will be seen as one of the few voices that spoke out for truth and common sense amid the pandemic cowardice.
On Monday, the diocese issued “Gender Identity Guide and Policies” that tackle head-on the falsehoods and fantasies that the Left demands that we believe and accept on pain of being charged with “bigotry” and “hatred.”
It begins by saying that it did so in response to numerous requests for clarification on these matters: “Parish and school leaders asked Bishop William Joensen to provide guidance on how they should welcome and minister to those coping with gender dysphoria while following Catholic Church teaching. After two years of study, prayer, listening, and consulting, a policy was developed that provides a comprehensive explanation of how to interpret and apply Catholic principles to daily life within our faith communities and schools.”
This is refreshing in itself as all too many Christian leaders today, including many Catholics, are only too happy to throw Christian principles in the dumpster and follow the prevailing cultural winds. The Diocese of Des Moines is a welcome exception. According to a Tuesday report in the New York Post, its new guidelines involve “forbidding puberty blockers, cross-dressing and even preferred pronouns on its property.”
This is because, the guidelines explain, “Respect for creation includes respect for one’s biological sex.” It quotes, of all people, Pope Francis, saying “the acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home, whereas thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation. Learning to accept our body, to care for it, and to respect its fullest meaning, is an essential element of any genuine human ecology.”
This means accepting reality and not losing oneself in fantasies. “The Holy Father’s concerns,” the document explains, “are grounded in divine revelation and the Church’s teaching that our identities as male and female are established as part of God’s providential plan for humanity. The mystery of human sexuality as a key component of personal identity is received as a gift created by God that we are not authorized to seek to change.” Indeed. As if we could change it anyway.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Keith O says
I never thought I would agree with any Catholic, anywhere, ever. But here we are.
We do live in strange times.
Mary C says
First time for everything, right? LOL
Mary C says
Your biology doesn’t care about your thoughts and feelings…