The Vatican released a document on human dignity in April 2024 with sections denouncing what it calls “gender theory” and “sex change.”

In this special round table episode of the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, America’s Editor-in-Chief Fr. Sam Sawyer, S.J. and the Executive Director of Outreach, America’s LGBT Catholic resource, Michael O’Loughlin, join host Colleen Dulle for a discussion on the document “Dignitas Infinita” and the pastoral challenges it presents in the guests’ ministry to LGBT Catholics.

Topics:
00:00 - Introduction to 'Dignitas Infinita'
1:00 - How to read Dignitas Infinita
3:57 - Does Dignitas Infinita present a development of doctrine?
6:00 - How LGBT Catholics are responding to Dignitas Infinita
8:53 - How does the Vatican understand "gender theory?"
13:36 - Why does Dignitas Infinita avoid the terms "gender identity" and "transgender?"
19:21 - Listening to the voices of LGBT Catholics
22:00 - Ministering to LGBT Catholics after Dignitas Infinita

Links:

• The right and wrong way to read the new Vatican doc on dignity: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/04/10/dignitas-infinita-challenge-human-dignity-247671
• The trouble with ‘gender ideology’: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/11/16/gender-ideology-catholic-246515
• Vatican condemnation of “gender theory” a moment of whiplash for LGBTQ Catholics: https://outreach.faith/2024/04/vatican-condemnation-of-gender-theory-a-moment-of-whiplash-for-lgbtq-catholics/

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