The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a declaration in the works for five years. After substantial revision, it was approved by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication.

The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life.

The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years. After substantial revision in recent months, it was approved March 25 by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication.

In its most eagerly anticipated section, the Vatican repeated its rejection of “gender theory,” or the idea that one’s gender can be changed. It said God created man and woman as biologically different, separate beings, and said people must not tinker with that plan or try to “make oneself God.”

“It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the document said.

  • @spyd3r
    7•3 months ago

    He sounds a lot like Bethesda

    • Shurimal
      13•3 months ago

      …and when a bunch of really talented modders make things better than great a loud minority starts crying out “Nooo! Can’t play Skyrim with mods, it’s cheating! I don’t want anime tiddies and Thomas the Tank Engine in Skyrim! It’s not what Todd envisioned! Waaaa!”.

      And yes, there actually is a certain bunch who think mods in a single-player game==cheating. Somehow.

      • @[email protected]
        4•3 months ago

        Loud minority of folks running/ruining things for the other 2/3 or so seems to be a theme w humans.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•3 months ago

        I can’t imagine deliberately choosing to use the janky inventory/spell UI skyrim launched with

        • DdCno1
          3•3 months ago

          There are more masochists out there than you might think.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      Believe it or not, when I made that comment, what I had in mind was Skyrim’s mammoths falling out of the sky, Barbas accidentally pushing me off a cliff, and the hired thugs going “we’re here to teach you a lesson” while I’m fighting Alduin and they helped me deal some damage before they died.