Sunday 28 December 2014

It was a year ago that the Polish Bishops Conference - a voice in the episcopal wilderness - denounced gender ideology


On the Feast of the Holy Family, the Polish Bishops denounced the evil of gender ideology. We have since seen this abominable thinking worm its way into the Synod on the Family, especially in the interim relation. Sadly, the evils continue in the Lineamenta. 

What I wrote months ago, is even more relevant today:

Readers of Polish will be aware of the ongoing war between the Church and secular forces in the Republic of Poland. Distinguishing himself, in the forefront of this battle, is Rev. Fr. Dariusz Oko; now famous in the English speaking world, with his essay on the "homoheresy". 

For the Feast of the Holy Family, 2013, the Polish Bishops Conference - developing on Fr. Oko's teachings - published a pastoral letter outlining the various and grave dangers facing the Church and therefore humanity. The full letter may be read here in the original Polish. 


WE must, therefore, awaken the highest concern for attempts to redefine the  understanding of marriage and the family, especially by the advocates of a gender ideology and publicized by certain elements of the media. In view of the increasing attacks of this ideology aimed at different areas of family and social life we feel compelled on one side to firmly and unequivocally stand in defense of the Christian family and the fundamental values ​​that it protects and, on the other, to warn against the dangers of promoting a new type of form of family life.Gender ideology is the result of decades of ideological and cultural transformation, strongly rooted in Marxism and neo-Marxism, promoted through certain elements of the feminist movement, as well as the sexual revolutionGenderism promotes principles completely contrary to reality and the integral understanding of human nature. It claims that sex - biologically understood - does not have a social  basis, and that before all else, it is cultural, which a person may individually fashion and define irrespective of biological determinants. According to this ideology, a person may: determine whether one is a man or a woman; may also freely choose their sexual orientation. This voluntary self-determination, which does not have to remain static, is to lead to a society that accepts the right to create new types of family, for example, built on a union of a homosexual character.

(trans. Barona)

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