{"id":1928,"date":"2016-08-03T23:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:07:05","slug":"the-pope-speaks-out-against-gender-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"The Pope speaks out against &#8220;Gender Theory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2016\/08\/03\/pope-francis-its-terrible-children-taught-they-can-choose-gender\/\">Pope Francis has said that what he calls gender theory \u2013 \u201cthat everyone can choose their own sex\u201d \u2013 is \u201cthe exact opposite\u201d of God\u2019s creation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a meeting with Polish bishops during World Youth Day, whose transcript was released yesterday by the Vatican, the Pope said there were powerful institutions which funded the spread of \u201cgender theory\u201d in schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Pope also said he had discussed the subject with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who told his successor: \u201cYour Holiness, we are living in an age of sin against God the Creator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Pope Francis said this sin was often given financial backing by \u201cvery influential countries\u201d: a form of \u201cideological colonisation\u201d, the Pope said, which is \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has said that what he calls gender theory \u2013 \u201cthat everyone can choose their own sex\u201d \u2013 is \u201cthe exact opposite\u201d of God\u2019s creation. In a meeting with Polish bishops during World Youth Day, whose transcript was released yesterday by the Vatican, the Pope said there were powerful institutions which funded the spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}