Posted on 11/20/2022 6:24:59 PM PST by marshmallow
'We as a Church have not said that much about it,' said Cdl. Eijk.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Dutch Cardinal Wim Eijk has revealed he asked for Pope Francis to issue an encyclical condemning gender theory, having made calls for such a document in previous years.
Dutch Catholic newspaper Katholiek Nieuwsblad reported that Eijk made the comments while in Rome last week for the Dutch Catholic Bishops’ ad limina visit.
“I asked if it would not be good if the pope issued an encyclical on gender theory,” Eijk told journalists.
“Gender theory is being pushed in all kinds of organizations and yet we as a Church have not said that much about it,” added Eijk, who has served as Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007.
While his request was seemingly not made directly to Pope Francis, Eijk stated he had registered the request with American Cardinal Kevin Farfell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life.
Eijk has previously made similar warnings about the prevalence of gender ideology. In 2016, he declared that an encyclical “might appear to be necessary” in order to combat the spread of gender ideology.
“It [gender theory] is spreading and spreading everywhere in the Western world, and we have to warn people,” said Eijk. He added that Catholics were accepting the radical ideology “in a very easy way, even parents, because they don’t hear anything else.”
“From the point of moral theology, it’s clear — you are not allowed to change your sex in this way,” he said.
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The pinko poofter pope will never do this. Even though the Bible clearly states male and female He created them; Christ says that a man will leave his family and be with his wife; doesn’t matter.
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Bergoglio even referred to Diego Neria Lejarraga, a biological female, as "she is now a he".
And this, from the supposedly “true” church. We weep, while the devil smiles. So many people falling to apostacy.
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