Abigail Favale This post is Part 2 of our coverage of a theological conversation in America about the Vatican’s then-Congregation for Catholic Education’s (CCE) 2019 instruction Male and Female He Created Them’: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education . See Part 1 for more of the conversation last year. America recently invited two Catholic theologians back to continue a conversation about gender identity, which they began in the same publication late last year. Abigail Favale, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Elizabeth Sweeny Block, an associate professor of moral ethics at St. Louis University, picked up their conversation by discussing of Pope Francis’ pastoral meetings with transgender people . Favale points out that Francis’ record on transgender rights also includes many public indictments of “gender theory” as a form of “ideological colonization.” She observes that “more than any other pope or Vatican office, Francis has offered direct and forceful challenges to the framework of gender theory.” Favale identifies Francis’ approach on transgender issues as two-fold: a “ministry of teaching” through which he writes and speaks about Catholic anthropology and critiques “gender theory”; and a ministry of pastoral accompaniment, […]
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