Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Man and Woman He Made Them

Archbishop of Toledo, Spain warns of a "Gender Revolution"

Cardinal Cañizares said the panorama of modern culture manifests the need for a rereading of "Mulieris Dignitatem" in which John Paul II outlined the anthropological and theological roots of the truth of the human person -- man and woman.

The cardinal recalled how the papal text uses the story of creation in Genesis as the foundation for the teaching on the human person. It notes that God is the creator of the person, and man and woman's creation is "the culmination of the creation that God saw was good," the cardinal stated.

"The human species, that has its origin in the calling into existence of the man and the woman, crowns the entire work of creation. Both are human beings in the same level," he continued. The biblical description also "speaks of God's institution of matrimony, in the beginning of the creation of man and woman, as an indispensable condition for the transmission of life. [...] It is about a reciprocal relationship, of man with the woman and of woman with the man."

Because of all of this "man-being" and "woman-being" are realities "desired by God" "in their equality and in their differences, both the one and the other have a common dignity," Cardinal Cañizares affirmed.

"The human being becomes the result of the desire of choice," the cardinal said. "Regardless of the physical sex," the person -- whether man or woman -- "can choose his or her gender" and later on, modify the choice if so desired, taking on homosexual, heterosexual, transsexual or other lifestyles.

The 62-year-old cardinal warned that the "social and cultural change that this phenomenon implies has far reaching effects" given that for this ideology "nature doesn't exist, the truth of man doesn't exist, only unlimited freedom." Read all …

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