The Catholic Women’s Federation (KFD) of Münster has called for an immediate stop to the planned awarding of the Josef Pieper Prize to U.S. Bishop Robert Barron on 27 July, describing it as a “devastating signal” that honours views which “devalue queer people and deny women the right to freedom of conscience”.
In a detailed statement, the KFD accuses Bishop Barron of repeatedly rejecting “scientific and social understandings of gender diversity outright.” They cite comments on his Word on Fire website, where he labelled efforts to evolve Church teaching on sexuality as “absurd…a categorical error.”
