A Dutch cardinal has asked Pope Francis for a papal encyclical to combat the false anthropology at the heart of the ideology of gender.
Cardinal Willem Eijk, the Archbishop of Utrecht, made the request in Rome during meetings between senior Vatican officials and Dutch bishops who were making their four-yearly ad limina visit.
“I have asked if it would not be good for the pope to issue an encyclical on gender thinking,” the cardinal said at a press conference later.
“Gender theory is being pushed in all kinds of organisations and we as a Church have not said that much about it,” said Cardinal Eijk, according to reports in Dutch newspapers Nederlands Dagblad and Katholiek Nieuwsblad report.
