Catholic parents who begged Pope Leo XIV to halt the implementation of pro-LGBT sex education in Hamburg’s Catholic schools received a brief Vatican reply reaffirming Church teaching on gender, but no direct intervention to stop the program.
The pro-LGBT diocesan sex-education guidelines remain set to take effect on August 20.
According to a report published by Italian outlet La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, the Dicastery for Culture and Education responded to the parents’ complaint by pointing to a 2019 Vatican document which rejects modern gender ideology in education, but it did not announce any measure to stop the pro-LGBT Hamburg guidelines from being enforced in Catholic schools.
The Vatican response was sent to Varinia Arauco, a Peruvian-born mother who wrote to Pope Leo XIV and other Vatican officials to raise concerns about the new sexual education guidelines approved by local Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Heße.
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