In a hard-hitting interview with Dr. Thomas Ward, President of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family (JAHLF), renowned German Catholic sociologist and author Gabriele Kuby denounced the German bishops’ conference’s recent document endorsing the “diversity of sexual identities” in Catholic schools. In the interview, published in the latest issue of The Academy Review, Kuby called the document the latest and most alarming manifestation of the German hierarchy’s decades-long rebellion against the Church’s teaching on sexual morality.
The document itself, called “Created, Redeemed, and Loved: Visibility and Recognition of the Diversity of Sexual Identities in the School,” was published on 30 October 2025 by the German bishops’ conference under Archbishop Georg Bätsing. It declares that “the diversity of sexual identities is a fact” and it instructs Catholic schools to accept pupils’ self-identification as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or non-binary and, moreover, to use affirming language. Teachers are told they must present the tenets of Catholic sexual morality as “disputed” questions that are open to debate, and that students should be left to form their own judgments.
Only three German bishops — Stefan Oster of Passau, Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, and Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne — publicly opposed this heretical text. And while the Vatican has, in the past, repeatedly condemned gender ideology as an attack on the God-given differences between men and women, as well as on the anthropological foundation of the family, it has taken no disciplinary action against the German episcopate for promoting it.
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