Pope Francis denounced Thursday how new technologies are making it easier for people to change their genders, saying this "utopia of the neutral" jeopardizes the creation of new life. Francis made the comments to the Pontifical Academy for Life, the Vatican's bioethics advisory board, taking up his criticism of so-called gender theory and the idea that people can choose their sex. Francis has revamped it to broaden its scope to better reflect his holistic view of human life in concert with creation. But Francis kept to the church's hard line against gender theory in his first meeting with the new members Thursday, lashing out at how today's exaltation of individual choice extends to one's gender thanks to technological advances. While Francis has strongly upheld church teaching on abortion and other life issues, he hasn't emphasized them as much as St. John Paul II or Pope Benedict XVI.

Source: ABC News October 05, 2017 13:41 UTC