Pope Benedict predicted gender ideology would be final rebellion against God

May 19, 2023 by Dave Doveton

By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald.

Pope Benedict XVI predicted that gender ideology would be the next great challenge to the Church and the final rebellion against God, a US moral theologian has revealed.

Dr John Haas, a former member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said the late pope made the “unsolicited” observation during a private conversation at the Vatican in 2014, the year after Benedict relinquished his petrine office.

He said the Pope Emeritus told him that “the next great challenge the Church is going to face is gender ideology, and it will be the ultimate rebellion against God the Creator”.

Dr Haas told 114 students during his commencement address at the 2023 Christendom College graduation ceremony in Front Royal, Virginia, that he was “surprised” by Benedict’s remarks because they were so spontaneous.

But he said he could now see his words were “prophetic”.

“We have been hit with a tsunami of transgender ideology,” Dr Haas said, adding that today “Catholic health care institutions are being sued because they refuse to perform mutilating surgeries on men who want to be surgically altered to look like women or women who want to appear as men”.

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