Cardinal Schönborn’s Vienna archdiocese promotes theologian who opposes Church on gender ideology
The organizer of the Gender-Symposium argues that the attack on gender ideology from Catholic circles is ideological, generalized, and misses the point. The Gender-Symposium conference was organized by Catholic Viennese theologian Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel, professor of ethics at the University of Vienna . In an interview with the Austrian Catholic News Agency , Kathpress.at, Prüller-Jagenteufel explained that the intention of the conference was to show that the criticism of gender ideology from Catholic circles is not valid. “The argument that the critical questioning of gender role is an ideologically motivated attack of Christian-Western values and institutions comes to nothing,” the professor said. “‘Anti-genderism’ bases itself on generalizations that are untenable: that gender is just a social construct, that heterosexual relations are supposed to be dissolved, and that the tradition family is in danger of being destroyed.” Prüller-Jagenteufer criticized how gender