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Pope Francis: It's 'terrible' Children Taught They Can Choose Gender

The Canadian Press, 02 Aug, 2016 12:33 PM
    VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has lamented that children, as he puts it, are being taught at school that gender can be a choice.
     
    Francis said: "Today, in schools they are teaching this to children -- to children! -- that everyone can choose their gender."
     
    Without specifying, he blamed this on textbooks supplied by "persons and institutions who donate money."
     
    Francis weighed in during a closed-door meeting last week with bishops from Poland during his pilgrimage there. The Vatican released a transcript Tuesday of those private remarks.
     
    The pope blamed what he called "ideological colonizing" backed by "very influential countries" which he didn't identify.
     
    One such "colonization" he said -- "I'll say it clearly with its first and last name -- is gender."

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