Sex and gender roles in the Roman Catholic Church have been the subject of both intrigue and controversy throughout the Church's history. The cultural...

prevailing gender roles that they believe are oppressive, inaccurate, and sexist. A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing...

children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the cases have involved many...

by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that sex reassignment surgery does not change a person's gender in the eyes of the Church. "The key...

masculine sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially...

can confine gender roles, but in other instances, it can empower and uphold them. Such insights shed light on the ways religious doctrines and rituals can...

they were of the same or different sex.[page needed] The position of the Roman Catholic Church with regards to homosexuality developed from the writings of...

significant roles in the life of the Catholic Church, although excluded from the Catholic hierarchy of bishops, priests, and deacons. In the history of the Catholic...

The Catholic Church condemns same-sex sexual activity and denies the validity of same-sex marriage. While the Church opposes "unjust" discrimination against...

In Austria blessing of same sex unions is performed in two churches located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Linz. In 2021, the Congregation for the Doctrine...