Vatican Noncommittal on Hamburg Sex-Education Scandal
The Vatican’s Dicastery for Education has responded to a Catholic mother involved in a parents’ campaign against a new sexual-education framework for Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Hamburg, reports LaNuovaBq.it on August 18. Hamburg is led by Archbishop Stefan Heße.
The response was sent to Varinia Arauco, a Peruvian-born mother involved with the ‘Parents’ Network for Child Protection and Prevention’. Arauco and other parents have appealed to Church authorities in Germany and Rome over the Archdiocese of Hamburg’s framework “Male, Female, Diverse: Framework for Sexual Education at Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Hamburg.”
The framework was published in 2025 and is intended to be implemented in the archdiocese’s 15 Catholic school locations from the 2026/27 school year. It explicitly supports the “acceptance of diversity with regard to sexual orientations and gender identity”
The parents also submitted a petition to Pope Leo XIV through the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany and sought a papal audience, which was not granted.
Arauco had contacted Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Education and a rumoured homosexual.
The response came from Monsignor Matthias Ambros, undersecretary of the dicastery.
According to LaNuovaBq.it, Ambros “confirmed” that the position remains the one expressed in the 2019 Vatican document: ‘Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education’.
This paper tiger criticises theories that separate gender from biological sex.
BUT: The Vatican has not, on the evidence currently available, ordered Hamburg to withdraw or suspend the framework.
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