POLAND
Catholic Herald (UK)
By JONATHAN LUXMOORE on Friday, 3 October 2014
Polish Catholic leaders urged legislators not to ratify an international convention combating violence against women, claiming some of its clauses violate Catholic teaching.
The Family Affairs Council of the Polish bishops’ conference said: “This convention is not directed at countering violence, as its title suggests, but at imposing an ideological cultural revolution. It seeks to redefine sex as an alterable social phenomenon, rather than a biological one, and to blame the foundational communities of marriage and family for all violence.”
The statement was issued on October 2 as Polish members of Parliament prepared to debate ratification of the Council of Europe’s “Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence.”
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