The "gender ideology" in the PNE discussion: the intervention of the Catholic hierarchy

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Maria José Fontelas Rosado-Nunes

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This article deals with public manifestations of Catholic religious officials, members of the hierarchy and recognized laity,  in the context of the discussion of the National Education Plan - PNE. The focus of the analysis is a condemnation of what they call "gender ideology", present in the proposal document. Such manifestations are the reaffirmation of a conception of human beings as subject to the inexorable "laws of nature" that determine a social order marked by the rigid distinction of roles assigned to women and men. The texts published at the time reveal changes and continuities in the Catholic discourse in its reference to "nature", understood in its biological materiality, as an unswerving fact of human reality, consisting in two sexes must unite under the "natural order". Gender theories are blamed by family disintegration, for providing support to new understandings of humanity, no longer based on bipolarity: men / women. A non extensive dossier of these texts formed the basis for the proposed analyzes.

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ROSADO-NUNES, Maria José Fontelas. The "gender ideology" in the PNE discussion: the intervention of the Catholic hierarchy. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 13, n. 39, p. 1237–1260, 2015. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2015v13n39p1237. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2015v13n39p1237. Acesso em: 20 aug. 2025.
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Maria José Fontelas Rosado-Nunes, PUC- SP

Bachelor's at full degree in Letters Letras from  Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Itajubá-MG (FAPI) in 1975, master's at Social Science from Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et Politiques de l´Université Ca (1986), master's at Sociology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC- SP) in 1984, and doctorate at Ciências Sociais from Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1991. Has experience in Sociology, acting on the following subjects: religion, gender, woman, feminism and catolic church.