Chill Vatican Thinks You Ladies Are Beautiful Without Plastic Surgery
LatestA new Vatican document has denounced plastic surgery, calling it “aggressive” and saying it threatens “the feminine identity, showing a refusal of the body.” The same document also lumps in abortion with female genital mutilation and rape as things that harm women, just in case you were worried the Vatican was actually becoming socially progressive.
Inés San Martín, a Vatican correspondent for the Catholic website Crux, reports that the new document was prepared for the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture by “a panel of female consultants.” The Pontifical Council for Culture will be having a special assembly devoted to women’s issues on February 4-7, titled, “Women’s Cultures: Equality and Difference.” Led by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravisi, it’ll focus on “generativity, rights, poor and invisible women, women’s spirituality, equality and reciprocity, power and service, insights and vision, biology, women in the Church.” That sounds like it could be… not terrible? In preparation, Ravisi has begun shouting out to ladies on Twitter: