What the Second Vatican Council almost said about sex changes.

Father Hugh Barber, next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast

for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.

Last time we talked with Father Hugh Barber about transgenderism

and what Thomas Aquinas might have to say about that.

We'll get into a little bit more of that with Father here,

but he brought out a document from the 1960s

that the church considered, but never promulgated,

about our sex lives.

And it's kind of something to look back and think,

what might have been, if the church had said this before,

the deepest years of the sexual revolution later in the 60s.

Here's what Father Hugh Barber had to say about all of that,

and particularly about what the church held then

and has always held about mutilation

for the purpose of a sex change.

Father Hugh Barber. Hello.

St. Michael's Abbey. Yes.

Thank you for being with us again.

Great.

Since we last spoke, a lot of interest in,

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