Paul Terrio

Paul Terrio (May 4, 1943 –) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who currently serves as bishop of the Diocese of Saint Paul, Alberta.

Quotes

• To insist that it is the “sole measure” of an individual’s sexual orientation, is an anthropological step which is a major problem for Catholic Education as well as for many others. To say that a person’s sexual orientation solely depends on self-identification denies biological facts as well as Biblical teaching. In ordinary day-to-day experience, biology cannot be separated from culture and the separation of biological and social gender is a basic error and weakness of “gender theory”. But for the Bible, and therefore for Catholicism and many others, femininity and masculinity are not exchangeable roles, but rather they are gifts and callings from the Creator. To mandate that "self-identification is the sole measure of an individual’s sexual orientation" and in fact, by totally excluding biological fact, contradicts our common day-to-day life experience and also repudiates the goodness of Creation.
  • A Basic Flaw in the Alberta Education‟s Guidelines for Best Practices: Creating Learning Environments that Respect Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Gender Expression. (January 17, 2016)