This Apostolic Letter, written and published after the Synod on the Laity, is a great positive clarification of some fundamental truths that illuminate the current debate.

Pope Saint John Paul II reveals that he wrote it following the request of the Synod that it was necessary to achieve a better “deepening of the anthropological and theological foundations necessary to solve the problems related to the meaning and dignity of being a woman and of being a man. It is about understanding the reason and the consequences of the Creator’s decision that has made the human being can exist only as a woman or as a man.” (no. 1).

The positive vision of the Apostolic Letter is optimistic and clarifying, a message of hope and light on this subject: “This is about each and every one of the sons and daughters of the human race, in whom, in the course of generations , that fundamental heritage of all humanity is realized, united with the mystery of the biblical principle: «God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them» (Gen 1:27). .