Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, "Difficulties confronting the faith in Europe today," Communio: international Catholic review 38, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 732 (728-737), underscoring mine, and also here. =L'Osservatore Romano, 24 July 1989. Cf. pp. 730-731:
Where such thinking holds sway, the relationship of man to his body necessarily changes too. . . . The body then comes to be considered as a possession which a person can make use of in whatever way seems to him most helpful in attaining 'quality of life.' The body is something that one has and that one uses. No longer does man expect to receive a message from his bodiliness as to who he is and what he should do, but definitely, on the basis of his reasonable deliberations and with complete independence, he expects to do with it as he wishes. In consequence, there is indeed no difference whether the body be of the masculine or the feminine sex, the body no longer expresses being at all, on the contrary, it has become a piece of property. . . . Likewise divested of every metaphysical symbolism is the distinction between man and woman [etc]. . . .
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