In abroadside that is dividing opinion in the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican has attacked modern feminist theories that deny men and women are fundamentally different or portray them as locked in a perpetual "battle of the sexes".
"From the first moment of their creation, man and woman are distinct, and will remain so for all eternity," says the document, issued last weekend by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the agency that enforces the Vatican's teachings.
