Pope John Paul II said that Adam was created as a male and a female

 John Paul II

The Redemption of the Body and

Sacramentality of Marriage (Theology of the Body)

From the Weekly Audiences of His Holiness September 5, 1979 – November 28, 1984

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The Original Unity of Man and Woman8

The words of Genesis, "It is not good that the man should be alone" (2:18) are a prelude to the narrative of the creation of woman. Together with this narrative, the sense of original solitude becomes part of the meaning of original unity, the key point of which seems to be precisely the words of Genesis 2:24. Christ referred to them in his talk with the Pharisees: "A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh" (Mt 19:5). If Christ quoted these words referring to the "beginning," it is opportune for us to clarify the meaning of that original unity, which has its roots in the fact of the creation of man as male and female. (Page 21)

That is manifested above all in that stage in which man ('adam) is definitively created as male and female (‘is-'issah) (p.22)

 Man is "male and female" right from the beginning. (P. 22)

If we admit, moreover, a significant difference of vocabulary, we can conclude that the man ('adam) falls into that "sleep" in order to wake up "male" and "female." (23)

https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/2232/documents/2016/9/theology_of_the_body.pdf

Was there an uproar protesting against this bizarre teaching?

Adam was created as both a male and female?

That is a teaching of the Kabbalah and I discovered that when the Bride was working with a Jewess who knew I was religious. She asked The Bride to tell me she had invited me to study the Kabbalah with her.

I declined and then out of curiosity sake, I read some info on the Kabbalah - very weird mysticism; very strange; the stench of sulphur was all over it.

The Kabbalah and Adam created as both male and female

https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380616/jewish/The-Female-Aspect-of-Adam.htm

 

I don't see how what JP II claimed can be reconciled with Catholicism.

Nevertheless, us Catholics are told that Bergoglio is the real problem