Posted on 01/26/2015 6:13:26 PM PST by ebb tide
Spanish periodical Hoy reveals the private meeting in the Vatican of "Diego" Neria Lejárraga, a woman from Plasencia, Spain, and her "wife".
Excerpts:
The Blessed Encounter between Francis and Diego
The Pope welcomed Saturday in the Vatican a Plasencia native who has felt outside the Church since he [sic] was submitted to a gender-reassignment surgery ...
"I would have never dared before, but with Pope Francis, yes; after hearing him in so many interventions, I felt that he would listen to me." Diego Neria Lejárraga is a 48-yearold native of Plasencia [Western Spain], who was received on Saturday [January 24] by Pope Francis in a meeting that was strictly private - as so many of the Holy Father - in his residency of Santa Marta, in the Vatican, at 5 p.m. An exceptional moment for any believer, for thousands of citizens around the world, and unique in the life of Diego. Because now his spirit is in peace.
...
Since the person who he loved most in the world, his mother, "the soul of my life", asked him not to change his body while she lived. "And I would wait a thousand and one lives for her." He took care of her during the last years of his life, and, one year after her death, when Diego turned 40, he finally took the step: he contacted a plastic surgeon and started changing his body. ...
Diego asked the Holy Father if, such as he is today, following his gender-reassignment, there is any place in the house of God for him. And Pope Francis yesterday [Saturday] embraced him in the Vatican. In the presence of his wife [sic], with whom he will form a family soon.
Today his spirit is in peace.
... [Hoy, in Spanish. Tip: reader. ]
[Update: information confirmed in Italian reports in Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Il Giornale, etc.]
Today his spirit is in peace.
No tears of repentance in this “prodigal”.
The original ‘prodigal’ son came home a beaten dog, not expecting mercy from his father — this prodigal thinks it is his right to receive mercy.
Does Pope Francis mean that once gender-re-assigning surgery has been performed, the re-asaigned person nay be married in the Church?
BTW, that is not a trick question. What is going on? If a Catholic woman is surgically altered to look (and somehow perform) as a man, is she-now-he a Catholic man with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto?
Somebody RSVP.
Maybe pope francis is transgender himself? Francis is a womans name too.
This one leaves me stunned. I honestly don’t know what to say.
This Pope is like a marble rolling over a crooked floor. He rolls in any direction and seems to have no guiding principle whatsoever.
Bingo.
He expects affirmation as a right....not mercy as a privilege.
How many Catholics on FR want to continue to defend him?
He’s a Leftist who’s out of his right mind!
The female version of Francis in English is Frances. It was my confirmation name, after St. Francis de Sales, and therefore I took the name Frances.
However, in England, the two spellings were used for both men and women until the late 1800s.
I sure don’t defend him! He’s worn that one out - in fact, a long time ago.
The message you should take away is that it is not your position to judge. The time will come when we will all answer. A phrase that comes to mind: That which you do to the least of my brothers, you do unto me. Nothing more, nothing less. The Pope is saying ALL are welcome here. And, yes that includes sinners.
Quite frankly none of us, not the pope or anyone, can know who is going to hell and who is going to heaven. Plus the beam in your own eye, etc.
However, physical mutilation is really not OK, I don’t care how screwed up in the head you are.
There are people who want to cut off their arms or legs, I guess that’s OK too? I mean it says that right in the Bible, no? If your right eye offends thee, pluck it out?
Sigh, this pope is wearing me out. How did we get from the brilliant Benedict to this guy? He’s like the Obama of the RC Church!
I don’t believe Catholicism is neither Right or Left. I don’t think it should be involved in politics the same way that I don’t believe the Government should be involved in Religion.
I think the catholic religion is messed up but usually one knows where they stand. This pope is a real let down.
Once again, Francis seems to be totally ignorant of his own faith.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/transsexu15.htm
Got that, Tim. I am not judging. I am asking a question. My question is quite mundane, perhaps even a legal one. Will a transgendered man and a transgendered woman be offered the opportunity to marry within the Church? Will a dispensation be necessary, as is occasionally granted, for example, to cousins who wish to marry?
Is being transgendered an impediment to marriage in the Roman Catholic Church?
Didn’t Paul lecture the Corinthians about Judging. We are not to Judge non-believers but we can Judge “believers”. Paul was talking about not letting a man sleep with his mother in law. That they had to cast him out until he repented. If he repented, welcome him back into the church. If he did not, he could not come back. Paul is talking about sexual immorality within the church and it is necessary then to make a judgement about what to do. Ignoring it (i.e., not judging) would be wrong — this is the problem that has led to the cover-up of sexual abuse within many churches.
It is true we are not judge people’s motives or judge that they will or will not enter heaven or hell. But if they are a believer in the Lord, we can Judge them.
did he tell them to repent and sin no more or face eternal damnation?
Nah, he looks vaguely like the actor who played Herman Munster
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