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.
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.
Check out Leviticus 19:15. God commands us to judge others, but with the benefit of the doubt.
“Do not do injustice in judgement; do not show favor (lit. lift up the face of) the poor nor show honor to the face of the rich; you should judge your neighbor justly / righteously.”