The problem is that he will say or do something completely at odds with this tomorrow or the next day. The Pope’s invitation to the Vatican of the “transgendered” Spanish woman who thinks she is a man - forcing her diocese to pay for it, btw - caused great distress, since she emerged saying she felt “supported.” Also, the Pope invited her after she wrote to him to complain that her parish priest had told her that Satan was tempting her and she should not start this “transgender” process. So apparently, the Pope didn’t tell her the same thing.
I wish he’d make up his mind about who he is. I think he gets so caught up in wanting to be loved by the press that sometimes his gestures get away from him. He’s very publicity oriented, and also very much focused on himself and his own personality, as opposed to simply representing Catholic teaching. So I feel you never know what he is going to say...and obviously, the press thinks that as well, and they just wait for him to give them those “one-liners”.
You can read that here in the heretical NCR (LINK)
Speaking to CNN, the transgender, Lejarraga, said "Just the fact that you've met the holy father, without knowing what was said, people now seem to look at you in a different way."
In other words, this is all based on personal, private, pastoral outreach, a gesture of compassion, not some kind of change in doctrine.
In fact, every time Pope Francis has addressed "gender theory" or "gender ideology," he has condemned it in the strongest terms.
This brings to mind for me the example of Jesus. We all know that when he saved the adulterous woman from being stoned to death, he also told her to "sin no more."
Yes. Let's go on and look at another encounter with an adulterous woman: the Samaritan woman at the well. He revealed that He knew about her adultery, but it isn't recorded that he used the opportunity to tell her she had to leave husbands #2, 3, 4, and 5, nor the man she was living with at the time; He just offers her the "living water" of eternal life and shares the secret that he had hidden even from many of His disciples: that He is indeed the Messiah.
Would you say that that shows Jesus was OK with quintuple marriage with a little extra on the side? Of course not. But it does show that He was willing to set aside all conventional respectability in talking with (1) a woman, (2) a Samaritan, (3) a person living in a flagrant sexual liaison, in order to win one more soul for the Kingdom, and even permit her to be a messenger to others of His coming.
I suppose the Pharisees would say He muddled the bright line between virtue and vice, and affirmed her in her sin. I think not. I think it shows He was willing to see her as a person not entirely defined by her transgressions.
There's a kind of folksy saying, but I think it's true:
The devil calls you by your sin, and erases your name.
Jesus calls you by your name, and erases your sin.