Ms. Cieslik
Posted on 08/27/2026 8:41:05 PM PDT by simpson96
On this Feast of St. Monica, I guess we Catholics need to add another wayward soul to our prayer list.
This one's quite a lulu.
Emma Cieslik, a 'museum specialist' at, not surprisingly, the Smithsonian, who claims to be Catholic, but not as loudly as she claims to be "queer, disabled and neurodiverse" in her social media bios, wrote this guest column for the National Catholic Reporter:
August is Transgender History Month, a time to reflect on the transgender people who have led the way for transgender people's rights and who continue fighting for legal recognition and protection. This history is intimately tied to the Catholic Church, where a rich history of saints whom medieval historians now identify as transgender inspires a new generation of saints living among us.
Saints that transgress and explode gender binaries have existed since the beginning of the church itself — from people assigned female at birth who lived as men and entered monasteries (such as St. Babylas of Perge, St. Eugenios, St. Euphordyne of Alexandria, St. Theodore, St. Marinos, St. Pelagius and St. Hilarion), to saints who stated that God changed their gender (such as St. Onuphrius, St. Wilgefortis, St. Juana de la Cruz and St. Perpetua), and saints who were persecuted for cross-dressing (St. Joan of Arc).
But despite the wealth of evidence of holy gender nonconformity — stories of the saints' lives remain some of the best preserved examples of medieval literature — this gender expansiveness was, and in some circles remains, largely ignored by scholars.
That's all garbage history, none of it true, all of it a sad bid to staple the transgender ideology of today onto people who lived in the past and can't speak for themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ms. Cieslik
I don’t recall Joan changing her name to John, and wanting to use the Men’s room.
This is easy. She did not watch Brandon Gill questioning her boss in the house hearing:
2- easier- Joan of Arc was proven to have been miraculously guided, gifted and protected in her leading troops to victory. She is a saint. That’s whether people want to believe it or not
3- easiest- the Catechism clearly states - and it does not change- homosexuality is not a sin. The act of homosexuality is.
To present a saint as some kind of hero to any movement that has nothing to do with why she has been declared a saint is not acceptable. This woman can say she’s Catholic, and might be if she has received the sacraments
That would not make her a theologian with the authority to impersonate St Joan of Arc. She did not consult a proper Catholic theologian
Whether the Vatican finally comes out and condemns this or not.
Looks like a typical Delusional Liberal
I don’t get WHY they’re so COMMITTED (cough 😷)
to the Sodom and Gomorrah Agendas
I’ve met a few like her
ALL Democrats by a substantial margin
- The neurodiversity paradigm is a framework for understanding human brain function that considers the diversity within sensory processing, motor abilities, social comfort, cognition, and focus as neurobiological differences. This diversity falls on a spectrum of neurocognitive differences. The neurodiversity movement views autism and other neurodivergences as a natural part of human neurological diversity—not diseases or disorders, just "difference[s]".
Neurodivergences include autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, developmental prosopagnosia, developmental speech disorders, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, intellectual disability, obsessive–compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, synesthesia, and Tourette syndrome. -
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So every theoretical psychological malady dreamt up since they changed homosexuality from mental illness to 'gender dysphoria' or 'lifestyle' (depending on their argument's convenience) is henceforth neurodiversity, and autism is now folded into the LGBT etc. etc. pretend victimhood ladder. They even have a little flag just for that:
Ever higher and deeper.
They try
Boy do they try 🤦🤦♂️🤦♀️🙄
You’d never guess she’s “queer, disabled, and neurodiverse” just by looking at her
“ August is Transgender History Month”
Just when I was getting over all the excitement about Homo Month and all the festivities.
That’s a MAN, baby!!
ANOTHER Mental Case!
Turn the hose with the water on full blast on the demon pushing this trash
“That’s all garbage history, none of it true, all of it a sad bid to staple the transgender ideology of today onto people who lived in the past and can’t speak for themselves.”
She can say that today. Once all books have been scanned into AI and paper libraries destroyed, it will be discovered that Cieslik was right and in fact the records all agree with her.
And Jesus was a homeless drifter.
His parents were negligent, too. It took them 3 days to find him in the temple, asking questions of the priests. /sarc
Who appointed this person Pope?
I'm certainly not a theologian, but I did teach Old Testament to 6th graders in my parish for 20 years. That ended a few years ago, when a new coordinator was hired, and he and the monsignor changed the curriculum to that of evangelization.
They dug in their heels when we disagreed, my attitude was 12 YO's don't have the education/background to evangelize...i.e. you need to learn your faith first.
All six of us who taught on Wednesday night quit. I've seen quite a few parishioners attend TLM at Mater Dei in South Irving, in part due to the changes at our parish over the past decade. St. Ann is still the largest parish in the Dallas Diocese, though.
One of the last classes I taught was on the subject of Agape Love. The night got off to a rocky start, when I was informed that I would be the only regular teacher (of six) on hand that evening.
Another adult was found to give us the two adult minimum in the classroom. It turned out to be a fantastic class, though. I recalled the material from Healing the Culture by Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ.
I was able to capture the 40+ students' attention by explaining my unique qualifications: I graduated from Gonzaga two years after Fr. Spitzer, and often read the book.
Long story short, there were no interruptions during the class, and there were several excellent questions posed by them.
😀😂🤣🤣
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