Posted on 08/11/2022 4:41:14 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME — Pope Francis has met with a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church, the Vatican newspaper reported Thursday.
L’Osservatore Romano said the encounter took place Wednesday on the sidelines of Francis’ weekly general audience. The newspaper quoted Sister Genevieve Jeanningros and Father Andrea Conocchia as saying the pope’s welcome brought their guests hope.
The Blessed Immaculate Virgin community in the Torvaianica neighborhood on Rome’s outskirts opened its doors to transgender people during the coronavirus pandemic.
Francis previously met with some of them on April 27, June 22 and Aug. 3, the newspaper said.
“No one should encounter injustice or be thrown away, everyone has dignity of being a child of God,” the paper quoted Sister Jeanningros as saying.
Francis has earned praise from some members of the LBGTQ community for his outreach. When asked in 2013 about a purportedly gay priest, he replied, “Who am I to judge?” He has met individually and in groups with transgender people over the course of his pontificate.
But he has strongly opposed “gender theory” and has not changed church teaching that holds that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” In 2021, he allowed publication of a Vatican document asserting that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since “God cannot bless sin.”
Recently, Francis wrote a letter praising the initiative of a Jesuit-run ministry for LGBTQ Catholics, called Outreach. The online resource is run by the Father James Martin, author of “Building a Bridge,” a book about the need for the church to better welcome and minister to LGBTQ Catholics.
Francis praised a recent Outreach event at New York’s Jesuit-run Fordham University, and encouraged organizers “to keep working in the culture of encounter, which shortens the distances and enriches us with differences, in the same manner of Jesus, who made himself close to everyone.”
Were any of the participants married? If the Church blesses same sex marriage, it will go underground because no one will support it.
He found some new sickos to hang out with
It has come to the point where I recoil when I read the title “Pope Francis.”
Ping
Bergoglio:
Trannies = hot
Traddies = not
It does get tiresome hearing about the “culture of encounter” and “dialogue” when he won’t meet with conservative Catholics with legitimate questions like the dubia Cardinals and others.
I don’t mind the Church reaching out to gay and trans people if the intent is to convert them and convince them to turn away from sin. Maybe it’s even best not to lead with that message when conversing with them for the first time. But the call to conversion has to come at some point.
But honestly, these people are not the slightest bit interested in changing themselves. They want to change the Church. Which is impossible. And the second the call comes for them to leave that lifestyle and come to Jesus, they’re out. So even assuming the best of intentions, the whole thing really is a colossal waste of time.
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