Posted on 08/12/2022 5:05:56 PM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis received in audience at the Vatican for a fourth time members of a group of transgender individuals.
L’Osservatore Romano reported today that at the Wednesday Papal audience this week, the Holy Father greeted and exchanged a few words with a group of persons who have either undergone a “sex-change” surgery or who simply identify as the opposite of their actual sex. The group was led by Sister Genevieve Jeanningros and Father Andrea Conocchia, who said the Pope’s welcome gave the group hope.
The Pope met with members of the group previously on April 27, June 22, and Aug. 3, according to L’Osservatore Romano. The meetings come as bishops and priests increasingly and openly have come out in support of homosexual and transgender lifestyles. The open dissent from the Church’s constant teaching ranges from hosting a Mass of Thanksgiving for a homosexual union in Bologna and a Mass featuring a drag queen in San Diego, to an “ecumenical LGBT prayer service” in Dublin and calls for accepting homosexual men within the priesthood in Germany. German prelates have gone so far as to call for a wholesale changing of the Church’s sexual moral teaching, in what other cardinals and bishops have denounced as open apostacy and schism.
In the name of inclusion, acceptance, accompaniment, and progress, the agenda of LGBTQ lobbyists is being pushed continually at the highest levels of the Church. “No one should encounter injustice or being thrown away, everyone has the dignity of being a child of God,” Jeanningros is quoted to have said, referring to the push to make room for sexually deviant lifestyles within the Church.
As LifeSiteNews reported earlier this summer, after the June 22 Papal meeting with members of the same “transgender” group, Alessia Nobile, a 43-year-old man who identifies as a woman, praised the welcome he received from Pope Francis. He had given the Pope a copy of his autobiography, called “La bambina invisible,” detailing the transgender thoughts and desires he had when young that led to his “transition.” The pontiff reportedly told him, “You did well to write your story. Bravo!” The man added that Francis also told him to “always be myself, but not to be wrapped up in prejudice against the Church.”
Despite the LGBTQ lobbying, the Church has not and cannot change its teaching of homosexuality or transgender issues, since it is based upon the order of nature established by God the Creator and stands immutably as part of the deposit of faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.” (CCC # 2333) Likewise, in 1975, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared in Personae Humanae, “There can be no true promotion of man’s dignity unless the essential order of his nature is respected.”
These statements only express the Apostolic teaching of St. Paul in the First Letter to the Corinthians. “Do you not know that the unjust will not possess the kingdom of heaven? Do not err; neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor the evil-tongued, nor the greedy will possess the kingdom of God.”
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Ping
Someday desperate church leaders might recognize and repent of the greed and vanity that displaces faith and obedience.
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I’m half expecting this Pope to call down fire from the sky any day now.
I have zero problem with the Church preaching to sinners. I am one. But, inclusion and acceptance is going too far. Abstract off the transgender and homosexuality issues. Replace with another sin. Should the Church accept rapists? Should the Church be inclusive of rapists? This kind of condoning sin diminishes the Church’s credibility. This wishy-washy approach eliminates right and wrong.
Fellow Catholics, prepare yourselves for that day when you turn on your computer, then; lo and behold, you see The Pontiff dressed and knowingly photographed in full drag regalia! ‘So as to show support and inclusiveness to a chronically marginalized part of the global parish!”.
I’m telling you, it’s coming either before or shortly after he retires from that position.
Predators go to where the prey is.
This is what you get when you support man-made organized religion.
Its a BUSINESS people!
WAKE UP!!!!!!!
I was raised as a Catholic. I married a Jehovah’s Witnesses.
When we discuss the teachings of the Bible, she wins every argument.
He didn’t acquire the moniker “Satan’s Pope” undeservedly you know! He has to earn the title by repeatedly acting contrary to the Scriptures and to twenty centuries of Church teaching!
This is what you get when you support man-made organized religion.
Its a BUSINESS people!
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That applies to every denomination on the planet, except yours of course!
And the disciples came to Jesus, asking “Lord, what is a woman?”
And Jesus said, “My God, You have surrounded me with total morons.”
After saying this, Jesus sighed greatly, and left the earth, which was then immediately cleansed with an unquenchable fire.
When we discuss the teachings of the Bible, she wins every argument.
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Is that because you’re stupid or she just won’t let you speak?
I’m sure she is smarter than you. I’ve no problem with the Catholic Church, but like other versions, they have their own narrative.
Tell me where in the bible it mentions Christs birth date?
Pope: “Welcome, welcome my friends. So shall we head down to my dungeon?”
2. Next up: Pedophilia.
The only reason these people should be showing up at the Vatican is for an exorcism.
Tell me where in the bible it mentions Christs birth date?
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You obviously need some tutoring re John 21:25 and Matt 16:18.
Even protestant Shakers and Snake Handlers celebrate Christ’s birth on the day designated by His church some 2,000 years ago! What do you do on 12/25, sleep in from partying on 12/24?
As goes the clergy, so goes the Church.
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Yep! And as I’ve been contending for decades, as goes the church, so goes the world!
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