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For this group of trans women, the pope and his message of inclusivity are a welcome change
AP News ^ | November 19, 2023 | NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS

Posted on 11/19/2023 3:59:44 PM PST by ebb tide

For this group of trans women, the pope and his message of inclusivity are a welcome change

Pope Francis’ recent gesture of welcome for transgender Catholics has resonated strongly in this working class, seaside town south of Rome, where a community of trans women has found help and hope through a remarkable relationship with the pontiff forged during the darkest times of the pandemic.

Thanks to the local parish priest, these women now make monthly visits to Francis’ Wednesday general audiences, where they are given VIP seats. On any given day, they receive handouts of medicine, cash and shampoo. When COVID-19 struck, the Vatican bussed them into its health facility so they could be vaccinated ahead of most Italians.

On Sunday, the women — many of whom are Latin American migrants and work as prostitutes — joined over 1,000 other poor and homeless people in the Vatican auditorium as Francis’ guests for lunch to mark the Catholic Church’s World Day of the Poor.

The menu was evidence of Francis’ belief that those most on the margins must be treated with utmost dignity: cannelloni pasta filled with spinach and ricotta to start; meatballs in a tomato-basil sauce and cauliflower puree, and tiramisu with petit fours for dessert.

For the marginalized trans community of Torvaianica, it was just the latest gesture of inclusion from a pope who has made reaching out to the LGBTQ+ community a hallmark of his papacy, in word and deed.


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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: donatenow; frankenchurch; perverts; pope; trans; xyxx
On Sunday, the women — many of whom are Latin American migrants and work as prostitutes —

Is the Pope preaching the following to his tranny prostitutes:

Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no more.
[John 8:11]

1 posted on 11/19/2023 3:59:44 PM PST by ebb tide
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Ping


2 posted on 11/19/2023 4:00:15 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

The pope is sinning against charity in not counseling these people against their sin and praying with them for God’s mercy.

These people are not capable of receiving baptism or being God Parents because they are not living in reality. Their minds are not in synch with reality.

If they truly believe that God made a mistake in putting them in a body not in concert with their mind then they are not Christian and should not be God parents or Catholic.


3 posted on 11/19/2023 4:24:48 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: ebb tide

I’m surprised this Pope hasn’t had a sudden accident somewhere.


4 posted on 11/19/2023 4:41:58 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ebb tide

“Trans women” = men


5 posted on 11/19/2023 4:43:17 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: Pontiac

You’re absolutely right, but just even on the basic level, since when was it ever considered good to make your living as a prostitute, even if you were a real woman? Whole religious orders were founded to get women out of prostitution and give them a place to go, and I’m sure there’d be one now for trannies if we had any of the Faith left.

But Bergoglio is building his own cult, and none of our spineless bishops are standing up for the Faith.


6 posted on 11/19/2023 4:45:49 PM PST by livius
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To: ebb tide

They are not women, no matter what the science deniers in the press say.


7 posted on 11/19/2023 4:48:16 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: livius

And I am sure that he will be declared a saint within a decade of his death.

One of the other tenets of the faith that has been under attack by the modernist in the church is sainthood. The enemies of the faith must now be saints.


8 posted on 11/19/2023 4:49:25 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac; livius

If Pope Paul VI can be a saint why not Marten Luther?


9 posted on 11/19/2023 4:51:35 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: ebb tide

Anyone that wants to either chop off his penis or sew up her vagina is mentally unstable and needs to be institutionalized not only for their own safety, but for the safety of society.


10 posted on 11/19/2023 5:41:06 PM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Pontiac
The funny part of these discussions, which will be lost on the Roman Catholics, is they are doing the very thing they go ballistic over when discussing Luther and the Reformation.
11 posted on 11/19/2023 6:16:06 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ebb tide; All
"....these women now make monthly visits,...",

To: NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS

THEY'RE NOT WOMEN!!!! Unreal!

12 posted on 11/19/2023 6:45:42 PM PST by jackibutterfly (We have a God Who loves us, and there's nothing we can do about it. Yes!!)
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To: Pontiac

Pope Francis says he agrees with Martin Luther about justification

I think that the intentions of Martin Luther were not mistaken. He was a reformer.

13 posted on 11/19/2023 9:19:25 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Two snakes.


14 posted on 11/20/2023 2:23:22 AM PST by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: ebb tide

.


15 posted on 11/20/2023 3:14:04 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Skooz

Mentally ill men!


16 posted on 11/20/2023 7:45:00 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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Why Francis Is A Pervert
17 posted on 11/21/2023 5:07:29 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Frank welcomes. anti-truth, anti-life collectivists.


18 posted on 11/22/2023 4:36:47 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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