Posted on 11/17/2025 6:55:12 PM PST by ebb tide
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski has responded to claims that transgender activists were intentionally excluded from Pope Leo XIV’s top table at the Vatican’s Jubilee Lunch for the Poor.
A group of 48 individuals who identify as “transgender women” attended the annual “Lunch for the Poor” at the Vatican on Sunday alongside Pope Leo XIV, with none being seated at the Pope’s main table.
In 2023 and 2024, two individuals identifying as “transgender women” were selected to dine at the head table. The arrangement this year prompted some secular newspapers to claim that the transgender activists were effectively snubbed by not being at the top table.
The gathering, held in the Paul VI Hall and which welcomed around 1,300 guests including migrants, homeless people and the disabled, is a tradition revived under the late Pope Francis as a symbol of outreach to the marginalised of society. This year’s arrangement appears to have stirred fresh questions about inclusion.
The lunch began with the Pope entering the hall as an orchestra struck up “O Sole Mio”. The Pope addressed the crowd and blessed the attendees. “Buon appetito,” he said before sitting down to a meal of lasagne and chicken cutlets
In a brief interview with the Washington Post, Cardinal Krajewski, the Vatican’s point-person for the event who oversaw its organisation, rejected any suggestion of an intentional snub toward the transgender activists.
He said that places at the top table “were given to poor parishioners who had attended an earlier Eucharist”, while the transgender-activists arrived later for the event and “sat elsewhere”.
He explained further that the spots for the Pope’s table this year had been handed out randomly to the poor parishioners.
“The Church is open to everyone,” he said. “It’s not about [the Pope] meaning to carry on this outreach. They [the activists] came because they’re an integral part of the Church, that is all.”
Transgender activist Alessia Nobile said she had managed to hand the Pope a letter on behalf of the “trans community” and that he “simply smiled”.
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, a Polish prelate created cardinal by Pope Francis in 2018, serves as the Papal Almoner, one of the most hands-on and visible offices in the Roman Curia. His work is rooted in a long career of service, including years spent in the Vatican’s liturgical office, where he assisted John Paul II and Benedict XVI during papal ceremonies.
Pope Francis elevated him specifically to amplify the Church’s concrete outreach to the poor, entrusting him with a portfolio that places pastoral presence ahead of administration. As Papal Almoner, Cardinal Krajewski is responsible for the Holy See’s charitable initiatives, and it is for this reason that he oversees the annual Vatican “Lunch for the Poor”.
The office of the Papal Almoner is one of the oldest charitable institutions of the Holy See, with roots stretching back to the early Middle Ages. By the 13th century, the role was formally established as a permanent office within the papal household, entrusted with distributing alms to the poor of Rome and to pilgrims who came seeking help.
Why were the frankenfreaks even invited in the first place? And why do the frankenfreaks think they deserve to placed above all others?
Ping
This may come as a shock to you, but the Catholic Church teaches that God loves the “frankenfreaks” just as much as He does you or me.
And, if “the last shall be first,” as Jesus said, why not the “FrankenFreaks “
at the head table?
Why?
Because they’re looking to destroy the Bride of Christ, his Church!
It’s no secret that the Church is being taken down from within.
Sin is being normalized. And the whole “love the sinner, hate the sin” is becoming “love the sin, love the sinner”, and if you don’t adhere you’re at odds with Christ’s teaching.
It's no longer about adhering to Christ's teaching, it about adhering to the Church's teaching. Big difference
Konrad Krajewski has a habit of inviting homosexuals to the Vatican and financing them:
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https://www.them.us/story/the-vatican-queer-rave-rome
The Vatican Indirectly Helped Throw A Queer Rave in Rome
Bless this boogie.
By Wren Sanders
January 8, 2020
New Year’s Eve is a global occasion to reflect on the passing of another year and to celebrate the oncoming of the next. For many queer folks, it’s also an annual opportunity to turn a jaw-dropping look, kiss your crush, and/or dance till dawn. And if you were in Rome on December 31, 2019, you may well have been doing all three at one of the most discussed parties in recent memory — a queer rave occupying seven floors of a communal living space in the heart of the Italian capital. Yet the event, billed by organizers Spin Time Labs as a “young, queer, free, and rebellious New Year’s Eve,” would morph from simply another debauched, questionably-planned NYE bop into something of a larger controversy when it was realized that the event could never have happened without the generosity of one Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Pope’s representative in charge of charity. . .
Vatican Enables Illegal Gay Rave on New Year’s Eve
News: World News
by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • January 6, 2020
[Details on this event too vile to post here.]
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https://news.trust.org/item/20200430101734-fy4rd
Vatican’s ‘Robin Hood’ helps feed transgender sex workers hit by lockdown
by Reuters
Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:57 GMT
Transgender sex workers left without clients due to COVID-19 have found support from the Vatican
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By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY, April 30 (Reuters) - When the coronavirus lockdown left a group of transgender sex workers in a beach town near Rome without work, they turned to a local Catholic priest for help to buy food.
But his parish’s resources were already stretched by the health crisis so the priest turned to the cardinal known as “the Pope’s Robin Hood” who runs the Vatican charities. He wired money to the parish for them.
“I don’t understand why this is getting so much attention,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski told Reuters by phone on Thursday. “This is ordinary work for the Church, it’s normal. This is how the Church is a field hospital.”. . .
Pope Francis helps a small trans community financially struggling due to coronavirus
by Claire Giangravé - Religion News Service
May 1, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Last week, Pope Francis supported a small transgender community near Rome, some of whose members have been struggling financially due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In the small town of Torvaianica, the Rev. Andrea Conocchia has turned his parish into a haven for about 20 transgender women, most of them from Latin America and between the ages of 30 and 50. . .
Many of the women are sex workers and have been left with no income to pay rent or bills since Italy enacted a national quarantine in early March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Some of the women are HIV positive or have sexually transmitted diseases, the priest said.
With a national ban on public Masses, and therefore church offerings, Conocchia was unable to offer the women enough financial support so he suggested they send a message to Pope Francis asking for help.
Francis showed his support through the papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the administrator of the pope’s charitable work, who wired money to the transgender community late last week. . .
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Drama queens.
A group of 48 individuals who identify as “transgender women” attended the annual “Lunch for the Poor” at the Vatican on Sunday alongside Pope Leo XIV, with none being seated at the Pope’s main table. Those poor ‘girls’.
Hell hath no fury like transwomen scorned.
Aye ... that IS the question of the day.
Are we Catholics welcome to wallow in our sins? Are we welcome to proclaim, falsely, that our sins are virtues?
God forbid!
We are welcome to repent, confess our sins, and cooperate with God's Grace to do better.
Luke 19:
He entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 And there was a man named Zacchae′us; he was a chief tax collector, and rich. 3 And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not, on account of the crowd, because he was small of stature. 4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchae′us, make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully. 7 And when they saw it they all murmured, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8 And Zacchae′us stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Projection, ebby?
Our Lady of Fatima said more souls will perish due to sins of the flesh than any other sin.
Again, it's a blessing that you were not able to dishonor Her at Fatima with your extremely distorted views of morality.
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