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Sisters Celebrate ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ in Dissent from Church Teaching
LifeSite News ^ | 4/4/23 | Louis Knuffke

Posted on 04/08/2023 6:50:54 PM PDT by marshmallow

'Transgender people are experiencing harm and erasure due to: the introduction and approval of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation across several states, harmful rhetoric from some Christian institutions and their leaders, including the Catholic Church, [and] daily discrimination and violence,' the coalition of religious stated.


The Board of the International Centre for the Sisters of Saint Joseph US Federation- Facebook/Sisters of Saint Joseph US Federation

(LifeSiteNews) — A coalition of dissident Catholic religious sisters released a statement Friday supporting the March 31 “Transgender Day of Visibility,” calling for those who identify as “trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive” to be “acknowledged, boldly accepted, and celebrated” by the Church.

In a statement titled “In Solidarity: Vowed Catholic Religious Honor Trans Day Of Visibility,” the Sisters of Saint Joseph U.S. Federation, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary of-the-Woods and Indiana and Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth JPIC office declared full support of the transgender agenda, claiming to “represent over 6,000 vowed Catholic religious and partners in mission in over 18 states.”

The sisters stated, “As vowed Catholic religious and our partners in mission, we wholeheartedly affirm that transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals are beloved and cherished by God. We mark March 31, International Day of Transgender Visibility, as a time to celebrate, acknowledge, and uplift folks who identify as transgender, nonbinary, and/or gender-expansive. We know our actions and commitments must extend beyond this day’s observance.”

Using the much-vaunted mantra of inclusion and lamenting “anti-LGBTQ+ legislation” — which serves especially to protect minors from surgical and irreversible mutilations and/or chemical castration through puberty blockers and hormone drugs — the dissident sisters continued, “As members of the body of Christ, we cannot be whole without the full inclusion of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals. At this moment in the United States, transgender people are experiencing........

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: transpsycho
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To: marshmallow

Mental illness is not a cause for celebration.


21 posted on 04/08/2023 8:13:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: Rummyfan

You’re not kidding. Still have memories of kids getting cracked with the yardstick or the pointer from 1964 - 72.


22 posted on 04/08/2023 8:22:41 PM PDT by CletusVanDamme (The breaking point will be reached soon. )
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To: marshmallow

Never trust a nun with no habit.


23 posted on 04/08/2023 8:23:28 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: LegendHasIt

School teachers are allowed to get married and they still prey on children.


24 posted on 04/08/2023 8:26:30 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: marshmallow

Shameful.


25 posted on 04/08/2023 8:35:15 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: marshmallow

Those are lezbos

Already left the reservation


26 posted on 04/08/2023 8:55:27 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: marshmallow

Romans 1: 22-23.


27 posted on 04/08/2023 11:13:51 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: marshmallow

Lesbos.


28 posted on 04/08/2023 11:31:36 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: marshmallow

And I bet they’re pro abortion.


29 posted on 04/08/2023 11:32:48 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: marshmallow

— A coalition of dissident and apostate Catholic religious reprobate and biblically illiterate sisters released a statement.

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30 posted on 04/09/2023 8:05:27 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Agreed.


31 posted on 04/09/2023 8:12:10 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Ken522

Even Jesus had his Judas ...


32 posted on 04/09/2023 9:37:44 AM PDT by Texas_Guy
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To: marshmallow

The Sisters took time away from their “Day of Climate Change Awareness” and their “Black Lives Matter Day” and their “Pride Month” and their “No Human is Illegal Fair” and their “Living Wages for Workers March” to celebrate “Transgender Day of Visibility” with a “Meat is Murder Meal”


33 posted on 04/09/2023 9:43:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: marshmallow

Nothing about preaching the gospel to an unsaved world, nothing about getting them saved and filled with the holy spirit?


34 posted on 04/10/2023 9:20:03 AM PDT by marron
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