On Monday, Pope Francis issued a new document, Dignitas infinita, and we shared both our skepticism and surprise at how solid the document ended up being.
Want to know how we know it's solid? The media are engaged in major whining about it.
Case in point:
Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex.
In essence, it was a restatement of longstanding Catholic teaching, but the dismay was heightened because recent moves by Pope Francis had encouraged some trans Catholics to hope the church might become more accepting.
The pope has welcomed a community of transgender women to his weekly general audiences. And last year, the Vatican said it’s permissible, under certain circumstances, for trans people to be baptized as Catholics and serve as godparents.
“A document like this is very hurtful to the larger LGBTQ+ community but especially to the trans community,” said Maxwell Kuzma, 32, a lifelong Catholic transgender man working as a film editor and writer in rural Ohio.
That's not how this works.
The Church is not here to affirm anyone's lives; it is here to proclaim the Gospel and the truth, and the teachings of the Church.
That's how they think this works.
It's not.
No, they don't.
Yes.
Given what else this Pope has said and done, it's a breath of fresh air.
Alternate headline just dropped.
And basic biology.
Exactly.
Yep. Long before transgenderism was a thing.
Sure, Jan. Whatever you say.
Really bad news.
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