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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's yet another of those pope-private-meetings stories (this one from January)
After undergoing a sex change operation in 2007, Diego Neria Lejárraga, a lifelong Catholic, stopped attending mass because he felt shunned by his fellow parishioners. "I felt left out. I felt rejected by the church. I felt I was unjustly perceived as something wrong," Neria, a 48-year-old transgender man from Plasencia, Spain, explains ...... After hearing him on many occasions, I felt that he would listen to me ...
... Lejarraga wrote to the pope last year, saying he had been "marginalized" by church officials in the city of Plasencia in the Estremadura region. A practicing Catholic, he said local clergy had rebuffed him and said one parish priest had called him "the devil's daughter" ...
... his local bishop helped get the letter noticed. Next, according to Neria, came two phone calls from Francis ...
... Neria answered a phone call from an anonymous number on Dec. 8, 2014 the voice on the other end of the line said, "I am Pope Francis" ... Neria says the pope, who is well-known for his heartfelt cold calls to letter writers, told him he was moved by his story. "We talked for 15 minutes or so and before he hung up, the Holy Father told me that he would ring again to fix a date for a meeting" ...
... a few days before Christmas, Francis himself (not an assistant) called again and set the date: January 24, 2015 at Santa Marta, the dorm-style Vatican guesthouse for visiting priests and lay people ...
... Lejarraga reportedly attended the meeting with his fiancée. During the meeting, Lejarraga asked Francis if, after his gender reassignment, there was "a place somewhere in the house of God for him" ... Hoy Francis responded by embracing him ...
... "This man loves the whole world," Neria says of Pope Francis ...
... Vatican spokesmen and the local Spanish bishop's office declined to comment on the meeting, insisting the Pope's private meetings are just that ...
... Francis last November demoted an American cardinal who is an outspoken critic of marriage rights for same-sex couples and abortion ... Francis in 2010 described Argentinas same-sex marriage bill as the work of the devil before President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner signed it into law ...
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)somehow.
Sorry.
Bryant
trumad
(41,692 posts)Not sure how this ties in with him having a private meeting with a piece of shit like Kim Davis.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Vatican Strengthens Ties with Evangelicals and Mormons Against Gay Marriage
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/
This is the conference last November at the Vatican which Tony Perkins attended as an invited participant, Tony who gave Kim an award Friday shortly before she met the Pope.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Oh, wait, no he didn't. He continued to fight against the rights of gays and women.
Pathetic how people grovel at the feet of this bigot.
LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]And then compared gender theory to the dictators of the last century?
Or the vatican coming out and saying transgender people can't even be godparents?
This is not proof of Francisco being tolerant but rather a PR spin doctor who is vague to make himself sound accepting and understanding without actually being accepting and understanding.
And he demoted that cardinal for insubordination, not because he was a homophobe.[/font]