One sad thing about some Catholics declaring that being transgender is sinful is that many of their comments and statements are asserted with the flimsiest of abstract philosophical and theological reasoning, treating transgender people as categories, rather than individuals...
Worse, many of these statements seem to have been written with no apparent consultation with transgender people themselves. It is quite the opposite of the "culture of encounter" that Pope Francis often speaks of, and that Jesus embodied...
It would be like issuing a statement about the ocean without ever having seen one, sailed on one, or swam in one.
As Pope Francis has said many times, we are called to be not only a teaching church, but a listening one as well. How can we teach if we don't listen first?...
As Pope Francis has said many times, we are called to be not only a teaching church, but a listening one as well. How can we teach if we don't listen first?...
Likewise, one bishop recently said that transgender people simply don't exist. All evidence to the contrary.
I'm reminded of the dictum I learned in philosophy studies: "Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur." (What is gratuitously asserted may be gratuitously denied.)....
I'm reminded of the dictum I learned in philosophy studies: "Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur." (What is gratuitously asserted may be gratuitously denied.)....
Yet these gratuitous assertions -- being transgender is a sin; transgender people do not exist -- do immense harm to LGBTQ people and their families.
The Catholic Church needs to listen to LGBTQ people, not give them more reasons to distance themselves from the church...
The Catholic Church needs to listen to LGBTQ people, not give them more reasons to distance themselves from the church...
In today's Gospel, we see Jesus speaking of the Good Shepherd who specifically seeks out the sheep who are "lost" (Mt. 18: 12-14).
We are not told how the sheep gets lost: Is it sick? Weak? Injured? Looking for more inviting pastures elsewhere? Rejected from the flock?...
We are not told how the sheep gets lost: Is it sick? Weak? Injured? Looking for more inviting pastures elsewhere? Rejected from the flock?...
It doesn't matter to Jesus. The Good Shepherd finds the sheep to care for it and return it to the community, not to say that it doesn't exist.
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