I don’t think so but it was great that they did this.
I see it as throwing a bone to us to be use as propaganda for the church’s “good works.”
I just want to add one thing, many of their parishioners do not support the church’s preachings against us.
'Robin Hood' cardinal gave funds to transgender sex workers in need during coronavirusWell I think I know why this is getting so much attention.
The Hill
By Brooke Seipel
May 1, 2020
A cardinal who runs the Vatican's charities sent aid to a group of transgender sex workers who were left stranded near Rome during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Italy, Reuters reports.
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, known as "the Pope's Robin Hood" wired money to the group from the Vatican charities after the group reached out to a local Catholic priest for help buying food.
"I don't understand why this is getting so much attention," Krajewski told Reuters. "This is ordinary work for the Church, it's normal. This is how the Church is a field hospital."
Catholic Church rejects transgender identity, calls gender change a 'trend' in statementOr maybe it is because what they are doing in Poland…
USA Today
By Joshua Bote
June 10, 2019
In its first statement on gender identity, the Vatican on Monday rejected the idea that transgender people can change their gender identity in a document meant to instruct Catholic teachers and students on sexuality and gender.
The document, titled "Male and Female He Created Them," suggests only men and women are sexually complementary, and that changing norms in gender identity contribute to the "destabilization of the family."
According to Vatican News, the church's news platform, the document is intended as "an instrument to help guide Catholic contributions to the ongoing debate about human sexuality."
Church in Poland continues confrontation with the LGBTQ communityHelping out the women who have to make their living from the street probably saved their lives, but it cannot overcome the generations of persecution against LGBT people. The institutional discrimination by the church.
National Catholic Church Reporter
By Jonathan Luxmoore
August 19, 2019
KRAKOW, POLAND — On this city's fabled Market Square, the Assumption Basilica, known as Kosciol Mariacki, towers over a maze of cobbled streets and alleyways. Founded in the 13th Century, the gothic edifice has long been a symbol of national defense, and a famous fanfare, or Hejnal, is still broadcast daily from its 260-foot tower, commemorating the moment a Polish trumpeter was shot by a Tatar arrow while rousing inhabitants against an attack.
So when Krakow's Catholic archbishop, Marek Jedraszewski, chose the basilica for a televised denunciation of LGBTQ campaigners on Aug. 1, the 75th anniversary of Poland's uprising against the Nazis, he would have been aware of the likely impact on audiences across the country.
"The red pestilence no longer marches across our land, but a new, neo-Marxist one has appeared, which seeks to conquer spirits, hearts and minds — not red, but rainbow," Jedraszewski told his massed congregation.
I see it as throwing a bone to us to be use as propaganda for the church’s “good works.”
I just want to add one thing, many of their parishioners do not support the church’s preachings against us.
I think it is a welcome and promising sign. I think of the church as the people of the church, not some binary entity. The people of the church are beautifully diverse. That is what I see in these seemingly disparate articles. Cardinal Krajewski seems to reflect the behavior of Jesus who accepted and helped the marginalized of the world. The other articles reflect a different viewpoint, by others such as archbishop Jedraszewski within the same church. Unfortunately, archbishop Jedraszewski's viewpoint is still probably more prevalent, as it has been for many centuries. I am encouraged that Pope Francis ("Who am I to judge?"), is more in tune with the behavior of Cardinal Krajewski. This is probably why the Pope has a lot of opposition from the existing bureaucracy of the church. Change is coming. It is not happening fast enough for many, but change of heart has always been slow. It happens on God's schedule, not ours.
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