Can anyone corroborate? Pope Leo more than likely doesn’t want to be used by ideologues?
Pope Leo XIV is being heavily criticised by LGBT groups and media outlets
It comes after he was accused of a 'snub' to transgenders after they were moved from the top table, in a break with a custom from the last few years, at the 1,300 person dinner for the Jubilee of the Poor.
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How long before the Vatican grovels and apologizes? It will be done before the end of today
Is this just more faux outrage, symptomatic of our contemporary “outrage culture”? See the following:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trans-women-attend-vatican-event-with-pope-leo-but-not-at-head-table/ar-AA1QxRWL
“Unlike in past years [ed., 2023 and 2024], however, no trans women were seated at the pope’s main table.
The fact that they were present at all, the women said, suggested a willingness to keep open a door unlocked by Pope Francis, the late pontiff who revolutionized relations between LGBTQ+ Catholics and the world’s largest Christian faith.
“That he’d mingle, that he [sat] close to [us], that’s a good sign, right?” said Alessia Nobile, a trans woman and Italian author who attended the lunch. She said she managed to hand Leo a letter on behalf of the “trans community,” to which he simply “smiled.” . . .
This time, all the trans women ate at separate tables. Like other participants at the large and free-flowing event, many of the women were unable to greet him personally or offer him handwritten letters.
“It went well, there was a fraternal and a joyful atmosphere,” said the Rev. Andrea Conocchia, a liberal Catholic priest who ministers to transgender women in Torvaianica. “We weren’t able to meet the pope,” he added, but they still “had us sit at tables very, very close to the pope.” . . .
Two people familiar with the organization of the event said that head table tickets had not been provided to the trans women this year without explanation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic.
But in an interview with The Washington Post, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Vatican’s point person for the event, rejected any suggestion of an intentional snub. He said the tickets for the pope’s table this year had been handed out randomly to poor parishioners who had attended an earlier Mass, and that the trans women had arrived late to the event.
Their attendance, he said, should not be overinterpreted.
“The church is open to everyone,” Krajewski said. “It’s not about [Leo] meaning to carry on this outreach. They came because they’re an integral part of the church, that is all.”
So, perhaps there was no intentional snub, while at the same time Pope Leo continues his efforts to perform a difficult balancing act between the “progressives” and the “conservatives” in the Church?
Mark J.
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