The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has a new policy instructing all of its parishes, organizations and institutions to only recognize a person’s biological sex. We need these policies.
But be prepared for the media and the left (redundancy alert) to attack with incredibly biased “news” reports where they interview only those against the Church’s “controversial” policy that dates back too…oh…when the Old Testament says “In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” In this one they find a former Catholic student turned trans and a priest who doesn’t wear a collar. This clever man child doesn’t want to say he doesn’t believe Church teaching so he questions the “tone” of the policy. That’s how they always attack because they are cowards who operate exclusively in darkness and hiss at the light, unless that light is from a camera.
It always amazes me how this is controversial. This is something EVERYONE believed up until about four years ago when the left needed a new cudgel to attack Christians.
March 16, 2022 at 2:17 pm
If gender is a social construct then we can ignore gender and only pay attention to biological sex.
March 17, 2022 at 6:08 pm
Thank you Archbishop Listecki,
No one can say there were not guidelines to be followed.
March 19, 2022 at 6:04 am
Transgenderism is a psychological illness. Those charlatans who push and support this lie of there being more than one gender and hoist it on people who are weak of mind and have dysphoria will have to answer to God someday for leading people astray. People who think themselves a gender other than the one they were born with need our prayers . They are ill. They are being used by others for their own purpose.
One does not support kleptomania but tries to help someone overcome that passion. We do not supply alcohol to an alcoholic but again, we try to help them overcome their addiction. It is time to stop those pushing this madness. There is no transgender. That would imply that some has successfully become a gender that is opposite their biological sex. That has not happened. So stop calling it transgender. It is an illness. Period. Stop calling homosexuals gay. It only helps perpetuate the lie that homosexuality is good and normal when it is not. Gay and transgender are two words coined by people who are ill and do not realize they are.
Pray and help these people and don’t validate their illnesses as good and normal when it isn’t and by accepting and playing into their hands.
March 19, 2022 at 5:26 pm
Always use quotation marks with “transgender” (also “trans,” “trannie,” etc.) to signify that it is a faux term since nobody can change their genders. In conversation, be sure to make it clear that the term is not accepted and won’t be acknowledged for the same reason. Don’t ever give in on this, even for so-called politeness reasons. Apply the same approach to the despicable, anti-freedom-of-speech insistence that people must deny objective reality and refer to other people by their “chosen pronouns” that do not coincide with their biological/gender realities. Also note that gender is not fluid as too many yahoos ignorantly declare, and no matter what “study” they may cite that “supports” their fantasies.
Also, nobody has “transitioned” or is in the process of “transitioning” from one sex to another. Such is impossible, so this must also be resisted and made clear that it is merely a fantasy that also attacks objective reality.
Moreover, ever since the 13th century, the word gender has been properly recognized as a synonym for the biological sexes, and so this rightful understanding of gender must not be surrendered to the “transgender” movement since they use their preferred popular yet still false definition of gender as a social construct and/or feelings a person has that may or may not coincide with their biological sex/gender to further promote their despicable agenda. Many years ago the late, great Reverend William Smith frequently advised that “all social engineering is preceded by verbal engineering.” The more we give in to the use of such malevolent and false terminology (no matter how many doctors, psychologists, church leaders, and so on believe otherwise), the more we help to normalize the abuse of properly recognizing God’s creative order of male and female.