Pope Francis invited a group of transgender women to a Vatican luncheon late last week in celebration of the Catholic Church‘s World Day of the Poor.
The group was among the 1,200 poor or homeless in attendance at the luncheon.
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The transgender community developed a stronger relationship with the Catholic Church when the strict COVID-19 lockdowns in the Italian town of Torvaianica led starving transgender sex workers to show up at the Rev. Andrea Conocchia’s local parish.
“Before, the church was closed to us. They didn’t see us as normal people, they saw us as the devil,” one member of the group, Andrea Paola Torres Lopez, reportedly said.
“Thanks to God and to him and all those who helped us in the pandemic, when in bad shape, and on top of that, he is Argentinian like me,” another attendee said on the bus headed to the Vatican.
“This is a fantastic opportunity for us transexuals,” Claudia Vittoria Salas, an Argentine transgender tailor and house cleaner, said. “I send the Pope a big kiss!”
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The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued guidance earlier this month that transgender people can receive baptism and be godparents and witnesses at religious weddings.
“I think the fact that Pope Francis today allows us to approach baptism with this legislation, or to perhaps take care of our best friend’s child, or of friends who ask us to be godfather or godmother, is something that makes us transgender [people] feel more human,” Argentine sex worker Carla Segovia said of the pope.
