{"id":216788,"date":"2022-02-26T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rejection-or-welcome-transgender-catholics-encounter-both"},"modified":"2022-02-26T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:06:51","slug":"rejection-or-welcome-transgender-catholics-encounter-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rejection-or-welcome-transgender-catholics-encounter-both","title":{"rendered":"Rejection or welcome: Transgender Catholics encounter both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 of 7For transgender Catholics across the United States, retaining their faith can entail complex calculations. They face rebukes from some fellow Catholics, including many bishops, yet find full acceptance in some premises of the church.A small but growing number of parishes have formed LGBTQ support groups and welcome transgender people on their own terms. Yet within the past two years, at least six Catholic dioceses have issued guidelines targeting trans people with restrictions and refusing to recognize their gender identity.&#8220;Many of our bishops are anti-science. &#8230; They are cold and cruel,&#8221; said Sister Luisa Derouen, a retired nun who has ministered to trans people. &#8220;You can&#8217;t respect people and deny their existence at the same time.&#8221;The latest policy targeting trans Catholics was issued by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in January. It bars church personnel from using trans people&#8217;s preferred pronouns that reflect their gender identity.Objecting to trans-supportive &#8220;gender theory,&#8221; the policy stipulates that &#8220;all interactions and policies, parishes, organizations,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For transgender Catholics across the United States, retaining their faith can entail complex calculations. They face rebukes from some fellow Catholics, including many bishops, yet find full acceptance in some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,291],"tags":[69,55],"class_list":["post-216788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}