Transgender Hermit Announcement Poses Questions About Church’s Teaching on Religious Life
Mathew McDonald & Joe Bukuras.
National Catholic Register
May 24, 2024.
Bishop John Stowe’s willingness to approve the hermit’s profession raises issues that might warrant Vatican intervention.
A hermit in Kentucky who publicly identified as transgender this past weekend has prompted questions about how the Catholic Church should deal with such cases in religious life given the Church’s opposition to what Pope Francis has called “gender ideology.”…