The “trans-women” of sister Monica are male homosexual prostitutes and drug-addicts who identify and dress themselves as women. “Trans-women” are transvestites – people who emotionally and psychologically feel that they belong to the opposite sex. Some transvestites have gone on to become “transgenders”, or those who undergo a full sex-change operation.
The controversial nun has focused her ministry on reaching out to the transgender community. She is a member of the Discaled Carmelite Order, a contemplative community.
“I feel that God wants me to accompany the wounded and that’s why I take responsibility. They often tell me I stand with them; it’s that I feel that from that place I can understand them. Because when we look at them from the other side, it’s impossible. I get in deep,” the sister adds.
She started her ministry in December 2005, when her bishop referred to her case Romina, a “trans-woman” who approached the church at the time and wanted to donate a tenth of her wages. Sister Monica narrates: “When the priest asked her where it came from, she told him from prostitution, and she explained that that was the only work she could get. At that point, the priest called me and told me about the case.”
Since then, she has focused her ministry on transgenders, and has affirmed that Pope Francis knows of the work she is carrying out and supports her. In the email that the Pope wrote to her, he said: “In Jesus’ time, the lepers were rejected like that. They [the trans women] are the lepers of these times. Don’t leave this work on the frontier that is yours.”
She told that Pope that was merely “making trouble”, as the Pope had called on young people during his trip to World Youth Day Brazil: “I told the Pope that, although he urged young people to make trouble, I’m the one who’s doing it.”
“At the heart of the matter with the problem of ‘transgenderism’ is confusion within the thinking of the ‘transgenderee’. Sex change is biologically impossible. Agreeing with them that this is a civil rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention (or hormone therapy) is in reality collaborating with them and promoting their mental disorder.” Dr. Berg to House of Commons Standing Cmte. on Justice and Human Rights Re: Bill C279 Canada
So what does she actually do with them? That’s what I want to know. What is ‘accompaniment’? Going with them down the path to hell? Holding their hand all the while? Isn’t the main idea to bring them back into the church, to the sacraments, to a life knowing, loving and serving God? To find redemption and salvation…That is what Our Lord offers us always. He also gave us free will, to choose. Last week was the Courage conference. Courage is the Catholic ministry to those with a samesex attraction. The purpose is to help them live a chaste and prayerful life. Mercy, forgiveness, redemption, all require cooperation, and most of all repentance. That means you know you have sinned, you don’t want to do that anymore, you are truly sorry for what you have done, and you want to make amends, restitution, and do penance. You don’t get mercy to continue living a sinful life.
As a Catholic, we need to pray for our Church, for the Pope, and to the Clergy. Let us all pray for one another