The document issued on Monday by the Vatican puts human dignity at the center of Catholic life, but in doing so, it broaches some of the most difficult and sensitive social issues, those that Pope Francis has spent his papacy avoiding.
On Monday, though, his church leaned hard into them in the document, called “Infinite Dignity.” It argued that the exploitation of the poor, the outcast and the vulnerable amounted to an erosion of human dignity.
Catholics to receive blessings from priests and transgender people to be baptized and act as godparents, has a limit: Catholic doctrine.
The pope’s conservative critics have for a decade argued that his tendency to speak off the cuff and in overly welcoming ways toward L.G.B.T.Q.
people, the divorced and remarried, along with others who sin in the church’s eyes, had sent the wrong signal.
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