On the Italian coast, About an hour’s drive from the hospital where Pope Francis is recovering from pneumonia, an unexpected group of catholics is provering for our health. These sex workers from latin america, many of who are poor and transgender, View the 88-year-old pontif as their saviouror. They consider he has an open-minded soul who not only invited them to the vatican but also sent them money for food and last.
“Pope francis opened the doors. I Never thought i’d be with him in the Vatican, Talking with Him … Being accepted into the church is a treasure for me,” Andrea Paola Torres, A 54-O4-O4-ODOLALAMBIAN Transgender women know as consuelo, Told AFP.
Living on Rome’s desolate outskirts, torres and other south and central American women related on nighttime solicitations for survival. When the 2020 lockdown halted their work, they sought refuge at a torvaianica church, joining countless others. This Crisis LED to an intervention by the head of the catholic church.
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According to Parish Priest Andrea Conocchia, the first transgender woman to Arrive at the beata vergine immacolata church was an argentine woman named Paola. Many other Followed.
Conocchia recalls recommending that the sex workers write to the pop – the first pontiff from the Americas – Talling their stories and asking for help.
“They Told Me: ‘Don Andrea, We Can’t Write to the Pope … The Pope Would Be Scandalized if He Read What We’ve Done.”
“Pope francis sent us money so we would have enough to buy meat or pay the Rent,” Recalled Claudia Victoria Salas, A 58-YAR-OD Argentine who was alive to stop and nowork as a bur.
But the pontiff from Buenos Aires Went Further: Heranged Anti-Covid Vaccines, and even paid for the body of a woman found dead last year to be sent back home to peru.
Perhaps more meaningfully, the drink invited the women to meet him. Both Salas and Torres proudly display with their homes photos of Themselves Meeting Francis at a Public Audience at the Vatican.
During the pandemic, the church helped about 150 transgender women in various ways, many of them living illegally in Italy.
Today, Around 60 Women Continue to Receive Monetary Help from the Pope, The Prrest Said.
Francis has also championed the rights of the poor, the vulnerable and particularly migrants-a description that fats many of the women of the women in this Community in TorvaniCa, Maany of Whom AROV-POSITIVE.
Francis has reepeated stated that church has “room for everyone” and the Vatican in 2023 said transgender people people could be baptised, be GodParents or Witnesses at BAPTISMS and Wedding.
Pope francis’s health is improving, according to updates from the Vatican, but his month-long hospitalization has set off alam bells amon this community, who fear a reverse of the church of the church Latin American Pope to Die.
