LA archdiocese’s religious ed conference infested with transgender ideology

March 21, 2018 (Joseph Sciambra) – On March 16, 2018, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, during its annual Religious Education Congress, offered a workshop entitled "Transgender in Our Schools: One Bread, One Body." The moderator was Arthur Fitzmaurice, and the presenters included Shen Heckel, a female-to-male transsexual; Peggy Ehling, a Catholic mother whose daughter was born a biological female but identifies as male; and Bryan Massingale, a professor of theology at Fordham University. Fitzmaurice is openly gay and currently (since 2010) serves as resource director for the dissident Catholic Association of Lesbian and Gay Ministries (CALGM). Concerning the Catechism and the statement that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered," Fitzmaurice wrote: "The language certainly still needs to change. It is gravely evil language." In 2012, board members of CALGM, including Fitzmaurice, refused to sign an "oath of personal integrity" to Catholic teaching. In 2016, Fitzmaurice signed an …