Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, 63, of Naples, Italy, wrote the foreword to the book 'Transgender People'. He believes that the Church is called to "renew its gaze upon humanity".
The book deals with “complex and sensitive issues,” he writes. His examples are “gender dysphoria, transgender identities, and life experiences that do not conform to traditional models.” This raises “profound questions - including for the Church.”
Cardinal Battaglia proposes “a path not of condemnation, but of accompaniment”: “No one is excluded from God’s heart.”
And: “No life is foreign to the mystery of salvation.”
“Every person, every story - even those that seem distant or difficult to understand - carries within it the possibility of a revelation.”
The book “reminds us that behind ideas there are people. People whom we must encounter, listen to, and accompany.”
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