OSTIA, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis made a visit to a favored nun, and the circus group she lives among, who regularly brings transgender groups to meet the Pontiff during his weekly audiences.
In a statement issued to the Vatican press corps July 31, news of the Pope’s visit to Sister Geneviève Jeanningros in the Roman coastal town of Ostia was announced:
Today, July 31, Pope Francis left the Vatican and arrived in Ostia at 3 p.m. to visit Sister Geneviève Jeanningros, Little Sister of Jesus, and the community of carnies and circus performers at the Luna Park in Ostia Lido.
The Holy Father blessed a statue of Our Lady Patroness of the Traveling Show and Circus and greeted the families and children present.
BREAKING: #PopeFrancis today visited Sr Geneviève Jeanningros & the group of circus performers based at the Ostia Lido park who she lives w.
Sr. Jeanningros regularly brings trans groups from Torvaianica to meet #PopeFrancis, & bases her work from Ostia.
Photos: Vatican Media pic.twitter.com/I77DQ060Zc
— Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 (@MLJHaynes) July 31, 2024
Footage of the event was subsequently posted online by Vatican News’ social media portals, showing Pope Francis seated alongside Sr. Jeanningros greeting the members of the circus troupe and watching various performances that they staged for him.
Come omaggio al Papa un breve spettacolo di acrobazie, gag e palloncini pic.twitter.com/isKWjbpRtj
— Vatican News (@vaticannews_it) July 31, 2024
Jeanningros has lived in a trailer park with the circus performers in the coastal town of Ostia for over five decades. From here she has operated her “ministry,” which includes working as a religious alongside circus groups, homeless people and transgender individuals.
In recent years, the nun has cemented her long friendship with Pope Francis by monthly bringing groups of transgender individuals from the nearby town of Torvaiacina – a seaside town southwest of Rome infamous for its prostitution and drug trade – to the Pope’s weekly audiences, at which they are given seats of honor in the front row.
However, it seems from the sparse details provided by the Vatican about the pope’s visit – which was not listed on his calendar or pre-announced to the press corps – that Jeanningros’ transgender group was not present at the papal event in Ostia.
Jeanningros’ presence at the Vatican has increasingly become synonymous with the transgender or homosexual groups she brings with her.
She has been joined in her work of bringing the transgender groups to the Vatican by Father Andrea Conocchia, the Torvaiacina parish priest.
The Torvaiacina transgender group – mostly sex workers – first formed during the COVID-19 restrictions when they were without their regular form of income due to the restrictions, and thus gathered together in Torvaianica.
The group first came to Pope Francis’ attention when they wrote to him presenting their financial needs. In 2020, Francis instructed his almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to send money to the group after they contacted the Vatican for financial assistance.
Then on Holy Saturday 2021, Holy See officials brought the “transgender” individuals to the Vatican to receive the abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections. According to Juan Carlos Cruz, the openly homosexual man appointed by Francis to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, Francis instructed officials to “ask for their names, ask for anything they need, but do not ask them about their sex.”
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In 2022, Jeanningros led a group of transgender “women” to thank the pope for his actions for them during the COVID restrictions, and the relationship has continued since.
Most recently, she led a group of self-professed homosexuals, “transsexuals,” and others from Torvaianica to the weekly audience in early June before leading another group of homosexuals to meet him a week later.
Argentinian man “Carla” Segovia, currently living as a woman in the Torvaiacina group, said last November that “we transgenders (sic) here in Italy feel a bit more human because the fact that Pope Francis brings us closer to the Church is a beautiful thing.” His comments came as part of the much-publicized papal invite which they received to an annual Vatican lunch.
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Since the November luncheon, Francis told another of his favored pro-LGBT nuns – Sister Jeannine Gramick – that “transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society.”
“I think in the long run… Pope Francis is laying the groundwork for change in sexuality,” Gramick said last fall, in response to a question about the possibility for “substantial change in church teaching on homosexuality.”
Such a prediction could arguably be accurate, after Francis approved last November a groundbreaking document that argued that transgender individuals can be godparents in an apparent contradiction of Catholic morality and the Church’s Canon Law.
READ: Pope Francis says ‘trans’ people can be godparents, homosexual ‘parents’ can have children baptized