The audience with Francis, which took place on January 24 at 5 p.m., came after Francis had twice personally telephoned the woman, who now calls herself Diego, after she had written to Francis to complain that her parish priest had condemned her purported “sex-change” and that she felt “emarginated in the Church.” The first call was made on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the second in the days before Christmas, when Francis personally invited “Diego” and her so-called fiancée to visit him at the Vatican.

So we have a Pope who grants a personal audience to a “transsexual couple” while refusing to meet with the founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, whose flourishing Catholic order he destroyed, or the lone traditional Argentinian bishop he summarily removed from a diocese with many vocations because of opposition from Argentina’s progressive-dominated episcopate, which is driving Catholics from the Church by the millions.

This is an addendum to Chris Ferrara's powerful new article, "Rabbitgate: Could This Be a Good Thing?", to appear in the next print edition of The Remnant. Subscribe today and never miss another Remnant article!