Nun celebrates her Catholic schools’ leadership in allowing transgender students
While controversy still swirls over a contentious new program to admit "transgender" students to Catholic schools , a nun who serves as the superintendent is touting the process as putting the diocese "in the lead." Jefferson City is “a pioneer among other U.S. dioceses ,” the LGBT blog Proud Parenting says, citing the controversial “ Pastoral Process of Accompaniment and Dialogue .” The LGBT blog pulled from a Jefferson City News Tribune report over the weekend that said the superintendent of schools, Sister Elizabeth Youngs , viewed the diocese as a forerunner among other U.S. dioceses because of the accompaniment and dialogue program. Critics of the process say it was crafted clandestinely and that neither parents nor priests in charge of parishes with schools were consulted. They say as well that it pushes gender ideology, upends Christian morality , scandalizes children in diocesan schools, and makes the diocese remiss in addressing poten