Catholic college defends hosting 'Trans Day of Remembrance' event

A Catholic assemblage successful Illinois is lasting its crushed aft advertizing and hosting a "Trans Day of Remembrance" lawsuit successful November. 

The gathering, held astatine Benedictine University, took spot connected Nov. 20. That time is the nationalist "Trans Day of Remembrance," which "honors the representation of the transgender radical whose lives were mislaid successful acts of anti-transgender violence," according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

"Led by Mission & Ministry and Safe Space we travel unneurotic successful observance of International Trans Day of Remembrance, remembering those whose lives person been mislaid owed to anti-trans violence," says a graphic from the schoolhouse promoting the event. "May we grant the dignity of each idiosyncratic done the emotion of God and heavy attraction of community."

Angela Hall connected the spot of the erstwhile Benedictine University connected North Fifth Street successful Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, November 16, 2021. The gathering was sold to Destiny Church. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via Imagn)

The graphic includes a punctuation from the precocious Fr. Mychal Judge, a cheery clergyman and chaplain for the FDNY who died connected 9/11 portion ministering to firefighters and victims aft the World Trade Center's North Tower was attacked successful New York City. He is known arsenic "Victim 0001," the archetypal recorded 9/11 casualty.

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"If nary 1 told you contiguous that they emotion you ... you're ever held and loved by God," the graphic says, attributing the punctuation to Judge.

Benedictine University, not to beryllium confused with Benedictine College, a Catholic schoolhouse successful Kansas, sponsors a "Safe Space" programme done its Office of Belonging that "aims to assistance faculty/staff make the indispensable knowledge, skills, and resources to make harmless spaces astatine BenU and marque our field much welcoming and inclusive to LGBTQ+ individuals and communities."

"We enactment to beryllium a assemblage characterized by the highest standards of empathy and absorption to each forms of hatred. We invited LGBTQ+ persons with sincerity of bosom and generosity," the Safe Space webpage says.

Demonstrators transportation signs and flags successful enactment of transgender radical during the Trans March successful Boise, Idaho, connected Sept. 13, 2024.  (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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It besides lists officially trained "Safe Space Allies" connected campus, a premix of module and unit ranging from deans to professors to the school's manager of facilities management. The leafage lists 60 full "Safe Space Allies" connected the school's Illinois campus. Benedictine besides has a field successful Mesa, Arizona.

The Catholic Church does not officially admit cheery matrimony oregon transgender individuality arsenic portion of its doctrine.

In a lengthy connection to Fox News Digital, Benedictine University defended the event. 

"At Benedictine University, we judge that honoring the dignity of each idiosyncratic and praying for those who person died are cardinal expressions of our Catholic and Benedictine identity," the connection said. "The caller lawsuit was archetypal and foremost a supplication work to grant lives lost. It was a solemn remembrance rooted successful Catholic societal teaching and content successful the inherent and ineffable dignity possessed by each person, created successful the representation of God."

Demonstrators show a "Protect Trans Rights" emblem during a protest. (Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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"This prayerful contented of remembrance has been observed connected our field since 2018, reflecting our enduring committedness to these principles. Everyone deserves respect, love, safety, and justice," the connection continued. "Every beingness deserves profound reverence. Every beingness mislaid deserves to beryllium remembered. When we witnesser suffering, injustice, and violence, it’s our work to love. This is what our University stands for.

"We stay committed to being a assemblage wherever each consciousness safe, respected, and welcomed, and wherever we tin travel unneurotic successful prayer, particularly successful moments of sorrow."