Cardinal explains seating of ‘transgender’ activist at papal luncheon
November 20, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Konrad Krajewski has dismissed suggestions that the Vatican deliberately snubbed a group of “transgender” activists by neglecting to seat them with Pope Leo at a head table for the Jubilee Lunch for the Poor on November 16.
At past luncheons the activists had been seated with Pope Francis. But on this occasion they were given other seats. Cardinal Krajewski, the papal almoner, explained that seats at the head table had been given to people who had attended a Mass before the luncheon; the activist had not.
Cardinal Krajewski stressed that the activists were welcome at the luncheon, “because they’re an integral part of the Church, that is all.”
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