As Pope Francis moves to cement his legacy, he has opened the Vatican to a new community – transgender sex workers. It is a part of a broader outreach toward the LGBTQ+ community that has stirred anger and controversy inside the Catholic Church.
Laura Esquivel, a transgender woman from Paraguay, prays inside the Church of the Immaculate Blessed Virgin in Torvaianica, Italy.
Rome bureau chief Anthony Faiola met a number of these women and joins “Post Reports” to talk about how these meetings came about and the When Francis was elected in 2013, it was clear he would be an unconventional pope. He was more casual than his predecessors and often rejected the fineries of his office.
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