Tagged: Sister Luisa Derouen

"We are the Church!" Sister Derouen's journey with transgender people

Reportage by David Van Biema* published on the Outreach website (USA) on August 19, 2024 and freely translated by Diego and Ilaria de La Tenda di Gionata, eleventh and final part is a day of early gray and rainy summer in New York. Sister Derouen, in contrast, wears a lively turquoise tunic with black pants, dancers and the pendant of the nuns of peace. A...

"In the depth of my being." Sister Derouen's journey with trans people

Reportage by David Van Biema* published on the Outreach website (USA) on August 19, 2024 and freely translated by Luigi, Valeria and Ilaria de La Tenda di Gionata, ninth part Derouen states that Archbishop Cordileone still seems to have some doubts about the fact that transgender people are a distinct and identifiable group with identity identity and needs, rather, rather, from ...

"Go ahead but in silence." Sister Derouen's journey with trans people

Reportage by David Van Biema* published on the Outreach website (USA) on August 19, 2024 and freely translated by Luigi, Valeria and Ilaria de La Tenda di Gionata, seventh part in July 2002, on the occasion of a retreat in Philadelphia for transgender people and their partners, Sister Derouen spoke of "claiming life through suffering". He made his debut with what, for that ...

"What did God tell you?" Sister Derouen's journey with trans people

Reportage by David Van Biema* published on the Outreach website (USA) on August 19, 2024 and freely translated by Luigi, Valeria and Ilaria de La Tenda di Gionata, sixth part in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Eucharistic missionaries went away from the city. Derouen therefore decided to continue his ministry in Tucson, Arizona. Tucson was a transgender community ...

The beginning of my pastoral care. Sister Derouen's journey with trans people

Reportage by David Van Biema* published on the Outreach website (USA) on August 19, 2024 and freely translated by Luigi, Valeria and Ilaria de La Tenda di Gionata, fourth part Sharp advised Sister Derouen of the readings, presented it to various support groups and introduced it into a chat room of the transgender people (at that time there were already the chat rooms). The...