Minnesota school shooting gunman kills 2 children, injures 17 others during Catholic mass

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No. You are making assumptions contrary to the reality of the situation.
The person was male. Disturbed, perhaps. But that does not entitle them to their own reality.

I think you are over-impossing your sense of reality on other people.
There is no real base to associate certain behaviors with biological gender.
Like, men are better at math or abstract thinking. Or men are more calm than women, or they are less emotional.
There is no base what so ever for gender roles.
There is no reality in that.
From where do you derive authority to say what people are entitled to?
You are making your own arguments, presenting them as if they were part of catechism.

Just plain incorrect.
The church has never considered the proclivity toward a particular a particular sin to be a sin.

In 1986, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) of the Catholic Church published Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.
"Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder".

Although not written in the catechism, at that time, there was a general belief that homosexual children could be the result of bad families, especially divorced or separated parents. There was a lot of blame lay on parents- for example a father that did not represent well the gender role of a male, and that resulted in homosexual children. I know of marriages that fell apart because of this, both parents blaming each other.
The attitude changed when research showed that it was not a choice to be homosexual and that it was determine at gestation. at that point. it was accepted that it was not a disorder. The Church changed the pastoral mission to support parents and helping them accept their children. (Pastoral letter in 1997, for example)
I can't say how grateful I am for that change, because it made the church a more compassionate place.

Truth also means speaking truth. Not using confusing language to support a delusion.

No one here has made such a judgment. But it would be unwise to pretend that the condition of this individual did not play a part in these events.

to say that Robin Westman was delusional because she felt like a woman, is judgemental- as there is no base to make such claim. There is no point explaining because you will proceed to attack

Supporting a delusion is not charitable. It is, in fact, a lie.

Yet you consistently use confusing language to support the delusion that this individual was not male. And then claim to know what this individual wanted.


That means speaking truthfully.
There are ways to speak with compassion the truth. But supporting the delusion is not one of them.

As I stated above, you do not have authority to proclaim this a delusion and respecting people's choices is the only proper way.

Doctrine does not change.

Actually doctrine has changed. You will probably argue that Vatican II is not valid. (not real?, a delusion?)
Lucky me, I can always count on Galileo.
There are naturally, many other changes. In most cases, it is called a reinterpretation in light of new circumstances- like the case of usury and charging interest rates for loans. This was a controversial topic once. I graduated from a Catholic University, economists had to take a course on Social doctrine of the Church. There was one class dedicated to interest rates and that discussion. So, yes, scientific results that become accepted mainstream can trigger reinterpretations of Catholic Teachings.

But I really do not care to have a discussion with you, it is conducive to nothing as all you want is hammer your opinion on me and are not willing to consider any argument, which I know is accepted by good Catholic theologians, if it does not accord with your view of the world. Fair, you can chose how you live your life. Just do not call it truth, to have the truth, one has to be willing to consider all options and be open to change, because knowledge is updated, just as Catholic teaching is. Truth requires us to be willing to get out of our comfort zone and listen with true compassion- that is why truth and compassion are one and the same.
I answered because I was appalled at your lack of compassion, at the arrogance of thinking you know better than everybody what reality is, and at your willingness to ignore relevant facts in the case of Robin Westman, in order to push a narrative with little base that transgender people would be very probable to do mass shootings.