If you’re confused about the meaning of gender identity, Anderson says it’s “the concept that the body does not determine one’s identity, and that your identity with respect to gender is somehow determined by something else.” The definition of that “something else” has evolved. Anderso...
At this stage, the person can be granted the title "Servant of God." Further details and research are needed for them to be recognized as "Venerable," the next stage in canonization. The following step is beatification, when someone is declared "Blessed." This usually requires that the ...
“The first time I met Léon Bloy was at the train station in Lagny, in 1901.” Lagny or Lagny-sur-Marne or, as Léon Bloy later put it, “Cochons-sur-Marne” (“cochons” meaning “pigs” in French). Bloy goes into day-after-day detail about the struggles he lived through there...