A top Vatican official has denied claims that Pope Leo “snubbed” trans activists at the Jubilee Lunch for the Poor.

Forty-eight trans women attended the annual lunch with Leo XIV on Sunday (16 November), alongside about 1,300 other guests, including migrants, and homeless and disabled people.

Unlike the previous two years, none of the transgender guests were placed on the top table for the lunch, which is seen as a symbol of outreach to marginalised communities. However, papal almoner cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who organised the event, rejected any suggestions of an intentional snub.

He told The Washington Post that places on the top table “were given to poor parishioners who had attended an earlier eucharist”. The trans activists arrived later and “sat elsewhere”, he added.

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