This year, the Vatican’s philosophical office published a document outlining how transgender people can be baptized and offer as godparents in some situations.
The three-page document was created in response to Portuguese Bishop Jose Negri’s ask for clarification from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in July regarding the function of LGBT persons in baptism and matrimony. It was approved by Pope Francis on October 31 and posted online in Portuguese and Italian on Wednesday.
People who have undergone transgender medical procedures or taken cross-sex hormones may be baptized under the direction, which was signed by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandéz, as long as” there are no circumstances in which there is a chance of generating open scandal or restlessness among the faithful.”
According to a language of the Catholic Catechism by the Vatican News, when christening “is received without contrition for burial sins,” the issue does not collect sanctifying grace, though they do receive the holy character.
The report also states that queer lovers’ children can be baptized if there is” a well-founded hope that he or she may be brought up in the Catholic church,” even when they are conceived through infertility.
The guidance stated that it” can become allowed under specific conditions” to serve as the godparent of a child who has been baptized, but added that doing so would be against the law and that “pastoral prudence would require it to be prohibited if there were any risk of scandal, unfair legitimization, or confusion in the episcopal community’s academic sphere.”
The guidance advises that the person may be living” a life in conformity with the faith and the task he or she assumes” in order to function as the godparent of a blessed child. This is in relation to the question of whether or not this person is queer or married.
Nothing “in existing common canonical legislation,” according to the Vatican, prohibits trans-identified people from serving as witnesses to a marriage, and that such is so permitted.
The report, according to Nicholas P. Cafardi, a cannon attorney in Pennsylvania, indicates” no ideological changes,” but it is “typical of Francis’s entire pope — especially, it takes very agricultural approach to some very thorny issues of the church today,” The New York Times reported.
Father Brian Graebe, a preacher with the Archdiocese of New York, agreed with Cafardi when he said on Fox News Digital that “nothing in the report contradicts church doctrines,” despite his issue that it is “deficient.”
Graebe expressed his disappointment that the document did not state that proper biological pronouns should be used during the baptismal sacrament, saying,” The problem is n’t so much in what it says as in that which it leaves unsaid.”
Transgender philosophy has received criticism from Pope Francis, who called it “one of the most dangerous intellectual colonizations” in a March interview with La Nacion.
At the time, he pointed out that no one had already asked him to write a report outlining the Catholic Church’s gender-related teachings, but that endorsing LGBT ideology and showing compassion for those who struggle with sexuality or gender are two different things.
He said,” I always make a distinction between gender ideology and pastoral care for people with different physical orientations.” ” They are distinct from one another.” One of the most hazardous intellectual colonizations at the moment is female ideology.
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