Transgender people can be godparents at Roman Catholic baptisms, witnesses at religious weddings and receive baptism themselves, the Vatican's doctrinal office said on Wednesday.
Yeah I have to say that I generally don’t know jack from shit when it comes to the Catholic church, living in an overwhelmingly Protestant country, and that’s if people can even be bothered with religion, so all I really had were negative stereotypes. Don’t often see the Catholic church in the news unless it’s about something bad.
So this move definitely felt surprising to me, although eg. the part about baptizing transgender folks being OK as long as there’s “no risk of causing a public scandal or disorientation among the faithful” was a bit, well… I guess funny is the wrong word. How does one assess the risk of a transgender person’s baptism disorienting the faithful? What does thst even mean?
Seriously, there are a lot of negative stereotypes about the Catholic church that I think Pope Francis is basically dunking pretty hard
Yeah I have to say that I generally don’t know jack from shit when it comes to the Catholic church, living in an overwhelmingly Protestant country, and that’s if people can even be bothered with religion, so all I really had were negative stereotypes. Don’t often see the Catholic church in the news unless it’s about something bad.
So this move definitely felt surprising to me, although eg. the part about baptizing transgender folks being OK as long as there’s “no risk of causing a public scandal or disorientation among the faithful” was a bit, well… I guess funny is the wrong word. How does one assess the risk of a transgender person’s baptism disorienting the faithful? What does thst even mean?