The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has clarified doubts about whether transgender and homosexual persons can be godparents, witnesses at Catholic marriages and be baptized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vatican published this document in response to the doubts presented by Bishop Jos\u00e9 Negri of Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GODPARENTS OR WITNESSES AT WEDDINGS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dicastery says there is nothing in current universal canon law that forbids transgender and homosexual persons who live together from being witnesses to Catholic marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The document also references the Code of Canon Law regarding whether they can be godparents at baptisms. In order to be a godfather or godmother, one must have and it is necessary that the person chosen as a sponsor In this sense, homosexual and transgender persons could be a baptismal godparent. The same applies in the case of those who<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026have undergone hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Doctrine of the Faith also says pastoral prudence should be used in the assignment of godparents to avoid situations, like same-sex couples living together, that could lead to: The Dicastery also applies this to the case of baptism for adult transgender persons. It says they can be baptized but that attention should be paid to the<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026 objective moral situation in which a person finds himself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES WITH CHILDREN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The document also responds to whether a homosexual couple can be listed as parents of a child to be baptized, even if the child was born through surrogacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Dicastery's response focuses on the child's right to be baptized: The document once again recalls articles of the Code of Canon Law. These insist that in order to baptize a child it is important that at least one of the child's parents desires the baptism. The law uses the word \"parents\" in a broad sense, including whoever is legally responsible for the child and not necessarily the biological parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JRB The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has released a document clarifying questions on whether transgender and homosexual persons can be godparents, witnesses at Catholic marriages and be baptized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":62359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nwHdYTBAdXc","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbattesimotransepadriniomosessualieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbattesimotransepadriniomosessualiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62364,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62362\/revisions\/62364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201c\u2026capacity for this mission and intention to carry it out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cleads (\u2026) a life congruent with the faith and with the mission he\/she is going to assume.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDangers of scandal, of undue legitimization or of disorientation in the educational sphere of the ecclesial community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor a child to be baptized there must be a well-founded hope that he or she will be educated in the Catholic religion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
TR: AT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"