Transgender people can be baptized in the Catholic Church and serve as godparents, per an official Vatican document published Wednesday.

Why it matters: The decision builds on Pope Francis’ support for LGBTQ+ people, who have faced marginalization from the church — though the pope has previously approved a Vatican doctrine that Catholic priests cannot bless same-sex unions because God “does not and cannot bless sin.”

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    1 year ago

    Makes me wonder if a previous Pope had to specifically decree that left-handed people can be baptized. I swear people will invent the most bizarre and arbitrary rules to exclude people who are different in some way and then pretend the rule they just made up appears verbatim in whatever book they think God wrote.

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      1 year ago

      The primary existence of the Pope just seems to be a social update system. Because of the whole divine appointment nonsense, whatever the Pope says is supposed to be from the lips of God. But the only thing I’ve ever seen that used for was for nutty stuff by nutty popes and these types of decrees. Basically just updating the Bible to what’s currently socially acceptable.

      The Pope is literally just a religious version of Windows Update. For a God that’s supposedly infallible and never makes mistakes, no less.

      The whole thing makes no fuckin sense.

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        1 year ago

        Someone should let the Pope know that diddling kids and hiding people who diddle kids isn’t socially acceptable.