I am sorry, what?
If it did not cause scandal or “disorientation” among other Catholics, a transgender person “may receive baptism under the same conditions as other faithful,” the document said.
How is this allowing anything? The hardliners among Catholics will just always see it as a scandal. So if you are a religious transgender person you need to find a community where everyone is quite open minded to this. How nice…
There is a lot of division in the Catholic Church right now, because of the strict traditionalists that are now in it.
I see progress here, though, because now they are acknowledging that the issue with accepting transgender people is with the “disorientation” among the congregation, not with anything disqualifying about the Trans person themselves. Prior popes would have called them “disordered” and “unnatural” and excluded them with vigor.
Catholic church moves glacially on everything. They didn’t jail Galileo because they actually disagreed with him on anything, but rather because he was trying to jump in immediately (and being a dick about it).
Now, jailing a person for moving too fast and being a dick isn’t a good thing to do. Neither is further perpetuating ostracism of LGBTQ+ folk just because they want to introduce change slowly. But at least they’re consistent about it.
Seems to me like an attempt to placate the conservatives while allowing room for progressives.
Won’t be very successful.
He can claim that all he wants, while quietly telling clergy not to. Go to Latin America or anywhere in the Catholic third world and ask a priest to baptize a trans person, see how that goes for you
I think that’s part of why he is being so careful with language, it’s in line with him coming out to say homosexuality is not a crime earlier this year.
Hopefully this is just paving the way for further change but when the Church holds a lot of power in countries where lgbtq+ people are outlawed and heavily oppressed I can see why he’s slowly introducing ideas like it’s not against the law and being permissible to baptise.
I’m no fan of the RCC but if the pope quickly does a full 180 on these issues the church will likely fracture and the countries where things are pretty extreme will break away and, double down on the persecution and allow it to become an identity marker.
I’m a strong atheist, vehemently ex-Catholic, and a member of Team Rainbow, just so that no one thinks I’m defending indefensible things. And I agree that this is going to make little change in the behavior of most parishes, especially in heavily Catholic countries. I don’t think that’ll be due to the pope, though.
The Catholic Church has always taken an openly violent stance against LGBT people. They still do. I consider even the position of more liberal Catholics who take the position that it’s just like any other sin and can send you to hell but still reject all the social war stuff as wishing violence, although they’re not really problematic.
But Francis has gone out of his way more than any pope I can remember to be a progressive reformer. I’m not comparing it to Vatican II or anything, but it’s significant progress on issues like women and LGBT. He’s resisted by a lot of the politics of the church, but as the chief god-person he has some flexibility. So I think it’s less about him speaking one thing in public and another in private, and more about a conservative institution that will not implement his orders (such as they are).
Maybe that will speed up the process of religion dying off
I don’t think I will ever forgive Christianity for inventing a doctrine of an afterlife where babies who died during childbirth are to be tortured. They could have invented anything, and they went with that.
Good for the Vatican. That would never be said before.
And even if it wasn’t “okay” for them to be baptized, under Christian faith only God has the privilege of judgement.
Romans 14:
14 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. 2 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. 4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master[a] that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
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10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written,
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13 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
You can’t call yourself a Christian, of any denomination, while at the same time judging others or bemoaning them as blasphemous, or denying them their rights, or putting them down, or putting obstacles in their way and making their life difficult just because you judge them as wrong.
Its great to have such a modern pope. He understands the current world, and I really think highly of him.
If only the government in the nation that embeds the Vatican City would follow…
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Not surprising. Religious people have a problem acknowledging reality as well, LMAO.
Not surprising. Religious people have a problem acknowledging reality as well, LMAO.
I’m always a little confused by people who seem to think that the reality of biological sex is some sort of profound argument that precludes the social construct of gender. Indeed, the definition of “transgender” essentially requires the factual nature of biological sex, or there would be nothing to be across from.
They know. The difference between sex and gender has been explained to the point of nausea. They are over simplifying on purpose; if you are willing to lie to make your point, there is no bottom to how simple you can make your argument, while the truth has a lower limit on simplicity.
Thank you for the share, that is an EXCELLENT video. Gonna have to hear more from this channel!
He’s got a lot of great points. Even when you know the subject already, he often has a perspective on it you might not have considered.
And FUCK YES, he’s on Nebula.
