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Vatican says 'no' to transsexual godparents amid Spain controversy...
(CNA/EWTN News).- A media firestorm arose
in Spain after a transsexual woman, who considers herself a man, asked to be
the godfather of her nephew – leading a diocese's bishop to turn to the Vatican
for an answer.
After writing to the Vatican's Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith about the issue earlier this month, Bishop Rafael
Zornoza Boy of Cádiz and Ceuta was told that since transsexual persons are not
consistently living Church teaching, its “impossible” for them to fulfill their
duties as a godparent.
The bishop wrote the letter after Alex
Salinas, 21 years-old and born a woman, had requested to be the godfather of
her nephew.
In their response, the congregation –
charged with safeguarding Catholic teaching – said that it is “impossible to
allow” a person with transsexual behavior to be a baptismal godmother or
godfather.
In a Sept. 1 statement, the bishop said he
turned to the Vatican due to “confusion among some of the faithful” and “the
complexity and media attention garnered by this issue,” as well as the pastoral
implications the decision has.
In the Vatican’s full response – which the
bishop provided in his statement – the congregation explained that transsexual
behavior “reveals in a public way an attitude opposite to the moral imperative
of solving the problem of sexual identity according to the truth of one's own
sexuality.”
“Therefore it is evident that this person
does not possess the requirement of leading a life according to the faith and
in the position of godfather and is therefore unable to be admitted to the
position of godfather or godmother,” they said, referring to canon 874 §3 in
the Code of Canon Law.
However, the congregation stressed that
there is “no discrimination toward (Alex), but only the recognition of an
objective lack of the requirements, which by their nature are necessary to
assume the ecclesial responsibility of being a godfather.”
In his statement, Bishop Zornoza points out
that the role of godparents in the sacrament of baptism is assumed “before God
and his Church and, in relation to the baptized, the duty of cooperating with
the parents in (the child's) Christian formation, seeking to lead a life
consistent with baptismal faith and faithfully fulfilling the inherent
obligations.”
Godparents must be “firm believers, able
and ready to help the newly baptized – child or adult – on the road of
Christian life,” the statement continues, referring to paragraph 1255 of the
Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The bishop also suggested that if
candidates meeting the requirements to be a godparent are not found, the
baptism can still be celebrated in the same form, since the figure of
godparents is not necessary in this sacrament.
Bishop Zorzona recalled Pope Francis' words
in his environment encyclical Laudato Si, in which the Pope said that “valuing
one’s own body in its femininity or masculinity is necessary if I am going to
be able to recognize myself in an encounter with someone who is different.”
“In this way we can joyfully accept the
specific gifts of another man or woman, the work of God the Creator, and find
mutual enrichment,” the Pope said, adding that “it is not a healthy attitude
which would seek to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how
to confront it.”
At the close of his statement, Bishop
Zorzona emphasized that “the Church welcomes all persons with charity, desiring
to help each one in their situation with tender mercy, but without denying the
truth she preaches, which is offered to everyone as a path of faith to be
freely accepted.”
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