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Title: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 09, 2023, 05:28:41 AM
Vatican says transgender Catholics can be baptised
AFP (https://insiderpaper.com/author/afp/)
November 8, 2023 6:47 pm

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Transgender believers can be baptised in the Catholic Church, if it would not cause scandal or “confusion”, the Vatican said Wednesday, clarifying a sensitive area of doctrine.
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, tasked with promulgating and defending matters of Catholic faith, also raised no objections to baptism for the children of same-sex couples, either adopted or born through surrogacy.
The comments were made in a docuмent responding to questions from a Brazilian bishop, written on October 31 but only made public now.
It was approved by Pope Francis, who has repeatedly said the Church should be open to everyone, including LGBTQ believers.
However, he has made clear that he considers ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity “a sin, as is any sɛҳuąƖ act outside of marriage”.
Catholic teaching defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman in order to have children.
In the docuмent, the dicastery said transgender faithful “can receive baptism, under the same conditions of other faithful, if there is no situation in which there is a risk of generating public scandal or uncertainty among the faithful”.
This is true of someone who has undergone hormone treatment and/or sex reassignment surgery, it said.
In response to a question on whether a same-sex couple could be viewed as parents of a child who must be baptised, the dicastery said only there must be a “well-founded hope” that the child would be educated in the Catholic religion.


https://insiderpaper.com/vatican-says-transgender-catholics-can-be-baptised/
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 09, 2023, 05:36:51 AM
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“I’m going to get a boob job for the occasion!”
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 09, 2023, 05:43:47 AM
The prefect for the former CDF (now “dicastery” for the doctrine of the [conciliar] faith) raised no objections, so you should all be reassured.  After all, he’s in charge of [conciliar] orthodoxy, and the author of this book:

https://onepeterfive.com/full-text-art-kissing-pope-francis-ghostwriter-archbishop-tucho-fernandez/

They are rubbing our faces in it.

(https://i.imgur.com/V4ACjoX.png)

PS: Note the androgynous forms about to kiss: Are they both “men?”

The kinky Inquisitor begins:

I want to clarify that this book was not written so much based on my own experience, but based on the lives of people who kiss. In these pages I want to synthesize the popular feeling, what people feel when they think of a kiss, what mortals experience when they kiss.
For that I chatted at length with many people who have abundant experience in this area, and also with many young people who learn to kiss in their own way.
I also consulted many books, and I wanted to show how the poets talk about the kiss. So, trying to synthesize the immense richness of life, these pages emerged in favor of kissing. I hope that they help you kiss better, that they motivate you to release the best of your being in a kiss.”

🤢🤬😳
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 09, 2023, 06:06:56 AM
The prefect for the former CDF (now “dicastery” for the doctrine of the [conciliar] faith) raised no objections, so you should all be reassured.  After all, he’s in charge of [conciliar] orthodoxy, and the author of this book:

https://onepeterfive.com/full-text-art-kissing-pope-francis-ghostwriter-archbishop-tucho-fernandez/

They are rubbing our faces in it.

(https://i.imgur.com/V4ACjoX.png)

PS: Note the androgynous forms about to kiss: Are they both “men?”

The kinky Inquisitor begins:

I want to clarify that this book was not written so much based on my own experience, but based on the lives of people who kiss. In these pages I want to synthesize the popular feeling, what people feel when they think of a kiss, what mortals experience when they kiss.
For that I chatted at length with many people who have abundant experience in this area, and also with many young people who learn to kiss in their own way.
I also consulted many books, and I wanted to show how the poets talk about the kiss. So, trying to synthesize the immense richness of life, these pages emerged in favor of kissing. I hope that they help you kiss better, that they motivate you to release the best of your being in a kiss.”

🤢🤬😳

Another quote from the Defender of the [conciliar] Faith, for your edification, taken from this “spiritual” masterpiece:

Come down my dear
before you awaken
suddenly
someone desperate
with a terrible hickey.


How was God
so cruel
as to give you that mouth…
There is no one who resists me,
bitch,
hide it (Víctor M. Fernández).”
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Ladislaus on November 09, 2023, 06:33:14 AM
I want to clarify that this book was not written so much based on my own experience ...

He's not fooling anyone with this.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Ladislaus on November 09, 2023, 06:35:48 AM
Yeah, the fact that this guy has been chosen to head up the office formerly known as Holy simply shows that the conspirators who have taken over the Church are just rubbing our faces in it at this point.  They're trying to humiliate and degrade Catholics with this stuff.  There are thousands of alternative choices for the position, including among the flaming Modernists that Bergoglio favors, but he had to pick this guy.  Bergoglio is actually using this appointment to mock the Traditional Catholic faith and deride the traditional notion of the Holy Office as being responsible for defending the faith from attacks.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Ladislaus on November 09, 2023, 06:39:02 AM
PS: Note the androgynous forms about to kiss: Are they both “men?”

You know they are.  Well, one of them is actually a boy, but, yes, they're both male.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 09, 2023, 06:47:54 AM
Yeah, the fact that this guy has been chosen to head up the office formerly known as Holy simply shows that the conspirators who have taken over the Church are just rubbing our faces in it at this point.  They're trying to humiliate and degrade Catholics with this stuff.  There are thousands of alternative choices for the position, including among the flaming Modernists that Bergoglio favors, but he had to pick this guy.  Bergoglio is actually using this appointment to mock the Traditional Catholic faith and deride the traditional notion of the Holy Office as being responsible for defending the faith from attacks.

Well, with such an impressive resume, it was only natural that Francis would make him the ghost writer to all his major encyclicals, and place him in charge of defending conciliar orthodoxy 🤬
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Ladislaus on November 09, 2023, 07:34:56 AM
Yeah, the fact that this guy has been chosen to head up the office formerly known as Holy simply shows that the conspirators who have taken over the Church are just rubbing our faces in it at this point.  They're trying to humiliate and degrade Catholics with this stuff.  There are thousands of alternative choices for the position, including among the flaming Modernists that Bergoglio favors, but he had to pick this guy.  Bergoglio is actually using this appointment to mock the Traditional Catholic faith and deride the traditional notion of the Holy Office as being responsible for defending the faith from attacks.

It's similar to how they put a senile buffoon in as President of the US ... they did it to humiliate the country.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 09, 2023, 09:55:56 AM
But wait, there’s more!

Apparently, transtesticals can also be godparents, and sodomitic couples can have “their” kids baptized too:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-says-trans-people-can-be-godparents-ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ-parents-can-have-children-baptized/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 09, 2023, 06:24:10 PM
Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
So? Isn't baptism for sinners?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 09, 2023, 07:20:52 PM
So? Isn't baptism for sinners?
Excuse me?  That may be the stupidest snark I have read in quite some time. Is it not the case that Catholic Baptisms are predicated on being and staying Catholic?

Why shouldn't an in-your-face rejection of Catholic doctrine be disqualifying?

If those sinners are so damn [pun intended] needy of Baptism, they can go to their home faucets for the water, to the internet for the formula, and Tinder for god[less]-parents.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Incredulous on November 09, 2023, 07:33:46 PM
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“I’m going to get a boob job for the occasion!”
“I’m going to get another boob job for the occasion!”
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Jr1991 on November 09, 2023, 08:10:30 PM
I’m starting to believe that Bergoglio may be a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ. Everyone knows that flaming ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs run Jesuit leadership, so either Bergoglio is being blackmailed, or he is a homo himself.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Seraphina on November 09, 2023, 08:47:58 PM
This is disgusting.  
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: 2Vermont on November 10, 2023, 05:57:07 AM
I’m starting to believe that Bergoglio may be a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ. Everyone knows that flaming ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs run Jesuit leadership, so either Bergoglio is being blackmailed, or he is a homo himself.
Starting?

Furthermore, since when does Bergoglio need to be blackmailed to do his thing?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: SeanJohnson on November 10, 2023, 06:32:54 AM
Excuse me?  That may be the stupidest snark I have read in quite some time. Is it not the case that Catholic Baptisms are predicated on being and staying Catholic?

Why shouldn't an in-your-face rejection of Catholic doctrine be disqualifying?

If those sinners are so damn [pun intended] needy of Baptism, they can go to their home faucets for the water, to the internet for the formula, and Tinder for god[less]-parents.

Yup.

As recently as 8 years ago, the conciliarists were still rejecting transtesticals:

https://gloria.tv/post/Yicex6FdfMPn4Lyaqgeds7EJK

But then came “Tricky Tucho.”
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: 2Vermont on November 10, 2023, 06:39:14 AM
So? Isn't baptism for sinners?
Every now and again, you say something that makes me scratch my head. Baptisms are for adults who convert to the Catholic Faith.  How has a transgender converted to the Catholic Faith?  
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: TheRealMcCoy on November 10, 2023, 07:05:48 AM
 I was baptized as an adult. Repentance was a requirement for the baptism to take place. That was about 25 years ago in an NO church.  I guess things have changed since then.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 10, 2023, 09:15:41 AM

It still puzzles me how a Catholic can’t realize that the NO church is not the Catholic Church and it’s head is not the pope of the Catholic Church. 🤔
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: OABrownson1876 on November 10, 2023, 12:05:42 PM
"Rome will become the seat of antichrist"  Our Lady of LaSalette   It is all starting to come into focus now.  The Sanhedrin had its Caiaphas, and we have our Francis.  
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: songbird on November 10, 2023, 01:21:36 PM
It is not Baptism, not a sacrament, it is RCIA, initiation.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 10, 2023, 04:46:47 PM
Is it not the case that Catholic Baptisms are predicated on being and staying Catholic?
One has to be already Catholic before being baptized? Baptism is not conditional on already being Catholic.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 10, 2023, 04:52:11 PM
How has a transgender converted to the Catholic Faith?
By renouncing his past sins.

A newly baptized adult could immediately lose sanctifying grace, but that doesn't remove the baptismal character.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: 2Vermont on November 10, 2023, 04:55:49 PM
By renouncing his past sins.

But continuing to live as a different sex than assigned by God?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 10, 2023, 05:08:11 PM
Quote
Deuteronomy 22:5

A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.


If wearing clothes in such a manner is abominable, what can one say in regards to hormone treatment, and surgery?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on November 10, 2023, 05:59:27 PM
I’m starting to believe that Bergoglio may be a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ. Everyone knows that flaming ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs run Jesuit leadership, so either Bergoglio is being blackmailed, or he is a homo himself.
If it quacks like a duck…
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on November 10, 2023, 06:07:41 PM
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Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on November 10, 2023, 06:12:04 PM
Douay-Rheims Bible (https://biblehub.com/drbc/romans/1.htm)

And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. 
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 10, 2023, 07:52:24 PM
But continuing to live as a different sex than assigned by God?
Obviously that's a sin, and obviously one can sin after being baptized.

When I see "TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized" I think: Yes, and so can murderers, adulterers, or any other type of sinner.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 10, 2023, 09:45:31 PM
Obviously that's a sin, and obviously one can sin after being baptized.

When I see "TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized" I think: Yes, and so can murderers, adulterers, or any other type of sinner.


All of them must give up their sinful ways and repent before they are baptized. An adulterer who plans on continuing in his adultery can’t be baptized. A Tranny who continues living an immoral life believing that he can change his sex, can’t be baptized. This is all supposing that they are wanting to be validly and licitly baptized in the Church.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 10, 2023, 10:10:14 PM
An adulterer who plans on continuing in his adultery can’t be baptized. A Tranny who continues living an immoral life believing that he can change his sex, can’t be baptized. This is all supposing that they are wanting to be validly and licitly baptized in the Church.


Shouldn't and can't are very different things.




Summa Theologiae, III, Q. 69, A. 10


https://www.newadvent.org/summa/4069.htm#article10



Article 10. Whether Baptism produces its effect when the insincerity ceases?




Quote
On the contrary, Augustine says (De Bapt. cont. Donat. i): "Then does Baptism begin to have its salutary effect, when truthful confession takes the place of that insincerity which hindered sins from being washed away, so long as the heart persisted in malice and sacrilege."

I answer that, As stated above (III:66:9), Baptism is a spiritual regeneration. Now when a thing is generated, it receives together with the form, the form's effect, unless there be an obstacle; and when this is removed, the form of the thing generated produces its effect: thus at the same time as a weighty body is generated, it has a downward movement, unless something prevent this; and when the obstacle is removed, it begins forthwith to move downwards. In like manner when a man is baptized, he receives the character, which is like a form; and he receives in consequence its proper effect, which is grace whereby all his sins are remitted. But this effect is sometimes hindered by insincerity. Wherefore, when this obstacle is removed by Penance, Baptism forthwith produces its effect.




Msgr. Joseph Pohle

The Sacraments: The Sacraments in General. Baptism. Confirmation. A Dogmatic Treatise

Page 265


https://archive.org/details/V08TheSacramentsInGeneral/page/n275/mode/2up



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The requisites of valid reception in the case of Baptism are mainly three:

(1) The recipient must be a human being,
(2) He must be in the wayfaring state [alive]
(3) He must not have been previously baptized.

Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: 2Vermont on November 11, 2023, 04:57:18 AM
Obviously that's a sin, and obviously one can sin after being baptized.

When I see "TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized" I think: Yes, and so can murderers, adulterers, or any other type of sinner.
Murderers can stop murdering and adulterers can stop committing adultery because they are behaviors.  But transsɛҳuąƖs cannot stop "being" their "new" sex....unless they intend to detransition. I've seen nothing that addresses this issue.  

These things are definitely not the same/analogous.  This is a wholly new situation, and it needs a true pope to address it. Catholics shouldn't be dismissing such a baptism with a "Gee whiz, why not?"
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 11, 2023, 05:37:26 AM

Shouldn't and can't are very different things.




Summa Theologiae, III, Q. 69, A. 10


https://www.newadvent.org/summa/4069.htm#article10



Article 10. Whether Baptism produces its effect when the insincerity ceases?







Msgr. Joseph Pohle

The Sacraments: The Sacraments in General. Baptism. Confirmation. A Dogmatic Treatise

Page 265


https://archive.org/details/V08TheSacramentsInGeneral/page/n275/mode/2up

Of course they could, but according to Catholic discipline, they can’t. :facepalm:  Sometimes I wonder……
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 11, 2023, 07:19:34 AM
Obviously that's a sin, and obviously one can sin after being baptized.

When I see "TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized" I think: Yes, and so can murderers, adulterers, or any other type of sinner.
It seems that you want to miss the point.

Manifest evidence of rejection of Catholic dogma is manifest evidence that the person has no intention of being Catholic or of raising children Catholic.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 11, 2023, 07:53:58 AM
On the bright side: 

Miss Universe Owner Files for Bankruptcy After Accepting Transgender Contestants
 https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/tierin-rose-mandelburg/2023/11/10/miss-universe-owner-files-bankruptcy-after
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 11, 2023, 03:52:40 PM
Murderers can stop murdering and adulterers can stop committing adultery because they are behaviors.
And "transɛҳuąƖs" can stop pretending to be the sex they are not.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 11, 2023, 03:56:35 PM
Manifest evidence of rejection of Catholic dogma is manifest evidence that the person has no intention of being Catholic or of raising children Catholic.
The same can be said about murderers and adulterers. If they keep murdering or committing adultery after baptism, that shows they reject the natural law, too.
Murderers and adulterers cannot properly raise Catholic children because their bad example contradicts the faith.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 11, 2023, 04:20:41 PM
The American Ecclesiastical Review 1929-09: Vol 81 Iss 3

Pages 306 to 308

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-ecclesiastical-review_1929-09_81_3/page/306/mode/2up




BAPTISM OF A PERSON LIVING IN SIN.



Question

Mrs. B. is invalidly married to a Catholic. The marriage cannot be revalidated owing to the fact that the husband’s first wife is still living. Mrs. B. is well instructed in the Catholic religion and makes open profession of it as far as possible. She desires to be baptized, but her pastor refuses on the ground that she is living in sin and intends to so continue, which constitutes an obstacle to the liceity and validity of the sacrament. Another priest advises him that the sacrament is valid under the circuмstances, but illicit. A third maintains that it is both licit and valid. Which is the correct solution?


Response

It is difficult to understand what reason the pastor has for holding that baptism in this case would be invalid. Probably he confuses the unworthy reception of the sacrament with its invalid reception. Even though received unworthily, the baptism can nevertheless be valid. If only the dispositions of Mrs. B. are considered, that would be verified in the present instance. For Mrs. B. has a very positive intention of receiving baptism in the Catholic Church. On her part therefore nothing prevents the valid reception of that sacrament.1

Her reception of baptism, however, would be unworthy. Worthy reception of baptism by an adult requires that he have at least attrition for his personal sins. Now Mrs. B.’s attrition is insufficient and insincere, since it lacks a necessary complement, namely, a firm purpose of amendment, for she is determined to persevere in her adulterous union. Hence her reception of baptism, while valid, would be unworthy. Far from producing the new man in Christ in her, it would burden her soul with the added guilt of sacrilege.

It were folly here to suggest good faith, seeing that with her acceptance of the Catholic faith she must accept the teaching of the indissolubility of marriage and thus recognize her own sinful state. Even if she were to assert her conviction that her present state is not wrong, she could not be believed; for the Catholic doctrine of the indissolublity of marriage, of the prohibition of divorce and of the resultant invalidity of a second marriage while both parties to the first marriage are still living, is too well known to be ignored by a convert. She must therefore be considered in bad faith, and so her reception of baptism in her present frame of mind would be sacrilegious.2

This suggests the answer to the other question, whether a priest could lawfully receive her into the Church and baptize her. Since reception of baptism by her in her present condition would be sacrilegious, it would likewise be a sacrilege for the priest to confer baptism. This phase of the question is not treated by moralists when discussing baptism, for the reason that it is quite exceptional. But the same rules, relatively speaking, must per se be applied here as in refusing absolution to a penitent who may have made a complete confession but lacks the firm purpose of amendment.3

It is the second priest’s solution that is correct. The baptism of Mrs. B., as far as the requirements on her part are concerned, would be valid but unlawful. Pastoral prudence, however, will bid the pastor not to be brusque in rejecting her requests, but to be forbearing in order to preserve the spark of faith so that, if a change of conditions permits it, he can baptize and receive her into the Church with good conscience. Moreover, if the circuмstances are favorable, he may be able to persuade this woman and the man with whom she is living to separate, or, if there is no danger of continued sin and of scandal, to live as brother and sister. Then he could lawfully admit her to baptism at once.



1    S. C. S. Off., 1 August, 1860—C. I. C. Fontes, n. 963. Cf. Cappello, De Sacramentis, Turin, 1921, I, n. 13.
2    Cappello, of. cit., I, n. 88, 3.
3    Cappello, of. cit., I, n. 70-76. In an extraordinary case a priest fully cognizant of the lack of a firm purpose of amendment on the part of a baptizand would nevertheless   
      be obliged to comply with the request for baptism, viz. if on the one hand the fact of the baptizand’s living in an adulterous union were entirely unknown to the people
      because the bond of the preéxisting marriage was concealed and on the other the refusal to baptize such a one would betray the actual conditions. Cf. Canon 855, § 2.

Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 11, 2023, 04:24:51 PM
It seems that you want to miss the point.

Manifest evidence of rejection of Catholic dogma is manifest evidence that the person has no intention of being Catholic or of raising children Catholic.


Which is irrelevant in regards to the validity of the sacrament.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 11, 2023, 07:07:04 PM
The American Ecclesiastical Review 1929-09: Vol 81 Iss 3

Pages 306 to 308

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-ecclesiastical-review_1929-09_81_3/page/306/mode/2up




BAPTISM OF A PERSON LIVING IN SIN.



Question

Mrs. B. is invalidly married to a Catholic. The marriage cannot be revalidated owing to the fact that the husband’s first wife is still living. Mrs. B. is well instructed in the Catholic religion and makes open profession of it as far as possible. She desires to be baptized, but her pastor refuses on the ground that she is living in sin and intends to so continue, which constitutes an obstacle to the liceity and validity of the sacrament. Another priest advises him that the sacrament is valid under the circuмstances, but illicit. A third maintains that it is both licit and valid. Which is the correct solution?


Response

It is difficult to understand what reason the pastor has for holding that baptism in this case would be invalid. Probably he confuses the unworthy reception of the sacrament with its invalid reception. Even though received unworthily, the baptism can nevertheless be valid. If only the dispositions of Mrs. B. are considered, that would be verified in the present instance. For Mrs. B. has a very positive intention of receiving baptism in the Catholic Church. On her part therefore nothing prevents the valid reception of that sacrament.1

Her reception of baptism, however, would be unworthy. Worthy reception of baptism by an adult requires that he have at least attrition for his personal sins. Now Mrs. B.’s attrition is insufficient and insincere, since it lacks a necessary complement, namely, a firm purpose of amendment, for she is determined to persevere in her adulterous union. Hence her reception of baptism, while valid, would be unworthy. Far from producing the new man in Christ in her, it would burden her soul with the added guilt of sacrilege.

It were folly here to suggest good faith, seeing that with her acceptance of the Catholic faith she must accept the teaching of the indissolubility of marriage and thus recognize her own sinful state. Even if she were to assert her conviction that her present state is not wrong, she could not be believed; for the Catholic doctrine of the indissolublity of marriage, of the prohibition of divorce and of the resultant invalidity of a second marriage while both parties to the first marriage are still living, is too well known to be ignored by a convert. She must therefore be considered in bad faith, and so her reception of baptism in her present frame of mind would be sacrilegious.2

This suggests the answer to the other question, whether a priest could lawfully receive her into the Church and baptize her. Since reception of baptism by her in her present condition would be sacrilegious, it would likewise be a sacrilege for the priest to confer baptism. This phase of the question is not treated by moralists when discussing baptism, for the reason that it is quite exceptional. But the same rules, relatively speaking, must per se be applied here as in refusing absolution to a penitent who may have made a complete confession but lacks the firm purpose of amendment.3

It is the second priest’s solution that is correct. The baptism of Mrs. B., as far as the requirements on her part are concerned, would be valid but unlawful. Pastoral prudence, however, will bid the pastor not to be brusque in rejecting her requests, but to be forbearing in order to preserve the spark of faith so that, if a change of conditions permits it, he can baptize and receive her into the Church with good conscience. Moreover, if the circuмstances are favorable, he may be able to persuade this woman and the man with whom she is living to separate, or, if there is no danger of continued sin and of scandal, to live as brother and sister. Then he could lawfully admit her to baptism at once.



1    S. C. S. Off., 1 August, 1860—C. I. C. Fontes, n. 963. Cf. Cappello, De Sacramentis, Turin, 1921, I, n. 13.
2    Cappello, of. cit., I, n. 88, 3.
3    Cappello, of. cit., I, n. 70-76. In an extraordinary case a priest fully cognizant of the lack of a firm purpose of amendment on the part of a baptizand would nevertheless   
      be obliged to comply with the request for baptism, viz. if on the one hand the fact of the baptizand’s living in an adulterous union were entirely unknown to the people
      because the bond of the preéxisting marriage was concealed and on the other the refusal to baptize such a one would betray the actual conditions. Cf. Canon 855, § 2.

Of course! It would be valid but illicit. So, according to Catholic discipline they *CAN’T* do it. Read the part of your quote that I highlighted in red.


Thanks for this AER article since it confirms what I said above:

“All of them must give up their sinful ways and repent before they are baptized. An adulterer who plans on continuing in his adultery can’t be baptized. A Tranny who continues living an immoral life believing that he can change his sex, can’t be baptized. This is all supposing that they are wanting to be validly and licitly baptized in the Church.”
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 11, 2023, 07:13:15 PM
Of course! It would be valid but illicit. So, according to Catholic discipline they *CAN’T* do it. Read the part of your quote that I highlighted in red.


We're talking past one another.

We agree on the same principle, it would be valid, but unlawful.

Technically, it CAN be done, because truly the words can be pronounced, and the water poured, but it would be unlawful.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on November 11, 2023, 07:22:33 PM

We're talking past one another.

We agree on the same principle, it would be valid, but unlawful.

Technically, it CAN be done, because truly the words can be pronounced, and the water poured, but it would be unlawful.


Yes, I agree that it can be done, but you first called me out for using the word “can’t”. I assumed you understood that I predicated my post on the notion that most people on this traditional Catholic forum understood the doctrine that unrepentant sinners *can’t* (lawfully) receive the sacraments. 

You were trying to pick a fight for no reason. ::)
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 11, 2023, 07:30:55 PM
I assumed you understood that I predicated my post on the notion that most people on this traditional Catholic forum understood the doctrine that unrepentant sinners *can’t* (lawfully) receive the sacraments.


Well, I wasn't thinking:


can't (lawfully) receive the sacraments
,


but rather


can't (validly) receive the sacraments.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Ladislaus on November 11, 2023, 07:59:28 PM
I just saw this at rense.com.  I'm guessing that's Bishop Williamson in the back there?

(https://rense.com/1.mpicons/slider20200710/rpp.jpg)
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Angelus on November 11, 2023, 08:02:28 PM

Well, I wasn't thinking:


can't (lawfully) receive the sacraments
,


but rather


can't (validly) receive the sacraments.


The situation is more complex.

As St. Thomas explains, although in the case described above, "the character" would be imprinted (making the Sacrament "valid" and unrepeatable), because the sinner has not repented of the sin, "the reality" or "the grace" of the Sacrament would not be effected unless and until the sinner repented.

The Church deems it "unlawful" to baptize a person who refuses to repent because it would be a sacrilege for the priest to confer a Sacrament that would not be effective of supernatural grace.

Whether sinners should be baptized?
https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.III.Q68.A4
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: AnthonyPadua on November 11, 2023, 11:42:34 PM
mhfm did a video explaining the problems with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9bkDGpOZ2o
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 12, 2023, 12:05:32 AM
The situation is more complex.

As St. Thomas explains, although in the case described above, "the character" would be imprinted (making the Sacrament "valid" and unrepeatable), because the sinner has not repented of the sin, "the reality" or "the grace" of the Sacrament would not be effected unless and until the sinner repented.


Yes, I agree, that's why I quoted from the Summa in Reply # 31.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: worriedformysoul on November 12, 2023, 01:49:53 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/9e9TnAv.png)
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: alaric on November 12, 2023, 07:21:43 AM

Quote
I want to clarify that this book was not written so much based on my own experience, but based on the lives of people who kiss.
That includes the dudes who kissed him.::)


What an a-hole, I am so sick of these fαɢɢօts destroying everything around us, most of all, the Church.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: alaric on November 12, 2023, 07:23:42 AM
It's similar to how they put a senile buffoon in as President of the US ... they did it to humiliate the country.
Exactly.

They're clowning us.:clown:
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: alaric on November 12, 2023, 07:27:09 AM
But wait, there’s more!

Apparently, transtesticals can also be godparents, and sodomitic couples can have “their” kids baptized too:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-says-trans-people-can-be-godparents-ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ-parents-can-have-children-baptized/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa
I predict the next "pope" will be a trans, not like the closet geriatric fag we have in their now.

Then the "transition" of the "church" will be complete.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: alaric on November 12, 2023, 07:29:37 AM

All of them must give up their sinful ways and repent before they are baptized. An adulterer who plans on continuing in his adultery can’t be baptized. A Tranny who continues living an immoral life believing that he can change his sex, can’t be baptized. This is all supposing that they are wanting to be validly and licitly baptized in the Church.
You will ACCOMPANY them just the way they are, all are welcome under Franks big tent no matter what.

Except CATHOLICS!
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: alaric on November 12, 2023, 07:32:17 AM
"Rome will become the seat of antichrist"  Our Lady of LaSalette  It is all starting to come into focus now.  The Sanhedrin had its Caiaphas, and we have our Francis. 
Except Caiaphas went after what he thought was a revolutionary.

Francis IS the revolutionary.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 12, 2023, 07:46:21 AM
And "transɛҳuąƖs" can stop pretending to be the sex they are not.
Really?


I see. So, how does one stop pretending?  Replace the surgically-removed natural-born parts with manufactured items?

We are not talking about "mere" take-it-on-and-off cross-dressing, but chemical and permanent surgical alterations.

Undo that.

Again… it is becoming increasingly clear that you want to miss the point.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 12, 2023, 07:53:13 AM
The same can be said about murderers and adulterers. If they keep murdering or committing adultery after baptism, that shows they reject the natural law, too.
Murderers and adulterers cannot properly raise Catholic children because their bad example contradicts the faith.
Your analogy is less than weak; it is bullshit.

Since trannies present with permanent surgical alterations, a repentent murderer who is not murdering at the moment of requesting Baptism is not an accurate analogy.

Since trannies present with permanent surgical alterations, a murderer in the act of murdering is the proper analogy. "Father, I'd like to be Baptized… oh… 'scuuuze me while I murder this guy."  What crap.

Defend that!
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 12, 2023, 07:58:35 AM

Which is irrelevant in regards to the validity of the sacrament.
I am not disputing the validity of a true Baptism.  I am affirming a discipline of not Baptizing people who manifestly continue in opposing Catholic morals and dogma.



Well, I wasn't thinking:


can't (lawfully) receive the sacraments
,


but rather


can't (validly) receive the sacraments.


That's right. You were so "not thinking" that you fingered me about "validitiy" when I never raised the subject of validity.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on November 12, 2023, 08:46:43 AM
Genesis 1-11. 

No, the unholy can’t be baptized.

Any unholy docuмent on October 31st is satanic. 
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 12, 2023, 04:20:03 PM
how does one stop pretending?
By admitting one's mistake of mutilating his or her body and considering oneself the sex assigned at birth.

The remains of sin persist after baptism, whether they're bodily apparent (as in the case of body mutilators) or not.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 12, 2023, 04:28:15 PM
trannies present with permanent surgical alterations
The mutilations they undergo do not place them in a new, permanent state.
"Sex change" mutilations do not change one's sex.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 12, 2023, 04:34:41 PM
Here's the Dicastery responses to H.E. Msgr. Negri (https://reasonandtheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rc_ddf_20231031-docuмento-mons-negri-en-1-1-3.pdf):
Quote
1. Can a transsɛҳuąƖ be baptized?

  A transsɛҳuąƖ-who had also undergone hormone treatment and sex reassignment surgery-can receive baptism, under the same conditions as other believers, if there are no situations in which there is a risk of generating public scandal or disorientation among the faithful. In the case of children or adolescents with transgender issues, if well prepared and willing, they can receive Baptism.

        At the same time, the following should be considered, especially when there are doubts about the objective moral situation a person is in, or about his or her subjective dispositions toward grace.

         In the case of Baptism, the Church teaches that when the sacrament is received without repentance for grave sins, the subject does not receive sanctifying grace, although he or she does receive sacramental character. […]
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 12, 2023, 04:36:22 PM
manifestly continue in opposing Catholic morals and dogma.
Even repentant, ex-mutilators?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: TKGS on November 12, 2023, 09:12:57 PM
Baptizing a person who has no intention of living the Catholic Faith is, I think, an incredibly evil thing.  

The baptized in hell suffer much more than the unbaptized, for they once had Sanctifying Grace in their soul and threw it away for eternity.  The Church refusing to baptize those who do not intend to live the Catholic faith is a mercy, not a punishment.

This is why one should not baptize an unrepentant trans-sɛҳuąƖ who intends to continue living their lie just as one should not baptize a murderer in the act of murdering someone.  Baptizing a trans-sɛҳuąƖ who intends to continue living as the wrong sex would be like baptizing a woman on the abortion table.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 04:07:03 AM
The mutilations they undergo do not place them in a new, permanent state.
"Sex change" mutilations do not change one's sex.

Utterly fatuous.  Cutting off one's penis is permanent. It ends up in a waste bucket in the operating room and is then incinerated.

Grafting a roll of skin or turning a flap of skin to poorly mimic a penis is not reverting to the "old" state.

Analogous case for female-to-pseudomale.



By admitting one's mistake of mutilating his or her body and considering oneself the sex assigned at birth.

The remains of sin persist after baptism, whether they're bodily apparent (as in the case of body mutilators) or not.

You have ignored my careful and considered use of the word "manifest."

Privately admitting and "considering" one's mistake while remaining manifestly mutilated does not justify the scandal of public Baptism.

Just as sincere repentance of theft demands restitution, sincere repentance of mutilation demands a manifest reversion to the actual sex. Showing up with fake genitalia and a store-bought chest at the Baptismal font is not manifest evidence of sincere repentance.

Geremia, I am really surprised at you. In the past, even when I have disagreed with you, you have been rational in your arguments.  For reasons on which I will not speculate, you have gone off the rails in this matter.


Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 04:16:07 AM
Even repentant, ex-mutilators?
Two problems with this snarky half-liner.

1. In this matter, there is no such thing as an "ex-mutilator." Once mutilated, always mutilated. Cutting off one's genitals is permanent. Post-penectomy, post-penoplasty, post-augmentation, and post-mastectomy mimicry is not a reversion to the original state, but simply more mutilation.  It is profoundly ignorant to pretend that "reassignment" is  reversible like changing your socks.

2. manifest | ˈmanəˌfest | adjective clear or obvious to the eye or mind  Which is manifest? the repentance? or the rejection of Catholic morality?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 04:35:49 AM
When we fought the pedos and fαɢɢօts in our N.O. diocese, we prepared brochures to transmit authentic Catholic dogma and morality.

From one brochure, this excerpt was memorable:


Quote
St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th. century mystic among the 33 Doctors of the Catholic Church, experienced many visions of Our Lord. In her Dialog she quotes Jesus: “They not only fail from resisting this frailty…but do even worse as they commit the cursed sin against nature. Like the blind and stupid, having dimmed the light of their understanding, they do not recognize the disease and misery in which they find themselves. For this not only causes Me nausea, but displeases even the demons themselves, whom these miserable creatures have chosen as their lords. For Me, this sin against nature is so abominable that, for it alone, five cities were submersed, by virtue of the judgment of My Divine Justice, which could no longer bear them.…It is disagreeable to the demons, not because evil displeases them and they find pleasure in good, but because their nature is angelic and thus is repulsed upon seeing such an enormous sin being committed. It is true that it is the demon who hits the sinner with the poisoned arrow of lust, but when a man carries out such a sinful act, the demon leaves.”


If demons are repulsed by sodomitic acts in the un-mutilated, how much more repulsed are they by the depravity of permanent sɛҳuąƖ mutilation aimed at furthering such sodomitic acts?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: AnthonyPadua on November 13, 2023, 04:39:27 AM
When we fought the pedos and fαɢɢօts in our N.O. diocese, we prepared brochures to transmit authentic Catholic dogma and morality.

From one brochure, this excerpt was memorable:



If demons are repulsed by sodomitic acts in the un-mutilated, how much more repulsed are they by the depravity of permanent sɛҳuąƖ mutilation aimed at furthering such sodomitic acts?
Most trans people were manipulated by others. Even if their mutilation is 'permanent' it will easily be restored on the day of judgement. If they truly repent and try to go back to normal to the best of their ability then I don't see the issue.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 09:34:01 AM
Most trans people were manipulated by others. Even if their mutilation is 'permanent' it will easily be restored on the day of judgement. If they truly repent and try to go back to normal to the best of their ability then I don't see the issue.
You don't see the issue???

Publicly Baptizing those who manifestly oppose Catholic morals and dogma is the issue.

Now do you see the issue?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 01:01:22 PM
Now do you see the issue?


Even the video from MHFM in Reply # 46 states that a former transsɛҳuąƖ who no longer identifies as such can be baptized. At the 2:00 time stamp of the video.

Being mutilated, in and of itself, is not an impediment to baptism.



Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 01:27:41 PM
Once mutilated, always mutilated. Cutting off one's genitals is permanent.

Which is manifest? the repentance? or the rejection of Catholic morality?




Are genitals, or rather the lack thereof, going to be manifest when performing a baptism?

If anything, the only persons to ever see such ever again are themselves or a doctor, as the mutilation will be an impediment to marriage.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: TheRealMcCoy on November 13, 2023, 01:37:03 PM
 It would seem the rejection of Truth is the gravest sin not necessarily the removal of body parts.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 01:39:03 PM
It would seem the rejection of Truth is the gravest sin not necessarily the removal of body parts.


Rather, mutilation is not an unforgivable sin.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 13, 2023, 06:26:33 PM
Cutting off one's penis is permanent
We're speaking here about requirements for baptism, not circuмcision.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 08:39:52 PM

Even the video from MHFM in Reply # 46 states that a former transsɛҳuąƖ who no longer identifies as such can be baptized. At the 2:00 time stamp of the video.

Being mutilated, in and of itself, is not an impediment to baptism.
This is a straw man fallacy.   Apparently your team needs to play stupid.

Nobody here has said that sincerely repentant trannies cannot be Baptized.

Our complaint—a complaint consistent with 2,000 years of Catholic praxis (!!!)— regards public Baptism of trannies who manifestly appear to oppose Catholic morals and dogma.

The genital mutilation is permanent. There is absolutely no human way to revert to a normal unmutilated state. Is a priest expected to examine the privates of anyone seeking Baptism? Emphatically. NO!***

However if a person (1) presents for Baptism (2) was born a male, and (3) is still sporting store-bought "breasts" (or dresses as a woman, one may reasonably question: (4) the sincerity of repentance and (5) the propriety of publicly Baptizing a male who presents himself appearing as female. 

Analogously, if a person (1) presents for Baptism (2) was born a female, and (3) is still sporting a beard and dresses and coiffs as a man, one may reasonably question: (4) the sincerity of repentance and (5) the propriety of publicly Baptizing a female who presents herself appearing as male.

These are not difficult concepts. By now it is perfectly clear that you recognize the weakness of your position, since your team invokes straw man arguments and consistently ignore the points that I have repeatedly emphasized: (1) public versus private and (2) the manifest appearance of opposing Catholic morals and dogma.

***The rabbis do examine nude women in the ritual bath prior to conversion to тαℓмυdic Judaism.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 08:45:07 PM


Are genitals, or rather the lack thereof, going to be manifest when performing a baptism?

If anything, the only persons to ever see such ever again are themselves or a doctor, as the mutilation will be an impediment to marriage.

Playing stupid again.

Beards, breasts (store-bought or otherwise), "Adam's apple," male v. female hairline, male v. female hairstyles, and manner of dress are readily apparent.

Are you too stupid to notice these things?  It appears that, like Geremia, you want to miss the point.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 08:48:40 PM
We're speaking here about requirements for baptism, not circuмcision.
You are the one who is avoiding the actual stated problem.

To pretend that we confuse Baptism and circuмcision is ill will on your part—because all you have is snark, straw man arguments, and avoidance of the stated issues: (1) public v. private Baptism and (2) the manifest appearance of someone claiming repentance of sɛҳuąƖ mutilation.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 08:53:21 PM

Rather, mutilation is not an unforgivable sin.
This is yet another straw man argument.

NOBODY has claimed that the mutilation is "unforgivable."

Evidently you have no argument countering our objections, hence you (pluiral) avoid addressing our actual criticism:
(1) public versus private Baptism and (2) the manifest appearance of opposing Catholic morals and dogma.

Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 08:56:47 PM
The genital mutilation is permanent. There is absolutely no human way to revert to a normal unmutilated state. Is a priest expected to examine the privates of anyone seeking Baptism? Emphatically. NO!***

However if a person (1) presents for Baptism (2) was born a male, and (3) is still sporting store-bought "breasts" (or dresses as a woman, one may reasonably question: (4) the sincerity of repentance and (5) the propriety of publicly Baptizing a male who presents himself appearing as female.

Analogously, if a person (1) presents for Baptism (2) was born a female, and (3) is still sporting a beard and dresses and coiffs as a man, one may reasonably question: (4) the sincerity of repentance and (5) the propriety of publicly Baptizing a female who presents herself appearing as male.



Would you also say they would also be prevented from publicly receiving confession, or communion?

Is gynecomastia in men, or hirsutism in women impediments to public reception of the sacraments?

If natural deformities are not impediments, then neither would artificial ones be.

I already quoted Deuteronomy 22:5, thus former transsɛҳuąƖs would need to dress the sex that God assigned to them, and ultimately do the best they can in presenting themselves as God intended.     
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 09:00:47 PM
Still playing stupid and avoiding the stated criticisms.


Are you too stupid to identify what sex these persons intend to manifest?

(https://media.them.us/photos/5a1369633ed1e20010139ce4/4:3/w_1600,h_1200,c_limit/BUTCH_41.jpg)

Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 09:02:53 PM
Are you too stupid to identify what sex these persons intend to manifest?


They would need to cease dressing in such a manner, I've already quoted Deuteronomy 22:5
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 09:10:46 PM


Would you also say they would also be prevented from publicly receiving confession, or communion?

Do not pretend that I claim jurisdiction. I am simply consistent with 2,000 years of Catholic praxis.

Last time I went to confession, it was PRIVATE.

As for Holy Communion, it follows BAPTISM… so… address the stated criticisms and stop playing games.


Is gynecomastia in men, or hirsutism in women impediments to public reception of the sacraments?

Are you too stupid to do pattern recognition?

Gynecomastia does not reach 38DD proportions. Gynecomastia is not accompanied by regression to a female larynx (no "Adam's apple"). Gynecomastia does not typically manifest with wearing feminine hairdos, clothing, feigned high voice, and body language mimicry


If natural deformities are not impediments, then neither would artificial ones be.

Who says? Cite Magisterial authority for your latest bullshit claim.





I already quoted Deuteronomy 22:5, thus former transsɛҳuąƖs would need to dress the sex that God assigned to them, and ultimately do the best they can in presenting themselves as God intended. 

Yes, true repentance demands "doing the best they can in presenting themselves as God intended." 

Precisely the point of our criticism. 

Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 09:12:53 PM
Do not pretend that I claim jurisdiction. I am simply consistent with 2,000 years of Catholic praxis.

Last time I went to confession, it was PRIVATE.

As for Holy Communion, it follows BAPTISM… so… address the stated criticisms and stop playing games.



Yes, but each time you go to church you are 'manifest', waiting in line, able to be seen by others, likewise with receiving the Eurcharist.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 09:13:47 PM

They would need to cease dressing in such a manner, I've already quoted Deuteronomy 22:5
If you really do agree, why did you camouflage your agreement with a bunch of straw man garbage and try to conflate natural medical problems with intentional sɛҳuąƖ mutilation???!!!
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 09:15:24 PM


Yes, but each time you go to church you are 'manifest', waiting in line, able to be seen by others, likewise with receiving the Eurcharist.
That's right. It is manifest at Mass and in the confessional line that I am not dressed, coiffed, behaving, or speaking like a femboy. I do not give the appearance of a God-cursed, sɛҳuąƖ self-mutilating sodomite who rejects Catholic morality and dogma.

What's your point? Do you even have a point?

I carefully circuмscribed my criticism as regards those who manifestly appear to oppose Catholic morals and dogma.

You (plural) tried to turn that circuмscribed criticism into "unforgivable sin," "gynecomastia," snark, and a bunch of other irrelevant bullshit.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 09:28:23 PM

https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/vatican-transɛҳuąƖs-can-be-baptized/msg911676/#msg911676


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BAPTISM OF A PERSON LIVING IN SIN.

[ . . . ]


Her reception of baptism, however, would be unworthy. Worthy reception of baptism by an adult requires that he have at least attrition for his personal sins. Now Mrs. B.’s attrition is insufficient and insincere, since it lacks a necessary complement, namely, a firm purpose of amendment, for she is determined to persevere in her adulterous union. Hence her reception of baptism, while valid, would be unworthy. Far from producing the new man in Christ in her, it would burden her soul with the added guilt of sacrilege.

[ . . . ]

It is the second priest’s solution that is correct. The baptism of Mrs. B., as far as the requirements on her part are concerned, would be valid but unlawful. Pastoral prudence, however, will bid the pastor not to be brusque in rejecting her requests, but to be forbearing in order to preserve the spark of faith so that, if a change of conditions permits it, he can baptize and receive her into the Church with good conscience. Moreover, if the circuмstances are favorable, he may be able to persuade this woman and the man with whom she is living to separate, or, if there is no danger of continued sin and of scandal, to live as brother and sister. Then he could lawfully admit her to baptism at once.



In the above example, three things are needed before this woman can approach baptism:

1) attrition for personal sins
2) firm purpose of amendment
3) no danger of continued sin and of scandal



Gynecomastia does not reach 38DD proportions. Gynecomastia is not accompanied by regression to a female larynx (no "Adam's apple"). Gynecomastia does not typically manifest with wearing feminine hairdos, clothing, feigned high voice, and body language mimicry


I brought that up in so far as it relates to possibly causing scandal, because I think that is what you are arguing about.


A former transsɛҳuąƖ can have:

1) attrition for their sins
2) firm purpose of amendment (no dressing up in clothes of the opposite sex, for example)


What is under dispute is the possibility of scandal, is it not?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 09:38:02 PM

What is under dispute is the possibility of scandal, is it not?
Scandal is part of the concern.  As was stated early in this thread, liceity of such Baptism and the eternal fate of the allegedly repentant trannie(s) are other concerns.

All this has been previously stated by me and others here. Why does it need to be re-stated and re-stated ad nauseam?


I am still waiting for you to cite Magisterial authority for your natural-deformity-is-equivalent-to-self-mutilation nonsense.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 13, 2023, 09:46:25 PM
Scandal is part of the concern.  As was stated early in this thread, liceity of such Baptism and the eternal fate of the allegedly repentant trannie(s) are other concerns.


OK, I think I understand a bit more. This ties into what TKGS had brought up:


https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/vatican-transɛҳuąƖs-can-be-baptized/msg911867/#msg911867


In other words, how can the priest ascertain that the former transsɛҳuąƖ has true attrition, and true firm purpose of amendment, lest the soul suffer even greater damnation, while also ascertaining the aforementioned in order to avoid sacrilege.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 13, 2023, 09:50:43 PM

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If natural deformities are not impediments, then neither would artificial ones be.



Really?  You postulate moral equivalence between congenital anomalies and self-mutilation???  Go figure.

Demonstrate that equivalence in Magisterium.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 14, 2023, 01:23:57 AM
Really?  You postulate moral equivalence between congenital anomalies and self-mutilation???  Go figure.

Demonstrate that equivalence in Magisterium.


I meant equivalent in so far as it would cause scandal, not that mortal sin isn't imputed to those who sought out such surgery to mutilate themselves.





The American Ecclesiastical Review 1957-12: Vol 137 Iss 6

Catholics in Invalid Marriages

Page 385:


https://archive.org/details/sim_american-ecclesiastical-review_1957-12_137_6/page/385/mode/1up


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[ . . . ]


Applying these distinctions to an invalid marriage, the case is formally public if both the fact of the invalidity of the marriage is known or likely to be known, and it is also known that the marriage cannot be repaired.

[ . . .]


Since, in a formally public case, there is already the scandal of cohabitation in an invalid marriage, and there would be the still greater scandal of the apparent approval of the Church if such persons were known to receive the sacraments, permission to live as brother and sister will rarely be given. Such parties must separate if it is at all possible. If separation is impossible because of very grave reasons, they must make every effort to move to a place where the invalidity of their marriage is not known. The case would then become occult. In a case where it is both impossible for the parties to separate because of very grave reasons, and it is also impossible for them to move to a new locality, the public reception of the sacraments can never be permitted. However, at times the private or secret reception of the sacraments may be permitted to such people, provided the other requirements of the brother and sister arrangement are met, and the parties promise to remove the scandal as soon as it is morally possible.





Taking the above principles and applying them to the public reception of the sacraments of a former transsɛҳuąƖ:


Public reception of the sacraments can never be permitted, if


1) known public scandal from the circuмstance per se, which cannot be remedied
2) greater scandal from the apparent approval of the Church



Private or secret reception of the sacraments might be permitted, if


3) no danger of continued sin
4) promise to remove the scandal as soon as it is morally possible


Regardless, attrition for personal sins, and firm purpose of amendment will always be required


From what follows in the regard to # 4, there might be an obligation to go under the knife a second time to remove any implants, as soon as the man can afford to do so if such mutilations cannot be hidden by clothing.





Gynecomastia does not reach 38DD proportions.


If the mutilation can't be hidden under male clothing, and thus could cause scandal, I could see the priest only administer the sacraments to this man by appointment only, in private.

If the man went under the knife a second time in order to remove any breast implants, and then was able to hide the mutilation underneath clothing, thereby avoiding scandal, then there would not be any impediment to publicly administer the sacraments to such a man.






Canons on administering the sacraments, 1917 code of cannon law:




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Canon 752

§ 1. An adult should not be baptized unless he knowingly and with desire has been rightly instructed; moreover, he should be admonished to be sorry for sins.



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Canon 855

§ 1. All those publicly unworthy are to be barred from the Eucharist, such as excommunicates, those interdicted, and those manifestly infamous, unless their penitence and emendation are shown and they have satisfied beforehand the public scandal [they caused].



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Canon 942

[On the subject of extreme unction]

This sacrament is not to be conferred on those who are impenitent, persevering contumaciously in manifest mortal sin; if there is doubt about this, it should be conferred under condition.









Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: trad123 on November 14, 2023, 01:50:03 AM

Adding to the previous post, it seems the possibly of scandal in the public reception of the sacraments is whether or not the former transsɛҳuąƖ is able to detransition successfully, either with or without undergoing surgery a second time, to the sex that God intended for them to identify as.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: AnthonyPadua on November 14, 2023, 04:09:54 AM
Most trans people were manipulated by others. Even if their mutilation is 'permanent' it will easily be restored on the day of judgement. If they truly repent and try to go back to normal to the best of their ability then I don't see the issue.
Mark I am not sure what the issue is? See the bold above.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Ladislaus on November 14, 2023, 06:54:24 AM
I'm not sure I completely understand this debate, as I haven't read every post, but formal repentance is necessary even if materially the damage can't be undone.  If they have the intention to repent, they can be baptized, go to Confession, etc.

It's similar to any other sin that requires restitution of some kind.  Let's say I steal $10,000 and spent it.  I repent and intend to pay it back, even though I can't right now and may never be able to.  I can be forgiven as long as I intend to do my best to make restitution.  Then you have to try.

As for public vs. private Baptism, Baptism is inherently public, as it determines membership in the Church, and requires witnesses precisely for that reason.  Yet, it could be quasi-private in the sense that the ceremony need not be performed in front of the broader public.  This may be done to avoid scandal.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 14, 2023, 10:49:56 AM
Mark I am not sure what the issue is? See the bold above.
Blather and digression.   What sinner is not "manipulated"? The "manipulation" is irrelevant to the stated criticism. So, why change the subject to an irrelevant matter?

As for your bold print, the criticism focused narrowly on those who do NOT "try to go back to normal" presenting manifestly with an appearance that mocks and opposes Catholic morality and dogma.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 14, 2023, 11:01:10 AM
I'm not sure I completely understand this debate, as I haven't read every post, but formal repentance is necessary even if materially the damage can't be undone.  If they have the intention to repent, they can be baptized, go to Confession, etc.

It's similar to any other sin that requires restitution of some kind.  Let's say I steal $10,000 and spent it.  I repent and intend to pay it back, even though I can't right now and may never be able to.  I can be forgiven as long as I intend to do my best to make restitution.  Then you have to try.

As for public vs. private Baptism, Baptism is inherently public, as it determines membership in the Church, and requires witnesses precisely for that reason.  Yet, it could be quasi-private in the sense that the ceremony need not be performed in front of the broader public.  This may be done to avoid scandal. [emphasis added]
You have accurately distilled the gravamen.

The narrow focus of criticism was specifically aimed at those who present with an appearance that suggests no repentance, no "restitution," mocking and opposing Catholic morals and dogma.

I even provided example photos for the willfully dyslexic and snarky who raised the straw men of "unforgivable sin," "gynecomastia," "hirsuitism," and a load of other irrelevant crap. Since the femboy photo is now missing, I assume it was too risque to remain here, but the photos should have made the point to those who willfully evaded the point, willfully denying that pattern recognition delineates congenital hermaphroditism and virilization/feminization syndromes from willful sɛҳuąƖ self-mutilation, delineates those innocent and repentant from those contumacious and rebellious.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on November 14, 2023, 05:55:55 PM
Beards, breasts (store-bought or otherwise), "Adam's apple," male v. female hairline, male v. female hairstyles, and manner of dress are readily apparent.
None of those things are necessary for baptism.

Regarding 1917 Canon 748 (https://books.google.com/books?id=2XbtF6Y21LUC&pg=PA277) (which has no equivalent in the 1983 Code), which deals with baptism in the case of deformed or abnormal fetal humans, canonist Charles Augustine, O.S.B., D.D., writes in A Commentary on the New Code of Canon Law, on Can. 748 (https://archive.org/stream/1917CodeOfCanonLawCommentary#page/n1371/mode/2up):
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There is no difficulty as to hermaphrodites, because sex does not affect the validity of Baptism.

{Even hermaphrodites with predominate male aspect can be validly (albeit illicitly) ordained. (https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/63458/1787)}
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on November 14, 2023, 06:02:43 PM
None of those things are necessary for baptism.

Regarding 1917 Canon 748 (https://books.google.com/books?id=2XbtF6Y21LUC&pg=PA277) (which has no equivalent in the 1983 Code), which deals with baptism in the case of deformed or abnormal fetal humans, canonist Charles Augustine, O.S.B., D.D., writes in A Commentary on the New Code of Canon Law, on Can. 748 (https://archive.org/stream/1917CodeOfCanonLawCommentary#page/n1371/mode/2up):
{Even hermaphrodites with predominate male aspect can be validly (albeit illicitly) ordained. (https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/63458/1787)}

After ignoring several clear statements of the focused criticism, you continue to engage in straw man arguments.

Mentioning pattern recognition of features manifesting opposition to Catholic morals and dogma is not a claim that any certain body part is mandated in Canon Law.

You also continue to conflate unfortunate congenital anomalies with willful sɛҳuąƖ self-mutilation.

It is becoming more clear that you intend to be a deceiver and cloud the issue. What is your major malfunction, Geremia?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on November 15, 2023, 12:54:57 PM
Not many alpha males left within Vatican II church. 
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on July 27, 2024, 08:16:18 PM
After ignoring several clear statements of the focused criticism, you continue to engage in straw man arguments.

Mentioning pattern recognition of features manifesting opposition to Catholic morals and dogma is not a claim that any certain body part is mandated in Canon Law.

You also continue to conflate unfortunate congenital anomalies with willful sɛҳuąƖ self-mutilation.

It is becoming more clear that you intend to be a deceiver and cloud the issue. What is your major malfunction, Geremia?

In this thread Geremia never recanted his conflation of an unfortunate unwilled birth defect (congenital hermaphroditism) with willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation (surgical transɛҳuąƖism).

If someone is caught in an accidental mistake (e.g., "Hey, your fly is open."), no ill will can be imputed… however, once the mistake is pointed and you refuse to fix the mistake, it is reasonable to consider that the "mistake" is actually intentional. 

So, over 8 months since you were called on your error, you still haven't acknowledged or recanted the "mistake."

Geremia, you are long overdue "zipping up"!
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on July 29, 2024, 10:04:15 PM
In this thread Geremia never recanted his conflation of an unfortunate unwilled birth defect (congenital hermaphroditism) with willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation (surgical transɛҳuąƖism).

If someone is caught in an accidental mistake (e.g., "Hey, your fly is open."), no ill will can be imputed… however, once the mistake is pointed and you refuse to fix the mistake, it is reasonable to consider that the "mistake" is actually intentional. 

So, over 8 months since you were called on your error, you still haven't acknowledged or recanted the "mistake."

Geremia, you are long overdue "zipping up"!
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 01, 2024, 11:56:45 AM
So? Isn't baptism for sinners?
Baptism is for sinners who are in a state of grace.

You should read Genesis- God made male and God made female.  

Non Catholics, Catholics who are in a state of sin shouldn’t be God parents.  


Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 01, 2024, 12:03:04 PM
The second is sodomoticial sin: man with man, or woman with woman, against nature. How the cry of this most abominable sin came to God from the earth, and how God poured down fire and brimstone to destroy the wicked Sodomites, it appereath plain in scripture. This terrible example putteth in remembrance that perpetually to burn in hell with fire and brimstone is a punishment due for them that commit sin against nature.





Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 01, 2024, 12:05:43 PM
The Vatican are liars and deceivers.  They love the Olympic ceremony.  They are the anti Christ.

(https://insiderpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rome-5074421_1280-990x660.jpg)

Transgender believers can be baptised in the Catholic Church, if it would not cause scandal or “confusion”, the Vatican said Wednesday, clarifying a sensitive area of doctrine. 
Wolves in sheep clothing.  They are liars and deceivers. Read your bibles, Catholics. 
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 01, 2024, 12:09:00 PM
With this statement from the Vatican , they excommunicated themselves from God.  They aren’t Catholic.  They think they are gods and goddesses of paganism.  It is why they are silent against persecution of Christians and blasphemy against Jesus Christ. 
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 01, 2024, 01:13:59 PM
Baptism is for sinners who are in a state of grace.
And you can't have sanctifying grace unless you're baptized.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Marcellinus on August 01, 2024, 04:33:43 PM
Baptism is for sinners who are in a state of grace.
With all due respect, that doesn't even make sense.  You can't be in a state of grace without having been baptized.  

I sometimes read your posts and simply want to ask you, "Are you ok?"  
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 01, 2024, 06:48:29 PM
In this thread Geremia never recanted his conflation of an unfortunate unwilled birth defect (congenital hermaphroditism) with willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation (surgical transɛҳuąƖism).

If someone is caught in an accidental mistake (e.g., "Hey, your fly is open."), no ill will can be imputed… however, once the mistake is pointed and you refuse to fix the mistake, it is reasonable to consider that the "mistake" is actually intentional. 

So, over 8 months since you were called on your error, you still haven't acknowledged or recanted the "mistake."

Geremia, you are long overdue "zipping up"!
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 01, 2024, 07:10:39 PM
With all due respect, that doesn't even make sense.  You can't be in a state of grace without having been baptized. 

I sometimes read your posts and simply want to ask you, "Are you ok?" 
Yes. It does make sense. Yes. I’m fine.   

An adult practicing sodomite shouldn’t be baptized at all.    

Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 01, 2024, 07:10:57 PM
Mark, do you deny baptism to detransitioners, too?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 01, 2024, 07:12:13 PM
I was baptized as an adult. Repentance was a requirement for the baptism to take place. That was about 25 years ago in an NO church.  I guess things have changed since then.
Thank you. 
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 01, 2024, 07:12:48 PM
An adult practicing sodomite shouldn’t be baptized at all.
It would be better for them were they not baptized (lesser punishment in hell), but they can be baptized.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 01, 2024, 07:18:09 PM
It would be better for them were they not baptized (lesser punishment in hell), but they can be baptized.

Yes, "The Pill" can be contraceptive or contragestive (preventing implantation, thus starving the baby, thus abortifacient).

Catechism of the Council of Trent on matrimony (http://www.catholicapologetics.info/thechurch/catechism/Holy7Sacraments-Matrimony.shtml):
How odd that you can understand an important contraceptive/contragestive distinction, but for 8 months have evaded acknowledging the difference between willful acts and unwilled acts.

Do you now understand and acknowledge the difference between unwilled congenital defects and willed sɛҳuąƖ mutilation?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 01, 2024, 11:10:22 PM
willed sɛҳuąƖ mutilation
Baptism erases all sins.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 02, 2024, 01:55:33 AM
Baptism erases all sins.
Non-responsive and evasive. The effect of Baptism is NOT in question and NEVER was in question.

You defended the public baptism of trannies (willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation) by pretending their baptism fell under the rubric of baptism of hermaphrodites (unwilled congenital defects).

In essence your 8 months of evasion is akin to equating willful masturbation with unwilled nocturnal emissions. Do you also excuse masturbation (willed) because nocturnal emissions (unwilled) are sinless?

Why do you continue to evade admitting that there is a significant difference between willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation (trannies) and unwilled congenital defects (hermaphroditis,)???

Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 02, 2024, 02:18:09 AM
Mark, do you deny baptism to detransitioners, too?

No, certainly I do not "deny" Baptism to any reoentant sinner.

My answer is unequivocal, responsive, and non-evasive.

Neither Baptism's effect nor Baptism's availability to repentant sinners have ever been in question by me or anyone else on CathInfo. You bring it up as yet another diversion, another evasion in your 8 months of evasion!

You defended the public baptism of trannies (willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation) by pretending their baptism fell under the rubric of baptism of hermaphrodites (unwilled congenital defects).

In essence your 8 months of evasion is akin to equating willful masturbation with unwilled nocturnal emissions. Do you also excuse masturbation (willed) because nocturnal emissions (unwilled) are sinless?

Why do you continue to evade admitting that there is a pivotal difference between willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation (trannies) and unwilled congenital defects (hermaphroditism)???

One of the most basic elements of sin is the intention, the willfulness, yet you have evaded that key issue for 8 months.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 02, 2024, 02:39:36 AM
Why is it, Geremia. that you can quote passages from the St Thomas Aquinas's Summa, yet you refuse to admit and apply the most basic element of sin, willful intention?

Why?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Giovanni Berto on August 02, 2024, 09:14:57 AM
We could suspect that Geremia is some kind of infiltrator, but his general behaviour does not seem to support this.

My take is that he is not well educated in the faith and that he avoids confrontation, probably because of his temperament.

When questioned bluntly, he retreats or gives simple, short and childish answers.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Marcellinus on August 02, 2024, 11:33:38 AM
Yes. It does make sense. Yes. I’m fine. 

An adult practicing sodomite shouldn’t be baptized at all.   
How can one be a in a state of grace without baptism?

And you are correct, no unrepentant sinner should be baptized.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 02, 2024, 01:52:33 PM
And you are correct, no unrepentant sinner should be baptized.
What's being debated is whether they "can be Baptized" (title of this thread), not whether they should be.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 02, 2024, 01:54:10 PM
the most basic element of sin, willful intention?
Yes, all sin is willful. Your point?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 02, 2024, 01:54:56 PM
Why do you continue to evade admitting that there is a pivotal difference between willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation (trannies) and unwilled congenital defects (hermaphroditism)?
Of course there is, but my point in bringing up hermaphrodites is that the Church bars them from the priesthood, but not from baptism.
Are you debating the question of whether "TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized" or whether they should be?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 02, 2024, 08:02:35 PM

Of course there is, but my point in bringing up hermaphrodites is that the Church bars them from the priesthood, but not from baptism.
Are you debating the question of whether "TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized" or whether they should be?

NOBODY
here ever suggested that truly repentant trannies be denied Baptism. NOBODY!

Why then did you feel compelled to cloud the discussion by feigning that we proposed denying Baptism? or that trannies "cannot" be Baptised.  Why???

We were crystal clear, narrowly focused on a very specific aspect, public Baptism of seemingly unrepentant trannies, and that record remains for all who read the thread to bear witness.

The practicing Catholics here objected to the public Baptism of Trannies because of the scandal, especially in cases that publicly appeared non-repentant.  Nobody objected to their Baptism. Nobody questioned the efficacy of Baptism, yet you turned contortions to cloud the matter by invoking hermaphrodites, and pretended that we did question the efficacy of Baptism, pretended that we objected to the Baptism of any trannies. You tried to use unwilled congenital defects (hermaphroditism) to support public Baptism of willfully mutilated trannies in public!

You threw all manner of diversion into the discussion, including nonsense about beards and breasts not being impediments to Baptism.

For 8 months you have done your worst to cloud the issue simply to avoid admitting that it causes scandal to publicly Baptise transɛҳuąƖs who appear unrepentant.

It took you 8 months to finally admit: "Of course there is [a difference between willed and unwilled acts]."
And even with that admission you continue to cloud the narrow question by re-asking what has long been answered. So, for the umpteenth time in this thread:

NOBODY here ever suggested that the truly repentant trannies be denied Baptism. NOBODY!
NOBODY here ever questioned the efficacy of Baptism. NOBODY!

We were all clear on these points. We were repeatedly clear on all these points. Yet 8 months later, this very day, you pretend to be unclear on that. At this point I can only wonder why you invested so much effort in evasion, diversion, avoiding admitting "Of course there is [a difference between willed and unwilled acts]."
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Quo vadis Domine on August 02, 2024, 09:00:55 PM

NOBODY
here ever suggested that truly repentant trannies be denied Baptism. NOBODY!

Why then did you feel compelled to cloud the discussion by feigning that we proposed denying Baptism? or that trannies "cannot" be Baptised.  Why???

We were crystal clear, narrowly focused on a very specific aspect, public Baptism of seemingly unrepentant trannies, and that record remains for all who read the thread to bear witness.

The practicing Catholics here objected to the public Baptism of Trannies because of the scandal, especially in cases that publicly appeared non-repentant.  Nobody objected to their Baptism. Nobody questioned the efficacy of Baptism, yet you turned contortions to cloud the matter by invoking hermaphrodites, and pretended that we did question the efficacy of Baptism, pretended that we objected to the Baptism of any trannies. You tried to use unwilled congenital defects (hermaphroditism) to support public Baptism of willfully mutilated trannies in public!

You threw all manner of diversion into the discussion, including nonsense about beards and breasts not being impediments to Baptism.

For 8 months you have done your worst to cloud the issue simply to avoid admitting that it causes scandal to publicly Baptise transɛҳuąƖs who appear unrepentant.

It took you 8 months to finally admit: "Of course there is [a difference between willed and unwilled acts]."
And even with that admission you continue to cloud the narrow question by re-asking what has long been answered. So, for the umpteenth time in this thread:

NOBODY here ever suggested that the truly repentant trannies be denied Baptism. NOBODY!
NOBODY here ever questioned the efficacy of Baptism. NOBODY!

We were all clear on these points. We were repeatedly clear on all these points. Yet 8 months later, this very day, you pretend to be unclear on that. At this point I can only wonder why you invested so much effort in evasion, diversion, avoiding admitting "Of course there is [a difference between willed and unwilled acts]."



Thanks Mark. I was thinking the same thing, it seems he’s being disingenuous.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Marcellinus on August 02, 2024, 09:46:21 PM
What's being debated is whether they "can be Baptized" (title of this thread), not whether they should be.
Can an unrepentant sinner be baptized?  Of course, you simply pour the water in his head and say the form. 

Is it illicit?  Yes.  Is it a sacrilege?  Yes. Is the unrepentant sinner in a state of grace afterwards, no.  

The just baptized unrepentant sinner is now in state of mortal sin.. actual sin, not original. 

This is moral theology 101. 
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 02, 2024, 10:31:51 PM
Can an unrepentant sinner be baptized?  Of course, you simply pour the water in his head and say the form.

Is it illicit?  Yes.  Is it a sacrilege?  Yes. Is the unrepentant sinner in a state of grace afterwards, no. 

The just baptized unrepentant sinner is now in state of mortal sin.. actual sin, not original.

This is moral theology 101.

Exactly as you said!

You are addressing the guy who posts from St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa, but has spent 8 months in evasion, diversion, conflation, bait-and-switch, and obfuscation all to avoid application of the simplest catechetical principles on sin, repentance, and scandal—matters that Catholic grammar school children understand.

He didn't even type a full stand-alone admission.  He left his acknowledgment at "Of course there is…."  He could have said, "Of course there is a difference between willed and unwilled acts…," but didn't. Why the reticence for clarity on this point that he evaded for so long?

Why does the resident "expert" on St. Thomas Aquinas who also quotes excerpts from Canonists and Saints turn contortions to avoid the most basic truths about sɛҳuąƖ mutilation?
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 02, 2024, 11:42:10 PM
NOBODY here ever suggested that truly repentant trannies be denied Baptism.
Repentant or not, they can be baptized.

to avoid admitting that it causes scandal to publicly Baptise transɛҳuąƖs who appear unrepentant.
Yes, it could cause scandal, but, again, I thought we were debating whether they can be baptized (not whether they should be).
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Geremia on August 02, 2024, 11:44:03 PM
He could have said, "Of course there is a difference between willed and unwilled acts…," but didn't.
Why do you keep bringing up this distinction? I fail to see how it bears on whether they can be baptized.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: Mark 79 on August 03, 2024, 12:40:33 AM

Why do you keep bringing up this distinction? I fail to see how it bears on whether they can be baptized.

Your "hermaphrodite" bait-and-switch made the distinction important.  Got it?  You brought it up first. Got it? If you think it has no bearing on the matter, you should not have introduced hermaphrodites into the discussion. Got it?

This is about the 10th time I have answered this question for you
.

So, once again… (!!!)…

We objected to the public Baptism of trannies, especially of those who appear unrepentant (maintaining the dress, mannerisms, and physical imposture of their willed sɛҳuąƖ mutilation).

You objected by saying that hermaphrodites can be Baptized.

In doing so, you attempted to use an unwilled congenital defect as a reason to allow public Baptism of willed sɛҳuąƖ mutilation.

Your bait-and-switch made the distinction important.

There is nothing sinful, shameful, or scandalous in suffering a birth defect (unwilled).  Analogously there is nothing sinful, shameful, or scandalous in suffering pimples, diabetes, dyslexia, heart disease, or autism.

There is everything sinful, shameful, and scandalous about willful sɛҳuąƖ mutilation, willful enabling of sɛҳuąƖ mutilation, and willfully subverting Catholic morals and disciplines regarding sɛҳuąƖ mutilation.

Hopefully these examples help you now see how important the willed/unwilled distinction is.
Title: Re: Vatican: TransɛҳuąƖs can be Baptized
Post by: 2Vermont on August 03, 2024, 06:24:56 AM
From what I can tell, the operative word for Geremia is "can".  But there are a lot of things that we can do, but that doesn't mean we should do.  

Earlier in the thread the talk was about valid vs licit.  A transgender baptism would be illicit.  In other words, you can't licitly do it.  Yes, of course, someone could illicitly do it, but it would be sacrilegious.  

The issue here is that the so-called pope now allows this illicit baptism to be LICIT.  And that should be condemned, not explained away.