The new edict was signed by Pope Francis and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the dicastery, dated October 31st and published in Italian on the office’s website yesterday, November 8th.

Part of the document, according to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, reads:

A transsexual – even one who has undergone hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery – may receive baptism under the same conditions as other faithful.

The National Catholic Reporter says a note was attached to the ruling was in response to a letter submitted in July by Bishop José Negri of Santo Amaro, Brazil, “containing some questions about the possible participation in baptism and weddings by transexual persons and homo-affective persons.”

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As for other things like transgenders or other LGBTQIA+ individual could be witnesses at a Roman Catholic wedding, the Vatican now is saying “there is nothing in current universal canonical legislation that prohibits” either from serving as a witness at a marriage ceremony.

As concerning being a godparent, the document says:

Due pastoral prudence demands that every situation be wisely pondered, in order to safeguard the sacrament of baptism and especially its reception, which is a precious good to be protected, since it is necessary for salvation.

[When] there are doubts about the objective moral situation in which the person finds him- or herself, or about his or her subjective dispositions toward grace.

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The NCR detailed some of the clarifications:

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Vatican’s note said, affirms that “this configuration to Christ and to the Church, brought about by the Spirit, is indelible, it remains forever in the Christian as a positive disposition for grace, a promise and guarantee of divine protection, and as a vocation to divine worship and to the service of the Church.”

Because that mark is indelible, once the person baptized without the proper disposition repents, sanctifying grace is present, it said. That possibility, it added, is why Pope Francis, in his 2013 exhortation Evangelii Gaudium wrote that the church must have very serious reasons for turning someone away and must be especially hesitant before denying someone baptism.

Therefore, it said, even if there are doubts about the person’s current commitment to living a fully Christian life, “one must never forget this aspect of the fidelity of the unconditional love of God, which is capable of generating even with the sinner an irrevocable covenant, always open to a development that is also unpredictable.”

The church and its ministers do not simply wait for a person’s conversion, though, it said, but constantly call people “to live fully all the implications of the baptism received, which must always be understood and unfolded within the entire journey of Christian initiation.”

On the question of whether a trans person can be a godparent, the document said it is possible “under certain conditions,” but because the role is not a right, “pastoral prudence” is required to avoid the “danger of scandal” or confusion among the faithful.

It also cautioned that gay persons living together in a relationship like a marriage, especially if it is known in the community, probably should not serve as godparents, but can be invited to serve as witnesses to the baptism.

The dicastery repeated an affirmation that the child of a gay couple can be baptized when there is a well-founded hope that the child will be raised Catholic.

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The Catholic News Agency also provided a few more details in this document:

The Vatican quoted the Catechism of the Catholic Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Augustine of Hippo to explain that once a person has the right disposition, that is, has repented of any grave sins, the sacramental character of baptism “is an immediate cause which disposes one to receive grace.”

“Thus we can understand why Pope Francis wanted to emphasize that baptism ‘is the door which allows Christ the Lord to dwell in our person and allows us to be immersed in his Mystery,’” the DDF said, quoting an April 11, 2018 general audience by Pope Francis.

“This concretely implies,” it went on, quoting Francis’ 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, “that ‘nor should the doors of the sacraments be closed for simply any reason. This is especially true of the sacrament which is itself ‘the door’: baptism. … The Church is not a tollhouse; it is the house of the Father, where there is a place for everyone, with all their problems.’”

The DDF concluded that even if there are doubts about a person’s objective moral situation or subjective disposition toward grace, “the faithfulness of God’s unconditional love, capable of generating an irrevocable covenant even with the sinner” should not be forgotten.

In any case, the Church should always call [someone] to live out fully all the implications of the received baptism, which must always be understood and unfolded within the entire journey of Christian initiation.

It said

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Revelation 17:4-5, 18

Pope Francis has been purposefully going out of his way to irritate and enrage traditional Catholics, as they continue to pour into the radical progressive agenda that is being used to “reset” things, which in turn will drive more Trad-Cats and ordinary people into a frenzy – “ignite the right,” as I and others have pointed out.

The date they chose to sign this on is telling, as October 31st is Reformation Day. This is an obvious swipe at the Protestants again, whom they have had thoroughly placed under their control for a LONG time now, officially and openly since October 31st, 1999.

Also, just as a sidenote, “the door” is not the sacraments: The Door is Jesus Christ. Leave it to Rome to pervert everything in God’s word.

[1] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. [2] But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. [7] Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. [8] All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. [9] I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. [10] The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

John 10:1-2, 7-10

[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).