Vatican: It’s ‘impossible’ for transsexuals to serve as godparents
After Alex Salinas, a woman living as a man in San Fernando, Spain , claimed her parish priest had allowed her to be the “godfather” for the baptism of her two nephews, local bishop of Cadiz and Ceuta , Don Rafael Zornoza took the matter up with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . The response, which strongly affirms Church teaching on the nature of gender, was published yesterday on the diocese’s website. “On this particular case I inform you of the impossibility of admission,” read the response. “Transsexual behavior publicly reveals an opposition to the moral demand of resolving the problem of sexual identity according to the truth of one’s own sex. It is therefore evident that said person does not comply with the requirement of leading a life of faith and to the function of godparent (CIC, can 874 §1,3).” “This is not seen as discrimination, but merely as the recognition of an objective lack of requirements that by their nature are necessary to take on t