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In the Latin Church, administration of baptism is one of the functions especially entrusted to the parish priest. [8] However, according to the same Code, any person, even someone not baptized, can baptize, if he has the required intention.
Over 260 Catholic theologians, particularly from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, signed in January and February 2011 a memorandum, called Church 2011, which said that the Church's esteem for marriage and celibacy "does not require the exclusion of people who responsibly live out love, faithfulness, and mutual care in same-sex partnerships or ...
Petrine privilege, also known as the privilege of the faith or favor of the faith, is a ground recognized in Catholic canon law allowing for dissolution by the Pope of a valid natural marriage between a baptized and a non-baptized person for the sake of the salvation of the soul of someone who is thus enabled to marry in the Church.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Transgender people can be godparents at Roman Catholic baptisms, witnesses at religious weddings and receive baptism themselves, the Vatican's doctrinal office said on ...
Vatican officials said Wednesday that transgender people can be baptized in the Catholic church. “A transgender person, even if they have undergone hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery ...
Pastoral care for LGBT Catholics consists of the ministry and outreach the Catholic Church provides to LGBTQ Catholics. There are official organizations, such as Courage International , as well as stand-alone events, scholarly studies, comments, and teachings from the highest levels of the Catholic Church, as well as individual parish outreach.
Any in the Greek Church who wash altars after they have been used by Latin Catholics in order to cleanse them, or who re-baptize people already baptized by Latin Catholics. Any bishop who violates the rules the council set down for a diocese that has believers with different languages and rites. Those who presume to impose taxes on the church.
The sexual attraction between two people of the same sex is not condemned according to the sexual morality of the Catholic Church, but the sexual act is. [291] In 2024, the Pope clarified that the blessings may not be given to the unions but only the individual persons.