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https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/Perspectives/Columnists/Article/TabId/797/ArtMID/13632/ArticleID/20554/TCA-Faith-for-SeptemberOctober-2016.aspx ^ | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 09/24/2016 9:06:21 AM PDT by Salvation

Transgender Bathrooms?

Q. What is the Church’s official teaching about transgender bathrooms? There does not seem to be a clear answer about all of this.

Robert, via e-mail

A. There is no such thing as being “transgendered” from any biblical or Catholic perspective. Thus there is no official teaching about something that doesn’t even exist, let alone about bathrooms. What we can do is apply Catholic principles to address the deep confusion that has arisen about something so clear and basic as one’s sex.

The human person has a sex (not a gender), and God assigns that sex. Scripture says, in creating us, “[God] created them; male and female he created them” (Gn 1:27). Our bodies are therefore a revelation of who and what God created us to be. No amount of clothes, cosmetics or surgery can alter the fact that we are male or female right down to our DNA.

Transgenderism is one of the stranger manifestations of the sexual confusion of our times. It is a form of Gnostic dualism wherein a person can claim that he has an “identity” wholly separate from anything indicated by his body. This amounts to a reduction of the human person to his thoughts or feelings, and a stepping back from reality as clearly indicated by the body. It also denigrates the body and the witness it makes to us of who and what we are.

And yet the glory of the human person is to unite the two aspects of God’s creation, the spiritual and the material. So precious is the bodily dimension of the human person that Christ took to himself a full human nature: body and soul. He did not simply come among us as a ghost or mirage. He walked among us in our full nature, offered His body on the altar of the cross, and raised up His full humanity and glorified it. To reduce our bodies to a mere tool, or a sort of prison (where a man is “trapped” in a woman’s body), or to mutilate it surgically is a grave offense against what God has wrought. Since our body is a revelation from God of who and what we are, to ignore its voice or overrule what God says is a sign of the pride of our days.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “Man and woman have been created, which is to say, willed by God: on the one hand, in perfect equality as human persons; on the other, in their respective beings as man and woman. ‘Being man’ or ‘being woman’ is a reality which is good and willed by God.… In their ‘being-man’ and ‘being-woman,’ they reflect the Creator’s wisdom and goodness” (No. 369, emphasis in original).

Those who struggle with their sexuality as given by God deserve our sympathy and care. But in no way can we participate in confirming them in a very great error and deep confusion. Only the truth, as God has declared it, will set us free. We therefore must resist and teach against the “gender ideology” of our times, which seeks to replace what God has wrought with vain imaginings that both confuse and demean the true glory of the human person.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: bathrooms; catholic; lgbt; lgbtq; moralabsolutes; msgrcharlespope; restrooms; transgender
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To: Chode

No more his and hers....just innies and outies.


21 posted on 09/24/2016 6:11:43 PM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Yes, there is an official position. But notice the lack of discipline. If there is no discipline, do you really believe the official position?

So WHAT is the "official position" of which Protestant denomination about homosexual marriage?

You don't change a law just because people break it. Or do you believe the '60's nonsense that "bad laws are made to be broken"?? I DON'T think you do.

22 posted on 09/24/2016 6:13:54 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: csmusaret
pretty much
23 posted on 09/24/2016 6:34:50 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: PeterPrinciple

What you could do is call up 100 random churches a day and ask if they will marry you to someone of the same sex, you have family that are from the area and they attend. You have to know now, and will keep it under your hat if they have to do it on the sly because of the official position of that particular group. You are willing to pay well to be married by them. And see what they say. Then compare the official position of those churches to what you were told they would do after your proposal.

That might tell you what is really being done and what they are willing to do vs. official positions.

Freegards


24 posted on 09/24/2016 6:34:50 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Salvation

One of the primary sources of hatred against the Church is its teachings on gender being a gift from the Father.


25 posted on 09/25/2016 6:16:09 AM PDT by Burkianfrombrklyn
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To: cloudmountain

So WHAT is the “official position” of which Protestant denomination about homosexual marriage?


For example, the issue of homosexuality comes up at EVERY conference in the Methodist Church and is voted down. Yet there are strong proponents for homer sexuality through out the Methodist church and they are not disciplined or purged, they are tolerated. Now are you going to believe what they say, or what they do is what they really believe?

The RC and all the churches have the same problem. But there is the beginning of some discipline which is encouraging. Do I like being disciplined? No. Is it good for me? If God loves me, he will discipline me.


26 posted on 09/28/2016 8:52:44 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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