Posted on 09/25/2021 8:55:14 PM PDT by ebb tide
A leader of the U.S. bishops' conference has written to Catholic prelates throughout the country, alleging that an unspecified number of transgender men have been "unknowingly admitted" to diocesan seminaries and houses of formation for religious orders.
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki, who serves as the chairman of the bishops' Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, told the nation's bishops in a Sept. 22 memo that they might consider "various options" to ensure that only people assigned male at birth are ordained to the Catholic priesthood.
Among the recommendations are DNA testing and certification from a medical expert of the bishop's choosing.
Rocco Palmo, who writes the blog Whispers in the Loggia, first reported the memo, titled "Transgenderism and Seminary Formation," via Twitter on Sept. 23. Palmo's initial tweet sparked a range of incredulous replies, with some people comparing the memo to medieval practices that involved physically checking priesthood candidates.
A spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee referred questions from NCR about the memo to the bishops' conference. Chieko Noguchi, a spokesman for the conference, declined to comment.
While mainline Protestant and nondenominational Christian seminaries have increasingly welcomed transgender students, the Catholic Church has taken an unbending stance on transgender issues.
Pope Francis has often spoken out against what he refers to as "gender ideology." In 2019, the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education released an extensive statement in which it asserted that gender theory seeks to "annihilate the concept of nature."
In his recent memo, Listecki says his committee had been made aware of "instances where it had been discovered that a woman living under a transgendered identity" had been admitted to a seminary or a religious institute's house of formation.
In one instance, Listecki wrote, an individual's "sacramental records had been fraudulently obtained to reflect her new identity. In all instances, nothing in these individuals' medical or psychological reports had signaled past treatments or pertinent surgeries."
The archbishop also wrote that "luckily" each case of a transgender seminarian or religious in training had been discovered before they received the sacrament of Holy Orders.
The memo cites the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which requires the diocesan bishop to admit to major seminary and to ordain "only men who possess the requisite physical and psychological qualities."
"Moreover, a diocesan bishop can require various means to establish moral certitude in this regard," Listecki also wrote, adding that the committee encouraged him to write the bishops about those occurrences so that they would "exercise special vigilance" as a new year of seminary formation begins.
Have they all been found?
Ping
Infiltrating to destroy the church from within.
One would think that the requirement that a baptismal certificate be produced, if followed, should largely manage to deal with this.
I’d prefer DNA testing. We could very well already have trans “priests” now baptizing children with nefarious intentions for their futures.
Before I read any further, trans men are the ones with uteruses and vaginas, right ? The men who menstruate and give birth.
Yes, it’s an Obamanation.
*** Before I read any further, trans men are the ones with uteruses and vaginas, right ? The men who menstruate and give birth. ***
Replace the word trans when you see it, with the word “fake”.
Makes it easier to keep it correct.
You know the joke about pregnant nuns? Well, now we can have jokes about pregnant priests.
trans men....start out as a man, attempts to become woman. That’s a man baby!
I think the narrative is, it is “hate” to say there is such a thing as men and women, however you must support men who want to be surgically altered to look like women.
Have any trans “women” been admitted to a convent?
*** Before I read any further, trans men are the ones with uteruses and vaginas, right ? The men who menstruate and give birth. ***
Replace the word trans when you see it, with the word “fake”.
Makes it easier to keep it correct.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
And “assigned male at birth” means REAL male.
OH BS!!! they probably know and do not care.
I was thinking the same thing, but I notice that the article refers to a situation in which sacramental records had been falsified.
No. Pretty sure when they say “trans man” they mean it’s a female who is pretending to be a male.
Exactly.
Holy Spirit, cleanse Your Church. Send us good and faithful shepherds.
I use biological male to avoid ambiguity, or maybe I should use “genetic male” to really avoid ambiguity.
Who is sending these women to become priests? Who is recommending them and vouching for them? Perhaps a physical should be given before being accepted to a seminary.
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