we were already doing shit like that 
Maybe they should nail a formal list of complaints to his door
Well if they really want to be traditional they should appoint their own pope to take up residence in Avignon
Lol. This guy is the head of the largest ideological colonizer organization of all time.
"Trans people are dangerous colonizers" says unelected leader of ancient pedophile cult
This is a pretty popular sentiment though. I hear it all the time.
BTW, this also includes a backdoor that trans people can be excluded from baptism and acting as godparents when it "could cause confusion or scandal", so any parish can be as openly transphobic about this as they want to. Also the wording is super fucking weird and could imply this only applies to people with bottom surgery, and i don't feel comfortable with the idea that a papal decree includes a section that priests may interpret as a license for a spontaneous genital inspection.
Refusing baptism is bizarre though. Like doesn't that mean they basically think you aren't human and are unworthy of saving? Literally as far from Christ's teachings as possible
Yeah, it absolutely is, but tbh Catholicism has kind of a history of dignitaries removing Christianity as far from Christ's teachings as possible.
Hopefully this makes some chrisitans less transphobic. Probably won't, but we can dream
Queue the weirdest of catholics screeching about Vatican II being illegitimate
Other Christians already think catholics are heathens this isnjust going to reinforce that belief.
"papists"
<-- me because I was raised Orthodox as a kid and I'll never get the anti-Catholic mindset out of my head
wait are/were there rules about categories of people who couldn't be baptised?? i thought the point was baptising the maximum amount of people, then grousing about & excommunicating people that dont follow the stupid rules
