RE: Ask a Traditional Catholic
July 4, 2015 at 9:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 10:08 pm by Metis.)
(July 4, 2015 at 9:32 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Source please?
If it is a secret document, how is it that you - a non-Catholic, atheist - have had access to it?
Because it was leaked and reported upon by the Catholic News Service back in 2003, the same way Crimen Sollicitationis (the one that said rape victims of the clergy had to shut up and not tell anyone or they'd go to hell) was by a disgruntled bishop. I do not have access to the transexual subsecratum, but Crimen Sollicitationis is freely available online
http://www.religioustolerance.org/transsexu15.htm
Quote:2000-2003: Official, although initially secret, ruling by the Vatican:
After extensive study, the Vatican issued a "sub secretum" (secret) document in the year 2000 to papal representatives in each country. Unfortunately, it became obvious that many bishops did not learn the contents of the document, so copies were sent to the presidents of bishops' conferences as well. Finally, in 2003 it was discussed in the Catholic News Service. 4
As for Crimen... http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comm...23656.html . This gets the basic points across, there is a full wikipedia article on it as well as the document itself being available on the vatican website which you may wish to check but this is what most non-Catholics have against it. "You tell the authorities you got raped, you're automatically excommunicated and going to hell".
