Transsexuals Barred From Religious Orders
From Times Wire Reports
Transsexuals suffer from “mental pathologies,” are ineligible for admission to Roman Catholic religious orders and should be expelled if they have already entered the priesthood or religious life, the Vatican says in new directives.
The Vatican’s orthodoxy watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said transsexuals should be barred as priests, monks, friars, nuns and brothers in religious orders.
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