🇺🇸 Ukraine received a $1.15 billion grant from the US for social benefits and salaries, — Ministry of Finance.

— MAKS 23 👀🇺🇦 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) October 11, 2023

Funny part that Ukraine get's salary for 500k teachers when 3/4 of Ukrainian children ain't in Ukraine since may 2022. Like I was walking today with my dogs and a school group was walking somewhere and I was sure the only 2 white kids were Ukrainian and they indeed were Ukrainian they even paying the teachers that are in Russian controlled zone who pretend to give their lectures online

Transgender people can be baptized Catholic, serve as godparents, Vatican says https://t.co/XKqZkwq6Ym pic.twitter.com/MTw8gO3nJw

— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) November 8, 2023

VATICAN CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Transgender people can be godparents at Roman Catholic baptisms, witnesses at religious weddings and receive baptism themselves, the Vatican's doctrinal office said on Wednesday, responding to questions from a bishop.

The department, known as the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, was vague however, in response to a question of whether a same-s*x couple could have a Church baptism for an adopted child or one obtained through a surrogate mother.

Bishop Jose Negri of Santo Amaro in Brazil sent the doctrinal office six questions in July regarding LGBT people and their participation in the sacraments of baptism and matrimony.

The three pages of questions and answers were signed by the department's head, Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and approved by Pope Francis on Oct. 31. They were posted on the department's website on Wednesday using the Italian word for "transsexuals".

Francis, 86, has tried to make the Church more welcoming to the LGBT community without changing Church teachings, including one saying that same-s*x attraction is not sinful but same-s*x acts are.

In response to a question of whether transgender people can be baptized, the doctrinal office said they could with some conditions and as long as there is "no risk of causing a public scandal or disorientation among the faithful".

It said transgender people could be godparents at a baptism at the discretion of the local priest as well as a witness at a Church wedding, but the local priest should exercise "pastoral prudence" in his decision.

"This is an important step forward in the Church seeing transgender people not only as people (in a Church where some say they don't really exist) but as Catholics," Father James Martin, a prominent Jesuit priest and supporter of LGBT rights in the Church, said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Francis has met with transgender people and in July, he told a transgender person: "Even if we are sinners, he (God) draws near to help us. The Lord loves us as we are, this is God's crazy love."

The document said a person in a same-s*x relationship could also be a witness at a Catholic wedding, the office said, citing current Church canonical legislation which contained no prohibition against it.

The response was less clear regarding persons in same-s*x relationships and their role in baptism, which is the initiation into the Church for infants, children or adults.

The Brazilian bishop sought guidance on whether a same-s*x couple who had adopted a child or obtained it from a surrogate mother could have that child baptized in a Catholic ceremony.

The response said that for the child of a same-s*x couple to be baptized, there had to be "a well-founded hope that it would be educated in the Catholic religion".

There was a similarly nuanced response to a question whether a person in a same-s*x relationship could be a godparent at a Church baptism. It said the person had to "lead a life that conforms to the faith".

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This isn't the only person who's seen this either. And actually most people are freaked out by it because it feels familiar even if they don't remember it. I'm certainly one of them.

Is it filled with your everyday people just chitchatting with one another on various subjects?

Is it filled with pearl clutching redditors?

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