Vatican says no to transsexual priests
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In case anyone had any doubts, the Vatican believes
that transsexuals should not become priests, monks or nuns. According to the
Catholic news agency Adista, the Vatican has sent a note to heads of Roman
Catholic bishops' conferences and religious orders around the world on the
subject of sex change operations. The confidential document written by the
Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, its doctrinal watchdog, says
those who undergo sex change operations have a "pathological personality situation". Full story