Vatican: transsexuals can be baptised
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has confirmed, that transgender people or people born through surrogacy can be baptised, provided no scandal or confusion is caused as a result.
Roman Catholic Church miscellaneous
COMECE: concerns about draft on substances of human origin
COMECE and KBB are jointly releasing a statement expressing their deep concerns about the draft of the European Parliament’s position on the SoHO Regulation.
COMECE on the “ethical indefensibility” of an EU fundamental right to abortion
COMECE states that abortion cannot be an EU fundamental right.
Joint statement of Jews and Catholics on end-of-life issues
Jewish and Catholic approaches to the terminally ill: the Prohibited, the Permitted and the Obligatory.
PAV: Press office statement on abortion
Statement of the Pontifical Academy for Life on wrong interpretation of mgr. Paglia’s words on abortion.
COMECE on EP resolution on abortion: “no to higher ideological barriers and polarization, we must work for more unity among Europeans”
In a statement released on Friday 8 July 2022, Fr. Manuel Barrios Prieto, General Secretary of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), regrets the adoption of a new resolution on abortion by the European Parliament. “We must work for more unity among Europeans, not to create higher ideological barriers and polarization”.
Abortion USA
Regarding the United States Supreme Court decision that modified the 1973 legal position Roe v. Wade on the issue of abortion, the Pontifical Academy for Life presents a statement.
COMECE on “Global threats to abortion rights”
In view of the discussion scheduled for today, Wednesday 8 June 2022, in the European Parliament under the title “Global threats to abortion rights: the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court”, the Secretary General of COMECE, Fr Manuel Barrios Prieto, has made a declaration.
No significant moral difference exists between medically assisted suicide and euthanasia
Cardinal Eijk opposes the idea that assisted suicide is morally different from euthanasia.
EU Bishops reply to President Macron: “there is no recognized right to abortion in European or international law”
In a statement released on Tuesday 8 February 2022, the Presidency of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) expresses its deep concern on President Macron’s proposal of including a supposed right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.