I know he would be laicized but would he still be able to hear confession in emergencies? Would the Church still consider him a man…or a in-between…or what…this isn’t from real life just a question I posed to myself one day and been thinking about it… Another thing is if a priest had both hands amputated could he still head the Sacrifice of the Mass?..sorry for weird question just thinking too much
Why do you think he would be laicized instead of having his public faculties removed?
Eight years ago, a news leak appeared about a secret policy (the document was distributed sub secretum and has never been made public) regarding transsexuals. The news article made passing reference to a priest who had gotten a sex change. According to the article he was still considered a man by the Catholic Church, because the Church does not recognize sex change as changing the nature of the person.
Once a priest, always a priest. And priests are always men.
If memory services me right, the priest in question eventually returned to living as a man, however I do not know if he ever regained his public faculties.
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