{"id":8514,"date":"2003-01-12T23:53:41","date_gmt":"2003-01-13T04:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/01\/12\/bumbling-baptism\/"},"modified":"2003-01-12T23:53:41","modified_gmt":"2003-01-13T04:53:41","slug":"bumbling-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/01\/bumbling-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumbling Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>By God, a rite should be done right.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>That apparently was the thinking of a Pointe Calumet<br \/>\nwoman who complained in 1996 that her grandchild was given a botched baptism, a<br \/>\nclaim that led Catholic Church investigators to determine that about 300<br \/>\nchildren hadn&#8217;t received the holy sacrament.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Instead of having one designated person sprinkle the<br \/>\nchild with holy water while proclaiming &#8220;I baptize you in the name of the<br \/>\nFather, the Son and the Holy Spirit,&#8221; a priest handled the water while a lay<br \/>\nperson, properly designated to do baptisms, recited the sacred line, according<br \/>\nto a Presse Canadienne report.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;It should be done by one (properly designated) person at<br \/>\nthe same time &#8230; in one movement,&#8221; Gaetan Baillargeon, director of the church&#8217;s<br \/>\nnational office of liturgy, said yesterday.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montreal\/news\/story.asp?id=%7B5F6B38C1-0567-45E7-A612-C0D0ADC22845%7D\"\ntarget=_blank>Full Story<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By God, a rite should be done right. That apparently was the thinking of a Pointe Calumet woman who complained in 1996 that her grandchild was given a botched baptism,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}