Today the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith answered two recent disputed questions regarding allowable
baptismal formulas and what to do with persons “baptized” using them:
Made public today were the responses of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to two questions
concerning the validity of Baptism conferred with certain non-standard
formulae.
The first question is: “Is a Baptism
valid if conferred with the words ‘I baptise you in the name of the
Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Sanctifier’, or ‘I baptise you
in the name of the Creator, and of the Liberator, and of the
Sustainer'”?
The second question is: “Must people
baptised with those formulae be baptised ‘in forma absoluta’?”
American Papist has the story and I doubt
my readers will be surprised at the answers by the CDF.
It does make me reflect on the fact that
progressives keep finding new ways for people to not actually receive
the sacraments. For example women priests, Communal
confession without individual confession, and invalid
baptismal formulas. And when they are not finding ways for people to
not actually receive the sacraments they make excuses for how people
can receive them unworthily.