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QUAERITUR: Do we have the right to ask for Traditional Form baptism?
From a reader:
We are planning our daughter’s baptism next month and would appreciate your guidance regarding an issue that has arisen.
Our parish does group baptisms twice a month outside of Mass. While our pastor was willing to do an EF … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: May the pascal candle be used at EF baptisms?
NB: In a comment below, a participant posted some points about when the paschal candle may be used in the Extraordinary Form. Don’t just read my answer and then move on without also reading that comment. You will know which … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Baptism outside one’s parish
From a priest:
After 17 years as a priest I’m surprised I can’t track down an answer to this, but even our diocesan faculties booklet is unclear.
A priest of our diocese baptized an infant whose parents are registered in my parish. … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged baptism, can. 530, domicile, parish, parish priest
33 Comments
QUAERITUR: The “Churching” of Women after childbirth
From a reader:
Can the Churching ritual be performed directly after the baptism, or should it be done on a different day? I ask this for clarity, as this will be the priest’s first time performing a baptism in the EF … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged baptism, childbirth, churching, churching of women, motherhood, mothers, Rituale Romanum, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
51 Comments
QUAERITUR: Are Mormons Christians?
From a reader:
I have a friend who is Mormon and she claims that they are indeed
Christian but something in me says they are not. She claims that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God and her Lord and Savior. Is that … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged baptism, Battlestar Galactica, Christianity, divinity, God, Mormonism, Mormons, religion, Trinity
47 Comments
QUAERITUR: Can I be godfather to child of a former-Catholic, now Orthodox?
From a reader:
A childhood friend of mine formerly a catholic “converted” to an Eastern Orthodox Church to get married. Now they are expecting their first child and have asked me to stand as sponsor for their child in their Eastern … Continue reading
American Bishop receives kudos from the Pope for reordering sacraments
This should cause some discussion!
From CNA:
Bishop Aquila receives Pope’s praise for reordering sacraments
By David Kerr
Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2012 / 03:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo said he is delighted to have first-hand papal approval for changing … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged baptism, Bp. Aquila, confirmation, D. Fargo, Eucharist, religion, sacraments of initiation
101 Comments
QUAERITUR: Can parishes stop baptizing during Lent?
From a reader:
Our pastor has a policy of no infant baptism during Lent. We have baby due prior to Ash Wednesday and would like to baptize son after.
I am under impression canon law mandates infant baptism soon after birth.
Can this … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: conferring baptism using another person’s hand
A few people asked me today via email about the validity of a baptism wherein someone used the hand of a dead person to pour the water, someone moving the hand.
A rare scenario, of course, and one that is surely … Continue reading
Judge or theologian? Court determines child cannot be baptized.
This from “down under“.
Mum loses biblical row in court
by: Shelley Hadfield From: Herald Sun
A COURT has been forced to intervene in a bitter dispute between estranged parents over whether their seven-year-old daughter should be baptised.
A magistrate decided she could not … Continue reading
