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After 'we baptize' scandal, have 'we' catechized?

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JD Flynn
Feb 10, 2022
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When the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said in August 2020 that baptisms are invalid if performed with a first-person plural sacramental formula, it seemed like just another surreal element of the annus horribilis the world was experiencing — absolutely strange, and, hopefully, not a long-term problem.

An infant is baptized. Credit…

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