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To: Bryher1
If divorced Catholics who are remarried without an annulment, and Catholics who live together in sin without being married, and Catholics who have had abortions, and Catholics who are involved in ongoing criminal ventures etc. are no longer allowed to have their children baptized

Assuming the abortion is unrepented and unconfessed, I would agree with you down to the letter. All of those persons are living outside full communion with the church and cannot in good faith promise to bring up a child within it. "You can't give what you don't have."

60 posted on 07/15/2005 12:17:45 PM PDT by Campion (Truth is not determined by a majority vote -- Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: Campion; Bryher1
All of those persons are living outside full communion with the church and cannot in good faith promise to bring up a child within it

I don't think that is what the Church teaches. In order to baptise a child, one parent has to credibly promise to properly bring up the child. That parent does not have to promise anything about himself. If the parent is not in full communion, he still can take the child to church and sign him up for a catechism class, thus fulfilling the baptismal obligation.

The problem with homosexual couples baptising is not that they are sinners but that if they are acknowledged as two parents, that lie invalidates the baptism.

63 posted on 07/15/2005 12:43:12 PM PDT by annalex
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