Posted on 12/02/2022 6:49:04 PM PST by marshmallow
The Church in Belgium has reported a sharp rise in the number of people asking for their names to be removed from baptismal registers.
The Catholic Church in Belgium reported on Wednesday a sharp rise in the number of people asking for their names to be removed from baptismal registers.
The Church’s latest annual report, published on Nov. 30, said there were 5,237 such requests in 2021, compared to 1,261 in 2020 and 1,800 in 2019.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that “baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark of his belonging to Christ.” While a person can lapse in the practice of the faith, or even renounce it altogether, it is impossible to reverse the effects of baptism.
Nevertheless, a rising movement in Europe promoting “debaptism” has encouraged Catholics to write to Church authorities asking to be removed from parish baptismal records. The movement is a consortium of several political and philosophical factions among European secularists.
A spokesman for the Belgian bishops’ conference told The Pillar on Dec. 1 that when the Church received a “debaptism” request, “it is noted in the register in the margin that the person has requested to be de-registered.”
“You are not allowed to cross out or delete an entry in an official register,” he explained.
(Excerpt) Read more at pillarcatholic.com ...
Really ... quite a trick to undo a baptism ... probably the same crowd that thinks their anus is a vagina.
Baptise me, debaptise me. It’s almost like they’re waffling. I hate it when a Belgian waffles.
ICWYDT.
LOL. That’s good stuff.
Nuke. Orbit.
Cure.
If that doesn’t work, send Robert Smith. (The Cure)
I dont think it’s the communists that they are concerned with.
I believe the algerians and morrocans now outnumber the Belgians. That’s today, without breedin cycle.
Yes, the nazis have already taken over.
the EU has planz for christians...doncha know
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