Doesn’t it follow that if anyone can baptize under the Trinitarian formula then you don’t need a priesthood or Apostolic succession?
This would look like a major victory for Protestantism which in the main rejects baptism as a necessary ordinance. Is it still a necessary ordinance for the Catholic Church?
Doesn’t it follow that if anyone can baptize under the Trinitarian formula then you don’t need a priesthood or Apostolic succession?Why? In the natural world, anyone can apply a bandage, does that make us all doctors? Our Lord gave us instructions, some of us can do many things, some of us have a more restricted ministry.