So all that stuff about original sin is a bunch of hooey......
Like I said...These guys are not required to go to bible school...
No. That is not a logical consequence of what I said.
The Catholic Church understands Original Sin to consist in:
The absence of sanctifying grace (charity) at conception;
The absence of “felt grace” in the developing child; i.e., no experience of God as present;
The resulting distortion of the consciousness of the child; it is turned in on itself; it experiences itself as the “center of the universe.” As a consequence, the entire psychic structure, all the faculties, are distorted in such a way that makes charity seem and feel “unnatural” and selfishness and self-seeking feel “natural.”
When the age of reason is reached, the consequence is deliberate sin.
The only “nature” a human being has or inherits is his human nature. Sin is a privation or distortion of what is good, but it is not itself a positive reality. There is no “sin nature” existing as an actual “thing.”
As you can see, there was no warrant for your statement that the Catholic Church does not teach about Original Sin.
And they baptize infants for WHAT reason??
Since the New Testament era, the Catholic Church has always understood baptism differently, teaching that it is a sacrament which accomplishes several things, the first of which is the remission of sin, both original sin and actual sinonly original sin in the case of infants and young children, since they are incapable of actual sin; and both original and actual sin in the case of older persons.
Peter explained what happens at baptism when he said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:38). But he did not restrict this teaching to adults.
I read something about that recently. I think it was in Psalms: 51 but I could be wrong.