Baptism

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Will the Catholic Church recognize a convert’s previous Baptism?
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YES, the Catholic Church recognizes all valid Christian Baptisms.
 
YES, The Catholic Church rcoginizes all valid Christian Baptisms.
 
Valid would mean that they were baptized with water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

There a few baptisms that don’t meet these requirements, but very few.
 
form and matter is what’s important… did they use water? did they Baptize in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? if you answer yes to both, your in like flynn… 👍
 
sorry space ghost…but the expression is: In like flint!..not flynn…obviously you are Irish and you changed the expression to your liking…but that is ok…no problem…everyone makes mistakes… Will
 
Thank you Michael…for the C Answers plug…keep up the good work!

Will
 
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sorry space ghost…but the expression is: In like flint!..not flynn…obviously you are Irish and you changed the expression to your liking…but that is ok…no problem…everyone makes mistakes… Will
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where i grew up was “flynn” … as in Erroll Flynn… with his latest fling… but that was in the 50’s…

i suppose that i could have been wrong all these years… i checked with a brother 18months my senior, and he said flynn too… who knows… :cool:
 
Yes…Water, Baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…but also the baptizer has to intend to baptize properly meaning the belief must be that of one God, three Persons. I don’t think I’m expressing this well–I mean for example, a Mormon baptism is invalid due to their beliefs about Jesus and His Incarnation etc…Best to check with a priest.
 
Oh! And I always heard it “in like Flynn” too–flint? What’s that? Like skin-flint, the city in central Michigan where Michael Moore is from Flint? The Flintstones??? what is that?:confused: 😃
 
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Yes…Water, Baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…but also the baptizer has to intend to baptize properly meaning the belief must be that of one God, three Persons. I don’t think I’m expressing this well–I mean for example, a Mormon baptism is invalid due to their beliefs about Jesus and His Incarnation etc…Best to check with a priest.
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A Mormon wouldn’t use the Trinitarian formula (Father, Son, and Holy Spirt). That is what would make it invalid. You are on to something though. The person baptizing needs to use water and the trinitarian formula, yes, and they also need to intend to do what the Church does. What the Church intends is to baptize. If the person’s intent is to baptize, then that meets that requirement. The beliefs of the person doing the baptism are not relevent. Even an athiest could validly baptize someone if needed.
 
Will Turner:
Thank you Michael…for the C Answers plug…keep up the good work!

Will
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You’re very welcome Will. When the resource is right to hand it’s almost always the best, and you guys do some of the best materials out there. I came home because someone attacked the faith saying that we worship Mary and it was my research in to that that led me home after 34 years as varying types of Protestant. Now I just refuse to let anyone “talk smack” about the Church and constantly study to know what I’m saying is right. I deeply appreciate Karl Keating and all the CA folks for helping supply answers for folks like me.

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