Catholic baptism of heretics

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If a person is baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, but is knowingly and willingly a heretic at the time, and may not intend what the Church intends in them receiving it, is it valid?

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So the person is willingly being baptized in a Church they reject?
I too don’t see this happening.
 
They don’t reject all of it but possibly hold on to a kernel of doubt about one teaching, or have a great disdain for one teaching, etc. They know this, but to through with it anyway.

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You are not describing heretics. That description could be used to describe me, another poster, a priest, or the pope himself.
Most every Catholic entertains doubts. And I have incredible disdain for some teachings. The important part is that I follow to the best of my ability even those teachings I don’t like. As for doubts. The prayer “Lord, I believe, please help my unbelief” is appropriate.
 
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I think their Baptism would be valid but its efficacy would be hindered until the heretic embraced the Catholic faith.

St Thomas Aquinas wrote in his Summa Theologiae (III, Q 69, Articles 9 & 10) that the effects of Baptism are hindered by insincerity, until that insincerity ceases. In Article 9, in his Reply to Objection 3, he implied that, if a person approaches the sacrament not wishing to conform to the Church, he approaches insincerely.
 
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Thank you, St. Thomas answers perfectly. God bless.

I answer that, As Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii), “God does not compel man to be righteous.” Consequently in order that a man be justified by Baptism, his will must needs embrace both Baptism and the baptismal effect. Now, a man is said to be insincere by reason of his will being in contradiction with either Baptism or its effect. For, according to Augustine (De Bapt. cont. Donat. vii), a man is said to be insincere, in four ways: first, because he does not believe, whereas Baptism is the sacrament of Faith; secondly, through scorning the sacrament itself; thirdly, through observing a rite which differs from that prescribed by the Church in conferring the sacrament; fourthly, through approaching the sacrament without devotion. Wherefore it is manifest that insincerity hinders the effect of Baptism.

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On the contrary, Augustine says (De Bapt. cont. Donat. i): “Then does Baptism begin to have its salutary effect, when truthful confession takes the place of that insincerity which hindered sins from being washed away, so long as the heart persisted in malice and sacrilege.”
 
Heretic is an extremely strong word with a precise definition. As @Mrchatsworth pointed out, you’ve misused it here.
 
The baptism would be valid but possibly sacrilegious on the part of the one who receives the sacrament.
 
Catholic Answers - Father Charles Grondin:

Question:​

If an adult is baptized only to please his parents because they were being pushy about it, is that baptism valid?

Answer:​

For the baptism of someone who has the use of reason, its validity depends upon the will of the recipient. If the recipient does not know he’s being baptized or does not want to be baptized, then his free will would cause the sacrament to be invalid.

If, however, the recipient is not opposed to the sacrament and reluctantly agrees to be baptized, then the baptism would be valid. The recipient’s free will would most likely be unwilling to make use of the graces imparted by the sacrament, but it would be valid nonetheless.
 
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Thank you, St. Thomas answers perfectly. God bless.

I answer that, As Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii), “God does not compel man to be righteous.” Consequently in order that a man be justified by Baptism, his will must needs embrace both Baptism and the baptismal effect. Now, a man is said to be insincere by reason of his will being in contradiction with either Baptism or its effect. For, according to Augustine (De Bapt. cont. Donat. vii), a man is said to be insincere, in four ways: first, because he does not believe, whereas Baptism is the sacrament of Faith; secondly, through scorning the sacrament itself; thirdly, through observing a rite which differs from that prescribed by the Church in conferring the sacrament; fourthly, through approaching the sacrament without devotion. Wherefore it is manifest that insincerity hinders the effect of Baptism.

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On the contrary, Augustine says (De Bapt. cont. Donat. i): “Then does Baptism begin to have its salutary effect, when truthful confession takes the place of that insincerity which hindered sins from being washed away, so long as the heart persisted in malice and sacrilege.”
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Umm… but none of the things Aquinas addresses are any of the considerations you brought to the table. Aquinas is talking about belief in the sacrament of baptism itself, right?
 
I thought it would apply because of: A man is said to be insincere who makes a show of willing what he wills not. Now whoever approaches Baptism, by that very fact makes a show of having right faith in Christ, of veneration for this sacrament, and of wishing to conform to the Church, and to renounce sin. Consequently, to whatever sin a man wishes to cleave, if he approach Baptism, he approaches insincerely, which is the same as to approach without devotion.

The person would be go up willingly and be cleaving to some false belief, which is a sin. So it would be insincere, and then be remedied whenever they made a true confession. Since also baptism is from God and doesn’t depend on them. Also the CCC says the faith doesn’t have to be perfect for baptism, I would think that they had some kind of faith in willingly going to be baptized, despite them holding on to a false belief.
 
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Mythicalbio said:
The person would be go up willingly and be cleaving to some false belief, which is a sin.
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Hang on a second, though. You’ve just changed the argument. Aquinas claimed “cleave to sin ==> insincerity”, but you’ve changed it to “cleave to inaccurate belief ==> sin”. Not sure that this holds.
 
Hm, this is true. Then now it is square 1 again. I would assume they are baptized, because Protestants are with the right formula, even though many of them don’t even think of baptism in the same way,but it is a weird circumstance.
 
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