Question on the validity of a baptism

[acanonlawyer]

can give you more information on potential canonical issues that might arise.

Well, I’m not sure I want to talk about potential issues. There is one or two that I can think of offhand but I really doubt that there would be any actual, canonical issues.

It seems to me that a detailed discussion with a confessor would be sufficient…not just confessing the act of going to the Orthodox and the ceremonies that took place there but the reason(s) behind that decision. In other words, it doesn’t matter so much what happened in terms of “re-baptism” and “re-confirmation” (I don’t see “sacrilege” there, or any other canonical problem) but why the OP wanted to leave the Catholic Church.

Dan

 

[edward_george1]

To quote me, from above:

That’s not the reason. Conditional baptism is only to be done in case of a doubt about the validity of baptism. If someone is baptized validly outside the Church, it would not respect the sacrament to baptize them again. If anything it highlights the position of the Church as being the one Church, since it sends the signal that even those who are outside her visible confines are perhaps more Catholic than they realize.

 

[ChickenFingers]

Thank you for your response!

 

[ReaderT]

Of course the priest who received her is himself a convert from Pentecostalism…not sure if that makes a difference. OCA btw.

Usually as long as the formula is Trinitarian, the baptism is accepted - this is true of “Cradle-Orthodox” priests as well as converts.

 

[Vico]

You are correct

Confirmed Catholic (from Baptist), so your sui iuris church is the Latin Church not a corresponding eastern Catholic church.