The Kama Sutra is a lot different to what most people think, and certainly different from tantra. Not to say that it was at all appropriate for use at a Catholic baptism.
Kama Sutra as in the Kama Sutra? Why would he read something like that at a religious service? I fail to see the relevance even if he was trying to be interdemonimational, or intereligous…
Kamasutra, a dry treatise on fine and sensual arts.
Full agreement here. Just as outraged as everyone else with the liturgical abuses that occurred. But the sacrament is valid if it has been performed in this manner.
LOL! Is that what the Church is all about, giving valid sacraments in in-valid settings. Sounds almost like heresy to me.
Considering said baptism happened over two years ago, it’s water well and truly under the bridge (or over the skin, pardon the pun) now.
Well, not quite. Even if the Trinitarian formula was used, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the baptism was valid. The minister must have the intent to do a Christian baptism–and it’s possible that this might be questionable given what’s been described. To illustrate the point, Mormon baptisms are not valid baptisms even though they might use the trinitarian formula.
This is something that concerns me. I’m worried about the growing number of people who claim to be Christian but were baptized using an incorrect formula, i.e., they were baptized just in the name of Jesus, or in the name of the Father, or in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of John the Baptist, or using some “non-gender-specific” language. In all of these cases, the people did not get the mark upon their souls that binds them to Jesus. I’m worried that when the Chastisement comes, in five years or fifty, that these people will be the first to fall away.
Mormons do not believe Jesus is God.
That’s the point exactly. Just because someone baptizes with a Trinitarian formula, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the baptism is a valid one. Most such baptisms are valid, but not all.