It recognizes Mormonism as a heretic religion.
It does not. “Heresy” has a specific meaning in the Church. It is the “obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same.” (CCC #2089)
Some Protestants baptize “In the name of Jesus” alone, or “In the name of the Creator, the Redeemer, and the Sanctifier”; each Protestant ecclesial community is evaluated on its own merits and whether they use water and the Trinitarian formula together.
9 Protestants converted in my RCIA class last Easter. None of them had to be baptized.
I can tell you for certain that the Episcopalians have used the latter formula. Is that a high name recognition for you? The document I linked rejects this formula as incorrect, and cites other weird stuff like “Mother, Lover, Friend”
The First Ecumenical Council has defined that the belief that Jesus is a created being at any point in history, whether created before creation, during creation, created at the Annunciation, etc., as long as the belief is that he is not co-eternal with the Father, anyone who believes that is anathemized. To be anathemized is to be a heretic.
I wonder why we never take “intent” into consideration. Some do baptize with the valid formula, but baptism to them is a whole different thing than what baptism is to Catholics. Some see baptism as just a symbol of commitment to the faith. That is why they wait until adulthood to baptize.
I believe Oneness Pentecostals, who differ from Trinitarian Pentecostals, are fairly well known.
Well I believe it. I recently watched a video, during the “Peace be with you” part of the Mass, of a Lutheran Minister and an Episcopalian Minister DANCING with each other. [The Lutheran was a female].I can tell you for certain that the Episcopalians have used the latter formula. Is that a high name recognition for you? The document I linked rejects this formula as incorrect, and cites other weird stuff like “Mother, Lover, Friend”
Yes Oneness Pentecostals baptize only in the name of Jesus, it is said that Elvis Presley was baptized in the Oneness Pentecostal church.
I am not sure what you mean when you say the Church recognizes Islam. Though the Church recognizes that there are a few gold nuggets of truth in the teachings of Islam, borrowed from Natural Law, Judaism or Christianity, such as there being only one true God, on the whole the religion of Islam is not of divine origin but rather of human origin or worse, of demonic origin. The Koran was not inspired by God nor is it entirely true. Islam’s founder, Mohammed, was not a true prophet.
Ecumenical Councils and things such as Canon Law are only binding on Catholics and Orthodox whose Churches accept them. The canons of the First Ecumenical Council have no juridicial effect on unbaptized persons. You have not provided any documentation contradicting my definition of heresy which is given in the Catechism.
Nobody said anywhere in this thread that Mormons are ignorant of the Christian faith. What I have said is that they repudiate it totally by holding to a non-Trinitarian theology, one that is almost pantheistic and teaches that men in this world become actual gods to rule their own planets with celestial wives. Mormonism teaches false history and puts Jesus Christ in places and situations where he did not go. Jews also use the Old Testament, that does not make them Christian. Jehovah’s Witnesses use the New Testament, yet they are also not Christian, by Catholic standards.
Actually, as the Lay Director of RCIA for our parish, I can tell you that each and every protestant baptism is reviewed (in our parish).