What if someone thought they were validly baptized, but they actually weren't?

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Jeffgo said:
As others have said, the correct thing to do would be to receive conditional baptism.
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Easier said than done. My RCIA director said that they don’t take it lightly. He said that a conditional baptism will not happen. I think he talked to the priest about it.
 
What he should not be taking lightly is the state of your soul. If there is doubt and you are refused to be baptized conditionally, it might be better to look elsewhere.
 
Thank you for the replies.

So, is there any official Church teachings regarding this?
 
The instructions on baptism are very clear, that if there is any uncertainty at all, the candidate MUST be conditionally baptized. It’s a necessary precaution in the absence of direct testimony or evidence. A priest who refuses to conditionally baptize is acting imprudently at the least, presumptuously at the worst.
 
JohnTomHoc said:
The instructions on baptism are very clear, that if there is any uncertainty at all, the candidate MUST be conditionally baptized. It’s a necessary precaution in the absence of direct testimony or evidence. A priest who refuses to conditionally baptize is acting imprudently at the least, presumptuously at the worst.
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I’ve read that there has to be prudent doubt after a serious inquiry. Maybe they think the doubt isn’t sufficient enough for me to be conditionally baptized?
 
A few years ago wasn’t there a renegrade priest who was baptizing people “in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sanctifier”, and the Bishop got wind of it, and had to track down everyone he’d baptized so they could be baptized properly? This could also be a problem in progressive Protestant churches, who don’t want to acknowledge God as a man in anyway. Since it wouldn’t be a blanket problem, it’d be hard to tell if potential converts from these denominations (especially if they were baptized as infants and have no memory of it) would need to be baptized. Ugh. What a mess when we think we know better than Bible and 2000 years of Tradition.

In Christ,
Ellen
 
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