The sacrament of baptism (2)
Silvan Mifsud's long extract from the document of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith and Jacqueline Calleja's well-worn clichés about "supermarket Catholics" (May 24) further strengthen my point (May 21) that was, namely, that the...
Silvan Mifsud's long extract from the document of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith and Jacqueline Calleja's well-worn clichés about "supermarket Catholics" (May 24) further strengthen my point (May 21) that was, namely, that the Church treats innocent day-old offspring of parents "living in sin" differently from their peers, which is discrimination by any other name. That was my point!
Indeed, according to Mr Mifsud, and I bow to his superior doctrinal knowledge, the Church can go as far as banning this newly born baby from joining the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church by denying him/her baptism as a consequence of the parents' state of sin.
I feel I can rest my case.