Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Baptism Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 89 01:10:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article paulk@caen.engin.umich.edu (Usenet @ CAEN) writes: >Baptism may be withheld in certain circumstances, but for another reason. >When baptized, a person makes a vow to "renounce Satan in all his pomps." >Implicit in this vow is the promise to study and practice the Catholic ^^^^^^^^ >Faith, and be a member of the Catholic community... With infant baptisms, ^^^^^^^^ >another person makes this promise for them, and assumes the responsibility >of instructing and raising the child as a practicing Catholic. ^^^^^^^^ The Vatican documents I've seen seem quite deliberate in using the word "Christian" where "Catholic" would ordinarily be expected. I would be surprised if an infant in a Christian family in good standing would be denied the sacrament of baptism by a priest, although it would seem to be a little irregular for non-Catholic Christians to request that their child be baptised by a Catholic priest if they had recourse to their own ministry. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu