Nearly 800 baptisms at a Michigan church from 1986 to 1999 are considered invalid because of an error by a deacon who said “We baptize” instead of “I baptize.”
In Michigan, Hood was baptized, given other sacraments and swiftly ordained again to the priesthood within days in 2020. But the Archdiocese of Detroit still hasn’t heard from hundreds of people whose rites at St. Anastasia are considered invalid, despite outreach efforts and publicity.
“I think he would be on a different side here and say by what you’re doing you have disrupted so many lives, so many people,” the man said. About 200 baptisms were found to be valid, while 71 people stepped forward to go through baptism and other initiation sacraments again, archdiocese spokeswoman Holly Fournier told The Associated Press.
She declined to make clergy available for interviews to discuss why they believe so many people haven’t responded over the past 18 months. “I was expecting them to be angry, upset, confused,” Hood said. “Their reaction was ‘Father Matt, we feel so bad for you.’”
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