Father Andres Arango performed thousands of invalid baptisms. Instead of saying 'I baptize you in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,' he said 'We baptize you.'
by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that clarified that no one can change the wording of the sacraments.
Public responses to these events have ranged from approval to eyerolls to outright confusion. Many noted on social media that the Diocese’s decision seems legalistic and pedantic. Criticism isn’t limited to those outside of the church, the Very Reverend Tim Hazlewood of the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland ,that the decision takes “a purely legalistic view of baptism.
In 325 A.D., after decades of heated theological debate and vicious ad hominem attacks, the Emperor Constantine I convened a meeting of bishops in Nicaea. The main subject under debate was the nature of Jesus and how best to describe his relationship to God the Father. Arius, a well-known Alexandrian priest, and his bishop, Alexander, were embroiled in a fierce dispute. Team Arius wanted to say that Jesus was.
The addition of the clause has ramifications for how we think both about the power of God the Father and the integral role of God the Son. It was one of many factors that contributed to worsening relations between the Greek-speaking Eastern churches and Latin-speaking Western churches. Escalating tensions came to head in the Great Schism in 1045, when the Patriarch of Constantinople and the papal legate, Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida, excommunicated one another.
It's not an accident, however, that when it comes to sacramental malpractice, baptism is the sacrament that, historically speaking, attracts the most attention.
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