January 2012
3 posts
The idea of a movement of people wanting to be de-baptized is of no consequence to me; I don’t know why they’d pursue it, but it really doesn’t matter to me. What caught me was this detail in NPR’s piece about a 71 year old man who wants his name completely removed from baptismal records: “Back then, he says, you couldn’t even get credit at the bakery if you...
“The Church will hold to its own doctrine, but it must do so in a world that is...”
– Anthony Stevens-Arroyo. “A Catholic Nullification Doctrine?” The Washington Post.
Amen. This is a tough point to articulate, risking trampling religious rights while also refusing to allow well-meaning people the right to help out social services. Stevens-Arroyo does a great job of not...