Hello,

My question relates to the infan's babtism. I am a catholic, my husband is a lutheran. We will be baptising our daughter in a roman catholic church soon. But suddently my husband would like her to be baptized in Sweden (where he is from)in lutheran church while on vacations. That will be after her catholic baptizm. I am telling him that that can not be done since she was already baptised.

Please advise

Thank you kindly Maggie

-- Maggie Klepacka (klepacka@yahoo.com), April 08, 2004

Answers

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-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), April 08, 2004.

You are right. A person is either an unbaptized person or a baptized person. Once baptized, a person cannot become unbaptized, and also cannot be baptized "again". Some Protestant churches do allow rebaptism, because of their inadequate view of baptism as something we do to express our commitment to God, rather than as a sacrament - something God does to us that makes a fundamental and permanent change in us.

-- Paul M. (PaulCyp@cox.net), April 08, 2004.

Well then, what happens when you convert to or from Catholicism? And I may as well as this next question here since it is baptism related: Was Jesus "baptized" by John? How was this different from Him being "dedicated" (is that the word) by his parents when He was a baby?

-- GT (nospam@nospam.com), April 08, 2004.

If you convert to Catholicism and are already baptised then you do not need to be baptised again. The Church teaches that protestant baptisms are valid.

Dano

-- Dan Garon (boethius61@yahoo.com), April 08, 2004.

Jesus was presented to the Lord at the temple to be circumcized and enter into full communion into the Jewish tradition ("Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"). You are baptised a Christian. Both can only happen once.

In Christ, Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45-nospam@hotmail.com), April 08, 2004.

Soif I am baptised in the Church of Christ, I am Baptised, and if I where to convert, this would not be reqired a second itme.

However, I hear that Mormon Baptism is not recognised, is this true?

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), April 08, 2004.

For baptism to be recognized by the Catholic Church, it must be done in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirt. I would guess that if Mormon baptism is not recognized, it would be because they deny that the Trinity is 3 in 1.

-- Emily (jesusfollower7@yahoo.com), April 08, 2004.

Mormon baptism is not Christian baptism, instead it is baptism into the very strict norms of the teaching and faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is different than Christianity. For more information, read this article.

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45-nospam@hotmail.com), April 08, 2004.