An Arizona priest, the Rev. Andres Arango, switched just one word in the thousands of baptisms he performed over decades. Now the Catholic church says the slip made the rite invalid.
An Arizona priest, the Rev. Andres Arango, switched just one word in the thousands of baptisms he performed, and now the Catholic church says the slip made the rite invalid.
As a pastor, Arango said, “We baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.” He should have said, “I.”“The issue with using “We” is that it is not the community that baptizes a person, rather, it is Christ, and Him alone, who presides at all of the sacraments, and so it is Christ Jesus who baptizes,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted says inThe words and actions of a rite matter, the Diocese of Phoenix says.
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