RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS PROPOSED on the validity of Baptism
by VP
Posted on Thursday August 06, 2020 at 12:40PM in Poetry
conferred with the formula
«We baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit»
QUESTIONS
First question: Whether the Baptism conferred with the formula «We baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit» is valid?
Second question: Whether those persons for whom baptism was celebrated with this formula must be baptized in forma absoluta?
RESPONSES
To the first question: Negative.
To the second question: Affirmative.
The Supreme Pontiff Francis, at the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, On June 8, 2020, approved these Responses and ordered their publication.
Rome, from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, June 24, 2020, on the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.
Luis F. Card. Ladaria, S.I.
Prefect
Source: Vatican Press
