Their marriages, confessions, promises of salvation — all of these things ceased to exist for thousands of Catholics baptized by an Arizona priest who, it turns out, was saying the sacrament ...

An invalid baptism invalidates any sacraments which may come after. A valid confirmation can be performed along with a valid baptism. However, individuals are to stop receiving Holy Communion ...

Now baptism is the door to all the sacraments, so without baptism, one cannot receive the other sacraments. “Baptism” administered invalidly is not baptism; it is no more a sacrament than the ...

DETROIT (CNS) -- The Archdiocese of Detroit is seeking to contact anyone who may have received invalid sacraments after a priest of the archdiocese learned his own baptism as an infant 30 years ...

A. Baptism is a Sacrament which cleanses us from original sin, makes us Christians, children of God, and heirs of. heaven. Q. 622.

Archdiocese of Detroit priest learned his baptism, performed 30 years ago, was invalid and that sacraments he performed, such as marriages and confessions, are invalid, church leaders say ...

Simcha Fischer speaks with Father Matthew Hood, the priest from Utica, Mich., who recently learned his baptism as an infant had been invalid. ... Baptism is the gateway to the sacraments.

By spotlighting the fact that “baptism is the one sacrament that unites all Christians,” said Episcopal Dean Francis B. Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, “Luci innocently made a ...

Speaking of baptism, St. Paul says: “We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. As to his death, he died to sin once for all; as to his life, he ...

Hood contacted the Archdiocese after realizing his baptism was invalid and was able to fix his situation. He received valid Sacraments of Christian Initiation, spent time on retreat, then he ...

Ronald Cauchi's comments (May 21) regarding the sacrament of baptism calls for a clarification. He put together facts and presumptions. Except when the couple, who could celebrate a religious ...