Tag: Baptism
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Vatican Ruling on Transgender and Same-Sex People’s Sacramental Participation
While a significant milestone for transgender and same-sex people, the vagueness of the ruling on the baptism of children of same-sex couples is more than a bit disheartening.
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Brief Book Review: Living under Water
“Diverse, compelling, and filled with pastoral and ecumenical wisdom.”
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Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism
Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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I/We . . . Revisited
In regard to the Arizona baptism situation, I know for sure that many people have been hoping a liturgical musician with a rudimentary background in liturgical theology would weigh in.
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Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood
The Vatican has announced a Theological Symposium on vocations, to be held in Rome on February 17-19, 2022. Entitled “Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood,” this three-day session will be open to the public, but is especially oriented toward bishops and all those — men and women — who are “interested in theology,” according…
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A Troubling End to Christmas?
The Christmas Season concludes with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Surprisingly or not, there are people who may not know this. For many Christmas ends in a number ways: on Christmas Day, on civil New Year’s Day, or on Epiphany (whenever it is celebrated). But the truth is that it concludes…
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Baptism Brouhaha
A deacon, a defective baptismal formula, and a decree. I have some questions.
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Baptism: A Credential or a Continuation of the Christian Journey
I’m an ordained American Baptist clergyperson who received her academic training from a pontifical Catholic institution…
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Is Being a Christian a Vocation?
Each year, as we enter Holy Week, I inevitably recall two individuals for whom I continue to have a great amount of admiration. Both were RCIA participants, and both—a few days before the beginning of the Paschal Triduum—declined to be baptized, and left the process.