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Entries Tagged as 'sacraments'

Visible and Invisible Channels of Salvation

June 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Several people have raised the question of the effects of “invalid” sacraments. 
Underlying this question are two views of God’s offer of salvation:
1.     The existence of the Church and the sacraments narrows God’s offer of salvation (Augustine). That is, only those who are in the juridical boundaries of the Church and therefore receive valid sacraments [...]

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Tags: Catholic Church · sacraments

Put Not Your Trust In Princes…Nor in Committees

May 8th, 2010 · 10 Comments

Credo Ut Intellegam has been suffering through the news from the German Church, and I feel largely the way he does: 

Wenn mir etwas Angst macht, dann ist es die Naivität, mit der momentan die üblichen Patentrezepte als Allheilmittel ins Spiel gebracht werden: vox temporis - vox Dei, verheirateter Weltklerus, Laienmitsprache und -mitverantwortung, innerkirchliche Frauenförderung etc. [...]

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Tags: Catholic Church · clergy sex abuse scandal · sacraments

Muddying the Waters

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

The Vatican issued a statement that baptisms performed using words that do not refer to the Father, Son, and Spirit are invalid. According to Zenit:
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith clarified that two formulae for baptism that remove the masculine names for God are invalid and undermine faith in the Trinity.
The congregation’s statement, [...]

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