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Five Questions to the Catholic Church

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The questions I want to put to the Catholic Church can be summed up in one: You Catholics, we Evangelicals—who do you think we are? What do you make of us? (I) To begin with our baptism. It is no secret that in the case of converts, baptism is usually repeated, arousing deep dismay on the Evangelical side. In my opinion there is no justification for this. There seems to be no doubt that, in Catholic doctrine, baptism is usually repeated, arousing deep dismay on the Evangelical side. In my opinion there is no justification for this. There seems to be no doubt that, in Catholic doctrine, baptism performed according to the Evangelical ritual is valid. But in practice the circumstances of a previous baptism are seldom taken into account.

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Copyright © 1957 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

Footnotes

1

From the review Una Sancta—'to hope against all hope as we are taught by our faith’ -September 1956. Translated from the German by Ruth Mary Bethell.

2

The word Evangelisch in the German ‘Lutheran’ Church corresponds to ‘Anglican’ in England rather than ‘Protestant’ or ‘Evangelical’, and includes manifestations which some Anglicans would term Catholic. For Lutherans, ‘Catholic’ applies to the Church of Rome only.