The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) released a statement on February 29 saying that a baptism “in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Sanctifier,” is not a valid Christian sacrament. Both Catholic World News and The Telegraph have stories on this, CWN’s being the more informed of the two. Worthy of note in what The Telegraph reports is that feminist replacements for “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” (i.e., invalid formulae) are “particularly popular in the Church of England,” which discourages “uncritical use of masculine imagery.”
This means that more and more Anglicans are unbaptized, i.e., not even Christians at all. Their marriages will not be sacramental marriages.
The English newspaper also cites a Roman professor who shows what is doctrinally wrong with the feminist formulation:
Monsignor Antonio Miralles, a professor at the Pontifical Holy Cross University, said the new baptism “subverts faith in the Trinity” because it does not make the relationship between the three persons clear. “God is eternally Father in relation to His only begotten Son, who is not eternally Son except in relation to the Father.”
