calling for Catholic help
Aug. 9th, 2010 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerTo my Catholic readers, or anybody else familiar with the nuances of Catholic policy regarding baptism, especially nineteenth-century policy on same:
1) If an adult converts to Catholicism, do they receive a Catholic baptism? Is the answer to that question dependent at all upon whether they were previously baptized in a different Christian denomination? Does age affect it, and if so, what's the cut-off point for different treatment?
2) If there were, for plot reasons, a character who had originally been baptized into the Catholic church, who really really needed to be re-baptized in the same tradition, how would the argument about that go? (As I understand it, re-baptism isn't something that's supposed to be done, but there's an unusually compelling reason for it in this case; what I'm asking for is basically a run-down of the objections the priest would make, that my characters can then overcome.)
3) Does anybody have a handy link to the text for the baptismal rite Catholics used in the nineteenth century?
1) If an adult converts to Catholicism, do they receive a Catholic baptism? Is the answer to that question dependent at all upon whether they were previously baptized in a different Christian denomination? Does age affect it, and if so, what's the cut-off point for different treatment?
2) If there were, for plot reasons, a character who had originally been baptized into the Catholic church, who really really needed to be re-baptized in the same tradition, how would the argument about that go? (As I understand it, re-baptism isn't something that's supposed to be done, but there's an unusually compelling reason for it in this case; what I'm asking for is basically a run-down of the objections the priest would make, that my characters can then overcome.)
3) Does anybody have a handy link to the text for the baptismal rite Catholics used in the nineteenth century?
