CARDINAL George Pell has backed the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane's tough stand against renegade priests who performed "invalid" baptisms using politically correct language.The priests involved in the invalid Baptisms would have had to be:
In the Catholic equivalent of the culture wars, Archbishop John Bathersby has questioned whether parishes that defy orthodoxy on baptisms should remain in the Catholic Church and has decided to take the dispute to the Vatican.
...Cardinal [Pell], who is also Archbishop of Sydney, stopped short of saying priests who used the wrong form of words should be thrown out of the Catholic Church.
"Just because a person is making a mistake that doesn't automatically put them outside the church," he said.
a) ignorant, or
b) willfully disobedient
I'm not certain that there are other explanations. These days it is not too difficult to imagine that ignorance could possibly be an excuse for such a travesty. However, this seems to be a very remote probabilty.
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