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A baby is baptized in this 2007 file photo. Father Andres Arango, pastor of St. Gregory Parish in Phoenix, submitted his resignation letter to Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted Feb. 1, 2022, for performing invalid baptisms throughout his ministry by regularly using an incorrect formula. (CNS photo/Lisa Schulte, Catholic Voice)
FaithDispatches
Eduardo Campos Lima
Members of one of his former communities said they doubt that he used incorrect formulas for sacraments while he worked there, and many of them recall him fondly as one of the most important priests in their lives.
The exterior of St. Gregory Parish in Phoenix, Arizona.
FaithNews
Giovanna Dell’Orto – Associated PressLuis Andres Henao - Associated PressJacques Billeaud – Associated Press
The Rev. Andres Arango’s error was in saying, “We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” when he should have begun the sentence by saying, “I baptize you.”
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
A new document from the Vatican congregation that oversees Mass and the sacraments offers responses to questions some bishops have asked about restrictions on the celebration of the pre-Vatican II liturgical rite.
FaithNews
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
At their fall meeting, the U.S. bishops approved a three-year eucharistic revival that will culminate with the National Eucharistic Congress 2024 in Indianapolis.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
After months of speculation that the document could offer guidance to empower individual bishops to deny Communion to pro-choice politicians, the document only obliquely references Catholics in public life.
FaithNews
Sara Badilini - Associated Press
Every year in Italy, more and more people choose to go through the process of de-baptism, made available by the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics, to formalize their abandonment of the Catholic Church.