Yes, let's start a baptism thread about baptism problems of today. Catholic Martyr, leave BoD out of this one please!
I don't know why no one except me ever asks this question, but then no one cares much about NFP either:
What about a baptism administered by a Freemason or ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ with a seared conscience or formal heretic, or any combination thereof? What if this infiltrator of the Church uses the right matter and form but intends to take the baptizand down to hell, or at least does not intend to do what the Church does but is thinking that the whole sacrament is a joke?
I was told at CMRI, who I totally mistrust now due to numerous contradictions in their policies and behaviors ( I think the priesthood is dormant, if not dead ) that in such a case God would directly supply the baptism. Someone made a similar argument on Bellarmine forums and was shot down by John Lane, who said this concept of God "supplying" for an invalid sacrament is not true theology, and indeed, I haven't seen it elsewhere but from CMRI and this one poster. ( Don't mistake this concept of a "supplied" baptism for baptism of desire, which occurs at the point of death; pipe down CM ).
We all know that a baptism administered by heretics or schismatics is valid. A Protestant does not see himself as a heretic anyway so when he baptizes he believes he is washing the sins of the baptizand away.
There is an absolutely remarkable lack of information coming from the Church, though, about an OCCULT HERETIC, an infiltrator, who hates God while professing to be clergy. Throughout most of the history of the Church such a notion was inconceivable, that someone would go to the trouble of infiltrating the Church, following its rules for the most part, but at the same time steadily undermining it.
If such an infiltrator is driven by, consumed by hatred of God, as I believe many in the last two-and-a-half or so centuries have been, would the baptism then be valid? Surely the intention is not there? Or does the right matter and form lead to the right intention, in the same way that when you say "pink elephant" it is almost impossible not to think of a pink elephant?