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Author Topic: When exactly do baptised non-catholic children become heretics/schismatics?  (Read 10315 times)

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  • Is a child that is baptised in a non-Catholic sect a counted as a Catholic? If the minister of this sect has the wrong intention then is the baptism invalid?

    Assuming the baptism is valid. Would the child would be a Catholic technically speaking until they reaches the age of reason?

    If so would they be heretics/schismatics immediately upon reaching the age of reason? Or would it take a bit 'more' so to speak? Like assenting to false doctrines/ considering themselves to be a protestants etc? And if their parents stopped practising the false religion before the child has reason, so that the child no longer thinks themselves as a protestant/orthodox etc, would they still be schismatics/heretics upon hitting the age of reason?
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