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Offline 2Vermont

Mario Lopez: Catholic "Renews Baptismal Promises"
« on: July 22, 2019, 08:45:25 PM »
https://epicpew.com/mario-lopez-renews-baptismal-promises/

This is old news, but wondered what you all thought of this.  When I first heard that Lopez was baptized in the Jordan River, I thought he was re-baptized.  Brought up Catholic, he must have been baptized already, so what was happening here?  Is this even okay to do?

Also, what's with the questions these Catholic priests (?) asked him?  This doesn't sound like a renewal of baptismal promises to me:

Lopez was flanked by two Catholic priests who asked him: “Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Do you believe that He is the Son of God? Do you intend to serve Him all your life?”
And to each question, Lopez responded, “Yes, I do.”
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Offline 2Vermont

Re: Mario Lopez: Catholic "Renews Baptismal Promises"
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2019, 08:59:11 PM »
I just watched the video, and the priest says he baptizes him "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit".  Wasn't this a re-baptism then, not a renewal of promises?  And if so, isn't this sacrilege?
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Offline Stanley N

Re: Mario Lopez: Catholic "Renews Baptismal Promises"
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2019, 09:45:13 PM »
Quote from: 2Vermont on July 22, 2019, 08:59:11 PM
I just watched the video, and the priest says he baptizes him "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit".  Wasn't this a re-baptism then, not a renewal of promises?  And if so, isn't this sacrilege?
Good question. Even the modernist church says you can't "rebaptize".

At the end of the video on twitter he says he just met the two men, and they're Romanian. He seems to assume they were Catholic, but were they?

I'm also not sure what the man said. It sounded to me like past tense "he baptized you..." 
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Offline 2Vermont

Re: Mario Lopez: Catholic "Renews Baptismal Promises"
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2019, 08:12:35 PM »
Quote from: Stanley N on July 22, 2019, 09:45:13 PM
Good question. Even the modernist church says you can't "rebaptize".

At the end of the video on twitter he says he just met the two men, and they're Romanian. He seems to assume they were Catholic, but were they?

I'm also not sure what the man said. It sounded to me like past tense "he baptized you..."
Good question.  
I also listened to it again, and what the "priest" says is not clear.  However, in the beginning I believe he says that Mario wishes to be baptized.  
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Offline Nadir

Re: Mario Lopez: Catholic "Renews Baptismal Promises"
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2019, 11:27:59 PM »
I could only find one video, that of Mario talking for 1 minute. There was also the link With the explanation of Baptism.

It's a bit of showmanship, I'd say. You don't need to go into water to renew Baptismal vows. So it seems a mockery in a sense, and not for true Catholics.
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