Catholic Church Voids Thousands of Priest's Baptisms Due to 1-Word Mistake | PEOPLE.com
Instead of saying, "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" during his baptisms, Arango had switched "I" with "We."
While seemingly innocuous at first, the oversight completely changes an important line in the "Baptismal Formula," the diocese explained.
"The issue with using 'We' is that it is not the community that baptizes a person, rather, it is Christ, and Him alone, who presides at all of the sacraments, and so it is Christ Jesus who baptizes," Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, said in a statement.
Instead of saying, "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" during his baptisms, Arango had switched "I" with "We."
While seemingly innocuous at first, the oversight completely changes an important line in the "Baptismal Formula," the diocese explained.
"The issue with using 'We' is that it is not the community that baptizes a person, rather, it is Christ, and Him alone, who presides at all of the sacraments, and so it is Christ Jesus who baptizes," Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, said in a statement.
