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The case mirrors a recent predicament for the Catholic Church in Arizona, where it was discovered that a priest had performed invalid baptisms throughout most of his more than 20-year career.
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
Denver Newsroom, Aug 22, 2020 / 02:10 pm (CNA).- If you think you’re a priest, and you really aren’t, you have a problem. So do a lot of other people. The baptisms you performed are valid baptisms. But the confirmations? No. The Masses you celebrated were not valid. Nor the absolutions or anointings. And the marriages? Well...it’s complicated. Some yes, some no. It depends on the paperwork, believe it or not. Father Matthew Hood of the Archdiocese of Detroit learned all this the hard way.He thought he’d been ordained a priest back in 2017. He&...