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DETROIT (AP) — One word caught the ear of a young priest a few years ago when his father shared a video of his 1990 baptism at a suburban Detroit church. “Wait,” the Rev. Matthew Hood recalled thinking.
If he did drop the mandate, it would be in hopes of attracting more workers to drive Bethel’s water and sewer trucks.
Nearly two years before thousands of Catholics, learned earlier this month that their baptisms were invalidated because their priest in Phoenix Arizona used an incorrect baptism formula, hundreds of Catholics baptized at the St. Anastasia Roman Catholic Church in Michigan learned their baptisms were invalidated because of another errant priest too.
After hundreds of Catholic baptisms performed in Michigan between 1986 and 1999 were deemed invalid because of the language used during the ritual, the Archdiocese of Detroit is still trying
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.