Canonical legislation imposes that each parish of the world have and guard its own record with data from any baptized.
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The Vatican recalled Holy Thursday that “The data of the baptized persons cannot be eliminated” from parish records, that then have decided to leave the Catholic Church, but only to add this will.
“Canon law does not allow modifying or canceling the registration of the baptism registration, Except to correct possible transcription errors, “reads an explanatory note published on Thursday by the Dicastery for Legislative Texts.
Canonical legislation imposes that each parish of the world have and guard its own record with data from any baptized, A sacrament that the Church confers only once in life and that is essential to receive others such as the Eucharist or marriage.
In addition, throughout the life of a Catholic, it is contributed to this document – that is, to the head of the parish – the reception of other sacraments, because not doing so “It would prevent its normal and simple administration” and force to “investigate” each case before.
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To do this, they must present the so -called ‘Actus formalis defectis ab ecclesia catholica’ (abandonment of the Catholic Church by formal act).
The Vatican explained that The registration “is not a list of members” but a document that contains “baptisms that have taken place.”
“His only purpose of taking an ecclesial historical event and does not intend to prove the religious faith of people or the fact of a subject is a member of the Church. The sacraments received and their registration do not limit in any way the free will of those faithful Christians who decide to abandon the Church “the Vatican emphasizes.
For that reason, in case a faithful apostate, the “formal act” of his decision to leave the Church to the Baptism Registry of his parish must be provided.
But he insists that “The data contained in the Church records cannot be canceled in consideration of the end of their own interest and that of all the subjects involved”.
The Vatican alleged that “if the Church did not have these general norms on the mandatory baptism registration, it would not be possible to carry out the sacramental activity”, since this depends on a person has previously been baptized.
For “a minister cannot allow the celebration of other sacraments without certifying the reception of baptism,” ditch the Dicastery note, signed by the Italian archbishop Filippo Iannone, and his secretary, the Spanish Juan Ignacio Arrieta. EFE
