Okay, well this is interesting and not at all what I was expecting.
Okay, well this is interesting and not at all what I was expecting.
It is thus that the Church teaches that baptisms that Protestants receive - so long as the matter and form of the sacrament are correct - bring them into the Catholic Church. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Ephesians 4:5 (biblegateway.com)). Either the baptism accomplishes nothing, by virtue of the matter or form being incorrect, or it brings one into the Catholic Church - albeit an imperfect communion, since upon reaching the age of reason the baptized will not necessarily assent to all those "range of facts" which constitute the Catholic faith.
It is thus that the Church teaches that baptisms that Protestants receive - so long as the matter and form of the sacrament are correct - bring them *into the Catholic Church*. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism" ([Ephesians 4:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Eph+4%3A5&version=DRA)). Either the baptism accomplishes nothing, by virtue of the matter or form being incorrect, or it brings one into the Catholic Church - albeit an imperfect communion, since upon reaching the age of reason the baptized will not necessarily assent to all those "range of facts" which constitute the Catholic faith.
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