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No. Only communing is prohibited.

Yes there was a time, that time is no longer. Now we recognize they are our brothers in Christ who err in good faith. You speak of them as if they were the reformers who rebelled rather than people raised in an errant traditon hundreds of years after the fact. I urge you to read the Catechism and the various documents from the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity.

Okay then...chalk me up as ignorant. Never heard of it in the Orthodox Church. So it is entirely permissible for Catholic faithful (including Cardinals) to receive this "re-affirmation of baptism" from protestant assemblies?

Yes.

For the Orthodox, we are obedient to our spiritual father on this issue. Unless it is a funeral or wedding of a close family member or friend, I have been instructed not to attend heterodox assemblies.

Interesting. Can you show me the language which permits Catholics to receive renewal of the baptismal vow in a protestant assembly from a protestant "minister?"

Honestly, Father Deacon, I'm not trying to be a jerk here (some days it just comes naturally), but I think there is a vast difference between someone who is just ignorant and someone who has had things explained to them over and over and obdurately refuses to change.

I was thinking about your post this morning and it just strikes me as funny that those in the Catholic Church are held to such a high standard of behavior that if you do the slightest little thing wrong, you are in danger of hellfire, but those outside the Church, after being reproved for their error (or sometimes outright wickedness) over and over and over again are somehow not in danger of such judgment.

This is just my take and feelings on it this morning. I'm sure I'm wrong, but I'm just venting a little here. Feel free to screw my head around to a straight position.

Thanks

From the horse's mouth, as they say: Cardinal Sean's Blog [cardinalseansblog.org]

His dedication to the Second Vatican Council and ecumenism is apparent. I noticed that he did not mention that he was anointed for baptismal renewal by a female Methodist "pastor."

96. According to the local situation and as occasion may arise, Catholics may, in common celebration with other Christians, commemorate the baptism which unites them, by renewing the engagement to undertake a full Christian life which they have assumed in the promises of their baptism, and by pledging to cooperate with the grace of the Holy Spirit in striving to heal the divisions which exist among Christians.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/p..._chrstuni_doc_19930325_directory_en.html

Do you see him with all those female Disciples in the next photo? What next? As one who lives within a suffragan diocese, I can assure you he is much loved by most for what he has done to heal deep wounds. Receiving a little sprinkling from a vested Methodist female will not tarnish that affection. Did you notice that he was not vested?

When I was a boy the booming, sonorous Boston/Irish voice of his predecessor of blessed memory, Archbishop Cushing, shook my soul and it changed my life forever. Learn from these men the kindness that befits us as Christians.

Agreed. The protestants are happy about it....and many of the Catholics are scandalized.

This a document from Vatican 2?

I suppose you could interpret it to mean that a Cardinal can receive an anointing for the renewal of baptism from a female protestant "minister"....but I would choose not to interpret it as such.

They'll get over it.

Perhaps not.