{"id":15521,"date":"2012-01-30T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2012-01-30T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:15:15","slug":"requests-to-nullify-baptism-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/requests-to-nullify-baptism-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Requests to nullify Baptism on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2094001\/Frenchman-71-takes-Catholic-Church-court-landmark-case-refuses-nullify-baptism.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An elderly French man is fighting to make a formal break with the Catholic Church, in a case that could have far-reaching effects.<\/p>\n<p>Rene LeBouvier, 71, has taken the church to court over its refusal to let him nullify his baptism after losing his faith in the religion.<\/p>\n<p>Though he was raised in a community where Catholicism dominated every walk of life, Rene changed his views in the 1970s after spending time with &#8216;free thinkers&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On first glance this seems plain silly \u2013 on second glance too, come to think of it.<\/p>\n<p>After sober reflection, though, it occurred to me that perhaps LeBouvier has a point. I was confirmed by the Diocese of Niagara: I will be applying to be de-confirmed forthwith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: An elderly French man is fighting to make a formal break with the Catholic Church, in a case that could have far-reaching effects. Rene LeBouvier, 71, has taken the church to court over its refusal to let him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/requests-to-nullify-baptism-on-the-rise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[460],"class_list":["post-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roman-catholicism","tag-baptism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}