I was 8 and was just going along. Every Wednesday Catechism then confession. What drudgery. By 11 I stopped going to confession and communion. I always faked the confession thing, sometimes made up shit to confess because I was a pretty good kid at that age. Then I would pretend I was doing my Hail Marys. Soon as I could think on my own I was out of Catholicism. By 13 an atheist.
Regarding Baptism into the RCC, I was trained to do this as a Pediatric nurse. Baby is dying, Priest unavailable : Make the sign of the Cross over the baby and say "I Baptize you (or name), in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!" Any nurse would do , did not have to be Catholic. They were in like Flynn. I would not have done this though, but I would have taught the family or find another nurse that would. I do the same thing now when one of my residents ask for prayer. I go get someone else.
Regarding Baptism into the RCC, I was trained to do this as a Pediatric nurse. Baby is dying, Priest unavailable : Make the sign of the Cross over the baby and say "I Baptize you (or name), in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!" Any nurse would do , did not have to be Catholic. They were in like Flynn. I would not have done this though, but I would have taught the family or find another nurse that would. I do the same thing now when one of my residents ask for prayer. I go get someone else.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
