Vatican: It is impossible to remove oneself from baptismal registry

The Prefect and Secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, Archbishop Filippo Iannone and Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, have signed an explanatory note outlining the reasons for the prohibition against deleting entries from parish registers that record the administration of the sacrament of Baptism. Such an entry constitutes a “historical fact”, from which all other sacraments derive. However, this does not preclude an individual’s freedom to renounce membership in the Church.

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