NCR Live: Bad baptisms? Exploring the sacramental controversy in Phoenix

NCR news editor Joshua McElwee; Kathleen Dorsey Bello, director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana; and Jesuit Fr. Bruce Morrill, Edward A. Malloy Chair of Roman Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt University (NCR)

NCR news editor Joshua McElwee; Kathleen Dorsey Bellow, director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana; and Jesuit Fr. Bruce Morrill, Edward A. Malloy Chair of Roman Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt University (NCR screenshot/YouTube)

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Catholics in Arizona were shocked earlier this month when they learned their baptisms might now be considered invalid, because a priest in the diocese had been slightly modifying the traditional formula for the baptismal rite. 

NCR news editor Joshua McElwee hosts a conversation about the controversy with two theologians: Kathleen Dorsey Bellow, director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, and Jesuit Fr. Bruce Morrill, Edward A. Malloy Chair of Roman Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt University.

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