Word: donatist
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...early as the 3rd century, Pope Stephen I condemned the practice of rebaptizing converted Donatist heretics in North Africa. Despite its attack on Reformation doctrines, the 16th century Council of Trent formally acknowledged the validity of Protestant baptisms. Time and again since then, the Holy Office, the Vatican's guardian of faith and morals, has ruled that converts should not even be "conditionally" baptized unless there is clear evidence that the form of the first christening was defective...
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