Why are Anglican babies Christened, and Catholic babies Baptised?

[LynetteScavo]

What's the diffence, if any?

RCs get an annulment if the church judges the marriage wasn't valid in the first place. The fact you have expressed doubts to a family member before the marriage took place would help, if you chose to go down that route.

Cargirl, the way I was brought up as RC, the RCC church is the church handed down from the Apostles, who received their teachings direct from Jesus himself. To a RC it CAN be you feel that because of this, the RCC is the best place to be a Christian, that anything else would be second best. I am not saying this is right, but that is something I had to "get over" in order to find happiness in a church elsewhere. It was never that I felt I couldn't worship with other Christians, more that my "spiritual home" was in the RCC. That, for a while translated into, if I couldn't be a RC, I couldn't be anything. Wehaveallbeenthere, I guess that is how you feel???

I had no qualms whatsoever about leaving the RC church in which I was brought up.

• their views on birth control are unsupportable

• celibacy of priests is unnatural and leads to all sorts of other problems

• the intellectual repression of "we're right because we say so" is a form of bullying

• the Pope declared himself infallible in 1871

• Holy Scripture is open to interpretation, and the interpretation I hear in the C of E seems fine to me.

Well Elastic Woman I am kind of with you as there seems to be some teachings of the RCC that I really can't see support of in the bible, like celibacy of all priests, some christians are called to be celibate and that is fine, but the passage in the bible for specific to that time because of the persuction that was going on etc etc.

I just find it said when a church is telling someone that they cannnot be accepted back and put themselves above the grace God gives.

I apologize to the original poster on this thread. It seems that I've hijacked (though not intentionally) the thread.
Let's get this back on track.
I think the terms are NOW used interchangeably. Also used by several different religions.
Anyone know of it being otherwise?

Don't apologise - it's the longest thead I've ever started!

I came to the conclution that a Christening was also the naming of a baby, where as a baptism was the admission to the Christian church - as explained by Niecie on Sun 25-May-08 23:07:02.