Doing research about my project I came across this web site:
http://www.secularism.org.uk/debaptism.html
The National Secular Society of England helps Ex-Catholics from the UK to get ride of all the connections established with the church that started at the moment of baptism.
In this web site people can find all the process for an Ex-Catholics to make the rebaptism real:
- Find the location of your baptism. www.r-c.org.uk has links to all the Catholic Dioceses of Great Britain which is a good place to start if you don't know the name/address of the church.
- Get confirmation, via email, from the church or Diocesan Offices that they hold your baptismal records (they were good enough to also inform me that I was confirmed at the age of six! Perhaps I should be flattered they thought me mature enough to make the decision?)
- Write a letter to ‘the competent ecclesiastical authority’ at the Diocesan Offices giving the details of your baptism (date and place) and include at least the following paragraphs:
1.“I wish to declare my formal defection from the Catholic Church in accordance with canons 1086, § 1, 1117 and 1124 of the Code of Canon Law as mentioned in notification Prot. N. 10279/2006 from the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.”
2.“I hereby reject the teachings, dogma and authority of the Roman Catholic church and any benefits, so-called sacraments, graces and blessings supposedly bestowed upon me, either in the past or the future. Furthermore, please note that I make these statements personally, consciously and freely.”
3. I respectfully request confirmation that this act has been noted in the baptismal registry (cfr. can. 535, § 2) with explicit mention of the occurrence of a ‘defectio ab Ecclesia catholica actu formali’.”
