AmericanPapist Comments
I doubht she intends to have the child baptized.
If she were Catholic and were to ask me to baptize the boy, I would refuse to use the name Damien for a baptismal name if she chose it BECAUSE it is the movie's name for the Anti-Christ.
Yikes! What terrible thing to do to a child.
Seriously, what kind of a mother is that that assigns a name to her baby based on the character of a horror movie? What does she have inside her head? Does she think that her baby is her pet? That was her first, and very serious, parenting mistake. And to name the child after a character who is the Anti-Christ!? Is that her show of love for her baby?
I hope this child grows up under the patronage of St. Damian of Molokai and St. Peter Damian and becomes the instrument of his mother's conversion.
Wow. That's kind of creepy, you know? But to me, all of that stuff is just superstition.
poor kid
Fr. S. Interesting point. I kinda think the law (c. 855) only hits names that are themsleves "foreign" to a Xtn mentality, as opposed to parental intention in choosing the name, but your take is worth thinking about.
Good point Ed - especially considering the fact that anything inhibiting the free exercise of a right (such as the right to name one's child) is subject to a strict interpretation. Still, if this person presents the child for baptism, I would hope that the priest would make a very large point of insisting on the renunciation of Satan and all his pomps and all his empty promises during the preparation and during the Rite of Baptism itself.
Do you *really* think this lady is going to show up at the local suburban parish and sit through baptism preparation in a polyester pantsuit??
I think social services ought to rescue this kid and quick. This could (I hope not) turn out to be a self-fulfilling problem for the kid.
Induced for 6 days? That just doesn't sound realistic to me. What'd they use to induce labor, spicy pizza and other old wives' tales?
Petosin (spelling questionable) seems to work pretty quickly, and rupturing the bag of waters is fairly common. I can't see it taking 6 days unless it was done on purpose.
oh, for Pete's sake...
Now the kid has a great "excuse" to do whatever the hell he wants. (Pun intended).
Yes, I wondered about the six-day induction, too. Pitocin is generally what's used to do that. Perhaps the child himself really determined the date!
(if anyone is wondering - in what is quickly becoming the "Black Thursday" of blogging - Blogger services are down for major maintenance...)
I have the sneaky feeling this might be a hoax. C'mon, in labor for six days? Six pounds, six ounces? Who's kidding who?
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