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Catholic requirements would have been fulfilled by nothing more than a formal profession of faith in the church's teachings, and Vatican spokesmen were quick to regret the unnecessary christening. Such unwarranted rebaptisms are clearly on the way out. Last month an Ecumenical Commission of Roman Catholic bishops and theologians, at a historic dialogue with Episcopal clergy in Washington, agreed that conditional baptism should be discouraged. If nothing else, the furor over Luci's rebaptism ought to help the word get around. By spotlighting the fact that "baptism is the one sacrament that unites all Christians," said Episcopal Dean Francis B. Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, "Luci innocently made a contribution to the ecumenical movement."
*To which her mother and sister Lynda Bird belong; Daddy, however, is a member of the Disciples of Christ.