A short time afterwards he lost all his property, and Germaine (that was the name of the woman), not feeling herself able to endure poverty, asked for the annulment of a marriage which was no reality.

The Pope granted her request, for it was just.
So much for marriage.

But baptism is conferred without restrictions or reserves of any kind.

There is no doubt about it, what the penguins have received is a sacrament." Called to give his opinion, Pope St.Damascus expressed himself in these terms: "In order to know if a baptism is valid and will produce its result, that is to say, sanctification, it is necessary to consider who gives it and not who receives it.

In truth, the sanctifying virtue of this sacrament results from the exterior act by which it is conferred, without the baptized person cooperating in his own sanctification by any personal act; if it were otherwise it would not be administered to the newly born.