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Case dismissed

In the final analysis, it isn't clear that the sacrament of baptism and its necessity had been instituted by Jesus before the Crucifixion. Even if it had been, we do not know for certain that Dismas hadn't already been baptized. Whatever the case, he evidently underwent a conversion, so it seems that he would have had an implicit or explicit desire for baptism that would suffice if baptism was a necessity. And if purgatory is a necessary step on the way to heaven, the Church's teaching allows room for that as well.

Final de articol, iar titlul este „Dismissing the Dismas case".

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