Church Leavers Could Claim a Right to Erase Baptismal Data, EU Adviser Says

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To stop believing does not erase baptism. For the Catholic Church it is not only a sacrament that prints character, but it is a "historical fact" and therefore must remain inscribed in the archives. But now European justice must respond to a judicial consultation that can change the treatment of those records, when pondering whether the "right to forget" can force the Church to suppress the personal data they contain. The decision finally made b…

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The opinion of the European lawyer is not binding on the High Court when it pronounces judgment, but it usually marks the line of the vast majority of its...

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The right to forget baptism gains ground in the EU: the Advocate General of the TJUE endorses erasing the data from the books of the Church. The entry The TJUE endorses the right to forget baptism: the Advocate General supports erasing the data of the Church appears first in Moncloa.