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Thousands of Catholics in the United States may need to be re-baptized after the church learned that a priest had mispronounced one word in the benediction for decades, rendering the ceremony invalid. Father Andres Arango had been performing the first sacrament of Catholic life using the words “We baptize you,” rather than the Vatican-approved “I baptize you,” for the past 26 years. “It is not the community that baptizes a person and incorporates them into the Church of Christ; rather, it is Christ, and Christ alone, who presides at all sacraments; therefore, it is Christ who baptizes,” Thomas…