Editing Baptism (section)

==== Freemasonry ====
Due to tensions between the Catholic Church and Freemasons in France in the aftermath of the [[French Revolution]], French Freemasons developed rituals to replace those of the Church, including baptism. Chrétien-Guillaume Riebesthal's ''Rituel Maçonnique pour tous les Rites'' (Masonic Ritual for All Rites),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUJfAAAAcAAJ |title=Rituel maçonnique pour tous les rites |date=1827 |language=fr}}</ref> published in Strasbourg in 1826, includes one such baptismal rite.[https://journals.ku.edu/ygas/article/view/20050/18019 "Some Ceremony Peculiar to Themselves": The Continuation of a European Masonic Ceremony in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin] Lodges in Louisiana and Wisconsin performed baptism ceremonies in 1859, though they were widely condemned by their [[Grand Lodge]]s.

In 1865, [[Albert Pike]], publicly performed a ceremony of Masonic baptism in New York City. The ceremony was greeted with skepticism by many American Masons including [[Albert Mackey]]. A ceremony for Masonic baptism was published by Charles T. McClenechan in 1884.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AASR – 1884 – Ceremony of Baptism in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite |url=http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/AASR_1884_/ceremony_of_baptism.htm |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.phoenixmasonry.org}}</ref>