Text transcribed from caption: C-45943 CONTROVERSIAL BAPTISM MARLBORO, Mass. -- Three-month-old Nathaniel Ryan Morreale is baptized on the steps of Immaculate Conception Church in Marlboro, Mass., by Father Joseph O’Rourke, a Jesuit priest from New York, who defied Boston’s Cardinal Humberto Madeiros and his own Jesuit superior by performing the ceremony. The baby has become the center of an abortion controversy between his mother and the Catholic parish. The refusal of the parish priests to baptize the child was based primarily on the endorsement by the baby’s mother, Mrs. Carol Morreale, of a proposed abortion clinic in Marlboro, one supported by New York abortion advocate William Baird. In a statement, Cardinal Madeiros said the refusal of the priests to preform the baptism was taken “in accordance with clear requirements of the Church’s teaching as to the serious responsibility of parents to guarantee the Catholic upbringing of their children.” At the ceremony are, from left: godparents Linda Morreale and John Thompson, Mr. Baird, parents Carol and Daniel Morreale, and Father O’Rourke. The priest, who had been “expressly forbidden” by his superior to conduct the baptism, is assigned to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility at the National Council of Churches and is a director of a group called Catholics for a Free Choice. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-MAS-8D-74-DS)