Daughter won't baptize baby

[His_helpmeet]

That would be assuming that the parents had not asked for Baptism. That would be a problem.

In my area we DO have a policy for baptizing babies IF the parents request it. The policy is actually listed in the hospital policy and procedure manual. There are also specific archdiocesan forms to be filled out if an emergency Baptism was performed in the hospital.

 

[kptrs]

What I see here is not love but manipulation and a violation of trust. He will be raised Catholic because you take him to church? What if his mother says no?
This child is not a pawn in some mommy grandma power struggle. He is a child of God loved by God as is your daughter.

I’m going to go as far as to say that I have more respect for the professed atheist daughter who has no faith than I do for the professed Catholic mother who behaves in a way completely contradictory to the Faith. This mother raised her daughter in the Faith. The daughter has made a choice to reject the Faith. Nothing more can be done on the mother’s part except to continue to love the daughter.

OP if you’re listening, I’ll say it once more.

Show. Love.

 

[heidi_storage]

Er, quite; that’s kind of my point.

 

[QwertyGirl]

You know,if God, will keep a baby out of heaven, w/o Baptism, never receiving the Beatific Vision, I’D BAPTIZED

Does the Church still teach this? I thought the Church teaches that God is a merciful God and we entrust unbaptized souls (especially infants) to his care. I don’t know that limbo is part of that.

 

[Xanthippe_Voorhees]

tweedlealice:

You know,if God, will keep a baby out of heaven, w/o Baptism, never receiving the Beatific Vision, I’D BAPTIZED

Does the Church still teach this? I thought the Church teaches that God is a merciful God and we entrust unbaptized souls (especially infants) to his care. I don’t know that limbo is part of that.

No, the church does not still teach limbo. Today we actually believe that there is likely Baptism of Desire at work…or Baptism of Blood for those aborted at the “altar” of convenience.

However, people are not forbidden to believe it.

 

[TheLittleLady]

This is the official document.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...aith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html

A bit about limbo:

41. Therefore, besides the theory of Limbo (which remains a possible theological opinion), there can be other ways to integrate and safeguard the principles of the faith grounded in Scripture: the creation of the human being in Christ and his vocation to communion with God; the universal salvific will of God; the transmission and the consequences of original sin; the necessity of grace in order to enter into the Kingdom of God and attain the vision of God; the uniqueness and universality of the saving mediation of Christ Jesus; and the necessity of Baptism for salvation.

This is an excerpt the section that refers to “baptism of desire/blood”

The proposals invoking some kind of Baptism of desire or Baptism of blood, however, involved certain difficulties. On the one hand, the adult’s act of desire for Baptism can hardly be attributed to children. The little child is scarcely capable of supplying the fully free and responsible personal act which would constitute a substitution for sacramental Baptism; such a fully free and responsible act is rooted in a judgement of reason and cannot be properly achieved before the human person has reached a sufficient or appropriate use of reason (aetas discretionis: “age of discretion”). On the other hand, it is difficult to understand how the Church could properly “supply” for unbaptised infants.