Emergency Baptisms

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Sacraments are for the living. You could (and i would) certainly pray for the soul of said deceased person(s).
 
Why would anyone even consider baptizing someone when it is known that they would not want it? That impresses me as being extremely arrogant.

My understanding is that while such a baptism might be valid, it would certainly be illicit - a violation of Canon law. One could potentially run into problems under civil law too. It’s been a while, but I remember reading about a case where the parents of a child who was in the emergency room and near death sued the hospital chaplain, a Catholic priest, for battery after he baptized the child even after they expressly said not to.
Post #6 seems to answer that. The parents might sue, and if they do, they might win; but the priest’s duty is to the child, not the parents at that moment.

I would love to be on that jury: $1.00.
 
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