Infant Baptism - Substitution of Faith

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Mk 2:5 has been cited in a few catholic written essays as support for infant baptism - the parents are substituting their faith for the infant. I cannot find anything to that affect in the Catechism. Is this verse appropriate, and is that a proper understanding of how infant baptism is possible?
 
For example: totustuus.com/IntroductionToTheSacramentsAndBaptism.pdf, bottom of page 10, discussing the contradiction that faith precedes baptism and babies cannot display faith:

**Faith and Baptism **
The Church teaches that faith is necessary for Baptism. This raises the question of how
can an infant receive baptism if he or she is incapable of making an act of faith. The
Church teaches that the faith of the Church in the persons of the parents, godparents,
priest, etc., substitutes for the faith of the child until the child is capable of making an act
of faith. In this regard the Church follows the example of Jesus who forgave sins and
healed on the basis of another’s faith.

**Mk 2:3-5 (Also Mt 8:5-13) **
And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they
could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and
when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay.
And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘My son, your sins are
forgiven.’”
 
PH3 said:
Mk 2:5 has been cited in a few catholic written essays as support for infant baptism - the parents are substituting their faith for the infant. I cannot find anything to that affect in the Catechism. Is this verse appropriate, and is that a proper understanding of how infant baptism is possible?
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Acts of the Apostles (16:15, 16:33, 18:8) speak of the baptism of a whole household or family.

Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
INSTRUCTION ON INFANT BAPTISM
Pastoralis actio

Part One
Traditional Doctrine On Infant Baptism
Immemorial Practice
  1. Both in the East and in the West the practice of baptizing infants is considered a rule of immemorial tradition. Origen, and later St. Augustine, considered it a “tradition received from the Apostles.”[2] When the first direct evidence of infant Baptism appears in the second century, it is never presented as an innovation. St. Irenaeus, in particular, considers it a matter of course that the baptized should include “infants and small children” as well as adolescents, young adults and older people.[3] The oldest known ritual, describing at the start of the third century the Apostolic Tradition, contains the following rule: “First baptize the children. Those of them who can speak for themselves should do so. The parents or someone of their family should speak for the others.”[4] At a Synod of African Bishops, St. Cyprian stated that “God’s mercy and grace should not be refused to anyone born,” and the Synod, recalling that “all human beings” are “equal,” whatever be “their size or age,” declared it lawful to baptize children “by the second or third day after their birth.”[5]
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19801020_pastoralis_actio_en.html
 
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