Please explain this. Are you saying that a protestant and Catholic baptisms are actually different and do different things?
But, you are right that a baby does not have a mature faith, but they may have some amount of faith. But, I find it hard to believe that a baptized baby born into a Catholic family is any better off from the baptism than a baptized baby born into a protestant family. Of course, later in their life they will be taught things contrary to the Church and this makes them not better off, but at that moment of baptism I would imagine God views those babies in the same way.
No, I do not believe that is what she meant. Both children, regardless of how they are raised, are Catholic.
The difference I think she was trying to make was that the child raised in a Protestant will not be in full communion with the Church when, presuming they remain Protestant, when they reach the age of accountability (old enough to intentionally sin). The child rasied in a (presumably faithful) Catholic family will have access to (again presumably) proper teachings about the sacraments and Church teachings. Eventually the child will receive the reaming sacraments of initiation (Confirmation, first Confession and first Holy Communion). The child in the Protestant home, presuming the family remains Protestant, the child will have an incomplete understandig of the faith.
So a properly (Trinitarian formula) baptized person reamains Catholic no matter what denomination they choose. However, they, of the
choose the Protestant church, even through ignorance, would remain outside of full comunionwith the True Shurch of Christ, the Catholic Church.
By the way, because the Eastern Churches, not in communion with the Catholic, are also still part of the Church bbecause those churches actually have apostolic succession. Churches descended from the Reformation do not have apostalic succession.
