[Talking_Mouse]

To give the padre the benefit of the doubt, the immersion pool is a piss poor design. What can you hope to do with such a monstrosity?

I have seen 2 baptisms in the same designed pool. In neither of these did the baby's naked buttocks touch the holy water. It was awkward, yes, but not sacrilegious.

The one thing I have to say in favor of that design pool is that the falling water makes a nice sound. When I was adoring the Blessed Sacrament, the falling water sound helped my mediations -- that is the ONLY good thing I can think to say about that kind of baptismal fount.

[rogator]

"... that the falling water makes a nice sound."

It isn't a nice sound if you are elderly and have a spastic bladder.
Our modernist pastor places a water filled galvanized hog trough with a recirculating pump into the sancuary during every Easter Season so that he can do immersion Baptisms.
It drives some of the old folks crazy.