Every Sacrament must have intent--- not perfection, but intent --- to be freed from sin. If intent were not essential, we could just spray water over whole football stadiums of people and baptize them all, couldn't we? It would be as if Baptism was not a sacrament at all, but rather some kind of magic.
Being unbaptized does not damn this child. Unbaptized babies, when they die, are commended to the mercy of God in the rites of the Catholic Church.
True enough.
Whatever happened to limbo?
Unbaptized babies don’t go there any more?
Thank you.