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To: RnMomof7; metmom; NYer; Salvation; Pyro7480; Coleus; narses; annalex; Campion; don-o; Mrs. Don-o; ..
Why do Catholic priests baptize still born children or dead infants??

They DO NOT, baptism is only for the living.

We baptise the living because it WILL bring about the birth of water and Spirit.

It is kind of funny actually..Limbo was taught to comfort people as to the fate of the infants and unborn that die without baptism...

Limbo is taught because quite frankly we don't know for a certainty what happens. But we do know that though we are bound by the Sacraments, God is not and we believe that it is His Will that all who can be saved are.

I do find it ironic that an unborn child is deliberately MURDERED every 24 seconds in the United States and there are more than a few who frequent these threads that are far more concerned with condemning the Catholic Church than they are with joining the Catholic Church in hopes of ending the bloodshed.

As a Calvinist I believe that God is indeed merciful but I cling to the scripture 'Shall Not The Judge Of All The Earth Do Right?' because not one of us know the mind of God in this

There is no substantial difference between this and what Catholics believe.

5,570 posted on 09/16/2010 8:56:51 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
They DO NOT, baptism is only for the living.

Well the chaplain at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo NY baptized my 17mo old grandson in the ER where he was dead on arrival ....never say never Wag, I was there, the priest put the baptismal record in my hand... and I dutifully took it to his Catholic grandma ..

5,690 posted on 09/16/2010 5:05:42 PM PDT by RnMomof7 (Jhn 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.)
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