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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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To: RnMomof7

Please know that you have my sympathies. I cannot begin to imagine how horrible that must have been.

I was reminded that priests will sometimes baptize immediately after natural death based on the fact that we don’t know for a certainty when the soul leaves the body and baptism is for the soul. However, I do not believe that they are ever done for stillborns.


5,691 posted on 09/16/2010 5:10:14 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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