Posted on 02/14/2013 12:14:09 PM PST by Weiss White
Q: Some Jewish people in my city complained to the local Catholic hospital, saying they were afraid to bring their sick children to the emergency room, because the hospital staff might baptize them. The hospital staff publicly agreed never to do this.
I had always assumed that you cant baptize a baby without at least one parents consent, so I thought the hospital would simply say, Dont worry, were not allowed to do that anyway! But the wording of the hospital administrators response seemed to suggest that they really could baptize a sick baby if they wanted to. Can a baby be baptized Catholic, even if the parents arent Catholic and dont want the baptism? Greg
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In the olden days (of my youth), a Catholic hospital might have the priest baptize a dying baby. I doubt that would happen today.
If you are not a believer what does it matter? It is just a bath in your mind set. As long as it physically nor mentally invasive (I doubt babies could be affected emotionally) then who cares. I’d be more concerned about the quality/level of care under obamacare guidelines.
Legally? I don’t know.
I do know that when the time came for my husband’s dad to allow him to be baptized into the Catholic church he refused. So my mother-in-law and her mother “baptized” him in the kitchen sink.
He chose to be baptized and joined the Baptist church in his late teens.
If the parents were baptized against their wishes, would that make them Catholics? Or just wet Jews?
The custom of baptism didn’t just spring up when Jesus came along. The ceremonial use of water is a very ancient Jewish custom.
yep and only if the babys daddy is a certifiable meathead
So Marco Rubio baptized hks self while giving his speech?
Best laugh I’ve had all day! lol!
And if the baby's mama goes on to gain 300 pounds and shills for programs that supposedly feed hungry kids.
Charlie tried to do that on “Lost”... with a completely unrelated person’s baby no less.
Yep.
I'm pretty sure the Mormons reading the obituaries will get me proxy-baptized after I'm dead.
Doesn't bother me. I already know where I'm going, and no two people splashing around in a basin will affect that.
Not that I'd want it to :)
Sure, but my point is that baptism into Christ is a voluntary act, predicated upon belief in Christ.
Neither Jews’ children nor Catholics’ children nor atheists’ children can be baptized into Christ before they’re of an age to believe in Him.
:-D
This seems like agitprop to make Catholics look bad and create animosity.
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I think an important issue also is what if someone puts a curse or magic spell on your baby at a doctors office. Or in the supermarket. Or puts magic dust on them.
Well, in the past it sometimes mattered a lot.
1) Baptism by a priest doesn’t make a baby “Catholic” anymore than circumsizing a kid makes him a Jew
In fact my Catholic kids were baptized by a Methodist minister, A Christian baptism is a Christian baptism
2) If you don’t believe in the ritual of sprinkling water on a child, why fear it? They think Jahweh will be displeased? If the kid is that sick, is that their main worry so to not take them to the hospital?
My guess is that in the days of high infant mortality, the Church baptized babies to ensure that they get to Heaven.
1) Baptism by a priest doesn’t make a baby “Catholic” anymore than circumsizing a kid makes him a Jew
In fact my Catholic kids were baptized by a Methodist minister, A Christian baptism is a Christian baptism
2) If you don’t believe in the ritual of sprinkling water on a child, why fear it? They think Jahweh will be displeased? If the kid is that sick, is that their main worry so to not take them to the hospital?
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