I will raise a question: what if the parents show no inclination to raise the child as a Catholic? Or show in a manifest manner that they have little or no clue what that means? Plus, they resist instruction?
What if two gay guys --- baptized Catholic ---who have contracted some form of para-matrimony, come in with their adopted infant and want a baptism for the purpose --- as the priest suspects --- of forcing the acceptance of their disordered pseudo-marriage?
“I will raise a question: what if the parents show no inclination to raise the child as a Catholic? Or show in a manifest manner that they have little or no clue what that means?”
None of those conditions obtains.
“Plus, they resist instruction?”
It feels to me like resisting bureaucratic nonsense.
“What if two gay guys -— baptized Catholic -—who have contracted some form of para-matrimony, come in with their adopted infant and want a baptism for the purpose -— as the priest suspects -— of forcing the acceptance of their disordered pseudo-marriage?”
What if the priest tells one of them to bring the child back, and, as the father, have it baptized.
My novus ordo parish church demands parental education for the baptism of every single child a couple has, even if they and their children are at Mass every Sunday. The classes are taught by ignorant lay people, the classes are few and far between, and they have delayed infant baptism by as much as three months. In my opinion, it’s a moral crime to delay infant baptism for so long.