Exactly Jack...
Canon law dictates: Quote:
Can. 867 §1. Parents are obliged to take care that infants are baptized in the first few weeks; as soon as possible after the birth or even before it, they are to go to the pastor to request the sacrament for their child and to be prepared properly for it.
§2. An infant in danger of death is to be baptized without delay.
| (bolding mine) Code of Canon Law - IntraText
You know, this makes no sense. Doesn't god have the power to send them to heaven in the first place? Aren't all lives and deaths already written in his book? Is this like some weird kind of insurance policy? The benefit being to comfort the living if and when a child dies? Isn't god the one taking that life in the first place?
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
W. J. H. Boetcker
Last edited by Maryjane; Apr 24, 2008 at 12:53 pm.
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