1231 Where infant Baptism has become the form in ... and with good reason are accepted as brothers by the children of the Catholic Church." 81 "Baptism therefore constitutes the sacramental ...

The Church’s theologians have largely accepted the validity of infant baptism; the few who challenge them must surely be ignorant, or incapable of perceiving the obvious. Worse still ...

In the same way, Christian baptism of an infant occurs before the infant has a faith of its own and shows that it belongs to the Church of Christ. Both circumcision and infant baptism look forward ...

Throughout church history a few marginal movements ... which the criterion could be tradition or utility. They accepted infant baptism only because they believed it to be scriptural.

As infant baptism became more widespread ... the figure stands at just under 30%. According to the Catholic Church's Statistical Yearbooks, while 400,327 baptisms were celebrated in France ...

It said the ratio of infant baptisms to the Catholic population ... and the lowest is in Europe and the Middle East. The Catholic Church had 5,430 bishops at the end of 2023, an increase of ...

According to figures from the Catholic Church in France ... not enough to compensate for the sharp drop in the number of infant baptisms. "Religious indifference is still gaining ground in ...