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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone please explain why the Catholic Church will not baptize a still born? I'll be waiting . . .

And as for you OP, you're channeling Serena Joy and it's creepy.[/quote]

Because someone who is already in Heaven can't participate in a sacrament here on Earth.

You also can't give viaticum or the anointing of the sick to someone who is definitely dead.  If you aren't sure you can, although it won't be of value if you guessed wrong. [/quote]

This, more or less. A person has to be alive to receive sacramental grace. A definitively dead infant would not be a proper subject of baptism. This is not to say stillborn infants are never baptized. Since baptism can be validly performed by anyone with the right intention and who follows the ritual, there certainly are parents who have baptized stillborn children. Baptism can also be administered conditionally:  “If you are alive . . ..”

There also is “baptism by desire,” wherein a person without access to baptism for some reason could receive the same grace by virtue of a sincere desire to have it. At least some theologians support the idea that a child in utero can be baptized by desire via the parent’s sincere hope that such grace would be imparted even before birth. [/quote]

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