Infant Baptism: Do We Really Need It?
If you were asked to come up with a quick summary of the Church’s teaching on the sacraments, how long would it take you? Could you boil it all down into a single sentence? Yes, I think you could do it. Quite easily, actually. In fact, it was nicely done five centuries ago at the Council of Trent, the happy outcome of which has given us nine perfectly simple words: an outward sign instituted by…