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If your child is in danger of death, you should do it immediately yourself. Then have the priest do all the other blessings only he can do at the first opportunity.

If you have a miscarriage or stillbirth, baptize the child conditionally. If there still is life at the cellular level the soul might still be present. Say "If you are alive I baptize thee...."

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What are we to make the latest headline of the Vatican's reply to grandmother 'Olivia's' concern for her unbaptised granddaughter? Comparing the reply to what I have learned in these articles they seem to agree - it is never licit to baptise an infant without the parent's consent while both or one is alive and rational. What if the parents are indifferent?

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Rare moment of Francis being basically correct.

If there was a "well-founded hope" of the child receiving a Catholic education, even just through the parents consenting to it and agreeing with the grandparent, it would seem to be legitimate.

Nagging the parents to baptise would probably be counter productive too. The danger would be that they might actually agree to let the kid be baptised, and incur all the duties of a baptised Christian, without any intention to raise the kid as such.

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