Read the following excerpt from the Council of Trent, Seventh Session, Decree on the Sacraments. Then answer the following question:

On Baptism

CANON V.—If any one saith, that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto salvation; let him be anathema [banished].

CANON XII.—If any one saith, that no one is to be baptized save at that age at which Christ was baptized, or in the very article of death; let him be anathema [banished].

Question

Read the following excerpt from the Council of Trent, Seventh Session, Decree on the Sacraments. Then answer the following question:

On Baptism

CANON V.—If any one saith, that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto salvation; let him be anathema [banished].

CANON XII.—If any one saith, that no one is to be baptized save at that age at which Christ was baptized, or in the very article of death; let him be anathema [banished].

kingofhou · Answer

D) During the Counter-Reformation, the Catholic Church maintained that children should be baptized.