Why doesnt the Catholic Church baptize by total immersion and why do they baptize infants?
The answer is that the Catholic Church does baptise by total immersion and does not baptise infants and has followed that custom for two thousand years. The Roman Catholic, Orthodox and later Anglican systems which constitute most of the Catholic Church changed the practice. In fact the last great Unitarian Catholic baptistery was built at Ravenna in 525 in the same year Dionysius Exiguus misdated the calendar (see the paper Significance of the Year 2000 (No. 286). The Copts retained their position after the split of 451 and have only just gone back into communion with Rome. Look at the paper Purification and Circumcision (No. 251) for a more detailed examination of the problem of Baptism and Circumcision. The Copts reunion is also examined in the paper The Fall of Egypt (No. 36): The Prophecy of Pharaohs Broken Arms. The Latin term baptisterium is applied to the tank containing the water for baptism. Baptism is derived from the Greek bapto and baptizo meaning to wash and to immerse or
