Why have infant baptisms declined drastically since 1970? | Dr Taylor Marshall and Eric Sammons
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February 13, 2026
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My family refused to allow their children for baptism. Now, they are adults and follow wacko evil liberalism.
Because contemporary Catholics have no understanding of original sin…..and salvation is dependent upon it
Looks like you'll have to rely on believers baptism, the one John The Baptist used. The catholic church is slowly adopting protestant ways, It's taken 500 years, but better late than never.
I baptized my granddaughter . . .and I later told our Priest. He said the difference between me and most grandmothers is? I told him what I did . . . had a witness, etc. Later, she was officially baptized at the age of 4 when I received custody of her . . . . I just couldn't let that baby leave my arms without taking her to the Church , praying and asking for her soul to belong to Jesus. Man, did I have take some heat from her other set of Grandparents including an entire sermon preached at me in a Protestant service. Evangelical's! No explaining their lack of respect for Catholics . . . . and the power of Holy Water.
No where in the bible does it say to baptize infants.
I notice that I've had a couple of comments removed, Doc. Are we playing that game on your channel ?
When did EVERY SINGLE BISHOP IN THE US say that mass was non essential? Can we get a credible source, maybe a statement from the US Bishops conference? Was there a vote that we can access as proof??? Because even the modern catechism (CCC) says or at least implies otherwise; where it indicates that the Sacrament of the Eucharist (received primarily at Mass) is the "source and submit" of Christian life.
Mass during the pervieved pandemic was under exempt in lieu of a perceived necessity just as in the 1917 influenza pandemic roaming quarantines that shut down Sunday masses so that there was also exemptions from Sunday obligation.
I don't think that the US Bishops ever made that explicit statement that mass was non essential (certainly not Sunday obligation).
The idea that the US Bishops actually declared this is all in your head. We can defend the Faith without creating lies or false narratives folks. These two clowns simply don't know what they are taking about.
Because of abortion ….Catholics are also aborting …..
Decan gave baptism to our child at catholic church and also god parents were unable to attend because of covid. So they found representatives for god parents. I hope that baptism is valid
I will never forget the lockdowns. The minute our bishop announced it, I took my 3 young daughters to our church before the door was locked and told them to pray until we had to leave. We were there about 15 minutes. They are now 10, 7, and 3 and have asked why we can't watch mass on TV again. Even at home, we made them dress up, sit, kneel, stand, etc. It's tough to explain to them this error. After the churches reopened, my oldest had to wait another 6 months before she could make her First Communion. Reconciliation was not offered to the children despite it having been almost a year since they first confessed. No one cares. We lost about half of our parish since 2020.
When your religion is constantly evolving you lose faith. Every priest does the mass differently..
Being Catholic is way more than just being baptized. We "Must be born again (or born from above) to enter the kingdom of heaven"." Old things must pass away and all things must become new"…
Believing in God and Loving Him is far more than water baptism.
Loving God and our neighbor is faith in action 7 days a week. But I'm preaching to the choir.
PLEASE ANSWER THIS ITS URGENT! I BOUGHT A douay rheims bible! Why does it have the eye of providence on. The front!?!!? A notoriously satanic symbol used by the illuminati! It's disturbed me so badly. PLEASE ADDRESS THIS PLEASE
Declining Faith, declining Church, declining Magisterium the Church is dying on the vine.
What’s the purpose of infant baptism when John the Baptist was baptizing adults and with full immersion?
If all a person is doing is going to Mass on Christmas and Easter, they might be better off letting their kids decide to accept Christ or reject Him anyway. Simply being Catholic without practicing the faith might actually bring greater condemnation at Judgment. Missing Mass on Sunday IS STILL A MORTAL SIN. Yet many don't consider this fact. A person might be better off coming to faith on their own, rather than being wrongly catechized. Many people are falling away from the faith. "The end shall not come except there be a falling away first".
Maybe we are seeing this verse of scripture fulfilled in our time.
Up until 1965 the church was unified – One true holy and apostolic Catholic Church. A church divided as it is now – with leaders divided – not teaching what Our Lord taught us and trying to make modernism ok in the church – is the downfall. Using the scandals of Priests is a cop out for just not wanting to hold the values of the church together. Our Lord will not let the church fail – just hope the resurrection of the Catholic Church and Latin Mass happens soon. Prayer changes everything.
Is this discussion in book form with all the data?
OK, might need some Byzantine help here…
But in the AU/Ordinarite and Byzantine Rites, on the 40th day after birth, and before Mass/Divine Liturgy, the Parents bring the Child to Church. Father meets them in the Narthex.
In the AU/Ordinarite, they come up, and the child and parent are given special blessings at the Communion rail gate.
In Byzantine, Father gives prayers and blessings in the back of the Church. Then the 4 come up, with Priest holding the child. Parents stop at the Iconostasis. Priest and child go through the Royal Doors. As Father does so, he is singing the Canticle of Simeon.
This is the only time a Non-Eparch, Non-Priest EVER enters the Royal Doors!
I think this is called the "Churching of the Child".
After Francis, There is NO doubt
THEY DO NOT REALIZE THEY ARE WALKING AWAY FROM GOD AND THE EUCHARIST. THEY ALREADY HAD 1 FOOT OUT THE DOOR ANY EXCUSE!
I've attended many NO Baptisms. Not once was Original Sin mentioned only inclusion into the "community". They don't believe in Orignal Sin in the post conciliar church.
Because most millennials and GENZ don’t even go to Mass, let alone have their children/infants baptized!
I baphtised two children this summer whole playing, parents didnt noticied
As a grandparent, sometimes we have to step in
Born in 81, fallen away catholic until my late 20's when I got married in the church. Started taking my faith seriously. Began teaching catechism and studied even more. Found Senus Fidelum which help me find Father Rippeger, Taylor Marshall and Return to Tradition. Began the search for the Latin Mass. Found it and never looked back. No regrets!
Ecclesiastes 11:5
King James Version
5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
If you don’t Believe GOD made you before your in the Mothers womb you don’t Believe GOD
For me I had all 9 of my children baptized, my question is how is a grandfather to get his grandkids baptized when my church makes it impossible with this Covid freak out. I could not receive the host because my priest refused to put it on my tongue. This was not as bad as the fact my priest did not understand why I could not touch it. I am a lost for word’s but high on hope. This betrayals of the one true church will be set right. I pray that the Lord keep me here to see this day. 🙏🏼
Is the line showing the increase in population appropriate for the graph? Birth rate seems a better number to use since you're talking about infant baptism. The rise in population on the graph invites us to compare the drop in infant baptism with that rise in population. One could make that the x axis and plot infant baptism against it, and get a more frightening picture, but it would be the wrong picture. If only looking at declining infant baptism, there is no context to understand the numbers. The only numbers I can imagine using are: general US population birth rates, US birth rates among those who were baptized as infants, cradle Catholic US birth rates, and US Catholic birth rates.
The graph as it stands includes immigration which obscures the relevant population, infant's born in the US, behind an irrelevant population, non-infants immigrating in.
My wife and I have to drive 40 minutes to church. The Novus ordo churches I pass are all lifeless. Full of eucharistic ministers, no reverence, no sacredness, poor homilies etc. No wonder why 70% don’t believe in the true presence.