Editing Infant baptism (section)

==== ''Postremo mense'' ====
In 1747, [[Pope Benedict XIV]] issued [[papal bull]] ''Postremo mense'', about baptizing Jewish children, building on old Church traditions. Benedict XIV said it’s usually wrong to baptize a Jewish child without the parents’ permission, but it’s permissible if the child is dying. If a child is baptized, even improperly, the Church must take them from non-baptized Jewish parents to raise them as Christians.'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cunningham |first1=James J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sB7lrpjH7dkC&pg=PA112 |title=Summa Theologiae: Volume 57, Baptism and Confirmation: 3a. 66-72 |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521029650 |pages=112 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Caffiero |first1=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAch17-SogIC&pg=PA46 |title=Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome |date=2012 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520254510 |page=46}}</ref>''' These ideas matched earlier thinkers like [[Thomas Aquinas]] and were supported by later figures like [[Alphonsus Liguori]].'''<ref name="caffiero56">{{cite book |last1=Caffiero |first1=Marina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAch17-SogIC&pg=PA56 |title=Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome |date=2012 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520254510 |page=56}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{cite book |last1=Carlen |first1=Claudia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uNVAAAAYAAJ |title=Papal Pronouncements, a Guide, 1740-1978: Benedict XIV to Paul VI |date=1990 |publisher=Pierian Press |isbn=9780876502730 |page=6 |language=en |accessdate=13 January 2018}}</ref>''' The Church punished unauthorized baptisms, but the baptism’s effects still stood. In 1751, Benedict issued a ''[[Probe te meminisse]]'' reinforcing these rules and setting penalties for Jewish converts who left Catholicism.'''<ref name="caffiero56" /><ref name=":10" />'''