IV. Who can Receive Baptism?

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have
need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought
into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are
called.⁵⁰ The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is
particularly manifest in infant Baptism. the Church and the parents would deny
a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer
Baptism shortly after birth.⁵¹

PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
  - Article 1 THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
    - IV. Who can Receive Baptism?

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team