WHO IS WORTHY TO PERFORM THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH?
Baptism requires just the water and the words, the sacrament just like the Sacrament of Marriage must not require a priest; any baptized person can baptize another. In fact, when the life of a person is in danger, even a non-baptized person including someone who does not himself believe in Christ can baptize, provided that the person performing the baptism follows the form of baptism and intends, by the baptism, to do what the Church does in other words, to bring the person being baptized into the fullness of the Church.
In certain cases where a baptism has been performed by an extraordinary minister that is, someone other than a priest, the ordinary minister of the sacrament a priest may later perform a conditional baptism.
A conditional baptism, however, would only be performed if there were grave doubt about the validity of the original application of the sacrament for instance, if a non acceptable formula were used, or if the baptism had been performed by a non-baptized person who later admitted that he did not have the proper intention.
A conditional baptism is not a "re-baptism"; the sacrament can only be received once. And a conditional baptism cannot be performed for any reason other than grave doubt about the validity of the original application for instance, if a valid baptism has been performed, a priest cannot perform a conditional baptism so that family and friends can be present.
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