NATHAN: Baptism is a symbol of new life ... This topic will be relevant to teaching Religious Education at KS2 or KS3 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 2nd and 3rd Level in Scotland.

1261 As regards children who have died without Baptism , the Church can only entrust ... the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded ...

While the majority are still given to young children ... by adults wishing to receive baptism. In the early centuries of Christianity, faith teaching – the catechesis – was primarily conducted ...