Who Holds the Child in Baptism?
Recently in looking for "clip-art" images of baptism (and actually beyond that in online photographs, once the following was spotted) it is noticeable that in nearly every image the one baptising is not holding the child being baptised. I began to wonder if this was something about celibate RC priests lacking in agility to hold a child, or was this in a rubric that I couldn't find. Do married RC deacons also have someone else holding the child? If so, and there is no rubric, why? Is that simply imitating what they've seen RC priests doing?
Source: liturgy.co.nz