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"470 - II. Baptism of water is necessary for the attainment of salvation as an indispensable means for reaching that end. Only in exceptional cases can it be substituted by the Baptism of desire or of blood" - MORAL THEOLOGY, by Rev. Heribert Jone, O. F. M. CAP., J. C. D., and Rev. Urban Adelman, O.F. M. CAP., J. C. D.

CODEX IURIS CANONICI

PARS PRIMA.
DE SACRAMENTIS.

TITULUS XII.
De sepultura ecclesiastica.

CAPUT III.
De iis quibus sepultura ecclesiastica concedenda est aut neganda.

CAN. 1239.
 § 1. Ad sepulturam ecclesiasticam non sunt admittendi qui sine baptismo decesserint.
 § 2. Catechumeni qui nulla sua culpa sine baptismo moriantur, baptizatis accensendi sunt.
 § 3. Omnes baptizati sepultura ecclesiastica donandi sunt, nisi eadem a iure expresse priventur.

"General Principles. Persons who die without baptism are not to be admitted to ecclesiastical burial (c. 1239, § 1).  Catechumens who through no fault of their own die without baptism are to be considered (in this connection) as baptized (c. 1239, § 2).  All baptized persons are to receive ecclesiastical burial unless they are expressly excluded from it by law (c. 1239, § 3)." - CANON LAW, A Text and Commentary, by Fathers T. Lincoln Bouscaren, S.J., and Adam C. Ellis, S.J.