Scott W,
Does not the following imply a work:

Catechism of the Catholic Church - English Translation

1250 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. 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.

It looks as if the implication is: "If we do this, God will do that." Baptism washes away sin? The new birth (John 3:3) is worked out (actuated) by water baptism? Scott W. has also stated that the works which have been described are those which flow from the faith we have, ala James. How does a infant exercise faith in his water baptism....unless of course it is *faith by proxy*, through the parents, and then we are encroaching on the Mormons claim to fame..

Scott W. has previously stated that by centrally focusing on any one application or mandate is to take the RCC out of context. I believe this is the old bait and switch. Lets call a spade a spade. Does not the mass intend to "wash away sin ?" The Catechism states that the eucharist is a sacrifice. This is a work; there is no way around it. Is the eucharist a sacrifice?

So much more...........

In HIM,
Scott