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That’s because most Catholics never go to church anyway. But they certainly do care if you don’t baptize their grandchildren.
by empath75 7y ago
That’s because most Catholics never go to church anyway. But they certainly do care if you don’t baptize their grandchildren.
- riffraff 7y agoThey do, but it's also not uncommon for Catholics to violate any other precept, e.g. divorce. It's a very lax culture, in this age, in the developed world. I have plenty of Catholic friends who decided not to baptize their children, grandparents weren't happy but it's rarely a reason to truncate relationships. Edit: anecdotal evidence, of course, YMMV.
- tptacek 7y agoI don't go to Mass, but there was no question we were going to baptize the kids. In part, that's because the Catholic youth sacraments happen on a pretty well-defined schedule and it's weird (socially) to get them done off that schedule, so baptizing (and First Communion, which both of my kids also did) preserves optionality.