So our priest denied our daughter's baptism...

[Wyndru]

I'm kind of annoyed. The wife and I are Roman Catholic, and the reasoning was that we don't visit every week. I'll admit, we are pretty lax, we go on major religious holidays, probably about 6 times a year.

We fully intended on our daughter getting her baptism and eventually confirmation and attending fairly regularly while she is growing up. Yet we are actually being denied, and she is being punished because of our lack of attendance. I was baptized, confirmed and married at this parish too.

What I don't understand is that churches keep complaining about lack of parishioners, yet they push you away if you aren't dedicated to a weekly commitment.

wtf.

Sorry, I had to write this here to get it out, I'm still trying to cool down a bit before I email the priest back.

/rant

locked - constant bashing of the church without seriously addressing the OP & trolling -Admin DrPizza

 

[BoomerD]

Baptize her yourself...

 

[shortylickens]

The Catholic church is a moneymaking organization, not a religion.

 

[illusion88]

The Catholic church is a moneymaking organization, not a religion.

No, that's the Mormons.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

I find this a little hard to believe.

 

[BoomerD]

No, that's the Mormons.

There's not a hell of a lot of difference between the two...

 

[Wyndru]

I find this a little hard to believe.

It's on my wife's email, let me get her to send it to me, and I'll post it. He says he doesn't feel right about baptizing a baby of people not dedicated or some shit. Then he goes on to compare it to marrying people for financial reasons, not love.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Question, why is it important for your daughter to be baptized when you don't goto church as required? I mean if you aren't following one of the rules of this church, then why do you want to follow the others. Either you are practicing your religion or not, you can't have it both ways.

 

[IronWing]

Wow, times have sure changed. My mom used to work as a nurse in a hospital. She used to baptize all the babies whether they needed it or not. Catholic parents or not, she'd baptize them all.


Note: In Catholicism anyone can baptize another person. If a priest is available then a priest should do the spritzing but in a case where no priest is available, others are allowed to administer the sacrament of baptism. You can baptize your daughter in the Catholic tradition and it would be considered valid by the Church. The priest is being an ass.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

It's on my wife's email, let me get her to send it to me, and I'll post it.

Why would he punish your daughter over your behavior? I don't get it.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Bet you wouldn't have this problem if your child was a boy.

 

[AndroidVageta]

Just do it yourself...it makes no impact or difference about who does it cause its all useless in the end.

 

[theflyingpig]

Good for her. Religion will only anchor her down in a sea of ignorance.

 

[BassBomb]

isnt that his "job"

 

[Taejin]

I find this a little hard to believe.

What are you suggesting? That the OP is lying? Why would you think that?

 

[Wyndru]

Question, why is it important for your daughter to be baptized when you don't goto church as required? I mean if you aren't following one of the rules of this church, then why do you want to follow the others. Either you are practicing your religion or not, you can't have it both ways.

That's what my mother in law said, but the thing is we plan on going as a family, just through our 20's we weren't really going as much.

His email to us basically says, you aren't welcome because you have not been faithful to our parish, which to me defeats the purpose of the catholic church.

I thought our religion was all about forgiveness .

 

[rcpratt]

She'll probably be better off this way anyways. It's a blessing (har har) in disguise.

 

[sandmanwake]

I bet if it was a boy baby, the priest would be willing to perform "baptism".

 

[BoomerD]

That's what my mother in law said, but the thing is we plan on going as a family, just through our 20's we weren't really going as much.

His email to us basically says, you aren't welcome because you have not been faithful to our parish, which to me defeats the purpose of the catholic church.

I thought our religion was all about forgiveness .

No, it's all about money and power. By not attending on a regular basis, and presumably not tithing your 10%, you're not a paying customer...

 

[Ruptga]

Question, why is it important for your daughter to be baptized when you don't goto church as required? I mean if you aren't following one of the rules of this church, then why do you want to follow the others. Either you are practicing your religion or not, you can't have it both ways.

I second this.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

welcome to religion. closed-minded people are plentiful

 

[Wyndru]

There was like tons more, but here is the part where he explains why.

I don't want to feel, when I baptize a baby, that I'm like a priest who has been asked to marry a couple who have told him they want to get married for, maybe financial reasons, but don't really love one another. If I'm going to perform a baptism I want to know that the parents are seriously about TRYING to live a Christian life and that Eucharist (Mass) is a significant part of it because that makes the baptism genuine and sincere and I know that the faith will get passed on, which is at the heart of the commitment parents make at a baptism.

 

[Taejin]

I thought our religion was all about forgiveness .

No, religion is about control.

 

[rcpratt]

That's quite a run-on sentence that there priest has.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

No, religion is about control.

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