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Re:The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church by riffraff on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:44PM (#22279099)
They 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.

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Re:The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church by tptacek on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:56PM (#22279186)
I 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.
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