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[quote=Anonymous]I won’t chime in on the personal faith aspects of baptism. That’s something you have to work through as others have stated.

But as a Catholic who has seen non-practicing families become more involved when their children are school-aged, there are practical considerations to help you think things through- if none of these resonate it will make your plans easier. Infant baptism is easy. You go to one or two sessions at church and then you get a baptism date. If your child is baptized after age 7, you will have to have them go through RCIA, which typically involves mandatory classes 1X/week for a year before they can be baptized, and unless you have a huge parish with lots of kids in that situation, you’ll probably be attending these with them. And only then can they make their first communion. This is a bit mercenary, but if you live in an area with good or competitive Catholic schools, think ahead seriously to even the high school level about if you’ll want to apply to them. Many prioritize practicing Catholics, then baptized Catholics.

My DH converted as an adult and most people in his RCIA class were cultural Catholics who had been attending mass for years as adults but realized they’d never been baptized and had married into more catholic families or started practicing as adults. [/quote]

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