[bingledork]

My wife and I were both born and raised Catholic.
I've since seen the light and no longer attend church. My wife still feels compelled to attend and it makes her happy so that's great.

When our daughter was born I wanted to baptize her in the nearby river to demonstrate our spirituality and belief in God without being stained by Catholicism. But we baptized our daughter in a Catholic church. We did this for our parents. I'm sure my father-in-law sounds like yours. He's a fundamentalist Catholic kind of guy.

I believe that "true" Catholicism requires a child be baptised to avoid hell. Same goes for communion. But only the Pope believes that crap. The vast majority of Catholics are reasonable in their beliefs and don't follow the Catechisms by the book.