but the main thing is that if your child is to be brought up Christian, at least one parent must be Christian and both must assent to this. Being confirmed is not that simple, he has to learn the basics of the faith.
The two are still living in sin but now the thing is that the father will KNOW he is living in sin.
What does it do to enhance the family? Just this -- the father has no excuse for not confessing and repenting and marrying his girlfriend. For the child, an even more important thing -- the child is baptised and since the child is a BABY, there must be someone to assent to this, and this is one of the parents, but one of these has GOT to be a confirmed Catholic, otherwise no baptism for the baby.
Yeah,, that’s what Jesus said. Baptize babies,,, it’s just a ritual without assent of the one being baptized. And Jesus never describes anything like the roman church. It resembles a highly legalistic feudal system, which appeals too some personality types. But its fair to say its an enormous contrast to the organization Jesus built while he was here.