my reason for wanting a home baptisim is that currently our priest has combined two churches against the wishes of the congregation. he has messed up a great school and forbids our monsignor that has retired to perform weddings and baptisims. The new priest is not liked at all and had made rash decisions regardless of what the parish thinks is a good idea. many people have left and the school went from having 1000 students to about 300. it is sad what he is doing to the church i grew up in and went to school to. So i asked the monsignor if he was able to baptise my 7 month old privately since the new priest will only do it during a mass infront of everyone. i believe that its a family affair and i don’t want the whole mass to be there, but i feel i should be able to have what priest i want too perform the ceremony regarless of what the head priest says. hes doing this because every one wants monsignor to perform stuff and not the new priest. well i wonder why.