Advice on church issue

[Immigrantsong]

Hi, not sure if anyone can help. We would like to baptise our youngest and approached the church we go to. They want £150!!! Isn't this simony? They claim they need this money to function, but surely donations are up to the discretion of people and not a fixed fee. Does anyone have any tips as to what to do and how to raise this?

No simony would be them otherwise denying the sacrament unless you paid. Them charging you is a fee. This is because simony is defined as a sin committed when one pays for a sacrament they do not merit. Not the church charging you to preform one.