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My daughters christening

  • 14-05-2008 12:48pm
    #1
    colin2503
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    my daughters christening is on saturday and i would like some advice re her godparents
    i am a practising catholic although my parent is not a catholic at all. originally we wanted both my sister (catholic) and rachel (my patners) sister Katy (agnostic) as godparents. we were told by the parish priest that he would only allow one female to be godparent and that we must find a male to be godfather.
    has anyone else been allowed two godmothers?

    assuming we must have one godmother and one godfather we would like to have rachels sister and her husband. will this be allowed given that the godmother has not been christened and the godfather is protestant.

    reading this back to myself this does sound a bit ridiculous but it would mean so much to both us and Katy for her to be a godparent.

    does the priest/church even ask the denomination of the godparents or must we declare the fact.

    please help me. my partner wants to cancel the whole thing but i really want my daughter baptised and for it to be a special day

    thanks


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  • #2
    TravelJunkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭TravelJunkie


    colin2503 wrote: »
    my daughters christening is on saturday and i would like some advice re her godparents
    i am a practising catholic although my parent is not a catholic at all. originally we wanted both my sister (catholic) and rachel (my patners) sister Katy (agnostic) as godparents. we were told by the parish priest that he would only allow one female to be godparent and that we must find a male to be godfather.
    has anyone else been allowed two godmothers?

    assuming we must have one godmother and one godfather we would like to have rachels sister and her husband. will this be allowed given that the godmother has not been christened and the godfather is protestant.

    reading this back to myself this does sound a bit ridiculous but it would mean so much to both us and Katy for her to be a godparent.

    does the priest/church even ask the denomination of the godparents or must we declare the fact.

    please help me. my partner wants to cancel the whole thing but i really want my daughter baptised and for it to be a special day

    thanks

    Hi, I christened my child Catholic. The priest did not ask for the religions of the Godparents per se. However, when it comes to the ceremony the Godparnets have a declaration to make in regards to taking responsibility to raise the child in Gods way, etc etc, acknowledging all aspects of the religion in the process. Will Katy want to do this if she is an agnostic?
    You could always put her down as a guardian on a legal document (should anything happen to you). As an aunt she will have a natural influence in her life anyway.
    Sorry couldn't be of more help.


  • #3
    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,023 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    colin2503 wrote: »
    my daughters christening is on saturday and i would like some advice re her godparents
    i am a practising catholic although my parent is not a catholic at all. originally we wanted both my sister (catholic) and rachel (my patners) sister Katy (agnostic) as godparents. we were told by the parish priest that he would only allow one female to be godparent and that we must find a male to be godfather.
    has anyone else been allowed two godmothers?

    assuming we must have one godmother and one godfather we would like to have rachels sister and her husband. will this be allowed given that the godmother has not been christened and the godfather is protestant.

    reading this back to myself this does sound a bit ridiculous but it would mean so much to both us and Katy for her to be a godparent.

    does the priest/church even ask the denomination of the godparents or must we declare the fact.

    please help me. my partner wants to cancel the whole thing but i really want my daughter baptised and for it to be a special day

    thanks

    Coming at it from the atheist perspective. If the Priest has a problem with it, ask some Roman Catholics to do it.


  • #4
    Quality
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    My partner is COI and he is God father to my sisters child (RC), the priest did not have a problem with it.

    I think it depends on the priest.

    Best of luck anyway!


  • #5
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Quality wrote: »
    My partner is COI and he is God father to my sisters child (RC), the priest did not have a problem with it.

    I think it depends on the priest.

    Best of luck anyway!

    COI are still part of the Christian community though. I think if your agnostic friend does not wish to carry out these vows, you should seek someone of the Christian faith.


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