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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please don’t judge me.

I was confirmed as Catholic because my parents forced it on me. Religion never made sense to me and I was never a believer.

I have a 5 yo and we don’t go to church and he was never baptized. I am married but not in the church. My husband was baptized Lutheran but not confirmed.

We have a long term family friend/nanny who is deeply religious (Catholic) and takes our son to Mass twice a week and to church events. Our son has special needs and absolutely loves Mass and is a bit of a rockstar at her parish. People love him and he loves going.

She has expressed concern over him not being baptized. She is literally like family to us and we value her.

I would like to get my son baptized because church has meaning for him and he enjoys it.

But how do we actually make this happen? How do we find a priest who will do it? Our nanny is married but not in the church. I understand that our Diocese is very conservative. The baptism form for the parish asks if the parents were married in the church and if the godparents were married in the church.

Can this be done? I feel we are running out of time to get this done. Do we just apply and see what the church says?

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Anyone (even a non Christian) can perform a Catholic baptism so it absolutely can be done. Most Catholic parents obviously opt to have it done in a church by a priest (and of course the church encourages this route) but at the end of the day the intention is what matters so your nanny could just baptize him in your bathtub and it’s still a valid baptism.[/quote]
I have never hard this. Some random parishioner can’t just decide to dunk a kid in their bathtub and call it a baptism. [/quote]

You are incorrect. Anyone. Believer. Non-believer. Atheist. Agnostic. Hindu. Buddhist. Anyone. Can validly confer baptism in a case of necessity so long as they (1) intend what the Church intends; (2) pour water over the person’s head; and (3) while doing so recite the minimum formula “[Name] I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”[/quote]

+1 This is absolutely all you need for a valid Catholic baptism. My parents report that they were not attending Mass when I was born, so my Catholic grandmothers each baptized me themselves at home. I was baptized a third time in a church. I think technically, only the first one counts. 
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