Reply to For Catholics: Baptism Question

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "For Catholics: Baptism Question"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is generally rare for a priest to actually deny baptism to a child if their parents want them to be baptized.

I would, as others have suggested, speak with one of the priests at the church your son has been attending.[/quote]

Op here. So does the priest have the discretion to make the decision? Or is he bound by the parameters of the Diocese? Our local Diocese is known to be very conservative and they say that the godparents have to have been married in the church.[/quote]

Most churches in the Arlington Diocese won’t accept godparents that aren’t “in good standing with the church”  (which includes requiring that they were married in the church if applicable) However no Catholic Church is going to deny your child baptism for want of an appropriate godparent. Your local parish is almost certain to have a number of elderly parishioners who would be delighted to stand in to fulfill the role.[/quote]

This is a good point. Godparents (more properly sponsors) can be found. The larger issue as previously noted is convincing the priest that there is a founded hope of the child being raised Catholic.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics