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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you can attend any you want, but you can't pick or choose for sacraments. We learned this the hard way when we weren't allowed to be godparents because we weren't tithing to the correct church. We also couldn't get our own babies baptized because we attended the wrong church :(

I will always feel Catholic in my heart, but they clearly didn't want us so we became Episcopalian[/quote]

I've never heard of such a thing. What is the "wrong" Catholic church? Or do you mean you didn't attend a Catholic church and so were not a practicing Catholic?[/quote]

So, the old rule is that people are supposed to attend the church they are "assigned" to.  Meaning geographically in the catchment for.

If you attended mass at a Shrine or somewhere outside of the district it wasn't following the rules or didn't count.  It meant you couldn't choose your own Parish.  I didn't grow up in a diocese that "enforced" this, but apparently some did.[/quote]

Its true of the Arlington diocese that (absent a waiver) sacraments must be completed at the home parish you are assigned to even if you typically choose to attend Mass at a different church. In no way, however, would they ever they ever tell you you couldn’t baptize your baby- just potentially that you couldn’t do it at your preferred church. There is also definitely not a tithing requirement to be a godparent.[/quote]

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