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re: Are you a Godparent?
Posted on 3/28/16 at 10:07 pm to Golfer
Posted on 3/28/16 at 10:07 pm to Golfer
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You can be a non-Catholic godparent as long as the other godparent is Catholic and the non Catholic is a baptized Christian.
The amount of misinformation in this thread for Catholic-filled South Louisiana is crazy
According to these official looking links, you are wrong. Eta: to be fair, it's just a little more nuanced than that. The non Catholic Sponsor is really just a "witness" to the ceremony.
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be a Catholic who has been confirmed and has already received the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist and who leads a life of faith in keeping with the function to be taken on;
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"A baptised person who belongs to a non-catholic ecclesial community may be admitted only in company with a catholic Sponsor, and then simply as a witness to the baptism."
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This post was edited on 3/28/16 at 10:10 pm
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Posted on 3/28/16 at 10:11 pm to Peazey
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The non Catholic Sponsor is really just a "witness" to the ceremony.
Good way to think of it would be it's an honorary rather than functional title.
Posted on 3/28/16 at 10:12 pm to cattus
I was asked to be. Then she lost the baby. So no, I'm not.
Posted on 3/28/16 at 10:17 pm to Peazey
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According to these official looking links, you are wrong. Eta: to be fair, it's just a little more nuanced than that. The non Catholic Sponsor is really just a "witness" to the ceremony.
Correct. this is what I was implying.
Posted on 3/28/16 at 10:53 pm to cattus
Two of them. I make sure I give them presents for their birthday and Christmas and see them once in a while.
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