marthachick
Traveling Grammy
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2005
Then the above don't apply. Do they even have a religious denomination?
They do, but different denominations. I don't understand either. I thought maybe I was just old. LOL
Then the above don't apply. Do they even have a religious denomination?
In DH's family, the Godparent is there to pay for everything the parents don't want to pay for. The Baptism, the party...the 1st birthday....1st communion....graduation party....etc - there is always a hand out, waiting for money. I think they mainly just pick godparents so the kid will have an automatic benefactor. It's such a sham. These people don't even go to Church.
Having spent time working on a maternity ward at the local hospital, this sounds more like the mother-to-be's weird birth plan than anything "required" of godparents. ...
Maybe it's the new parents' way of communicating to your DS and FDIL that they want them to be a big part of their child's life, and it's losing something in translation because they're making it seem like a requirement. Or it could just be a mom-to-be with weird ideas of how to create the "perfect" birth LOL. Believe me when I say it's not the weirdest or most unreasonable request I saw in my time on Maternity LOL
Sounds like a Mommazilla. I'd decline the "honor".
Catholics are not the only ones who have Godparents. There are other Christians that do so them not being Catholic does not mean anything in terms of the OP's ds and his fiance being "real" Godparents.
Dh and I are the Godparents to my friends' kids, they are Lutheran. The requirement for us to stand up at their baptism as Godparents was that we were baptized in the Christian faith. I was as a Catholic, dh was as a Protestant.
IIRC my kid's Godparents had to be Catholic in order to be approved.
Yes, the Catholic church does require the Godparents to be practicing Catholics. There is an allowance made that one Godparent is a Catholic in good standing and the other can be a Christian Witness.
Well then who knows what it is they are actually expecting!The parents are not Catholic.
Well then who knows what it is they are actually expecting!
Yes, the Catholic church does require the Godparents to be practicing Catholics. There is an allowance made that one Godparent is a Catholic in good standing and the other can be a Christian Witness.
Thanks for your speedy replies! I always thought the role was to raise the child(ren) in the death of the parents also. And another weird thing is, they're different denominations so it's not about raising the child in their chosen faith. I think it's more a symbolic thing maybe? FDIL was the one who told me about being at the hospital and when I asked DS about it and he didn't know anything about it.