hi my little one is getting baptised c of e and id like one of his godparents to be my mate but hes catholic . is this a no no or do the church not mind ?

I think that’s ok, it’s only a problem if they’ve not been christened themselves.

cheers clare 😉

I may be wrong though!

I saw on that other thread you’re off to nidderdale on Sunday, we’re riding from Pateley Bridge if you want to join us?

mick, i am a mormon, we do good baptisings……………. 😉

Here you go; [/url] looks ok.

ive done some google work i think you may be right 😉 thanks for the offer but my mates after a shortish one and im trying to learn how to work my garmin . were just doing a 20 ish mile pootle ;-)might see you in cafe tho lol

I was godfather to my mates son in a Catholic service (I’m not Catholic), and to be honest, I never felt that comfortable with it, and I certainly never got asked the same questions as the others in the service.

Then again, they weren’t married, had 2 kids, and it was all a bit odd to start with, they didn’t really seem to get treat like a proper couple during the service.

They’ll be glad to get their mitts on anyone in church – godparents could be godzilla and attilla the hun!

lol

I’d go to church to see that christening. 🙂

snowslave, not so. My muslim friend was not allowed to be godfather to his best mates son.

Will keep an eye out for you on the trails then mick!

aye may see you and mr f out and about . do you do the north leeds rides much these days ? ive not been for ages now

i guess the church may be more concerned hes over in iraq at the min than his religion 😉

No, not been out for ages tbh. Keep meaning to but just don’t seem to get round to it.

me too im either on shift or weather is poo or something else comes up lol. maybe see you tomorrow . catch you later 😉

I think it’d be ok, but might be at the vicar’s discretion.

we have 5 churches in the parish so one of them should be ok i just wasnt sure if it was a complete no-no but seems not to be. cheers all

Just asked a church secretary who says it’s not a no no, but is at discretion of vicar.

I suppose it depends how ‘traditional’ the vicar/priest is.

My folks are originally from E Leeds, dad’s CofE & mum’s catholic. We’re talking nearly 50 years ago now, but the local catholic church wouldn’t even let him in the churchyard, let alone marry them.

Funny how they never recognised the divorce 10+ years later either…

my parents were mixed catholic/cofe and both religions were happy to marry them. The only proviso was the catholic priest wanted assurances that the children would be brought up catholic. They went for the cofe wedding 😀

My muslim friend was not allowed to be godfather to his best mates son.

That’s pretty sad really. Nice to see they all don’t do that.

or leave the decision of whether or not to be part of an institutionalised cult till a time where the child is able to make that decision for themself…..?

the child is not catholic, coffee or muslim; just by chance the child of parents with faith. a faith of what is questionable and therefore we say faith in belief and not faith in fact.

faith in a book? what someone has written based on what they heard as being fact…… 2000 yeards ago.

i read a book once. it was good.

I’m catholic, and I’m godfather to my friends son who was christened as C of E.

What a load of cobblers. I’m an atheist and am also a Godparent because my sister wanted me to do it and the local URC haven’t got their heads up their arses when it comes to other peoples choices in life. My brother in law (atheist but Christened a Methodist) recently married a practicing Catholic and was asked by the priest to show documentary proof of his Methodist credentials. The Methodist minister thought it was quite amusing “yeah, I’ll do you a letter but if it was me I would have taken your word for it.”

Surely the priest should be more concerned about the fact that those concerned are good and decent people, and that he is getting a full church that will add a few hundred quid to funds.

I didn’t get married in a church and my kids won’t be baptised (unless they choose to in later life).

I think you should try and find someone of a very different faith, you know to cover all the bases! or maybe get someone of each faith.

My muslim friend was not allowed to be godfather to his best mates son.

That’s pretty sad really.

Given that he would have been asked to ‘perform’ the following Q&A I can understand why a Muslim shouldn’t be a godfather:

Do you turn to Christ as Saviour?
I turn to Christ.

Do you submit to Christ as Lord?
I submit to Christ.

For the same reason, as an atheist, I haven’t had our kids baptised and wouldn’t act as godfather if asked. I couldn’t answer those and other questions in the service truthfully.

<hypocrit> we had a church wedding </hypocrit> but I don’t remember anything quite as black/white as the baptism questions in the wedding service. I’d also told the vicar in the run-up that I was an atheist – he laid it on a bit in the sermon.

Blatant discrimination asides, If your church and or vicar will not allow you to choose a godparent for your child because he is a differnt faith, do you really want your child to be associated with said church. I though christ taught to treat all men equal?