Christian bashing radical homosexual wants to be a godfather at baptismal

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Boy_Wonder said:
Pray. Mind your own business. Stay out of it.
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I don’t think that is wise advice in light of the fact that a radical anti-Christian individual might have a part Catholic (or at least Christian) child’s Holy Baptism if he didn’t speak up.
 
Phemie said:
Bad advice. The priest needs to be made aware of the situation.
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Yes. He is the one with the pastoral office to deal with the minefield, but please do tell him that there is in fact a minefield.
 
Did the parents attend the pre-baptism meetings yet? The choosing of a godparent/sponser is outlined there. Does this guy go to church and contribute? He will need a sponser certificate from his parish if different and this is how the church determines if the person is a practicing Catholic.

He does not sound like a person who attends mass regularly and this is a disqualifier.
 
mommy_k said:
Did the parents attend the pre-baptism meetings yet? The choosing of a godparent/sponser is outlined there. Does this guy go to church and contribute? He will need a sponser certificate from his parish if different and this is how the church determines if the person is a practicing Catholic.

He does not sound like a person who attends mass regularly and this is a disqualifier.
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Different parishes do things differently. My parish has never required anything from the godparents. Most of the couples I’ve prepared over the last several years have had either cohabiting or non-practicing godparents. I don’t like it but it’s not in my pay grade to vet the sponsors. All I get to do is list the requirements per canon law – and I make a point of saying how lucky they are to know those requirements because if I’d known them my 3 children would have 6 entirely different godparents.
 
Phemie said:
Different parishes do things differently. My parish has never required anything from the godparents. Most of the couples I’ve prepared over the last several years have had either cohabiting or non-practicing godparents. I don’t like it but it’s not in my pay grade to vet the sponsors. All I get to do is list the requirements per canon law – and I make a point of saying how lucky they are to know those requirements because if I’d known them my 3 children would have 6 entirely different godparents.
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Wow that seems too easy. But the parents still go to baptism prep. Sometimes the godparents attend here too, if they are local. If this is the case then maybe the parents will have a change of heart about their choice when they realize what a godparent actually is.

If this were me, I would call the parents, ask about the baptism and let them know what a blessing a good godparent is–what they do, how they are role models of faith…then I would also tell them about our children’s godparents and how we are blessed that they are parrt of our children’s lives and how we chose them. I would focus on all the positives.

I think sometimes people do things not to insult family members and so on. If the parent related any info about not insulting the gay relaive, I would relate personal experience on how to word and overcome that-repeating the canon laws.

I would ask a priest if this did not work-but I think between baptism prep, and a nice conversation, the parents would want the best for their child.
 
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