Godfather Baptism question

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In the movie The Godfather there is a baptism scene where the priest asks questions to the infant and it appears that The Godfather answers the questions. Can someone help me understand why this is done?
 
sloth said:
In the movie The Godfather there is a baptism scene where the priest asks questions to the infant and it appears that The Godfather answers the questions. Can someone help me understand why this is done?
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I don’t know but my best answer is it’s a movie
 
sloth said:
In the movie The Godfather there is a baptism scene where the priest asks questions to the infant and it appears that The Godfather answers the questions. Can someone help me understand why this is done?
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Leaving aside its a fictional movie, it would be unusual for an infant to be baptised. Catholics are supposed to baptise babies within a few weeks of birth. Not much point in asking a baby a question.
 
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In the movie The Godfather there is a baptism scene where the priest asks questions to the infant and it appears that The Godfather answers the questions. Can someone help me understand why this is done?
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The Baptism was in what today we call the “Extraordinary Form”, which would have been the ordinary form of the day.

In the EF rite the sponsor has a much larger role than what we’re used to in the Ordinary Form today. In the EF, whenever the person being baptized is directly asked a question the sponsor replies. Plus one of the sponsors had to hold the baby during the pouring or have a hand on an adult being baptized.

Here’s a priest describing the differences after he’s celebrated an EF rite Baptism for the first time.
 
thistle said:
Leaving aside its a fictional movie, it would be unusual for an infant to be baptised. Catholics are supposed to baptise babies within a few weeks of birth. Not much point in asking a baby a question.
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I believe the baby in the movie was supposed to be an infant.

The child actor was 3 weeks old at the time of the filming, but that sometimes happens in the film business, even though she was a tad old for the role, I don’t think it mattered much.
 
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