Marriage/baptism

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If 2 non-practicing Catholics get married by a priest but outside of their church, will they be able to have their children baptized at that church?
 
If 2 non-practicing Catholics get married by a priest but outside of their church, will they be able to have their children baptized at that church?
 
Did they get married in ANY Catholic church?

Because if they are baptized Catholics but married civilly, then the Church does not see them as married, so they would have to get married first in the Church.

And why are they wanting to baptize their children if they are not practicing?

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Please tell these people to go and talk to their priest ASAP. They need direction forward that an on line forum cannot provide.
 
they did not get married in any church…they got married in the place that held their reception.

I wouldn’t say they are completely non-practicing and still want to raise their children by the Catholic religion.

What would they have to do to be recongized by the church?
 
If they can convince the priest that they are committed to raising the child Catholic, I think they can still have the child Baptised.

RealJulianne, I know many people who get their children Baptised but have no intention of raising their kids Catholics. Even my brother and his ex-wife insisted on Baptising their kids and had NO intention at all whatsoever to raise them Catholic. You don’t know any for real? Look at all the non-practicing Catholics out there who have their kids Baptised and then never go back to Church until it’s time for their first communion. Then they never go back until it’s time for their confirmation…

It’s because of the Church teaching that says children need to be Baptised because then if they die without being Baptised the child will go to ‘limbo’. I can understand why someone would then want to have their kids Baptised, just in case. But not take the other rules of the Church seriously. We’re talking ‘in case they die’. Any parent would take extra steps to ensure their child’s welfare, even spiritual, ‘in case they die’, without worrying about following the rest of the rules.
 
Incidentally, my brother and his ex-wife were only married civily, not in the Church, and were still able to get their children Baptised.
 
they got married 4 hours away from home/their church
it was all about convenience for them, reception and ceremony in the same place
but now there worried about their future children
 
julianne73 said:
If 2 non-practicing Catholics get married by a priest but outside of their church, will they be able to have their children baptized at that church?
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If you are asking whether the children can be baptized at all, the general rule is that to be baptized there must be a good hope that the child will be brought up in the Catholic faith, and at least one of the parents must commit to doing so. If you are asking about which parish such baptisms should take place in, the general rule is that sacraments like baptism are to be carried out in one’s territorial parish, i.e., the parish in which you live.
 
julianne73 said:
they got married 4 hours away from home/their church
it was all about convenience for them, reception and ceremony in the same place
but now there worried about their future children
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How is it that this couple was able to find a priest to marry them? Was this one of those rent-a-priests?
 
julianne73 said:
If 2 non-practicing Catholics get married by a priest but outside of their church, will they be able to have their children baptized at that church?
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I’m not sure what you mean by ‘married by a priest, but outside of their church’. Was it a rent-a-priest?

Anyway, the criterion for baptism is that the priest have a resonable belief that the child will be raised in the Church after his/her baptism. Some priests will give parents the benefit of the doubt but others will simply tell them that not bothering to do anything about the fact that they are in invalid marriages is proof that they have no intention of raising their children in the Faith so will not baptize.
 
i’m sorry i was incorrect, they were married by an officiant
and they were married at the same place that held there ceremony.
it was mainly about convience for them…reception/ceremony in the same place…4 hours away from home/their church.
 
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what is a rent-a-priest?
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The term is usually applied to men who were ordained as priests and have left the priesthood, either licitly by becoming laicized or simply by walking away, and who then hire themselves out to perform weddings, saying that since the Church teaches that ‘once a priest, always a priest’, they are fully capable of officiating at marriages.

Some people can be fooled by this because they don’t realize that only a priest in good standing and to whom the bishop had given faculties to witness marriages can perform a valid Catholic wedding.
 
Rence said:
If they can convince the priest that they are committed to raising the child Catholic, I think they can still have the child Baptised.

What should they say to the priest? and how far in advance should they meet with a priest before the baptism, considering they could be told no?!
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julianne73 said:
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If they can convince the priest that they are committed to raising the child Catholic, I think they can still have the child Baptised.
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What should they say to the priest? and how far in advance should they meet with a priest before the baptism, considering they could be told no?!
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They should meet with the priest before the baby is born or immediately afterwards. They will usually need preparation and I’ve know some priests who insist on seeing at least one of the parents at Sunday Mass every week for 6 months before even considering baptizing the child.
 
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