Can my child have one catholic godparent and one baptist?

Question

I was born and raised catholic; however my husband and his family is baptist. They were saved which they say is being baptized, and I want his sister to be the godmother and my brother to be the catholic god father. Is that at all possible??

Answer 1

yeah, but you need to decide who gets the kid if something happens to you and your husband.

Answer 2

Kind of.

Actually only one Godparent is necessary. You can have one godfather, one godmother, or one of each.

The role of the godfather and/or godmother is very important. They must be firm Catholic believers, able and ready to help the newly baptized—child or adult—on the road of Christian life.

To ensure this, a godparent must be at least 16 years old (for maturity's sake), fully initiated (having received Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist), be someone other than the legal parents, and one who leads a life in harmony with the Church.

If you have only one Catholic godparent, then you may have a non-Catholic participate as an official witness. The witness will be responsible for setting a good example for the baptized person while the Catholic godparent will share the specifics of the Catholic faith.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 1255: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2.htm
and the Code of Canon law, Canon 872 and following: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2Y.HTM

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

You need to decide what are your true heart wishes regarding your children's upbringing spiritually should you not be around to do that yourself; then you need to present those wishes to both preposed godparents and see if they can live with it? It's not a sentimental thing, it's a loving commitment and responsibility. Talk to them honestly and sincerely and you will know if this would work for them and the children. My husband was raised Catholic, became Baptist and asked Jesus to Be his Lord and Savior; now we both having the baptism of the Holy Spirit are members of the Church of God. By the way, there are MANY "born-again" Catholics which would include being immersed in water, but still practice their Catholic religion? It doesn't have to be a problem unless the two godparents make it one and either is dogmatic about "my religion is the ONLY one". Personally, I can't embrace the Catholic religion due to their (in my opinion) over-emphasis on Mary, the Mother of Jesus. She is NOT the mother of God, but of the man Jesus in the human sense, and was no longer a virgin after she and Joseph had children. She certainly was a wonderful person, but NOT a part of the Godhead. You do know she was in the upper room on the day of Pentecost (as told in Acts 1 & 2) and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit along with who all was there? Just a piece of information you may not be interested in; forgive if not.

Answer 4

No.
Can. 874 §1.
To be permitted to take on the function of sponsor a person must:
3/ be a Catholic who has been confirmed and has already received the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist and who leads a life of faith in keeping with the function to be taken on;

§2. A baptized person who belongs to a non-Catholic ecclesial community is not to participate except together with a Catholic sponsor and then only as a witness of the baptism.

Your brother will be the godfather and the sister of your husband will be a witness. No official godmother.

But what you need to do is to speak to the priest. Rules are made for men not men for rules. He, and only he, can made an exception.
A signature in a book is not that important.
For instance, if you convince him that everyone will support the child to be catholic...

Answer 5

Not if you're planning to have your child baptized in the Catholic Church.

Better brush up on your Catholic beliefs before those baptists get you all confused.

Answer 6

For the baptism, the godparents make an oath referred to teach the faith to the baby.

So if you baptist your baby in the catholic faith that means both godparents promise to teach the baby to be a catholic, and the same if you baptist the baby in the baptist faith.

Answer 7

You need to ask at your church. I tend to think no, however. Godparents are supposed to make sure the child is raised Catholic. I'm not sure that a Baptist can do this.

Answer 8

If the child is being baptised in a Catholic church probably not but ask the priest. If the child is being baptised into any other church, ask the minister. It is best to get it all sorted before the christening, you don't want embarassing arguments over the font.

Answer 9

Of course.It's your choice.The child will only benefit from being exposed to both.My daughter in law is Catholic and we are born again and we all have benefited from knowing each other.My grand daughter is now 15 and is taught both.Good luck.

Answer 10

No, but the Baptist can be a witness if they are validly baptized (Canon 874.2)
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2Y.HTM

Answer 11

No, not by the Catholic religion. Sorry.