Is is true that if you are pregnant you are unable to be a godparent?

Ha, that's a good one!

The Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England have really got you by the nose.

If God gives you a child would you not think that you are that child's God given parent?

How then can you be anyone else's parent?

Phew! They really have got you, haven't they?

No, there is nothing about pregnancy mentioned in the requirements for someone to be a godparent.

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 baptized non-Catholic Christian 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.shtml

and the Code of Canon law, Canon 872 and following: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2Y.HTM

With love in Christ.

There is NO reason why she can't be the godparent!

You know the original meaning of the godparents??? It started way back when, with the peasants- the godparents were to be the people who took that godchild of theirs in as their own in case the parents died! It was a will of sorts- the godparents pledge to take in that child.

Now it's lost it's meaning. Become a tradition that everyone does but no one knows why.

The Godparents are supposed to "help train up the child" in the faith- but what is that to mean? How many godparents actually have anything to do with their godchild????

I was raised a Roman Catholic, Mum is talking rubbish. Just because shes pregnant now, what has that got to do with her future Godparent duties.

That depends on which country or provinces you live. Some places never have that superstition. Many practices and belief in the Catholic Traditions are not really by the church but merely by ethnic superstitious origins.

If it is true, that might be one of the dumbest rules in the history of religion. And that's saying something.

So if you had baptized your child 2 months ago, she would have been acceptable? Or if you baptize your child in 9 months she would be acceptable? But for the current 9 months she is not? What if she didn't know she was pregnant? What if the godfather's wife is pregnant? Does he become ineligible?

That just doesn't make sense.

what does that matter? i thought a godparent is someone that will take over the child in case something happens to the parents, isn't it? so what does it matter if she's pregnant? but i barely know anything about catholicism...

I was raised Catholic and I've never heard of that. Your best bet would be to ask the priest who is going to baptise your child. I don't see why she couldn't do it, but the priest will know and should be able to explain why if that is the case.

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I was raised Catholic, I have never heard that one before. Trust me, I've heard some weird things too.