 Some months back, a woman came to the rectory to register her newborn for a baptism. As she filled out the paperwork, I explained that one of the godparents had to be Catholic, but that the other, if necessary, could be a baptized Christian.She put down the pen and furrowed her brow.
"What's the difference?"
That same day, another new mother also arrived to start the process for a baptism. I looked over the paperwork and noticed that she had left blank the question on the form that asked if the parents had been married by a Catholic priest. I asked her about it.
"Well," she began, "I'm not sure if she was a priest . . . "
I smiled. "If it was a she," I explained, "it wasn't a Catholic priest."
She brightened. "Oh," she exclaimed excitedly. "Then she must have been anun!"
Just another morning at the rectory. |
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