Janet, You make many good points. I seriously doubt and have never heard of any religious tradition having rules stipulating who could be god parents other than they must be of the same tradition. In the Roman Catholic Church it meant they must have been baptized and as god parents were usually baptized in the same church and had lived in the same village all their lives the priest knew who was and who wasn't. Most Catholics had two primary god parents. The rule that currently applies is that only one god parent need to be a Catholic. If there is a second or more they must be Christians of any tradition. The obligations of a god parent other than those required by the church have also changed. Years ago, it was understood that if something happened to the parents the god parents would raise the child. Elizabeth V. Cardinal evc1369@comcast.net