Pick better godparents

I added the otherwise unrelated photo for emphasis. Imagine the godparent thinking, "I don't believe any of this rubbish. Wonder what sort of food they'll have at the reception. Hopefully not potato skins. I really don't like how much green onion she puts on them, though I do like the bacon, so, hmmm... bacon..."

(PewForum) - Thanks to a website, it has never been easier to defect from the Catholic church, and people are beginning to take up the option. Some of those who have opted out speak to KATE HOLMQUIST

FOR ORLAITH FINNEGAN, a 29-year-old atheist from Cork, defecting from the Catholic church took only a week. She used the website Countmeout.ie to apply and sent her letter on August 25th to the Cork diocese, providing the parish and year of her baptism, and received confirmation of her defection on August 31st. A note was made on her baptismal record stating that she had officially left the church.

"That was very fast when you think of how they used bureaucracy to explain the length of time it took them to respond to the child-abuse scandals," she says.

When her family heard the news, one of her sisters feared that Orlaith would no longer be considered godmother to her child, while another sister feared Orlaith would be barred from her new baby's baptism. "I told them that the defection is symbolic. Of course I will continue to be godmother and I will be at the next Christening – I won't be standing outside the church or going up in a puff of smoke," she says...

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