Showing posts with label godparent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label godparent. Show all posts

Monday, May 4, 2015

Princess Diana and her godchild Domenica

from Hellow Magazine:
Princess Diana would be thrilled to have a granddaughter, according to her close friend Rosa Monckton. Shortly after hearing the news that Prince William and Kate Middleton, had welcomed a baby girl, the British businesswoman and campaigner took to Twitter to say how much her late friend would have loved the new arrival.

"How Diana would have loved a grand daughter," she simply wrote to her 2,280 followers.

The 61-year-old, who was the CEO of Asprey & Garrard until 2002, went on to retweet and respond to those who agreed with her on the social media site.

Rosa also uploaded a photo her daughter Domenica Lawson, who has Down's Syndrome, and who Diana was a devoted godmother to until her death in 1997.



This is not the first time that Rosa has spoken about the kind of grandmother Diana would have been. Back in July 2013 when William and Kate became parents to Prince George, Rosa wrote a piece for the Daily Mail saying Diana would have "relished the role."

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Can someone with Down syndrome be a godparent?


from Catholic Answers:
Hello, I have never used this site before, perhaps this question is answered elsewhere but I could not find it.
My husband has a cousin with Down syndrome. She is high-functioning and it seems to me that she has "reached the age of reason" despite her condition, but then I'm not clear on how that is defined.
We would love to ask her to be a godmother for one of our children. She goes to church with her parents and siblings, loves God in her innocent and joyful way.
We would also have a godfather and would make sure that godfather is also a practicing Catholic in good standing.
I am thinking that the answer is yes, because one sponsor alone is sufficient and therefore the godfather would already fulfill that requirement, right? But would the answer change if she were to be the only godparent?