Catholic baptism & godparents - help please

[mrsmcdreamy]

We are now thinking about baptising our 2 ds as catholics, but I need some clarification about godparents & their religion.

Am I right in thinking that it is expected that at least one godparent is catholic?

Does anyone know whether this rule, if it is a rule, is strictly adhered to, or whether it is quite relaxed & depends on the priest?

yes it is expected that at least one will be catholic-although my priest did not make a huge fuss about this

We were told ideally that one of our godparents had to be Catholic. However the priest was very relaxed really and was just wanting godparents to be Christened and would have been happy to accept all non Catholic is necessary.

It's just that, without asking siblings/family which we didn't really want to do, we don't have any close friends that are catholic. We don't really want to be 'forced' into asking someone we didn't particularly want as godparent...

Its usually at least one as a catholic.

I have a catholic god-daughter, and am not catholic, but one god parent does have to be I think.

My dd has 4 god parents, only one is catholic, we were asked that two should be, but noone asked or enquired. We wanted people who would love her and be interested in her life.

Yes, exactly madrose. Thank you everyone for your replies...I just wanted some background info before approaching the priest.