Are you 100% Catholic but live outside the compound?
Girl name: Pick one name that sounds good and has nice connotations, and one saint name to cover your behind.
Boy name: Just nothing that would appeal to Gwenyth Paltrow, for goodness’ sake.
Are you a Catholic who can name everyone in the team of attorneys who are lodging a complaint against the Pope for crimes against humanity, but keep forgetting the address of your local church?
Girl name: Something empowering and possibly devastatingly ironic. One system is to take something that makes Catholics uncomfortable, like heretics or dodgy Marian apparitions, and slyly pair it with something that would make Oliver Cromwell nod with satisfaction—so, like, Medjugorje Louise or Hans Kung Makepeace. Show that you’re resisting oppression and that you went to college.
Boy name: a girl name. Bonus points if you can incorporate Pope Joan.
Related thread:
Gawker: The Pope Hates Your Weird Name
5 star thread!
Umm, no. Unless you're Spanish and it's a middle name.
Faith will become an athiest.
Temperance will become a drunk.
And Chastity will end up on Dancing With the Stars.
Deliciously skewered!