Fr Dominic McGrattan responds to recent comments by former President Mary McAleese that baptising babies represents a ...

McAleese desribes baptism as a kind of recruitment tool that ignores how children, as they mature, should be able to freely decide their own religious identity, noting that canon law acknowledges no ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced policy changes Thursday, allowing children of LGBT parents to receive baby blessings and be baptized. There were also updates to the church ...

Pope Francis greets Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., during an audience with U.S. bishops making their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican Feb. 10, 2020. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Editor’s ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided at the July 9 ceremony near Athens while in Greece on a private visit. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Orthodox Church says it will ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Evangelo Bousis and Peter Dundas attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by ...

Our Lord’s baptism offers a beautiful opportunity to reflect on the graces we receive through the sacrament of baptism. In seminary, one of our professors taught us a little shortcut to help us ...

Just as we wouldn't leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told ...

From the beginning of his priesthood in 1995, the Rev. Andres Arango performed the sacred ritual of baptism. Or so he believed. For a quarter-century, Father Arango baptized thousands of children and ...