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 ...

(RNS) Leaders of Catholic and Reformed churches have signed an agreement to recognize each other’s sacraments of baptism in a public step toward unity among groups often divided by doctrine. (RNS) ...

Pope Francis said Sunday that if you do not know the date of your baptism, you need to look it up so that you can celebrate the anniversary of becoming a child of God and heir to the kingdom of heaven ...

Last Sunday (Jan. 12) most Christian churches celebrated the baptism of Jesus, an event in his life I always found confusing. I could never understand why Jesus was baptized. After all, Catholics ...

Rome (CNN) — A new ruling by the Vatican’s doctrine department has opened the door to Catholic baptism for transgender people and babies of same-sex couples. The new rules, dated October 31, come from ...

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 ...

A German Catholic diocese has commissioned 17 women to administer baptisms, citing a shortfall in the number of priests. The Diocese of Essen, in Germany’s industrial Ruhr area, is the first diocese ...

(RNS) — Though data is sparse, the church and Italian atheists agree that the 2-decade-old process is becoming more common. (RNS) — Like most of his fellow Italians, Mattia Nanetti, 25, from the ...

Secularism%2C interfaith marriage are driving the trend Millennials %22on fire%22 for faith%2C one hopeful faith leader notes Few marriages officiated by clergy%2C thus paving the road for a more ...

It took months of trekking across Central America to escape economic hardship in Venezuela and get to Miami for Karen Ugas, her husband and her five kids. They needed everything — food, clothes, a ...