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 ...

A modern myth claims medieval parents didn’t love their children because childhood was harsher and infant mortality was high. But primary sources tell a different story: parents mourned deeply, tried ...

BBC Sport NI looks at some of the issues Northern Ireland's incoming interim boss Kris Lindsay will look to address before ...

HO CHI MINH CITY: The gathering, organized by the Interreligious Dialogue Commission of the Archdiocese of Saigon, brought ...

Mexico's Cristero War lasted three years, claimed 200,000 lives and forced Catholics to practice their faith in hiding.

A father who has become the sole caretaker for his two young children after his wife was deported. A school district seeing ...

Nationwide, the number of adult baptisms skyrocketed to 17,800 catechumens baptized during the Easter Vigil on April 19, 2025 ...

The Archdiocese of Paris has convened a historic council following a surge in adult and youth conversions. Learn how 17,800 ...

On Sunday mornings, Jose Criollo read the Gospel in Spanish to his mostly English-speaking fellow parishioners at Syracuse’s ...

Until the age of 19, Lizzie Ens was a member of a Swartzentruber Amish community in Ohio. Like her 18 other siblings, she ...

Father Joshua J. Whitfield provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jan. 25, ...