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 General Handbook explains that wards should hold a baptism and confirmation preparation meeting near the beginning of the ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. Pope Francis ...

The Bible repeatedly and undeniably connects baptism to redemption and salvation. It also closely identifies baptism and justification. Recently, I realized this all the more, in answering a ...

In his Sunday Angelus remarks Pope Francis stressed the importance of both knowing and celebrating the day of our baptism, since it is through the sacrament that we become children of God. "I ask you ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

"We delayed Oliver's baptism as long as we could thinking things would go back to normal... they didn't," said the Today co-host Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He ...

Millions of Ethiopian Christians have been celebrating Timket, or the Orthodox festival of Epiphany.

Kim Kardashian West and husband Kanye West's three youngest children were baptized Monday morning at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia Kim Kardashian West will never forget the experience she had ...