A prominent Catholic recently argued in the Irish Times for a new category of victim those subjected to infant baptism ...

Fr Dominic McGrattan responds to recent comments by former President Mary McAleese that baptising babies represents a restriction of their human rights by imposing lifelong membership of the Church wi ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover how Christ transformed existing rituals like marriage and baptism into life-changing sacraments, deepening our ...

Baptism involves a simple formula: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” The celebrant pours water on the head of the baptized, or immerses them in water.

Most Catholic babies in decades past were baptized by having holy water poured over their foreheads, but at St. Gabriel's and many other churches, total immersion in a large font of warm water has ...

I heard that, the day after Prince George’s Anglican baptism, Pope Francis spoke about Catholic baptism in a homily. What did he say? In his Oct. 24 daily Mass homily, the Holy Father said that, after ...