The tragic death of a baby in Romania who drowned in the baptismal font has prompted thousands of people to call on the Church to change the ritual – and stop submerging new-born infants in water. A ...

More than 100 people gathered as a historic marker was dedicated at the Sibley Baptism Pond, honoring decades of Black ...

An out-of-town friend refers to Springfield as "The City of Banks and Churches," an appellation some will find pejorative and others complimentary. I know next-to-nothing about banks, except that I ...

ROME — Canon lawyers and experts in the traditional liturgy have warned that a pastoral instruction issued by the Diocese of Rome that bans traditional communities and priests from celebrating all the ...

No matter how many baptisms you’ve attended, I suspect you’ve only heard a handful of readings from Scripture. The Rite of Baptism provides more than 20 readings, from the Old Testament, the Psalms, ...

That is probably what the Rev. Andres Arango of Phoenix is saying right now — as well as the hundreds of people whom he welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church through the rite of baptism. For years, ...

Pastor Steve Wells started a tradition at South Main Baptist Church. During a baptism, he first asks the family to stand in honor of the person about to receive the rite. Then, he summons the entire ...

Read full article: $1.4 million in Nintendo Switch 2 consoles stolen while en route to Texas Cars will line the field at Daikin Park during the inaugural All-Stars Car Show. 13 minutes ago Houston’s ...

As they filed out of the examination halls, final year students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, were ambushed by their junior colleagues for the rite of ‘baptism’, which involves the ...

PHOENIX – A Catholic priest resigned from his Phoenix parish recently and most of the baptisms he’d performed were invalidated because he’d been speaking an incorrect word while performing the rite.