COMMENTARY: Baptism makes us missionary disciples in communion with God and each other. As children of God, we are sent out to give witness to God the Father’s love, God the Son’s saving work, and God ...

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 ...

Meghan Markle just earned some major brownie points with Queen Elizabeth II ahead of her May 19 wedding. Prince Harry’s fiancée reportedly took the plunge and was baptized and confirmed into the ...

Before she says “I do,” Meghan Markle will be going through another sacred religious ceremony: a baptism. According to Kensington Palace, Meghan will be baptized into the Church of England before her ...

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 ...

In one of his last acts as Pope, Benedict XVI approved changed wording in the rite of baptism which emphasizes "the Church of God" as the community into which the baptized individual has been ...

"Their ongoing bullying begs us to fight back," Weston Clark, a former Mormon from Salt Lake City, tells PEOPLE Mormon Church leaders have sparked outrage with a decision to ban gay couples from ...

BUCHAREST -- The death of a 6-week-old infant after he was submerged while being baptized has sparked public outrage in Romania and led to calls for the centuries-old rite to be changed. The drama of ...

Before she says "I do," Meghan Markle will be going through another sacred religious ceremony Before she says “I do,” Meghan Markle will be going through another sacred religious ceremony: a baptism.