COMMENTARY: Baptism makes us missionary disciples in communion with God and each other. As children of God, we are sent out ...

Matthew 3:14: “But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?” Matthew 3:15: “And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh ...

To emphasize that the sacrament of baptism formally brings a person into the church of God and not just into a local Christian community, the Vatican has ordered a slight change of wording in the ...

More than 1,000 children, teenagers and adults filled the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast yesterday to prepare to enter the Catholic Church this Easter. A ...

MINERSVILLE – Members of Eastern Rite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrated a major holy day Thursday as they observed the Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord. In St. Nicholas Ukrainian ...

The rite of baptism got big press as Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby christened Prince George, a future king of England on Wednesday Welby made it a teachable moment for a country where only one ...

When is a baptism not a baptism? When the cleric presiding at the ceremony alters the ritual language in such a fundamental way that it undercuts its meaning, according to the Vatican. Stream NBC 5 ...

Secularism%2C interfaith marriage are driving the trend Millennials %22on fire%22 for faith%2C one hopeful faith leader notes Few marriages officiated by clergy%2C thus paving the road for a more ...