Father Owen Gorman, a parish priest in the Clogher Diocese, said the Church “encourages infant baptism out of love for souls, and so that the babies of Catholic parents would receive the best start in ...

France’s Catholic Church recently baptized over 17,800 people in a single day, including 10,384 adults and more than 7,400 adolescents. Adult baptisms have risen 160% over the past decade, increasing ...

Among European countries with Catholic roots, France wears its religion lightly. A secular state by law since 1905, the country bans conspicuous religious symbols in state schools, town halls and ...

From the very beginnings of the Christian religion the followers of Jesus Christ have been baptized in his name. Throughout church history a few marginal movements have denied the propriety and ...

ROME – Pope Francis baptized more than 30 babies inside the Vatican Sunday and issued a clear defense of infant baptism, saying it gives children the grace and assistance to grow in the faith as they ...

‘There is not a return of religion in a statistical sense. There is rather a greater visibility of religion because it is experienced as a minority,’ said sociologist Yann Raison du Cleuziou. Adult ...

Baptism must be seen near the heart of our faith and presented as significant, but not allowed to separate Christians into groups of resentment or condescension. It must not become the “water that ...

Eleven people from Afghanistan are among the 27 adults who will soon be baptized as Catholics in Austria’s Vienna archdiocese. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna formally welcomed the candidates ...