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

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 ...

I was 24 when I asked my 23-year-old girlfriend to marry me. When we announced we were engaged, our nearest and dearest were ...

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 ...

Just as we wouldn't leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told parents of children he baptized in the splendor and beauty of the Sistine ...

In the best of our Baptist traditions, baptism is both an individual act and a communal act.

Being the offspring of celebrities is not always an easy thing. There can be resentment and even estrangement, especially because these kids are often given attention not for who they are but who ...

Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia officially opened the palace gates to the public in Stockholm ...

Millions of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrated Epiphany, locally known as Timket, on Monday, which commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist.

By Joseph Masilamany Mother Church has long been a place of refuge, offering spiritual grounding, moral guidance and a sense ...

HO CHI MINH CITY: The gathering, organized by the Interreligious Dialogue Commission of the Archdiocese of Saigon, brought ...

The 77-year-old Italian Xaverian missionary has made it his life’s work to empower the Munda Indigenous community in coastal ...