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 ...

Pope Leo XIV baptizes 20 infants in the Sistine Chapel, telling parents that faith is as essential as food and clothing. He ...

Just as we wouldn’t leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told ...

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 ...

Continuing a tradition begun in 1981 by Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo presided over the baptism of 20 children of Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV baptized 20 children in the Sistine Chapel in Rome on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 11, 2026.

From left to right, Cohen Buckler, Lorelei Day, Grace Haskins and Cecilia Stauffer, who are students from Little Flower ...

Four-month consultation involving all parishes, nine bishops to discuss surge in young and adult conversions across France ...

Nationwide, the number of adult baptisms skyrocketed to 17,800 catechumens baptized during the Easter Vigil on April 19, 2025 ...

Jesus’ baptism in the waters of the Jordan, the Pope continued, is an invitation to each of us to renew the promises of the ...

Lawyer and former Irish president Mary McAleese recently made remarks in an Irish Post article that baptisms are a way for ...