The Vatican's decision in August to clarify the formula that should be used in the Catholic rite of baptism attracted unusual interest after it caused something of a theological head-scratcher. A ...

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 ...

Last time, I wrote about my bewilderment when strangers contact me out of the blue to baptize their children, but otherwise want nothing to do with the church. My response is always to invite them to ...

In February, the Diocese of Phoenix announced that thousands of infant baptisms that had been performed by a local pastor were in fact invalid as a result of one incorrect word. In the official rite ...

Loretta Runk often visits her late husband, David, in the cemetery where he rests about 3 miles from her home in New Ulum. Only a year has passed since David, 67, insisted on selecting a plot near ...