The number of adults receiving the sacraments of Christian initiation is increasing steadily in a country strongly affected by secularism. This year, 2.650 adults were baptized on the Easter vigil.

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 ...

Sunday, Jan. 13, is the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Today at 10 a.m. in the Sistine Chapel (2 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time), Pope Benedict XVI will baptize several babies in the Sistine Chapel.

A pastor of a Catholic church in Phoenix, Arizona has resigned after learning he had incorrectly performed thousands of infant baptisms over more than two decades. Rev. Andres Arango, who conducted ...

PHOENIX - In a unique situation for people of the Roman Catholic faith, a priest is resigning after the church's Phoenix Diocese determined the words he was using during baptisms are wrong, meaning ...

A man tends to his newborn during a celebration of the sacrament of confirmation at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston June 5, 2022, the feast of Pentecost. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --The Catholic Church will allow transgender adults to be baptized under the same terms as any other person eligible to receive the holy sacrament so long as it does not bring scandal to ...

From the beginning of his priesthood in 1995, the Rev. Andres Arango performed the sacred ritual of baptism. Or so he believed. For a quarter-century, Father Arango baptized thousands of children and ...

Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "What particularly strikes me about my missionary work in Thailand is that God surprises me every day, allowing me to witness the blossoming of faith in adults and to ...

Millennials and members of Generation Z are returning to church in growing numbers, and nowhere is that more evident than in ...