An out-of-town friend refers to Springfield as "The City of Banks and Churches," an appellation some will find pejorative and others complimentary. I know next-to-nothing about banks, except that I ...

That is probably what the Rev. Andres Arango of Phoenix is saying right now — as well as the hundreds of people whom he welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church through the rite of baptism. For years, ...

No matter how many baptisms you’ve attended, I suspect you’ve only heard a handful of readings from Scripture. The Rite of Baptism provides more than 20 readings, from the Old Testament, the Psalms, ...

When is a baptism not a baptism? When the cleric presiding at the ceremony alters the ritual language in such a fundamental way that it undercuts its meaning, according to the Vatican. Recommended ...

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua) , 4 and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we ...