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 ...

Fr Dominic McGrattan responds to recent comments by former President Mary McAleese that baptising babies represents a ...

Baptism “accompanies us forever,” he said. “In moments of darkness, baptism is light; in life’s conflicts, it is reconciliation; at the hour of death, it is the gateway to heaven.” ...

Our Lord’s baptism offers a beautiful opportunity to reflect on the graces we receive through the sacrament of baptism. In seminary, one of our professors taught us a little shortcut to help us ...

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

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 ...