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 ...

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Fr Dominic McGrattan responds to recent comments by former President Mary McAleese that baptising babies represents a restriction of their human rights by imposing lifelong membership of the Church wi ...

Matthew 3:11 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. But he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It was a sea of hope at The Church of Eleven22's beach baptism event at Hanna Park in Jacksonville. Nearly 2,000 people publicly proclaimed their faith in Jesus among a huge crowd ...

St. Francis Xavier, who lived 1506-1552, is represented in a stained glass window. Credit: CNS photo/Crosiers In 1552 in Yamaguchi, Japan, a group of recent Christian converts confronted St. Francis ...

The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR), Daniel, urged, on Thursday, Orthodox believers present on the Metropolitan Hill at the Great Blessing of the Waters service to think on this day of ...

Pope Leo XIV baptizes infants inside the Sistine Chapel during Mass for the Baptism of the Lord Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media). Listen ROME – Pope Leo XIV Sunday resumed the tradition ...

One of the things we know for certain about Jesus is that he was baptized by John. We're sure of it because it embarrassed the early church, making Jesus appear as John's disciple, yet it was too well ...

Detailed study of the Earth People of Trinidad, a sect that incorporates African, Christian and Indian elements and Shouter (Spiritual) Baptism. Bibliography (p. 138-139).