COMMENTARY: Baptism makes us missionary disciples in communion with God and each other. As children of God, we are sent out ...

Ask D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Jonathan Edwards, or Cotton Mather. Recently we’ve heard a lot about the rapid worldwide growth of Pentecostal and charismatic groups. Researcher David Barrett and ...

Nearly 50 years ago, an Episcopal priest shocked his listeners during a Palm Sunday sermon at St. Mark’s Church in Van Nuys, Calif. On April 3, 1960, the Rev. Dennis Bennett announced he had received ...

A baptism in the Catholic Church. (Credit: Archdiocese of Montreal.) Listen This Sunday, as we continue to make our way through the season of Lent, the church gives us the biblical account of the ...

Parents who prefer not to baptize their children in the hopes that they will "understand and ask for baptism" as adults lack faith that the Holy Spirit will act in their child's life, Pope Francis ...

When Jesus came to John to be baptized, Matthew tells us, “John tried to prevent him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, ...

Speaking to an international audience of pilgrims at WYD08 in Sydney’s Convention and Exhibition Centre on Thursday, Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham, England explained how the Holy ...

Life and love are not earned by us, nor do we take them, but we receive these good gifts from God with gratitude, writes Msgr. Joseph Prior on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. By our baptism, we ...

As we celebrate the feast of the baptism of Our Lord Jesus today, let us reflect on the significance of baptism.

Recently we’ve heard a lot about the rapid worldwide growth of Pentecostal and charismatic groups. Researcher David Barrett and his team have been reminding us for years that these groups have passed ...