When Omar Gómez thinks about what it was that drew him to becoming Catholic, he smiles. “I feel like God was using my ...

Through the Very Young Catholics Project, a book series depicting the lives of Catholic children and their families ...

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 ...

These are the words God the Father spoke over Jesus during His baptism in the Jordan River. But it isn’t just a nice phrase ...

BAPTISING one’s children is as essential as providing them with food and clothing, Pope Leo XIV told parents. “Just as they received life from you, their parents, now they receive the meaning to live ...

Pope Leo XIV baptizes one of 20 children in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 11, 2026, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptizing one's children is as essential as providing them with food ...

Just as we wouldn’t leave newborns without clothes or food, we cannot leave them without faith and baptism, Pope Leo XIV told parents of children he baptized in the splendor and beauty of the Sistine ...

Throughout the world, there continues a long-standing, systemic and overlooked severe restriction on children’s rights with regard to religion. This warrants, but has yet to receive, serious ...

From the moment Jesus was about to ascend to heaven, when he gathered his disciples on the mountain, the Catholic Church has understood that baptism is inseparable from mission. “Go, therefore, and ...

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 ...