PHOENIX — A Phoenix priest baptized people for decades using one wrong word. Now those baptisms are all considered invalid. Father Andres Arango recently resigned as a priest from St. Gregory’s ...

Asylum seekers have undergone baptisms in taxpayer-funded accommodation despite concerns that Muslim migrants are only going through the process to gain asylum. Carelinks Ministries, a registered ...

An Arizona priest has voluntarily stepped down as church pastor after learning he’d botched thousands of baptisms with one simple mistake during a single line of ...

One word caught the ear of a young priest a few years ago when his father shared a video of his 1990 baptism at a suburban Detroit church. "Wait," the Reverend ...

Baptism involves a simple formula: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” The celebrant pours water on the head of the baptized, or immerses them in water.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2023, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms all declined, ...

The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to Vatican ...