The Sistine Chapel as a little parish: a tradition begun with John Paul II. Benedict XVI stresses that parents are educators, and not "owners" of their children. Having children baptized is not an act ...

Pope Francis baptized babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday and encouraged parents to teach their children to celebrate their baptism anniversary each year. On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on ...

In his Sunday Angelus remarks Pope Francis stressed the importance of both knowing and celebrating the day of our baptism, since it is through the sacrament that we become children of God. "I ask you ...

"If our parents have given us life on earth, the Church has regenerated us to eternal life in Baptism. We have become children in His Son Jesus ". "The Christian vocation is all this: living united to ...

A number of Catholics have been developing new methods and programs to invite parents whose children are between baptism and first Holy Communion age deeper into the life of the Church. Erin Murphy, a ...

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, spoke about the Sacrament of Baptism. Stressing that Jesus’ baptism was Jesus’ first act of public life, he said that if Christians ...

Manila archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle on Saturday morning led the baptism of around 400 children from Metro Manila’s slums in a bid to bring them closer to God. The children, whose ages ranged ...